skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep that's a regular occurrence here as well. People assume that because it's in the high 70s on the valley floor that it will be the same temperature at the peak. Well, if you're gaining 3000 feet of altitude the temperature might be in the low 60s if you're lucky. And there will be wind chill as the air currents cut across the peak.

I've also seen a ton of hikers go 3 or 4 miles in without any food, water, or emergency gear at all.

I've heard of people on St. Helens doing the climb up the summer route in shorts and T-shirts with no other gear and becoming hypothermic at the top and requiring rescue. And that's a permitted route, meaning you have to win a permit lottery the year that you plan to do it.
The outrage is at the announcement that one more country is now allowing it. But you probably knew that.
What if you read the article?
ADUs are great and MHA is fine, but both of these packages literally took years to pass. The city council needs to move faster.
Yep, all I'm saying is it's necessary at some point to do experiments around this to further our understanding.
The Agile Methodology is to argue about The Agile Methodology.
which they literally do to any VAT registered company.
> quick DISM cleanup (which should already be running as a scheduled task)

Is this a recommendation/suggestion of yours, or a default state?
The historical Boston Tea Party event comes to mind. Not wanting to pay taxes (or in this case, legally minimizing your tax burden) is as American as apple pie.
Site operator doesn't necessarily need to know (if they are using reCAPTCHA). Google can just whitelist their bots.
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> Slack is one of many Silicon Valley unicorns going public this year, but it’s the only one that has admitted it is at risk for nation-state attacks.

Gosh, everyone who runs a computer is at risk for nation-state attacks.

The real question is: how high is the risk?

The risk section of an S1 tries to list every imaginable threat as a risk, without any assessment of the probability or impact (the two components of risk). Using this is a source for such an article is simply wrong.
They could do that and also require people get a card that says they're aware of the dangers and have a minimal set of equipment such as the 10 essentials to ensure that they can survive while they wait for search and rescue, which could be overnight in bad enough weather.
Having worked entirely remote for a decade, I side with remote with a bit of regular in office. In office can be helpful and there is some serendipity which cannot be accounted for remotely. People will also just ask someone else rather than send you an email/IM.

However, meetings are terrible onsite. Most meetings do not require strict attention or presence of mind (for my role at least) for the entirety of the meeting. You can gauge when to lean in and when you can work on something else. It can be a great time to handle installs, catch up on small tasks, or follow up on other conversations. I'd attribute a lot of my productivity boost to being able to leverage meeting times as productive minutes. Folks in the room tend to zone out as well, they just can't be as obvious with their lack of focus.
Right. You can imagine a conversation something like:

"Ok, how long is this project going to take?"

"Well, it's still being defined..."

"What do you mean you refuse to tell me how long this project is going to take?"

The analogy is so ridiculous that the person making it clearly doesn't even comprehend the domain he's discussing.
Actually, if you carefully re-read my post, I didn't say it "shouldn't" be released. I just said it won't do any of the good things people are hoping the release to accomplish.

It may do other good things, but only after a period of substantial demagoguery and incomprehension.
The problem you mention is different, and the severity is as high as the most sensitive content that's been posted.

As is the case with most chat platforms, the technical safeties put in place only serve to protect _legitimate_ users. The problem you're referring to is a matter of _illegitimate_ users or _insider-threats_.

* What if I copy-paste a sensitive conversation to a third-party?

* What if I export conversations or user accounts to a third-party?

* What if I grant an unauthorized party access to a conversation that they wouldn't otherwise be able to see?

In-transit encryption and encrypted storage do not solve these issues, because an insider threat inititated the action.
If companies were taxed on their revenue rather than profit, it'd be an interesting world. I'd love to see a calculation of what would occur, but I'm guessing prices would go through the roof as every single step of the supply chain for every product would have to add 10-20% to cover the taxes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt
1) Very few Slack users are chatting as though their messages could become public at any moment. Maybe you don't have a problem, but this article isn't about one person with extreme discipline.

2) There's no way to know now what you'd want to be private in the future.

For example, let's say you're gay and mention your boyfriend casually in a Slack chat. Then your country outlaws homosexuality. Suddenly, a casual detail becomes a secret you're terrified of getting out.

You can apply this analogy to your religious beliefs, traveling to certain countries, or even reading certain websites. You just don't know what the public or your govt will find unacceptable in the future.
Meanwhile, after the latest 1809, there were over 2GiB of update clutter not cleaned up automatically. It took two rounds of Disk Cleanup run manually to get rid of which took over an hour with laptop fans running on high the whole time. This was on a non-OEM, directly from microsoft.com, clean installation of Windows 10 Pro 1709. Windows updates are an abomination.
Everything he's said publicly flies in the face of what we know about Satoshi.

The guy is a massive fraud and charlatan, yet it funds his lifestyle.

