skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Introduction of random features instead of things people ask for.

Random features:
- Crypto wallets that go on your public profile if you want the alert to shut up
- Git. I mean, would you trust a production repo to magic crypto remote relying on a third party service that has no SLAs?
- We're kind of Slack/Mattermost/Discord now but with none of the accessability or SLA offerings and you need one or the other to have an audience besides "tech nerds" who are already fragmented on 20+ platforms and clearly just needed one more

Things people want:
- An app that is less entitled and forces focus over everything. Games, your presentation, everything, it doesn't care.
- Dark mode? Literally the highest voted thing and it took them 2 years to start working on it.
- Seamless mobile notifications. Signal can show content while maintaining strong crypto, why does Keybase just show '<person> sent you a message'. That is super annoying if you want to use Keybase for an actual team.
- Random reliability issues and nobody seems to care about them with any sense of urgency.

It's okay to be run like a hobby, to move fast and break shit and pay no attention to polishing the experience. But then don't be surprised if nobody seriously uses your product.
Intel's orchard supplying fruits to Falling Fruit project
The person he told it to reported him so clearly it wasn't received as a joke.
Such decisions are not done in a day. The original post, with misinterpretations, appeared on Sep 12, and the resignation happened on Sep 16.

The extra "revelations" post was also published on Sep 16.
When is it not fine to make mistakes? You say that intentions go a long way (towards something), which makes it sound like it all depends on how this mistake is received by the transgender person. If there is no objective rule on how to acceptably address trans people, why should we enforce an imaginary rule?
> So then the various cryptocurrencies fit the bill because a lot of people are willing to treat them as IOU notes among themselves.

Yes, but the 'crypto' part is unnecessary. You can just store these IOU's in some Postgres database, and the effect would be the same.
this video alone triggers vomiting on me already, not speaking about actual device and experience.
You don't - if they are seriously pushing the "nothing to hide" argument, it's too late for them.
>and made them uncomfortable

Not a crime.

I beg your pardon? Just because the police doesn't come after you (and depending how far he went, it might have been a literal crime), doesn't mean a behavior is acceptable.

Do you have an employed job? In most work places creating a "hostile work environment" is a very good reason (and rightfully so) to be fired.
Your junior colleague would still do PrintOrderDetails(1234, "SomeSeller", "SomeProduct");

And the compiler wouldn't notice.

You could uused a Roslyn analyzer that gives a warning "methods with consecutive args of the same type should use named params" I guess. Or a warning could be made at the declaring site "Don't declare methods with consecutive args of the same type".
The Compact Disc (1982)
>A single-year warranty is in general an indicator that a) the manufacturer doesn't have faith in reliability past the first year and b) the manufacturer is begrudgingly just meeting the minimum standard for warranties in most jurisdictions. Even if neither of these are the case, the optics aren't good.

Dell's Precision workstations come with 3 years warranty, upgradable to 5 years coverage with on-site service. There is no reason Apple can't match that.
You have the powerful blessings of both Knuth and Halmos [0]. On p. 3 of the PDF:

> 1. Symbols in different formulas must be separated by words.

> 2. Don't start a sentence with a symbol.

[0] http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/reviewing-papers/knuth_mathematica...
> And don’t worry too much about readers who want to find a way to argue about every tangential point and list all possible qualifications for every statement. Just enjoy writing.

Trying to defend against bad reading is impossible and trying to do so in original article is useless.

Bad reading is huge problem for social media and internet forums. Bad readers are likely to be the first to comment article in the internet forums and comment sections. They destroy discussion.
Nice article.

>> Minimize ... transition words — such as ‘however’ or ‘thus’ — so that the reader can focus on the main message <<

However, I'm not sure about this advice :) I remember reading a study that appropriate use of transition words is helpful in signposting how the coming sentence relates to the previous one, thereby reducing effort for the reader. What do other's think?
TL;DR: Brother with height insecurities gets rich off cryptocurrency, pays for leg extension surgery, dies rather suddenly of pulmonary embolism during recovery.
If it was 'Disney Horizon', I wouldn't even consider using it since I am not their target market.

With 'Facebook Horizon', I'd feel apprehensive about using another one of their products, but ultimately would go for it.
Good news, it can! Either way objective-c is much more readable than it is writeable. It’s writeable with an IDE and readable without.
There’s a Firefox os fork that is commercially quite strong. KaiOS.

2nd most used mobile os in India, and I want to say it has 1% global market share, but I can’t back that up. But I’d say you missed a pretty good one :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS
If you don't speak you mind, sooner or later it will be too late to speak your mind and the system will become too constricting. It's telling that you are referring to overzealous cops when we're discussing SJWs pressuring rms.

