skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't help but feel that even in this "clear and direct communication" the author is continuing to look for ways to manipulate situations and people. What seems to be lacking is empathy. The communication is based upon the value add, the reaction or positioning that the author gets at the end of the interaction, rather than on collaborating with another human and trying to get both parties to a better place.

A similar strategy to this "clear and direct communication" that can devolve into the same place is the concept of Radical Candor[0]. It can begin as a "helping" to awaken others to things they may have missed, and can end up being an avenue for tearing people down instead of growing them. The only difference is the intent of the speaker.

Assuming the best in people and striving to have positive outcomes tends to work better. This puts you at risk of other people much like the author was previously, who seek to undercut and deceive and manipulate, but those people show their true colors pretty quick and they end up on a different tier of communication that no longer gets the privilege everyone else is afforded.

A pivotal change within my own life and communication was reading about Adler's work [0]. Separation of Tasks as a concept is very applicable to interpersonal relationships at the office. I no longer struggle with trying to explain why people are rude and pushing agendas that don't make empirical sense. None of us are infallible and we all are seeking to shape our world in different ways and it's helpful to delineate what we really care about and not. Which hills to die on.

[0]: https://www.radicalcandor.com/
[1]: https://www.mentalhealthtoday.co.uk/blog/lessons-from-alfred...
What's some of the latest and greatest UX research someone might miss out on when they don't use some of the modern desktop systems?

I mean I'm not against new and better ways to interact with a computer, I just like to decide on my own if I want to use the new and shiny thing or not. Fuzzy searching is probably the most significant improvement I opted in in the last couple of years, and it's used basically everywhere on my desktop, while all the "modern" desktop systems like GNOME, Windows 10, macOS, ... still barely make any use of it and their search implementations sometimes even worsened from my point of view (Windows 10).
Excuses, excuses, excuses... This is the type of mentality that turns you into a grumpy 40 year old enterprise developer who hates them kids and their fancy programming tools.
Maybe, but it's intended to be actively grabbing with them, not at rest (so having them turned correctly is probably just an accident, not a correction of the earlier pose) so the curved-in hands might make sense—I didn't get the impression from the article that their wrists and "fingers" can't bend. The toy would move the arms in a grasping motion when, IIRC, you pulled the legs a certain way. Something like that.
After 20 years of hiring, I now refuse to ask ‘Tell me about yourself’
Switzerland is not uniform. It seems that is it easier for the alemannic part to adapt to social distancing. For example, when my wife and I entered an elevator, the people already in it left the elevator. I found that very rude at first but then I understood. That's why I wrote that people changed behavior drastically.

Also see my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439687
So, the only thing in life you enjoy is math? Because if you enjoy music or tv or novels or dance or sport or anything else, you enjoy something that doesn't deserve your respect. And why would you enjoy something like that?
The H1B visa – fashion models of distinguished merit
New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie
Honestly this article had some poor arguments. Like Apt being fantastic-it isn't-see below. I do not see what the hate around snaps are for.

Yes, some snaps are not updated, and VLC only working in the home directory as another HN commenter said is a pain.

Snaps still solve a lot of issues on Linux that Windows does not have.

What happens if the new version of your editor breaks some well known plugins?

On Windows you just install the older version from the archives. On Linux you risk dependency issues. Snaps are a single command to switch to an older version. Very important in both the software and media space.

One option is to stay on the LTS version of Blender.

Another is back when I used Atom, one upgrade completely broke a popular plugin for me because of a change in Chrome. I thought it would be fixed quickly so didn't revert the package and I lost the older version in the cache. Took the Atom devs 2 weeks to handle the change to Google Chrome-then Arch maintainer of the Atom package didn't get around to upgrading it for a week or two after that.

Things like apt pinning really don't help you when you discover the issue on your main workstation. Also, doesn't change the fact that it is so much easier to revert on Windows. Snaps make version control even easier to do on Linux then Windows.

The back-end being proprietary is a good argument. but for a company that has worked so long with Linux and Free Software; give Canonical a little trust to release it.
"If you’ve forgotten most of these, then the George Floyd event is another entry into a long line of various media events"

If you're British the whole Dominic Cummings episode - where the entire media obsessed for a week over nothing at all - but demonstrated clearly that the old English Common Law maxim of "Everything which is not forbidden is allowed" is under serious threat. [1]

Dr William Price would be turning in his grave - if he had one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_which_is_not_forbid...
How does this coincide with (when I was an academic in STEM) a tendency to try and fight against assumptions by using specific gendered pronouns in papers? For example “A data scientist may use <my hot new algorithm> in <hot research space> in order to save her 30% more time.”
You can add a breakpoint for larger screens and override properties using vw units with rem units that work for large screens. That’s basically how I structure most stylesheets anyway, vw units work great as a base for small screens.
The gravy train of owning the platform with an app store like Google and Apple do is just too tempting to resist trying to pull it off, unfortunately.
It is the cost of making computers "user friendly" and providing a positive "user experience". Can't be done without layers of crap, it's a law of physics.

