skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working on this since I noticed it in myself a few years back. It's really difficult because I'm the "problem-solver," but I'm also the person that people want to vent to.

So I've come to realize - After a friend/coworker shares something that they're sad/angry about, my standard MO is:

1) Say something like "Wow, that must really feel terrible. I'm sorry to hear that!" (I always feel the need to add more to this statement, but it's better off said with a light touch and not heavy-handed.) Then,

2) "I feel like I was in a similar situation a few months ago when..." Important rule about this step - this statement is NOT to be a 1-upper. You're not saying this to proclaim that your situation from the past is more significant/worse than their situation. You're saying this because it helps your friend/colleague understand that they're not alone in how they're feeling, and their feelings are (generally-speaking) justified. Also - You don't talk about what you did to solve the issue. You talk about how you felt, etc. Be vulnerable, be open, and the person venting to you will respond similarly. Finally,

3) Ask "So what are you gonna do about it?" This kinda turns its head on the status-quo. Usually, this is the time you start explaining "Well here's what I did in my situation!" But that's not what you want here. Instead, you're asking the person if they've thought of a plan to tackle the issue. If you've established a "safe space" to discuss the topic, they feel more open about sharing their plan to resolve the problem, even if they don't have a plan and have to come up with it on the spot. Then, more likely than not, they'll ask "What do you think?"

At this point, you're free to let your problem-solving self run wild, assuming that you don't then consider your friend/colleague a "broken piece of code begging to be fixed."
I don't think so. Retting isn't obvious, but it isn't hard to imagine that someone encountered some material that wasn't preserved and it rotted in the right way. This could be accidentally finding it, or storing some for latter processing and then dieing - only latter was the cache discovered and used.
IP laws were partially suspended/taken over (with after the war compensations) during WWI. I'm thinking for example of Marconi's patents for wireless communication or also a few weapons design.

As for the contractors, the story of hms Prince of Wales against Bismarck comes to mind, with contractors sailing into battle to help mitigate reliability with its guns.

So there are precedents, in case of a dire need a state will enforce a deeper control over what is required to fight a war.
But then do you consider mathematics a science?
> and it was a breach of the DVD-CSS licensing agreement by the manufacturer

Hum, no. The poor manufacturer only created a test system, kept secure, with instructions for internal people only. It's hardly his fault that somebody leaked the instructions.
They were ordered to do this by the court. [0] Until the power lines have been reinspected and the maintenance tasks remediated they legally can't roll the dice if the wind gets over a certain level for runs that have only been deemed safe for a lower level of wind.

[0] http://s1.q4cdn.com/880135780/files/doc_downloads/2019/Alsup...
Certainly. There is definitely the need for balance. If your work environment is all in-fighting (been there done that myself), it sucks... But if your environment promotes a patronizing amount of coddling and trying to make things fair for everyone all the time, I find myself equally unhappy.

If my idea is better than my coworkers, I want that celebrated. If theirs is better, I want that celebrated, even if that means telling me that my idea isn't great.

Edit: Also, if Bob is doing fuck-all, he should expect to be kicked out of the group. He can find another tribe that accepts his bullshit (until they eventually drop him as well), or learn to carry his own weight before being reaccepted - by means of crafting weapons or providing in some other way as you mention. "Safe spaces" to me, are akin to allowing Bob to stick around and mooch off the group indefinitely because kicking him out wouldn't be very nice. Nature says you provide for the group, or you go. It's harsh, but real.
It's not uncommon for wealthier families here in Guadalajara to have their 13-year-old daughter Uber around.

We sure do like our coddling in the USA, though, where it's even safer.

An example of someone writing about the problem: https://www.thecoddling.com/ -- Makes a good case how instilling these ideas in our youth that everyone is out to get them comes back to bite them (and us all) in the ass as they enter adulthood.

An example of an org trying to fix it: https://letgrow.org/

Of course, a self-driving car is even better than an Uber driver for various reasons, not the least because ape-driven vehicles aren't particularly safe.
Why would there be security implications?
No, that is the users problem. The users determine if FB has the right to exist, as no one is arguing that any corporate entity simply has the right to exist.

I haven't used FB in years, but even I know that if FB didn't exist that another service would fill the gap in the market. The problem is FB plays fast and loose with privacy and security, which should be the focus of criticism for FB, since that negatively affects users. If FB didn't exist, you still run the risk of another player making the exact same mistakes.
I rarely even believe in "advice", mostly people will just know and do what they want. The collection of learning from their experiences informs those decisions nearly 100%.
> Bors when introduced at my workplace was summarily disabled after 2 separate incidents where it was improperly applying commit messages

Seems a bit extreme to discard something after finding two bugs. Could you have fixed them instead?
That'll get them how much, maybe 10-20 miles?

