skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can create your own rooms (which are like IRC channels) which can be invite-only.

The counterpart to Slack workspaces/"servers" would be Matrix communities. They allow you to group a bunch of rooms and users together for discoverability. The feature exists today and is usable but still not as polished as one would hope for, but I think work on this is coming up soon.

In particular, I think better community front pages (describing the community, supplying related URLs and such) and access control (such the ability to restrict joins to community rooms to community members without having to invite each user to the room separately) are things that will be worked on.
>If it wasn’t China, the US would be importing goods from elsewhere.

I don't see the problem. USA has practically no leverage in the trade relationships with China. They can't change China for the better. So cutting China off is a net benefit even if other countries will take its role. That also means USA can now trade with countries that actually respect American laws and do in fact share American values like democracy or human rights.

This idea that we must sell our soul for a small profit must die.
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I think what your UX teams are doing is (or comes across as) the opposite:

1. Come up with a design they think will work
2. Do user testing looking for confirmation that it works.
3. Change things (based on user feedback) in their design until they find confirmation.

I've come across this, and I wouldn't say it's data driven. It's, if anything, data supported, but it is still sounds like the initial design/idea still comes from within and there's a chance that it's down to their taste, interests and convictions. Or worse, a trend. We tend to pitch our ideas along with the data to support them so it's natural to seek confirmation as part of our normal workflows, but that's very different to taking design decisions based on telemetry, user feedback, etc.

Now, it's possible that I'm completely wrong and your UX teams actually does that. For instance:

1. You get support tickets from users about a missing or difficult to use feature.
2. This prompts team to design act. Design decisions are made, user testing happens, feature or changes are released. Once released, you notice from your telemetry data that the feature is rarely used by the wider audience, perhaps some of its UI items are used more than others.
3. UX team goes back to the drawing board to try to improve visibility, and does user testing.

Success rate is usually higher in that situation since you know users actually want that feature or change, and it's just about getting it right.

In Slack's case, I'm left wondering if any users actually wanted this change.
Why does everything need to cater to idiots instead of making them learn? If we continue down this trend we’ll end up with keyboards with a single button to cater to some monkeys out there who can’t manage to use a proper keyboard, at the expense of everyone else’s productivity.

Is this the future we really want?
Why would I use firefox when mozilla has repeatedly lied to me, pretended to care for privacy while making moves to invade it, removed support for features I relied upon, refused to consider linux as worth their time, forced telemetry surveillance upon those who specifically disabled it, dropped what made firefox useful in an attempt to be more chrome-like, etc.

The list goes on and on, mozilla has a terrible record and proved multiple times that it should not be trusted.

After the pulseaudio debacle and after being a supporter since its first steps, I quit firefox and removed it from all computers I maintain to never return. There is no thing mozilla can say or do that will make me go back to firefox, apart from acknowledging their role and taking responsibility by resigning and releasing firefox to the world.
I'm surprised that hasn't been reverted yet. It's so fucking stupid. Where did that chat go? oh it's up in drafts? WTF?

Terrible UI choice. It makes no sense.
Yeah they sponsored a ton of Yes Theory videos as well. It always felt a tad off, but you're right, it worked.
On the click-vs-hover issue, I actually very much like Firefox's approach, and wish it were more widely used.

W.r.t. it being an "old, solved HCI problem", it isn't. The link you post actually posits positioning solutions to problems inherent to the hover approach. It doesn't discuss hover-vs-click at all, and while these positioning strategies still apply to some degree with the click approach, the problems they solve are much less severe there (namely, the submenu doesn't disappear if the user takes the wrong cursor route to a submenu item).
Danish generally just adopts loanwords wholesale, never bothering to adapt the pronunciation. We have lots of words from English, French, and German that are spelled and pronounced basically like in those languages.

Now as for Swedish, what trips me up is that I've met so many Swedes that (otherwise) speak great English, but seem to pronounce J sounds in a distinctly Swedish way when speaking English. I've had fluent English-speaking Swedes in a university setting asking if I want to hear a "yoke" (joke) and or maybe telling me about their "yeans" (jeans). It's so weird. It's a bit like how many French people seem unable to pronounce an H when speaking English, but Swedes are damn good at English, unlike the average French person.
"And because the United States is allergic to public spending, that's all that matters."

The United States wouldn't be so allergic to public spending if we weren't so complacent about foreign spending, namely the military and foreign aid/manipulation.
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> Progress is one of the only things that reliably and consistently makes me happy.

