skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know who built them

The workers were paid for their labour and consisted mainly of farmers who were idle during the off season.

There are even records of the workers striking and that their demands for better food and work conditions were met.

This does not sound like slavery to me.
I want to chime in with one editor that I think nailed a markdown WYSIWYG: https://www.typora.io/

It's hard to explain the concept with just words, but I will try: While you're typing, markdown is fully exposed, but when you move the cursor away, the formatting characters disappear and you just see pretty formatted text. As soon as you move the cursor back to the formatted text, the markdown reappears so you can edit the plain markdown syntax.

I've been using this editor for two years and I think the developers were really clever in this implementation; I've never experienced any unexpected issues. Slack, on the other hand, has been driving me absolutely crazy. (Try changing an inline code block after you've created it. Easy in Typora, a nightmare in slack.)
> It is not our experience that competing web browsers have typically offered enhanced privacy or security that would protect users as adequately as our WebKit protections.

Per the article I shared, there ARE competitors to Apple that rival their privacy and security skills. Those competitors have helped Apple improve. It is an outright lie for Apple to say "it is not our experience..."

I get that my argument is mostly pedantic, but even as an "opinion" it only holds if Apple is delusional.
> Nearly every SoC you can buy today has hardware accelerators in it

True, but few are full-featured HW acceleration SoCs. Most support a few operations like for instance AES-ECB and maybe AES-CBC but if you want AES-CCM or AES-GCM you still need to implement parts of it in software. The HW may be super fast at ECB:ing many blocks of memory but the setup cost is steep so when you need to ECB just a single block (for your counter in CCM) it buys you very little performance gains over just ECB in SW. (Of course what you do then is setting up several counters in a larger block of memory, after each other, this is ok because the counters are just increments, and you ECB a bunch of blocks. Next you need to solve how to do the same to get CBCMAC with just CBC HW...)
Isn’t this how all UI redesign projects happen?

The next step that also seems to happen more often than not: Despite user outcry, the company digs in, becomes defensive, and dismisses complaints with platitudes or snark like “you’ll get over it”. See also: Slashdot redesign, Fark redesign, Reddit redesign, Digg redesign, and so on.
Atlassian Jira/Confluence SUUUUUCKS. They have given up on making anything better. I try to do as much as possible on Markdown files in a GitLab repo using Atom's Markdown preview (e.g., documentation). Gliffy diagrams are still OK.
Typically the factor of safety is not that high in the aerospace industry.
Really wish there were some numbers! Did you find any data about how many remote workers there are in the US and worldwide?
> The laws weren't "changed" to make those monopolies. They were monopolies by the original definition of the law.

This is not correct. Nothing like the Sherman Act existed prior to it even though there were "anti-competition" rules from common law. The Sherman Act was a product of its times and changed the laws and the way of thinking about monopolies.

Standard Oil was never a "monopoly" according to your definition, and yet was declared to be so by the US Supreme Court in 1911.

Your assertions about "monopoly law" are shallower and more dogmatic than its actual application in the real world.
Glottal Stop
It’s not like one of Chrome’s updates completely hosed Macs....

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262?hl=en
It would be quite the feather in Trump's cap, if he can claim credit for legalization happening under his watch. I wouldn't be quick to make predictions in either direction on this one.
For all those that say "I have nothing to hide" wrt privacy issues, Chinese people thought so too. Now they can't even afford to care about such horrile things because lack of privacy means all dissent will be crushed.
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I don't think I've ever cared about something so little.
You can make a scenario where anything is rude. Here, if he said something and you said "could it be the fuel pump" that should also be an inoffensive comment, not prompt him feeling like "how dare this fool presume to lecture me about the inner machinations of an automobile; let this mark the end of our friendship"
Why did the original comment specifically mention "most young women" rather than "most people"?
It's not cosmetics. What kind of tolerances can you get dangling a massive assembly from a crane in the wind? How many people are cross checking the work? What kind of instrumentation are you using to check joint quality and integrity at these heights from a genie lift? It’s hard to shoot a stucco roof from a genie lift, I can’t help but laugh out loud at the assertion this is sane. Astronomically stupid.
What's a better format for displaying and printing documents consistently and with selectable text?

> It doesn’t adapt to screen sizes

That is a feature. I expect my PDFs to display with pixel-perfect consistency everywhere.

