skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of times if you are willing and able to do things that other people can't, you can get quickly promoted. If you are seen as the kind of person who could wage an effective terrorism campaign against a random couple in Massachusetts because they wrote mean things about your Fortune 500 employer, you are in a very small club and you will be sought out when you are needed.
If ICE becomes a nazis then America will have also have become the same. I don't think it's fair or makes sense to single them out. Anyway, dealing with illegal immigration has popular support.
BTW, I just stumbled across the AWS Chime SDK: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/business-productivity/customers...

Sounds similar to what Twilio offers, but at about 1/6th the price -- might be worth a look if costs are a concern...
> “The internal investigation found that, while Mr. Wenig’s communications were inappropriate, there was no evidence that he knew in advance about or authorized the actions that were later directed toward the blogger and her husband. However, as the company previously announced, there were a number of considerations leading to his departure from the company,” eBay said.

That’s all I had to read. It had to come from the top to be this organized.
I don't think anyone hated it, but it definitely wasn't in the "loved" category either - more of a "tolerated it as a necessary evil"
Firefox => Chrome works pretty well. The other direction? Not so much…
> Because they are "innocent until proven guilty".

That...doesn't stop people from being arrested. Proof of guilt is required before imposing sentence, but arrest happens way before that.
I think this is a little dismissive of kids today. How many kids actually bothered pirating a copy of Flash vs. just mindless playing bloons tower defense? You could argue that this low stakes gaming has been replaced by phone apps. But kids today are learning from what they watch on youtube: far more kids are making their own videos for their youtube channel or tiktok account and learning about av production in the process, than kids learning flash programming 15 years ago. Sure it starts small with your phone camera, but look at the production quality of some of these influencers: they are investing in good cameras, microphones, lighting, sound proofing, editing software, and that is something you need to learn a little bit about video production to effectively set up, and these are still marketable skills.
YES.

Windows 2000 was also one of the most consistently designed versions of Windows. XP also introduced tons of design language chaos as they only migrated some of the UI over to the new controls and left big chunks of the OS to languish. I think Control Panel had widget rot well into Windows 10 (Maybe still has this issue?).

I only grudgingly moved to XP and shortly after switched to Desktop Linux full time.

> I'm still rather baffled about how people look back fondly on XP

XP was the first consumer version of adult (non-w95 based) Windows. Relatively few people used Windows NT or Windows 2000. If you are one of the many people who's Windows use either started with XP or you went from W95 to XP, then XP was clearly the best Windows you've ever seen.
> I'm talking about Unicodes conflation^W deliberate lies that a code point is a meaningful unit of data in it's own right rather than a artifact of using a multi-level encoding from characters

What on Earth are you talking about. Where does the UC "lie" like this? Remember, the base codepoint is generally a character in its own right when it's not combined, and combining codepoints are mostly not characters in their own right.

> Yeah, this is what conviced me that base+diacritic was a better design than precomposed characters.

If anything, precompositions probably exist primarily to make transcoding from other previously-existing codesets (e.g., ISO-8859-*) easier.

> > Emoji are [...] with color.
>
> That - that they are not actually text - is one of several problems with them, yes.

How are Kanji text and emoji not? Both are ideographic. What is the distinction? This is not rhetorical -- I'm genuinely curious what you think is the distinction.

> > but decomposition and combining codepoints are absolutely not a mistake.
>
> Decomposition and combining diacritics are not a mistake. The mistake is treating the decomposed elements as first-class entities.

The base codepoints are generally characters in their own rights ("first-class entities") while the combining ones are generally not. In what way am I getting that wrong?

> > Finally, we're not likely to ever replace Unicode -- not [soon] anyways.
>
> That has been said about literally every bad status quo in the history of problems that existed long enough for people to compain about them.

You are making arguments for why Unicode should be replaced, though I think they are unfounded, but you'll need more than that to get it replaced. Even granting you are right, how would it be made to happen?
Ballard Power being a classic example of this, though there are many.
You're right - they affect the livelihoods of far more people.
I'm still on 2 too, mostly because I recall being unable to use the plugin interface ionsome early version of 3, in late 2018; not sure if it was being reworkwd on or whatnot, but since I had been using MS to author some books and lessons for my students, I was already relying on the scripting, with no time to learn something new or wait for the APIs to work again. Since I'm stuck in this version limbo, I use a library I wrote in Python to manipulate mscx files. I think thos is also a mini-rant on how little FOSS software seems to care about backwards conpatibility. Still, v2 still is much better than any other notation software I tried so I'm not switching.
They actually tried to get Flash running on Android for a while

Not sure what came of that. I will probably need to google more
You're doing impressive work! Thank you for writing this up and sharing your progress!
> The point is that "black on black violence" is essentially a myth.

