skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to think about this. As a heterosexual, I want to say chemistry.

(Others have brought to non binary individuals but I have to confess that I can’t make assumptions about their dynamics.)

Sometimes I feel the same way with problem solving as I do when I am attracted to a person. It makes me wonder if competition and inter personal romantic chemistry are related wrt how our brain perceives it.

And there is limited/fixed mental bandwidth that we can only focus on one at a time? Just wool gathering..off the top of my head. What do you think?
They only quoted half the section ignoring the actual important bit the location access allows them to do:

> Location access is required to detect your nearby speakers during setup and your mobile device’s WiFi network information.
The problems with P2P is not problems of tech, they’re problems of incentives. The tech exists and it’s mostly solved — it’s just that anyone who is capable of building such a thing is not incentivised to do so, because that work could be spent in more productive (i.e. money-making) endeavours than what will by definition be incapable of making money since it explicitly decentralises the concentration of power.

So if Jack wants you to come build it, and you’re a P2P person, you should go work for him in even if you don’t like him, because he has both the willingness to pay for it, and the broadcast power to make it mainstream. And those are the main problems that needs to be solved, not tech.

I know this because I’m going through the same thing myself — I work on Aether (https://getaether.net), which is close to what I think he is talking about.

If we want ourselves to solve this, and not rely on @jacks of the world, we need to find a way to make P2P into a viable business. For me, in the end I decided to create a Pro version for use within companies, so that the P2P version can be fully free of monetisation concerns.
How is helping petty thieves and junkies is helping the nation?
I think the general issue though is that devices like this exist in kind of a grey area of ownership. Yeah, it's "your" camera or "my" camera, but in reality they're wholly dependent on services provided by Amazon or Google or whatever other large data collator. And while there are pretty obvious reasons for that to be the case, it also opens up a rather large dragnet-style video surveillance system that looks juicy as heck to certain groups, and we have to rely on "large company not known for amazing defence of privacy" to prevent this.

I mean, I have a couple of Nest cameras at home. They're useful, but even relatively recently Google forced an update that disabled some features. And despite the hardware being totally capable of it, there's no way for me to connect to it and get a video stream. I have to rely on a shitfest of an app and fork over money for any usable history. At that point… is it really "your" camera?
Sure, you tell your customers that in so much time you'll be removing some feature. If you've got a large enough and popular enough OS, say, even so your codebase will get very large.
The list specifically lists products that didn't have a specific drop-in upgrade path. So the rebrands are different products that users had to make a decision about purchasing their successor (if there was one) or go with a competitor.
Learning from OpenBSD can make computers marginally less horrible
I was making three points in the three paragraphs:

1 - it's more likely we will be an information-sparse region in the historical record rather than an information-dense region.

2 - professional historians have their own set of incentives which can be counterintuitive to the layperson.

3 - but indeed if there turns out to be a huge amount of stuff (there will likely be mountains of some forms of ephemera) to go through some people may be able to find value using new tools not available in the past to historians.

As someone trained as (but never worked as) a historian I do indeed have a bit of cynicism on point 2. I suspect most if not all actually working in that domain have the same cynicism.
Archon: The Light and the Dark[1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon:_The_Light_and_the_Dark
Which releases more CO2 into the atmosphere:

1. chopping down a tree and burning it

2. digging up a tree and burning it

Both are the same. Calling (1) "green energy" is outright wrong. Want to be green? Burn less carbon. The source of the carbon you're burning is irrelevant.
An Exit lane is probably a different situation from the one described though, and so different behavior is better.
I agree, the reason i find it worrying tho is because of the lack of diversity. the massive reach means even more people will have a uniform set of standards.
Or just have a min password length requirement that is at least a 5 word sentence.

Easier to remember, and more secure.
Sure it does. Are they solving a problem they were able to define? What does the shipping history for their project look like? Did they make interesting design choices and tradeoffs. Shipping any software is an accomplishment and does a lot more to demonstrate your skills than leetcode interviews.
I still don't really understand.

ActivityPub can be private in the same way email is private. All the people in the recipients chain will have a copy of the object you're sending. If in these recipients there's the Public namespace, then yes, you can't talk about "private" any more, but outside of that ActivityPub supports private interactions.

As a followup on this discussion, I actually spent half a day today to add private messaging to my ActivityPub service. It actually works.
that was meant to be a sarcastic remark
You wouldn’t just be embarrassed. Job interviews, health insurance policies, even the prices or discounts available to you may all come under rational consideration.
It's not the same because Google's products are all (or at least mostly?) services, whereas many of the Microsoft products listed are simple releases with no continuing support required for them to still work (e.g. 3D Movie Maker).

