skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your post demonstrates my point of sabotage. You took a general explanation of a scenario ("guy talks to women with great success") and assumed the worst, that this guy must have made women uncomfortable by approaching them, as if discomfort is an intrinsic part of human interaction.

If you trot out this self-sabotage enough, you won't even leave your house because you might inconvenience someone by taking up the sidewalk tile they might've wanted to occupy. Yet this is the kind of thought process you see in men all the time when it comes to women and dating. As if women are anti-social automatons that don't actually like meeting new people much less single men who find them attractive and interesting. Or maybe they're just putting on their makeup and high-heels to meet everyone but you with your +discomfort debuff aura.

I recommend trying to not just talk to women in the wild, but anyone. Just strike up some quick convo instead of assuming you're making them uncomfortable.

I think you've come into this comments section with quite a lot of baggage about how you think these things need to play out.
> and it's not in the roadmap to roll back on this feature

How can anyone remain a customer of such idiots?
It’s a beautiful sentiment, but I take more of an approach of moderation.

Your brain can use pictures as triggers later in life to reconnect a lot of those memories that get fuzzier over time.

Taking a video of a whole concert? Obnoxious and rude to the other members.

But I’ll take around 5 photos here and there and later on I’m glad I can go back and see them.

So it’s like, hey, phone/camera doesn’t work? Put it down then. You’ll remember what your toddler looks like because you’ve got other pictures.
To be clear, I agree that she’s scamming people. But to her she sees this as a game, nothing more.
I've seen it used in some surprising places. Last time I had my contact prescription checked, the staff used Slack to communicate between the doctor/assistants in room and the front desk.
When will Google shut down Stadia?
I am curious as to why you are willing to accept the scientific consensus on climate change while denying the historical consensus that communism absolutely lead to the death of millions. Seems like you are picking and choosing to fit your narrative.
> With thousands of new sellers signing up every day,

Does this end of the business have to be so frictionless? This seems like a "simple" reputation problem (†) and they turn a blind eye to Sybil attacks?

(†) no, not really simple, but if anyone were up to the challenge it would seem Amazon is.
It's a massive net savings for most people because the opportunity cost of free time is very low. Very few people are forgoing income by spending their free time on home improvement versus other things.

You're making the same error about opportunity cost as the classic "it's not worth Bill Gates' time to pick up a $100 bill" fallacy.
Because Microsoft makes some of the best tools for developers.

Because sql server is a fantastic product that has basically no real equivalent on the market.

And funnily enough, I always feel that .Net core primary platform was Linux and not windows. Same for visual studio code, and I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years, new sql server features won't appear first on the Linux version. And actually it's somewhat the case with sql server big data cluster.
In iOS 13, there is an absolutely bizarre bug when typing your passcode into the lock-screen: it will randomly delete one of the characters! You can actually watch it happen, you for example type 4 characters, and then on typing the 5th, it drops down to 3. It's absolutely infuriating, especially if you have failed-unlocking behaviors turned on where you then locked out of your phone after a minute if you fail X times.

The worst part is with all these bugs, you kind of feel that Apple will probably never get to them, given there are just so many (and on top of that Apple may just not care about non Face-ID modes of entry anymore, probably how this bug appeared in the first place). It is especially maddening since it feels like a cruel joke to have both the physical keyboard on the laptop mess up entry AND the virtual one on the phone.
> Banning them would just further extend the isolation/echo chambers created by social media.

I'm not sure this is true. I know I don't see ads from all sides. In my experience the targeted ads just reinforce the echo chamber.
Windows and iOS/OSX badly needs LTS branches. Either that, or stop releasing major versions annually. But that would put lots of marketing people out of a job.

PS: I know Win10 LTSB exists, but that's enterprise only.
I 100% agree. But you're missing the point entirely. The hypothesis of the mechanics climate change have been tested and are provably true. What has not been born out and is definitely not a testable prediction is whether certain measure are enough, that particular weather events are due to climate change, that humanity is likely doomed, etc. These are emotional responses not testable predictions.
I always double tap first. Then usually the image will become bigger than I want, I pinch zoom it down.
Founders/Leaders, how do you communicate with your team?
Curious about content, cadence and tools, as looking to build something in this space.

What works? What doesn’t? How has that changed as you’ve grown? What’s missing?

Quite a few questions there, but would love some feedback.
Yet another Western centric litany of small palliative course corrections. They might have worked in 1950s, but are simply insignificant today. The world is rapidly changing.

* Global population is exploding. We passed 2B as recently as 1927, now we are close to 8B. Most of this historically unprecedented tsunami of people aspires to an energy-rich lifestyle, by hook or by crook.

* Most of the global carbon emissions are produced by non-Western countries. Led by China, whose emissions are more than US + EU combined.

