skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Richard Powers's novel GAIN, there's a scene where the CEO of a Johnson & Johnson type conglomerate tries to write down what's the purpose of a corporation:

"To make a profit. To make a consistent profit. To make a living. To make a profit in the long run. To make things. To make things in the most economical way. To make the greatest number of things. To make things that last the longest. To make things for the longest possible time. To make things people need. To make things people desire. To make people desire things. To give meaningful employment. To give reliable employment. To give people something to do. To do something. To provide the greatest good for the greatest number. To promote the general welfare. To provide for the common defense. To increase the value of the company stock. To pay a regular dividend. To maximize the net worth of the firm. To advance the lot of all stakeholders. To grow. To progress. To expand. To increase knowhow. To increase revenues and decrease costs. To compete efficiently. To buy low and sell high. To improve the hand humanity has been dealt. To produce the next round of technological innovations. To rationalize nature. To improve the landscape. To shatter space and arrest time. To see what the human race can do. To amass the country's retirement pension. To amass the capital required to do anything we want to do. To discover what we want to do. To vacate the premises before the sun dies out. To make life a little easier. To build a better tomorrow. To kick something back into the kitty. To facilitate the flow of capital. To preserve the corporation. To do business. To stay in business. To figure out the purpose of business."
Unlike AWS which needs to be good to not go out of business.
This amounts to cyberwarfare being directed from China at its own people in Hong Kong.

The posts were designed to sow political discord, not calm things down. Governments are generally interested in promoting peace and stability. But not this one, apparently.

Its good to see Facebook and Twitter coordinated with each other in blocking the bad actors, rather than tackling the issue individually. I'd like to see more of that in the future directed at Russian government sponsored troll bots, Nazis and the like. Since these kinds of attacks are generally done over more than one social network, sharing basic info like IP addresses etc could be a good start.

These people are banned from Libr, the social network I built to replace Tumblr (https://librapp.com).
I've read a bit into that conflict while I was traveling in Vietnam and it definitely is interesting. Vietnam had just finished the American war (their independence war) and had a pretty strong military, they were well on their way to uniting indochina.

China invades to interrupt vietnam's invasion of cambodia (splitting vietnam's forces), but takes relatively heavy losses due to outdated military strategy (essentially losing to a bunch of militia on their way to the capitol).

Had Vietnam been allowed to take cambodia/laos/etc, a united indochina could have been a pretty serious player in the region, and served as a counter to China. Instead China essentially aborted that plan, and can now push its southern neighbors around.
But then they couldn't charge you for the bandwidth.
Why did you go with a water distiller and not a reverse osmosis filter?
It's not unusual to see it in the context of UI as something that looks interactive but is not / looks done but feels wrong. Like the prank of replacing someone's desktop with a screenshot of itself :)
I've found that folk ask better questions if I reduce my availability.

I get paid considerably more than 75% for 50% _time_. [1] Mainly because I'm in a position where I get paid by the value of my work rather than by the amount of time I waste behind a computer monitor.

[1] My bad. I should have said time instead of work.
Nothing targeting climate change? Hopefully day 2...

Edit: mea culpa, Holy Grail is a play here of sorts.
Ain't government is comprised of corporate owners? President. Then there's lobbying/bribing. Create/participate in wars. Sell weapons to the human rights respecting Saudi. And when corporations die, they take the people's money.

That's beyond giving me a choice. Lols.
I had it even worse:

https://imgur.com/XctFp8c.png

32.6 MB

And I have to agree with the OP, simple things like this instantly drive away my trust that they know what they're doing.
We'll trade with someone else, they'll slowly get richer, we'll say they were cheating us, and the cycle will continue. Happened with the Japanese, the Germans (in the UK), the Americans (UK), etc.
Pythagoras had some insider knowledge, while Thales et al just speculated.
Chandrayaan-2 successfully inserted into lunar orbit
The machine behind Scala.js! Thank you for all you've done.

Out of curiosity, what remaining features/bug fixes are you planning to target for v1?
Is that like git for the world of scuba diving.
Particularly with the nationwide school test scoring, there should be statistically significant score differences in QLD (only recently fluoridated).
That's the promise discussed, aye. Yet that's not a new intent, far from it. As another commenter notes improvements frequently extend a poor quality and phase of life, or an extra decade parked in a care home. I can't help but expect that despite intent this will end up achieving more of the same...

