skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone actually think that the "rape allegations" against him weren't made by a CIA asset? I mean, for 40 years the man had no issues with women. Within months of starting to publish info that makes the US government feel a little uncomfortable, boom, he's now a "rapist", convicted in the court of public opinion with no evidence whatsoever. There was, in fact, so little evidence that the prosecutor in Sweden initially refused to pursue rape charges. I suspect screws were then put to the Swedish judicial system, and they decided it'd be more politically expedient to comply. And I think it was quite clear to Assange where this wind was blowing from, so he chose not to face charges, which if the system wasn't rigged against him would likely not result in a conviction owing to the lack of evidence. But once you consider who's really pulling the strings, facing the charges becomes a very dangerous thing: spending 7 years locked in the embassy is vastly perferable to e.g. Guantanamo.
In my company (not a small one) and in any previous ones, I’ve never even thought that people could be afraid of giving honest feedback. I’ve seen internal feedback causing change, I’ve also seen it being ignored (sometimes to be listened to later after all, sometimes it turned out that things weren’t as bad as they seemed), but I’ve never perceived any potential for negative repercussions.

So if that is indeed the case here, then it does indicate some problems.
Some of the stuff on the hypomania page rings a bell, but I don’t think disinhibition requires testing and confronting your fears first. What I’m going through, behaviourally speaking, feels more like learning the actual vs believed limits of what I can do to affect my environment. It’s a bit like being a kid and testing borders with your parents to see how far you can take it and then gaining a little more confidence. I wait patiently to take the next step and plan things out and then execute them. Again, if I was feeling a loss of control and my behaviours made me dysfunctional, that would be the time to seek help. Instead, it would seem that I’m actually improving my life situation. The definition of mental illness isn’t symptoms but whether they are giving the patient issues interacting with their environment, and as far as I can see, I fail to satisfy that criterium.

It’s of relatively recent date, but thinking back on it, I’ve had vaguely similar experiences before. Difference is that there wasn’t the same bringing online of feelings and abilities. It wasn’t as powerful.
Or just use a labeled toggle. "On" and "off" are both very short words, take hardly any space, and remove ambiguity. No reason not to use them.
> your argument is "Apple should allow other businesses to use their infrastructure, which they have spent many years and many billions of dollars building, however those other businesses want"

No. My argument is that companies which choose to place themselves as sole gatekeepers of their devices, and which also have such significant market share, should be subject to some minimal regulation that includes neutrality, oversight, and transparency requirements (at minimum).

> no business in the history of the world has done that with something they own

This claim is factually incorrect. Rail companies (in the US and Europe), telecoms, electric, gas, and other utilities all immediately come to mind. In most of the western world (but notably not the US), ISPs are subject to open access laws; these have been very successful.

> that's because the banks are also large businesses and Apple can't just ignore them. It's not because Apple is under any requirement to be nice.

I understand there is not currently any legal requirement; I'm arguing that we need one.
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This perspective is excellent. Besides the book reference, any papers in this area that are relevant?
In addition to all the issues that others have raised here, I find that the new widget chews up valuable screen real estate, especially in the "Threads" view. They render the input widget for every single thread that you've recently participated in.

Argh.
Trump may have been wrong but I doubt he was lying — merely not correctly informed. The exact details of Apple’s supply chain are not something I would reasonably expect the President of the United States to be totally au fait with.

Tim Cook doesn’t have an excuse though.
I love nearly all of these. If they were novels, I would likely read them.
Source? People write CLI tools in Ruby and Node.js these days, so I really doubt that anybody would use the term "systems language" to refer to languages well-suited to building CLI tools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
How could "AI" possibly be relevant to something as cut-and-dried as focusing a set of mirrors?

Also, Bill Gross? Formerly of PIMCO?
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They don't steal affiliate commissions.

They capture the most valuable sales--i.e., those made with the immediate intent to purchase--and direct those purchasers to the cheapest site in exchange for a commission.

