skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this post, Viktor. A lot of this hits home.

You inspired me to write up my own experiences of 10 years in remote work https://theremotedev.com/10-years-remote/
Now I think black mirror a little, but occam’s razor still prefers incompetence to malice.

Hanlon's razor.
Never Use Airport USB Charging Stations
Has Apple ever officially stated that they support running Linux on Macs?
Not likely, but US border officials can pretty much exercise arbitrary power in deciding who gets in, and they can’t get in trouble for denying entry to a non-citizen Joe B. Nobody.
>> Isn't it obvious how to do things in programming?

Not in my field, no. But I might be an oddity. I get hired to do the kinds of things others have tried and failed to do. So while they may be "productive" by whatever arbitrary metric (solving small problems real quick), they fail at gnarly, "deep" shit which can't be done in a day, or, sometimes, in a week, but which does need to be done.
10 Years Remote
Lots of stories here, here is mine: I started volunteering at my local non-profit bar/pub/coffeeshop 6 months ago (runned by volunteers only, there is no employee). It has done wonder to my social life: I spent the previous 3 years in this particular city without making any friend there outside of work. Since I started, I made a lot of acquaintances, a few of them I might consider as friends later down the line.

This place is really great in that you don't need a specific time investment: just sign up for a 3 hours shift when you feel like it. If you really like it, you can invest yourself more. Or just go there whenever you feel like it to talk to friendly people, without to have to find friends in advance (I wouldn't go in most pubs alone: most are designed so that you come with your friends and stay with them without talking to other group of people).

This has been my particular story, but I'd advise anyone with too much free time and not enough people to spend it with to volunteer to something, anything, that match with your values. It really is life-changing.

Just don't go too deep too fast: you can definitely burn out with volunteer work as well. That's one thing several persons at my non-profit specifically warned me against, in non-equivocal words, as it happened to others before.
You really have to try Rec Room once its released for the Quest. For me, thats the killer app.
Why does a video viewer need a "playlist"? Isn't that feature already accomplished by the file open dialog?
I'm not sold on the idea of monetising traffic. It's not like the traffic is costing me anything or causing harm.
It is good enough, 2019 doesn't mean we don't reflect user behavior.

Not every recommender is a moral agent. Auto-suggest and conspiracy videos aren't the same thing.

And technically, yes, there's not such thing as a non-editorialized recommender, but this feels like a pointless nit since there's a world of difference between trying to be a reflection vs intentionally not reflecting based on a human-made moral judgement.

What even is the moral editorialization in auto-suggest? It's obvious we don't want conspiracy videos pushed front and center of educational topics, but how on earth do you balance the number of "yes" vs "no"? That's clearly going to be a completely made up number. If you don't have a clear problem to fight, it's probably best to not editorialize just to say you did.
Indian ride-hailing service Ola is suspending its food delivery business
Debian is 1000 developers with mostly decentralised decision making with some voting for project-wide issues using Condorcet.
Yeah, but the user accounts are at the application level not the os level.

I doubt there is a top internet company around that makes a unix account for each web user. That would be an antipattern...
Instagram Is a Better Social Platform Than Twitter for Audience Reach
You see it as a video viewer but plenty of people use it as a general media (including music) player. If you’ve got 100 songs queued up, then keeping track of a playlist is definitely necessary.
Based on historical evidence, you'll likely get updates for another half decade or so.
Interesting, I’ve never experienced these usability problems. Maybe accidentally hit the touchbar once or twice a day for the first week, before I got used to it.
BTW you can customize the touchbar to move stuff around so it’s not in the way of your fingers (e.g. top-right corner).
But yeah it sucks and there’s no real use-case for it, the standard keys are way better. The only thing I like about it is the TouchID, but they’ve showed with air that it can be a standalone thing.

The usb-c transition happened too early, it’s annoying that you can’t even plug in an usb if you forgot to bring the dongle. The nice thing about it is being able to plug the charger at any port, but that’s no reason to have only the usb-c ports.

