skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> should we then say that all English-speaking Americans have more in common than whatever ethnic stock they came from in another country, whether Mexicans or Asians or whatever group?

I’d say it depends on the extent to which they have maintained a meaningfully separate culture within the US, but largely, yes. I think in most cases, a kid born in the US to Chinese parents has more in common with white American kids than they do with kids brought up in Shanghai.

Just my opinion; I don’t have any quantitative way to back this up.
Yes! Personally I would argue a that this can end up being a little better in practice since errors don't interrupt your program's flow and there's not an implicit `if err jump` attached to every line but I suppose that's stylistic preference.
ICQ was quite impressive in 1997.
Quantum computing is rising? I was under the impression that is has been stagnating for like half a decade now. Can a QC finally factor 15? Like factor(15)=3*5?
I'm a fan of the matrix protocol. Its still early days...but I'm hopeful for the future.
They really need to make the search better.
Get your fax right: Bungling officials spark nuclear scare
I'm sorry you are getting downvoted. You are absolutely correct. I've gotten in many discussions about this exact same thing on HN. I at one point I had an exchange with someone about terrible bad Pale Moon was because it let users do things like override HSTS settings, and otherwise undo decisions that Mozilla had made.[1]

I actually have highly specialized profiles that make heavy use of XUL addons that I have developed over the years for very specific things, and I hate how careful I have to be that an update won't come and delete them. It would be one line of code to make a backup of a profile before "upgrading" it...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19527615

Anyway, it's a much bigger problem, and it's cultural as much as technological. And you're not alone and you're not crazy for seeing it.
Political activism and starting a business are very similar :) Head down, eyes forward on the prize. Don't waste time on people dragging you down. Long road ahead. Best of luck with your startup, I wish you much success.
Could you describe some potential legislation you'd be happy with? How would you define "properly"? I'm especially interested in how this would work in places like the United States where there are strong free speech laws.
I'm a Windows user and I never have any of those problems. Our organisation is only about 10 people so I guess we are not pushing it very hard.
That is 100% awesome. I've had a few managers over my career that got that.

The counterpoint (funny enough, at the same company as the ice cream) was a different exec who came close but just missed the mark. Weekday evening deployment (started at 5:30pm) and he orders pizza. A lot of pizza. Things go smoothly and since we're just sitting and watching monitoring for a bit to make sure all is good, he decides to head out. Ten minutes after he leaves, we get a call about a third-party site that broke after the deployment... guess we're not leaving.

So the debugging drags on, and around 11pm we start getting hungry. AHA! Leftover pizza in the fridge! We go to the kitchen to discover... he took all of the leftovers home. Like 4 pizzas worth. So what's our conclusion? "Fuck it, we'll fix it in the morning. Let's go home."

All it would have taken waa leftover pizza...
Would this let me see the full path of an https requests that an app is making? I've got a testing need for that, and am currently hampered because our secops team won't let us enable a feature flag to disable cert pinning so that Charles proxy will work.

WOuld this be a viable alternative because it runs on the actual phone itself?
I think from an app developer's perspective, web-based apps are definitely the way to go. That's because it's so incredibly difficult to build a good web, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android app. I'm hopeful that one day making good native apps will be as easy and accessible as web development.
As I understand, counter-hypersonics are the only defense to this, something not mentioned in the article. These are being developed already, though I'm unsure of success rates and what the odds really are of stopping a missile like this. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/mad-scientists-darpa-...
Both my current company and the one prior to that did the same switch.

We all preferred Slack but the cost was just ridiculous and no one could justify it. Teams came for 'free' with all the other Microsoft stuff we were already paying a licence for.
Japan revises law to ban parents from physically punishing children
I'm supplying facts which support the view of reality in which "latino" is common and "latinx" is uncommon, not making an argument that people should act one way or another.
When i moved companies, i went from Slack to Teams also. Dont notice the difference really. Our company did it because of the same reason they use outlook.
To counteract this, I recommend a career in the biomedical sciences; we fundamentally don't understand so much that "i know how it works now and so it's not special" hardly ever obtains!
I wonder if the issue might be some question about if the user is receiving statements or not.

IIRC even statements sent to customers are covered by some banking regulations and if they're not done right there can be serious fines.

Ages ago I worked on equipment that ran printers that printed financial statements. Any hint that anything might be late got the executive team nervous and their full attention. It was serious stuff.

Granted that was years ago and they could just want to track you but if the requirement is just every 12 months... that really doesn't seem like effective tracking.

Perhaps another issue is a security check, such as a dormant or hijacked email that would otherwise expose itself by reading all their emails from another country unexpectedly?
A soldier photographed a famous general’s funeral in Normandy after D-day
That doesn’t seem like that big of a number for a large corporation that Slack is now. Tesla had a net loss of 700mm[1] last quarter. Their business is more capital intensive for sure but still. Just looking at a 150mm net loss and saying it’s a big number doesn’t tell you much.