* How do you scale back energy intensive economies, without being rolled over by countries with no such compunctions?
> Alcoholism is an option, but harder drugs generally are more expensive.

Are you sure? In my experience, a tab of acid costs $5-10, and the effects last about 5 hours. That's way cheaper than alcohol. [1] shows a breakdown of cost per hour for a bunch of drugs I've never touched, and most of them look to be pretty cheap under this metric. Compared to movies, sitting around in coffee shops, etc., they're remarkably cheaper than a lot of legal forms of entertainment.

[1] https://www.addictionresource.net/blog/cost-of-illegal-drugs...
Beware filter bubbles. If you're in the Blue Tribe bubble then you'll see conservative sources, but only when they're saying something contentious if not blatantly false (and so you'll also only see the Red Tribe sources who say such things), because that's what causes fellow Blue Tribe members to bring them to your attention.
I've just had this change hit my desktop client, so it isn't web only. It is very broken. Jira's new issue formatting is probably still worse, but I use Jira less than Slack.
It is very good that you guys are doing this. OK here is what I think.

It would be good to have more programs, in particular programming related programs.
I have recently completed 1 of the programs, it did stimulate and provide some insights, but it did not have too much room for me to think, (not as 'interactive', as everything is given, I guess the participant can try to solve the problem by themselves first, but then they would need to learn more about a particular library or framework)

The support was also great

Thanks

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> Just ban them completely or don't bother

Wait, you mean ban all ads completely and make Google lose 100 billion dollars of revenue and make advertisers waste more money on non-targeted ads increasing costs of products and make users pay subscription fees for currently ad funded services like Google Search? Otherwise I don't see how your statement makes any practical sense
it's referring to the author's suggestions to show authentic love.
Does anyone know what this $850,000,000,000.00 looks like in reality? Where was that value created?

Did they sell that many more … what exactly? I am just trying to understand where that value is.

Or was this essentially all stock buybacks that artificially inflate the "value" as established by the market cap?

Ironically too is that when you control the MSFT market cap against the Trump inflated stock market, there is actually no actual gain, especially when you control for stock buybacks, aka, corporate stock self-inflation.
The alternative to allowing manufacturing to move to China is higher prices for goods in the United States. Instead of having really cheap TVs, TVs are more expensive -- they are manufactured here.

Why would we want this?

Because the alternative is a destruction of the USA manufacturing sector. Moving those jobs overseas only helps two groups:

1.) The Chinese
2.) The owners of capital in America, high up business men (the so described 1%).

The third group who may be helped, are everyday Americans who benefit from cheap goods.

What would imposing large tariffs do?

Goods are more expensive, so people can buy less. TVs, Clothes, Cars etc are more expensive. But middle class Americans keep middle class jobs. Right now the policies are ultra capitalist, the middle class is being gutted and replaced with a heroin epidemic.

Why dont we replace their jobs and retrain the workers?

The retraining of older workers for new industries has never been shown to work. Its an economic theory that has yet to play out in any economy on a large scale. I believe the root of Americas economic woes among the middle classes is this concept, which was conceived of and pushed hard in the 90s. Behind the scenes academics like Noam Chomsky fought hard against this concept, but the arguments never trickled down into the public.

In short, tariffs stop the outsourcing and middle class destruction. Things get more expensive, we accept that. If automation kills the jobs here, it still holds off the destruction of the middle class for another 15 - 30 years. Which is better than nothing.
My switch from macOS to Linux: Why, what I like and how you can do it too
Automagic is my new favourite word
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Does not look like, that management of western companies would share your opinion. Latest and notable example (I am robotics enthusiast): https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20962688/adidas-robotic-... Just to save few pennies factories are relocated to Asia. I barely possess things not made in China.
> ...but, so far as I can tell, they’re not doing this. I wonder why not?

Because maybe, just maybe, they're a tad bit less evil?
OS X Preview.app corrupts PDF form fields
What kind of an assumption is this. Most people need an operating system they are comfortable doing their daily work, not just a browser and a notepad. Jesus christ, not all non-devs work only in office.
Assassin’s Creed Origins depicts the pyramids like that. Parts of Northern Egypt including Alexandria and the lighthouse are also depicted and interactive.

It was praised enough that the developer introduced an education mode for schools to use which allow walking around without missions or fighting.

Worth picking up on sale and just walking around ancient Egypt.
Could be, and maybe the motivation varies depending on the subject of the photo.

For example, I can go a whole vacation without taking any pictures. But with my kids I love to take their picture and get videos because they grow up so fast and it's fun now to go back and revisit a time when they were younger. They also love to see themselves when they were an age that they don't remember.
> How did we get here

Everything about modern American culture; a nation of throwaway everything. Throwaway food, throwaway tools, throwaway friends, throwaway jobs.

