skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah on second thought I guess I shouldn't really be so surprised here. Anyone who can take this route is in a highly privileged situation and presumably has a strong financial safety net via their parents.

But I think it's incorrect to say "most people interested in this..." when it's really "most people who can do this..." Few children of even middle income parents could do this.
> That doesn't explain why it fails to update Safari via AppStore.

Another reason is that it's extra work to decouple the browser with the OS.

> Also Apple has been allowing coding apps for years now which can download and run executable code, so it is hard to buy the argument.

Not native code.
Well they could have disposable income and longer term debt.
That would've been both politically and legally risky. Folks would undoubtedly challenge it on a multitude of legal grounds, some of which could well succeed, and also the general consensus seems to be that Boris' best shot at winning the election is to schedule it before Oct 31 so he can turn it into a vote on no-deal Brexit and scoop up the Brexit Party voter base.
I'm more than a little surprised that this article makes no mention of ADHD. There is an entire group of people with a medical condition that causes problems with attention regulation and it is not used to test the various models for attention explained in here?

(Also speaking as someone with an ADD diagnosis myself)
Apparently as part of the "desktop class" browser experience in iPad OS, Safari lost its ability to double-tap to zoom. This is a feature I use on basically every single webpage, including when I am browsing on an actual desktop computer. Chrome's lack of this feature kept me on desktop Safari for ages. I can't believe they've taken it out. It significantly deteriorates my browsing experiencing. And for what? To add more text selection gestures or something? I already find it annoying that I randomly select text as I browse a website on iOS, I don't want important features being dumped in favor of more of that.

Edit: Upon further inspection, it may just be horribly buggy? It seems to sometimes attempt to zoom out on double tap (despite being at 100%), which means somewhere the code is still trying to work...
Well said. In a business context it often feels like a risk to admit that you don't know something. Because it's a competitive situation and the Prod M Lead isn't about to display ignorance to the Dev Lead who is nodding sagely like they understood all the malarkey that the Chief Architect just spewed out.

And since those two doofuses are pretending they already have a clue, the QA Lead feels even more like THEY should already have one and so on and so forth.

Switch that to a context where you're the Prod M Lead, and you're talking about the roadmap to the Sales team who are all nodding their heads like they totally get it even when they're not and you have a high potential for an unproductive or counterproductive situation.

To me, being willing to admit you don't understand, or even to ask questions as if you don't understand when you do, is a sign of leadership-- it signals that you really care about having everyone on the team clued in and able to apply themselves to the situation at hand.

Heck, it might even be useful to have a "designated doofus" in your meetings who is there specifically to watch for this behavior and ask "stupid" questions to ensure understanding by as many people as possible in that room.
In a traditional IPO, there is generally a 90-180 day lockup period for existing shareholders (to prevent shares from flooding the market on day 1). This is one of the big benefits of a direct listing (see Spotify/Slack)...any shareholder can sell stock on day one.
It sounds like you should get a lawyer and stop talking about this online, as anything you say here can be used against you.
Relevant again because Kik is going away.
clearly, browsers fail. have you tried lynx?
Data allows people to make more informed decisions. You don’t need to be a tech company to benefit from a data science department.
Sure. That became Container Linux. Now we have Fedora CoreOS, which combines tech and ideas from both Atomic Host and CoreOS/Container Linux. It uses Fedora packages but through rpm-ostree, not with the yum/dnf system you might be used to.

Since CentOS Stream and Fedora brances will exist in the same git system, I can see future Fedora CoreOS making use of slower-moving CentOS Stream branches where useful. But that's all to be worked out.
> First of all a court will throw out any contract which is not genuinely consensual.

Sure, and minimum wage and fair housing laws are simply legal shortcuts to abbreviate arguments about non-genuinely-consentual contracts.

> Second, balance of power is irrelevant for a mutually agreed contract. Powerful companies compete with each just as much as they compete with workers.

This is naive. Certainly in markets where demand outstrips supply this is true, but for markets where supply is smaller than the demand (housing, jobs, healthcare, you see a pattern?) there's little need for suppliers to compete with each other, except at the very top of the market.

Put it simply, if I can pay you $3.00 or $15.00, and make a profit either way, I'll choose to pay you $3.00, and there are markets where that is absolutely possible.

> That's an appeal to popularism. 300 years ago a slavery supporter could say the same about slavery.

No, there have always been some jurisdictions where slavery was outlawed. I'm saying that there are zero jurisdictions with an unrestricted "freedom of contract". In other words, literally no governing body recognizes such a freedom, anywhere in the world.

