skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome, but looks like this relies on disabling A/B testing, so it will die once they fully roll it out :(
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There's at least Redmine. Uses Textile by default, but there were plugins for Markdown.
Microsoft has always been firmly embedded with human rights abusers and military the world over—there was no departure from the status quo there.
It’s public knowledge.
I'm old enough that I have used a check a couple of times, but probably fewer than 10. I remember not being certain how to pronounce it "xeck" (käck) or "sheck" (sjeck) or even "tcheck", to improvise an English sort-of-phonetic spelling.
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Me neither. I am currently of the belief that most of that "data driven" product development is just bullshit, and not really even data driven. It's too easy to just plug Google Analytics and proclaim you're "data driven". And if all you do is telemetry and A/B tests, it's way too easy to make them favor whatever you want them to favor, either purposefully or accidentally.

I haven't seen much evidence that would say otherwise, but there's plenty of circumstantial evidence favoring my belief. Like this case.
IMHO they missed the fact that power users would have preferred the old behavior and didn't provide the opportunity to switch between the two behaviors
Knowledge doesn't need an entry pass to be passed around in an open forum unless it's too crowded. HN has a fine signal to noise ratio.
>MS has competing software (Skype for business previously known as Lync)

Teams, not Skype for Business, is Microsoft's Slack competitor.
> but in a capitalist world, the usual reason something gets replaced is there is a more efficient way to do it.

Increasingly it seems to me that things get replaced simply because a company can make more revenue.

* Subscription software - 'more efficient'? Not really - just a guaranteed revenue stream

* planned obsolescence in products - 'more efficient'? No.

* "Books" that you don't really own, that you can't easily lend to friends or resell? Clearly all about the efficiency.
Step 0: Don't execute people for non-violent crimes.

That's a part of the problem here. People speak their mind, disappear into a black bag and end up donating their organs to a Party member's daughter five months later.

The other major part being that there's very little due process, or fair justice, not in the way that you or I would expect it. Certainly not with lives on the line.

Worrying about wasted organs misses the point by an absurd distance.
*Slack, not signal.
The main reason making a "save as PDF" is hard is the font handling. The rest is fairly straightforward.
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"Condemned". The distinction between condemn and damn seems to go back to Latin, if not further.

I'm not sure it should matter what one particular authority decides, in terms of language use. People, including people writing administrative documents should be free to write in the manner that feels most comfortable to them. If this creates a political problem, the political solution is the ballot box and altering the education or hiring policies.

Customary criticism is fine, but it makes no sense to say "you shouldn't say foo because some organisation that shouldn't have authority says you shouldn't say foo"; instead, you should have some direct reason why foo is problematic.

Your criticism shouldn't be circular either, for instance "you shouldn't use 'singular they' because 'they' is plural" is completely, aside from being historically wrong, ineffective as criticism, since it is merely because of the incorrect description of the word as "plural" by some authority that you believe it to be plural, whereas most people use it regularly to refer to a non-specific person.
It seems you might be the one who is over sensitive?

I didn’t mean it to be condescending at all, I genuinely found that story super disturbing and I didn’t want to put others through it unless they wanted to be put through it.

The scene the guy is describing real sounds like an apocalyptic hellscape, if you’re not somewhat disturbed by it, then I’m not sure what to say.
My memory is fuzzy a bit, but I think I saw Slack being called, or even calling itself, the "e-mail killer". This leads me to believe that the hybridization you mention is on purpose, and its goal is to make profit by destroying the only remaining decentralized communication protocol in widespread use.
I disagree on this. More programmers should understand the performance characteristics of the abstraction layers that they rely on. Else we have the case of jerk programmers who insist on redesigning / rewriting / refactoring to optimise for CPU caches while still running the apps via a bunch of docker containers each based of the centos image to run one simple binary that probably needs only glibc.
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The cloud providers more or less just give you a Kubernetes cluster. You can then connect this cluster (or any other cluster in a private cloud) to DevSpace Cloud, which allows developers to create their own namespaces on demand in the cluster.
DevSpace CLI is supposed to enable developers to work with Kubernetes regardless of their experience in working with k8s.
Overall, DevSpace does not replace the cloud providers but makes their Kubernetes offer accessible (DevSpace Cloud) and easy to use (DevSpace CLI) for developers.
I'd say https://xkcd.com/927/ to that.
As long as prices keep going up there s no motive. And if people want to see modern tower architecture they catch a flight to asia
I would like to show you Tetrisly, probably the biggest and smartest Sketch components library.

How it could be helpful for you:

- You can use it to build Interface Starter Kit for React/Vue components repository.

