skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the only way to insert text at the beginning of a code span in the WYSIWYG editor is to highlight the first character of the span and type over it

This seems better than what I was doing: put the cursor after the first character, type the new beginning, add the same character and remove the same character from the beginning. Thanks for the tip!
SQLite is so awesome. I love how python has a library built-in for it.

That SQLite plus SQLAlchemy makes hackathon code so easy to port to another RDBMS after finishing the initial PoC.

Also makes it super easy to run unittests; just load data into sqlite with the memory connector and go!
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Apple CEO Tim Cook and President Trump tour Apple Texas plant
At it's most basic, it is simply a matter of trust. If the other person doesn't trust you not to attack their emotional stance, then by listening for a few minutes and acknowledging that you're willing to do so, you signal to them that you aren't going to do that.
I concur. LSD is heaven, shrooms are ok, and salvia is just weird. However, both DMT and ayahuasca feel just too extreme or scary to me. Could also be that I just grew older before this stuff became popular.
It is pretty astonishing how much Slack was able to grow from their initial 2 years of being ahead of the curve in UX, despite being mediocre/bad on every other front since.
How would a young adult go about breaking this perception?
I use Firefox and I've had nothing but trouble from the text box. It's just atrocious, I don't know why they'd do this when the previous box worked so well. At least make it an option!
I get that it's bad right now, but it hasn't even rolled out fully. It's quite clearly not 100% done or it would be 100% rolled out.

This seems like literally one bug.
So, let me get this straight... You think that "free speech" protections provide a mechanism that forces companies to maintain relationships with people that they don't want to do business with? So, if someone is harassing employees, being damaging, or any litany of other inappropriate behaviors, that company is still required to provide service to that person because that person has a right to service?

You have not thought this through, at all...
I believe "marble" when used for sculpture/construction is a term that includes limestone, so that isn't inconsistent.
Reading their non-replies on Twitter feels like I'm reading something specifically designed to piss me off. Smarmy apologies, low empathy, cocksure of how correct their vision of a chat service should be.

This one in particular[1]:

> The goal is for workflows to evolve, but we realize change can be a bit of a pain.

"Stupid peasant, we are only here to help you. Once you see the glorious vision we have you will thank us."

[1]: https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/1192147475672510474?s=21
Another analogy might be that Comcast don’t have a monopoly on Internet service in an area because you can always use dial-up or tether through your phone.
See you at the "fireworks" tonight. We're gonna have a "blast." Muahahahaha.
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> The notion of God and and eternal reward or punishment are quite often tied together. It is hard to see one without the other.

The most brilliant marketing plan ever devised. It just awes the salesman in me... Brilliant!
1&2. Python isn't my first choice language so really appreciate that

3&4. Going home to open-source the JS and Python clients. cURL is a good idea, will add that too.
In this context it's about mass public transit options and walking distance between a safe residence and wherever "downtown" is. Eugene and adjacent Springfield combine for a population of ~220,000 over ~88 square kilometers with limited late night transportation options other than sketchy and unreliable taxis.
This is really great progress. 3d printing of tissues specific to a patient that has no rejection risk in vivo would be a major breakthrough for medicine and surgery. Let's hope they can eventually do the same with arteries, muscle, bone, and nerves, though it's all likely decades away from routine use.

Of course cost will be a major factor, especially since it must be catered to each patient.
The article has good advice: to not dwell on criticizing the existing implementation, and to focus on the practicalities of what needs to be improved, what you can do to push that forward.

In my younger years, I've certainly been guilty of telling a client how terrible a job the previous person in my position did. I'm sure I've been on the receiving end of it too.

It may have been true, but over time I learned that it doesn't matter. As the article points out, people on the business side don't care how badly the work was done, they want to know what you're going to do about it, to improve quality, efficiency, business value.
The speed difference between Ripcord and Slack is just night and day. I had forgotten applications can respond faster than I can type, yet here we are.
Anyone know what build times are for the Shopify monolith?
Smells of bad UX/design process - some senior "wants" this particular solution, despite their users showing direct feedback that it doesn't work for their needs.
The introduction was very dismissive of domain dependent planners. however such software has proven necessary for fielded autonomous systems. For starters they are explainable.
Highly recommend "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation" by Deborah Tannen. Tannen is a professor of linguistics. What you just describe is one of the typical difference in communication styles between men and women. Her other book "That's not what I meant" is also a good read.
Google and Facebook take note. This is how to get things accomplished working with the administration. Cook while absolutely not a Trump supporter; has been willing to work together in the best interest of Apple and the country. Cook was also a supporter of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed in 2017.
It can be argued having a smartphone today is essential to participating in modern life in this country right now - having a games console is not.
Fuel is cheap. Spaceships are not.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-th...