[1] https://ir.tesla.com/node/19771/html#CONSOLIDATED_STATEMENTS...
I would start with a few things:

- Make social networks mandated reporters for suspected child abuse. Like teachers or little league coaches, reporting would absolve them of liability.

- Prohibit generation of profit from illegal activity.

- Require transparency in political advertising, with an accountable entity and individual listed and publicly available.

- Require reporting of funding source and material individuals for paid political advertising.

- Make the platform liable for false product claims in cases where the platform facilitates direct or implied endorsements for a product. (“Jedi72 likes this homeopathic cancer treatment!”

- Make the platform responsible for reasonable efforts to block and report on actions against fictitious users posing as people. Share liability for any claims, including libel, resulting from the actions of fictitious people.

A regulatory regime like this would either improve the signal/noise ratio or cause the company to abandon or prohibit certain actions or functions.
>No analyst has the nerve to ask that question point blank on the earnings call.

Ooooh, I need to Google to see if this has happened. Obviously investors and analysts would prefer to have those talks privately to avoid alienating anyone important, but it has to have happened sometime.
With double exponential growth, “it looks like nothing is happening, nothing is happening, and then whoops, suddenly you’re in a different world,” Neven said.

This is just a clever way to spin the fact that we are experiencing growth much slower than exponential growth now into a prediction of much faster future growth, without any evidence. Or perhaps an internal joke the physicists would make. Next time I have a really flat function, I'm going to fit it with a triple exponential like so:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+exp(exp(exp(x))),+x%3D-20..-5,+y%3D0..5
> Forrester analyst Michael Facemire says it's hard for people to understand why the platform is more useful than other chat applications without trying it for themselves.

It isn't.

I know Slack probably needs to justify its valuation in front of some people, but Slack is not different from Facebook and Instagram in this regard: They offer nothing unique or technologically superior. The whole point of their business is hoarding users to the point that it's the "default" app in their given context.

I'm not saying it's bad. If they didn't do it, someone else would have done it anyway.
Nope, really not that complicated. Where I work, they just hired on a specialist contractor for a year. That person assisted with the audit of sites at the same time they trained web developers in remediation for existing sites and methods for building new content.
The enterprise customers are the least likely to stay. What happens when Microsoft Teams gets “good enough” and it’s already given away with the Office subscription that most enterprise customers have and it integrates with Microsoft’s other options.

Look no further than YC darling Dropbox. For the same price you pay for Dropbox, you can get the entire Microsoft Office suite plus 6 TB of storage.
Ha, that is always my go-to story for that idea. So far I've never met anyone who's heard it. Great autobiography.
Haha, and that will be the last slack message I ever read.
I used to love the mac keyboard. Of any non Apple laptop it was superior... until I tried out a ThinkPad just over a year ago. I honestly don’t think I could own anything other than a ThinkPad from now on for the keyboard alone.
This Post Is about Bullshit
Well done! :aussie_conga_parrot:
What if the OS could dedupe pages?
Deutsche Bank Faces Criminal Investigation for Potential Money-Laundering Lapses
I use Slack frequently in about 20 different open source, interest-based, educational and hobbyist communities. I also use it frequently as part of small teams set up for various projects.
Ask HN: What software exists for playbooks/runbooks?
A playbook/runbook meaning an editable guide or set of strategies to solving problems a company/individual encounters throughout their existence.

Are people just using wikis or google docs?
What an event to run into.

And nicely photographed.
Mozilla Patches Firefox Critical 0day Flaw Under Active Attack
you should try the old ThinkPad keyboards, like the X201. So nice.

For the MacBook, if they had a version with a physical escape key, I'd be fine. Just make it a little shorter. It will be okay. I promise.
I’m starting to think one can adopt the simple rule of switch to a DIY build whenever there enough work to keep a GPU busy for 2 months, otherwise if the workload is intermittent then better strategy is leasing, especially considering the purchase cost/performance is constantly dropping.
Yeah, but the thing about drama is that for it to be drama there has to be someone saying "No, this behavior is not ok." Those voices have largely been silenced and the behavior proceeds apace.
The headline really is "Hackers Can Take Over Your GPS".

Unless your GPS receiver is hosting its own model of what the GPS constellation SHOULD be based on your location and the current time, and can beamsteer its antenna elements to null out the spoofing, you're wide open to having someone just spoof GPS with a low power transmitter. This is old, old, old news.
I feel similarly. Its satisfying to feel that you know what you are doing rather than just randomly trying things and copying stack overflow. Every few months I get the realization that the things that I considered too hard are now simple.