> and how do we "break out"?

I dunno but maybe listen to and work to solve the things people complain about?

Income inequality, global warming, healthcare including mental health, education, penal system, politics
I mostly agree, despite having nostalgia for dead trees myself. One area that I think paper books are still actually superior in is their data consistency; a paper book is still mostly readable after hitting it with a sledge hammer or spilling coffee on it. I will never replace my collection of survival and repair manuals with a Kindle, even though I use a Kindle more often than dead trees in day to day life.
great job! only a couple of seconds with the game and i felt calmed down somehow lol we need more slow paced, calming things like this
Missing the point. I don't want it in my browser. My browser is used for reference materials and things like that. My chat app is its own separate thing and easily switched to.
For the two examples you listed I think they work because they imply that the article has some quick tips to “level up” as a developer. Either by adding a new and powerful tool to their belt, or by dispelling some previous false notion they have.
> I would suggest that this is change, not a norm in the last few decades.

Propaganda is not a new thing and the reason it was and is widely used is because it works.

"But it would not work on smart people like me, but only on millenials or ...". Hint: If everybody considers themselves smarter than average...
> China is conducting human rights violations on the largest scale the world has seen since Nazi Germany

I'm pretty sure China had been already committed human right violation on that scale before.
>But the election of someone with a very high number of associates who have subsequently been convicted of corruption and is himself under impeachment shows that something has gone wrong.

Are we talking about Clinton, Reagan or Nixon? Since all of those had pretty dirty dealing in the administrations. Are you certain that people that voted for Trump expected a saint and didn't know what kind of guy he was?

If voters got what they wanted then there has been nothing gone wrong.
Increases in gas taxes were the reason for the Gilets Jaunes protests in France, so raising taxes could lead to war in itself. Also broad scale carbon taxes will likely impact the poor more than the rich.
This is definitely something different from Erlang, where clarity and ease of figuring things out win out over fancy coding.
Face ID still requires a passcode from time to time so I wouldn’t be so quick to say they won’t look into it. Have you reported it to them? They’re pretty responsive to bug reports if it’s easy enough to prove.
I didn't mean that literally, and I suppose/hope nobody things "hey, let's destroy the earth! Death to humans!".

If developing countries aspire to an European life style this will come with more emissions (which you said, and I agree with you). I would be the last to claim that some people should have a less decent life than others.

But the people in those country can see where this path leads, and since they're still "developing" they can try to start on a better path (if they want to). They have the advantage that these days there is greener tech available, so there is no need to go down the dirty road that led us to where we are right now in the west: We dumped a lot of shit in the pool, and still do, and we act as if we can't do anything about it while we should get ourselves together rather sooner than later.

//edit: What I mean is, I think our lifes are little bit too decent; at least with the costs we're paying for them, e.g. by destroying our planet. [Queue pun on technical debt or raking up a bill our (grand-)kids have to pay]
The Mandalorian on Ice!

Iron Man: The Musical

Benjamin and the Buttons in Concert
>you can make a big dent

How so? Practically by definition you personally can make an almost incomprehensibly minuscule dent. This is not an issue that is going to be solved by personal action.
Meditation and psychedelics affect different areas of the brain, neurologically speaking. I think they are complimentary.
Was this article really written this decade?
I was envisioning basically and ultrabook set of hardware, so your favorite flavor of Linux would be the answer.
If 25% of the population of a town were rapists, would you agree with the characterization that that town is full of rapists and to stay away from there?

In my daily sheltered life in the Bay Area, I hardly ever see overt racism. And when it happens, it bothers me.

If I’d see it happen on a daily basis, it would seriously impact my quality of life.

I see nothing wrong with saying: don’t move to this or that place because racism is rampant, even if 75% of inhabitants are not.
how would this happen? Would it require military intervention? Covert operations to corrupt the party and make it unstable? It seems quite impossible. I think humans may colonize the moon before this happens.
Wait until you hear about Keurig coffee machines or John Deer tractors...
"...PART of what they do..."
They didn't have just one problem. They had multiple problems to the extent that they were literally unusable. I rated them as a 1 because 0 was not available. Nobody should ever consider buying those headphones under any circumstances. They had no redeemable qualities.
the point is that if you’re buying a lot of stuff (maybe hoarding) your financials may suffer. she found a way (not excusing her behavior) to make it less impactful to her budget. morals are nice, but i think you need to be off-balance to do something like this to begin with.
Are you kidding me? There are many reasons to pick a non-electron platform without the need for particularly high performance. Android/iOS are good examples of the reasons why. There's just so much to be had by integrating with the OS and the environment that the user uses your tool in. Electron is great for a prototype or as a way to get your feet wet in improving the desktop experience. The best user experiences will always be founded on the native technologies of the target platform.

