skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to remind that Slack is not a simple chat app - it should not be oversimplified, because it has tons of added functionality. Not that you said that but it's easy to fall into that trap.

That being said, creating a native app for 2-3 (depends if you include Linux) different OS with completely different frameworks and maintaining feature parity between them involves a lot of specific knowledge and (probably) separate teams. Even if you have a good budget ("infinite resources" is quite arguable) it adds a lot of complexity to something that already has it. All of that just to somehow have a bit more fluent client (but probably much less polished).

The cost for this change would be very, very difficult to justify.
When will the wheel turn again, when we learn it is best to have at least one copy of your Data in your hand? Not your Cloud VM, Server Rented somewhere, but actually in a HDD within your own premises.
I have. I kept the tenses constant since it sounds better in prose
Phones are popular. It's not the brand that is the issue. It's that they were dropped by some major mobile operators.
I’ll read this later.
Oh good, glad RLS performance got a boost. Unfortunately my Postgraphile implementation for that project was replaced with Drupal, but I'm glad RLS performance is less of a concern under version 10 and up.
Again, show me some links. Here are the bus inspection reports from Albuquerque. They're not great:

https://www.cabq.gov/mayor/build-your-dreams-mechanic-inspec...
Googles entire restructuring into Alphabet was a response to this imo. They knew this could happen and have already organized the business into discrete operating and reporting lines. The battle will be over how much they fracture the big 4 Google services themselves (Maps, Search, Email and YouTube).
> with its infinite resources

Who says their resources are infinite?

> hasn’t built native clients.

What would it gain them?
I think this one is pushing it a bit on the “falsehoods programmers believe”.

I agree that none of those uses are valid, but I would be highly surprised if it was a programmer who said they need a flag. It’s not like it’s part of the logic (eg regarding falsehoods about names or time zones or dates).

But overall +1 for a good Izzard clip.

Every blog post should include an Izzard clip. There’s one for basically every topic.
You overestimate people's ability and enjoyment in reading concise writing that has each word measured carefully.

In order to pass an exam in university, I had to deliberately repeat myself in a few subtle ways, only to be commended how I managed to get my points across very concisely.

I find that writing well is somewhere in the middle: people are used to skip-reading, so being very concise is counter-productive: unless you want to repeatedly point them to actual bits of text that answer their question but which they probably went over as only fill-text.

So, I prefer to state my position concisely at the front, benefitting people like me who prefer it that way, and then expand it with examples and more elaborate arguments for those that need more.

Like this post: the whole point is in the first sentence. The rest is just for the majority who'd basically not even read it, let alone bother to understand it.

(As a consequence, I often miss the happy middle and become too elaborate: it's a struggle :))
I am sorry they had this problem. Stories like this about edge cases with cloud deployments make my conviction stronger to always: 1) have a data backup plan that uses a different cloud provider unless you have so much data that you can’t afford the extra bandwidth and storage costs. 2) if possible don’t rely on unique cloud platform services and be ready to bring a system up quickly on another service provider.
Yeah. Because frankly I dont get what information you put on Facebook should be considered private, and that would include what cambridge analytica did. I think that knowing it's a social media platform is more than sufficient to have zero expectation that anything at all put there is private.
I knew about that one (I've been to La Gomera, wonderful island), but remembered wrongly that it was its own language; but indeed, it is apparently a kind of whistled Spanish.
I have a sample size of 1 for Apple branded usb-c cables which is the one my Mac was supplied with, so I assume that was tested with the Mac, hence why I only have this problem with non-Apple cables. And indeed, the apple cable is loose in my other devices, though not as dramatically as their cables are tight in the mac.
Given the outrage about data theft and sales, I believe the consumer has an expectation of privacy on Facebook.
They should judge them harshly. If you are unfit as a parent, then you shouldn't have children. It's that simple.
Lucky (2017)
"Surveillance" is exactly what the GP wants to use it for.
The joke will be when we have to build domed villages here with all the research we thought we were going to need for Mars.
Human language has a second or more of latency.

Shouting "he's behind you!!", together with the other person hearing it, understanding it, and doing something about is is a very slow process.

AI would probably come up with signals which have less latency.
Learning is not just mental process that changes the arrangement of neurons. It can cause epigenetic changes. Inflammation persisting up to adulthood might be learned from example. They may be mitotically and/or meiotically heritable at least to some degree.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/dvdy.24211
Compositional Compiler Verification for a Multi-Language World – Amal Ahmed
Migrant Crisis: A Mexico with Two Faces
I wouldn't take it for granted that people publish. Many mathematicians work on wall street, and they would never publish something they came up with if it wasnt 10000% certain the theorem isnt a commercial secret. Money wins all, especially in mathematics half of which was invented to make counting money easier.
I disagree. I lived in Copenhagen for a year and I always prefered biking over public transport.