This doesn't even pass the laugh test.
> Risk is an integral part of the market. Why should people be prohibited from taking risks?

Because some people are incompetent at judging risks, and offerings like these seem primarily designed to take advantage of those people.
There should also be the death penalty (no quotation marks) for sufficiently evil corporate misconduct. Not a case like this, but something like Purdue Pharmaceuticals knowingly creating the American opioid crisis should be more than enough destruction to justify lethal injections for the top principals of the company.
What algorithm running on a digital computer would make the computer transparent?
Literally no one's definition of "society" ignores individuals. Not sure what you're on about.
This is neat.

One bit of feedback: I found the default and even "extra bold" stroke size way to small. White boards have that imperfect broad strokes feel to them, having tiny lines, especially as the default just doesn't connect well with it IMO.

Otherwise the interface is very easy to use, I like the draggable and editable objects approach
This is marvelous.

Now imagine, with no right to repair, manufacturers locking all components making these things impossible.
Not sure why so many people complain about it when it was trivial to enable a classic theme to make it look like Win2K.
Another sign of the tech regression is that we don't have a robust alternative that does the things Flash did. No easy-to-use and publish editor, no robust video/audio streaming server/client combo. Today's HTML alternatives are so convoluted and bad to integrate that we need to use proprietary/closed platforms (e.g. Unity, youtube)

Apple never really loved the web. Web animation and gaming are still behind what you could very easily do with flash, webrtc+video are horrible battery drains etc. Ironic, considering that one of the reasons that Jobs bashed flash was that it drained the battery. And that he replaced "not open" flash games with his own Closed Platform and App Store garden. The whole reasoning in that letter reeks of hypocrisy , it should be obvious in retrospect.

On top of that , modern "HTML sites" are much worse performance-wise than the equivalent flash. Abandon flash : sure, it's old and unsafe and nobody wants browser plugins. But make sure you have a decent alternative first. We don't.
Was "fills" in the title supposed to read "files"?
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The point -- for me, anyway -- isn't what some piece of software happens to be named. You all can call it what you like. The point is that the prevailing mindset in the US today has devolved to the point that people actually reason in this fashion. And that is hardly settled now.
> what happens when everyone refuses you EVERY single service

If I'll ever find my self in a situation like this - I'll pack my things and run. I'm not going to be happy in a place like this even if government will force those people to tolerate me.

> if a majority of businesses gradually decide to be racist and refuse all services just because they can

That means anyone entrepreneurial enough will have access to an underserved niche market.
If you took it at a testing center they would have a camera on you too.
When I first heard of Julia in 2016 it was sandwiched between R and Python and thought it had no chance whatsoever of succeeding.

I’m increasingly impressed by Julia. It’s a crowded space and they remain relevant. Maybe even best of class for some applications.
SMR is not as bad for desktop-style workloads as you might think. If you have enough storage for cache and metadata, you can get great performance because all of your writes are sequentialized.

If you had 32GB of Optane and 4 TB of SMR properly tuned that would be one heck of a desktop drive, but (1) you have to really eliminate all the bottlenecks and (2) who needs a desktop drive large enough that SMR is worth it?
They are solving the linear system Ax=b, written in Julia/Matlab usually as A\b, specifically for a fixed size 5x5 matrix. The Grassmann algebras can give a way of representing the matrix and vectors, and a comparison is being made to the representation (and solver) given by StaticArrays.jl, which just uses typical matrices and arrays but optimized for small sizes. No real motivation to use Grassmann algebras if your only concern is generally solving a linear system, other than this method seeming to be faster, which mostly (imo) points to the StaticArrays.jl method needing to be optimized.

Edit: This post also does not mention numerical stability of the Grassmann.jl method, which is a real concern in practice, even for such small systems.
But all of that shitty behavior is actually good for the shareholders (in the short term) they were essentially seeing how much you could abuse captive and or ignorant customers.
> nuclear power plants turned out to be more expensive than promoted

We didn't suddenly forget how to economically build nuclear power plants. What changed was that

> we collectively decided that no amount of engineering could possibly make nuclear acceptably safe

and prices rose without bound to reflect that decision.
Some bikeshedding:

What about "Top-Down Graph" or "Graph Top-Down" rather than "graph TD"?

Or "Entity Relationship Diagram" instead of "erDiagram"?

Just to make it even more easy to read. The others could remain as shorthands.
Not having to add classes I guess, because that is way too complicated
I would argue that the West's willingness to go after Assange, Snowden, Manning, and (sorry to him if he doesn't want to be in this list) Alex Vindman even after their revelations showed serious problems in American foreign policy and behavior. Both Obama and Trump showed a profound disinterest in evidence of a lack of self-restraint and self-governance. That was the test, and I think we have failed spectacularly. Of course, these days, there seem to be much bigger fish to fry, but I worry that "flooding the zone with bs" achieves precisely this constant feeling that this problem cannot be solved because there are more pressing matters.