"Killed" (can't use it anymore), vs. "Discontinued" (might stop working on new operating systems at some point in the future).
Then the show HN title is a bit confusing / misleading.
> If I understand you correctly, people who like working alone on challenging tasks are inherently deficient and we need to drive them out of the workplace to make others more comfortable?

You can't possibly think that this is what the person you are replying to is saying. But anyway, the point is that the conception of programming as a task suited to people who like to work in isolation is incorrect and harmful. One of the most common pitfalls of software development is writing software that no-one wants or needs. The solution to that problem lies in better communication. Of course, there are some kinds of programming problems that are suited to intense work in isolation. But most programmers probably need to spend more time talking to their non-programmer colleagues.
Knowing where the cameras are lets the thief know where the blind spots are. The thief wouldn't be able to see a hidden camera just by walking by (or at least it's much less likely).

I don't think most Ring cameras are meant to be hidden though, since it's primarily sold as a doorbell.
I actually thought the thread was about that. The Muninn/Hugginn association is engraved in my brain. I blame EVE online.
> Location access is required to detect your nearby speakers during setup and your mobile device’s WiFi network information.

They scan the area for Sonos speakers to setup. That BT scan and Wifi info requires location permissions in Android because it can be used as a pretty accurate location sensor.
This. As childish as it sounds, I know a few people that get left out of group chats because they’ll turn the whole thing green...
My favorite FaceTune example:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmnSLiIF-Rl/
I am not claiming anything about the justice or fairness of Russian courts, you are reading far more into my comment than was present. This is precisely why I mentioned that the developer may be forced to agree.

From my understanding of how copyright law works, if the local court determines that who a copyright holder is, international courts are required by treaty to uphold that determination.
>It is a crime to lie to federal agents in the course of a criminal investigation. You can avoid committing that crime by not lying to agents.

18 USC Section 1001 is notoriously broad - for example, your local postman is a federal agent, it doesn't just pertain to law enforcement officials. You don't even need to lie directly to the agent - for example if you fudge your hours on a timesheet and that timesheet gets sent to the federal government for some use or other, you "knowingly and willfully made a materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the United States."

It doesn't matter if you're not under oath. It doesn't matter if you've been read your miranda rights - any material lie that is made to a federal employee within their jurisdiction is an offense.

Sadly, this means that in almost every case, the only reasonable thing to do is to refuse to talk to the agent and to ask for an attorney if they insist.
"Optional" features that literally everybody is going to get because what is the point of a security camera if you can't record or view remotely.
I thought you meant the other adults at first, and I completely agreed!
That's still a security issue with the camera. Maybe passwords are insufficient for their role.

Edit, further discussion (from 15 mins ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21776250
We still do some development in .NET 3.5 VB (huge health care company). It rules and I love it. We do angular, node, c#, yadda yadda, also, but I will always return to my #1 (and first) love, BASIC.
There have been a few hotels where I've wanted to take home the bed or the bedding. (The Marriott in Brussels FTW)

Fortunately, most high-end hotels allow you to purchase their stuff online.
Good grief, leave your phone at home and you have alibi. "No sir, I was home playing GTA. You can tell from those phone records you've got..."
I never said that someone has to live and breathe work, only that they don't have anything _higher priority_ than work.

Why wouldn’t I put many things as a high priority than work? I don’t have any equity in the company and even if I did, it’s statistically likely to be worthless if it isn’t a publicly held company. If it is a publicly held company, my contribution isn’t going to make or break it.

The company definitely doesn’t put me as a high priority.
Yes, according to the manufacturer of one of my cars, idling the cold eninge should be avoided - considerate driving quickly after starting the cold engine should be considered instead.

The argumentation in the manual is that the car won't reach operational temperatures for a longer time while idling. New efficient motors apparently idle very efficiently (surprise?), which generates not enough heat.
if you have an existing account that downloaded a particular app already, you can download the old version of an app.
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201377

or you jailbreak...
engadget is owned by advertising.com or the same company; they redirect you through it for first party cookie drops for better user tagging.
"A new study explores a strange paradox:"

It's not a paradox!!

That people refer to it as a 'paradox' only confirms their very entrenched, possibly ideological view of reality, to the point wherein 'real life data' that calls into question that view ... is considered 'strange'.

It's not a paradox, it's just reality, probably easily explained (in very crude terms) by the fact that men and women are different, ergo, different outcomes. 'Gender' is a very powerful construct with underlying physical aspects, and it's just a part of who we are.