The absolute state of the world where people like this can exist.
Social life: if you want a busy one just start calling. The
more you call the busier it will be.

Time passes too fast: it seems that we register the events in our life and not the actual time. A busy schedule will make your life "slow down". At least that's what I read somewhere.
There are many theories, but one fun one is that the cancer gets cancer:

https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/47/2/317/719209
Organizations have to find their own way of working. It's going to change based on the size of the organization, its goals, and its people. With the exception of 1.5 years in a software company, most of my organizations have been internal IT. What I find is that user areas, who initiate projects with us, often don't have a clear view of what they want but think it's going to help the organization. Our job is to build models quickly so that they can validate an idea. Only after iterating through a few models can they reliably say the benefit/cost of the idea.

A very good engineer within my organization said to me, "Our job is to get something in front of them quickly so they can figure out what they don't want." Our successful projects have been ones in which we kept to this maxim.

I think this is what the author was trying to say but I had a hard time following his writing style.
I wonder if/when solar will catch up with or surpass wind? Part of the reason wind got so big in the past decade is cost - it's significantly cheaper now than fossil or nuclear. But solar costs are dropping even more rapidly than wind, and storage tech is improving (storage being more necessary for solar than wind).
It's not every day you see someone bemoaning the sorry state of their European rail lines compared to the US.
That is curious. I had known about Iceland hunting whales and was upset about it but I wasn’t aware that Norway also did this. Also I forgot the Faroe Islands existed.
> To my naive understanding of evolution, it has little incentive to fix anything that breaks after reproduction age. So I would not expect evolution to catch on cancer ever.

We have high cancer rates for children as well.
"Thou shalt not be negative" (HN) - well I'm sorry. Just some example text:

> both Agile and Waterfall are focused on building. Design is about validating.

or

> So…what’s the way out? It’s a smart focus on clear outcomes, not output, with roadmapped outcomes replacing planned milestones, with trusted product teams, not project teams, empowered to vet assumptions and discover the minimal path to value.

Satire? Enough words to fill a hot air balloon or two. "Smart" focus, "clear" outcomes, "outcomes" vs. "milestones"(?), "trusted" product teams (as opposed to... what?), "empowered" etc.?

Far more interesting than the contents of many links that make it to the HN homepage is discovering the fact that they do so.
Has anyone attempted at building a chat solution, similar in scope to Slack, that runs serverlessly? I imagine it’s technically possible, but perhaps not a better self hosting option than something like Rocket.chat.
If it means a sensible social services – yes.
Looks like a totally unusable connection, barely able to load a web page, and here on Tmo it came with an SMS announcing it. It probably took more than 30GB.
The c++ implementation is <1000 lines. Doesn't seem like a correct port would be particularly difficult, especially with a reasonably large test corpus.
The world is hard for people with any aspect of their life more than one standard deviation from the cultural norm.

Also sticking with the current cultural norm, we only acknowledge the above to be a problem when we can find "inequality" to be a contributing factor. Everyone else can just be expected to conform unless their "why" also makes for good headlines.
>those things couldn't have been reasons for creating copyright law as it stands in the US //

I don't think your analysis stands, there was a deposit system in USA too so that all copyright books were deposited at the Library of Congress. In order to get your copyright you had to place on deposit two copies that people could, with access to the library, view and which would be preserved even if your work only had a short run and other copies were lost.

https://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/jan04/deposit.html

Everything else I thinkg I can agree with. Particularly the problems with Amazon's review and ratings system -- I guess it must work to bring more money to Amazon, but it's really annoying.
React Native doesn't use native widgets, only Xamarin does that.
Netscape was before Sarbanes-Oxley though, which mandates extensive retention policies for business communication.
Problem is they really don't quite make as much sense for city pairings that don't fall into the narrow window of roughly one night of travel time. This severely limits the amount of mainstream awareness sleeper trains can reach, so people who don't routinely travel such a route won't have them on their radar when they do.
But this is Apple's retail operations, not Apple Corp the maker of iGadgets. And the profit margin is 0.275%. Is that reasonable? IDK, but I imagine Apple Retail is paying near list price to Apple Corp along with the overheads of staffing and rent (which includes taxes). In light of that this may not be all that unreasonable. That's why I'm asking if I'm missing something.
But think of your manager. He cannot stop pretending because that's all he has.
jwz uses referrer detection to show something... interesting to the ycombinator cult, just fyi
For those that don't know the route, this route is currently >40 hours, with something like 45 stops along the way. (almost every congressional district, imagine that)
Can you name anyone who believe's he's Satoshi? The only informed people I've come across to proclaim that are shilling BSV, presumably for their own financial benefit.
> one where an individual can request and have a domain for life

Annual payment is proof that you're still alive.