Agree on the OS, I’ve probably bought into their ecosystem way too much to make a smooth transition away. Also the trackpad experience is still superior. But the list of reasons why I would buy a macbook after this one bites the big one is getting shorter.
none. articles on the web are made for clicks. judge a language on its own merits, not via what someone on the web said.
I use below sometimes. Hope you guys like these.

A modern replacement for ls, written in Rust.
https://the.exa.website/

ls with coloring and icons
https://github.com/Electrux/ls_extended
Just downloaded the nightly build...it's horrible.
I hope there is a way to reverse everything to how it is at the moment.

There is a point in software where the UI reaches it's optimum. It is at that point with VLC atm. I never had any issues with the playlist. The playlist is not a especially relevant part in the whole thing. I drag files/folder in there and it does what it does.

Please don't overdo it...

I'd rather see the render to chromecast issues fixed. Can't pause with VLC or the video stops after a few seconds resuming and I need to start over.
> prove they will leave before their duration of status expires

How can you prove something that didn't happen yet? Best you can do is provide clues and circumstancial evidence but no proof.

It's good that they were being so vigilant! Let's not forget that USA has so much trouble with UK citizens overstaying their visas. /s
No money can buy anymore... unless of course they license or sell it outright.
What does the US give you that the UK doesn't? First and second amendment protections. Perhaps those are not an advantage in your book?
Not everything is a moral travesty; it is in fact okay that people tend to find positive response suggestions more worth selecting.
I agree that it's an overrated feature, but there's plenty of use cases. Eg you want to play an evening of cool videos in a loop on a projector somewhere, your kids are allow to watch exactly two Paw Patrol episodes, etc.
I used VLC for years, but more recently have found the Mac app IINA https://iina.io/ to be a (not perfect but) substantially nicer tool in the same niche (i.e. an open-source video player that handles whatever I throw at it). VLC is just too full of incidental complication.
Something similar, though much less extreme happened to me. My Australian girlfriend got a year long visa to stay with me in the US. The immigration officer detained her for 3 hours, and eventually told her she could only stay for six months. (This was a long time ago, late 99s, so I can’t remember the justification or how he had the authority to alter a visa she had already been granted. He may have been lying.)

He himself wasn’t born in the US, a detail which really pissed me off at the time.

How can someone whose job is to check your visa have any power to alter it?
ESPN seems to work pretty well ;)
Binge watching TV shows is a habit not to be overlooked.
I don't think the US cares about fairness or wealth inequality. That's an ideological position- decided by the American people.
Berny Sanders wanted the US to become like the Netherlands or Norway. The American electorate said no. Case closed.
Same reason it needs an integrated email client.
I don't know what could be more morally neutral than 'we offer the suggestions that you've shown us you're most likely to want to use.' Anything else would be trying to put _their_ words in people's mouths.

And let's not lose sight of the fact that this is a tool that offers an automatic one to three-word email response for when you're too lazy to actually reply. The stakes are about as low as they come.
Running project like this is a full-time job. It can't be done in a spare time.
What about sequential playing without user interaction?

What about persistent arbitrary play ordering?

Any solution to this would just be implementing a playlist.
This article suggests that its not "more welcoming to immigrants than any other place in the world by far" if a single private IM can get a guy banned for life.

Still a great place to visit, but I'll take a burner phone next time. Maybe a Huawei device :)
while we're nagging about problems with vlc, one thing I desperately need is some trivial way to have files in the playlist labeled by filename instead of metadata.

It seems unintuitive and often if files are missing metadata you can't sort the playlist or tell what's what.
True. It also applies to everyone if the company is registered in the EU.