Apart from climate change, a government incapable of addressing it's own crimes is our biggest threat. Note that I don't expect government to never commit crime, I just expect it to admit to it and take corrective action when it happens.
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The story was posted less than 2 hours ago. Local news breaks much earlier than national. National news will eventually pick this up; even in the currently congested news cycle, this story is too bizarre for it not to.
Really good points above. Having worked in SW Consulting for >9 years, the communications part is essential: you will need to 'translate' (see above) between two very different entities, acting as a conduit, and be able to switch context quickly.

Re: technical background, it will certainly give you authority, but a soft skill I lean on every day is you'll need to learn how to educate/explain in brief sentences, while still sounding enthusiastic and without any hint of eye-rolling or annoyance, even if it's a basic concept to the project or something you have a deep knowledge of.
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Intent matters. Wikileaks was explicit about publishing the documents to document US war crimes and war crimes were indeed documented.

The Pentagon Papers were 4,100 pages. Not every single one of them was individually proof of a war crime. Imagine the US government sued Daniel Ellsberg for the publication of all the parts of the papers that didn't explicitly prove war crimes, but skipped the bits that proved them - that's the equivalent of what is happening here.
> And which DB out of curiosity scales without any load on your wallet?

BigQuery includes all these things "for free" in the base price. It is pretty straightforward, with a price for storage and a price for querying (which you can choose to be usage or fixed). DynamoDB started off the same way, and added nickels and times by the roll.
I don’t know why so many commenters here seem to want to prevent people like this from speculating/investing how they want. His risk tolerance is larger than yours and he’s arguably making a very stupid investment, so what?
I totally agree that growth and gains on capital are not a given, but:

1) The world's real GDP is still going up. Or at least has been till 2019.

2) Even if it was to slow down and remove prospects of gains on capital - it still doesn't mean that people will adjust quickly; you'd have to rewrite the entire concept of pensions for starters.

3) It seems to me that core rates are seriously manipulated down (interest rates, default spreads, equity discount rates); just look at ballooning of the balance sheets of pretty much everything, or look at the share of "zombie" companies, that is companies that cannot even service their interest payments.

3 is of course just an opinion, but if true will result in serious clogging of the machine with useless actors. 3 is where, I believe, things like "bullshit jobs" / "the office" come from, for example.
> It costs $99 a year, and its business proposition is simple: You can pay Google with your privacy or Basecamp with your money

Um... Tutanota and Protonmail are both privacy-conscious and cheaper than that.
Admin-Root-CA shows us how far we've come, I think today that even if Mozilla's root programme didn't forbid them people would guess that ultra-vague names aren't a good idea.

For reference that is the Swiss government's root and it isn't trusted by Mozilla so as a consequence it's unlikely that any systems you have facing ordinary web browsers depend on this root to be trusted.

It's also funny to go back and look at Mozilla's trust decision (it's before I was engaged in looking at this on a day-to-day basis) and see that the terrible naming was decisive while the practice of just basically trusting a Swiss government employee to issue whatever they want was considered only "problematic" and not necessarily a showstopper.

Of course because Mozilla doesn't trust this root, it does not see itself as having any oversight role for the root. So if you use MacOS, or Windows, to do anything other than run Firefox, you're reliant on their teams to verify that this root is well run. Maybe they're doing a great job? I guess you'd only ever find out the hard way because they operate entirely behind closed doors.
Using HTML attributes instead of classes to style HTML elements
> you cant really call someone a criminal until they've been convicted of a crime

This is a technical nicety not available to a policeman in a real situation. If someone points a gun at them, that someone is a criminal, even if they are "technically" not.
Because then we are implicitly responsible through social services for the idiots who gamble away their life savings with margin trading as an advanced form of gambling addiction. It's not just 24 yo doing it, it's also 55yo doing it with their life savings. I remember my previous landlord complaining about her ex-husband doing it decades after the fact and it's the reason why they split.

Requiring a pilot license level of education for margin trading & gambling past a certain point (like $1k) is making more and more sense as time goes on.
The US military and its civilian leadership have been ruinous to world peace. This isn't just my opinion, it's the belief of basically every nation in the world except the US itself[0]. It should be disarmed and turned into a purely defensive force. Drone strikes must end; 90% of their victims are not the intended target[1]. This is not an accident. The lack of regard for civilian life in the countries the US is bombing (currently around seven?) is pervasive and disgusting.