There are other formats that adapt to screen sizes. HTML is good for that, if we ignore how people break that with styling.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
> you are mostly in awe of what you experience

careful there, some people had really bad trips on DMT with their deepest fears coming to haunt them. Set and setting...
Very common AI startup. They use some pre made AI tools (e.g. Watson bot) and resell it to specific industries where they already have the "intent trees" made (common questions/actions the user wants). The trainers are nothing more than analysts that will identify an intent not listed on the tree and configure it there. The devs probably are API and frontend devs, not much AI stuff going on.
Why financial markets’ new exuberance is irrational
Apple has had a content blocking framework on iOS for years that not only works with Safari, but also works with embedded web views that use the SafariViewController.
> online platform service providers not understanding their users and their workflows

In regards to the Reddit redesign, I think the people complaining that "they ignore their users" are stuck inside a bit of a bubble.

I have a lot of friends who recently discovered the site, and they much prefer the redesign to the old one.

I forgot where I read it, but I vaguely remember stats backing this up, or at least increase in engagement or a reduction in churn for new users following the redesign.

Something like 50% of Reddit users are on mobile, for which the redesign is targeted (I believe)

Re: Slack, I know many non-techies who struggle with markdown and would welcome a WYSIWYG editor with open arms and wide smiles.
I hear this statement quite frequently, and used to agree with this. But now I get more hours of sleep and my dreams are very dreamy (9-10) hours of sleep. I use cannabis everyday. I have also tried DMT a few times, not IV though.
Quite ingenious low cost reuse of a half container with prefab fibreglass inlay. Even without the tax incentive.

http://shippingcontainerpools.com.au/

https://www.instagram.com/shippingcontainerpools/
The military is still on unencrypted IRC, the dog has already been fucked for years on that one. The economy doesn't really matter, and for any person they deem does matter, they can just tell them under NSLs to use something that DJB made, instead, if they even understand the difference between protocols to begin with.
The guy was clearly being sarcastic. Woosh. I am as unqualified as Elon to strap humans to an explosion.
That worked so well for Android and Windows....
> The workers were paid for their labour and consisted mainly of farmers who were idle during the off season.

Have we learned nothing? Please link to the original sources that support this.
How can the cost be driven down?
you're right! I never realized

https://www.capitalone.com/tech/software-engineering/saving-...
No. You hide it behind a paywall!
Equipment is critical in pro sports, especially the more technical ones too.
That’s not what happened. Google didn’t allow Apple to use turn by turn directions without Apple giving Google more telemetry from its users.
One of the premises of DBJ has been implementing algorithms that are efficient with off the shelf hardware. Would you say that that is wrong or if not, would it be better to buy hardware with generic vector units that can be used with newer algorithms that utilize the more common hardware?
lit-html needs a 1600 line library where as UIBuilder is a 200-line library:
https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder/blob/master/UIBuilde...

Yes, JSX needs transpilation but that happens at compile-time. Which is better, pre-processing at compile-time, or "transpilation" (i.e., string processing) at run-time?
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Everything is switching to app.slack.com for now it redirects but it used to be simple to know where you were and how to get to it.
> But they are newcomers to building rockets from welded steel.

AFAIK everybody is.
All I want is consistent syntax for links, italics, and bulleted lists, bonus points for numbered lists, bold, and code blocks. I don't want to have to click stuff when typing, and I don't want to remember keyboard shortcuts with subtle differences between different services.

Markdown is good enough, yet for some reason, each platform finds it necessary to do something slightly differently. I really don't care about a WYSIWIG editor, as long as I can use straight text if I want. Basically, I want Reddit comments in instant messaging and bug trackers.
Total Garbage
What you say is correct, but you also have to admit there are plenty of shitty doctors today. The shitty doctor problem isn't going away no matter what they are paid.
Slack is dead, they just don’t know it yet. Give Microsoft 2 years to keep grinding on Teams, continue to drive corporate adoption and slowly kill off Slack’s income.

I’m not a fan of Teams, but at work we’re switching Slack because we get it as part of our licensing agreement (3,000ish users.)
For me, if you type:

when you do `foo()` it foos the bar.

It does the right thing for me. This was the case yesterday and it still is today.

It's possible that the author got a different release. It's also possible that the author was trying other very similar scenarios that behave differently, e.g. backquotes behaves differently at word boundaries and inside a span that has already been converted to the code-formatted rendering.

Overall it's pretty confusing, but the simple case that the original article points out works fine.
Does fail early apply to Space tech development?
If that’s the case, that my assertions are shallower than the real world application, where is the real world application of any definition of “monopoly” that the EU or the US has applied to platforms that don’t even have 50% market share?
It depends on what the command does, also how much faith I have in the reliability of it.