As for naive youth, I'm less sure - just a decade out of twenties leads to different outlook and choices. I suspect the people who keep that naive youthful mindset, are one of the very rare few who manage that naturally. I suspect this is the hard part. A octogenarian, with the health of a thirty year old, is still likely to have an elderly - or extremely experienced if you prefer - outlook. Will that lead to apparently 25 year old octogenarians yelling at actual 25 year old's to turn off the infernal noise? :)

We certainly grow old more disgracefully than our grand or great grandparents, who seemed positively old at 40. That seems to be societal rather than longevity or medical. I suspect there isn't much more to come there.
Note to reader -> Proposed law in Australia

Aussie government seems to pull this kind of Orwellian nonsense as if the Patriot Act insulted their impetus. Carrying this much money in the US can have similar issues, like civil forfeiture and the ability to seize cash in an arrest.
Off-topic, but this discussion is reminding me of this (which some of you might enjoy): https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/conteq.pdf
I might be naive, but isn't this how all ideas are discussed, iterated on and developed in teams?

Even in a top-down structure (when you are handed an idea down to work on), I've returned feedback to "higher-ups" and we've had meetings set up to develop ideas further (and vice versa, of course).

I understand that not everyone is similarly unafraid of authority, so perhaps articles like these are needed to help promote a naturally reasonable environment?
> tokio, wasn't very efficient at changing events in the queue (requiring a an extra self signal to get the job done).

Could you expand on that?
Do you add back in salts and minerals so you don't leech your teeth?
This just reminds me of ...
"Life always finds a way"
and
"Life is nothing but an electron looking for a place to rest".
How to Hire a Product Photographer: 11 Questions You Need to Ask
In a similar fashion to React itself, it's not that easy once routing, caching, context data, request or query parameters, data fetching and state management, environment variables, sessions etc all come into play.
I went to the Toyota museum when I was visiting Japan. They had a display on how they got started: they purchased a Chevy vehicle from the US, brought it to Japan, disassembled it, and re-built it. Sounds familiar.
Why a Database Is Like a Dance Class
There is a difference between discussing information warfare and being a soldier on the battlefield though. "Keeping the politics out", to me at least, means "let's not make this place the battleground". I'd welcome that as well.
No, GitHub doesn't give Microsoft any market control. Git is an open protocol inherently.
Sorry about this, but we haven't figured out how to scale images to different dimensions, so get in a car with one of our drivers who we didn't background check and is probably drunk.
>No one wants to deal with a partner who bullies them around. Especially when there are better deals on the table.

That's also something America might need to hear in relation to other partners...
A very old argument about meritocracy is that it inevitably corrupts itself as the people who define what and who has merit lower ladders to friends and family. The discipline required is essentially authoritarian, so you might see it appear in that context, e.g. the military.
There's room for all the ST and SW fans here. : )
In the Studio: Marie Bashkirtseff at the Académie Julian
I've heard of plenty of social media platforms (Diaspora, G+, LiveJournal) that have failed to gain traction for various reasons. I'm not convinced that it's because one of their competitors was just too big. The same argument could have been made that MySpace would never be dethroned a decade ago.

And I've also witnessed many successful social media platforms evolve in the post-Facebook era (Snapchat, Twitter, Tumblr, TikTok). There are also a plethora of small communities like DeviantArt, image boards, and specialty forums. My point is, of course cloning an existing platform won't pull populations away from it - users are sticky. That's true with any product. Folks need a reason to move, and once they have that reason, they're happy to do so. The beauty of social media is you don't even have to move, you can just have accounts in both places.

So I don't think the fact that a Facebook clone failed means that Facebook has a monopoly on social media. They might have a strong momentum with users that prefer Facebook-flavored social media, but given the market of all the different available platforms, it doesn't seem like there is a lot of demand for Facebook #2. Having a differentiator is the killer, and that makes the difference between G+ and TikTok.
Congress is working on it.

https://www.scribd.com/document/405606873/Detour-Act-Final
Not parent but unlimited vacation policy is often criticised as a way to bully people into taking even less vacation. Since you can’t know how much is “okay” you end up in a guilt trip if you take more than some colleague.
P=.04 is barely significant. What it means is that further research may be worth pursuing, not that we found conclusive evidence.

I am personally a bit spectical, sounds too big to be true. Here is an illustration of what I am saying https://xkcd.com/882/
They're trying to get to market.

The team is probably the founder and his little brother and the cat helping out when it can although its paws slip off the keys on the keyboard.

They have more important things to do although I do concede it's a pretty big glitch.

They'll get around to making it awesome.
Who writes this stuff?
Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook are regularly in the top 10 in annual corporate lobbying spend. They disclosed more than $45 million in lobbying spending last year alone. DC is crawling with tech lobbyists. Ag’s spending is peanuts in comparison.

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s&showYe...
If you were in the always free tier, you weren't revenue neutral, you cost google money.

This just amplifies the truth a bit: being 24/7 on somebody else's hardware incurs costs, even if you are surprised when the bill of fare is presented

(disclaimer: I work in the internet number ecosystem so I am not un-involved)
Are you saying that there are reasonable, persuasive arguments in favour of any of those things you describe?
"Do things that don't scale" Paul Graham
Ahem. South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan. They were authoritarian before they were democratic.
It would be really cool. And we would probably learn that we are hurting them pretty badly (except maybe some pets).