[0] https://chomsky.info/the-greatest-threat-to-world-peace/

[1] https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-comp...
The tide is starting to change although it is departmental specific. In biology, some of the best departments in the nation are waiving the GRE because wouldn't you know, being able to do high school algebra in a certain amount of time and having a wide nonscientific vocabulary are not good predictors of your ability as a scientist.
Given the high percentage of Android phones, there was no monopoly to abuse.
One Indian industry beat China at manufacturing and created a global footprint
> Good. It's great lesson for content creators and consumers about relying on proprietary formats.

How old are you? There is nothing wrong using proprietary formats and at the time there were no other alternatives. Macromedia were the pioneers of internet animation.

Even with HTML5 today there still isn't anything that allows me to produce a quick web animation with the likes of the Macromedia Flash. Adding that Flash would always produce the same result on any device that could support it. Mobile Phones, Symbian and even Palm tablets all supported it at one point.

Proprietary isn't the issue here, it's the monopoly that Adobe is. Adobe could of more and happy propped this up but no; like all major buyouts, bleed the product out to die. If it wasn't for Macromedia, Adobe wouldn't be what it is today.
Government often supports investors making movies; likewise, governments could try to get on board with good venture capitalists in funding software, and this does happen in some places. Government panels or individuals selecting which software to fund runs into the principal agent problem, due to lack of skin in the game.
An un-informed public cannot get outraged about its governments crimes nor serve as the final stop-gap against criminal behaviour by removing those responsible for the abuses of power required to commit crimes against humanity at such scale as we have seen the USA and its War Coalition commit in the last two decades.

This is why publishers are important and should be protected. The Wests' citizens have been utterly scammed into complicity with these crimes against humanity - the imperative to mis-inform, and thus divert the outrage potential, is very, very high in this case.
Have you tried the Simplify GMail browser extension? It made the transition from Inbox to GMail less painful to me.

https://simpl.fyi/
I don’t see where your optimism about c) comes from. Julian Assange’s flamboyance and charisma are the reason he wasn’t disappeared a long time ago.

Quiet leakers will surely FB dispensed with quietly and much less pleasantly than Assange.
> I don’t get the hate on this offering. It’s a huge gamble for sure, but the upside is there if they pull it off.

Disclaimer: I'm basing this comment on rough memories of undetailed news coverage.

That said, the impression I got was that Hertz asked the bankruptcy court for permission to issue $1 billion of stock while needing ~$3 billion to pay off its creditors. This makes no sense to me. The right thing to do would be to try to sell $3 billion of stock. In that case, the path to non-failure is obvious. Here, failure isn't just the most likely option; it's also the plan.

(Would issuing so much new stock wipe out pre-bankruptcy stockholders? It might, but so does the bankruptcy.)
I'd be interested to see a static arrays benchmark run on 1.5 as it can now stack allocate views and other types due to general compiler improvements.
People said at the time and for years aferwards that it would cause the iphone to fail. Multiple companies made 'supports Flash' a major part of the marketing.

> https://techpinions.com/apple-claim-chowder-product/34156
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My wife and I personally did this. I took 6 years, she took 8 (we had a baby and she got a teaching credential, which is why hers took longer).

Graduated without any debt, but it was rediculously hard, especially in years 4-5.5 when I lost my job (2008 recession) and survived solely off rice, turkey hotdogs, and whitebread (leaving barely enough to cover diapers/medical.
> The US Government, by omitting this video from evidence, is making a tacit admittance that he is a publisher.

This doesn't, at all, follow.

> Either he IS a journalist/publisher and thus protected from prosecution for revealing evidence of real crimes

Not if he himself committed crimes to get the evidence.
The problem is that only occasionally getting killed during a traffic stop isn't enough. No sane person would take such a job.
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I still use Fireworks every day. It's the best graphic design tool ever created in my opinion. Everything else has become so complicated. With my Adobe Cloud subscription they still let me download it thankfully, but I'm a little worried that in 5 years, when I upgrade my PC, I'll never be able to install it again.
Let’s see how long that lasts when follow-on financing doesn’t materialize and limited partners pull capital and give it to Unicorn.VC because their results are more “exciting”.

I say this as a founder that prioritized profitability and outlasted many VC backed competitors and was sick of VCs telling me to increase burn and growth and ignoring my warning of the long term perspectives and risks. We decided not to take VC and are smaller but killing it.

I am glad to see this perspective but it only lasts during a financial crisis then it’s right back to fetishized hyper growth.

As far as I am concerned go ahead and keep your hyper growth VC dollars, I’ll buy your bankrupt portfolio company in a few years with our profit.

As YC says, get to ramen profitability as early as possible and be a cockroach that will survive.
> I don’t get the hate on this offering.

It's pretty obvious -- it's bullshit.

The only reason it's happening is that the regulators have been gelded and there is no reason not to. Adam Smith's invisible hand has been replaced by a dirty glove giving the public the finger.