Since Facebook was using their Ireland branch as the main company for all users outside the US and Canada, that means everyone outside those countries can make GDPR requests to them. Unfortunately, not for long: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-eu-exclu...
Notice that you can still use "cvlc" that has a very elegant interface (i.e., zero pixels).
That's why I did not post any name. I just said that it was easy enough to be found (right now since tweets had been deleted it might be more complicated)
Ugh, that sounds horrible. Instead of getting to enjoy regional differences and different languages (subtitled if desired), every show would end up the same for your locale, down to the local brands shown as product placements.

And why stop there? The actor drinks soda from a green can, and if you watch the show now it will mostly be a can of Pepsi cola. But watch the show between January and April 2020 from Canada, and you will see the new maple syrup flavoured Dr Pepper instead.
> Your willingness to use "we're optimizing for click through rate" as a defense is quite frightening to me, though.

I would suggest that if you are frightened by what is essentially an auto-completing on-screen keyboard being optimized for usefulness over making some random person on Hacker News feel it was more nuanced than just trying to be useful... there's probably no way to implement a feature like this, and make it useful, which wouldn't have you shaking in your boots.

Don't be frightened by what is essentially a riff on T9.
Same here. My right speaker is blown out. Go to settings and set the fader to left. Not sure if the speaker can be fixed.
I know SO many real banks which still use 2FA by SMS.
Did VLC ever lose it's reputation of being the worst video player of all time?
The article says that nonviolent civil resistance is effective

But truth is that nonviolent civil resistance is not effective. The few "regimes" that were "toppled" by it never stood in ranks of real regimes, or were at their dying breath.

I wish authors of the article ever told that to Ugandans, North Koreans, and after all Chinese.

China sees sporadic riots nearly weekly (which are almost never covered by Western press.) I'd say that as a percentage of population, the amount of people who ever raised a hand on policeman/official person and served term should be around 5-7%.

That was way higher in eighties when forced sterilisation campaign was at its peak (imagine men having to stand still while a communist pokes his dirty finger into their wives'...)
Not British, but two Irish acquaintances of mine were rounded up and deported from the US in the early 2010s. I don't see a problem, they broke the law in illegally moving there. Such practices were common among Irish up until the 2000s. Doesn't happen so much anymore, but then again it is near impossible to legally emigrate there if you're from Ireland.
I was "cured" of my procrastination when I "discovered" the best way to not having things I hate to do in my to do list was to do the things.

It sounds silly because it is. Just do it now.
Oh wow thank you for that referral this looks -amazing- and I have exactly the same use case as you.
I have done the reverse.

I will do freelance work on any project for 1 day for free, as long as:

* It is a start to finish project. I won't finish off someone else's work or take on something I don't think I can get into a working state in a day. These are usually MVP type things.

* It's available to the public. No company internal tooling.

* The requestor will be about on the day. I want them to see me work.

This policy has gotten me lots of later paid work, which I price pretty high.

I consider it more as a demo of my abilities, and the first day of any project is usually the one you learn most in.
> No, there's no scary dystopia coming.

The reason it's not coming may be because there are people actively watching out. It's hard to tell what would happen if we didn't have them. Society gets better because of people willing to tackle hard questions. They are often inconvenient in how they ask you to reconsider life choices.

> You've just got to chill.

Until you get overlooked by the trained heuristics because they see how exposure to your thoughts cause lower click-through on ads. Then you scream and nobody hears you. And the metrics are all green.
May sound like a cliche but Mahatma Gandhi's "My experiment with Truth." is a good read to get an idea of the philosophy of a major percentage of world population throughout the history.
I have Kaiser right now. One week to see a specialist. (The particular specialists I had to see were an allergist and an ear-nose-throat surgeon.)
You must be joking or have never left the US for more than a few days.
I don't think MacBook has been updated in more three years, so that might be part of the reason people aren't buying them.
Apache and Linux have always been the two big examples of community-driven open source projects. And Apache still hosts many community-driven open source projects, but they don't seem to be as visible as they were 10-15 years ago.
Mac OS only?
VLC works on Windows/UWP/Phone, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome OS, Apple TV, and those are only the officially supported platforms.
Always use musl for static linking. As a bonus you might get an even smaller binary than a dynamically linked glibc binary.
We're allowed to do most things in the UK except communicate privately or talk about David Furnish.
Man charged with giving video editing software to a terrorist group
No. Right now it's on the verge of being the worst audio player too. Takes forever to seek in a 2h+ audiofile.
Uhm did it ever have it?
That fits with my belief that the notion of having technical debt is a luxury that only a measure of success brings. Until you're in a place where you have a excess of resources (time and money) all you have is code.