- You don't have good skills in design but you need easy customizable components in Sketch app.

We are going to implement our component library in React/Vue soon.

Maybe you have other ideas how Tetrisly could help devs?
I’m Swedish, didn’t quite get the part about J and Y being pronounced the same? Sounds different to me
So doubles the reputation gained from Questions asked
Here's an idea to improve this site: make the texts searchable somehow. Ctrl+F -> "JavaScript" shouldn't yield 0 results.
Also, can we have an open standard for this, please? Not a proprietary format owned by someone. Just because they're not currently charging for it, doesn't mean they can't.
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Berec wants to ban using your own internet router
the i486 was an excellent processor, too
> If they aren't stupid won't they realize it's a terrible idea to embed weaknesses in standards destined to become so pervasive your own economy will rely on them (as well as your own military/intel)?

The Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor [1] is a asymmetric crypto based backdoor. Only the one who built the back-door has the key to access it. It's even impossible to prove the backdoor is there without knowing the key.

This way you don't weaken yourself or allies WRT 3rd parties when standardizing on that specific weakened algorithm (of course you need to closely guard your key).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
> I can read Greek since my mother studied Christian theology

I can read (a reasonable amount of) Greek after studying a lot of physics/math :D. But I only understand the words that trickled into the other languages I speak or can recognize a root for.
Most of the established large tech companies do User experience research sessions while doing several iterations of mocks during the process. This is prior to AB testing. My current and last company both followed this practice.
I had a bit of a moment back when I was 17. I had what I thought was a really good friend that I skateboarded with for 5 hours a day after school. We partied too and hung and everything seemed great. We had a big social circle in high school. I had lots of friends and could always find people to go have grilled cheeses and coffee with at Larry and Kathty's. It was this dive place that didn't care if we spent hours in there getting free coffee refills and bad fries. But it is what we did after school was go there and hang out. Twenty of us. I had a solid chunk of friends.

But then I got a blast of truth.

Shaun, the friend I hung out with a lot was having problems at home and had just turned 18. I was also moving out so we looked at a few apartments. We found a great one that was cheap and Shaun was hesitant. It was ours and we could afford it but he hesitated.

A few days later someone told me he didn't want to live with me because, "I was a tedious asshole and living with me would be miserable".

This was brutal. This is a guy that everyday we head out to the U.S Bank underpark to skate. While good friends he thinks living with me would be horrible. So then my mind went a bit wild and I figured that all my friends thought the same.

So I changed. I am not a tedious asshole anymore. I will correct you if you are really wrong. But I am not going to point out your rounding error so I can feel superior.
It hosed macs that had SIP disabled and /var world-writable. Not that that's an excuse, but few machines were affected by this.
That’s shocking that you have never seen this.

I agree that there is a temptation to not do it, especially for smaller changes, especially if time is tight, especially if you are a smaller company, and all of that is certainly a problem.

But no user testing? Not changing the design? We just recently drastically changed the design of a new product we are developing because it failed initial user testing (with clients of us who came in for user testing using a paper prototype).

What followed were also several rounds of design critique sessions with the revised design (bringing in internal people who had nothing to do with the design and ask them for their constructive feedback, without aiming to find a solution to what they find during that meeting) and we will bring those original clients back in in December and sit them in front of the then working prototype.

We are a small company and I do agree that we do this far too infrequently but from my viewpoint as someone who makes the design I couldn’t even imagine not reacting to people who clearly have trouble with the design. Because I did the design. I know that it’s made of thousands of little decisions, thousands of little trade-offs you have to make. I know that it’s a hard problem and that it’s easy to make mistakes or to fundamentally misunderstand something about the mental model the users have. So any information about what works and what doesn’t is extremely valuable.
Media is a low-margin business, that historically was always affiliated with government. I agree with you - it should be a government problem.
With various self-publishing media emerged recently it became easier to spread your unbiased opinions.

However, I don’t read American press, so not quite familiar with the state of media business in the country.
I subscribe to the economist and the ken (the great source covering VC news in SEA and India). I want to reward journalist for high-quality material. They don’t have a fremium reading and the subscription is quite high indeed.

As for Spotify-like business model, I bet Medium has something in their roadmap. Also, out of States there multiple interesting products that try to to pay-once-read-all business-model: Yandex Zen in Russia and SmartNews in Japan.
Why would they be using hardened steel for a pressure vessel that has to deal with vibrations?

Also, someone on twitter said a horizontal weld failed. If this is true I'm surprised they didn't do two things:
- tune their welding procedure by destructive testing with the same type of steel
- and X-ray (or use another non-destructive method) the welds after assembly.

