skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is your company private? If you're not heavily funded by investors you probably have more freedom to behave according to your morals than if it were otherwise. Public companies are always looking to meet shareholder expectations on the other hand.

Not saying they can't occasionally make altruistic decisions like this, just that more people's interests are being weighed.
As of 2018, it is illegal in California:

https://www.cnet.com/news/companies-must-let-customers-cance...
My guess is that a big part of the reason is that Netflix realizes people are switching between streaming services all the time - this quarter they're paying for Netflix, next quarter they're paying for HBO Go, etc. So they don't want to be remembered as the service that's hard to cancel, otherwise people may be reluctant to come back to them.
Why is a government ID required for account deletion process - you never asked for it during the registration process?
Well, not a belief more like a practicaly oriented mindset :)

In any modern web application you most probably will end up using Javascript for the frontend part, and you have plenty of choice for the backend, which actually includes some really good options both in Javascript and Typescript.

So choosing Python makes you swtich languages between FE and BE.

Then if we are talking about the BE, Javascript is usually more performant, there is bigger choice of libraries and frameworks, and the tooling is simply better ( and improving).

And then there is the async story. Yes Python has a way to write async code, but is more like a patch on top of fully synchronous language rather than full solution, not to mention the very crippled syntax of Python that doesn't let you write anonymous functions.
I believe it’s fine to simply email them. The self service on the Economists website is notoriously bad. It’s not really because it’s not working or that hard to use, it’s just insanely poorly organized.
Anything Tim Pool says should be treated with a ten foot poll.
The principal of the Panopticon Prison design is economic. Because the Guard can always, theoretically, be watching the prisoners assume themselves watched. It's economical because the Guard need only be plausibly watching at any time, and not actually watching.

The Open Floorplan operates a lot like that.
the charitable interpretation of this question is “Why wasn’t the balloon tied to something that could move through the conveyor belt?”.

Which is a much more reasonable thing to ask.
If your conception of law was true I could do the following:

Steal stuff all the time. Sometimes I would get catched for whatever I was stealing. Proudly I will face all of the consequences: I just give back what I was stealing. All harm done is fixed.
I keep all the other stuff that I stole where I was not catched.
Why should I stop with that enterprise? The law certainly doesn't stop me.

Isn't that law way too gameable?

I think a system like this would only "work" if you catch _everything_ unlawful. You basically need a totalitarian police state dystopia for this.

I think the law should incentivize right behaviour and disincentivize wrong behaviour. Not just to fix harms done.
Hi guys! I want to share with you this very thought provoking article on Coronavirus, Control, Censorship, and many topics more written by Charles Eisenstein. I think it's very important to share this kind of work in times where big corporations are pushing the censorship on their big platforms on behalf on the pandemics, governments limiting the civic rights, and there's a lot of information pollution out there.

Hope the enjoyed it as much as I did reading it.
Keep the eyes sharp.

Have a nice day!
Greetings from Chile
Lol at all the web dudes amazed by this, making this on native mobile is a breeze (Android and iOS)
All of these companies have opt-in profiles. When you sign up for the service, you can tell already what you’re getting into and what will be displayed. As far as I’m aware, none of them started as an unrelated service that suddenly announced they were going to make a public site and seed it with information from anyone who’d ever interacted with them.
That's just to reel you in. You might think that they discounted their UHD offering for you. So you check and Netflix got their email engagement click.
I work at a fortune 500 financial company (the boring conservative kind). They're not even considering coming back into the office this calendar year.

Speaking only about my own department, I find the little awkward home distractions lovely. The other day in the middle of a conf call someone's kid popped into the video and asked about potato chips. It was really important because the other parent had informed them there were no chips, but they had to get a second opinion. These things are really humanizing. Instead of "Chuck from the integrations team" it's "Chuck whose kid loves chips." For what it's worth, our time to market for new integrations has improved by almost 30% with everyone working from home. And we're not the kind of shop where work from home means working all day.
I am very interested in new energy solutions as a way to de-carbonize and provide consistent supply of low cost energy.

1. Green hydrogen production and fuel cells. We are just scratching the surface of green hydrogen production. Hydrogen can be the energy carrier we need in the various use cases where batteries are not viable.

2. Nuclear SMRs. Definitely something that is more of a "something to watch".

3. Pumped hydro. The longest lasting, highest capacity, lowest cost, 0 carbon, grid-scale energy storage solution. I have been closely follow a company I found on HN call Terrament. https://www.terramenthq.com
Microsoft Build 2020 – Highlights for .NET Developers
Considering that Tiddlywiki has around 4 plugins that are supposed to make it more like Roam, I’d say that probably Roam isn’t just like TiddlyWiki.