Obviously with experience you can make decisions that can lower the volume of technical debt once you reach that breakpoint, but in my view the right play is always to get to that moment as efficiently as possible and that never involves re-architecting or rewriting until then.
There is a slight difference in that all those tools are the basis for their companies' commercial offerings. Google does not sell Go tools or consultancy hours etc. Its interest in Go is to have a programming language that's safe, fast, operationally undemanding and fits the mental model of a recent CS graduate (as per that notorious Rob Pike quote).

This at least makes it easy to work out if incentives are aligned. Do I want to program in such a language? Yes? Then Google is probably not going to completely screw it up, even when they make decisions I disagree with. Do I like to wax rhapsodic about parser combinators? Not ever going to be a good fit.
> What about sequential playing without user interaction?

cvlc *

> What about persistent arbitrary play ordering?

cvlc `ls | sort -R`
Welcome to the bureaucracies of immigration, usually duration of the visa != duration of the allowed stay

You can of course appeal (with various degrees of success and cost)
Sounds like Laravel
I was born and lived most of my life in Europe.
This is beautiful. If you have a thing that takes some manageable effort, and that is important enough to do. Do it at the first time you to not have anything more important to do. It is nothing else but a different mindset. It sounds easy, because it is once you get going.
To be honest, as far as I'm concerned there is no reason why Google or anyone should ever even have access to the plaintext passwords, let alone log them.

There Is no reason why we can't have 2 rounds of hashing, one client side and one server side. This way even if Google is malicious, it cannot know the actual password.
Wow this struck a chord with me, because it's actually exactly how I feel. Finally when I DO decide to start working on the task, often just as midnight hits, I feel like all the buildup and stress gives me a wave of energy to just plow through it no matter what. But it's a horrible way to do things...
A differential is an adder.[1] This is a differential hooked up as a doubler.

Mechanical analog computers, especially gun predictors, had lots of setups like that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4&t=757
> 'Medically necessary' is an irrelevant qualifier. All treatment is medically necessary, if it weren't, the GP wouldn't prescribe it, and Canada wouldn't pay for it.

This is nowhere close to being true. Patients frequently demand treatment that the doctor, left to his own devices, wouldn't give.

My least favorite example of this comes from China, where people will go to the hospital to get intravenous saline solution for a common cold, but it's ubiquitous everywhere including the US.
Dqneo/minigo: a Go compiler from scratch
When you say unmatched that implies that nowhere else in the world can give opportunities in those fields that are equal, and that is plain wrong, in fact the USA is slipping from being the top in those. When you say population that's more welcoming to migrants, as someone from Africa, my own and those I know, our perception of the USA has changed so much that many people I know would not even consider moving there due to your current attitudes towards Muslim, Latin American and African migrants. When you say outdoors with cleaner air and water, I hear of your fracking, of Flint, of mass open cast mines across your country, of your president leaving the Paris climate agreement. When you say cheap prices, I've been all over the Third World and the USA is not cheap at all. When you say optimistic, friendly and humble, most of what I know of the USA's international actions is warmongering arrogance, of your far-right movements, of mass shootings and crazy abortion laws. I have many lovely American friends but they are not representative of the country that pushes a gun-friendly, war positive, women controlling message. That's why I wouldn't move to the US as it currently stands.
Yes, they do have issues with this. Whether UK or any other nationality.
Funnily, I have a colleague who overstayed his entry visa by exiting a day late and frequently gets stopped and questioned when he goes back, which he does often as he had since married an American and probably entitled to US and UK passports by now!
I'd say it's probably Microsoft Office or Photoshop…
Sure, but that's a different issue. If it doesn't gain traction then the decisions made by Google are clearly considered the best approach, at which point what relevance does the openess have?
>I'm sorry, inserting an icepick through the eye then scrambling the brain behind it has a pretty well-deserved reputation as being barbaric.