It comes down to a question of what is more valuable to the seller. The blogger may have created the intent to purchase the product but Honey created the intent to purchase from the specific seller. And to the seller, that is far more valuable, especially as a lot of Honey-generated sales may have been sales that would have otherwise gone to competitors.
Penn. Supreme Court Rules Police Can’t Force You to Tell Them Your Password
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>1. It has its own certificate system. That would be fine if it used that in addition to using the MacOS built in system, but it seems to use it exclusively.

fwiw Chrome does this too. It's effectively standard practice for browsers - OSes routinely have very out-of-date cert stores, and don't regularly remove revoked ones. Browsers ship it separately because it's such a major security concern for browsing.
That seems unrelated to the parent point.
Very cool! At RedCarpet we have been hiring this way for years. The same problem exists in India..but 1000x worse. The ROCKS program (https://www.redcarpetup.com/rocks/) trains people and we hire from them. In fact, we have close to a 100% hire rate for people from the ROCKS program at other places.

Kudos for building this. I hope you find much success.
I think selecting him as the inspiration for painful opening sentences stems directly from the opening line to Paul Clifford:

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."

This sentence gained pop-culture resonance in the Peanuts comic strip, where Snoopy repeatedly would start writing his novels with "It was a dark and stormy night." and quickly derail from there.
This is the VS Code plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=runem.li...

This is the tsc plugin: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ts-lit-plugin
Imo, they've been on a roll lately when it comes to annoying designs. Drafts now bubble up in the UI, so if you start a chat want to finish it, it's all the way the top, regardless of where it started. Threads are similarly broken, if you click on a thread link, it won't link to the new addition to the conversation, just the entire thread. There's also weird bugs or possibly design issues where in a thread, you have limited or not the same options as you have in a general chat window.
In my "personal mystique" i have a hypothesis where the mind is really the stuff that our universe are made of. As in the universe is the product of something imagined, and giving we have the same medium that can navigate and permeate the universe we can become one with it, because in reality we are not apart from it, we just believe it and dont even try to advance into this reality where we can navigate the universe with our mind.

Im kind of shy to say this out loud here on HN with such a distinct crowd of people who really study those subjects, but given is more of a personal believe, i guess i can be forgiven if it sounds stupid or even a uninformed point of view.
VS Code has not been snappy for me. Especially with large screen sizes and lots of widegets. For example, if I close the left-hand pane and shrink the window, performance improves considerably.
Those thumbnails look like they're optimised for as wide an appeal as possible. The thumbnails strike me as "I really don't want to watch this".
I can only make it so far down this page before my tears from laughing make it hard to continue.
This is why I heavily advocate for not using Atlassian products. I use the "can't trust Australia" statement as a supporting argument but the terrible editor is what started my crusade. My company uses Jira but I do all my tracking in Clubhouse. We have Confluence but most of us write docs in Google Docs because it's less painful. I recently got us moving away from Bitbucket too. If Slack stands by this change (like they did with removing the IRC bridge), I'll be pushing hard to get rid of it before we start growing.
They left the nose cone off to save money. I wonder if the designer counted on some portion of the cone weight to support the cylinder head in their design?
GDPR and the Digital Peddle: How GDPR Will Transform Digital Marketing
Any plans to add a Go library for this?
Don't listen to Jordan Peterson, listen to Terence McKenna:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcRGY2Bdk0U
> - There should be no vendor lock-in

Then why only support MySQL?
I usually use the analogy that a Swede pronouncing "cheap" as "sheep" is equivalent to English speakers pronouncing "skjuta" as "tjuta".

As a native English speaker, it took me a while to hear the difference between Swedish "tj" and "sj" (at least the way it's pronounced in Northern Swedish, like "schhh").
But how many of them do so after acquisition of a cool tech startup? :-)
> The probably are. Clearly hospital executives and administrators are raking in most of the money, but we can't sit here and pretend that caregivers don't directly benefit from such an arrangement as well.

I agree with you but I think at least the nurses, doctors, NPs/PAs, bring more value than what I've seen within my own department at a hospital. A manager hits $100-150k pretty easy and the middle and upper middle ranks are stacked. We have someone that's a director of a three person team, and seven new middle management roles (being filled w/ no internal hires).
When you have 100 devs working on the same codebase the bugs start to get so gnarly you need 900 more devs to fix them.
The overwhelming German public response to Merkel's bugging was one of outrage. Accepting your argument, doesn't that suggest it was actually out of bounds and not normal?
"It was a dark and stormy night"

http://ronaldbrichardson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Snoo...

http://ronaldbrichardson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Snoo...
I _so badly_ want Jira and Confluence to support just plain old markdown. Their editor is a nightmare; every programmer where I work hates it but all of management seems to love it.
Scale in tech has been solved, because it's trivial to reproduce a software program. It's not like manufacturing. We've got a dozen or so large automobile manufacturers that are all thriving. There's five big tech companies: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook. And three big telcos is an improvement over the early 20th century that Thiel is idealizing when AT&T was the only game in town. But Thiel himself is a supporter of monopolies and wrote a whole book on the virtues of them in "Zero To One".