Now, I’m not a TW user, but I think things like block references, outliner features, and bi-directional linking aren’t there by default.
I’m getting this on CNN: https://twitter.com/asplake/status/1263907373825081344?s=21
"it only takes an instant to destroy your company’s reputation, and it’s incredibly difficult to win back that confidence."

Not really. Given that nobody on here has identified the underlying problem, and are happy to blame everything on Triplebyte ... it just goes to show how nothing is going to change anytime soon.

Confidence in using this, and other services, will only grow.
Lifting is also one of the most efficient ways to stretch. The only thing to know is the you should always do the motion with a full range of motion (ROM). Full ROM is actually best for making muscle, but if you also do it with a your bodyweight on your back, it's practically THE perfect stretching exercise.
Rust programming language for its claimed safety

Stripe for payments

Kubernetes for cloud services and K8S on raspberry pi clusters
Maybe they know their market better than their market knows itself?
You can‘t even have the „thank you“ „you‘re welcome“ part of the dialogue.
Further EV improvements. Companies like Lucid and Lightyear are doing interesting things on the EV efficiency side, though their cars are not aimed at the mass market. Lightyear is looking to commercialize their solar panels for other automakers as well:

https://lucidmotors.com/

https://lightyear.one/

Volkswagen and Hyundai are doing interesting things on the mass market side of EVs. Volkswagen is now the number 1 BEV maker in Europe and will probably become number 1 in China in a year or two:

https://www.schmidtmatthias.de/post/april-2020-european-elec...

Hyundai is also starting a big EV push. Their future 800-volt cars should be interesting:

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/hyundai/109135/new-hyundai-pro...
I have always had good experiences, besides the fact that on the website they show a model of a car and you get a different one (but of the same segment)
Can you scroll down to close or do you have to drag the handle itself?
If you are on highways, being in a small car is a safety risk, especially if the other cars on the highway are bigger.

I rented extensively when I was in management consulting and put 30k miles annually driving home on weekends. I can be a safe driver, but i'm also put at risk by other drivers who are not safe drivers. In those cases, you want physics working for you.

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> The company is paying for your costs, plus providing you a margin. If your cost are lower, your margin is the same but the absolute number is smaller.

In that case, they'd look at your lease to see what you are paying. They don't, and whether you live in a cheap apartment or in a luxury one does not matter, even though it can easily change that "margin" by 100%.

You're right regarding the competitiveness setting the price. And once the company is fully remote, the competition is no longer constrained by locality. It does not make any sense to pay more or less because the remote worker lives in some location, and unless there is no competition, somebody else will just pay them more and you will not get the employees you were looking to get for cheap.
Going through that process a few times before, I learned about the importance of understanding which among the many equally time consuming ways to build something will give you the best tradeoffs as the product grows (or doesn't).

Should a record be updated or a new version inserted? Hard or soft deletes? Creating a column for each setting or have a JSON blob?

No one answer is correct for every situation. You can be future proof, ready to implement reporting/backup and restore/power user features when the time comes, or setting yourself up for pain.
It was a pleasure to read this article. Lots of fun facts and well written. Thanks.
We probably need a PBS equivalent for streaming, as FB and Google and huge businesses alike will always put their financial goals and liabilities before the general public interest. This has worked well for Wikipedia, where money hasn't been, at least in most cases, able to permanently wipe unwanted information off of articles.

This doesn't mean there won't be copyright claims, but the burden should be on the copyright owner not the user. If this platform is a "public streaming system", then no ads are shown and the limits of infringement will be constrained by the lack of ads (ie "fair use"). Having no financial incentives for people to make money off of other people's work makes it all much simpler.

A "Wikitube" would have its many challenges, certainly, but resolution would lean on the side of the public interest, something that has been wildly forgotten in the digital age.
2 things:

1) Buffer I think does this. Pay adjusted based on location/cost of living.

2) There's a world of difference between Montana and 'Palo Alto' where they can come in once a week, or whenever needed, or for meetings, or to pick something up, or for a 2-week crunch etc..

Basically: 'local remote' is different than 'really remote'.

Also, time zones matter, countries matter, languages matter.
Netflix, like many subscription services, charges you for services ahead of time. If you don't pay, you don't get the service. It's that simple.
Medicine reduces Covid-19 fatality rate by 80 percent
Reported by major Danish newspaper, but I don't see it on any international news sites yet.
The future will be personalized pricing for everything.

It will be a strange world with strange incentives. For example what motivates me to earn more if I can’t buy more because my personalised price for everything goes up by the same amount?

Airlines already use sleazy tactics to extract more money (perhaps they regret that now), but will this go further down the chain and I pay more for say food as well?
Let’s settle the password vs. passphrase debate once and for all
If someone goes from not having a profile to having one, you know they’re job hunting.