While in part that was because of a public transport system that was inferior to my current city (Hamburg), I would still prefer better biking infrastructure over public transport.

I'm not implying that good public transport is bad, but more bikers is definitely not caused by lack of good public transport.
While I understand your point of view (though I believe patents that last for a couple decades wouldn’t have ruined mathematics), the strongest point, at least to me, of the argument you’re responding to, was drugs.

Drugs, according to the comment, are like an algorithm, with a simple set of inputs— hard to discover these inputs, but then easy to replicate. Yet we seem to feel differently about patenting drugs?

Do you have a response to that part?
Yes I can see that in London it could make problems. It is not a silver bullet, I'd say. Some cities benefit from this Uber-like form, and other cities benefit from the former London form.

While it is not a silver bullet, it is also not an universally wrong/bad way - that's my point.
Plus in Germany, you have what's called a probezeit, or probationary time. It can't be longer than one year, but it's a time where either party can end the work contract if it's not working out.
Germany: I bike to work (30mins), but on rainy and snowy days I take the car (15mins). Public transport is available, but takes 1h with very high unreliability (often you wait half an hour for that bus).

So I tend to agree. Public transport is good as long as your work is in the city center, but all the big employers are in a small radius around the city and hard to reach.
Which plugin?

I've been trying to break free from iTunes with a modded 5.5 gen, but Rockbox caused endless errors where non-corrupted songs would skip constantly(1). Wiped back to the default Apple firmware, and voila, no skipping. I tried an iPod plugin for Musicbee, and it appeared to work (files were syncing in Musicbee) but the songs and playlists didn't appear on the iPod. So back to iTunes sadly. I'd love to kick it to the curb.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19712077
Coming from Unity, I've tried Godot and I'm never going back to Unity. Yes the Asset Store is basically empty, yes will have to wait version 4.0 to have a powerful renderer, but the architecture is so clean and intuitive.

Unity feels like Windows, they stack on top of each other all the latest shiny features to attract customers resulting in a massive mess instead of thinking about a coherent overall architecture/UI. Their latest ECS system is an eg of this, they have just stacked on top of the pile a more FP approach although their architecture is not necessarily designed for that, but hey, FP and data-driven is trendy so let's add this too on the pile .

The real drawback right now with Godot is the 3D renderer which is okay but clearly not on par with UE or Unity, but 4.0 is coming with a re-written from scratch new Vulkan renderer.
Firefox is actually Nightly->Beta->Stable->ESR, where Developer Edition is a differently configured build of Beta.
I think he was onto something in his manifesto with constant warnings of the "surrogate activities" that consume so many people's time and resources.
This is very culturally specific. Childhood itself is a social construct, some cultures treat childhood very differently with various outcomes. It seems that this is one interpretation of the study results and by no means applicable to children globally. Psychology parades as a science of humanity, but in reality results are often strictly limited to the sample or population of interest. 'abnormal' development in place A may be normal in place B. Or normal under circumstance X. Researchers do their best to make sense of their data within their own cultural framework of thinking and experience.

It makes sense for difficult experience to mature the brain, that's how our neural networks strengthen. It makes sense to develop in response to adversity in order to overcome it again in the future. I would suspect the links to mental health conditions are due to another culturally constructed aspect of Western society. I.e. Mental unwellness is as much to do with how people respond to us as it is to do with any difference in brain function. The social world shapes our brain. If I withdraw from society for a while that may change some of my brain function but when I stop withdrawing and someone treats me a certain way that has another influence on my brain function. This latter influence may well be more influential that the effect of my original withdrawal. Therefore it's often difficult to firmly state that a difference in brain structure or function is due to X, when X is intrinsically related to Y, Z (and the whole alphabet).

We know that adversity is linked to mental health and therefore it must be related to brain changes. What we don't know is how exactly.if this is a beneficial evolutionary response - probably - that is almost inappropriate to a western society then it's not the evolutionary response that is problematic, it's the societal response to it.
I always find this BS legal idea of "expectation of privacy" backwards.

The important thing is not whether there's some pre-existing "expectation of privacy" in a domain (e.g. public square, or social media).

The important thing is whether (1) society wants (or deems beneficial) privacy in that domain and (2) privacy is achievable in that domain.

If (1) and (2) hold, there should be no talk of "expectation" and other such BS.

[1] and this can be settled with e.g. a referendum or a number of other ways.
It can be both.

The Obama administration shut down and buried the previous FTC investigation. I'd guess not just because of lobbying, but also because google was nice enough to allow a ton of google employees to take some "vacations" to work for the Obama campaign for a bunch of months, and the likes of Eric Schmidt being chummy with Obama[1].