Closer to 100 miles.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/pge-underground-power...
Like Ubuntu stole from Debian? And let's not forget that Debian is just stealing the hard work of the Linux and GNU developers...

(/s)
Why did you flag it?
From what I gathered in the article, that’s the case now but before the queue required manual merges.
I am "just another developer" who has probably violated the NDA as well. Reverse engineering beta OSes and distributing information about it totally OK, the problem is when you take screenshots.
Of course, there's a lot of subjectivity. But if you think you can make a site like HN be interesting without voting, you should give it a try. It would be an order of magnitude easier and cheaper to operate, and that would be a real innovation.
Unveiled in Dubai: First electric racing aircraft
South Korea achieved democracy when their GDP per capita was $4k. China's GDP per capita is approaching $9k. When will they be rich enough that they yearn for democracy?
The first time I saw a BOM (0xEF,0xBB,0xBF) was in Project Gutenberg files.

$ curl -sO https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16681/pg16681.txt

$ file pg16681.txt
pg16681.txt: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators

$ head -c3 pg16681.txt | xxd
00000000: efbb bf ...
Windows anyone?
> 8. This 9. That

Now I wonder if there are some languages that don't differentiate between these two.
Taking a single hour cooking class will drastically up your game. Ideally you'd take more than one, but in most cities you can find classes like:

* Knife skills
* Overview of cooking methods
* One-pot meals
* Quick meals

You can also usually find classes specific to cooking methods.

I highly recommend a knife skills class, as it'll cut your prep times down considerably, which makes cooking a lot more enjoyable.
Problem is, it doesn't just attach a "score" to a comment. The UI will gradually hide comments as they are voted farther down; I've seen many that are barely legible. Flagging also hides comments by default. I can't tell you how many reasonable, well-thought out points I've seen that I have to highlight with the mouse to actually read. I wouldn't even see many insightful comments had I not logged in and enabled "showdead".

There is a great deal of difference between giving users the tools to express disagreement and giving them the tools to block out the opinions of those with which I disagree.

Finally, quoting Paul Graham isn't really an argument. Fine, it's his site, but I'm allowed to say I disagree with how the voting on his site is implemented.
I think the point is that there are other app stores in other platforms, so monopoly rules don't apply.

Their app store is their monopoly, sure, but if you don't want to use Apple products you are not barred from using other cellphones and app stores.

This is different than, e.g. saying that there is a monopoly with the electricity provider. If you don't want to use company A for that, you have absolutely no access to electricity at all.

The question is instead, I think, if after some size, companies wield so much power that they should be regulated as if they were monopolies, just because of the sheer amount of people that depends on their services.

But that's a whole other can of worms and a different discussion than "Apple is a monopoly"

I.e. the term "monopoly" has a very specific legal definition which is not met by whatever behavior Apple is having.

Does that make it ok? not necessarily and the nuance is debatable. But the fact is that as per the current definition, it's not a monopoly.
Most home solar installations don't come with proper grid isolation and the inverters aren't designed to create a stable AC signal in the absence of a grid power signal so they can't really solve this problem.
> most people on HN are liberals

"There is a definite right-libertarian bias on HN" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21432833

"If you go against any kind of socially conservative or libertarian perspective it will get down voted and very likely flagged" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643695

"chilling effect on discourse from leftists" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20804464

"a leftist can't have a sane discussion on this website" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15926162

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=13110004&sort=byDate&prefix&pa...
Perhaps. We're talking about people with a 5% change of surviving their injuries. If this doubles their chances, 90% of the patients still die. So the result of a single case might not be as relevant as it would seem.
> the keyboard shortcuts are entirely unintuitive

IMO, Xcode has the most sane shortcuts of any IDE I have ever used.

> Apple's store literally doesn't accept screenshots generated by its own simulator

But…you can? I have a UI test that generates screenshots in the simulator and I upload those.
It's not a line. Something can also be both aggressive and assertive. That they are different does not make them mutually exclusive.

One can also be awkward but not polite, polite but not awkward, and politely awkward. They're just different characteristics.
Firefox used to be built in a custom markup language called XUL, which had a number of security issues over the years as it got less attention than the HTML, etc used to render page contents.

So this should help Firefox be more secure, by decreasing attack surface.
Fair bit of wood, besides.
> Intriguingly, a 2013 discovery in southeast France has led to tentative suggestions that Homo sapiens may not have been the first species to have made string. A tiny sliver of twisted fibers—just 0.028 inches long—was found in a site occupied by Neanderthals 90,000 years ago, well before sapiens arrived in Europe.

Is "0.028 inches" a typo here? How would anyone find a thread that short, and, if found, how could one tell that the thread was intentionally woven instead of just fibers lying next to each other and getting twisted together by random chance?
Facebook has huge overheads because most of their engineering time is spent on all the creepy privacy violating things they develop and the infrastructure to run them.

