skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The history of alcoholism and suicide in Alaska goes back to the time of first contact with outsiders. When westerners first contacted Alaska Native tribes, those "explorers" tended to be people who were after valuable furs, and missionaries. These people were usually a mix of Russians from the west and Americans from the south.

The outsiders brought with them diseases like tuberculosis and influenza, and these diseases were devastating. In many villages, up to 70% of the population died in the span of a few generations. It's hard to imagine how hard this would be to live through. I live in a town of 10,000 and I imagine waking up at some point to only have 3,000 people around, not because people move but because all of those people we knew were dead.

That wasn't all, though. Almost all of the missionaries blamed the survivors for what happened. They said their people died because they worshipped the devil. They took the surviving children away, telling parents they weren't fit to raise their own children. They banned the use of Native languages, and all aspects of Native culture such as dancing, regalia, ceremonies, and more. All of this has led to despair and a disconnect with a rich culture that existed for ~10,000 years before this.

Life for Native people before contact was not perfect. But this is the root of alcoholism and suicide in Alaska, and in many areas with indigenous populations around the world. If you're interested in learning more about this history, I recommend Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being by Harold Napoleon [0], and Chills and Fever: Health and Disease in the Early History of Alaska by Robert Fortuine [1].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Yuuyaraq-Human-Being-Harold-Napoleon/...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Chills-Fever-Health-Disease-History/d...
Whistleblowing: A Primer
Collection of biometric data from refugees puts them at risk
If the VCs are being bankrolled by Saudi money (via Softbank) that has noplace else to go, because no one wants it, the money might not dry up. With this in mind, Khosrowshahi may be right about Uber's sustainability.
No problem. It was an unusual thing for them to do, but here we are.
I seem to remember that it had a kind of limitation at 100 devices, but maybe it has changed?
Its interesting seeing this current trend of "Unicorns" (WeWork, Uber & Lyft) relentlessly pushed to quickly to grow and expand that they're getting pushed far past the bounds of a sustainable business.

Is this VC/Industry pressure that needs to be dialed back?
Let's pray we have the drives in 40 years. I think we're already seeing media lost with the Enchanced CD things.
Depth-First Search in Java
Wounded Knee happened 130 years ago, so in order to explain today's problems with it you would have to know the rate at which historical impacts decayed through time.
Unbabel (YC W14) raises $60M Series C to become the world’s translation layer
If the money is coming from the private sector and not the government then it is free.
What the death of Kik means for other crypto startups
How? Like, surely their servers don't cost $5B every 3 months, right? Where is this money going?
That had nothing to do with Snowden and everything to do with Firesheep. I remember people panicking when Firesheep came out, and that lead to the whole "we should all be using TLS" thing.
I really wish I could switch back to Linux but not being able to use Adobe tools is what's stopping me. I am now considering dual boot of Linux + Windows for only when Adobe is needed (which is not an ideal Solution).

Just want to see how bad they screw up with the next MacBook before I make the switch. Currently running a 2015 MBP.
This strikes me as an understandable but pathological response to managerialism. Managerialism being our current dominant business philosophy.

To see it in contrast, think for a moment about a well-run hospital. At a hospital, the people who make the key decisions about cases are medical professionals, not managers. If a surgery was supposed to take 4 hours but takes 12, well, that's how long the surgery took. Everybody recognizes that the 4-hour number was an estimate, and estimates are not commitments. The most important thing is patient health, not manager feelings. Managers help organize the work, but they do not control the work.

I would love to see software development become a true profession, where stroking manager egos by making them always feel correct and in control is not the most important thing.
Great news! I'm still 155k on the warp waitlist since April. Is there a plan to push the waitlist along?

I'd love to get my non-tech family on this.
I agree using Cloudflare proxy (or really any VPN) gives the company a lot of power.

But the idea of Cloudflare intercepting all of my traffic doesn't bother me since the alternative is simply another company (Spectrum, or my random friend's wifi, or Starbucks) intercepting all of my traffic by virtue of being my ISP. It's up to you which is the lesser of two evils.

I suppose Cloudflare may have more insight into the data being proxied if they're also managing the SSL certificates at the other end, however.
The parent commentor is probably talking about, in this case, wanting to know what would be required to write their own “external” tape drive firmware/driver, to post-decode an analogue flux reading (ala https://applesaucefdc.com/) of an LTO tape into the same digital data-stream that the drive itself would output. I.e., what would be required to write an “LTO tape drive emulator” to interface with hardware/drivers that expect to be talking to an LTO drive (perhaps in the context of emulating that software itself.)
Uber's entire system is based on pushing the risk (varying levels of business, injury, etc) on to their drivers / customers... and they lose money on that.

I'm not sure being more friendly to drivers would get them anywhere.
The password for your account on the pizza place's website. (The user name being the phone number, apparently.)
An apple is red, and your underwear are red, so you should eat your underwear.