Welding (including more interesting metals) is my hobby so I had an opportunity to see that there a huge amount of knowledge in the field. There are routine testing procedures that ensure situations like this one don't happen.
The Starships shininess makes it look even more wrinkly. If it wasn't reflecting its surroundings so well, you would not be able to see that it's not perfectly smooth.

Here's a similar effect on windows:

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/D60B28/distorted-reflections-in-a-...

That's why Starship can look a lot better when photographed from nearby - the view is tilted more upwards and the sky is reflecting in it which does not have enough details to let one see these wrinkles.
"SpaceX chose to use an industrial grade (as opposed to aerospace grade) ... cast part"

Hmm.. Isn't this a common cost-cutting strategy for Musk's companies? The touchscreen in the Model 3s was (is?) also industrial grade, if I recall correctly.
Woah this is way worse than the headline implies - I thought 'non-profit .org sold' meant one unlucky charity that forgot to renew its domain, not the whole TLD!
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What does pathfinder mean in the context of manufacturing?
Wow this is an awesome idea!

While editing PDFs on Linux for me was always connected with pain I also had no joy using a plain macos for this. While the preview app is able to do some things it cannot do others that matter.

I wanted to copy some text just yesterday - while I could select and copy it I could not insert it as a text again in the same application.

To have to use some extremely overpriced adobe product for sometimes doing tasks like this is overkill and really unnecessary.

To all the people who like PDF because you cannot edit it like you want: This is the "obfuscation argument" because anyone who has the right tool or googles for 10 min. can somehow edit PDF - it is just a real pain to do so most of the time and the result may look like the patched overhead transparencies we saw back in school in the earlier days.
I want to encourage everyone who doesn't like the WYSIWYG input box to use `/feedback` directly from within Slack to let the folks over there know about it. I believe this is one of those occasions in which tons of user feedback is crucial to at least make that awful thing optional.
Maybe they have, maybe they don't. Or maybe they can pull some out of their behinds on the spot when asked (which I suspect is the most likely case).

If non-techies can be taught how threading or bunch of other Slack idiosyncrasies work, they can as easily be taught that surrounding text with characters like *, /, ~, _ and ` changes formatting. It's a trivial concept. Reddit, or countless Internet forums before, never had a problem with teaching that to non-techies.
Unencrypted IRC (esp on a secure network) sounds like a massive upgrade from what I'd answer if someone here said "Guess what the military just switched to for their secure chat??" (slack or some other commercial hosted web atrocity). :)
Yes? Self-actualization is the tip of Maslow pyramid.
Unfortunately remote working is not yet universally accepted even when (1) you're not a fan of cities and (2) only go through the commute to do your job at your desk while communicating with everyone around you on Slack.
When a recruiter or company reaches out I always ask if they have any remote position to fill. Even when I'm not interested at all. If everyone did that they might start thinking more seriously about it.
> ”How does Honey make money, aside from the obvious data collection?”

Online retailers typically pay a “referral fee” to websites that direct traffic to their store using affiliate links.

There has long been a whole genre of “cashback” websites which take advantage of this by paying the referral credit (or some of it) back to the end user. This UK link lists some and explains how they work:

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/cashback-websites...

Honey is a bit different, because they pocket the referral fee for themselves, but attempt to save the user money by automatically checking/applying coupon codes that they scrape from the web.

Honey claims they do not make any money from selling data to third parties.

Honey also does not, in my experience, attempt to redirect you to other retailers as some other comments have suggested.
Can you think of any examples from the recent past of small local newspapers doing investigative journalism of that kind? I certainly can't. Low circulation means low advertising revenue, which means low budget for journalism, which means low quality journalism. Any local newspapers that I know of basically just print what comes out of the PR mill of local companies and local government.
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ahh, killing 42,000 people because of a mispronunciation. Gotta love that pro-life attitude that religion has ;)
This is not one of those "oh, that's annoying, i'll have to remember that and learn to work around it" issues. It's more like "I want to immediately stop using this software but have no choice". Its driving me crazy - Slack is all text input. Don't break text input dummy!
Yeah, seems this was fixed pretty quickly by not parsing the ` immediately but only after you've entered the closing `
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While all eyes were on impeachment hearing, House re-authorized PATRIOT Act
Lithuanian is mostly phonetic. And "mostly" here is just a precaution to take some edge cases into account. Some diacritics just modify the length of the base sound (Ą, Ę, Į, Ų, Ū). I would not say that case Ė, Č, Š and Ž warrant having a completely new alphabet. If that was a case pretty much any language that has Latin-based alphabet should get a new one, because pretty much all of them have their own additions.
I should have said - I'm talking about the UK here. More of a drinking culture than, say, the US :-)
what is your point? Apple's own bugs deleted entire hard drives.

https://www.wired.com/2001/11/glitch-in-itunes-deletes-drive...
Indeed, in general we are not aware of how much we dream, because we don't remember. I should have specified better.