If we start from scratch without all that it would be possible to make a profitable social network for a couple of bucks per month per user (or a tiered system, so heavy users or “influencers” would pay more while the base tier remains free).
I like the way you just phrased it even better!
That’s a pretty large assumption though. Most people including many, many, tech people I have met are, to use your word, idiots about patents, essentially suspending all disbelief as if it is some kind of powerful magical certificate that validates the idea.

So what you said stands but only in a world I haven’t encountered, and I have a few patents and have been around the block on this one.
From TFA:

> One complication of the procedure is that patients’ cells can become damaged as they are warmed up after surgery.

Just like holding temperatures in food industry health codes: really cold is okay, and really hot is okay, but you really want to minimise the time spent between extremes. Makes me wonder how fast the brain is deteriorating at 10C, and if there are significantly more problems holding a body for 10 hours as opposed to 10 minutes. For all I know, most of the damage done by this procedure could be in the cooldown and warmup processes (though I'm not making a positive claim).
The web is not inherently slow.
There are many other topics besides your job, which most lovers won't share with their SO anyway. Talk about music, history, science, outdoors, travel, there are literally thousands of engaging conversation topics on all manner of experiences. We could talk also about childhood, friendships, space, time, the afterlife, and crazy hypotheticals, not just Earthly, humanities type subjects.

Another strategy I sometimes use is to pick a letter, then discuss something beginning with that letter. That or just be zany and come up with random hypotheticals.
If there's a Robinhood for index fund investing, I am in. I think a lot of retail investors (myself included) lack a mainstream resource that pushes for stock diversification investments, having to resort to manual research.

I know Robinhood and <insert any other brokerage> supports this, but a centralized platform dedicated to index and mutual funds that focuses on them out of the box might make sense.
I'm wondering: did they eat a lot of flaxseed in that period? I'm asking because I like flaxseed, and there seems to be a limit on how much the body (my body) can handle of it.
Name some Chinese company operate freely in US? Tiktok? What else?

Apple, Starbucks, Intel, Microsoft etc operates in China - as for freely, you define whatever that word means. American companies have a much larger namesake and presence in China than the other way around. Your complaint is the complete reverse of real life.
> but their team puts a lot of effort into making sure stuff with Pop_Os "just works."

I don't personally use it, but I've heard of people actually using it on other hardware just because the system is supposedly so polished. And maybe because it has better support for proprietary firmware? I forget.
I use Developer Edition on an 8 y/o PC and it doesn't lag. Even with 500 tabs open (using a tab suspender.
>But…you can? I have a UI test that generates screenshots in the simulator and I upload those.

It complained about the alpha channel, and I needed to open (in GIMP) all of the screenshots created by the Xcode simulator in order to strip it out.

I'm not making this up, countless other developers have wasted time on this sort of nonsense: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25681869/images-cant-con...
They haven't dared to blackout major population centers yet, have they?

- - - -

Just a little history of PG&E shadiness: http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Hetch_Hetchy_Stor...

TL:DR; SF has been supposed to have it's own power from Hetch Hetchy for nearly 100 years and PG&E has MITM'd the scheme to this day.
> every time they get to the front page of HN with a story like this it chips away at Apple's (or Google's, or whoever's) reputation

I know we who post here on HN would like to believe this is true, but I have seen no evidence that it actually is.
The original title was just clickbait that said something like 'an interview with the architect of modern software' so I was giving a very sparse overview that was still not just a mystery title.
Crumpled Outfits Drove Me to Create Origami-Style Dresses
IIRC some products even had the unintended consequence of removing it. I believe my mother copied those tapes using her camcorder to play the tape into the VCR which was recording. That's how I recall it working anyway, I don't think she had any special piracy/filter hardware.
I really like it when facebook shows me random pictures of my kids from 5 years ago. This data is far more valuable to me than if I kept it, if only because looking at those pictures becomes a bigger event - thus one I do less often.
At least people know how to largely deactivate intel me, not so for the amd PSP stuff. :(
In my experience, people are more interested in being around cool people than competence. (I'm not making a value judgment here)
I don't get it. Javascript would have categorically improved on this compared to more traditional multi-threaded solutions.
Oh, there's way more.

Your pictures have metadata. Your pictures have actual landmarks. They have faces of people that have FB location tracking on. The inverse is also true, pictures from other people with you on them.

They can infer from instrumentation if you're sat down, time of day (so probably at home). Download and upload speeds, you're probably on wifi.

They buy and sell and correlate data with other companies and advertisers.