The fact that two things share a superficial attribute does not make them equivalent.
why is this a keystone bug? (besides that you shouldn’t be touching /var. WTF dude)

i’m having a hard time understanding why this isn’t a mac bug. trivial kernel panic.
I think it is too easy to just make it about the environment. If you read the article it claims the suicide rate wasn't always this high. Something cultural got lost when they transitioned away from their nomadic lifestyle.
The presumption in your comment is that the system that replaces the legal system in these situations is equally or more unjust - however according to the authors, by realizing why the legal system is unjust, a university body may do a better job - after all, it is undoubtedly easier to change the laws of a university body than to change them in society as a whole, and the university body may not subject to the same cultural pressures the state is (according to the authors, this would be a patriarchal culture).
this is basically the whole point of correctly applied Scrum
Meanwhile, being from the northwest of Germany, moving to Sweden would apparently be an upgrade for me[1]. :( It really is quite grim here for a good portion of the year and I will never get used to it (I was born and raised here).

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Europe_s...
This sounds like a gripe but it's really not - I'm immensely grateful for the ability to be able to play media in the product I work on.

Can you elaborate on the best way to ask for help in the VLC support forums? I've tried a couple of times over the years and literally got told to "stop asking for someone to do my work for me" and essentially go away..

I know the developers on the forum must get tired of the "CAN PLS HELP ME MAKE VLC. THANKS" type posts but mine were always specific questions with working sample code which illustrates smy issue and that I'd banged my head on for days without success.

I really want to improve the quality of our implementation but have no idea how to without some pointers from experienced devs.

Thank you.
I might be missing the forest for the trees here, but I strongly dislike your example. In a country with a working justice system, the expectation is that after you are done with your prison sentence you are rehabilitated. Making it more difficult for ex-cons to reenter society only leads to further recidivism. I am aware that the US does not have such a justice system, but for many countries in Northwest Europe this is a reality and this law makes sense there.

Basically, I have no problem with only law-enforcement having a record of the past mistakes of reformed people, assuming that 1) law enforcement is actually "serving and protecting" and 2) the justice systems ensures a high fraction of cons are actually reformed.
Yes, the American people, who can't be bothered to care enough to do anything about it.
Slack built their dark mode
You think Uber is just a bunch of servers?

Marketing, regulatory compliance, accounting, product development, operations, support, legal, price subsidies, offices, HR.

Those entire departments (and surely more I have forgotten) have staff, expenses, operational costs.

They run in 60 countries. 60!
I grew up in Norway. People absolutely enjoy the outdoors all year round there. They just sometimes have to put on a jacket.
I thought for sure it'd be 123-45-6789.
k8s: the future is in the CRDs
I like the UI :)
> You can do this just as easily as it was to make your original notes

Maybe kids have gotten better at it since I was in school, but text entry on the TI-8x was a laborious process, and calculators with qwerty keyboards (like the TI-92) were quickly banned.
yeah def location dependent. BSidesLV is the mothership, few other cities do big ones as well.

Conversely, an underdeveloped BSides local to you is a good opportunity for you to get involved and make a name for yourself in the local sec scene.
All the research indicates that software developers are terrible at estimating time, but are fairly accurate at estimating relative effort. The only reliable method is to break down projects into the smallest deliverable "chunks" that you can, and then estimate the relative effort of those "chunks" compared to actual, concrete tasks that the team has completed in the past. After doing this for a while, you can use these relative effort estimates to project completion dates for new projects. This is what agile "story points" are supposed to represent, but many teams unfortunately end up with things like "2 points = 1 week", which just doesn't work.

If you use this method, it's absolutely critical that the team always focus on relative effort, and not on time. If you want it to continue to work, you also have to be very careful how you communicate with team members regarding their progress and estimated completion dates - don't tell them that their component is "late" - this will make them think in terms of time next time you're estimating something, and will ruin your estimates.
An interview with the Ukrainians who created the “I Love America” Facebook page
True! I'm very happy about the general open-source culture in the graal project. They are in general very open for ideas and always support! That is very cool!
For me, it's merely because the Office is easier to use than the OpenOffice. Companies behind commercial software can put more resource into their products to get them more polished, while open source projects can only depend on volunteer developers.
AT&T is technically an option, but since their "pay for privacy" debacle[1] and terrible support that somehow makes Spectrum appear caring, I'd rather burn my money for warmth then give it to them.

[1] - https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/10/03/att-drops-its-cont...
Situating Sentence Embedders with Nearest Neighbor Overlap
eh? this is a mac bug. any software could trigger it. just happens that keystone is maybe the only one to be so dumb as to modify a system dir. that doesn’t excuse the root cause which lies in mac os.
> "you now have a reputation of padding estimates."