Maybe he thought he was better off speaking his mind (consequences be damned) than shutting up for years and years.
One of the most exciting things I remember about first getting the Internet in the 90s was (especially as a socially-anxious introvert) being able to jump on an IRC server and chat mostly anonymously with just a nickname, to people I didn't know, without the awkwardness that real-life interactions could bring me at the time.

As a high-school kid, I could be on the same footing as a distinguished scientist. Or I could make friends in other countries.

Even my parents, who aren't technically-inclined, were excited by that and thought it was amazing.

I sometimes feel like the Internet went from being a place that you explored to find new people and new viewpoints, to one where many people just stay in their own bubbles.

No, this is not a bug. How did we get from there, to here? :(
so all the high margin business goes to nvidia you're saying...
What’s boutique software?
I feel like I was making an observation rather than outlining a philosophy. Secondly, I feel that my observations are not quite aligned with the liberal status quo so that may be why they are "off" in your experience. I also agree that most liberals are reasonable people and there are only a few outliers.

The fact that you thought that I said Bumble was harming men and the way you identified my thoughts as a 'philosophy' as opposed to an observation to me speaks directly to point I was making in my previous post albeit you come across as someone who listens and is reasonable.
Stallman has a post about how he refuses to use the word they because it's not traditionally correct English and has choses to invent his own word "per" to refer to someone without specifying gender.

This seems acceptable to me. Stallman has always been weird with word choice but I see no bad intent here.
He still might make decisions, but I doubt he has many technical contributions of his. And quite a few of his decisions can be discussed very controversial.
Creep is a useless term. You can say that anything is creepy.
> what is so different with a Tesla?

Right now, in the UK, the Tesla Model 3 is the only option that (i) is 100% electric, (ii) can go from e.g. London to Edinburgh with one charge stop, and (iii) can fit in a standard UK size garage. There are simply no other cars available in the UK at the moment that meet these 3 basic requirements. There are others coming close, e.g. the Jaguar iPace, and some due soon that might meet them fully, e.g. the Volkswagen ID.3 due next year, but right now if these are your requirements you have no other choice. That makes it pretty different, in fact unique. To use the Apple analogy, it would be like if the iPhone was the only smartphone that could last a day without recharging and fit in your pocket, so if you had one (and also believed that one day everyone with feature phones would replace them with smartphones that could fit in your pocket) then that might make you feel ahead of the curve, and you might even be more forgiving if basic functionality like copy and paste wasn't yet available.
Intel's Turbo Boost specification only allows for a few seconds of boosting. Of course you can overclock (letting it run longer than stock settings) if you have better cooling or if you won the silicon lottery.

Furthermore, I think the advertised Turbo Boost 3.0 frequency is single-core only. It will not increase all core frequencies to that level unless there is sufficient thermal headroom.

https://segmentnext.com/2017/10/11/intel-removing-all-core-t...
Facebook aside, I understand the negativity towards "virtual" living, but I think it's the only way we can save the planet at this point. Sure, the real world is great if you work in tech and live in the richest country in the world, but we can't sustainably provide a life like that to everyone on Earth. If everyone wants a house with a garden, two cars and multiple overseas trips each year then our planet will turn into a shithole.

VR on the other hand has the possibility to provide experiences that rival the best the world has to offer, while consuming very little resources. You don't have to commute to work everyday, travel across the planet to experience other countries or buy huge houses to fit all your stuff. I think the rise of shut-ins and hikikomoris is already a sign that a low-resource (i.e. cheap) virtual life is more attractive to many people than the hyper-competitive modern life in gray dystopian metropolises.

This is all of course predicated on solving the health issues with being in VR for long periods of time, like having displays mimicking natural sunlight, unobtrusive headsets, preventing eye-strain and a means for getting exercise.
This thing will not be "playable" on Oculus Go? $$-wise?

...Who on earth thought it would be a good idea not to have legs?!
For those who like React static sites but dislike the complexity of Gatsby and GraphQL, check out react-static.

https://github.com/react-static/react-static

YouTube example: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OqbJ5swVpDQ
Another way to look at is that children have the right to not have their health jeopardised by the fact free opinions of their parents.
But there's also reasonable levels of discomfort and comfort, otherwise it turns into weaponized fragility.

Also, Jesus, they literally classified asking someone out on a date as sexual harassment.
So because the woman is unknown she is untrustworthy?

Lawsuits aren't free.
And the result is usually to destroy the woman's career and reputation.

Especially for a popular figure where thousands will believe him no matter what. Just like you.
What Is a Memory Fence?
The global fish market contributes to human micronutrient deficiencies
This syntax is part of the reason why I really enjoyed working with objective-C, it's just so self-descriptive. Coming from Java which doesn't have that, which relies on an IDE like intellij to give you hints on what arguments go where, OR on design patterns like argument objects or builders, it was a big relief - even if it's kinda long / verbose.