So we can try to make sure everyone has a real chance (taking into account systematic issues i.e. it's really hard for the 'lone minority' in a group etc.), but going too far beyond that might be hard.
List of remote companies hiring remotely from India
Sorry to double-reply, but the paper I was thinking of was probably [0]

It seems very informative. Doesn't appear to be peer-reviewed, mind.

[0] http://www.cse.uaa.alaska.edu/~ssiewert/a320_doc/Yodaiken-20...
Same for a Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 for me. Works very well though I believe LineageOS has abandoned updates for the device. Battery replacements take minutes to do as well.
No, it doesn't, because the argument you're presenting is a convoluted sequence of causes and effects, that are all quite, well, arguable.

The comparison I'm presenting is trivial. OP has issue with third party collection of their records, and is dumping smartphones. I point out that this will accomplish nothing meaningful in reducing the global third party collection of their records - especially if they switch to a dumbphone.
Like all things, it's not a black and white split between nature vs nurture, it's both.
Wow that was an absolutely fascinating read thank you so much!
After using hooks for a while, I have to disagree with most of your points. The issue is not clarity or simplicity, it's familiarity. Once you start actually using hooks, things make a ton of sense. It's a different way to think about components, not an inherently more-complex way.

The order of hooks is only important insofar as they do not change between rendering. That's it. Hooks should always be called, and always in the same order.

A basic React Hooks component has way less boilerplate involved than a class component does, and hooks allow for much better code architecture when it comes to separation of concerns.
That's an interesting statistic, but it's difficult to compare the two apples-to-apples. Most of Microsoft's discontinued products cost actual money to purchase. Most of the Google discontinued products were free.

In addition, many of the Google products listed are essentially acqui-hires. Products with limited user base. Microsoft has very few of those. So if you wanted to really do a full analysis, those would be some things to examine. It would be really interesting to see.
Splitting Reads and Writes for Azure Databases
Submitted title was "Micro.blog founder on Twitter's bluesky project". That's good information! but the place to add it is as a first comment in the thread, not in the submission title.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Qt 3D Quick looks quite nice.
I have a few:
- watch GoFundMe campaigns and post funding updates on Telegram
- watch multiple tech blogs and post updates on Telegram
- watch multiple funny blogs (xkcd, monkeyuser, lightroast, daily wtf) and post updates on Telegram
- watch English idiom/word/phrase of the day feeds and post on Telegram
- watch Canada's Express Entry draws and post new draws on Telegram
- watch IELTS exam dates/locations/seat availability and post updates on Telegram

These have required some setup but little to no maintenance after.
Url changed from https://lwn.net/Articles/805539/, which points to this.

Submitted title was "Essentially no upstream development resources dedicated to x86_32 Linux"
List seems inaccurate/incomplete.

E.g. Courier is on it, but Courier was never more than a design concept video, so considering it a "discontinued" product is off.

Similarly, no mention of the original Microsoft Surface - a 30 inch tabletop computer that shipped from 2008 to 2011.
I still don't understand the concept of "jaywalking". Is there something wrong with crossing the road in the US?
Well, I would say that if you make work your number one priority for a company that you don’t own, it’s very naive. If you got hit by a bus tomorrow, the company would send flowers to your funeral and have an open req out for your position before you’re buried.
10 CODE IN BASIC

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The other responses covered some reasons for this, but also men tend to accept more risk, more willing to devote their life to work or have a myopic focus. Again, less sane one could argue. It's a less balanced life.

Men hit the extremes more often and as a result occupy more of the outlier positions. They're also over represented at the bottom of the ladder. i.e., the homeless and prison populations. But I don't see anyone claiming it's a conspiracy that men over represent this end of the spectrum.
There are still plenty of slightly-used phones with removable batteries that work quite well. Galaxy Note 3 and 4 (possibly 5?) for a start. I recently got a Moto E5 brand new and it too has a removable battery.
Turn off your phone network, too, because the provider keeps all these same records.
If you mean GSM information it's not quite the same. You can also easily power most non-smartphones off, meaning they won't communicate with the tower.
> First option (Build a tile server using packages) ... i click on it.. ubuntu packages... i don't have ubuntu here, let's go back.

I threw in the towel and switched my server builds to ubuntu this year for this reason.
Actually, a lot of people are saying that sexism is the cause of disparity in those cases. It's a commonplace observation that sexism harms men as well as women.

Historically, the professions you're alluding to have been closed to women by men. So for example, the reason that women couldn't serve in the military until relatively recently is not that women used their power and influence within society to get a pass on military service. Rather, it's that men didn't want to let women serve.
I don’t know about that. “Hack” is an overloaded term, but one of its meanings is to gain unauthorized access. Seems apt.
It's very interesting to hear that very good submission
> Why wouldn’t I put many things as a high priority than work?