If there was to be a "computer user's bill of rights" in 2019 it would be that you have the right to get some feedback that it has really started the task that you think you did. If there is one thing I hate about Windows it is that I type [Win] + "cmd", then nothing happens, then I try it again, nothing happens, then after 20 seconds I have five console windows pop up.

I've had this pet peeve with every kind of GUI and Modern Web application, but never felt this way about command line applications.
>> The thing about spiritual awakening I believe is you have to do something with it, nurture it, or it fades away.

Indeed, integration is key but often elusive without doing a lot of work outside of psychedelic experiences.

>> I think (have no proof) that many people who identified as hippies got later involved with non-hallucinogenic drugs like cocaine and that made them forget about spirituality and they became yuppies.

There's a cycle that seems to have happened to a lot of people in that era:

Breakthrough experience, followed by a failure to integrate. The adept then attempts to replicate or revisit the experience (to varying degrees of success) followed by further failures to integrate. Eventually, a bad experience (or lack of access to the tools) leaves the voyager with a malaise (or worse) to which causes them to either abandon the quest, or else to apply simpler, more 'reliable' chemicals which then lead to a much more mundane cycles of drug use.
They are trialing a phone app version of this in my local store, I've not tried it yet. https://smartshop.sainsburys.co.uk/
I'm not seeing this behavior. Are you sure you don't have a setting changed? Under Preferences > Advanced,

When typing code with ```, Enter should not send the message.
With this checked use ShiftEnter to send.

Might be an easy fix :)
State’s rights only when it benefits them, sadly.
If you are taking a job with you are specifically being paid to be a human shield, I am not going to hold back from treating you like the face of the company you are. The more abuse these mercenaries take, the more the corp has to pay to staff them, and the more the owners feel the pain of their misdeeds.
I will try an find a source, but I think it might have been: A History of Egypt by Nicholas Grimal.

However for a while I read widely on the topic so I can't be sure.
It needs the PM and the team that championed this gong show to step up and own the reply.
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OP mentioned drug discovery. If he wants to go into that direction or if he would like to go into protein modelling a good grasp of statistical physics is essential, you can't do without.
They dishonestly care, because they didn't bother to spend any of their billions of dollars to help their existing paying users.
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I mean, it did? Right now on Android or Windows, you have multiple different high-quality browsers you can pick from (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Brave, etc), and because they all have to compete with each other, they're continually improving the user experience. In particular, Firefox and Brave have been able to add improved privacy protections by modifying the rendering engine, which isn't possible on iOS.
Re problem 2 - I’ve had decent success using Gabe Weinberg’s Bullseye framework.

re no connections to industry x - if you don’t have connections it means you probably don’t have the insight necessary to solve a problem for people in that industry. I’d probably look closer to home. If you really want to, reach out to people on LinkedIn and offer to pay the first couple for an hour of their time. Then reach out to more people and share insights from the first few. In short, add value. Soon you’ll be an expert.
I actually love that drafts are brought to the top; it keeps things from getting lost for me. I even sometimes will write one character as a reminder I need to finish. But still, I understand your frustration.

That being said, search makes it really easy to solve this. I rarely do anything other than Cmd+K/Ctrl+K, and type a character or two. For me, it's become second nature, and I never find myself searching around for where to go. For me, the left sidebar is more of a status report, while Cmd+K is how I navigate.
It doesn't really help that "HN types" are (a) largely uninterested in much of anything other than "code or tech" and (b) mostly regard anything that they are not interested in as completely unimportant and unworthy of any time that might be wasted on it (the "sportsball" effect).

(Regarding the discussion of sexism below, does the shoe feel any better on the other foot?)
Lots of apps are above the rules. Facebook was secretly recording you with the camera! Is their app going to be removed from the store until fixed? Perhaps Apple would ban them for such sneaky tactics? Ha ha ha. You have more chance of USA getting sanctions for invading Iraq.
It's worked fairly well for SpaceX so far...
People from actual developing countries leave all the time. They put in the effort to learn the language, they do what they have to do. They don't have any significant amount of possessions -- that's one of the hallmarks of a real developing country.

You're speaking from a position of such great privilege that you don't even have a frame of reference to accurately talk about a developing country. They're leaving because they would rather make 500 dollars a month working 20 hours a day at three jobs in Dubai than make 2-5 dollars a month working 20 hours a day at subsistence farming or worse, and they're often doing it so they can support those back home who don't have the skills to find sponsorship to work abroad.