>“Now you see here,” I said. “Everyone in this conversation is in favor of universal love and transcendent joy. But I’ve seen the way this works. Some college student gets his hands on some DMT, visits here, you guys tell him about universal love and transcendent joy, he wakes up, says that his life has been changed, suddenly he truly understands what really matters. But it never lasts. The next day he’s got to get up and go to work and so on, and the universal love lasts about five minutes until his boss starts yelling at him for writing his report in the wrong font, and before you know it twenty years later he’s some slimy lawyer who’s joking at a slimy lawyer party about the one time when he was in college and took some DMT and spent a whole week raving about transcendent joy, and all the other slimy lawyers laugh, and he laughs with them, and so much for whatever spiritual awakening you and your colleagues in LSD and peyote are trying to kindle in humanity. And if I accept your message of universal love and transcendent joy right now, that’s exactly what’s going to happen to me, and meanwhile human civilization is going to keep being stuck in greed and ignorance and misery. So how about you shut up about universal love and you factor my number for me so we can start figuring out a battle plan for giving humanity a real spiritual revolution?”

>“Universal love,” said the cactus person.

>“Transcendent joy,” said the big green bat.
lol product managers are such a bane for tech companies. they have to keep shipping features which no ones wants but they have to show they came up with and are shipping something. i think tech companies should try and avoid product managers and designers for as long as possible.
Yeah, I've always hoped they would change their position on supporting markdown. Their big report on it says they will never support it. Looks like this might be why.
There is this long-standing bug on mobile versions of slack where large swaths of messages just disappear. The only way to get them back is to sign out and sign back in. This is supposed to replace business email?
The product manager for this should be reassigned. To not even have the option to opt-out and use the classic input box is ridiculous.

Productivity tools need to be very careful about radical change. Especially when the change won’t make anyone more productive.
"The WYSIWYG editor is being gradually rolled out over the coming days – if you don't see it in some workspaces, just hang tight, you will soon. "

Not to mention, unintentional threats.
I’m glad you like it. Above article is fascinating - it’s like cows destroy the ecosystem through grazing while bison “engineer” it to make it better to the point they can see bison grazed land from space.
SQLite is so great. We built this partially because we wanted SQLite's capabilities without deploys blowing away the instance.
“I really love the line-of-code completions in the new kite.com.” Guido van Rossum - Python's creator.
First it's factual. By qualifying it as "ridiculous" serves what purpose exactly? The point is that $1MM is used as an example and you could swap that amount with $50MM, $100MM to showcase greater gains in exponentially less time. That is the point the article is making overall. No billionaire is going to harbor $1MM in a trust with the intent to have some heir pull it out in 200 years. But the people with those means can leverage the same monetary vehicle to do the same thing in much shorter time frames with higher initial investment.

> That said ... this is the premise of some entertaining science fiction.

Or not. None of it it fictional. Feel free to clarify what you mean, but the only thing fictional is the entirety of your comment.
That's a red herring because the core of this dispute is the developer ecosystem, not the hardware. The competitor to Apple's ecosystem is Google, not Samsung.
It seems like earthquakes did for most of the other "seven wonders of the ancient world", too. The others far more completely than the great pyramid, though.
No, just kill the sole provider for another family instead, right? It’s only luck that stopped a dui from being a vehicular manslaughter charge.
Any lead on where I can read on starship technical docs? Things like wall width
Your user experience has been "enhanced".

Share and Enjoy.
Yes because without this dude they would’ve never invented self landing reusable rockets
For reference, the average human seems (from a very brief search) to swing an 8lb sledgehammer at ~25mph. So it's a bit like someone very, very strong (think strongman competitions) nailing the thing as hard as they can with a sledgehammer.
But when does Honey ever refer a customer to a product? My impression is that you only ever use Honey when you're already about to make a sale -- you go to the product page, and Honey finds a discount for you.

I'm not super familiar, does Honey run any advertisements or recommendations for products? It makes sense why I might pay a blogger affiliate revenue for referring a reader to my product, but I'm not going to pay someone an affiliate link to someone who claims they influenced a purchase decision where the customer is already sitting on the checkout page. If I go to an Amazon product page, will Honey give me a recommendation for a different product that's lower priced?
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>As a lifelong atheist there are plenty of things that matter to me: the well-being of people (particularly those around me), peace, justice, climate change, etc. Are these goals not valuable in themselves?

Well, they can be valuable subjectively. Then again, useless things can also be valuable subjectively (e.g. a person obsessing about hoarding BS at their home).

But objectively, and in the long scheme of things, everybody will just be dead forever, so what's the point?

At best it's better enjoying a small intermission bookended by an eternity of nothing.

