skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> some people subscribe to a theory that the distributed nature and synchronicity of neural mechanisms makes then similar to n-body problems

I'm sorry, but are you claiming that our brain is hard to simulate because it's chaotic?

That's not a useful idea. If that is true, than it only means that we have a lot of accidental complexity and it's much easier to make something more intelligent than us than it's to simulate ourselves. This would add no constraints on the creation of a general AI.
if free flow of data across countries helps in privacy then HIPAA should not have rule that healthcare data of US citizens need not be stored only in US. Will USGOV relax that norm ?
the Indian govt rules are about storing financial data within the country and not gmail data.
This is a great and much-needed comment.

There's absolutely a need for many Americans (and perhaps other Westerners) to re-examine approaches to death, and judgment about when it's best to prolonging life and when it's best to avoid intervening.

But that reckoning may not be as thoughtful as it needs to be if it's all about thresholds of individual capability; it may need to be nested in a larger conversation about what makes life valuable as age may diminish that capability.
That almost really reads like a threat.
And here I thought the story was about the endless stream of “me too” comments in the bug report. Hard to find much signal in there.
I've been concerned about buying into the Touch Bar hardware when it seems like it is not coming to any other Macs.

If Apple was going to try and open a new front on the "hearts and minds of Touch Bar skeptics" war then the Mac Pro reveal at WWDC a few weeks ago would have been the time to do it, that they didn't makes me think it's not long for this world. Not because the Mac Pro sales would have been hampered by it, if a workstation class modular PC running macOS was what you have been waiting for then wrapping the cost of a Touch Bar keyboard wouldn't be a make or break price modifier (and you could always swap out keyboards later if you hate it).

If the MBP is a quasi-halo product (expensive but incredibly ubiquitous) and the Touch bar isn't coming to the Mac Pro which is a true halo product I don't think you'll see it ever get pushed to any other product category either.
There's a venn diagram with an intersection of people who use Hacker News and people who don't know what Slack is, and it's literally just you. It's bizarre to me that you feel the need to share your opinion on the valuation of something you knew nothing about a half an hour ago.

That said, $16B seems to be about 4x more than I would have expected.
Is Slack the real problem, or are you just blaming the messenger?
They have since marked messages from an integration in a way that distinguishes them.
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So, is there anyone besides Google with a capable quantum processor? Are they that ahead of everybody?
Without slack I couldn't work full remote.
Anecdotal but most companies I’ve worked with that use Slack,
1. Don’t give devs company phones (and no one should ring my personal cell)
2. Have remote people they communicate with frequently (ask the remote people how slack has included/enabled them more than ever)
3. Only use email for non-urgent, one-way, or external messaging (although bringing high-value 3rd parties into Slack has been great in my experience)

No matter your concerns about Slack, once you’re in a company using it you have no choice but to embed yourself completely.
Why would it need to be law? Since, in your view, capital / management / entrepreneurship contribute nothing of value, workers should have no problem creating successful businesses without them. Particularly if UBI takes care of basic needs during the early stages.
Me neither. Sometimes you need EINTR to let you check some other state so you can tell if you need to shutdown.
This was pretty much how I read it.
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Do you mean a bussiness solution or a solution to the "social problem" of people posting disgusting content?

I have no bussiness solution, but the solution to the latter is to simply ignore/block people who post stuff you don't like.
The efficacy of this as a deterrent seems to depend on the notion that India would like its citizens to be able to obtain H1 visas from the US.

Is that the case?
Here's a small tip for others that might help this problem:

Don't use the application versions of any of your apps. Instead, open up the web version of all of them and keep all their tabs in one browser window.

For example, my "notification window" includes my gmail, slack, outlook, and the web client for my mobile texts. I keep the window minimized until I have a need for it, and keep the vibration off on my phone during work hours.
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Maybe in this case the solution really is to shoot the messenger.
A brain fever outbreak in India that has killed more than 100 children
Could go either way (more or less). So probably
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Azure has 25+ "always free" services besides the $200 free credit.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/?v=17.39a
Fair enough (100 vs 500). But by your own admission, the analogy still holds. While Jobs could “just barely” get away with it, can you imagine Amelio trying to get away with it at all among the few at the time remaining Apple faithful?
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I don't really get this.

Some people at my company get interrupted by slack all the time, and they complain about it.

I disable all notifications except for @-mentions and DMs (and then I only have desktop notifications; mobile is disabled). If I'm expecting to not want interruptions at all, I go to DnD mode for a bit.

And yet, when I tell people this, they just somehow claim they can't do what I do for some hand-wavy reason, and continue to complain.
> How does 'free flow of data across borders' help secure consumers' privacy?