The alternative is to deal with computers how they naturally "want" to be talked to. Then life is simple, you just need _engineers_ to write the software, and to _train_ people to use it.
What resonates with you as a reader is a pure function of what you’ve read in the past though. There’s an argument for trying to stick with movies/books/articles/etc you find difficult precisely to keep the mental torpor described at bay.
> Read old books, preferably books published before the 1900s, it really alters your psyche to realise how different things were just 100 or so years ago.

It's funny the author mentions this, because when I read old books I have the opposite reaction: I realize how similar life is and how little things have changed. We have new technologies and better infrastructure, but people's behaviors, thought patterns (particularly the negative ones, we just have names for a lot of them now), and ultimately the meat that makes us human has not changed one bit.
if youre not familiar I would suggest it too :)

I've gotten a few friends started on pi hole and ended up with minecraft servers, free nas, kodi, and retropi
"Consider the annexation of Crimea. That's what happens in a power vacuum"

Yeah, let's consider it.
It's a direct response to the US-sponsored coup in the Ukraine and the threat of NATO expansion into Ukraine.

The Crimea was (arguably) illegally taken from Russia and assigned to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic in 1954 when they both were a part of the USSR, the Ukraine refused to give it back when it declared its independence and yet Russia did nothing about it for a quarter of century and paid huge rent for Russian naval base located in Crimea.

The prospect of American military bases appearing in the Ukraine was unacceptable for Russia and what happened next you've read in the news.

That's what happens when the US meddles around the world.

"The threat is enough to guarantee countries think twice about annexing their neighbors provinces"

But who would protect countries from the American threat?

The US with the support of its navy invaded Iraq in 2003, bombed Libya, protects its allies (Turkey, Saudi Arabia) when they sponsor terrorists in Syria. The Turkey has de-facto annexed part of Syria, the US are controlling oil fields in another part of Syria, over a million are dead in Iraq, Libya is in a state of civil war ever since American bombing.
This is my favorite talk on the T-Rex:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f-jD7kQvyPs

I stopped being obsessed with dinosaurs 15 years ago. This was a great introduction to how our picture of the T-Rex has advanced since then.
"mankind" and "man-made" are not gendered terms any more than "history" or "hermit" are. Words can contain other words without being related to those other words.
`every "or" and "and" really is a boolean operator'

In my experience, not being a lawyer, but working with people with legal educations on queries for document review, they didn't generally seem to "get" logical concepts like the idea that precedence of boolean operators matters to interpretation.

Maybe people who went to top tier law schools are better or something.
Ask HN: Founders, do you ever feel like packing it in when things are going ok?
Do other founders sometimes feel like packing in their startup and getting a job, even when things are going ok, or is it just me?
The website you linked (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html) says:

> If you wish to install the traditional deb package, it is available as usual via APT, with all security and critical bug fixes. However, there will be no major VLC version updates until the next Ubuntu release.

This is in line with Ubuntu (and Debian) repo policies. You do not get major software updates in between distribution updates unless you use a third party repository. You do get bug fixes and security fixes, and/or can track unstable if you need the bleeding edge.
During the COVID freakout, I opined that all the CPU/GPU spent on Folding@Home was unlikely to create any sort of interesting breakthrough and it used an absurd amount of CPU/GPU to not make breakthroughs. In the past, I've been kind of opposed to using FHE on health data (seems wasteful; instead, should be run on trusted compute with a decrypt and encrypt key). But for the amount of wasted compute in CPU/GPU for molecular dynamics... coudl we instead process encyrpted health data on consumer devices (I'm not aware of any health data analytics problems that need to scale over millions of consumer devices).
Indeed I didn't remember it correctly:

According to https://tfhe.github.io/tfhe/ states:

> Each binary gate takes about 13 milliseconds single-core time to evaluate, which improves [DM15] by a factor 53, and the mux gate takes about 26 CPU-ms

Addition of two bits can be implemented using 5 binary gates (fulladder)
Hence to add 2 32 bit numbers ~416ms => 2 additions per second

EDIT:
Shame I cannot edit my original post
My advice to avoid issues like this is to focus on being aware of why you’re reply is reasonable, your emotional state as it relates to the reply - and what reasoning you might present as to why you expect the receiver or others readers of the response to benefit from your reply.