The universe, for one, doesn't care. It could just throw some asteroid at earth, and kill everybody removing all traces of history, culture, civilization, etc too.
So on what base do you assume slavery?
> double-parking for deliveries, drop-off/pickup, etc. is a major contributor to traffic and congestion

If half the street weren’t off limits due to parked cars, traffic could easily route around such disruptions.
I don't think that really excuses the use of Electron. Cross-platform GUI frameworks like Qt/GTK+ already exist to resolve this issue. This problem was already solved before Electron came around. All Electron did was lower the bar.
Maybe not so elegantly put, but there's no question that China has embraced AI as a tool for spying on its own people. For whatever reason, spying seems to be a consistent Orwellian feature of communism. It was a central feature of the Soviet Union and China just seems to be taking the franchise to new heights with its approach to AI.

I don't know what to say about the Harvard quote, but with the recent admissions scandal implicating that rich people are buying their way into premium universities and into higher SAT scores, there's some nugget of truth to criticizing the current situation.

I wonder if universities aren't suffering Goodheart's Law: "Once a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a useful measure." That is to say, once we measured that a university degree lead to higher incomes, better life outcomes, etc. and then we started pressuring everyone to get a four year degree...did it cease to be a good measure for quality employees, creative thinking, problem solving skills, etc?

I think there's something to that. When everyone is obsessed with getting the degree, and they're not worried about the practical application of their knowledge, they are doing the world a disservice. And we're all suffering for it, through higher debt and inflated expectations.
How in the world can an opinion be a lie?

They didn't objectively state that other entities aren't capable of it. They literally said they felt those companies wouldn't protect their users as well as them.
Ask HN: How often do you publish your Google Docs on the internet?
Apple has on multiple occasions shipped me replacement hardware next-day Air. This service definitely does not require proximity to a brick and mortar Apple store.
When their entire business depends on very carefully managing their PR, you're not going to get a public post-mortem without spin.

If a government regulator runs the investigation, you might. I don't know if a regulator's going to get involved in this, though.
I think this may have changed, very recently. Now when I paste any of the example strings in the post, I get an alert that I've pasted markdown, with options to apply formatting, or not ask again[1]. After that, it recommends using a new shortcut, (Cmd/Ctrl)+Shift+F[2].

Not the best improvement, not the worst.

1. https://i.imgur.com/QXHWMpF.png

2. https://i.imgur.com/Ksrjvf1.png
What telemetry do they gather, and why is it a big deal? (honestly asking). Simple duck/goog searches don't yield anything other than this [1], which seems innocuous.

[1] https://community.ui.com/questions/Update-UniFi-Phone-Home-P...
That’s one way to get the neighbors to move!
I starting dreaming again after years since I stopped watching porn. Took me a bout a week of abstinence. There seems to be some merit to nofap. Might be placebo, but so far I'm not complaining.
Mass quitting everywhere?
UK Consulate Employee Says He Was Tortured by Chinese Communist Party
My cofounder is in the Bay area, and we're looking for help in this area. How do we get in touch with you?
Says works for Discord and WIP for Slack.
In-Browser Markdown Editor
Hey, I’m based in the Bay and would really like to pick your brain, let me know your fave joint for coffee.
> where are the better software pipelines not controlled by corporations

You're joking, right? Any tool that allows you to configure your own trust roots qualifies: `apt install`, `flatpak install`, etc. Even most laptop SecureBoot implementations qualify at this point!

This isn't a dichotomy - of course Apple should police the apps they serve as a root for. The issue is having a monolithic pipeline that doesn't distinguish the vendor root from the tool itself. The F-Droid app store is a good example of one approach to addressing this problem on a mobile device.
I'm not sure what's unclear about what he's saying.

a) Harvard is a pure signaling mechanism that doesn't provide education as much as exclusionary credentials.

b) AI/Big data is a way to solve the economic calculation problem that was once seen as one of the main theoretical hurdles against communism. That a country like China favors AI and punishes crypto tells you something (that it's a communist dictatorship).

It's pretty straightforward.
Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments. It breaks the site guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Note this one: Be kind.

It's hard enough for people to hear criticism or fix mistakes without their head, or a colleague's head, being called for.
Interesting.

It is important to realize that experts believe the NK situation would be totally unsustainable without China.

Ergo, if China were like NK, it wouldn’t last long, because there is no big-brother economy that could support the (disaster) situation.
I thought the same thing until I had my first experience. Now it's hard to maintain a materialist point of view...
This long rambling piece(I couldn’t finish it) reminds me of a documentary I saw a while ago about morbidly obese patients who went through bariatic surgery and ended up losing hundreds of lbs. but even when they lost their extra weight, they saw themselves as ‘fat’.

