skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not exactly hidden: https://www.google.com/search?q=my+purchases
What's stopping potential competitors from making slack-compatible APIs?
It's trying to show evidence that some (many?) people can be triggered by certain words like Arab/ic. The Lamaître example is much harder. You'd have to be a physics gearhead to know that one. (He was mentioned in a book I just finished yesterday, lol.)
I've talked about this as a research idea in the past. Something about someone observing you work, even if it's only barely, gives a level of accountability. Also, it looks like you start and end your 50 minute focus session with a bit of accountability (what you will work on, what you got done), so there's that.
> It's something I feel quite strongly about: chat should not be archived. There should be no backscroll; being not around when people are talking means not being part of that conversation. Chat messages have no value beyond the moment. Any chat implementation that assigns importance to messages beyond the current conversation is wrong.

What's the value in removing this? I regularly look back to see what was discussed, it allows easier integration across timezones. I don't want to have to be around late for my American colleagues, or have to shift the conversation to large cc'd email. For chat I am involved in, why do you think I shouldn't be allowed a history of what I have talked about with people?
The company I worked at previously tried to force MS Teams on everyone. Problem was that most developers there ran Linux and the client was far inferior to Slack on that platform. Unsurprisingly very few developers used Teams and it failed horribly as a decent communication replacement. It became yet another communication channel devs may, or may not, respond in. End result: email still reigns supreme, complemented by xmpp for the non-devs with the technical know how to understand how to connect to the internally hosted server.

So my view is that until Microsoft get their act together, Teams is not a serious contender to Slack. Companies can get it
"free" together with their Office subscription, but most developers won't use it until it works decently on their development platform of choice.
> I thought merit based was the best system. Until it was pointed out to me that it's a very biased system towards wealthy people from wealthy countries.

This isn't accurate at all. Sure wealth might help with merit but it's not always the case. I would argue it can sometimes be harmful too (I know people who came from rich background but were later deported back because they failed their program, DUI, did drugs etc). I myself immigrated to Canada from a South Asian country with poor family background. Just because we are poor doesn't always mean we aren't or can't get educated. A lot of people (I am not saying all but I am saying a lot) in the poor parts of my country are the ones which go to public school and take as much advantage of the education opportunities available. Our country's previous President came from an extremely poor background, used to sell newspaper and tea on subway stations when he was a kid but grew up into one of the most recognized rocket scientists, developed 5 missiles and became the president. So poor doesn't always mean we can't work hard to achieve merit.

With my hard work, I was able to secure a decent scholarship in Canada. Canada has a merit based system and it works well. I also appreciate merit based system vs a lottery draw system US has as I would rather have people understand I came here because of my own hard work and merit instead of just because I got lucky or came from a rich background. That was one of the reasons I choose Canada instead of US many years ago for immigration because I would rather be chosen by merit instead of wait in a lottery as the current system in US. A lot of qualified people have been hesitant to try for US because they don't want to play the current lottery game. If US does change to merit going forward, we might continue higher education there.
>Facebook can be [bad] depending on how you use it.

The same can be said about many things, including movies, video games, twitter, kitchen knives, construction tools, etc. Not trying to diminish your point btw, I wholeheartedly agree with it.
$500 doesn’t get you very far on an opioid addiction.
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I can't remember where, but I know I've seen those magnetic locks somewhere in Chicago, I think around 10 years ago while in college.
In that spirit, wasn't DocBook designed to be a source language for as many formats as possible? The Wikipedia article[1] says:

> As a semantic language, DocBook enables its users to create document content in a presentation-neutral form that captures the logical structure of the content; that content can then be published in a variety of formats, including HTML, XHTML, EPUB, PDF, man pages, Web help[2] and HTML Help, without requiring users to make any changes to the source. In other words, when a document is written in DocBook format it becomes easily portable into other formats. It solves the problem of reformatting by writing it once using XML tags.

I've never understood how to compile to a target format, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook
> There should be no backscroll; being not around when people are talking means not being part of that conversation.

We must use chat very differently, because I don't understand this.

The number of times I've found answers to problems ("How do I X? Why can't I get Z to work with vagrant?" etc) by searching through Slack channels, or viewing pinned messages that explained something (or had a workaround/fix for a problem) is huge. This has been especially helpful when joining a team, where searching the archives can be the first step in finding answers.