This is not about consumer privacy. This is about corporate profit. Visa, Mastercard and other US banks want to maintain fewer datacenters around the world. They already have them in the US (because US law) and they possibly also feed that data to US govt.

With such localization laws, US corporations are having to invest in other countries. They are lobbying to bully other countries for profit and this administration is ready to support profits at any cost.
All bad actors (especially UMG) should be relegated to either filing DMCA removal requests which do not have an option to monetize.

If they want to collect any revenues YouTube should force them to sue individual creators in the courts. Unfortunately YouTube is rewarding the bad behavior of one of their biggest clients instead.
Not in isolation. A 16 year old's upcoming expenses are a car, car insurance, tuition, housing, food, and more... And if possible should be contributing to a retirement account as well.

A 16 year old also may not have a college opportunity and may decide to go straight to work, may decide to go straight to having a family with a high school sweetheart. At that point, the 16-18 year old needs a liveable wage too.
this, but for resource reasons. slack windows app is an atrocity
I love Heroku but the problem is the price. The free tier is amazing, but once you get above that, the price scales way out of proportion. It's worth it if you're profitable beyond the point of infrastructure costs and just need to outsource operational costs. But if you're strong on operations and short on cash, Heroku is pretty darn expensive.

It's cheaper than hiring an operations team, but it's a heck of a lot more expensive than, say, dokku on a Digital Ocean or Linode VPS.
Slack is nowhere near 1000 a user.
I don't know if Plaid asks for those but other similar systems do (I know, unreal right?)
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Set standards on when people use the group notifications is a start. But in general just having standards that people agree upon for channel message priority is the way to go.
Obviously downloading contents from muted channels is not an issue. Also you can both mute and hide the channel which effectively leaves it. And obviously slack bots are just as powerful as discord's so it's just a matter of servers electing to add crazy bots or not. Everyone bitches about giphy... these are some real stretches if these are your actual complaints about enterprise readiness, rather than data/admin policies, account segregation, etc. Do you have a vested interest somewhere?
Maybe no more than any other chat application (Slack has been the nicest of those which we have tried though), but my workplace, which was born around office messaging, has recently started to push towards more voice communication and I feel like that has brought a decrease in productivity.

Having an automatic transcript of all discussion was the most amazing resource. Now I, along with everyone else, have to rely on faulty memory, which leads to more meetings to continually check that we understand each other, and longer meetings as it takes a lot longer to convey ideas. Quite frankly, it is a disaster, in my opinion.

But perhaps in both of our cases we are simply resistant to change.
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Mattermost raises $50 million to advance its open source Slack alternative

https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/19/mattermost-raises-50-mill...
Getting friends to do promotional votes and comments isn't ok on HN. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. We ban sites and accounts for doing this, so please don't. Also, it's usually obvious to the HN community when this is happening, and they consider it spamming.

We want users to upvote submissions that they personally find intellectually interesting, not because they or their friends have something to promote.
We switched from Slack to Discord in our community and I prefer it. It feels faster to me, the Slack app on a Mac got really slow after a while.
I wish Discord added Telegram style voice messages and it would be perfect.
To be totally honest I still think forums like phpbb where much better but they didn't really transitioned to the mobile world. I miss them.
My favorite BTT mapping: 3 finger click (touchpad and/or magic mouse) generates a middle click event.

I have no idea how people open and close browser tabs without this, since browsers have great middle click response but Apple pointing devices don't natively generate such clicks.
Why are the same videos coming up again and again?

Of everything, that seems like an easy problem to solve.
Having a unique aspect to a game makes it more interesting for blogs to write about it.

Although human interaction is much more interesting to play as well. I recall a single-player game, except you could make just one decision for the next player you'll never meet — whether to forgive them for a crime or not at the end — and just this single bit made it at least twice as interesting.
As an Indian - good! This will help the local IT industry tremendously.
That box is coated to make it water-resistant. Technically they can be separated and the paper half recycled, but almost no municipality does it.
I would imagine that Rust’s advantage over Ada here is in the second paragraph. I don’t know if they directly considered it or not.
The historical context of discord, is that every gaming group would have some sort of chat app (mainly IRC, more recently hipchat, yammer, slack) as well as a push-to-talk voice app (ventrilo, teamspeak, mumble, ...). Discord is merely combining the best of both (slack, and all its api support, with built in voice channels).

Nobody has to use voice. In many communities, most don't. But as the above said, it's a super frictionless way to talk if needed and is a lot less formal than "starting a call/meeting". You just publicly hop into one of a dozen visible channels and anyone else can hop in with you to discuss an issue or just hang out mostly-not-talking.
Just played it for about 30 minutes. Reading the messages is mildly fun. They range from amateur attempts to contribute to the game story (on june 12th, there were 5 of us...) to corny aphorisms ("i didn't I hurt her"), to hilarious attempts to derail game understanding ("physics affects THE DRONES") ("don't trust your boat").