Its also really cool having so many opportunities available for personal projects.
Meh, not so much. The processes will only page in the code they actually use.

Shared libraries are a goofy hack dating back to a time when people mistakenly thought they needed them, and they need to go away.
There is a huge API to telsa cars:

mostly through https://owner-api.teslamotors.com/

for example:

POST /api/1/vehicles/{id}/command/door_unlock

"Unlocks the doors to the car. Extends the handles on the S and X."

response:

{
"reason": "",
"result": true
}

details of the api people have discovered have been collected here:
https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api

Now, I personnaly wouldn't give credentials of my car out to folks, but you have to admit there is some interesting data that has come out of it.

for example, folks have discovered the details of how various tesla batteries charge:

https://forum.abetterrouteplanner.com/blogs/entry/29-faster-...
The news articles I posted are from the last 2 years not 200 years ago. The Alabama chemical castration went on the books a few weeks ago.

And why are you going back 200 years? Internment camps happened in the 40s and forced sterilization + syphylis guided as experiments happened into the 1980s... To free people, citizens even.
I'm biased because I like Slack, although I haven't tried Discord so I'm only comparing it with the usual competitors that are terrible, but it does feel very sticky to me. It's replaced email for my JIRA and Google Drive notifications, it's replaced Google Hangouts for most of my team chat and 1:1 video calls. And I'm not even using all the plugins many of my colleagues are using yet.

They really seem to have gotten a lot of Google Wave ideas to catch on and have even kept some IRC bits. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. Congrats to the team on this massive valuation. Makes a lot more sense to me than Snapchat at $19B...
To the chubby engineer type in 2019, yes. Make the drunk dwarf dance, it’s a free market.

When recession strikes and the gravy train ends, the same folks will be wearing Che Guevara T-shirts crying about unfairness.
We use this for now, but with Slack there is the combination of IM with lists and TODO items. The alerts help us note when something is new and updated.

What is interesting to me is how our society is slowly evolving the personal, short-term information storage and retrieval. That is how I view Slack, but without paying for the storage, it's in a sense used only for short-term memory. Not for important things like memories, where Google Docs is for memories and deeper thoughts.
I'm hoping sooner or later someone figures out how to bind/call arbitrary elisp functions from the touchbar. That for me would be the real killer app.
Do you know what a Victorian-era workhouse is?
> If you're working in the fields for less than minimum wage in 110° temperatures, the become a manager at McDonalds could easily count as "making it."

This is something I thought was cool about this guy’s story: by the time he became a janitor, he had already “made it” relative to his campesino upbringing (or at least how the article makes it sound).

But he didn’t stop there.
I hear people mention Slack once in a while on various forums but I have no clue what it is. I do not know anyone who uses it so it's not something I, or anyone I know, feels a need for--otherwise we would be searching it out. And therein lies a problem. $16B for something few people need or want? I guess I have to look up Slack and see what it is.

EDIT: So I looked it up and it looks like something useful for a lot of remote workers that need constant, instant contact with people working on the same stuff at the same time. To me that's a pretty niche market. If I thought the phone or email wasn't good enough, I might pay $5/month for such a service. But irc works pretty good still today.

IRC isn't worth $16B
That's a common atom drawing, not unique to React. Plus the one used here for kubeadm has some fairly large differences.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atom_Diagram.svg
I work with infrared cameras, I'll check this out tomorrow! Useful for things like seeing if someone's just left the office for lunch because their chair's warm.

Reminds me of the scene in one of Dan Brown's books where they catch the protagonist by noticing a conveyor belt has warmed up (which he lay on to escape). The first time I read that I thought it was nonsense, but having used decent cameras I'm inclined to believe it now.
I will check it out and thanks!
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BS in Psych and Bio interested in tips to find IT work
I have a BS in Psychology & Biology. Over 1 year of work experience all in mental health. I also have about 2 years of experience working with data via research labs. I am currently teaching myself to code via Codecademy. Any suggestions on the best angles or approaches I would have to get a job in IT or specifically in data science as that is what sounds most interesting to me. Thanks!
Uber did use HipChat instead of Slack, but mostly because Slack was uninterested in standing up servers for Uber. My understanding is that Slack basically ran a single server instance for each Slack team.

Atlassian bent over backwards for Uber, but just enough to make it functional. It was incredibly bad. Notifications would sometimes never arrive, or arrive hours delayed. Chats would take minutes to load. Messages would sit, spinning, waiting to be sent. It was like using 2G on your phone.

Uber eventually replaced it with a (forked) Mattermost cluster.
> [using the web with a screen reader is] an utterly prehistoric experience compared to using the web normally.

I think that's too harsh a criticism of screen readers. Can you give more details about why you think it's that bad?
I use Logic Pro heaps - and the touch par is actually useful there. The issue for me is remembering that it's there. I am so used to the keyboard commands.
Guy done need Spellingly
> I wonder if the issue might be some question about if the user is receiving statements or not.