> There is no evidence at all that it leads to exploitation and name-calling basic principles of justice

Calling a position fringe has exactly as much merit (actually more, since its based on evidence that no one recognizes it) than calling it a "basic principle of justice". You're essentially claiming that there are no just governments anywhere, which is indeed your prerogative (and I might be inclined to agree although for vastly different reasons), but you have yet to justify why your world is more just. Below I outline why why I believe your world would increase homelessness and exploitation of lower class working people at the hands of employers and landlords, as one example. I claim that is less just than the world we currently inhabit. The onus is now on you to either explain why more exploitation is more just, or why it won't occur.

> Two consenting adults have every right in the world to enter into any agreement they want as long as it is mutually voluntary as judged by a competent court.

The assumption here is that the person with the lesser power will be able to successfully win in court quickly and cheaply enough to make a court case worth it. That's an assumption that doesn't hold out in practice and makes these legal shortcuts necessary to prevent. It relies on a basic level of safety: an income to sustain yourself, a place to live, at a minimum. When adjudicating a contract with the provider of your income or your home, you risk abuse at the hand of them. You also need to know your rights and responsibilities, and have some way of ensuring your continued safety in the meantime. That's not possible when you're taking an adversarial relationship with someone who could make you homeless. Even if (and that's an if) a court eventually finds them to have acted in bad faith, you're still homeless. You lose relatively more.
Markup is invalid as well.

I thought it was a presentation or something and I needed to use arrows to navigate it..turns out.

Well not really sure what the point of the thing is tbh.
>And when Thunberg talks about this, especially in private, she sounds a lot like … a teenager. “We are not the ones who are responsible for this, but we are the ones who have to live with these consequences, and that is so incredibly unfair,” she said at one point.

https://files.catbox.moe/losa35.png
Same here. The advantage of Org is that it is likely to be around forever, and it's plain text.

And it offers some very nice interpreters to be used on top of plain text. For example, agenda views can support any workflow you can possibly imagine, from a daily planner to a kanban, without needing to write Elisp.

Org, and in general Emacs have this very nice feeling of giving you tools to build whatever you want. In contrast to much more rigid GUI applications.
Thanks! Glad to hear you found some interesting picks! Maybe the stacks could have some kind of upvote mechanism or even just have some "Editor's picks" in the future.
It does:

>Halassa is particularly intrigued by what the connection between attention and the basal ganglia might reveal about conditions like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism, which often manifest as hypersensitivity to certain kinds of inputs.
I just explained why the demand is falling...
This is to be worked out, but I don't think so. I think there might be a frozen branch internally for that but the Stream branch should continue (and therefore might end up ahead of the beta).
And if you want to learn about the equivalent thing today's generals worry about, that would be the Suwalki Gap:

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/suwalki...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/why-suwalki-gap-keeps-top...
Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale
I also use Blink and have been mostly very happy with it -- great Magic Keyboard support, though I wish the onscreen "extra keys" could be configured e.g. so you could have ":" when working in vim.

Unfortunately, lately I have found that it drops input on spotty WiFi connections, both in ssh and mosh. Mosh works fine if I go offline for a while, but if the connection is really weak and packets are getting dropped I start losing input which gets scary when doing "sudo apt blabla."

Still happy with my purchase, just hoping it gets more reliable.
Unlikely. Languages younger than 5 or 10 years barely make the list, and the top languages are in the 20 years old range on average.

Language adoption takes a really long time, and all new languages are at a disadvantage because older language usage continues due to inertia.
as a remote dev currently using a private stack overflow for knowledge base, I'm curious what your team went with
It's not even a new reality Post-Xi. The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor detailed

- the forced induction of heads of companies into the CCP under threat of corruption charges

- the historic use of the Army as a flexible labor force

- the CCP picking winners and losers in industries

All back in 2012, before Xi became premier.
Even more bizarre than worrying about swearing, I once had a 911 dispatcher understand the street I was saying, but stop to correct my pronunciation. I had just moved to a new house and my roommate had injured himself. I called 911 and when I told them my address was "123 foobar" the dispatcher responded, "actually it's pronounced 123 foobaz". A long awkward silence followed which I eventually broke with a simple "ok". I really didn't know what else to say.

Correcting my pronunciation of a street name is fine in most contexts, but it seems like an awfully trivial thing to spend time on while my friend is bleeding profusely.
I've noticed it's got less crashy in virtualbox.
Profits for the preferred or majority shareholders has become synonymous with productivity
Who deems what is "productive"?

The people paying for it. If nobody is willing to pay for your product/service, you have a hobby, not a business. Hobbies that cost billions of dollars a year don't usually last, unless the hobbyist is a Gates or Bezos.
Unless his stepping down voids his landlord-lessee contract with numerous WeWork properties, all this does is let Neumann continue to self-deal as a major shareholder without the bad optics of self-dealing as a CEO.
From @Transactional to type-safe, reasonable transactions
Facebook. The infamous news feed used to be an actual feed that showed you everything your friends posted, not an algorithmic hellscape of fake news and ads. Sharyl Sandberg pushed to turn it into an advertising vehicle in 2012 because a social network that puts users first isn't profitable.
Dinesh D'Souza linking young climate change activist with Nazi propaganda
Is that "off by a factor of 4" result still "useful"? Can you still create products/devices/things/science with that incorrect result? Even epicycles still allowed reduced-accuracy prediction of the movement of heavenly bodies
> Given RMS's previous comments on the same subject, it's pretty clear what he's saying here

While I do disagree with Stallman's statement here, I think it's important to point out that your insinuation is not justified.