It may be intentional, but the actual game itself felt buggy and it was difficult for me to interact with it. The screen would invert sometimes (I guess to swap between night/day), if I was off-boat during a screen change, buggy shit could happen, it's a bit awkward to paddle your boat.

I really like things that let you cast anonymous messages into the dark, so that's fun. But the game itself bored me within the first arbitrary loss of my boat. No idea why that happened, didn't feel like slowly paddling across screens again to reupgrade for another 30 minutes, only to "die" without knowing why.
I wouldn't think India would be much deterred by the move. Those workers represent a very small drop in a very large bucket. An extra 50,000 Indian workers seeking work in India instead of the US (or in some other non-US country) is practically nothing.
I use MTMR[1], My TouchBar My Rules. Great JSON-based customization. Built in Dock applet included (a great pomodoro applet as well, my fav).

The sample presets are kind of cluttered, but removing some of the items and making others was ultra simple. If you know AppleScript you can pretty much any button.

[1] https://github.com/Toxblh/MTMR/
I can imagine plenty of practical reasons for such a policy, like customers who have paperless statements going to an email address that they no longer check or have access to.

If you don't like this just switch to paper statements. Wanting to receive financial statements without leaving any evidence that you received them doesn't fall under any definition of privacy that I know of.
It is interesting to remember that slack was built as an outsourced product in its early days.
> The idea that a push for diversity is somehow in conflict with a meritocracy is deeply flawed because it relies on the idea that people with diverse backgrounds either haven't shown they are capable or that there are no people with diverse backgrounds that are capable

I’m saying thats only part of the dilemma and is muddied by that specific binary approach

People talk about interest in certain fields amongst demographics, pipeline problems, resent any perception of undermining a meritocratic process and this hurts everyone

But the kicker is that its not JUST about proving that a proportional distribution of people in a currently underrepresented demographic is competent, there and in the pipeline

Its that companies wont grow to address larger markets if meritocratic diversity is the only thing they look for and try to approve

People - like what you expressed - are barking up just one of multiple trees. Even if you reach peak underrepresented minority, you’ve still failed to bring diverse ideas to the market
People use the term in different ways, but my understanding is that "interactive fiction" was intentionally created as a broader term to encompass the games you're talking about (commonly called adventure games or text adventures) plus more literary efforts that can't really be called games at all. Choice-based games fall somewhere on that spectrum between puzzle heavy, parser games and fiction with interactive elements. "Among the Seasons," which tied for Best in Show at this year's Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction, is essentially a short story with some limited choices. It's written in Twine but could probably be done in something like ChoiceScript.
Did this about a month ago, definitely worth it
My understanding has been that neither Google nor anyone else really has a quantum processor.
I'll plug another touch bar tool here.

Know how your $3,000 MacBook Pro keyboard keeps breaking? Know what's not broken and close to your keyboard? The touch bar. So I built a keyboard into the touchbar: https://github.com/RubenSandwich/TouchBarKeyboard. Problem solved.

But seriously, OP's tool has way more utility then mine.
Related classic video: "The User is Drunk" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r2CbbBLVaPk
What potential countries might be the locations that it gets moved to?
People where I work would much rather give up Jira instead of slack.
We use the api in our CI/CD pipeline to send messages to the teams about build status.
Here's the real divider: Viewpoint diversity.

Are you ready to have some conservatives/Republicans on your team?
“How much market share do you think we can get?”

Arms spread wide, “This much!”

That is just too perfect. Who’s cutting onions in here?
That was fun!

My score:

You said yes to 63% of the existing words.

You said yes to 0% of the nonwords.

This gives you a corrected score of 63% - 0% = 63%.

I already knew I wasn't a wordsmith so that's not awful. About what I expected.
The absolute dependence on China is something I'm surprised more companies haven't tried to combat. There's so many efforts to try and diversify to reduce risk, yet almost every hardware company remains at the whims of the Chinese government due to their dependency on Chinese manufacturers.
In fact, maybe all journalists everywhere should just focus on investigating the organizations they write/work for, and stop talking about anything else until those places are paragons above criticism, right?

Maybe next up: only debt-free people/orgs are allowed to talk about deficits?