One thing I feel as though we lack is more visionary entrepreneurs in some of these other fields (or if we don't, they're not very visible). In the early 20th century, you had breakthrough after breakthrough. You had Edison, Tesla, Einstein, Ford, Disney, Eastman (Kodak), Sarnoff (radio), Fisher (washing machine), the Wright Bros, and on and on...so many breakthrough entrepreneurs, scientists and technologists in such a small window of time.

If we tried to point to people alive today who have the same impact as the ones mentioned above, we'd probably name Musk. In the early 20th century, we had hundreds of Elon Musks.
Of course. But I would think the experience of falling into a coma after a hypoxic event would convey all the same conscious experiences of death. That would be what it would feel like, until you were unconscious. Then, by definition, you would feel no more.
Yeah, my understanding is that psilocybin has its own thing. Like an intergalactic internet.

Your experience with your guide reminds me a bit of Hank Wesselman's experiences, written up in his memoirs.
It’s so simple. They could add the channel/DM to the Drafts list while also keeping it in its normal spot. I cringe with sympathetic embarrassment just thinking about how ridiculously obvious this is and how easy it would be to implement.
I personally dont miss my nightmares of which I had many. In that sense I consider it a good side effect.

It is one of the primary reasons I indulge.
Trump Hosted Zuckerberg for Undisclosed Dinner at the White House in October
It’s about providing a platform for enabling global commerce. Our engineering blog has other posts that goes into technical depth about a lot of the challenges we face, and our solutions. For context, here is some info about Black Friday/Cyber Monday for us last year: https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/preparing-...
I worked circuses and cruise ships as a teenager. That’s an old joke. Well used, but old. “What do you call a cheap wig?”
"I call for a worldwide boycott of Chinese products, and of companies".

Yeah throw away every piece of electronic you have including Apple products.
Out of topic, but this research reminds a lot me a movie gem from the 80's called "Alterate States".
As someone who loves the idea of a good cross platform GUI, there simply aren’t any. GTK and Qt are the closest, and GTK is garbage. Qt is awful, but manageable. You get to work in a bastardized dialect of C++ (that no editors understand save Qt Creator) or use a leaky Python binding (that still segfaults), but you can build things that don’t look awful. As far as I know, this is the only cross platform GUI tool for which this can be said (except for the browser-based solutions, of course).
Australian actually, and in this way I think they mean it as "a guide" is that the wrong use of the word?
Oh man, this issue is particularly insidious for my work flow. Like... Why the hell isn't it consistent even across pages within the same project?!?
> the skill of shamelessly shilling ... all day long, everyday until you make it.

It's one of the most important comments in the thread.

Not only is it an acquired skill (selling), it's bonded to an extraordinarily valuable character trait: perseverance.

A lot of people can't do the necessary sales to drive their product/platform/service because they either can't absorb the hits from doors being constantly shut in their face (hearing no all day long, or worse), or they feel shame from pushing the thing on other people (most of whom do not care and don't want to hear it and do not want you wasting their time, and certainly initially that will all be true).

Promoting is selling. Selling is promoting.

The best sales people are shameless. Not in the sense that they're abusive, rather, in the sense that they'll push their offering to every corner of the globe as necessary, getting 99 no answers to get to that one yes answer. Being told no a thousand times feels very shameful, low and hurtful to most people and they can't handle it.

Promoting your thing, is always about selling. Shilling is nothing more than the task of selling being categorized as a disparaged craft.
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Interesting, nice find.
I’m 36. Did not expect this to happen at my age. I’ll be 40 in 4 years and I thought I was too old to learn things about myself.
After this change I really want to develop a native chat application on Windows and OS X. I think it’s almost to the point where someone who did they could make a killing.
Why not a third option, that the research director of the NSA is giving her honest informed opinion?
The problem is you never know when you’ll go from “dev who doesn’t care” to “dev who does”.