It’s like saying “Your Tinder profile will NOT contain any data/details about you or your dating search that will undermine you in your current relationship.”
I imagine it’s scummy when your site is used for fraud.
"breach my expectations of privacy"

Q: where did these expectations of privacy come from ?
I can recommend this video [1] from the author of How to Take Smart Notes. The whole Zettelkasten is a great idea, and he explained it succinctly in that talk. He also compares the status quo methods of note taking with the Zettelkasten, which for me was very eye-opening

[1]: https://vimeo.com/275530205
They claim that, but I got around it with an email to support.
The problem with using bit ops as logical is that they don't short circuit. Although it was unfortunately common even in languages that had proper Booleans at the time - e.g. standard Pascal didn't have it, and Turbo Pascal required a compiler directive/switch to enable it, which few even knew of. So it feels worse in retrospect than it actually was back then.

On the other hand, one thing that BASIC still has to this day (in VBA) that no other language I can think of does, is bitwise equivalence (EQV) and implication (IMP) operators. Furthermore, since VBA has a Boolean data type, these operators are also available for Booleans; implication comes in handy sometimes.
On the other hand, you can also do it nicely even in self-improvement space. Beeminder comes to mind; they let you set your productivity goals and costs of not meeting them, and they only ever charge you if you fail, and accept that you've failed - charge is automatic, but if you tell them there were extenuating circumstances, they'll give you that money back.
I don’t understand how people leave subscription or renewal charges unchecked in their credit cards. I can understand keeping a subscription unused but still acknowledging and paying for it (for whatever personal reasons), but having a charge in your credit card without knowing what exactly it is or why, sounds a bit strange to me. Could be that I’m not rich enough and I’m still paying attention to every single €/$/£ being charged :-)
How does "Full Disk Access" help?
>L over R, L over R would make a granny knot.

Same in the UK.
> with easy ways to change it into an expert user interface

Show me one product that could achieve this? Never have I ever seen something that executes that particular step well.

So I vote against 'average user experience' aka dumbed down and locked down crap.
>You might think that they discounted their UHD offering for you.

Yeah, that's what I assumed when I opened the email. Rather scummy in my opinion.
Maybe one day they will understand that free trade is better overall actually means better for the very rich and very poor and worse for everyone in the middle. A college degree is unfortunately no indicator of common sense.
One of the reasons subscription model is cancer: they hope you'll forget it's on.
I hadn‘t though about them in ages but turns out, at least the Google Toolbar is still around. https://www.google.com/intl/de/toolbar/ie/index.html
My understanding of a university is exactly as a place of learning of academic knowledge. If academic knowledge is not the most important value in an university, then I really don't understand what the purpose could be.

As such, in a university setting, I expect to be surrounded by people who are curious, who value learning, who are building up the skills and knowledge to excel in their chosen fields. In my own country, universities are usually specialized, and further divided into highly specialized 'faculties', which has upsides but also downsides. Still, even in the American college system, I would expect all of my peers to be interested in excelling in their chosen fields of study, whether that is music or sports or medicine or computer science. I would not expect to be surrounded by people who are just ok at academic knowledge but are really driven social workers, or by people who have basic knowledge in a lot of fields, but no advanced knowledge at all.
Thank God, I used a fake profile. I sailed the interview to 2nd stage but they couldn’t figure out how to interview a deaf SW engineer.
Naive optimism.

There was never any indication our involvement with the company was going to be made completely public.
> It sounds as if you are not worried that they would sue you?

Netflix subscriptions are prepaid. What on earth would give them the idea to sue if your card is declined?

If your current month runs out and your renewal is declined, they just don't authorize you for a second month of service. There's no breach of contract, there's no debt for services rendered, I can't think of a single motivation to sue for this.

What am I missing here?
Thank you! I just checked them out, and I stand corrected. Really an excellent design tool and very responsive. I see now that for certain applications WASM is indeed the right tool for the job.
I like my credit card's mobile app because of this problem - it pops a notification for every charge, so even auto-pay things show up as a reminder.
Unity has a service where they do it for you.
I was also recently spammed by an ex employee that appears to have ex-filtrated my personal data. I notified Triplebyte and received no response.
Cars of the Future from 1948
Canada’s CovidShield exposure app released as open source
Hm, so what are the remaining calculators that do? I thought HP 50g would be one, but apparently it's already discontinued. Casio still makes their Prizm series - there's no docs or official native SDK for it, but community cobbled something together, and they don't proactively block it. Is that it?
I get what you are saying, and yes, those are totally reasonable expectations in any community.

Im just saying - I think its amazing that _anybody_ trusts any of these Silicon Valley organisations to do anything reasonable. They are convenient to use, sure ... but ever trusting them to put your interests above their own. I dont understand how people can believe that.