The current investigation is probably motivated not just by those career bureaucrats who had their previous investigation shut down, but also by the Trump administration wanting to hurt SV and Google in particular for being too friendly with Democrats, and to put those social media companies (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter) on notice not to "prosecute" and ban conservatives on their platforms (at leas that's what Trump and a lot of "conservatives" say is happening).

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/obamas-...
PhD in machine learning & cyber sec here. My workflow:

3 months before...

“huh, I have that coming up, I should probably get something down”

writes an abstract on latex then gets distracted by an article on containers

2 months before

“I really should start thinking about that...”

reads around relevant papers and review results I should have done last month, makes some paper & electronic notes

1.5 month before

“I’ll look at it once I’ve got this experiment done”

gets distracted by my .bashrc file

1 month before

“S%%t! S%%t! S%%t!”

write 10 pages of _only words_ into a latex document in a git repo

3 weeks before

edit all the words, making sure to use branches / tidy commit names... render & send to supervisor

1.5 weeks before

tables, references, diagrams... make edits according to supervisor comments

1 weeks before

formatting, final editing, send to supervisor for final review

Last day

“thank fking christ”

final 5 page version

...

So... I’m a spree type of person. You may be more methodical.

I’ve found latex & git to be sufficient however.

Your first draft is supposed to be awful. Things should be wrong. Sections should be a mess. Forget tables and diagrams. References aren’t that important right now. Getting information down is.

Splurging your knowledge onto paper is the name of the game.

Any word processor application can do that. So latex, word, notepad, whatever. Just get it down.

After that is editing. This is where version control (git) comes in SUPER HANDY and I’d recommend avoiding MS Word if at all possible.

It’s easier to look at the changes in documents on GitHub instead of checking out specific commits, closing word, reopening word, sigh wrong commit, repeat.

Latex templates (e.g. ieee articles) also force you to use specific formatting that’s difficult to change unless you go digging.

Saves you time moving that picture around in word until it’s just right when you can just align top centre according to the journal’s spec by default.

I also find referencing much easier in latex when combined with bibtex. Word is horrendous.

So yeah, whatever I can splurge into for step 1, everything else is latex & git for versioning.

Edit:

Forgot to mention. I have reams of notes I’ve made on papers and photos of whiteboards I’ve written “explainers” on. My desk is covered in paper in various different piles.

I usually refer to the actual paper when doing splurge/editing, but if I’ve forgotten a few things then paper notes/whiteboard photos come in very handy for re-understanding what the hell im actually talking about.
> Just because somethin has a benefit to the consumer does not mean we should keep it a viable business model, otherwise we should also allow slave labor.

How could you compare someone voluntarily engaging in employment to slave labor?

> well be detrimental overall, because it increases costs for everyone.

I don't buy it. The math that claims that these designations cost taxpayers is naive. As though applying additional costs to the employers would somehow just generate wealth and tax revenue from nowhere. The money would come from somewhere (consumers and gig workers), and would result in less business as an artificially higher price would scale back quantity demanded.

> The only people who are really benefiting are the large shareholders.

Most of these businesses are losing a lot of money. They're not fleecing anyone. It might not be viable by any means but increasing the costs arbitrarily would decrease their chances. It's important to remember that most of these gig workers work these jobs because they prefer them over any other job available to them. So removing options for them is unlikely to benefit them.
Australia does NOT have real highest percentage of foreign born and is a very hard country to immigrate to.

Their foreign born are mostly from neighbors NZ and UK.
And macOS.
It's too broad to say all algorithms should not be patentable. Amazon's one click buy and page rank are obvious to "those skilled in the arts" but there are plenty of algorithms that should be patentable. The problem is that the uspto doesn't properly get an expert consensus on obviousness.
Probably yes, if I lived in a dense city it would fine. I can’t imagine what someone would paint that would be so bad. If I really disliked it I could paint over it.

Who is the homeowner in the Wikipedia analogy though?
Exploiting Byte-Accessibility of SSDs Within a Unified Memory-Storage Hierarchy [pdf]
> In our world, you cannot patent theorems but people publish them anyway. Why?

You'll never have enough information to know what theorems went unpublished. You can only speak to the probability based on incentives. Public institutions and Universities may be incentivized to publish theorems, but that same incentive doesn't exist in corporations. A valuable money making theorem that could give competitors and advantage would never be published unless a patent could be formed using the technique that circumvents the limitations by including other processes.

Even with the existing patent system, trade secrets still exist: WD-40, Coca-Cola, Twinkies...etc. When it comes to money, the default is to preserve.
Not sure how applicable this is, since it is (1)a different jurisdiction (2)a house built in '48 with a 1-bed apartment with kitchen & bath added in 86; but my brother's house has the apartment separate from the main house with a connecting HVAC/laundry room.