Presumably, because you expect to get paid more than someone who doesn't.
They are just ranking various products on an "user friendly" scale. Google search was at the top. It doesn't mean Excel is being used like an EHR system.
You should normalize this by the company size. Larger company is expected to discontinue more products.
Everything is less user-friendly than Excel.
Both are good.

A mix of fun and meaningful projects is ideal. Spend some time doing things just because you enjoy, and some time doing things because it makes life better for your community.
It was a tongue-in-check reference to the article I linked.

> Your share ownership consists of just a number in a database on Schwab’s computers, and if Schwab wants to make that number floating-point that’s Schwab’s business.

But let's not act like Robinhood is doing anything new, innovative or difficult here. Numerous other brokerages have offered fractional shares for the past decade.
Is this an eons-long form of "it was better in the old days"? Just look at primates and other wild animals today to see brutal violence.
True, but Microsoft has plenty of these too. Look at the specific list of retired Microsoft websites and services. There's a lot of them (69 to be exact):

https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros...
Yes, we could default on our loans. Then we would be free to borrow more at an eye-wateringly high rate, given that we would have no trust left with lenders. And we would have to service this debt with a drachma worth less than the paper it would be printed on.

I don't see how anything good could come from turning our country into a financial pariah.
This is a red-herring.

Nobody cares about physical access to essentially disposable cameras. The stored footage is the whole game.
Here is the PBS AI segment showing Embark's technology in action: https://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2019/11/06/pbs-front...
Not Only Software Enngineers Add Value in Tech
Your choice, but its a completely overblown reaction to something. Unless you are willing to give up credit cards, driving, as well as any internet use outside of your residence, then its pretty pointless just to give up cellphones.
Okay, "controversial" was much too generous and junk is more accurate. I just wanted to point out that it is not something some ML research came up with on the spot.
If it got to that and it's not some sort of WSJ attempt to advocate for this sort of thing, facebook must fight it tooth and nail, and stop these attempts at governmental micromanagement once and for all.

It's suspect that they are going after tech companies which are national treasures but are enemies to corporate media, it's strange that this sort of action isn't being considered against actual malicious monopolists that the press isn't constantly attacking. No one is suggesting going after disney for instance even though they have that market cornered.
Like I said before - I graduated from a no name college and a no name company and my average turn around time from looking to having at least two reasonable offers is less than three weeks - in 20 years.

I haven’t done any side projects since 1994.
Microsoft Comic Chat, never forget

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
Honestly, or just looking and acting like you're supposed to be somewhere. It's surprising how many people just don't question you as long as you act like you're doing something you're supposed to be doing.
Eagle vs. octopus: Canadians rescue bird locked in battle with giant mollusc
Lyft launches a car rental service with no mileage limit
Yes, and stored footage is completely optional with Ring cameras.
I would like to read more about this.
> That's what makes it carbon neutral.

Nope. You're emitting exactly the same CO2.

Want to be green? Burn less. Changing your point of view won't lessen CO2 emissions. Burning less carbon will.
STEM hasn't made serious efforts to counter sexism? That starkly contrasts with my observations. For the entirety of my life (I'm over 25) that I can remember I've encountered programs and initiatives working towards getting women into STEM. All of the companies I've worked at instituted hiring policies that favor women (e.g. giving women 2 chances to pass a technical phone screen instead of one). And we're not alone in this. Microsoft and Intel have both instituted policies of witholding bonuses unless diversity quotas are met, and Facebook gives recruiters more points - which count towards performance reviews - for recruiting diverse candidates[1].

1. https://www.payscale.com/compensation-today/2019/03/tie-bonu...
> Because women told us!!

The frustrating thing is most of the analysis completely leaves this part out.

I would be interested to hear from women about ways they have been discriminated against, and how the industry can improve to make that less likely to happen.

But most analysis I see on line is just "Most programmers are men! That is sexist!" With no analysis going beyond that.
To do 'componentDidMount' you simply need a 'useEffect' with an empty (non-null) dependency array. It makes sense to me - maybe the issue is more familiarity than simplicity?

Edit: useEffect performs a side effect every time one of it's dependencies has changed value. Passing an empty array means the effect is only run once (on mount) because there are no dependencies.
Windows vs. macOS vs. Linux: My Story (and Share Yours Too)
I don't disagree. Just seemed a bit unfair to lump Microsoft's whole discontinued list in with Google's killed list.
There is a huge difference between “shipping software” and doing a git push.....

I’ve actually “shipped software” that got put on production servers and people paid money for.
Windows Live Writer! I remember that. I actually miss it; it was a great desktop UI for WordPress.