A lot of what we chat about could safely be ephemeral, but there's a significant amount of company / team knowledge which can be searched (or pinned). The friction necessary to have people put answers in Confluence (or similar) is high enough that often the answers (or discussions around them) are either never written, or not updated later.
In north Texas and Oklahoma, you'll find Aldi and WinCo as essentially neighbors.
It didn’t affect any of the 3 orgs within our firm. It was limited to firms who’ve deployed Pardot so a much smaller audience.

Still, epic screw-up.
This is a classic example of: "Who is responsible for the death, the gun or the man pulling the trigger?" and from what I have seen, most people want to blame the gun or in this case, FB. If someone is unstable you can't blame FB for that, FB didn't make them unstable.. perhaps their excessive use of FB resulted in social problems that lead to an instability but you can hardly blame FB for that.

I don't know about you guys but I am seriously getting tired of people blaming everything and everyone else but themselves for their problems in life.
When fuzzy logic rice cookers were new and exotic in the US, you had to go to Chinatown to get one (20+ years ago) and they were $300!

If these catch on, the price will come way down.
You just have to call in to get the 35k version
> What do you think bigotry is if not being opposed to something for reasons other than its own merit?

Opposition to things for lack of awareness in itself isn't bigotry. Opposition because of hate of something you somewhat understand/misunderstand is bigotry.

I'd vote NO to "Should we learn Martian Numerals", because I do not know what martian numerals are, not because I hate martians
Because they're an active threat.
I would do the same on any JS project with prettier.

I write some garbage-formatted code, press ctrl-s, and the code is formatted automatically.

Even on a single-dev project, I would take a config and just put it there for the convenience it provides me.

If I ever were to code python again, I would probably also use black.
Our local WinCo, a US West Coast chain, utilizes checkout dividers to great effect (and employs some of the other cost saving measures mentioned in this article). People aren't nearly familiar enough with using them, though, they park their cart alongside the conveyor belt blocking the next customer instead of going to the end of the conveyor to bag their groceries. An efficient cashier can move faster than two slow customer bagging groceries, some of the local cashiers will have three customers bagging at once.
It’s a handy comparison in that most adults used to smoke in bed before going to sleep and first thing when they woke up. Sound familiar?
Businesses exist at and only at the sufferance of the society that grants that charter and need only be permitted to exist so long as there is positive social benefit to their existence. One cannot "abuse" a business by requiring them to properly hold up their end of the bargain.

We have mostly forgotten--to our detriment as societies around the world--that businesses exist to serve the collective us of citizenry and society. Not the other way around.
I bought a warm reflective work safety jacket from Aldi a few weeks ago -- I've been wearing it while commuting on bike, it's great. Warm, high quality materials, cost about AUD 30.

This week my local Aldi is doing a big sale on snow gear as we approach snow season -- I expect the store will be crazy with people trying to fit out the entire family with new ski jackets, etc.
First, you need to look at human attention as a commodity just like gold - available in fixed quantity and everyone wants piece of it. It turns out that FB managed to conquer large portion of human attention after it emerged. This also meant massive attention transfer from news media to FB. However until year ago, FB benevolently gave back significant pie of its attention share to news media by heavily promoting their stories. After last year's WEF meeting, FB took sudden unilateral decision to reduce sharing its attention pie with news media. Several media companies saw their traffic dropped precipitously, sometime cut down all the way to 90%. The management folks at these media companies tried reach out to FB management to appeal but it all fall on deaf ears. The result is the barrage of articles from news media for any and everything they can possibly find on FB. If someone publishes little study on "FB is bad for you" you can count on news media to amplify it all over. If there is nothing new available then media folks get opinion writers to write zero-information articles. It's surreal to see this war for attention playing out between FB and media.
The only products I encountered it so far are the frozen microwavable meals. I don't get it why they're that salty - stretching them with rice or noodles to 200% makes the saltiness acceptable.
It's strange that statements like your "the best drugs" theory are allowed to stand uncontested when there is a plethora of evidence showing that homelessness is largely caused by housing unaffordability.
I admit I don't really pay much attention to my whois privacy outside of my name and direct contact details. I don't have issue with my country being listed for example so I don't have any other suggestions for you sorry.
Would you buy a car that had a camera pointed at you constantly, recording for use in an accident investigation, uploading periodic short videos to Tesla for use in their training data?
Yes, the idea that campaign donations = speech is a new one as well. Tbh I think we need a constitutional convention to really solve all the problems with the American political system.
Aka the grocery store that doesn't take credit cards.
I find that this behaviour happens to me everywhere, even on HN. Often, I'll spend ten minutes writing a comment, only to realise that I'm only replying because I want the attention, and that what I have to say really doesn't add anything to what's already there. That's when I end up backing out and erasing away what I wrote. (I almost did that now, but I decided to post anyway.)