AlterNIC tried settint up alternate tlds years ago, and is now gone. The problems are an alternate root is very unlikely to get consensus, and name resolution without consensus isn't very useful; and you're not going to be able to have friendly names without an arbiter to decide who gets pmlnr.example.
Close enough to commute, but as close as when you commute every day.

I would tolerate a 1 hour commute each way if I only had to do it once a week but never if I had to do it every day - the short time I did made me miserable.
The outrage is that they're whaling in a conservation area in the Southern Ocean. The other reason is other countries have determined their "scientific" whaling has no actual scientific basis:

Japan is not the only nation to hunt whales. Norway has a commercial operation in its own waters, for example. But what infuriates conservationists is that Japan is hunting and killing whales in a conservation zone, the Southern Ocean whaling sanctuary, that surrounds Antarctica. Japan claims that it does so only for scientific purposes.

Then, a few years ago, the International Court of Justice – at the instigation of Australia and New Zealand – ruled that the country’s whaling plan had no scientific basis. Japan was forced to halt whale hunting and had to come back with a plan to carry out “scientific whaling” in the region. This now involves catching only 330 minkes, and no humpbacks or fin whales. It was an important victory for conservationists.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/23/sea-shep...
But it is effectively paid by consumers... as you say companies already compensate for VAT in the price.
Guessing it was a jab at Google's interview process?
I cut myself on my iMac just this morning while trying to reposition it on my desk...
There's an interesting org you can become a member of with unlimited 4G data. https://www.calyxinstitute.org/member/map
He's the ultimate honeypot.
Yes, google it.
Yes as a Googler, I'd probably flag that in review.

But it being old and critical, I'd also be wary of major changes.
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There are downsides, but they're 95% managerial issues.
This seems to me to have a serious architectural issue. If I read it right, the app is rendered in the browser but is processing state changes and doing HTML rendering of the state tree on the server side? How is that going to scale?

This is a really neat adaptation of the SwiftUI API to the web but it seems like the guts of it needs to run in the browser to be practical.

Perhaps we'll eventually see the Swift compiler support a WASM target?

[edit] Like Qt is doing? https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/wasm.html
That's one of the big reasons that I've become a proponent of Donald G. Reinertsen's approach to product development.

He emphasizes a variation of the cost benefit formula + urgency, called Cost of Delay for prioritizing that basically boils down to "Value / Time Remaining" because your cost is the time remaining. It naturally prioritizes work based on shortest time to value because, unless the value proposition is enormous, dividing by estimated time is almost always going to favor the shorter tasks.

This will of course vary by team, but in general it puts a focus on responsiveness and getting the little stuff out of the way first (including tech debt). When you have a formula that doesn't let the little stuff build up, it gets easier to focus on the big stuff too. It's also make it easy to pivot because it totally disregards prior time investments.

It meshes better with what agile is supposed to be better than any other methodology that I've encountered to this point.
how about having simless phones in libraries and people get to put their sim cards in? it's much cheaper or even free to get a simcard in some cases
Am I missing something here?

Yes, stated profits are highly malleable.

The figures can be adjusted so that the company runs at a slight profit or slightly loss quite easily, by adjusting how certain things are accounted for, and how much profit is reinvested, distributed to staff, or paid to subsidiaries in tax havens. So just stating the revenue or profit isn't really enough to understand whether this tax is equitable or fair. It's definitely a grey area, and one in which good accountants could easily massage the figures.
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Omitting automatic registry backups is a defensible policy. Telling the user that a backup was completed while a 0 byte file was saved is lying. Seems like a criminal act under the circumstances.
I made use of const references in the code to avoid some unnecessary refcount bumping.

I hadn't ruled out calling outside platform API functions, which were all written in C. You can't do that in any language, unless you're writing a pure text filter or calculator for the Unix command line environment (and don't count the I/O and math functions).
There are times when something truly original is being built and it's a valid argument for estimate uncertainty. But a significant portion of the industry is engaged in building CRUD app #237 or Ho-Hum SaaS #17, and a significant percentage of estimates end up wrong because some developer who was bored with his job decided to use a blingy new Javascript framework he had no experience with because he wanted a challenge. Money gets lit on fire again and again this way and it's frankly selfish and irresponsible.
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They also have to be blamed for making products so difficult to repair.

If they are truly concerned with environment issues, they should compromise thinness a tiny bit for better repair-ability.

One of my last MacBooks, the first aluminium unibody one, had a beautiful latch that gave access to the battery and disk without any tools.

The rest of the machine was easy to get access to via 3 screws. Everything was neatly arranged. Whereas these days, it's a glued mess.
I'd hypothesize many large firms track relevant subreddits
This title seems a bit alarmist.
Amazon and the Cops Set Up a Sting Operation That Accomplished Nothing