Couldn't they just ask me? Then I could reply (or not).

> Perhaps another issue is a security check, such as a dormant or hijacked email that would otherwise expose itself by reading all their emails from another country unexpectedly?

A tracking beacon is no guarantee that I opened the email, just that somebody (with access to my account) opened the email, no?
Isn't this usecase patented by Apple?
This valuation depends on the continued incompetence of Google and Microsoft, who both offer Slack competitors as part of their productivity packages that most of Slack's paying customers already subscribe to. Their offerings are so bad that people pay money to Slack not to use them.
Sorry I wasn't clear. The underlying problem is piracy. Big players like Adobe can still use the subscription model. For most vendors, the easiest choice is going the web route.

Deployment is another PITA that makes App Store model desirable for the vendors. For Apple and Microsoft it's even better because they get a cut, they curate their platforms and have the upper hand over vendors lest they become competition.
HP is why noone can have nice things. Let me fix this for you OP.

"The person responsible for managing YOURCOMPANY's growing contractor workforce is Arun Chandra, whose title is vice president of WHATEVER. Chandra arrived at YOURCOMPANY last November after a long career at HP, where he helped to oversee the company’s global supply chain. In his new role, he told me, he hopes to gradually INCREASE OUTSOURCING TO 100%."
US tells India it is mulling caps on H1Bs to deter data rules
The OP mentioned nothing about organizational costs, I was talking purely about performance. The OP was incorrectly claiming you'd spend more time in C++ allocating memory, not less.
>Many Japanese government departments and companies still rely on fax machines for communication.

My understanding is that was and still might be the case for a lot of Japan.

IIRC the story of a restaurant who stopped taking fax orders and tried to encourage internet orders ... people just quit ordering so they went back to taking fax orders.
Run-books are an anti-pattern designed to resolve issues that shouldn't be present in well written software.
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Can anyone help? It’s been over 45 days of being told I’d get email help. Nothing.
I need to change an old secondary email and can get no help. Why would they refuse to help ? Cashflow issues ?
It will, but it will take a few years.

The issue with Uber is they pay $0.70/mi for a task where the cost of fulfilling the task is $1.00. The drivers do it because they can get quick cash with no friction.

You can already see the system breaking down. Uber XLs are getting older and shittier. 2012 Dodge Caravan that picked me up at the airport will be dead in a year. As the situation goes on, someone will die in a fiery wreck by an Uber with no brakes, and it will gather the national attention and kill the company.
I remapped capslock to esc and never looked back. In fact, I’ve gotten so used to it that I remap “normal” keyboards too. I use esc way more often than I’d ever use capslock, so having it at the pinky is perfect.
There is Debug.Trace.trace which does the trick with unsafePerformIO (which is a special non-type-safe escape hatch for IO)
Certainly none of it is a sure thing but doing due diligence might still be worthwhile of there are any regulatory or security questions.

It just doesn't strike me that every 12 months would provide much tracking value.
I still used to use lynx on a semi-regular basis until modern frameworks resulted in sites that were simply not usable.
1 billion users on slack? No way
Lot's of love for accessibility folks in education. Maybe a small consolation, but we just made AccessLint, our GitHub code review application free for edu's, inspired by this thread.
AiMotive Is EDA for Self-Driving Cars
I'd be shocked if the economics made sense, but not all investments produce a return.
But of course, the function in question isn’t Math.Round. It’s “interpretDotNetFunction”. Which is, necessarily, “string -> IO ()” (forgive my syntax).
World Refugee Day: How well is Japan fulfilling its obligations in 2019?
We started using slack just for our dev/eng teams at work, and the interest grew to some of our customer side teams and non-technical teams, but management have been reluctant to expand Slacks licensing. Then we realized Teams is included with our MS licenses, so now we're giving the non-dev/eng side of the company that. It's only a matter of time before someone with a little sway asks "Why are we paying for this when we have Teams?" the murmurs have already begun, it just has to hit the right ears, so the days are numbered.
This is crazy! If every app in the iOS or Android app store "just shipped a static binary", all apps would be enormous, and the OS vendors would be unable to evolve the system whatsoever.
Just downloaded it! I have to agree that this is a much better use than the default one. The original one was hardly usable in many applications besides music players. This gives me the ability to switch apps quicker than before, especially with many full screen apps open. Thanks man.
I'm usually at 500mb... per workspace. And the loading times when switching workspaces / channels are just stupid.

Ended deleting the desktop client.
Yup, you used a web app to post your comment. Apple dropped Flash for native web HTML5. Is the future really to develop an app that can only run in 4 places (Windows, mac, ios, and android) dominated by three major companies?