> "Now you are a slow incompetent."

This is also symptomatic of organizations that behave adversarially and assume your intentions to be malicious. In that dynamic, even if you perfectly estimated things, you would still get in trouble for delivering what was agreed on instead of what was "meant to be agreed"...

Usually this is more the case in orgs who view software engineering purely as a cost center, instead of as a business differentiator. When considering a position at a company, this is a good thing to pay attention to.
"How about an archive (outside the EU) of every Right To Be Forgotten request, and links to what was not to be remembered."

Google AMP will cache (store?) outside of the EU all pages using that service, and the Internet Archive might store pages before any deletion request, but they're not subject to EU laws. What a mess....

edit: I welcome any move directed at protecting people privacy, but this seems clearly made by people who don't have a clue about the involved technical problems and would attempt to solve every issue by ordering to block traffic to or from some places (when the only tool you know is a hammer...).
Works fine in Beijing, thanks!
Sure, Uber will be sustainable, but only when the price of each ride increases to the point where Taxis are price competitive again. At which point, why would people use an Uber, when they can use a taxi at the same price?

There are benefits to Ubers, but 90% of people I know only use them because they are cheaper than a taxi.
First off "already determined" wasn't about predestination or the future but conclusions for thinking as the exercise.

There is so much wrong with that post it isn't funny - putting aside that it looks like the rant of an archtypical Neal Stevenson character on the fence who gets seduced into the service of a regressive ideology doomed to failure. There is even the same failure to accept change and anxiety over growing old in a different world.

Culture is a Ship of Theseus, period. Even the staunchist traditionalists fail at it fundamentally from the outset because they either seek to keep stagnant what were reforms in the first place or they seek to preserve that which didn't exist even back then. Nothing makes it through the Millenia untouched. A culture which never changes is best known as a dead one.

Do you lament and blame Christianity for destroying paganism? Consider pants barbaric? Consider those from temperate climates too stupid to be civilized? What you either consider that list batshit insane or recognizd the references? Congratulations you have already destroyed a great culture spanning thousands of years already. Except we know these details. Traditions dying out is in no way comparable to losses of archives.

The description of modern European languages cultures and clothings even with the tech difference obscured would beconsidered vastly implauisble by Romans. The languages would be like a bad fanfic.

Also the communists undermining monks with eastern mysticism before Karl Marx was even born! This ridicule is being charitable for it forgets the Protestant reformation, a reaction to corruption within the Catholic church, and their role in destruction along with cynical nobles looking to seize monk maintained properties.
Ones once entrusted to them because the godly celebate were assumed most trustworthy akin to the role of Court Eunuchs among hereditary dynasties but with the emasculation kept symbolic with tonsures. There is a reason for that. While there may are differences they are based on the same.

That Western Civilization was considered a separate entity is a flaw. The concept at its best was a post-hoc explanation for rise to colonial dominance that accidentally paints things in in and out groups. At worst it was deliberate.

Marx himself demonstrated some nonsensical ideas of the day about "Asiatic Tyranny as being a more controlled society centered around artifical control of irrigation water instead of force of arms". Showing that the exoticism is continuing an old tradition of consciously or unconsciously using the exotic as a mirror to project what ifs onto.
It is like Neopaganism in a way - historians are interested in how they were but most practitioners make it fit to their world. You don't see any

They were always interconnected beyond any tidy sections or categories on maps. The people of the past sure as fuck didn't consider themselves to have a special kinship over those further abroad - hell pre-nationalism they were likely top enemies.
It also explains why the "center of Western Civilization" is all over the place with no remotely consistent metric as it is a sharpshooter's fallacy.
Rosetta spacecraft's controlled hard landing on comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring SDRs in Chicago and Vienna
Yes, a lot. It looks ok, but there is a LOT of technical debt. It is static, with PHP and a bit of JS.

Also, if you know Vue.js, we need help on the new web interface of VLC. :D
Nobody mentioned IPv6 support yet. It's nice as well. There are many VPN providers out there without IPv6 support.
Wow, huge nostalgia rush. I remember sitting in the Apple store with my dad while he got his first MbP, and using the emacs for kids and opening onto this page.
And yet, Snowden is out of the reach of the US govt (for now).
>No amount of government spending will change that.

Why not buy them bus tickets to Ontario? There's some value in preserving cultures as a matter of record, but that's not worth unnecessary suffering to make it happen.
Apparently so — thank you!
Juul Labs CEO to Step Down
> Well mpv can play full-range videos with correct colors... ;)

VLC can too, if compiled correctly with the libplacebo dependency. It shares most of the shaders with mpv.
Yes, we are running through the waitlist now. Our hope is to get everyone activated today.
If the price is the same, the newer and cleaner cars are why I'd stick with an Uber.
I came here to say this. Parenting is the hardest thing I’ve ever put my hands to. Something that works one day might be a disaster the next day.