My experience is that if you rely on progress for your emotional wellbeing you will not have a good time. Progress too easily slips backwards or plateaus for long periods of time. It sounds like the kind of ting someone would say during the easy beginning stages of of a thing.
I wonder if it's being censored by your phone provider or it's on the government level
Undiplomatic, maybe, but not trolling. Outside a few crusty dusty grumpy old neckbeards, nobody on this planet gives a shit who gets to use which characters and dots. And frankly, I don’t think they’re wrong.

Sure, what we have here is a screamingly obvious instance of nepotistic grift, but it’s totally the wrong thing to fixate on. The hard truth is TLDs shed any semblance of semantic significance long ago; between SEO, squatters, and the great unwashed mass, what matters now is not meaning but visibility. A commercial (.com) domain nowadays could be a non-profit, personal homepage, hardcore prawns and illegal warez; sometimes even an actual business. Regional domains are just as meaningless: Indian Ocean (.io) the must-have address for pretentious nerd tech; India (.in) and US (.us) pure catnip for pathological punsters; and so on. TLDs nowadays are merely an ontological exercise in separating marks from their money. Embarrassing, but just not important; so forget that, and move on.

The real problem with domains is their ongoing inability to do the one job we do need done right: reliably persistently tying Real World entities to their online global presence, and vice-versa. Ask yourself: who owns your internet (domain-based) identity? You don’t; at best you rent one for a little while, but between spoofs, hijacks, simple homonyms, and the inevitable renewal expiry dates, your ability to vouchsafe your online representation for the rest of the world is a paper-thin joke; as trustworthy and dependable as a three-bob note.

..

TL;DR: .ORG sell-off is a symptom, not the problem. The problem is Lack of Trust endemic in the current system. Any why should the individuals and institutions behind it want to make it any more trustworthy, while it so easily facilitates their own petty bureaucratic irrelevant graft?
> When their entire business depends on very carefully managing their PR

That is simply wrong. Their business depends on reliably launching rockets and delivering payloads to station. And that is what they have done.

> If a government regulator runs the investigation, you might. I don't know if a regulator's going to get involved in this, though.

They are not going to. Starship is a SpaceX project that is not financed by NASA or the DoD.
There will always be people somewhere around the world that are suffering from famine or living in extreme poverty. I’ve noticed in the USA specifically from where I grew up (that wasn’t a huge city), that all friends from families that were not well off have an even harder time leaving parents. Even the lower middle class people seem to nowadays stay with parents until late 20s and even with decent degrees; so they can afford a home. Upper class has parents that are loaning a couple hundred grand to their kids to purchase a home. The poor are aware of their situation more so because of the internet and see no escape contrary to the previous generations. I disagree about access to drugs from affordability. Somehow there is always a way from what I’ve observed.
Code blocks are used for code, not quotes
I'm curious now: is that helium recovered?
The type of MAO enzyme that breaks down triptamines is not present on blood, AFAIK.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21583257
> There was once a man who lived for a very long time; perhaps three thousand years, or perhaps a thousand million years, maybe a trillion or so, depending on how the scientists look at it.

I straight away thought of a Paul Erdos anecdote [1]:

"In 1970, I preached in Los Angeles on `my first two and a half billion years in mathematics.' When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion. The students at the lecture drew a timeline that showed me riding a dinosaur. I was asked, `How were the dinosaurs?' Later, the right answer occurred to me: `You know, I don't remember, because an old man only remembers the very early years, and the dinosaurs were born yesterday, only a hundred million years ago.’”"

[1]: http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-man.html
>motion sickness

Who will build it into VR gear first?
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it's static only. wordpress will not work.
though you can use javascript logic that will be evaluated in browser
Oh, the differences are very very marked. Sure, psilocybin and 4-HO-MET aren't going to be that different (even tho I swear I can tell them apart if I dosed blindly), but giving some examples:

2C-X family gives me some very weird sensation on the chin before I even feel the main effects. Also the visuals tend to be techno-alien-geometric-engineering-architecture themed if that makes any sense. Also, especially 2C-E in high doses, creates time/perceptual distortions I haven't experienced with anything else; as in, I say something to my buddy, go to a different room, and hear what I said with my own voice coming from the original room.

Psilocybin and analogs create a very dreamy, child-like, earth loving mindset, not always very visual, but when visual everything seems to be covered in native-americanesque patterns.

DMT visually is absolutely alien. As in colorful liquid metal moving in very organic ways. The "curtain" for me is basically a sea of colorful alien robot matter. If ayahuasca feels more like psilocybe mushrooms, earthy and human, in terms of visuals, DMT is a supercharged, sharper, edgier, faster, stronger, out of the galaxy and in your face version of such.

After you have oddballs like DiPT, where the mindset doesn't change much, visually there's nothing, but there are loads of audio hallucinations and distortions. My own voice sounds like Barry White on it; most women sound like talking through Coke cans. Slapping a table sounds like drums, and playing drums sounds like dropping cutlery on the sink. Some music sounds better, some worse. Very strange.