There's dozens of ways to know where people are. Location tracking on the phone is real time and reliable, but they likely have enough data to ballpark the whereabouts of everyone on Earth!
I was referring to the websites, which block access to Europe, because they don't comply with GDPR.
What is this country supposed to stand for? Leaning on that trope to buttress a subjective opinion is a paper thin argument. This country is not supposed to stand for one thing. The State system was intended to allow for multiple interpretations of religion, culture, and identity. The federal system was intended to keep the State system balanced and safe. The rural areas deserved more influence because their contribution to the long term continuity of the country was something that couldn't be measured by population alone.

Shocking to your sensibilities and education level though it may be, land has always been more important to stability, peace, and prosperity than individual people. It is only in hyper consumer states (like the US coastal cities) where people find themselves so immensely important that they thing the Individual is the highest value commodity in society. They are programmed to believe this from a very early age, as well a falsely assumed omniscience about values, ethics, and truth. The vast majority of humans on the planet are far more in touch with their actual value relative to the system as well as their capabilities in that system. This is why most humans pack up and leave when the system is against them on both counts, as opposed to digging in and fighting back.

None of this would be baffling (in terms of the Electoral College) if you took the time to read the primary sources regarding it. I can understand how it would be surprising and baffling if you are operating off of third hand, highly subjective editorializing.
In the US I can read any English source, both ones from China and ones from US/UK media. I read that the CCP imprisoned approximately one million Uighurs in concentration camps in Xinjiang, where they are being held indefinitely without due process, and there are reports of physical torture (waterboarding and tiger chair), rape, and occasional killings. I also read from CCP's point of view that this started because there were some terrorist knife attacks in 2014. So I can get both sides' point of views. But after reading both sides, my conclusion is that even if 10,000 people are guilty it does not justify a Holocaust-scale genocide of one million Uighurs, where the overwhelming majority are innocent and did not participate or condone the terrorists. There is no difference between the logic of those perpetrating the genocide in Xinjiang and the logic of Hitler during WWII.
Why even submit WSJ articles, always paywalled.
I'm pulling for System76 in principle, but I've never been able to take the plunge on one because their chunkier Clevo/Sager-based designs have always paled aesthetically in comparison to the Dell XPS 13 line. Maybe that will finally change when they can design their own.
> it's not like the platform could exist without the ecosystem around it

We developers would like to believe this is true, but I'm not sure it is. I don't think Apple would care if the third party developer ecosystem went away. They don't depend on it to sell their products.
Because any developer would be stupid not to tap into Apple's iSlave consumer-base.
> I know many smart folks, some who are engineers, who were scared of investing until they were in their mid 30's.

One of my biggest regrets, coming from a family/socioeconomic group where nobody invested, is not beginning to invest as soon as I had enough disposable income to safely do so (in my mid-20s) instead of in my mid-30s.
>Too often, solutions driven people try to solve venters' problems rather than simply listening to what they are.

If you don't want actionable answers to a problem, save it to your personal life or therapist.

Your colleagues have a duty to behave decently towards you but they are not paid to be your emotional dumpster.
Right, and Facebook is arguing that it’s because they have to fulfill a contract. However, GDPR may block them from collecting the data they need to serve personalized ads. This would mean they wouldn’t be able to fulfill the contract.

To phrase my question in another way, would that contract still need to be fulfilled, if they are blocked by GDPR from collecting the data they would need to fulfill it?
The answers to these questions will be codified into the new law, because they cannot be determined scientifically (yet.)
Meta: I think the rhetoric of humility is more powerful here.

"We are not perfect, but we can't stand by. We have sins of our own that we are trying to rectify, but we cannot allow what you're doing."

The flaw in mutual criticism without admission of guilt is that saying "we're good" even in comparison is so obviously self-serving that it gives your opponent a trivial excuse to dismiss you.
I feel like if AI were so easy, someone would be making billions beating the stock market. It's got way more of the historical data and features than any of the problematic examples in this slide deck, but it's essentially unsolved.
$56k of earnings in exchange for freezing $70,000 of your income for 30 years? That seems insane if I'm honest.

If it were FU levels of money, or even 100%+ returns, I might think differently. But I can't imagine someone locking away $70k of their earnings for 30 years for only a 70% return.
Precisely, and as the history of automation has shown, having a social safety net to retrain and shift workers is critical.

Unfortunately the focus is on blaming immigrants and other countries, not helping the disenfranchised American workers get back on their feet. It's easier to be an angry luddite but it's also historically the wrong side to be on.
What would you say is the right behavior in that situation, then?
Pretty sure they have more than 50% of the paying market.

Nobody ever claims they get more revenue on android than IOS
Poor web components. Everybody rags on them.
Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian... Presumably they are okay with it.
That's absolutely terrifying to read about.
I tried the Syntax guide.
I found

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/wolfram/

to be easier to learn.
Looks like hexdump: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=slevesqu...