At that point we wouldn't be able to ignore them or pretend we don't understand them, as we do now.
I grew up in the 60's and 70's. To me, the biggest difference is that moms didn't work back then. Instead, they raised the kids. I know dads seem to help a lot more with the house and kids than they did when I was growing up, but it seems common sense that with both parents working, they can't spend as much time with their kids.

This has all kinds of consequences:

- day cares and babysitters are tending kids but aren't really raising them (instilling the parent's values, etc.)

- families eat out more because neither parent feels like cooking after working all day.

- no family time at night because of all the homework being assigned. I never had any homework until high school, but now kids have it in elementary school. Seems nuts.

Screens are a problem, but not just with the kids. I have seen a family of 4 waiting for their table at a restaurant, and both the parents have their face in their phone even when their kids don't have phones. The kids are just looking around, bored and lost, with no one paying attention to them.

I've seen mothers pushing grocery carts, tapping on their phone, and completely ignoring their kid sitting in the grocery cart.

Instead of kids playing with trucks, kids watch other kids play with trucks - on their phone! Weirdest thing I ever heard of...
Not to detract from what you're saying about IPv6: support there is key. Azure and AWS both support IPv6.

That said, Azure charges for IPv4 external IPs. AWS does not, but I'd be surprised if the cost wasn't internally associated with ELB/ALB, EC2 instances, or other products. That is, you're still paying for it.
GCP instances don't support IPv6, so you'd have to run a load balancer or something else in front of the instance and that would have a cost.
Fasty – A New CMS / App Builder Based on Openresty and ArangoDB
Pet peeves:

* WKWebView is the only browser engine allowed on iOS.

* Apps can only be distributed through the iOS app store.

* No formal appeals processes based on established judicial principles for either Apple or Google.
What about Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, Slack, LinkedIn, Reddit? There’s countless social media/chat/video/news aggregation competitors to FB. In what category of business do you think it has a monopoly?
Sounds like a great way to make everyone poor.
> Consider "Loose lips sink ships" or "Uncle Sam Wants YOU" Those are both classic propaganda lines and neither is promoting a falsehood.

I agree with this and these are good examples of what I was talking about.

I was responding specifically to the propaganda at hand and MikeGale's comment, "Also a bit insulting, these guys seem to assume that I'm a weak minded fool who will get taken in by this obvious nonsense."
off topic: If you have a raspberry pi zero w and a large SD card you can download kiwix an offline wikipedia reader that has a built in webserver. It is amazing how you can download wikidedia full or subsets of it and have it running out of a raspi w zero. I am working on a walkthrough on how to do it so I will be posting an article soon.
Block Free, Disposable and Free Email
Ask HN: Does every computer have a unique identifier that can be tracked online?
Does every computer have a unique identifier that can be tracked online?

If yes:
Could you infer where the computer was purchased based on this unique identifier? (assuming you had access to supply chain information)
Speaking as someone who started using a Juul at 17, this is absolutely ridiculous. People are responsible for what they choose to consume. Got asthma? Maybe avoid inhaling chemicals that might affect your condition. Now, I'm 19 and I have to drive to North Carolina (about 30 minutes) to even buy tobacco products, since they raised the legal age to 21 in Virginia. Thanks, nanny. I really hope this little prick goes home empty handed.
I was wondering what took so long. I vaguely remember seeing the very first juul ad and I was under the impression that they might have been affiliated with snapchat (Same vibrant color scheme etc). After finding out that they were nicotine vapes, I was truly shocked that it was so blatantly targeted towards teenagers.
There have been "reasonable" persuasive arguments that have convinced millions of people. Its especially relevant as China is committing a mass imprisonment campaign against an entire ethnicity, should defense of that be welcomed as just another point of view, equally valid and encouraged?
>Yes, the extremely weak countries were pawns but, relatively speaking, the US let France be France and Canada be Canada.

Thank you very much but we let ourselves be France by getting nukes as soon as possible, leaving NATO command and kicking US troops out.
I mean - I feel like it's textbook that you start low and then roll the higher ups. But of course that would never be done seriously in a corporation.
This is really cool and looks/feels a lot like the Sublime Text minimap, which I use a lot. I have a feeling it might be abused a lot though, like scroll wheel hijacking.
Bitcoin ad banned for having a log scale
I've worked for 7 software companies in my career. Every single one of them used Github, and I don't believe my experience was unusual in this regard.

Your argument implies that all Github does is service the Git protocol, but we all know it does so much more than that. From a cloud-based source control standpoint, Microsoft absolutely gained market control. An open protocol != cloud-based SAAS company.
Not secure either…
This is close to my dream: Forcing the likes of Linus, Stallmann, fefe and a few others of their level down to my level and lock them in a room where they only are allowed to leave once they've finished their MVP for a SaaS app.