You have a multitude of well-meaning friends with gobs of parenting advice.

Everyone knows what’s best.

But you have to figure out what works for you.

I would encourage two things: First, be consistent, but give your kids grace.

Second, keep in mind this is a marathon and not a sprint. Have a long-term mindset.
> What has MIT or Harvard launched recently that has come into as widespread use as the GNU Coreutils?

Even if the answer to that question is nothing, that does not justify the conclusion that "education and research are only present at these institutions as window dressing".

Btw, are you oblivious to the fact that RMS invented the GPL and wrote the GNU C compiler and Emacs and formed the FSF (among other very useful things) while he was employed as a research scientist at MIT. And that, as far as I'm aware, for much of this time he had no other responsibilities than doing these things?

Also, are you aware that his undergraduate education is from Harvard, which certainly must have had some sort of effect on the interests that he chose later to pursue? (He's on record as stating that he enjoyed much of his education there.)

Stallman also maintained the MIT version of Lisp Machine Lisp and the MIT Lisp Machine OS for some of this time. It is working on this and seeing MIT's research "stolen" by Symbolics and other companies that in no small part led to his beliefs about free software.
The most important thing of them all
> I refused a ton of money to either sell the trademark and domain-name

Out of curiosity, could you give ball-park numbers?
> We're both discussing what he wrote.

I'm not prepared to discus that further with you until you can justify or retract your libelous interpretation.

As for the government minister that is not the one in question. I found the one involving Trine Skei Grande far more comparable https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/a2Wp1M/han-var-17-skei.... Even so you will note that the minister you mention can continue to serve as an MP.
A Swedish view on the list-
Linkedin is your best friend
Indeed is noisy and not user friendly, I avoid it
The Local Jobs doesn't have jobs relevant to developers
And finally if you know companies you are interested in, or a niche, simply apply directly to them.

As for the "relocation" part it's very easy in Sweden, most companies will support it and unless something was done terribly wrong you will get your work permit as a developer.
> Are people really demanding thinner laptops? Who is demanding that a laptop or phone be thinner?

yes. a lot of people, myself included.
> Are any parts of that inaccurate, or do you (still) stand behind them?

Everything is mostly accurate, it is just the technical details that are not.

> Are there any interviews / documents where you elaborate on those topics?

No. Mail me :)
Do you notice much difference between just flashing those CCTV lights at your head vs making a helmet of some sort?

I'm curious to try it, so far I mostly see positive responses from those who have but I am yet to invest more time into researching it.
Please be sure to file a bug report in the app if you can. Every report helps us fix issues and make WARP better.
I can believe that Cloudflare's current leadership are currently more conscientious than, say, Comcast's. But, especially post-IPO, what is that actually worth? I think that, worldwide, it's likely that Cloudflare is already bigger than Comcast. So, unless I'm given evidence to the contrary, I think Comcast is the lesser evil.
It's not only about the odds, but the expected return. That's the whole point of insurance, for instance. Having an accident under these circumstances is quite improbable, but in case it happened, the return would be massive. Actually, since it might be a matter of life or death, perhaps it doesn't even make sense to think about the expected utility, because it would be infinite.
You do not deserve to be downvoted. People live in remote villages for a variety of reasons. Nobody "puts" them there any more than I "put" my son in the town I live in.

GP may have had a better intention with their comment, but the way it was worded is extremely ignorant of what it's actually like to be born into a remote community that has existed for thousands of years.
How likely is that to happen inside a timespan long enough for Uber to survive?
I think the author is trying to say that we should call a spade a spade and say that by story points they really mean time anyway so might as well just ask for a deadline. I've never worked at a company where points didn't have an equivalent time translation.
“allowing it”. lol
Do you have a link for that? That's very much different from how I understand the tests were undertaken, so I'd be very interested in reading about it.
Citation needed. It is a big stretch to go from "some percentage of enrollees are just browsing" to "MOOC drop out rates are a fiction". The research that's been done on this shows that even if we adopt a much more narrow definition of enrollee, the completion rate is still very low. For example, in one study[0], "enrollees" were defined as those who answered at least one question right on the first quiz, and only 1/4 of those people finished the whole course.

25% is better than 3%, but both are very low compared to estimates of on-campus completion rates, for which I've heard numbers ranging from ~50% to ~65%.

[0]: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/08/researchers-e...
> Can you elaborate on the best way to ask for help in the VLC support forums? I've tried a couple of times over the years and literally got told to "stop asking for someone to do my work for me" and essentially go away..

It's hard and some devs are not very patient, tbh...

> I really want to improve the quality of our implementation but have no idea how to without some pointers from experienced devs.

Come on IRC. Really.