skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Social media simply amplifies the toxic effects of industries of dishonesty - from PR, astroturfing, and manipulated academic and media narratives, to calculated and deliberate hostile attempts to focus conversations on low-impact but high-emotion issues, and to split populations along tribal and narrative fault lines.

I would say it just amplifies human traits.

If "There are objectively right and wrong answers in politics." and "In politics the opinions actually matter." we're fucked because surely after 6 million years of evolution we shouldn't be where we are now. We're just fancy apes with a way to shitpost world wide instantly and it's not helping anyone.

You're right that political opinions matter but I don't believe they matter for the right reason. It's still a "us vs them" problem all the way to the top, just that that one is more complex and out of reach to the average joe. So instead of informing people we throw them 5 min clips of clickbait video here and there and ask them in which "team" they are every few years, after a while the teams are naturally swaped because "nothing changed", rinse and repeat.
We do not send those who disagree about killing adults to prison. We send there those who we think actually killed people. That is massive difference practically.
I love Fastmail, but they are ultimately based in Australia. I really thought they would have moved their operations by now.
Also would Indeed, Dice, or networking through a hackerspace be a better option for finding work? Someone mentioned someone at the group was working on something related to BeautifulSoup but then my schedule did not allow me to go to said hackerspace.
The comparison was to the Sun, which implies uninformed and inaccurate.

Your projection of "deplorable" is all of your own making.

A sign of the times, people being unable to accept being told they are wrong.
Who's liable in the case of an "oops", and a fulfilled GDPR data request winds up being a GDPR violation?
The point of the home sale exclusion is to allow you to move. The presumption is that when you sell your primary, you are likely using the proceeds to buy another primary- which has probably gone up in value just as much as your old house.

Exploiting would be more like renting a house out for twenty years and then claiming it as your primary just long enough to sell & claim the exclusion, maybe without even renting out your original-primary.

The resident-renovator isn't something I worry about. You might be getting a tax break on your sweat equity but improving a house is hard work and when you run the numbers it's often not much more profitable than working a day job.
Able Health (YC W16) is hiring a senior engineer to help improve patient care
It’s more about having a scarcity mindset than necessarily being poor. (Although the two are closely related.) As a grad student in a high COL area who posts on HN, you probably did not have a scarcity mindset.
Oh no, there was no identity theft. Just a jobless man cashing in on his credit score.
Man, that is bleak. Insightful and probably true, but really depressing to think about.
No, it's why trademark and copyright exist.

Nobody is complaining that Amazon can 'make better shoes'.

The issue is about copying design.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HpDVcq
The Everyday Robot Project
TO rehash an old line: I put her book in my hand, and it did not bring me joy. So I binned it.
If it were part of a designed and controlled therapeutic program maybe.

But a regular and 'by design' aspect of a game, presumably online?

Dunno if I, as an arachnophobe who plays plenty of games online-trust griefers not to ....well grief with that kind of power, heh.
Having recently gone through a job search as a decently qualified candidate in an area with a lot of demand and low supply for my skillset, I'd say absolutely.

Hiring doesn't happen overnight and it's much more difficult when you're doing it actively, as opposed to passively responding to the recruitment vultures. Especially when there's a time crunch, since severance doesn't last forever and hiring doesn't happen overnight.
The StarCraft map making tools were probably my first experience using triggers and and events to make things happen. It was such a cool feeling to be able to make things happen and just mess around with everything. It helped get me into stuff like rpgmaker and flash and learning how to program in general. I miss the days of modding tools. The neverwinter nights one was also pretty amazing. I spent a lot of time playing around with that one too.
Do you have a guide on how to do this?
Gosh, you're right, somehow I never drew a connection between the two Epsteins.
you can find equivalents on amazon for $20-30. imo for $110 this thing better create a hurricane when turned on
I would love a native Fastmail app instead of their current one, which seems like just a wrapper around their website. Not only is there no offline access, but it misses out on so many native interactions (on iOS at least) that make it feel super janky.
Google's revenue in 2018 was $137B... but you're right, a slice of $43B may be worth it to them.
Suppose we divide up the audience of a typical debate. (Caveats: people are on a spectrum, it's not likely symmetric, and this is somewhat framed in terms of political parties but shouldn't be and I can't be arsed to fix it.)