Honestly thinking back on Java there were a lot of design patterns and code (sometimes generated) that could've been avoided with e.g. named function parameters.
Your pricing model doesn't offer any benefit for paying annually; in fact, given the time value of money, it is a disincentive. Being paid up front means you can deploy that cash to grow.
Well, "wet" as in "waking up screaming, drenched in cold sweat..."
I feel sympathy for those who feel this envy but don't share it.

When I realised what this thing is, I realised it's a nothingburger for me.

Pity I can't control the monster instead of having some decisions, made in a remote conference room, that are no use to me, rammed down my throat.
Too bad the Tesla has been nerfed so bad it's useless / dangerous in Europe. ( because of regulation ).
Don't be so condescending. It's a measure of solvency and they don't drop it to junk just for fun.
> Also Teslas are the safest cars. Not sure what you're talking about

In other words being on your phone isn't a big deal because you'll be safe. But those other people you might hit? What about them? Do you have any care in that direction?
The amount of time I’ve had to fiddle with my audio/video editing beast of a hackintosh tower is quite insane really.

Both necessary and well worth it, as Apple simply wasn’t selling anything appropriately powerful for like five years (also why x99 was so tricky until more recently - no equivalent hardware of theirs), but by any other calculation if you actually put the value of your own time anywhere close to any professional scale (or see it as a hobby) it will very likely end up costing way more to do yourself.
But if you're testing 300Mi most of those are probably not even in you jurisdiction or have no ties to the case
Ask HN: What Is the Alternative to Mutter IRC?
Mutter IRC was a great project, unfortunately it looks is dead, is there a similar alternative to Mutter IRC?
With a similar application for the iPhone and plug-in for ZNC?
I was wondering the facts.
It might be better to allow people to make their own choices instead of forcing something on them. Your reasoning is going to be wrong or irrelevant for many.
Yes.

I’ve made a backend for my app that is essentially a middleware layer to an external API.

It’s entirely written in Swift, using the Vapor web framework, packaged up in a Docker container, and hosted on Google Cloud Run (which is essentially serverless for Docker containers).

https://cloud.google.com/run/

Previously it was running on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, but the devops knowledge to get it running on Beanstalk was significantly more, and realistically beyond my capabilities. Towards the end there was an intermittent SSL issue on Beanstalk I couldn’t figure out how to fix.

Since moving to Cloud Run its been running extremely smoothly and is costing a fraction of the price.

It is in production, but the daily active users are measured in the thousands, not tens of thousands.
I don't know about other cars, but on my 2014 Passat it works flawlessly. I don't remember ever having to manually touch it.
Isn't that basically natural selection?
It is... though twitter does swing heavily left. Outrage mobs on twitter are thus expected to swing left.
A person with lots of integrity wont change what they say easily. If they don't believe that there are more than two genders, then for them to use a third pronoun with a straight face they would have to rebuild their entire worldview around gender. Of course that would be a good thing, but doing that would take a lot of work and not something you can get them to do in the few seconds it takes for a conversation to get awkward.

I'd be more wary of the people with low integrity who just say what others want to hear, they change their speech but doesn't actually change their behavior and will still discriminate and undermine groups even when forced to change their speech pattern.

Stallman seems to me like a person with an extremely high level of integrity, if a normal person believe that voluntary pedophilia is fine they would just shut up and join the mob but not Stallman. He faced his world view head on and no longer believe that pedophilia is fine, and we can be pretty sure that he actually changed since he doesn't buckle to pressure. The same can not be said about most politicians and other conventional leaders.
Reminds me of a scene in The Town - they were going to rob a bank, and they collected whole bags of hair from a barbershop floor, and spread it during the robbery.
> Taking your hands off the steering wheel involves...

Taking your hands off the steering wheel has never been a problem. Taking your eyes off the road is.

That being said, if you want to set a certain temperature with analog controls, you still need to look at the number (showing the degrees). Still, in other cars you can see that number all the time, you don't have to go into some menu. There is a dedicated physical button for that one function.
That sounds like something nation states would be able to do well before it's acknowledged.
Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness (2012) [pdf]
Two unrelated software?
I disagree with your reading of the article. It does not say that providing status updates in 1:1s are the "worst possible use of time" anywhere.

Quoted from the article:
"The point of this discussion is not to solve my Disaster, the point is that we’re going to have a conversation where one of us is going to learn something more than just project status."

Status updates are a conducive part of 1:1s and its the perfect time to get unblocked as the quote above duly points out.

As for learning about whether "feature A will collide with feature B", weekly/biweekly roundtables are the perfect time to learn about such things. The weekly cadence allows people to find time to collaborate on the possible overlap.

Lastly, I don't think the article is even that good. It seems to make up for its lack of interesting-ness by feigning conviction and edginess. The central point of the article is highly unusual in that it lauds novelty over pragmatism.

