skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangent, but FYI / PSA: The Animatrix (collection of animated shorts related to the world of the Matrix) is, IMHO, one of the all-time great (and under-appreciated) animated films.
Time to fix the protocols of Cyberspace.

HTTP and other centralized protocols are the weapon of choice of the powerful players: large corporations and states.
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The point isn't how Cuban hedged his stock holdings, it is that he hedged them and that he would have lost a huge amount of money if he had not. Applying this to the Unity shareholders, their smart move is to sell some of their Unity stock holdings and use the cash from those sales to diversify their portfolio.
I would also love an invite from some awesome person :).
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Is that 2+1GSoC team focussed purely on druid, or is it the xi team working on druid as part of that project?
What the article -- one of a five-part series -- brings to the discussion are a few points I find useful. And applicable to the tech and startup scene generally.

There's a definition offered of what trust is. Not quite the same one I'd use, but a useful touch point. (My definition would emphasize belief extended in the absence of firm knowledge, and hence risk. I find etymology illuminating: https://www.etymonline.com/word/trust#etymonline_v_17902 )

There is the multidemensional nature of trust relations among business stakeholders, and the inherent conflicts among these. Several comments here are focusing negatively on one interpretation of this part of the message, missing other aspects. Yes, I do think the balance has swung too far, but considering why and what to do might be useful.

I think a key point is actually that there are not shortcuts to acquiring trust, or to regaining it when squandared, and high costs to trust-mining.

There are numerous references and case studies. The Economist article looking at eight cases of business trust betrayals leading to (despite claims to the contrary in comments) very measurable outcomes, includinga long-termreduction in business valuation by a third, to the tune of $300 billion.

https://www.economist.com/business/2018/03/28/getting-a-hand...

Several of the mentioned cases are tech companies, and everybody's favourite Blue Social Network is mentioned, as are Uber and Equifax, among others.

There's the tendency of some businesses to attempt to mine trust, essentially attempting a risk arbitrage, particularly using my definition of trust. This generally ends poorly

And there area few examples given of how trust can be regained -- the J&J response to a third party's exploiting their product to poison numerous people (killing seven), Honeywell and Michelin dealing with recession (or profit) and layoffs, and Recruit Holdings directly addressing corruption. Not cheap or easy or fast (pick ... none), but ultimately effective.

The biggest omission here is what the benefit of trust is: a tremendous amount of efficienct throgh goodwill. David Gerard made this point, regarding Bitcoin, in a 2017 FT interview:

"Decentralisation is the paramount feature in bitcoin, but it turns out that that's a bad idea that's really, really expensive, because it turns out that a tiny bit of trust saves you a fortune."

https://m.soundcloud.com/user-544122300/gerardpod

Going back further in history, John Stuart Mill observed in 1848 that:

"There are countries in Europe . . . where the most serious impediment to conducting business concerns on a large scale, is the rarity of persons who are supposed fit to be trusted with the receipt and expenditure of large sums of money".

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.216033/page/n1...

The preceding quote and other observations at Naked Capitalism:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/05/george-washington-la...
Yep, RPS is only interesting to the extent that the players are imperfect. It’s most interesting as an illustration of how bad people are at behaving randomly.
Those laws don't define what grossly offensive is. And that's the problem - it's subject to interpretation. Anything than can be abused will be abused one day.
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Password manager integration is a pretty monumental feature I couldn't live without.
The extent to which a business, in the current context, deviates from these behaviors is precisely the extent to which it is vulnerable to activist investors and other hyper-capitalists taking it over and liquidating it in favor of a more "efficient" model.

Its no coincidence that these very sectors (locally owned businesses) are being squeezed out of the markets - they aren't "rational" enough.
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Ha - the anniversary must be why this was available on my flight the other day. While rewatching for the first time in a decade I found the “human battery” idea pretty silly/lazy and thought that through the modern lens there would be two more interesting reasons to farm humans:

1) the computers get addicted to big data and need humans to generate massive data sets for them to analyze

2) the AI is not capable of original thought (just advanced pattern matching) and they farm humans for their ingenuity
please no one turn this into a gnome 3 flame war. all I wan to know is what HCI flaws did gnome make? it seems fairly universally hated, but unconfigured (fresh rhel or centos install). I like it better than 2.x. I recognize I am unusual in many ways so I wanted to know if maybe I was using 2.x wrong. my workflow on any os is press button start typing the name of an app then hit enter dock to a position on screen then do everything from there. I like it shows what is in the workspace when I got the button. I want to dock apps, move between workspaces and move apps between workspace and start apps only using the keyboard. don't muh care about anything else as long as there is a dark theme. rat poison was a bridge to far for me, but that is the general idea
The unknown that remains is whether we have lost trust 1) because we have higher expectations, or 2) because the institutions and companies are failing us more than they did before, or 3) because we have greater visibility into a similar level of failure as we had in the past.