Your base agrees with you, and is invested in that position. They're not going to change their mind, but they may abandon you if you don't demonstrate that you're committed. Your aim is to motivate them to support you, through money or activity.

The other side's base is the opposite, of course. And your aim there is to get them to stay home, or to abandon their side. This is why hypocrisy is such a common charge and there's so much focus on various scandals.

Persuasive arguments are aimed at people who haven't formed an opinion. That's why plainly ideological outlets will present themselves as objective and authoritative; people who feel they are neutral can sign on with them without feeling like they're actually taking a side.

So the reason you don't hear people changing their mind is the people who are likely to are those who haven't formed an opinion, and thus aren't sounding off in the first place.

Moreover, the evidence you present is rarely as compelling as you think. Ask a lawyer how often they've had to talk down clients who were convinced they had an ironclad argument. The big ideologies have axiomatic differences they are not necessarily fully aware of, and those tend to be why neither is convinced by the other.

But it is possible to raise a point they have a genuine problem with. If you have done so, the thing to look for is not an immediate response. It's that the other side's talking points shift in response; especially if they shift to "let's change the subject."
> Mr. Smith is chairman and CEO of FedEx Corp.

You should have that at the start or somehow make it obvious what you have done in quoting the article.
If I owned shares in softbank, I’d be livid about him flushing more money down that hole. It makes me suspect that if WeWork collapses, softbank would go down with it.
> Still sad about the loss of the XMPP service a few years ago though.

XMPP pre-Conversations.im was pretty bad anyway but Fastmail could review their stance given some other mail providers re-enabling modern XMPP: https://mailbox.org/en/post/daniel-gultsch-creator-of-conver...
Reading spotify's most recent filing, there was an increase in its compute costs of ~25 million dollars in 3Q2019 when compared to 3Q2018, mentioned in a footnote. In other words, a compute cost increase of $100 million a year was a footnote. That was an increase of about 1.5% of their gross operating income. The full hosting costs are not public, but we're easily talking hundreds of millions a quarter. Practically free?
Algorand Organizes Meetups to Highlight Newest Features and Tools for Developers
A lot of people probably don’t know that Fastmail was started by Jeremy Howard, one of the creators of https://www.fast.ai which is by far the best way to learn deep learning IMHO :)
Political Correctness for the well-heeled.
Agreed! I'm still very surprised they haven't made any attempt to insulate themselves from Australia's anti-privacy laws.
Fastmail is probably the more 'open' of the two; in the sense that you can use any mail client to access your emails without a need for a bridge or anything.
Please don't give your opinion on something you don't know anything about. You've clearly never even seen the inside of a WeWork because the majority of them were office spaces. The audience was small companies who preferred short time leasing, which in large cities, there were plenty of. Every wework I've been to in Manhattan has been completely full. There are 1-5 person offices, and sometimes single larger spaces, and you rented the "offices", which were just rooms. It's not like it's just a table where people sit together, that's crazy. It's office space. The benefit was you could get a place for a few months and then move somewhere else if your company isn't stable yet and you don't want to sign a year lease.
you can get price history graphs from CamelCamelCamel for Amazon products
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/opinion/sunday/free-speec...

http://c8.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/NATL%20Undergrad...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/opinion/sunday/when-is-sp...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/the-ris...

Those are just a few.
The word 'add' is overloaded for both mathematical and non-mathematical purposes.
Maybe she should have a nicer 'minimalist' trash can available to buy on her site ...
If you have Amazon Prime, please take the time to watch the first 4 episodes of season 1.