And when I do end up posting, it's impossible for me to not check for replies or upvotes. I wish HN had a way to hide my karma score from the header.
Robos can't deal with real life cases, says trade body chief
That’s nice... but how do you get help if you need to find something, or whatever else?
I don't understand how a country can maintain a coherent system of law when there are so many homeless people and almost 1% of the entire population is in prison.
This interests me. As for Panera Cares’ marketing, I live in the United States and had no idea these ever existed anywhere. That seems strange.
The tactics to combat each kind are completely different. At least they are once they have become grouped like that.
Maybe they are a loss leader and they don't want to sell too much of it at that price?
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My quick review of some changes Black made in the mercurial code base pointed out this same kind of thing in comprehensions, and a similar problem in the expressions of if statement.

I think the newline-after-bracket behavior looks like some brain damage based on how it likes lists formatted. The complaint I have on if clauses is that it doesn't break at logical operators, but rather at an open-paren, which just ruins the readability of compound expressions.
Selling off undervalued assets to the same investors while they screw over employees and small share holders?
I'm one of the authors. Our goal is to make something much much easier to use than Git, and we're already succeeding in doing that.

The math can be completely ignored by the user, it is just a way to guarantee that the tool will always match the basic intuition of version control. For instance:

- "Associativity" is a concept of algebra, but when applied to version control, it just means the following: let's Alice makes a commit A, and Bob makes two commits B and C. If Alice pulls B, and then pulls C, associativity means that she'll get the same as pulling B and C together. Pijul is associative, but Git is not!

- "Commutativity" is also a concept of algebra, but in practice in version control, it means that you don't have to think about feature branches. In Pijul, two patches that you could produce on different branches are "independent" anyway. Applying them in any order will always yield the same result, so you can push any of them, no matter the order in which you made them. This property means that "rebasing" becomes much simpler: it's just the action of applying and unapplying patches. Also, cherry-picking becomes the default, you don't even have to think about it.

- "Inverses": in Pijul, all patches have inverses. Sure, it sounds like `git revert`, except that `git revert` can sometimes screw things up very badly (if you `git revert` a merge commit, for instance).

Also, in Pijul, conflicts are the normal state, so you don't need anything like `git rerere`, and two users with the same patches (even in different orders) will always see the same conflicts. If you have a patch solving a conflict between two other patches, then the conflict is solved forever, and doesn't "come back".

As a conclusion, I'd say Git might be too technical for a normal programmer (which is why we have giant threads like this one on HN), but Pijul is the exact opposite.

It is as powerful as Git, but beginner-friendly, infinitely faster to learn, and more flexible. Since there can be no "bad merge", you don't have to think about your version control system anymore, and can focus on your work.

That said, there are still a few problems:

- it's not yet as efficient as Git for storage, but we're working on it. We just released the first full implementation a few weeks ago.

- it will never be as good as Git for detecting file moves, because Git is happy with a soup of blobs, whereas Pijul needs more structure (but OTOH that extra structure makes Pijul much better at "blame").
> What I'm getting at is that, its really difficult to get people to love something you build unless you love it yourself

This reminded me of a quote which is totally the opposite, and imo more accurate: "Most entrepreneurs fall in love with the wrong thing. They fall in love with their products and their business when they should be falling in love with their clients and customers" -Jay Abraham

Both sentiments are however; worthy food for thought.
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But that's not really how societies work.
Some more?
If you had a perfectly reflective impervious box, put in 500g of matter and 500g of antimatter, and shook it, the box would then contain 1000g of gamma ray photons. Same gravitational and inertial mass as 1000g of inert matter. (Due to gravitational blueshifting, the photons hit the bottom of the box slightly harder than the top. This is not a halfbaked science blooper; your local physicist will tell you this is actually correct.) QM says photons have zero 'rest mass', but that's not the same thing as actual zero mass.
OT, but does anyone know of a vector drawing program that allows me draw in a similar that Fusion360 or SolidWorks does with their 2D CAD sketches?

It also needs to export to some standard format to be used for print, so using SolidWorks of Fusion360 isn't really an option, I can't export the vector 1-to-1 onto a pdf and do proper colors with those.

I cannot for the life of me figure out bezier curves to create arc sections with proper radii that blends into another line, and abusing adding and subtracting shapes from each other is a cumbersome process and editing the final shape often requires me to start all over creating that composite shape.