They learn a skill that will let them leave, or they find an agency that is hiring people to work abroad. I know plenty of people who have left their country to find jobs elsewhere -- many of them in the US, many in Japan. Any good nurse from southeast Asia who wants a job can usually get sponsored to come to the US -- there are other professions as well, some in the US and some elsewhere.
They aren't using any tax dollars for Starship. It's entirely funded by their profits (at least as far as I know).

And this Starship MK1 is/was a prototype designed to test some aspects of their design in the real world. It was never going to be anywhere close to taking people onboard. Even this incident had all people far away before they started doing anything like pressurising.

This is active development, every single rocket company or program in existence has had explosions and test failures, and they will continue to have them. The important part is that they are doing this safely and nobody is getting hurt, these are controlled tests.

It may not be the way you think rockets should be designed and built (I'm personally kinda skeptical that they will actually build the full prototypes/rockets outside like this), but it's not more dangerous than any other rocket company.
Google Chat is quite stress-inducing for me as well. Maybe I don't know how to use it properly, but when I get a notification it is so hard for me to find the message that triggered it. Our Google Chat has a lot of messages, so sometimes I could have to scroll through hundreds of messages and thread to find it. It's not highlighted or anything to make it easy, either.

Because I often can't find the message that pinged me, it's extremely stressful. I worry people think I ignored them, when in reality I never saw their message, despite actively looking for it.
I agree it's much better than saying explicitly they should be fired or (as internet users often do) worse. Still, there's no need to get personal. Organizational failures are almost never one person's doing, and having an indignant thread sitting at #1 talking about how ugly your baby is is punishment already.

The rest of the GP comment was fine.
I stopped using confluence the moment I realized the markdown editor was removed. I don't care so much about the flavor, but there's something very annoying about needing to get fancy with the way I edit text to preserve formatting.
Yeah, there was certainly a discontinuity when it went from "turn the tree into code" and "turn it into code in a faster language" to "build a virtual machine with random opcodes". I think it's just the nomenclature change that was jarring- characterising it as random switched dispatch was more intuitive.
Wait.. I thought I read a "how to recognize snake oil in AI/ML" posting just yesterday...
Why would you want this? And why is your employer losing interest in you a good thing?
With a preface by Douglas R Hofstadter, nice! I'll get it, thank you :)
Also a Chinese here, I think free trade and globalization should be coupled with strong domestic redistribution. Otherwise, inequality will go through the roof.
Reddit also let's you still use the old version, which is great
There's some delicious irony in those slashes getting swallowed by HN's markdown parser.
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Most of the studies of sensitization I have seen have used low doses. I haven't been able to find many studies that measure comparative sensitization at different dosage levels. (So the extent to which this applies to higher doses as well is unclear to me). Further confounding, the definition of "low dose" seems highly variable, and it's hard to accurately extrapolate from rat studies.

"In addition, whereas both groups of rats developed the same degree of sensitization to 0.5 mg/kg AMPH, only the HR rats developed pronounced sensitization to repeated administration of 1.0 mg/kg AMPH. "
Individual differences in amphetamine sensitization: Dose-dependent effects
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0091305792...

Amphetamine Sensitization Alters Reward Processing in the Human Striatum and Amygdala
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3981726/

Amphetamine-Induced Time-Dependent Sensitization of Dopamine Neurotransmission in the Dorsal and Ventral Striatum: A Microdialysis Study in Behaving Rats
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1859849/
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Liquid oxygen weighs more than water though...
Hence the slogan "we're not using the other apps anymore" https://www.reddit.com/r/FriendsofthePod/comments/8pgbpq/wha... https://twitter.com/square/status/968602892646023169?lang=en
You've got a point! I haven't tried a system 76 yet, but I have nothing but respect for them. To be honest, I wish they'd more aggressively compete for mindshare in the professional market than OSX -- imagine what the world would be like if the default startup/bigco laptop were a system76.

Beyond that, for the desktop at least, I didn't realize how competitive they were on cost -- wow! I'm not sure why, but it looks like I can't configure it in a 4GPU configuration. If I could, while there would be a price premium over what I paid for my devbox, I think it could be worthwhile given the polish.
This is exactly why I hate it. I think for the average person it's probably great, but it should be easy to disable for those who don't want it.
So true, I was annoyed all day and didn't know why. Had no idea they had "upgraded". I thought I had inadvertently hit a toggle that put it out of adult mode. I was too busy to fuss with it. Every time I went into that box I came out a little more angry, a little older, and farther from the feeling of good flow that Wednesday typically brings.
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