I guess that’s what growing up poor is like...
Since moving companies, I have traded slack for microsoft teams.
Teams is pretty terrible in comparison, one of the most annoying "features" is it's WYSIWYG editor, I have no idea why slack would want to copy one of the worst elements about teams.
Sure, a lot of churches also got destroyed. Yet, a lot of churches are in a remarkably good state of preservation. They are not the only preserved buildings, but the most obvious ones. There are also a few roman aquaeducts preserved, like the one in Nimes, France. And if I am not mistaken, some of the water delivery to todays Rome still uses partially roman aquaeducts. Also, the Pantheon in Rome is in a remarkably great state.
Under "Features" it says it's a WIP (so yes, probably not working at all):

> Voice chat (Discord OK, Slack WIP)

It also lists this 'feature' which I think is hilarious:

> Not made from a web browser
Do they believe the CIA is running the concentration camps in China?
I’m not…where did I say that? Like I said above, there’s no way to know who built them.
The /r/spacex subreddit can be a good source, as well as the NSF forums (particularly the L2 (subscription) side).

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/
Amusingly, for https://riot.im we just shelved our WYSIWYG editor efforts after trying two completely separate implementations over the years (one via Draft.js, the other via Slate.js) because: a) it's a nightmare to get right, b) nobody used it anyway (it was optional), c) chat isn't a wordprocessor, d) markdown (commonmark) + floating formatting toolbar is good enough.

Our current editor was written from scratch (codenamed CIDER), and seems to work pretty well for markdown input + some semantic elements like prettified usernames, room names, etc.

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/blob/develop/... tells all about CIDER, and https://blog.riot.im/riot-web-1-5/ gives the full context if anyone cares :)
I really dislike it as well. It puts designeyness right in my face in a way that interferes with my use of the tool. The old way was just fine.
Nothing objectively matters.
> running an entirely seperate instance of an infamously memory hogging web browser

Without looking at the source-code: Doesn't this problem still exist, just in a different form? You're still running some kind of browser instance to render the UI, rather than using native methods.
It was pointed out, but it was always a cheap parlor trick.

"You cease to exist after death, so what's to fear?"

"Well, my fear is that I will cease to exist, Einstein!"

Fear doesn't have to be with something in the future being painful. We also fear something not being how we want it to be (in this case, we want to continue existing, and death prevents that).

>since once you are dead you cease to exist and no longer care about anything

That's an argument about we wont feel fear after death.

It's not an argument about we can't fear death itself...
Hey friend. I just wanted to say that I grew up with a parent that was addicted to ADHD meds and he used to say eerily similar sounding things when he was in the thick of it.

If your honestly doing better I’m happy for you.

But if you’re doing _anything_ without the supervision of a medical professional with experience with amphetamines and ADHD, please please please, for the good of yourself and those around you seek out one.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration was amazingly helpful and kind to my dad. Their number is 1-800-662-HELP (4357)

I’m just an internet stranger, but your words are eerily similar, and I couldn’t in good conscience not say anything.
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Discussed last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17670095
It doesn't seem possible to give "no explicit rules", unless you count "making an illegal move equivalent to a loss" as giving no explicit rules. Which doesn't seem like anything but word laundering.

If you do any less than this, the net will be incentivized to make an illegal move for a win. In which case, yah, I'd guess that net would win a lot of chess games against other rule-bound nets.
I met some while I was studying at a top 5 university in the U.S. One had come out of the fog after studying a decade in Singapore. He could look back clearly at the brainwashing and described how it is done, but it takes many years on the outside for even very intelligent people to realize what has been done.

Props to China though for having a pretty effective system.
market rates for parking would still unequitably favor the wealthy. to be equitable, parking fees would need to be wealth-weighted/income-based.
Is js actually slow? I thought with all the money invested in it, JS was one of the fastest dynamic languages out there.
House committee approves bill decriminalizing marijuana on the federal level
For me it was "The only Liskov I know is from the liskov substitution principle" and then I discovered this is the same Liskov, which was rather neat.
Americans Are Moving at the Lowest Rate on Record
Maybe you could ship them a real item as part of the service somehow

I'd never pay $10 for a character in a game, but I'd happily pay $15 for a plastic toy that coincidentally unlocks something in a game I was enjoying anyway
The price of cloud computing is higher than that of owning and running the hardware. As to whether that implies the cost of running a commercial cloud is higher than that of running individual servers on customer premises is doubtful. I assume that the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle do not run commercial cloud operations at a loss.
Not for any random person, but it certainly can happen with your "consent" as part of some terms and conditions - for example, a car manufacturer or a financing company that's handling your leasing or a car service shop certainly might install a GPS tracker in your car.

And wasn't it just recently in the news that all major USA cell phone providers are selling your location tracking data to third parties?
Prolog has constraints but they're limited to "equality" for some notion of that word. Constraint solvers and constraint extensions to Prolog broaden that considerably.
Amazon Throws Spaghetti at the Grocery Wall