My belief and hope is that it is a combination of 1 and 3.
> having the widest possible API and ABI, making long term maintenance harder.

For cases where it matters, C++ can do that just fine.

Look at Direct3D, DirectWrite, Media Foundation. They're written in OO C++, and they use IUnknown ABI from COM. They're not COM objects, the ABI is the only feature they took from there.

Apparently, C++ library developers don't care enough.
> For the time, great. No sarcasm. I mean that. Today, a bit tedious, because we don't need our repetition built right into our music, we add it with our playback technology if we want it.

That's a really interesting take. Nice

> Moonlight Sonata...

Funny you say that, it's on my inspiration list that I want to turn into trance.

I think the trouble though with using non-repeating classical piano into trance is that the intensity and syncopation is just so widely different. As an example, check out Chopin's Etude Op. 10 No. 12 "Revolutionary"... one of my favorite pieces, but how the hell do you turn that into dance music? It's just so wild and chaotic.
When you're in that stress, adding the stress of finding a new job seems ... overwhelming. Especially how stupid hiring practices are these days. I'm not sure many people would be successful in interviewing with all that stress.
I'm pleased that people seem to agree that compile-time reflection is a no brainer, even though it still won't be coming until C++23 at the earliest.

I'm sick of the dumb preprocessor hacks required for something as simple as iterating through enum values with their string representations.
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OP here. This is just a simple Wordpress landing page to gauge interest.

Any thoughts on this service? I can't decide if it's a terrible jokey idea or something that may actually be helpful for people.
Are you the blogger? Your site is great! You've got by far the most comprehensive collection of Hedge Fund quarterly letters I've ever seen.
In all likelihood, Gabbard and her campaign managers are perfectly aware that:
1. Google's automatic account suspension systems were doing exactly what they would do for any other account.

2. There was no intentional discrimination/meddling.

A sudden spike of search traffic corresponding with a sudden influx of advertising spending is likely to trigger red flags for the system. 6 hours of downtime for these google ads did damage her campaign, but Gabbard, or anybody, is not entitled to 100% uptime for a service provided by a corporation, except to the degree that it violates a contract/ TOS.

“Google’s discriminatory actions against my campaign are reflective of how dangerous their complete dominance over internet search is, and how the increasing dominance of big tech companies over our public discourse threatens our core American values,” Gabbard said in a statement. “This is a threat to free speech, fair elections and to our democracy, and I intend to fight back on behalf of all Americans.”

Her statement quoted above make me like her less, and I don't feel like I'm a particularly pro-google guy.
Sure, but you wouldn't be bemoaning the housing crisis.
I don't think this is a very good comparison -- the difference you're missing is that if you embed inline images or custom links into a HN comment, they degrade gracefully into URLs that anyone can use.

[click me](https://google.com)
<a href="https://google.com">click me</a>
<img src="thiscatdoesnotexist.com" alt="this cat does not exist" />

In HTML, if a browser doesn't support images, they also degrade gracefully into alt tags, which work with screen readers -- images can even be styled with CSS to avoid document reflows. This is common practice on platforms like email, where remote images will often be blocked.

I'm not saying avoid emoji, I'm saying avoid encoding them into a format that literally stops rendering or turns into an undecipherable mess the moment it's not fully supported -- especially since there are other encoding formats we could use that would be just as good as Unicode and that wouldn't have any of its downsides. In general, we should try to build escalators, not elevators.
I read somewhere, the initial plan was to use Humans as Neural chips of some sort of collective intelligence, the idea of battery was used in the plot to keep it simple and easy to explain.
I wonder why this project exists when Home Assistant is already near perfect, let's put the effort in there!
Looking forward to an avalanche of PR's! It's hard to open source something that was internal for so many years, but hopefully we've done it successfully!
Exactly. Inner Boston and SF are not dissimilar, but the real difference is when you go outside the city. You can get a good house in Waltham (for instance) for relatively cheap. The same isn't true today in East Bay at least (and I don't know what other direction it would be true in).
You make sure all ligatures have widths that are integral multiples of the standard width.

If you’re strict, you make them the same width as the separate characters would be. If you’re less strict, you could, for example, have “⇒” or “½” be one character width, and not 2, respectively 3 (the latter probably would make you give up making a ligature for “1/2”)
The two funded full-timers focused on making a font editor using druid as the GUI toolkit. I personally think this is the best way to grow an ambitious new toolkit from scratch. Also, there's overlap with the xi team, but in Silicon Valley speak you might say we've pivoted.