Beyond that, trying to separate online from offline identities can be a factor. If using different identities, establish why you’re doing this prior to doing so in an ad-hoc instance, and then, make sure you’re not departing from that reasoning or the sum of yourself regardless of the identity presented.
Fun fact: Wirecard is one of the 30 companies included in the DAX, Germany's large cap index.
I understand where you're coming from. I have similar thoughts when people try to blame individual choices for environmental issues, and put little pictograms and cute comics that teach you to always make sure not to leave taps running and other tiny tips that pale in relation to what effects industrial water use has. Putting the focus on the individual can result in forgetting another much bigger contributor.

So I see that not just this article, but articles like this in general floating around half-assedly in public consciousness can create an atmosphere where the attitude is that everyone who is down there got there by their lack of will, by their corrupt soul, and deserve it etc. which seems to be a common framing in the US. I don't live in the US and I myself are pretty far from that framing and may be too blind to its bad effects. So by all means, fighting for political change and for creating a social net that catches people and bounces them back up is very important.

But certainly in another sense, for a particular person it's a bad strategy to wait for others to pull them out of the mud. It may never happen. There are plenty of people who remain in that type of cycle, get all types of disease, die early etc. There won't be any dramatic music or moral lesson in the end, they just die with perhaps few people caring about even that fact. I like the quote "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." It's also similar to the Christian idea of Christ embracing the sinful and loves them in their humanity as they are right now, not only in some idealized version of them. Or the 12 step program for addicts, etc. If you take note of where you are, you can make a deliberate small move to where you want to be, instead of doing a random walk. Of course this only benefits you in some sense, but after a while it can expand and snowball to improvements for your family etc.

The top-down solution and the bottom-up solution can and should coexist.
I suspect it's likely what he thinks it is: targeted harassment by someone he used to know or came in contact with in some way. This kind of thing happens a lot. I used to encounter this sort of thing myself, when some people online decided to try to harass me this way.

As long as there exist services that'll let you deliver something to someone by filling out a form online, with an option to request payment upon delivery, this kind of thing will always be possible.

Doing it for years does seem pretty crazy, though. If it is harassment, the harasser may be mentally ill.
Thanks for the links. Very useful. As a company that relies on open-source and wants to donate some (limited) money, we're facing a challenge. How do we easily donate a fixed sum every year/month and make sure it goes to open-source projects we depend on.

I tried https://backyourstack.com and uploaded our Gemfile.lock (rubygems) to try to match it with opencollective projects. It detected 249 dependencies but zero projects that require funding on opencollective :(

Do you have any advice on how to go about it? we really want to contribute back, but it seems like an impossible task right now.

EDIT: btw both www.libraries.io and www.repology.org cannot resolve DNS for me... are they gone?
I really want to use it but it blocks Spotify playlist links when I try to open them from Reddit.
Checkout moz! Very straightforward
Thanks! We are exploring business models. If there's traction with low operating&marketing costs, we can afford not to charge a commission, but instead charge later for optional premium services/functionality. bidroom.com charges tourists instead.

Prior experience in the hospitality industry: none. Just started a few months ago.

(1) That's a good point. Didn't consider the marketing costs for the hotel direct bookings.

(2) Do you refer to https://www.google.com/travel/ and https://ads.google.com/hotels/ ?

We looked at these. Since hotels aren't allowed to post best prices for direct bookings, a tourist will see in the booking list:

Expedia $100;
Booking $100;
Direct (or hotel name) $100

Without a better price, they'll choose one of the known brands.

Any suggestions on how to tackle Google Hotel Ads?
lanes.io has a firebase error for me on Safari 13.1

> FirebaseError: Messaging: This browser doesn't support the API's required to use the firebase SDK. (messaging/unsupported-browser).
This headline does not come as a surprise to me, given my one interaction with Wirecard.

About a year ago, I had a bad experience with Verizon FIOS so I cancelled my subscription with them. I was owed a refund and Verizon delivered my refund to me on a Wirecard debit card. They claimed it was cheaper to issue a plastic card than to refund me directly to my card or issue a paper check. I find this claim extremely hard to believe. A pre-paid debit card is certainly NOT easier for the customer than a check. There are strong business cases for prepaid debit cards, but this was not one of them.

More likely, by issuing the refund via debit card, Wirecard and Verizon are able to extract every last possible penny by way of debit card fees and people who simply didn't bother to get their money off the debit card, by virtue of the friction they created for the customer with the debit card.

Pretty scummy if you ask me.
This is the “only say cheerful things” argument. If you want to impose that at the threat point of “maturity”, then be my guest.

Don’t be surprised when any legitimate criticism just sort of dries up, however.
“What Next?” - Graydon Hoare (2017)
> can be used to instrument only selected module(s) in the process

Sigh, what does it mean "to instrument" in this context?
What’s Up with Sweden?
There's an assumption here that I find fascinating. That it is possible to speak clearly and directly.