LSD and derivatives, my favorites overall, I find them the most malleable by the set and setting in the feelings it can create and the visuals you will see. On the other hand I feel the experience more "on-rails" and even doing large amounts (800µg my max) I felt nowhere near a bad trip. I wouldn't 8x the average dose on mushrooms because the mushrooms have shown me things I wouldn't be able to handle at bigger doses. LSD for me is very, very forgiving.
Modern APL incarnations (kdb, dyalog apl) are quite damn parallel.
The Art of Data Manipulation – Data Science for Entrepreneurs
If everything is identity politics, would it have any impact?

If all that matters is race and gender, or whatever other "Divide and Conqueror" scheme we're undergoing at this time, you'll notice criminality didn't make the list of what matters, so ...
As someone who saw Grenfell go up from his bedroom window, I'll take the regulation thanks.
/s? Because this is already very much in progress around the world. Everywhere from the Rohingya massacre to the alt-right.

The last few paragraphs of the article hint pretty strongly at this:

> The witch-hunts do not directly affect literacy or education today, but there is a lesson to be learned. Dewar (1998) warns us that many developments have unintended consequences which often dominate the intended ones. Although the Catholic Church may have seen the benefits of the printing of intentions and the bible, it surely didn’t see the unintended consequence; that being the protestant reformation. The witch-hunts are another example of unintended consequences. “ If the future is to be dominated by unintended consequences, it would be a good idea to get to those consequences as quickly as possible….. or you will be overrun.” (p. 25) He goes on to say that if large institutions such as schools and governments choose to deal with inappropriate use through bans and firewalls, they may well find they have a reformation (or witch-hunt)on their hands. One that may have results of which they have no control. It is critical that we stay on top of these things and deal with them quickly in a creative way- not by pretending they don’t exist.
> there has been no apocalyptic scale war in most living persons' memory

In the west...
For the last ten years everybody has been printing money like crazy, the banks literally don't know what to do with all the cash, you're being paid for borrowing some of it.
I tried speaking to support to find out if I could downgrade, some of my colleagues don't have this feature. They couldn't(/wouldn't) tell me how to.

One thing that isn't mentioned is the behaviour with pressing up to edit a previous comment, it will put you into the span if the span goes to the end of the message.

I've also had numerous times where the span hasn't closed correctly leading to things in backticks not being formatted correctly (I'm guessing timing issue due to their move to react for this stuff).

It's incredibly annoying. If I didn't have to use slack for work I'd probably bin it.
Sure. So what? Text file formats aren't magically obliged to ignore leading whitespace just because that suits Microsoft. If my format would consider U+0009 TAB or U+0020 SPACE to be part of the key if placed at the start of the key why not U+FEFF ?
For a period, every time I saved changed to a page in Confluence, I had to completely clear cache and session data in my browser because it would just display blank pages until I did. It doesn’t do that anymore, but it’s still a slow, buggy piece of shit.

We also use Bitbucket at work, which is laughably unreliable.
>and it would still be beautifully formatted.

It all depends on the book publisher. They could have printed it in color. And they could have done a crappy job on the digital version. In fact, by far the worst book quality I’ve ever seen was a very expensive Kindle version.
Maybe not "exist" in a narrow sense, as long as that existence does not include being employed, getting sheltered, adopting, receiving health care, or using a bathroom:

https://transequality.org/the-discrimination-administration
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/03/trump-attack-l...
It's for code, not normal quoted prose.
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However, those new channels are not the incumbent, over employed, over advertised, legacy organizations who feel they have a right to a perpetually successful business model and that having a 90s era website in 2020 or saying "learn to code" is some kind of hate crime. Just hand over your money forever and they'll stop complaining.
My home town agreed a very long - multiple decades - private contract for road maintenance... at least ten year ago? Unsurprisingly, the private company puts in the minimum to service the contract and the roads have gone to pot.
>It has its own certificate system

And it's great. If you're running it portable on another machine you don't have to trust its certificates
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> I'm confused, do you honestly believe the person I was replying to doesn't know that Slack is critical comms infrastructure at a LOT of companies?

As the person asking that question, no. I've heard it's used by some people ... for things.

Just like I've heard some companies use IRC for chat, and some open source projects use Discord where you can join if you feel like it.

I have no idea what its primary use-case is, who its primary audience is, and to what degree it's more critical than IRC or email or intranets to anyone.