If you hand over info and put in on their servers .. you dont own that info at all. They can, and will, do whatever they want with it to make another $
Others would have similar expectations, from other online services. We expect them to use our data in very limited ways that they've specified, and not suddenly start disseminating it in unexpected ways (if that is indeed what's happening with Triplebyte.)
First off, thanks again for taking the time to speak with us on HN.

I think you’re missing/avoiding the issue that people might want to hide the very fact that they have a Triplebyte account at all. It implies that they have job hunted in the last 5 or so years, and someone who’s been at a single company for longer than that might not want that information to be available.

I work at Google, and I can tell you as a fact that our Privacy Working Groups would never let us launch something like this without explicit user consent.
Mostly habit. I started using ReSharper long before CLion was introduced.
The thing is, half of what you described is basically a Linux-ism.

It's irrelevant on Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS, where the operating system is a monolith that applications depend on. Technically, it might be made up of multiple libraries, but the OS is almost guaranteed to be present in full, and it's the only thing that can be guaranteed to be present, and it might use integration systems that applications cannot or rarely use (VDSO, NTDLL, syscalls obviously, but also stuff like the System calling convention).

Or you might just use IPC for all components, like Plan 9.

It's also irrelevant if you're using a bare metal machine with no filesystem, a system with a weird linking paradigm like webassembly, or if your app basically owns the entire computer.
This might be on you and the company you work for. Many companies have remote work baked into their culture and from my experience, the quality of communication tends to be quite high
UK govt to cut Huawei 5G kit use 'to zero by 2023'
Trollish usernames aren't allowed on HN because they basically troll every thread they post to. This one's admittedly only mildly trollish, but still.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

We've banned this account for now, but if you want to email hn@ycombinator.com with a better username, we can rename it for you and unban it.
"Prior to colonisation, most people lived in subsistence economies where they enjoyed access to abundant commons – land, water, forests, livestock and robust systems of sharing and reciprocity. They had little if any money, but then they didn’t need it in order to live well – so it makes little sense to claim that they were poor. This way of life was violently destroyed by colonisers who forced people off the land and into European-owned mines, factories and plantations, where they were paid paltry wages for work they never wanted to do in the first place."

Really? Back in the 1400 life was just an awesome experience without money, everyone living off unlimited land and having a great time, not worrying about anything, sitting in the jungle or the beach with plenty of food.
Yeah, damn, take me back to 1400, life was so awesome then for everyone.
If you use Visual Studio Code as your daily driver editor, you can use the remote environments with SSH or Docker.

I made a couple of Docker images to work with the official VS Code plugin to develop for C++, Rust, Go, Java, PHP and Python

https://github.com/madduci/remote-environments
You shouldn’t expose a public profile for accounts that were private before anyway. Is that move even legal? I’m pretty sure it’s not GDPR compliant.
No, it just proves that Marx was right about the nature of the wage/salary. The value of labour power is the cost of reproducing/maintaining that worker at a particular standard of living, not some particular fraction of the value generated at work.
It's "bad" for us as individuals with our cultural background. It's not necessarily "bad" for the memes themselves, especially since the ultimate score in this game is to have an entire civilization proactively spreading the meme to others. Christianity, Islam, and other proselytizing religions are a good example.
Homomorphic encryption.
Hey that's neat, I didn't know HN had a flamewar detector. How does it work? Content matching and post frequency?
Where did the airlines park their airplanes?
“We aren’t making anyone’s subscription status public. All that their profile will show is the fact at some point in time they registered an account on Pornhub with their email address and real name, and any badges they earned.”
I don't like it, but it's even worse when the minority decides to limit freedoms.
Agree with your point but the 10% discount for Seattle is super easy to justify: no state sales tax. So there's no cost of living adjustment for Seattle, just an equalization due to the tax situation.
Regarding having a family: that's also a signal for stability. If you have a family and have settled down, there's less risk for the employer that you'll quit. I don't know how large the difference is for men and women with children and who's family planning is complete.

For young women who have no children, the "risk" (from the employer's perspective) of pregnancy and motherhood is another large factor.
The difference is that people expected their relationship with Triplebyte to be private, and not a public matter. A lot of people do not even want the fact that they're on the platform to be public. Like it or not there's a cultural expectation of "people have Linkedin all the time even when they're not necessarily job hunting," a level of leniency and acceptance that does not apply to Triplebyte (which is currently viewed as a "I want to get a job now" website)

I have had a really positive experience with Triplebyte so far but hope your team can understand the root of what is bothering people about this decision.
This is an opportunity for Tesla to buy out the Hertz brand, it would make a perfect complement!