He did not say that he thought pedophilia was good, only that he was skeptical of the claims that it was bad because he'd only ever been presented with examples of involuntary pedophilia. In the intervening years since this comment was made and the present, his mind has been changed on the subject.
This website isn't an interactive software application though!
My take is these companies are ultimately machines for laundering central bank liquidity.
For reference that's about this much:

16 ms → 62 Hz

32 ms → 31 Hz

64 ms → 16 Hz.
Could someone explain to me why this is happening? Is it a metoo situation?
I don't think anyone has achieved 100% un-racism, or 100% racism.
> But if I meet someone in a corporate setting who looks stern (especially a young insecure guy) and starts to let fly with bad language, I’m likely to cut the person down

That's obviously far less about the profanity, and more about the power dynamic and tone. My guess is the same response could be triggered with no actual profanity in that setting.
Think about it this way:

Joining a startup is an opportunity to be part of a team that's doing something really hard, so you need to trust each other. Lying about the compensation structure isn't a good foundation for trust.

Now, you're spending at least a year of your life, working 40+ hour weeks in close proximity to someone who cheaply misled you.
It's a terminal emulator, but most of its UI is in a character terminal that's like a very limited shell.

So you have some commands including most obviously "mosh" and "ssh" but also a few others. To get a GUI configuration window you enter "config" and hit return.
For me, being interested in something implies that it's even possible in the first place.
I suspect (based on nothing so take it for what that's worth) that the FogCreek Illuminati feel burned by the Trello experience: there they carefully tended, had high organic growth, spun it out to its own company after three years, and ended up selling for less than half a billion dollars in 2017. This is bad because 2017 was quite probably the highest valuations for privately held technology companies in this cycle, and they weren't a unicorn, unlike plenty of other companies at the time- Quora raised 85m at a 1.7g valuation in April 2017, to pick a business that FogCreek would know well.

SO, like Trello, took a long time to find a business model (honestly Trello never really did); it seems clear that SO Jobs didn't work, but enterprise sales is the key, just based on what they emphasized in the announcement. Using the SaaS website as a loss leader advertisement for the shrinkwrap software is an interesting model: I see it as somewhat similar to the old 'give away Unix and C free to universities, sell System V to the companies those students work at' model, modernized for the internet age.
I get that you have an axe to grind and want to influence public policy but this opioid crisis just already has enveloped everyone under its ‘mental health’ umbrella. There wont be a resolution on the disparity of enforcement tactics.

Basically I’m just not having that particular conversation with you because thats not what this thread is about, and its clear you only want to derail into your writing prompt. The irony isn't lost on anyone, lots of people have seen the Dave Chapelle "Sticks and Stones" standup.

The structure of this crisis is prescribed drugs. So consumers of any color wont go to jail, and big pharma execs wont go to jail. Perhaps some particularly excessive doctors will, and feel free to make a statistical analysis of their ethnicity and socioeconomic status to find a correlation that matches your distress.

People using unprescribed and scheduled opioids still face law enforcement pressure.
Say Their Name
Networking for Startup Founders, from the Holloway Guide to Raising VC
Yeah there are some good articles noting how many manufacturers there are and they basically expect a large % to fall by the wayside dude to being behind with tech, funding, connections, etc. My understanding is there are maybe a handful at most that investors and analysts think have nearly enough of what is needed to make a good longer term run at it.
I agree that there have been problems. And yes, many people are impacted due to the slowdown.

But I am not sitting in an ivory tower. I am a middle class Indian living in tier 3 city who is trying to learn to code and make a living remotely...
Ulysses S Grant comes to mind.
> BoJo quoted the ONS correctly the UK sends the EU 350M.

You seem shaky on a number of things - are you a UK resident?

OK, to answer your point https://metro.co.uk/2017/04/27/heres-how-spectacularly-wrong...

"Just in case you hadn’t already cottoned on, the number plastered on the side of the Brexit bus was a big fat lie.

[...]

According to the new official estimates, the UK actually makes a net contribution to the EU of around £199 million a week."

So BloJo lied. Do you find it acceptable for a politician to lie to you?

> That the EU returns 150 of it doesn't change that the EU is determining how the UK spend the UK's money and then takes half of it for the EU.

True but irrelevant. Boris lied. That was my point. The ONS doesn't come into it.