The process of producing speech is the result of the direct or slightly indirect activity of billions of neurons. That activity, in turn, is the result of inputs that take into account the strength of trillions of dendritic connections which encode (in a lossy fashion) the history of a persons experience.

Speech is compressive and lossy. You do not communicate the full state of your system or even a small portion thereof when you use speech. You have a limited vocabulary whose meanings do not map one-to-one in the mind of any other person who hears you speak. So not only are there multiple limitations on the output side of the channel, there are limitations on the receiving side as well.

This is why effective communication is so hard! As the sender you don't have full introspective access to the contents of your brain, so you can't even know what the full message is you're trying to send. As the receiver you're operating on a highly compressed message without a fully shared codec.

So whatever the feeling of "I'm being direct" or "I'm being clear" is, it is almost certainly itself faulty. We're not built for that and language isn't either.
Funfact: birds aren’t dinosaur-like. They are dinosaurs. Theropods specifically
Why is science even taught in college? All you need is a math book and YouTube to have people show you how to do the mechanical steps needed to solve problems.

(I'm sarcastic of course. Sciences and humanities are both cool and good and contribute to a better understanding of the world around us, and one wouldn't be much without the other.)
I copied an app from the App Store. Their business model was free desktop application but $20 for the iOS client and I really wanted it so I made a 'clean-room' implementation with CloudKit and charged $0.99 for a one-off cross platform sale.

Bit brazen, but the idea isn't entirely unique.

Edit: P.s email me at adam@adamfallon.com if you would like a promo code to get the app for free :).

* https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nitronotes/id1502080216
After having been half a day at a hospital with a face mask I realize it's just «Gewöhnungssache» (a matter of getting used to something). I am sure when about half of the population experienced half a day with a face mask on, then the majority will adapt. Face masks are just simply something which needs some getting used to. When really many people wear face masks then nobody will eye them warily.

And Switzerland probably never will pass this threshold.
If your really want to use it you should try diving into what blocklist is causing the block OR whitelist the URL.
Thank you for your contribution. I have a few PfSense/OPNSense deployments that leverage your list. Works great!
> But once you get used to an OS and set of tools—warts and all

This is the very reason I choose to configure a minimal WM, fed up of the churn and quirky behaviour of large DEs, especially the proprietary ones.

If you install DWM, or i3wm or {minimal wm of your choice}, you don't have to configure it to the nth degree like on unixporn - many of them work out of the box with sensible defaults (i3wm is known for this)... but the nicest thing of all? it stays that way, you may or may not make gradual tweeks over the years if you find a pain point, then when you reinstall or upgrade your system just take a single config file with you - done.

Compare this to macOS or windows where things just dynamically move around and change their behavior "because progress", or you re-install and have to dig through UIs to turn shit off to get back to where you were... I don't want this, I want to get shit done, I also don't want to have to relearn someone's exciting new desktop paradigm every few months at random and inconvenient times, which these days are more and more catered to the lowest common denominator of user.

Using a minimal WM does not necessitate massive time investment, it may take a little getting used to like any new thing, you can invest as much or little into customisation as you can be bothered - the biggest reward: stability, continuity, piece of mind, sanity, less distraction.

Anecdote: I last touched my i3config 4 years ago, my WM behaves the same, I use the same key commands, no new features are automatically injected on updates... zero distraction.
Escape from Microsoft Word
No, the likely harasser is searching for delivery services that allow cash on delivery for payment. They just don't use any services that only have pre-payment options.
Very cool idea! I went ahead and bought a starter kit. I think you're on to something here.
Would love to hear your points of view on this!
How Tractor Supply Co is using tech to deliver e-commerce to its rural customers
https://youtu.be/lC5lsemxaJo?t=44s
Thanks for clarifying. Indeed this is what I meant. I probably should use the word “overly” instead of “too” here to make it clearer.
(I'm wasn't implying the EnergizedProtection is sketchy...)

The essential problem is, without active curation, source lists can't quickly react to emerging threats.

Without active curation, source lists become add-only buckets where domains land, and are rarely removed, long after they are abandoned.

The soft option is to simply cumulate domains. We've seen candidate block lists grow from 350,000 domains to 750,000 domains. These are just endless one-way buckets. Use that as your Android phone's hosts file, or you Windows PC hosts file, and you're going to have a bad time.

At the edges, there are myriad grey areas. We can all agree that YouTube serving ads is painful. But what about Youtube retaining your viewing history, which some people find very useful and handy. Over the years we've often had discussions such as this. This is what it means to actively curate.
Any performance metric comparisons available?
Might be Exercism?

https://exercism.io
If it's not life threatening, you are not allowed to physically hold someone. They'll be guilty of theft and you'll be guilty of assault. It has to be self-defense, then you can only response with equal force. Other than self-defense, only the police are authorized to use force.