The GSoC student project is a GPU compute renderer for 2D graphics. Early experiments (piet-metal) show promise that this could advance the state of the art.
> US principle like the right to free speech, it doesn't exist in the UK.

The UK has a right to freedom of expression in both common law and the Human Rights Act (incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights). There are many exceptions, but that's also the case for the First Amendment of the United States' constitution.

Both the UK and US have defamation laws, criminalise real threats, Official Secrets Act / Espionage Act, gag orders, etc.

One could argue there is a better right to free speech in the US, and that it has stronger legal protections, but it's by no means absolute or beyond comparison with that of the UK.
Is it possible for any decentralized currency to effectively remove the middle man and the fee associated with it or would it be more like the current credit system start using more efficient technologies that make transaction fees cheaper and we keep them around.
I think these experiments are meaningful and fascinating for research purposes, but they will never be more efficient than nature. The solution to food security is not to re-engineer the farm, but to return food production to people, because the most dangerous thing we can do is to consolidate our food production into the hands of a few ag-tech corporations.

Granted, I'm talking about a cultural shift and you can't force people to enjoy gardening, but there are some people who are doing incredible experiments in urban farming which is still mostly low-tech. Even though he is an extreme example, Rob Greenfield shows what is possible with a typical 1/8 acre city/suburban lot. He is currently experimenting with growing/foraging 100% of his diet in a city.

http://robgreenfield.tv/foodfreedom/

The biggest shift will be to convince people that turfgrass lawns are the one of the biggest waste of resources in the modern world, and a silly cultural relic.
I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere that the original concept was along those lines, but test audiences didn't understand it or react to it as well, so they went with the "coppertop" idea instead.
Please, let's look at the facts. Here we have a case where the population of the territory in question would in no way describe this state of affairs as an occupation. They did vote in favour of Crimea becoming part of Russia and the international objections have to do with legal concerns, not the well-being of the population (with, at most, an exception of some Crimean Tatars, but they're a small minority). So, the U.S. are effectively punishing the people of Crimea for voting the way they did. Is that a good policy? I don't think so, it will only give boost to anti-Americanism. If it's about targetting the economy of Crimea as a whole, then I don't think that will work, since Russia has been subsidizing it the whole time at a grand scale, and Russia together with some European states will find a way around it (we have seen that with the Siemens turbines, for example). Moreover, moves like this will only give fuel to the project of building a sovereign Internet that the Russian government has been pushing forward.
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Seconded, I loved the animatrix
> Women have hair loss too.

My wife discovered, during pregnancy, that she has hair loss associated with hypothyroidism. Point being that endocrine disorders can lead to hair loss, as well.
That’s like saying most of Eastern Europe wasn’t part of the Soviet Union. They were just occupied by Soviets for a time. It’s true in an abstract way but not factual.
The implementations are disappointing so far. Devices that rely on some vendor internet service are unacceptable. At the very least I'd want a direct connection to the device with a documented API and documented behavior of the firmware. Ideally the firmware itself would (partially) modable. Some safety critical parts may be left inaccessible.

For example, I'd want cookware with temperature sensors and a pressure sensor in case of a pressure cooker, a controllable stove and oven with power monitoring, a kitchen hood wit gas sensors, etc.

What we can instead are gadgets with mobile apps, that are completely undocumented beyond the UI. Kitchen devices for the commercial sector have been somewhat smart for a while, but are a pain to program and again lack documentation.

IoT these days is paying a premium for vendor lock-in.
My point is that the defensive stance shows that many developers want to work on custom engines despite other factors and that is driven by personal preference rather than any sort of cost/benefit calculation.

And it makes perfect sense and you see it all the time in other fields too with people switching companies and/or start (side)projects so that they can work with specific frameworks, languages, etc.
> I would say I did this for 2-4mweeks

Every time you had a trigger you did this, and symptoms lifted after 2-4 weeks?

https://www.healthline.com/health/box-breathing
Gumroad is pretty great, but definitely check out some of their competitors https://www.producthunt.com/alternatives/gumroad some of them are also amazing.
Is there a petition for making C++ less ugly? There should be.

It’s a Frankenstein’s monster made of parts from other Frankenstein’s monsters. If Lovecraft were alive today this would be his prime eldritch deity. An abomination of impossible geometries you could not make sense of even if your eyes could see in 4D.
The trouble is that software is rarely maintained in the same state. A landscaper will now your lawn. A programmer will replace the grass with rocks and snakes, tell you how much better it is this way, and get confused when you’re not happy.
I do not buy this. You're equating security updates with UI changes. Pointless UI changes get a lot more frustrating as you get older. What we really need is software with really long support versions that minimize bullshit churn in UI and usability.
You been working hard. I give you permission to leave early today. Spend some time doing the things you love.
> Where I think it tends to fall down for a modern listener (assuming good recordings, which is not a good assumption) is that it mostly dates from a pre-recording period, so it tends to draw out all of its ideas because it expects the listener can't just rewind and listen to the last few minutes again, and this is the only such music they may hear this month; in modern times this results in a lot of pieces overstaying their welcome. Sometimes by a lot.