Me: >> Are people not allowed to change view in the light of new information?

You: > See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21060090

Just points me back to your earlier post which says "That sets a terrible precedent: lose a vote, use every resource you can to thwart implementing the outcome, get a second vote". That doesn't answer the question so let me try again, same question, please answer Yes or No.
> where investors can look at that company and think it's a good and growing investment to sustain their public pension or hedge fund returns

Quite the opposite, I'd say. I'm pretty sure the problem is the investors and bankers came in and said "are you kidding me? this is a garbage-tier investment, call us back when you make X,Y & Z changes!"
An Info Visualization of Moore’s Law vs. Actual Transistor Count (1971-2019)
> this sentiment is illustrative of the world that the internet has created. on the internet, you never have to deal with something that bores you -- you can always open a new tab and do something else.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that this is flat-out untrue, it's just that the repeated cashing-in on an old and reductionistic theories of current events is becoming increasingly transparent. It's akin to thinkers like J.B. Peterson criticizing postmodernism 10-15 years after the movement ended, and solely by repeating the arguments that ended it. It might be true or consistent or whatever, but the point is that it focuses the dialogue on a too-narrow set of theories about the world.

Even your own statement, "Internet bad, makes people incapable of dealing with boredom" is a trope that, regardless of its truth value, doesn't address deeper issues with human communication and entertainment. People essentially said the same things about TV's 40-50 years ago: "you don't have to be bored, just change the channel!"
It looks like the cutoff was 2GB of RAM.
> it's extra work to decouple the browser with the OS.

It is expected of a company which boasts about security and privacy of its users as a premium selling point, although it is questionable now[1]. Besides, MacOS has been receiving Safari updates separately.

Also android has been decoupling several system services with every iteration now, soon crucial system services would be updated from PlayStore and so even if the manufacturer doesn't ship OS updates, important services would stay updated.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/apple...
Meh.. sure. Any reason behind these specific figures?
Sextants aren't really made for use on land, you need a very flat horizon to use one, you can use an "artificial horizon" but you'll loose some accuracy. A sextant is made for observations at sea, where a ship would be bobbing up and down. On steady land, it's much easier to just measure the angle a star makes with a level base. I'm not sure of the exact name, I've seen old telescopes with a protractor on the side, and a level and compass on the base.

But, so long as it's just for fun, you can rely on your phone for updated star information and time.
I’ve heard the opposite pitch from FANG recruiters: Our stock is pretty stable and/or appreciates modestly. But if you don’t believe me we are a public company so you can sell on day one. Unlike those startups that are just offering pieces of paper with promises of riches on them.

Maybe they’re just good at tailoring their messages. They look at me and see an old guy so they bring out the “stable liquidity” pitch.
A join in an intersection in relational algebra
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/24/softbank-has-a-multi-million...

"But because SoftBank’s latest round was so large and the possible down-round was looking to be less than half of that, the provision was expected to result in the world’s largest IPO ratchet."

Relative to Softbank's total investment, it's not a huge percentage, but relative to the amount expected to be raised in an IPO it certainly is.
the problem with conspiracy theories isn't that they never turn out to be true; it's that they are usually not the most plausible explanation of the available facts. "a broken clock is still right twice a day".
The market is pretty good at determining where resources should be allocated, as long as we mitigate the known shortcomings of a market economy - externalities, tragedy of the commons, etc.

I agree that I wish that not every app was designed to be VC style - grow to be huge, with large revenue and expenses. I do think there are plenty of examples of smaller, not VC growth type companies... they just, by definition, aren't as big and popular as the high growth, large audience, ones.
> if those 5000 people are doing work that is not valuable

That’s a big “if.” When under pressure, managers and consultants will always claim they are cutting unproductive people, but time after time it turns out that they also cut things that were vital to the company’s long-term future.

This is especially true when the spotlight glare of a possible sale or IPO is on them, they will do anything to make its seem as if the company is more profitable/less unprofitable NOW, at the expense of the future.

I have no visibility into WeWork and these people, but I don’t automatically grant that the company will be better off without the work of these people.

(Ok, maybe the wave pool folks can go. And everyone in finance, WeWork’s finance and corporate governance people sound
like “they’re so crooked they could hide behind a spiral staircase.”)
>In an interactive software application, any user action SHOULD result in a noticeable change within 16ms

In many cases the Input Lag ( Especially Touch Screen ) in itself is more than 16ms. That is excluding the processing from CPU to GPU rendering and your Display Lag.
This manifesto's website takes longer than 64 milliseconds to respond though.
I enjoy that it gives no rationales. Without reasons/research/sources, these are just arbitrary numbers.
Anecdotally, I was a bit sad that I didn't get past the first round with Uber, but then a few days later they announced their hiring freeze and terrible financial performance... probably for the better!