(Sure, journalism, like most other professions, can use introspection, including the topic of how tracking works, but if there's any case that something needs to be said every time the topic of tracking comes up -- and it's not clear that it is -- that should largely be an editorial call.)
From the article:

>The countries being considered include Mexico, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia. India and Vietnam are among the favorites for smartphones, Nikkei said, citing sources who did not want to be identified as the discussions are private.
Why/how is your org paying that much per user? I was under the impression that Slack topped out at well below that figure even for all the enterprise bells and whistles. I assume there are additional services/features that I’m not aware of? On-premise or dedicated hardware? Special data location requirements?
I do not believe this is true. You can start the car with just the account credentials. You will have two minutes to start driving, as the GP states; it’s called keyless driving mode. I’m pretty sure as I have used it when my phone broke and started the car with unpaired iPad. You need a key fob or key card to add a new paired key/phone, a paired smartphone doesn't work for that.
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> Can a QC finally factor 15?

For compiled versions of Shor's algorithm, yes. https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5707
In the process of trying to reproduce this bug in some rather silly environments, I've instead discovered that try.dot.net is completely broken on multiple browsers:

- On Firefox for Android, it's impossible to type in a program, since when typing something as simple as "using System;" it'll garble the text like crazy

- On Android browsers in general, the Monaco editor on that page is too "smart" for its own good and presents a worthless context menu when I press and hold (i.e. to select all text or paste it in). Microsoft: could y'all not?

- On both the (presumably-Chromium-based) default browser on my Android phone and Firefox 52.9.0 ESR on a reasonably "recent" OpenIndiana, the Blazor runtime fails to run anything at all when I click "Run", complaining in the JS console (at least on OpenIndiana; didn't check on my phone, but the symptoms are the same) that "No .NET call dispatcher has been set".

- On a reasonably-recent nightly version of Haiku, loading try.dot.net at all causes WebPositive to outright crash within seconds.
Yes and no.

Yes, because it directly affects the business of large outsourcing companies. It also drops remittances, one of the largest sources of dollars for India.

No, because for many decades, India has been trying to keep their smartest citizens to build their own country. Making local companies, serving at local hospitals, teaching at local schools and universities. They want their own Google, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Adobe instead of Indian citizens working in the US for US corporations. They were just unsuccessful for so many years because countries like US drained the well-educated so much.

Ultimately, this will be a great deal for India. India doesn't want remittances. They want their own companies to make software that the world wants to buy.
Ask HN: Firefox Android users, is umatrix working now?
After signature expiry incident, it appears lot of addons have recovered but I can't yet install umatrix.

Of course I could set xpiinstall.signatures.required to false but that's not that reliable..
If it was possible to live a normal life on the minimum wage then many would chose to instead of destroying their mental health to be able to pay rent.
Apparently also popular in Thailand. This guy tested one, and it did work against .22 and some .38 pistol rounds, which is surprising. Failed with anything more powerful: https://www.theboxotruth.com/the-box-o-truth-58-homemade-x-r...
Most likely they will move to some country around China so its still easy for them to move stuff and raw materials around. They can also move the production to India a place where they always struggled to sell the phone.
I use Hangouts every day at work. It's works fine. I have no complaints. What could Slack possibly be doing to make it worth paying extra to use it?

Seems like the bureaucracy of most companies just hasn't caught up to the fact that Slack isn't really necessary.
> If you did, you could deliberately try to manipulate filters to flag your competitors' emails as spam.

You could, it's just hard and generally not worth it. The same, I believe, goes for video manipulation. Sounds like hash collisions. Possible, sure, but not something you run on your cell in 30s.
Maintaining foreign data centers isn't really an issue for large companies. All cloud providers already support various data residency and compliance requirements. Companies are happy to follow these laws if it means more business for them.

It is the US government which has a problem because it wants direct access to data from foreign countries & corporations. In fact Microsoft was involved in a very long legal battle with them over it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat....
What are the upsides of email? Spam?
Vietnam, Mexico, or the U.S.A.
Im in the same boat as you (350/350 for $35 tho) but we are outliers even in the Canadian market. Fast internet is just now getting to everyone at affordable prices, even though ive personally had gigabit for 4 years.
> My question is where the hell is that money going?

S&M:

- Sales people aren't cheap

- Marketing tech isn't cheap

- Advertising isn't cheap (especially when your investors say "SPEND IT ALL AS FAST AS YOU CAN")

- Steaks/strippers with clients isn't cheap
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There are multiple grounds.

A popular approach so far has been to argue the proper process for rule changes hasn't been followed. I'm not sure that applies here, but in many cases there are legal steps to changing regulation. You can't just wake up Tuesday and say "I think stop signs are going to be green."

Separately and more applicable in this case, states can argue they're being harmed by this particular set of federal rules. This can further be tied to already-existing law, essentially arguing that a new regulation is incompatible with a law passed by Congress. As an example, the EPA can't simply approve dumping industrial waste chemicals into waterways, because the Clean Water Act says otherwise.
I have not used this myself, but as serendipity would have it, I came across it the other day: https://github.com/rudism/Ficdown