A 1:1 should be an environment where all of what the article talks about CAN take place. But that doesn't mean it SHOULD during every meeting.
Thanks, will look into that. Expanding on my findings:

Grains -- Wheat, barley, oats, rye and spelt cause mild depression and psychosis. Yeast causes skin infection. These combined, rule out all bread. Maize, rice and maybe teff seem ok so far.

Meats, red and white, feel like falling into a coma for hours after consumption, simply for being so tough to digest. In contrast, plant foods give an energetic feeling -- there's no immobilizing digestion period.

Milk and cream products cause a kind of.. tension in my head. Like a silent headache. I feel much clearer not consuming these. Includes organic and lactose-free varieties. Experiments on cheese still ongoing.

Sugar appears harmless, but I've noticed it eats a significant portion of my food budget if I permit myself to buy any. Super addictive. Hard pass all food that contain any added sugar whatsoever. It's a food industry dark pattern designed to make you crave their product. Can get rid of sugar addiction by substituting it entirely for honey.

Similar to sugar, I vehemently avoid all food products containing any artificial flavorings and additives whatsoever. These are designed to fool your body into thinking you're eating something you're not. Some of them are downright dangerous -- sodium laureth sulfate, an additive to toothpaste that makes it foam, causes lacerations in the mouth. After I switched to a toothpaste without it, all spontaneous wounds of the mouth stopped appearing completely.

Of course, the effects of diet is very sensitive to your gut microbial environment. If you're used to eating certain things, their effects are... hidden, at least, if not lessened. And it takes time to adjust, time to experiment.

How I perform my food experiments: I eat the same thing for a month, almost to exclusion of everything else, to see how it makes me feel. I stop eating something completely for months, to see how going without it makes me feel; then see what happens when I do eat it again periodically.
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Pretty sure there are regulations and just common sense preventing allowing people to hack and tinker with their car software, as that would be very dangerous both for the owners and for the public when such cars would be driving on public roads.
Yes, I have not heard any good arguments for why TCP should be in a kernel, other than, it's convenient, and it's always been done that way, and your apps get to share it. Like using the kernel as a shared library...

You could put BitTorrent in the kernel. It makes about as much sense architecturally, but isn't too widely used.
What are you talking about? Last years weather were amazing and Denmark did get electricity from coal in germany. If you want ti have a civil discussion perhaps start with yourself. This is not something i am making up.
* Not all users have IDEs with all that much help (vim, emacs users come to mind), and not all platforms have this ability (consider for example writing serverless functions in an online IDE), and sometimes you do code reviews from an online platform or from your phone, and sometimes you just kinda pull up a piece of code in notepad, and I think you should be able to tell that the code is obviously correct in all of those cases.

* In C, the convention is "move(destination, source)". See memcpy, snprintf, strftime, others, but not all functions follow this convention. PHP is known for having lots of functions in standard library with differing conventions.

* It's easier to tell that "move(from=X, to=Y)" is correct than "move(X, Y)" though?

* I agree with the over-verbosity, but your last point that "annotating your arguments makes your code over-verbose and harder/slower to comprehend; instead, put all these guards and magic in the definition of the function" - isn't that also making your code harder/slower to comprehend, but this time you're putting the mindwork in understanding the function instead?
I'm more than slightly annoyed that it starts with "choose menu"!!!

The demo person is constantly looking at his screen instead of in front of him.
There's also tig [0] which is my go-to text-mode git browser:

[0]: http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/
What about code from public repository that don't have some kind of open source licence? Won't you be running into a copyright issue somewhere?
Cross the world four times
If you live in country where emergency services number is not 911 there is sometimes a forward from 911 to the local number like 112 or phone may detect the local emergency services number.
Problem is that not all countries have location detection for emergency calls.
VR causes development issues in children (especially for eyesight). Facebook really likes the game of poking the bear, doesn't it?
Well, barely.
> The point is is there any reason to believe those nightmare scenarios have any realistic chance of coming true

Let's look at Trump. Like or loathe him, reasonable people will agree if there was a skeleton or three in his past it would be used to attempt to unseat him. He, however, lived most his life before tech existed. So what will happen to a President 50 years from now? I'm not knocking Monks here--but who among us has emulated their legendary behavior throughout their entire lives?

So I for one do believe those nightmare scenarios will come true.
There are as many described fossil ant species as fossil dinosaurs–about 750
Company behavior is an emergent phenomenon. It doesn't need to correspond to the will of the individual employees, specially not of those outside the chain of command.
In these threads? On hacker news he has almost universal support.

Why would any victim want to destroy their careers by making a lawsuit against such a prominent person.

People like the majority of posters in this thread will call the accuser a character assassin, fame seeker or a liar.

"Is the USA not one of the most empowered countries for women?"

Lol. Just call them a liar and become president or get a seat on the supreme court.
Similar to other questionable methods of data collection, how likely is it that a form of parallel construction is used even with these laws in place?