Wait till you hear about slashing the body with knives and cutting parts off then!
I see a huge difference running WIndows in Virtualbox. Possibly because I'm doing everything wrong but it sucks for graphics stuff like Adobe products and I can't even get it to hit 60fps like my standard linux desktop.

We're still a way off passing through graphics cards etc in a 'just works' sort of way (yes there's hugely involved ways to get it done) so it's going to be a short while before I could agree with you that Windows VM's are fully ready to replace native installs for situations like mine.
I'm European. I've travelled a lot for work though.
The VLC Android App is unusable since an update earlier this year. Any plans to fix that? I reverted to an older version and would like to come aboard again once the bugs are fixed & bad UI decisions corrected. There was plenty of feedback on the playstore to act on and there was at least one bug fix release, but current reviews are still negative :/
It would redefine the standard to which Mac apps would be held to.
Authy let you password encrypt your data with then, so even if someone ports your sim it won't give them access.
ESTA doesn't waive the requirement to prove non-immigrant intent when applying for admission.

If he really was banned for life there's more to the story than his inability to prove non-immigrant intent (e.g. fraud, criminal history, etc.). Even people present in the US illegally for extended periods of time are not banned for life.
People are forgetful & passive, so they tend to subscribe and forget.

There are lots of people paying for things they don't need or could save money by switching subscriptions on & off as needed. This is one of the reasons why the subscription model is so popular with companies, not consumers.
Nonviolent or violent civil resistance can easily be co-opted by other actors like the CIA or KGB for their own nefarious agendas. Be wary of being pawns for assholes. Transforming your country into a liberal, democratic country requires the fact the country evolved itself into some sort of democracy. Not someone forced that on you through a manufactured war or revolution.
If they alienate the community, the community can fork it, right?
I dunno if you have been to Europe but we have plenty of all that outdoors, clean air and water. From my location, it's less than 3 hours to the alps if you need even cleaner air and water with triple the outdoors.

And lots of diversity there too, almost any place has somewhere around 2000 to 1500 years of history on the books, you can walk from your current location to another place with wildly different customs and traditions within an hour.

You can say similar things about other parts of the world as well, not just Europe and the US too.

Don't underestimate the rest of the world.
in India sports too is moving to streaming, hotstar gave a full page add today bragging 18.6 million viewers simultaneously watched IPL cricket finals.

if Disney was this serious they should have launched their services when Netflix announced original productions.
> cvlc `ls | sort -R`

Results in a same sequence once the loop completes. You should use `cvlc -Z` instead; I also happen to use `mplayer -shuffle` for this exact purpose.
> So a huge chunk of things are native: keyboard support, inputs, dropdowns, context menus, menus, preference panes, popups, window chrome etc.

Note that Chromium (and hence Electron) reimplements many of these things.
First amendment - yes, in most cases. Second amendment? Hell no.
Unusable in what way? It's still working just fine for me.
> Nothing matters, but you can't escape doing something so might as well do something that matters.

This goes straight into Google Keep for a rainy day
You very wrong on the assumptions.

The person with the rubber stamp issues you the I-94 in the USA. That is the ultimate say on how long you are allowed to stay. The visa is only one of the many things they consider.
IINA is a (macOS only) UI for the mpv (which is crossplatform).
Demand grows for tiny phone chargers using ‘new silicon’
I'm born and raised in Europe.