Does that answer your question?
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Yes, but how is "50% better" measured? On what scale?
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Yeah... it annoys me to no end. I cant fathom why they wouldn't support triple-backtick syntax like literally every other modern chat/notes/forums app.
Slack seems to have added an "Aa" button that disables wysiwig. That was quick.
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"How so?" isn't snarky at all to me. It's a rather legitimate question one may pose to somebody who just said they'd stop using a product but can't. The answers could be one of a wide variety, like vendor lock-in, network effect, contractual obligations, or company policy, no viable alternatives (because...), or something entirely unexpected.

I'd actually be interested in the answer from grand-poster as well, if only because I am a curious asshole.
> The touchscreen in the Model 3s was (is?) also industrial grade, if I recall correctly.

Isn't that exactly what it should be? Or would you expect aerospace grade material there? Or is there yet another grade in between called 'automotive'?
Negatively responding to failure during a test is like negatively responding to someone asking a question. I am sure the circlejerk gets annoying, but it's at least got a constructive outcome. It's obviously not going to affect professionals and companies, but if you apply your view to students or people trying to work out new problems you could dissuade them from being inquisitive.
there is no long term happiness from material wealth, unless you heavily redefine what happiness means
It being open-source (under your control) or not does make a difference here.

In an open-source thing, with this sort of productivity-harming breakage, you could worst-case just pay a random freelancer to fix it for you. You don't have that option with Slack.
> Given that the entire journey is single steps, if you take one step and then beat yourself up because one step is nothing...

When did I ever say to do that? What I'm saying is, if you're so happy, and happiness is so important as people claim, then what motivates you to go through the pain of 10000 steps in the first place?

No, I submit that happiness is at best orthogonal to success.

> You've worked hard to go from self-hate to self-hate

Yes, and now without the comfort of being able to eat a pint of ice cream when I've had a bad day or pick up a pizza on the way home from work, or enjoy a carefree dining experience with friends. Such is life. One must sacrifice to attain goals.

> Why not feel happy and successful at every moment of calorie counting

Good fucking luck with that.

> If every moment you play a tune, you hate how badly you play, and it drives you to play more precisely, but you hate playing and feel bad afterwards, are you better off or worse off than someone who plays imprecisely, but loves every moment they play and can't wait to play more and feels better afterwards?

That depends on if your goal is to play better or be happy. To attain success one must not be satisfied with being not successful or one will have too little motivation to succeed. The fact that people put themselves through miserable, agonizing slogs to succeed at things should tell you something about happiness: it isn't actually what people want, deep down. If it were, I know from first hand experience that opioids are a great way to make yourself feel good pretty much all the time without doing anything.

No, people want to be satisfied, and are sometimes confused into thinking that satisfaction will bring happiness, but it won't. Likewise, if someone wants to accomplish something, happiness and failure will not satisfy.
Giving advice is a domination game

Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20752088
The relaxation/breathing you describe sounds really intriguing. Could you provide more information on how to learn those techniques?
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I worry that this is the sort of thing that has to get worse before it gets better. Only when the corruption is so bad, will an activist start a newspaper to report on local politics on their own funding. If the popular will against corruption is strong enough, they'll be able to get Patreon funding.

An example local sustainably-funded investigative journalism outfit: https://theferret.scot/

Unfortunately this relies on the "sweet spot" where the government is corrupt enough to be outrageous but not corrupt enough to shut down your paper and campaign by force.

(It also relies on accepting that if you want local political news coverage, it's not going to be flatly neutral, because neither the audience nor the writers want that. That's not the same as being factional; "local government should be good not bad" is a highly political position, but not necessarily a factional one unless a party has a policy that local government should be bad.)
These lists are so depressing. Is there any other career where people are expected to know 100 things just to be an employee at the bottom of the food chain? I won't be surprised if it is harder to be a Full Stack Developer than to be a CEO of a multi-national corporation. Looks like we are pushing everything to Developers. Developers of the future are going to need a fulltime pyschologist to cope with this ever increasing list of skills required from them.
I bet the majority (like 95%+++) of users are like that. I'm technical and while I've only used it for 1 day so far I still sent multiple code blocks and used formatting as usual. Maybe I'll run into problems but so far it's very much a whatever situation IMO.
Companies using slack should bill them for the lost time and productivity. Money talks.
Bernian games are situations where the initiator is looking for a pay-off (eg. validation). The parent's comment is not about such a situation.
Nice... probably should be "Comma Apple Two" though :)

PS. To clarify for others - It's a bastardized version of "Comment tu t'appelle?" which means "What's your name?" or more precisely "How do you call yourself?"
What is you correlations between dreaming and imagination? Are they not mostly the same thing?
Can you trust CloudFlare with your personal data?
How big of a house do you need?

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/14455-S-Muirwood-Cir-Herr...
Soumds similar to tracer bullet development.