And the books, starting with Leviathan Rising, are also fantastic.

I highly, highly recommend them!
Can the double-render be turned off for better performance? I only have one eye... b^)
The controllers used for this video are probably the index 'knuckles' controllers that have some finger tracking ability. Therefore good replicas of your hand can be generated given the data passed about the location and rotation of the controller and the general position of each finger. Arms are quite a bit harder as the shoulder joint and wrist joint are both muliaxis (while the elbow is fairly fixed). While the location of the shoulder can be inferred based on the location of the visor and the relative location of the controller the full IK chain can solve a number of ways (With your hands on the keyboard notice that you can change the position of your elbow without much effecting your hand or shoulder position.) because of this an improper solve can throw off immersion, better and easier just to have 'phantom hands'.
This is an opinion, not a fact. It's not at all clear that design theft actually leads to better goods at lower prices. It is at least as valid and interpretation that design theft changes the coarse shape by parasitical copying of designer's work, without changing the quality.
Positive press of this magnitude can help propel your next big idea.
If you have a reputation of compensating employees well when startup ideas don't pan out they will be more likely to want to join the next one.

Though there are probably more news worth things you could do with 300m.
Have you tried the Maruman ‘Mnemosyne’ notebooks? They have (thin) hard plastic covers, but I’m not sure if you’d count that as a hardcover.

I really like my TWSBI Diamond 580 with Noodler’s Walnut, but it looks best on yellow paper. I tried a jade green ink but it mostly seemed to clog up my pens.

One day I’ll start digitizing my handwritten notes, but I usually write stuff down to make sure I’ll remember and almost never refer to precious notes.
This will show you when you were first invoiced:

Settings -> Billing & Plan -> View payment history and printable invoices

2002 as well and have been extremely happy with the service.
When you type Install-Package in Visual Studio, sometimes it just fails to find the package at all. You have to search for it first, then type Install-Package, and then it actually downloads etc.
Yes, it does work great in general, not just in VR. It just that IK can't know if you have your elbow to the left or right, which would be confusing.
Nobody is going to play games that make them sick. Ever. It will not happen. This is not a solved problem, and VR will never be anything but a niche technology until you can walk in a video game without needing to throw up.
There is a perception that they hired tech employees just to show "growth" and therefore people haven't really done much real work.
Proton does not offer SMTP or IMAP (except through a special tool which can't be used on mobile devices) so as far as I am concerned they're not a real "email" provider at all.

I totally understand why they do that. It's just not for me.
WeWork has a number of side businesses that have no link to their office business. Regus does not.
Sure it is, if you think about how much harder it is to run at 225 pounds vs at 200 pounds.
I love Fastmail for email, but moving all my contacts there was also awesome. I can now easily sync a subset of my contacts to my work phone without having to log in to my personal Google or Apple accounts. Feels like as soon as you add a Google connection somewhere you never know what else will be synced.
I just want to know one thing: what happened to Half-Life 2 Episode III ? As it is, I'll wait for people to play this and tell me if it ends in a cliffhanger too.
Or he could start a philanthropic foundation that mostly exists to put his name on buildings and cement his legacy for a hundred years or more.
Good point! Thanks for mentioning that.

Small nitpick, though. The dock is what runs the app switcher, not the Finder.
I just switched to Fastmail from GSuite this year and also have no complaints.
I would rather have entered my logins and then changed the password if I was that concerned about entering my bank logins rather than pay those credit card fees. Or change the password first, login, and change back to your old password.
What leverage DO you have? When I was a member at WeWork, their security practices were atrocious.