While I agree that the details of StoreLoad are likely a distraction the big picture concepts of cache coherence presented in this article are table stakes for performant systems.
This site is an embodiment of the idea that "good design is when there is nothing left to take away". I was able to very quickly grok what this was, thanks to the simple UX flow of creating a db and then being told how to go play with it.
> There was once a land of sand, and sand, sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand sand

ah, a Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson production
> you're riding a subway that's 100 years old ... a healthier sort of progress would happen on many different fronts

Is he saying there is something wrong with electric subways? It seems an excellent solution to transport in a dense urban area. And metros have kept up with technology fairly well. What is the better solution to the subway for the problem it solves in the places it solves them?

Yes, we've had subways for over 100 years. And trains in general. Freight trains are very efficient ways of moving things. How old is the hammer or the shovel? Pretty old. And both work well.

He mentions also that some extension of a NYC subway cost $3.8 billion a mile. Yeah that's expensive. No doubt they ran into horrific problems drilling the tunnel. B-1 bomber program spent $40 billion and delivered 20 aircraft at a program cost of $2 billion each (much more than the claimed cost, but this is the actual cost). Likewise the B-2 ran $1 billion each. Was this mile of subway worth more than two B-1 bombers? I'd say yes but others may say no.
> For example, there are paired exercises where people troll each other as hard as they can... But it's a safe space, with trained moderators around, in case people lose it.

Just curious, but where and why are you undergoing that kind of training? I've never heard of those tactics being used outside of cult-like environments or some kind of abusive therapy. Military boot camp, maybe? It sounds extreme and unethical.
Apparently I have not been following this as closely as I thought I was. This 12 meter diameter tank is from 2016. Not part of current design.

https://everydayastronaut.com/stainless-steel-starship/
I think the difference is that reading a story you can rationalize away that "this can't happen to me".

When you see someone very close to you dying, the finality of it becomes very very real.

Same with most other tragedies I'd think.
I believe we have missed it by concentrating so much on Happiness instead of Joy. Joy is a much more wholesome emotion, long lasting and once you are in a state of joy, happiness follows.
I haven't known soda cans to be filled with anything else. And it's not like rockets are filled with air; they're filled with liquid fuels.
Given the West's absolute addiction to everything Chinese:

- Western governments and their affair with selling bonds to China

- Western startups and their addiction to Chinese capital

- Western tech giants and their addiction to access to the Chinese market, at all costs

- Western universities and their preference for rich, Chinese international students

- Hardware manufacturers and their dependence on Chinese components

- Consumers and their "must have" goods produced in China by most of the above companies

- Hollywood and its reliance on Chinese funding

- etc. etc.

There is no way in hell you are going to see much of a movement against the country or party in these parts, no matter what they get up to. In fact, with the sheer level of influence China has in this section of the globe, I wouldn't be surprised to see criticism of their actions being re-framed as racist/colonialist/the rest of the "ists" by the crew you'd expect it from over here.

That those in the West proclaiming themselves to be activists of social justice focus their efforts on a handful of people in migrant boats trying to enter Europe, or people entering the US illegally, or "microaggressions" in Western society, over the real injustices in the world should point to who is controlling the narrative and holding the purse strings.
My condolences to his family, and his extended family at Visionary Realms.
As a remote worker, I fear the hype. I am glad that remote work is becoming more and more acceptable and normal, but I think that we run the risk of it becoming a new fad, start being adopted in a rush, in a cargo cult fashion, and that the inevitable failures would lead to a backlash against it.

I would hate to see remote work become another agile.
More about the Bulwer-Lytton contest here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21591206
> Most engineers don't write code with hard performance constraints.

Only because most software "engineers" don't give two shits about the actual user experience of their glacially slow over-engineered garbage.
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The type of messages that can be sent over WhatsApp via Twilio are so restricted and expensive that it was not worth integrating when we looked at this at my work.

Even with Verizon's proposed A2P charge per SMS, it is half the cost to use SMS for conversing with customers compared to WhatsApp. Said surcharge has been postponed repeatedly, meaning SMS is an order of magnitude cheaper to use than WhatsApp
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One scummy company acquiring another.
Both are true because this is a government official. A key skill for a government official is to communicate in a way that gives no information to people who disagree with them. This is a sensible adaptation to their conditions. You disagree with this government official. And for that reason you gain no information from them.
Updates offered by lit-html appear to be very limited. If you change value of expressions it updates the DOM. What about larger changes, such as list items changing? What about child elements being replaced with new ones?
Huh, I kind of like that sentence and that kind of florid prose.
To be fair, the Raptor engine is a hell of an invention (a full flow engine!!), and well worth investing money into.
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