I would like to have more technical and fine-grained control over the way my drawings are made, than what pulling with my cursor on those handles gives me.
The actual outcomes of cheaper distribution have been realized as less equal outcomes: the biggest hits are bigger than ever, the rest are part of an ever-increasing undiscovered long tail.

Even though distribution is cheap, when the product is consumable entertainment, you are competing on the basis of marketing for people's attention, which is a scarce resource. Capital can buy up attention through a variety of means:

* A saturation advertising blitz around release(as was realized with 1989's Batman campaign, and repeated countless times since). Rather than just release the product with a standard press kit, go all out: advertise a pre-event event, like a panel at a fan convention. Make secondary products that serve as loss leaders, each one creating a new advertising hook.

* Bundling and cross-promotional tactics(buy this new graphics card and get a free game!). When you have a large sales organization, you can afford the time and resources to negotiate complex deals of this nature.

* The inflated production values are the product: Avatar was a hit because it was a big, expensive, technically advanced production, and there are only so many of those in the world. Although it is a huge risk, this is the modus operandi of Hollywood blockbusters, AAA games, and many live acts.

* Franchise marketing: Instead of just having a piece of media, build a collection of IP adaptable to many mediums and release products for all of them, building a new hook for the brand with each release. This gives the same kind of effect as a saturation campaign, but is playing a longer game, and aims to make each release solid and more than a tie-in(e.g. why is Avengers: Endgame a record breaking hit? It's because it's the capstone to a decade of Marvel movies that build up to this moment, all using a consistent style and maintaining a similar level of quality).

While it's true that you don't have a definite formula for success, the quality of the result is a thing you can control for in some degree just by hiring people with a track record(another avenue of capital: buy the visible superstars), and then providing them with this marketing infrastructure to work within.

So I don't see an escape from these tactics without a change in the rules of how to capture human attention. Brand building for pop culture is a hugely expensive exercise, and this has made for a market that fights tooth and claw to get a small promotional edge. But like with other lines of business, waves of opportunity come and go that allow new products to get through, and Game of Thrones is one such example of the wave of "prestige TV" that appeared around the end of last decade.
Really insightful story. I do hope that we'll soon find a way to solve the California housing crisis!
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You seem to be having trouble figuring out what the actual issue is.

Tesla can't market its system in a way that indicates hands free use is ok, then turn around then blame the driver when they crash driving like that. Like Elon!

Other car companies need to be held to the exact same standard.

Audi says you can take your hands off in traffic jam assist in its ad, the car monitors alertness and tells you when to take over.

If a customer takes their hands off as directed and the car accelerates suddenly in to the car in front of them, Audi is at fault. If they then turn around and say the customer isn't reading the fine print, then they've crossed the line in to being a bad actor just like Tesla.
Those that are denied look to be people who are hard to intimidate and/or control.

Government loves its backdoors in crypto. Perhaps visa denials are revenge by the government for not putting back doors in, or building too secure of a product?
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This type of thing seems very useful if you are ever going to get a viable public alternative to Uber as an open network and platform that providers can build off of.

I wonder if peermaps makes it convenient for peers to update maps? Because OpenStreetMap is missing a lot of key information such as not having addresses in many places.

But a peer to peer mapping technology with a more complete OSM plus a scalable cryptocurrency such as Eth 2.0 and maybe a smart contract plus some distributed coordination for bidding on rides could make things more practical.

Right now arcade.city is doing something similar but is limited by some of the factors I mentioned.
Thanks so much for sharing your story. I believe you can get through it.

Would you be willing to explain why you don't take government assistance? Is it because the sort of assistance available isn't helpful to you or is it because you disagree with idea of government assistance in principle? From what you say about needing to meet basic needs before you can make a good impression in job interviews, it seems like some temporary assistance from the government or otherwise could have a big impact in getting you back on your feet. It would be nice to know whether you are someone the government could help if the programs were structured right or someone who just refuses to take government assistance on principle.
I can't see any evidence in this post that Menard's work preceeded McCarthy's. What am I missing?
> Why dont you counter argue with facts and hard statistics to disprove me?

I would, but you haven't yet so why should I?
> The FAQ even says, “Pijul is trivial for whoever knows category theory.” Is that question really asked frequently? Words like that might convince me to never try it. ;)

There have been a few blog posts after we first announced it saying "Oh, it's just category theory, so I could rediscover it independently in Haskell in just a few hours".
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