Knowledge like that == leverage.
https://half-life.com/en/alyx/vr

This is interesting to me, though I haven't played many VR games. Is this common with other games?
I just left gmail for Fastmail this past month, and I have to say I've been really pleased with it. Their web interface has less frills but somehow feels a lot easier to get organized than gmails bloat of features. I use the Mail app on my phone for mobile support, and all the syncing is really seamless.
Not super enthusiastic about his chances (or him in particular) he's got baggage like the mess that was stop and frisk from his time as NYC mayor (similar justice issues aren't helping Kamala Harris), is occupying a lane similar to Joe Biden (moderate and 'electable' with a less high profile former position), and is a New York finance (kinda) billionaire (which wins you few friends on the more liberal side of the party, plus there's already another billionaire in the race trying the same kind of thing).
Just wondering: why don't you use your phone's native email app and IMAP?
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Why is it necessary to precede a question with 'serious question'? (Meaning why do people reading comments assume a negative (snarky) unless otherwise pointed out the question is 'serious'. Likewise why when mentioning something which is generally viewed in a negative light (but defending it) is it needed to say 'I hate spam as much as anyone but'.
I searched the thread and couldn’t find DNAinfo. Did anybody else use it? I thought it was good while it lasted.

What are the chances of reviving something like it?
I'm not sure if there even is any universal measure for how good of a programmer you are. There's probably someone who's really good at optimizing the hell out of a really hot loop that absolutely has to be faster, never mind if the code is comprehensible to mere mortals. And somebody who can design and architect a huge, complex enterprise program well enough that a newbie developer can quickly get an idea of what's going on and make contributions. And somebody who can inherit a huge ball of mud and gradually refactor it into something more reasonable while keeping it working the whole time. And somebody who can start a new project and build just the right amount of infrastructure into it at the right time - not so much that you've got some huge over-designed thing for a product with 2 users, and not so little that it becomes impossible to scale when you hit 10k users. And plenty more sub-field besides those.

It's easy to be really great at 1 or 2 of those, and not so good at the others.
Why does this need to be VR?
The bigger problem here is that Allbirds ISNT a luxury brand.

They've drank the Silicon Valley cool-aid of growth above all else, the "reforge" growth-hack school of tips and tricks to optimize conversion rates and customer retention, without actually building a storied brand - which is what a real luxury brand is (see: LVMH's holdings, Hermes, or more recently Aesop).

There's no storied history, hell - their LOGO isn't on their products. They're PERFECTLY ripe for generic disruption.

If they had hired real brand marketers, not growth addicts over-analyzing CAC/LTV/AOV formulas all day, they'd have a more defensible position in the marketplace.

By the way, your analogy of sunglasses is flawed - those cheap sunglasses look, feel, and function cheaply.
Yeah, I'd be surprised if they'd give anything more than a refund, and probably only a partial one. It isn't really practical to do anything else for a service like this.
> No sane person would pick anything but Electron for a desktop app today, unless you are in a particularly high performance domain (CAD/Graphics/Video/...)

People who don't hate their users or who don't hate the environment might.

Electron apps use lots of CPU, lots of RAM and lots of energy. I get that they're easy for web devs to make and I've made them before but I'd fight tooth and nail against launching one at scale (like Slack did, for example).
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I would be very surprised to hear Blizzard has an internal tool with issues of that magnitude.
I’ve given up trying to use chat as chat. It’s just another inbox now. All notifications disabled and instead its another “pull” mechanism. i’ll look in on Slack or whatever when i’m doing my rounds every couple of hours processing all my inboxes - pull requests, emails, blog notifications etc. Any chat threads get treated with the same GTD process - delete it, delegate it, do it or defer it.

I feel much more content controlling blocks of time to be productive instead of trying to run that chat treadmill.
Top state officials criticize Cal State math proposal, citing access concerns
The only thing that matters in companies is the CEOs. You can tell because the stock changed when they held the position.
This is the singular reason I have chosen their primary competitors over them. In this day & age you need to be aware of these details.
While in theory, a total ban on all political advertising seems fair, the only reason this is a burgeoning issue for the 2020 race is that old media guard (NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, ...) play second fiddle to democrat narratives and policies (even if unconsciously so). New media (Youtube, internet, etc.) cuts out the massive editorialization that the old guard is legendary for, and that does not work in favor of the democrats.