What a great point, I hadn't considered this before though it's completely obvious. A lot of fans of classical music though (like myself) still prefer a live performance, where I certainly don't mind hearing a da capo of Beethoven's Fifth at all!
What helped me a ton to disconnect from some of this sort of stress is building up a bit of a savings buffer. Once I had a few months of savings around I suddenly started to give much less of a shit about day to day work as I could, if I really wanted, just walk away. I am "lucky" in that I have no real dependants and my partner and I have decided against kids so there's none of that to consider.

Ever since I entered my thirties I've been increasingly "selfish" when it comes to my time. No job is worth it.
> When you look at the firm closely you see a firehose of projects with zero business case and often near-zero impact. Why does Google think these things are better ways to invest the money than what other companies are doing?

Silicon Valley often sees "a firehose of startups with zero business case and often near-zero impact." And yet, it is considered a key driver of the economic growth / innovation / good jobs and places all over the world want to replicate its success. Maybe, Google just wants to have an in-house Silicon Valley?
as a workaround until (1) gets going you could just get 2x dishwashers, or one of those fancy German jobbies that has 2 separate units for washing. You can then eliminate sink and cabinet and simply transfer your dishes between the two units as you wash them. Consider mounting at waist height so accessing your dishwasher is as easy as accessing your cupboard!
Yup. I often refer to aluminum as “rubber” when chasing that last few thau while machining. I do this to remind myself and others to have the right perspective and expectations when approaching things at this scale. Just because the machine displays four digits after the decimal point it doesn’t mean you can actually cut at that level.
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Just a thought about a potential mechanism, off the top of my head (which I'm sure has many issues).

Opening blinds is generally a morning thing, and ideally would want to be the quiet option if you could only have one option which was quiet (theoretically speaking). What if the electric motor drove the blinds down by pulling a counter weight. That way in the morning to open the blinds it would only need to release the weight, which wouldn't require any substantial movement and therefore limit noise...?

Yeah I'm bored at work.
I've heard the same, though in the version I heard it was executives (I guess at WB?) who thought humans-as-IaaS was too complex.
I would argue that it is not that gay culture that is obsessed with appearance, but that it is male heterosexual culture that is adverse to self-care.

There are many men who do not even consider taking care of themselves for fear that their masculinity will decrease. Many gay men are free from these fears.

From my perspective as someone who has had an insider's perspective of heterosexual male culture, gay male culture, and then female culture (I am a transgender woman), homosexual men do not make more effort in their appearance than most women when they go out.

Going to a gay bar is a often big event of the week or month, some people travel far to go there. It's not the same as going to a dive bar to get drunk. It's a place where you can be at your best and meet people - it's a community hub. The people you meet there are the best on sunday's best. The same way you would wear a suit or at least clean up before a business meeting or recruitment day.

Often, it is an outlet for being yourself, since some people are conscious when they are in public or at work and censor themselves.

As someone else said, "Maybe the reason you're not seeing bald men in these bars is the swimmer effect. i.e. bald men aren't successful there so bald men don't show up."

It would be erroneous to believe that the behaviours observed in such a place are representative of their daily lives.
I am in the same boat, except we just launched our broken website. CEO and Marketing people: "I think it's ready!" Me: "It's not ready, we need more time." They're eating crow now, the entire "release" has been complete shitshow and suddenly everyone is very nice. I'm taking the day off.
No but as IoT you could leverage the power of "The Cloud"
The C++ committee has been captured by a hostile force that tries to turn every C++ compiler into the slowest imaginable C++ abstract machine emulator.
Not just Russians: Iranians, others turn up disinformation efforts
All technologies aim to make some certain aspects of things "simple". But all technologies end up being hard once your problem space gets bigger than the space the technology has successfully made simple. And real world situations are always bigger problem spaces than any technology can map to a simple solution.

Sure, HTML and CSS are very simple to get started with, but they get complicated and hard pretty quickly. Just like almost every technology. I think maybe the one class of technologies that this doesn't apply to is academically functional programming languages. I don't think they are simple to get started with. But once you do obtain proficiency with them, the difference between basic and advanced usage isn't as large.
I'm also curious as to how this doesn't violate Microsoft's copyright on Comic Sans, since it's a derivative work being sold for profit.
Because they like to verify the integrity of the data they send you and HTTPS should be the default for all web traffic possible.

https://https.cio.gov/everything/