Weed and alcohol specifically suppress REM sleep, where most of dreaming happens.

Suddenly stopping weed or alcohol leads to a REM rebound, and people experience very vivid dreams. This association suggests they were actually not dreaming much before.
So if you didn't care about the recipient editing the document, you'd send what format? Pretty much anyone can view a PDF and see it as intended, not so much with DOC, DOCX, ODT, INDD...
This talk mostly reiterates his basic talking points so it feels a lot like rambling. And the title is not justified by the argument.

There is, however, a case to be made that the computer tech age has reached an end. Tech companies turning to investing in banking and real estate is not a good sign.
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Having a dishwasher makes using a grater so much less dreadful - perhaps more than any other single kitchen implement. When I had a dishwasher at home we even got a Microplane zester. It's amazing how much flavor and aroma exists in lemon (and other citrus) zest that's not in the juice.
Physical books have their advantages. Specially when reading technical books you find yourself going back and forth way too often to read a digital copy. Also no need to worry about batteries, less eye strain, etc.

In this case it is the online second hand stores (abebooks, amazon, etc) the ones that are killinh the physical stores.
Slack predates Riot by quite a lot.
Seems to be working for MacOS
When we started to do rock-paper-scissors, the process became really quick - about two seconds to notice the situation, exchange the looks, shake our fists three times and show rock/paper/scissor. Sometimes it took a bit longer if there was a tie in the first round - but never long enough for anyone else to be bothered.
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That is an exaggeration in my opinion. Many µC don't have a real use case for encryption as well as many sensors.

Maybe you meant that with really tiny, then forget about it. But I would think that there are a lot more units of these tiny chips sold compared to a fully featured 32bit ARM processor.

Maybe that will change with price.
I work for a relatively large global tech company (100k+ employees), and our UX teams does this all the time. First they come up with a design they _think_ will work, then do user testing, and often the user is confused or doesn't like a specific thing - could be a button color or an entire flow - and we change it. Then repeat.
But ultimately you can't get everyone to care. That's why the web will always be slow.
> but then there aren't any C# or Python web browsers either

There are python-webbrowsers, like qutebrowser for example. Unless you mean 100% and purely written just in python.
These seem to be bags of words, which hardly explain the rationale or context for any of the items mentioned.

In terms of 'brainstorm of words, some of which may be useful', fine. But I'd be very surprised if even the average dev had even heard of everything on that list. The scope includes some ubiquitous things, and some things that are surely niche.

I'm hoping no beginner gets the impression that they ought to know all of these things or else they're an imposter.

What's the appeal to these?
As far I know, LibreOffice ('Draw' if i remember well) allow you to graphically edit PDF (xourjal too, but not as rich as LibreOffice)
The point of free speech is to make democracy work. There's no reason to grant it to companies.
Besides all the capitalist and efficiency debate, I grew up buying and reading books from here. I used to know many of the shop owners personally. It happened several times that they kept a particular book on the side for me to see it first. As they happen to know my liking and reading habit. I could even bargain, in those days when money was scarce. I have fond memories of walking down those streets in hit summer afternoon browsing through thousands of books and pondering what to buy. Thanks to those stalls I got introduced and could read world literature, philosophy, science ... I will be extremely sad to see it gone! Please, if anyone is listening, please stop this.
> ”and direct those purchasers to the cheapest site in exchange for a commission.”

This is incorrect. Honey does not redirect you to different/cheaper retailers.

Honey is a browser plugin which applies coupon codes (scraped from the web) to reduce the cost of the purchase from the retailer at the checkout phase.
This. Power users (normally engineers) drove Slack usage at my last company. I'm now in an org that uses Teams and all the engineers want to use Slack. Likely won't happen but it's important to note that this feature isn't just annoying a small segment of users, it's annoying the small segment that are most vocal about adopting Slack. And who due to economic power arguably have more influence.
Or insufficient / unsatisfying. In Berlin, the day care is paid by the city for all children older than 1 year. But I still plan to move away (to the countryside) to be closer to family, regardless of financial benefits.
They should opt for a single block of stainless steel carved into a rocket as a unibody design for added strength.
he might meant to say 'sign', not the company name
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