So no - this isn't some unbiased, conscientious objection to fake news/propaganda from the left, this is their move to retain control over media narratives, and I do not trust them or the mega-corps they deem kosher (new wave of internet companies) to act fairly. Like with most things in life, it is the individual's responsibility to dig deeper for the truth.
First you have to define what is an ad and what isnt. I a not being flippant, but with the web, anything published can be an advertisement and frankly, most content seen by people these days could be defined as a form of advertising...
It's not like we are using modern products in most local companies I've worked for in the last decade. Everyone is still on 2008 and older office products. Hell I'm lucky we have AutoCAD LT 2014 at my current job. Its the most up to date piece of software in the whole office other than web browsers.
THIS. My dad is a mechanic, and so is my father-in-law. They both stare at me, mouths agape, when I tell them I went and gOt mY oIl cHaNgEd.

I calmly explain that $15-$30 is more than worth it to me. It saves me an hour or so of tinkering around, cleaning my own tools, and I really, really HATE grease on my hands. Probably my #1 biggest pet peeve.
Worth noting that even if you dont sell, they still know how many customers are searching for your product and not finding it
They will likely change the name, since it's become a punchline and will always remind people of their fly-by-night founder.
The idea of game streaming seems sound... at least for certain genres. But having to buy games exclusive to that device is ridiculous, especially when considering Google's graveyard. There is just a whole lot of doubt shadowing it. If anyone can do game streaming correctly, it will end being Steam or something, a platform where most gamers already have games purchased.
That's not impressive in any way. They just launch a window with a web view and go to Microsoft’s Office Online. That was already a thing in 2007/2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_browser
Under 600 is not going to get you a pc that will work 2 years from now. If you have extreme budget concerns sure, but VR is a luxury item so if you are willing to shell out for the equipment, spend a little more to build a PC that will last.
Tim Cook Effectively Endorses Donald Trump’s Reelection
take a fictional propulsion technology from [Sci-Fi TV show, movie or book] and apply the appropriate science to explain its features in a realistic manner

Doesn't everyone do that or is it just me? I always try my best to think of a way that such things could work.
Anonymized PII involves names, yep. TYL.
I think if you look at Warby Parker as a comparison, it's easy to see that Allbirds value is in buying into their brand. There were / are plenty of companies selling cheap glasses, but it took Warby Parker making them cool. I do think Allbirds should get a lot of credit for innovating in such a crowded space, but people buy Allbirds for way more than just the shoe. Walk into any one of their stores on a Saturday or check out their packaging and it seems obvious their customers are not choosing them based on price.
A minimalist as currently known in popular culture doesn't own a chest of tools for repairing their car or bicycle, or pans & knives & cooking spoons & such. They don't have monkey wrenches & a pipe sweating kit. They pay a mechanic or a restaurant or a plumber. Which is where the current complaint that you have to have money to be a minimalist comes from.
If you go to a grocery store, you'll find many versions of cheddar cheese specifically. Some of it is blocked, some slices, some shredded. You'll also find that in at least one of these forms, the store has it's own brand – called a "private label" – of cheddar cheese, probably shredded. Because Kroger, or Wal Mart, or Whole Foods has said "hey, selling cheddar cheese is a good idea and we can compete in our own stores". So they make a competing congruent product, maybe quality and prices are lower, but that's OK. The customer can make their own decision on which cheese to buy.

This is exactly the same concept as Amazon's private label businesses.
LED's also have an inferior light quality to incandescent. The color rendering index of the average LED is usualy 70-80, usually with horrible green spikes.

Incandescent lights are blackbody radiators and have a CRI of 100. So the quality of light and color rendering is equivalent to daylight.

Bums me out to hear that they're being phased-out in some places.