I'd love to see them getting to v0.1, following their iron hard principles.
IIUC, the traditional tobacco industry is disallowed from marketing to minors. I don't know if those regulations apply to Juul, but if they do, producing advertisements targeted at underage audiences while claiming they're for adults might qualify.
>>> simple things like this instantly drive away my trust that they know what they're doing

It inspires me with confidence that they are focused only on things that get them launched.
> things that don't scale
> drunk driving

You're not wrong.
There are other parts of the program beyond touches, such as scroll performance and what you do in reaction to touch events. Also the user doesn't move their finger within 85ms anyway if you think about it. That is moving to tap the phone, smushing their finger into the phone and then moving their finger away from the phone to see the result.

Nowadays you have 120hz scrolling on the ipad and the very fast responsiveness of things like the apple pencil, which shows you that responsive hardware and software is definitely possible.
Doesn’t the GFA itself have no exit clause?
your coworker is having a human interaction with another human. That's life. Sometimes people are upset. Sometimes they're upset about stuff that doesn't make sense. Sometimes you can calm them down by talking with them and sometimes you can't. The table doesn't happen in day to day interactions. The table exists to try and solve the issues that cause these day to day interactions to exist.
Once it ends up as such an extreme oligarchy, the entire system is proven illegitimate. No system succeeds by explicitly acknowledged ideology: some people are simply better than others, and those better people are wealthy, it's just an undeniable fact.

And that's because the human primate is competitive and biologically inclined to violent jealousy when seeing fellow primates have a lot more shit than they do for no good reason. Not all of them. But enough of them.
Ideally, but even if not, just work on it and don't release anything about it until you quit the company (preferably with a bit of a buffer for deniability sake). I wouldn't normally advocate for this behavior, but these draconian rules shouldn't be so commonplace to begin with, and also companies shouldn't be able to control what you do in your free time.
> People are responsible for what they choose to consume.

People are influenced by advertising. Especially those under the age of 25 such as yourself where the prefrontal cortex (the part of the brain that involved with decision making) is usually not completely developed yet.

"People are responsible for what they choose to consume" only takes you so far when people's ability to decide what to consume is shaped by their peers, the advertising they see and ten million other factors in their life. I remember thinking the way you do... and then I grew up and realised people are infinitely more complex than I had given thought to.
You should. They are all on different themes and more or less equally good so you can start with whatever issue you are interested in. In immortality, read Down and Out in the Magical Kingdom; crypto, read Little Brother + Homeland; maker culture, read Makers; in anarchism (the good kind), read Walkaway.

The last one is particularly good. He really drives home some important points about our current capitalistic world.
I'd say that Gary's Mod has had a similar amount of work put in to it by modders. But it was also designed specifically to be modded, the default game gets boring really quickly.
> Just adding a banner to docs pages is plain lazy and is not customer friendly

We will be affected by the change (our prices will drop) and we received a proactive email about them this morning.
Those multiple comparisons are quite obvious from the text, so a rigorous reviewer may have asked them to do a Bonferroni correction. Not sure if this was the case though.
Mighty is interesting, though I wonder if they do anything fancy to avoid being a trivial MIM proxy for your traffic? E.g. do they somehow prevent themselves from logging onto your VM / VPN?
I don’t know how you get from what I said, to what you said. The dev was paid for the dev time, which was advantageous to him, so he took it instead of leaving. He has no risk, therefore does participate in the upside beyond his salary. The company paid for the upside.
> We understood that such scales were a valid and useful way of presenting data; particularly when there was a need to show very large changes or rates of change over long time periods. However we considered that at least some specialist knowledge of that type of scale would be needed to interpret the graph and that, in the absence of clear explanatory information, the graph was unlikely to be familiar or readily understandable to the national newspaper audience to whom the ad was directed.
Well you're off to a bad start to life...
A local short circuit may overload the system, and trip some circuit breakers. But then those breakers can be flipped back on. To really destroy a power grid, you need mother nature.

I remember the great ice storm of 1998. Huge amounts of freezing rain coated transmission lines with inches of ice, and the weight toppled hundreds of pylons in the Montreal area. The metropolis and the region South were without power for weeks. And it was January. And Montreal gets brutally cold at that time of the year.

Perversely, you need electricity to run a fuel oil house furnace.

Some people were without it for a month. We wanted to buy a generator for my mother in law, who lived South of Montreal. We lived in New Jersey. We went to the local home depot and bought the last one. The people behind us in line at the store were from Montreal. There were no generators left in the stores from Montreal to new Jersey.

See "January 1998 North American ice storm"
In my 30ties, using PC since Windows 95 but FITST TIME ever I hear of this software. Maybe because Games were more interesting. Or maybe because I barely knew english.

But never ever did I hear anyone mentioning it.

Just thought I'll let you all know.