Edit: spelling errors
isn't Postgres an equivalent?
They are really missing the mark here.
Because it now more then a textarea, my mind automatically adapt and expect <enter> to give me a newline, but instead I am filling up channels with premature messages. Weird.
> The local news isn’t an intrinsically valuable product, that’s why it is often subsidized or paid for by people who are paying to get a message in front of you (advertisers).

This is a myopic take that ignores externalities. Local news has significant positive externalities: better informed citizens (important for a democracy), anti-corruption effects, etc.
The author misses the bigger picture completely.

Microsoft used to see Linux as competition, and while that might still be true in some ways, it’s largely moot for a couple of reasons.

In 2019, Windows isn’t competing with Linux for desktop market share not because Linux poses no threat there, but because the desktop doesn’t matter anymore.

Windows, and the desktop operating system as a concept, is competing with the web browser in the enterprise and mobile devices in the retail market (and even then, it’s not really a competition - most casual users gave up computers for smartphones years ago).

Viewed in that lens Microsoft genuinely embracing Linux makes a lot of sense - most of their revenue now comes from service contracts, and the one bedrock they’ve always had is their second-to-none developer support. If developers want them some Linux, then by gosh Redmond is going to give them more Linux than anyone else. Maximum Linux for your organisations’ Linuxy needs!

Microsoft still has great support for gamers on Windows as an incentive not to check out Wine/Proton and things happening there, but really, when was the last time you paid for a Windows license for home use? One way or another they’ve been literally giving the software away as quickly as they can for years. The future is about services, and that means market share (if users leave because they can get a free OS elsewhere then the license has to go). Likewise, if it gets more developers to stay in the ecosystem, then Linux support it is.
I had the exact opposite experience. I’m having a hard time following the chain of logic that goes from a material substance altering the way you think to not believing that the mind is generated by the physical substance of the brain.
What do you mean by 'controlled by hardware'? The registers the compiler chooses for you are an abstraction themselves, one of the first things a CPU does is register renaming.
Same for main memory, you are presented mostly an abstraction of main memory, with a ton of layers in-between (load/store buffers, write-combine buffers, coherent caches, etc)

Turning the argument the other way, you as a programmer can control a lot about caches: you can prefetch cache lines, invalidate them and use streaming instructions to bypass them.
Do you still have issues with monospaced and fenced blocks if you refresh Slack?

I tested and it was very buggy when I read the other HN thread this morning (I'm in Europe), but as of right now I can't reproduce the issues.
COM is anything but disaster. It's a really nice language-independent component framework. An ABI and marshalling standard, built upon ANOTHER, older, standard -- DCE RPC -- that allows e.g., C++ COM server to talk with Powershell, no extra effort required.

As opposed to what you (do not) have on Linux: generating bindings for each scripting language you might want to support, and no standardized way of doing IPC/RPC.
I knew basic JavaScript/HTML, but it was 2006 level, when I played a bit with jquery, so I knew about ids/classnames from back then.

My SPA does use HTTP/WebSocket, it's served with nginx, uses a postgres database, but this is backend stuff.
Of course success with a vision often also includes a significant degree of luck and being in the right place at the right time. The iPod was just another MP3 player, albeit one with a certain style and design that captured lots of attention in spite of a premium price.

But it certainly wasn't ordained that Apple would parlay that into the runaway success of the iPhone.
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Very cool. I do live projection work[0] and latency is always the killer with immersion. Anything higher than a 1000/90ms latency breaks integration at normal dancer movement speeds. 1000fps seems like overkill but it allows for very fast movement.

0. https://youtu.be/ggRcDQZWD_8?t=1281
Instead of string, I use twist ties, which also come in handy for attaching the lights to things when deploying them.
I hereby assert that you are wrong. Prove me incorrect.
They are not standing by and watching. They are involved in the tragedy. Western nations are dismantling nuclear power on a massive scale. They are blocking the growth of renewables industries in developing nations [0] under the guise of free trade instead of promoting renewables usage in those countries. US has backed off the Paris climate accord saying they should not be subsidizing solar in these countries. They are showing anything but leadership after having damaged the planet for their own benefit all these years.

Climate change is a problem, and we have to deal with it, but the west blaming India and China when the US has the largest emission per capita by a mile and more is not going to get us anywhere.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-india-wto/india...
When we[1] were drafting trade policies back in the 90s and the 00s, we made zero effort to do globalization 'well'.

We made a lot of effort to make sure that it was done in a way that was great for the bottom line of multinationals, though.

[1] Or, more specifically, our politicians.
Actually Ballmer did many things correctly. There was an incorrect call / arrogance in approaching the mobile phone market a certain way, and delay in building something like their hardware organization. But I don't think this means Ballmer was a complete failure. Microsoft delivered stellar results in many dimensions during Ballmer's years as well.