As many apartment buildings also have shared laundry, perhaps investigate that route. Sharing laundry with a tenant isn't much of a bother, and in my brother's house the apartment was quite literally built for the mother-in-law. There is still separate HVAC, but in this case all that is needed is an adjoining laundry room w/ 2 fire rated doors.
Cryptanalysis of Curl-P and Other Attacks on the IOTA Cryptocurrency [pdf]
Can you provide some examples "extreme left" politics in the US? I doubt it. I'm tired of right wingers thinking of themselves as some sort of enlightened centrist because they go left of center on some social issues.
Analogies are an equally lousy way to reason, one should study the thing itself and its unique characteristics to determine how to deal with it, not some proxy by analogy.
This isn't actually true. Those who have more income spend much more money on drugs.

I used to smoke weed all day everyday for 10 years, and knew a ton of others that did so. None of us were poor, all had good jobs and made good income.

Moreover, people that only smoke rarely and have never smoked get the wrong impression about what smoking all day does to you. I would hardly call it being 'stoned', more like being slightly buzzed and less anxious. I don't think anyone who didn't know me would have ever been able to tell, unless I smelled like weed or something.

I now don't smoke at all, and the difference in experience is pretty minimal. I feel about the same as I did when I was smoking constantly, which is a testament to the powerful ability for neuronal self-regulation in the brain; both on and off drugs.
I don't agree. You set a list of people you want to share it with. Obviously those people have the ability to forward but I would expect (or would like to expect) that only those on the recipient list would be able to access it directly.
Ask HN: Digital Business Cards
Has anyone seen a good implementation of a digital business card? Something that allows you to quickly let someone know how best to reach you.
Some Tools for Teaching New Photography Students
Indeed. Kudos for one Izzard's best bits ever.
I think the core team needs to collect copyright waivers from day one, like QT or other companies offering a choice of GPL / commercial.
I am not sure if understand how encryption works in the context of messaging applications. Unless the two parties communicating generate a set of keys for that particular session there is a high chance that a 3rd party who is operating the service can read their messages.

This is the theory. Now, in practice you can see exactly the same.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2606495/facebook-can-read-your...
The current IP system is pretty decent.... Just all time limits should be adjusted to 1 year.

If I invent something, a 1 year headstart in the market should be plenty of reward.
Could it not be 4 "super-judicial wars"? haw haw haw
I've been playing around with k3s myself on Azure:

https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-k3s-cluster

...as well on my own ARM cluster, with a private registry:

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2019/05/18/2034

I find it refreshingly straightforward for personal and testing setups (and more practical than microk8s for me right now), and am waiting for rio to hit a couple of stable milestones:

https://github.com/rancher/rio

(I try openFaaS now and then, but after contributing a deployment template early in the beginning, I lost my enthusiasm for it - it also ran the gateway and the admin UI on the same process, which I considered a design flaw).
> That being said, creating a native app for 2-3 (depends if you include Linux) different OS with completely different frameworks and maintaining feature parity between them involves a lot of specific knowledge and (probably) separate teams.

Why do people believe this? It could be written once in C++ using Qt, Juce, or Fltk and be blazingly fast. This has been done thousands of times over the last few decades. Where does this myth come from?
So in your deranged conspiracy theory, the New York Times hates Uber because Uber is "a technology company" and therefore competes with the New York Times?
This, along with the need to offset $1B operating losses will severely cripple Uber. I enjoy the convenience of using an Uber to get around town but afraid these coming actions will raise prices significantly.
Girl and Tonic blogger: 'Giving up booze helped me buy my house'
Perhaps, but even if not, they are very unlikely to hit the pavement. The gp argument was that people don't know how to care for expensive electronic devices and that's why they brake their phones.

My argument is that most people can handle other expensive electronic devices just fine, it's just that smartphones are not durable enough for their intended use.
Leadership in the Toxic Work Environment – Grit is what will pull you through
Not precisely. It’s the lowest _local_ melting point on the composition-temperature phase diagram. One material pairing can have multiple eutetic points.

Also, the fact that everything melts at the same temperature isn’t particularly important -it’s easy to add more heat. It’s really that everything freezes at the same temperature.
Cushman and Wakefield Sees Coliving Tipping Point
>Data you put on social media is basically public. It may not be easily discoverable by the public at large, but that lack of discoverability is not a perpetual guarantee at all.

That's an individuals own risk, and not the same as whether Facebook should treat them as private, and don't sell them, expose them, etc.

Sure, I should be cautious of what I say in social media, because e.g. the other side could leak it, the servers could be hacked and the contents exposed, etc.

The same holds for my snail mail or what I type in my laptop. But I still expect those to be kept private (and even more importantly, want them to be kept so, and want the law to enforce that).

Just because there's no "perpetual guarantee" doesn't mean there shouldn't be company closing fines for selling your data, or showing negligence in making them private (e.g. unencrypted passwords come to mind) etc.
I didn't see the player icons until I tried zooming out. That was confusing! (1280x900 standard 13" rMBP resolution)