skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you log back in, here's how I would think about it. Imagine yourself at peak personal and work performance. Do you have a sort of a 'type' or person that comes to mind? e.g. Perhaps you're into building content based communities, and Alexis Ohanian comes to mind. Find out who advised and coached Mr. Ohanian in the early days of launching reddit. Can you imagine wanting that person's input into your life, and how it might help you?

That's the sort of person I'm thinking of when we talk executive coaching.

The other kind, to parody, a sort of failed masseuse and mid-tier office worker turned coach is not at all the sort that I think would generally move the needle for someone interested in the tech startup world.
I think most people understand that the parent could be describing credit card markets, and I don't think that anyone is trying to make the case that credit card companies don't also take anti-competitive actions.

But the typical credit card fee is ~3%, which is literally an order of magnitude less, and Visa/Mastercard/etc also don't prohibit their merchants from accepting other forms of payment.
Paranoia Creeps into Homeworking
Netflix doesn’t allow in app purchases anymore.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/25097

iTunes billing for Netflix is not available to new or rejoining Netflix customers.

If you are attempting to create an account on an iOS mobile device, you can sign up on Netflix.com using a mobile browser and will be prompted to provide an alternate method of payment.

Neither does Youtube Live.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/13/21136730/youtube-tv-endin...
What we really need is a new Google, built on open principles (decentralized / peer to peer, fully free software, backed by a nonprofit), and focused on indexing the long tail of insightful content that is neglected by Google because it lacks SEO, popularity, links, and other metrics that Google find interesting but we don't necessarily do.
The thing about crypto is that it works in pieces. I'm sure it takes 12+ libraries to make an end-to-end encryption work. Signal has this same problem.
I don't mean to be too precise, but the article is slightly undermined by the claim in the graphic that the 543 Justinian plague hurried the collapse of the eastern Roman Empire. The 'Eastern' Roman Empire fell in 1453 when the walls of Constantinople were breached by the Ottomans. Very difficult to claim that the Romans fell in the 6th Century. I mean nearly 500 years later Basil is rolling back into Syria on the back of repeated victories over the Bulgarians. Always feel let down by these sorts of overblown claims that are easy to slap into an info-graphic.
An expectation that acceptable deaths/injuries = 0 definitely affects the timeline.
I'd say a big part of the web is gaming, chatting, interacting. A lot of that content updates every few seconds. Without JS, websockets, ajax requests etc, do you suggest users load the entire page again whenever they want to see an updated view?!

Or is your opinion that it should only be possible to do those things in native, purpose-built apps? Because in that case, how do you justify using an operating system? Perhaps we should exclusively use purpose-built assembly code that you flash to some writable media every time you want to run a particular program!
This spawned from an observation that our representative democracy isn't representative. We worked backwards from what caused that.

We've split the mission out into sub-goals but the primary goal is to make our representatives, well, representative. We identified what, in our opinion, was undermining that and set to work.

I don't think it's fair to attach everything to Bloomberg and consider the matter a closed case. Large donors do indeed influence the outcomes of elections, if they didn't we wouldn't have large donors. Conflating money with speech isn't healthy, they can be exchanged for one another. Tracking that exchange as part of campaign financing laws wouldn't constitute a warrantless search while storing the "metadata" of peoples communication very well might.

Warrantless searches, and the government organizations wielding them, have been used to systematically disenfranchise and suppress voters. The civil rights movements have been actively undermined by the government wielding this power. I may be operating under an availability heuristic here, but a sweeping majority of the folks I've crossed paths with in my life do not support the government's mass surveillance programs. Yet the persist, being sanctioned and overseen by our "representatives".

The mission is cultivated from identifying and disrupting the viscous cycle of power imbalance. The strongest branch of the U.S. government is supposed to be the voters, not the few but the many, we aim to make that happen.
http://amasci.com/ele-edu.html

Great resource, which dispels a lot of myths and misused terminology in many other traditional explanations. Fun read!
Is there an option where we don't act like consciousness is solved when it's convenient for our argument?

> Reply to above:
If consciousness is fundamental, the "purely mechanical" explanation is not purely mechanical.

I've found HackerNews to be broadly allergic to the idea of nonlocal consciousness, and worldviews that are not material reductionism. Nevertheless, I will once again point to the work of Dean Radin, among others, to demonstrate that these are not unfalsifiable claims.
> It has unfortunately become politicised to the point we will never know.

It's not politicised outside of the US. It was known to be junk science before Trump picked up on it. There is still some proper science to be done in clearly disproving all the junk claims, and don't worry, it will be done. But proper science takes time.
Not true and if it was, other apps would be in violation of it.

Dropbox Plus is 11.99€ on the App Store as an in-app purchase and 9.99€ on Dropbox.com
Big fan of the No-Nonsense Technician-Class License Study Guide. In addition to vocabulary and terms, there's also sections about units and conversions and basic maths involved to understand the flow of electrical current as it passes through a system

https://www.kb6nu.com/study-guides/
This is a great book that is good to see preserved and available in PDF form. A lot of this is applicable to other architectures, and gives a good view into how compiler engineers think..
The US executed Iran’s top general three months later. While it wasn’t directly related, I would be stunned if it wasn’t at all related.
The peacefulness of a protest has nothing to do with the political message. Not every concept is about your political bottom line. Friend and foe alike can engage in peaceful and violent protests.

A "violent protest" is a clear concept that means something. You can very easily imagine a peaceful protester with the most awful things written on their sign. And you can imagine the most violent rioters being inspired by the greatest message.
> you don't need any of the extra stuff (a decent desktop experience ...)

I have a better experience on Linux now than I've had on Windows in the past.
I would personally love to see Hey come back with a free Apple version of their service which gives the user a hilariously long @hey.com email address and lets them use it.
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On the contrary, I'm choosing my words and considering their meaning very carefully. This topic is too important to "play loose".

100% of white people are advantaged by racism. I didn't claim that all experience that advantage equally, and I didn't claim that the advantage negates any other disadvantages each individual white person experiences due to the specifics of their lives, their class or social status, any number of other systems of identity-based power, or even countervailing individual prejudices.

You may find it hard to notice the advantage it gives you, but it certainly exists.
This is super valid, and something I spend a lot of time thinking about. The task ahead is monumental, but these are sub-goals. This spawned from an observation that our representative democracy isn't representative. We worked backwards from what caused that. The mission is cultivated from identifying and attempting to disrupt the viscous cycle of power imbalance. The strongest branch of the U.S. government is supposed to be the voters, not the few but the many, we aim to make that happen. I don't think any of these three points can succeed without the other two.

Mass surveillance, if you click through, isn't about mass surveillance. It's about a government not being held accountable to it's own laws, which are meant to be governed by civilian oversight. Our government must follow it's own laws, it must pass laws that are foremost in line with our founding documents and then inline with their constituent's desires. The mechanism for civilian oversight is broken.

While reading the ACLU FOIA requests and court documents, it was clear to me that the government wasn't playing by the rules. When you read the reasons the government kept these programs secret on write-ups from leaked documents, it was for fear of being subject to civilian oversight. This isn't how our government was designed to operate.
What would you think about sandboxing all media related components?
Totally this. Covid-19 really opened my eye on how all governments basically lie to avoid “fear” in public.
The only part they're upstreaming is some ioctls to send opaque blobs from closed-source binaries on the Linux side to closed-source binaries on the Windows side.
Its really not, only Linux makes it that way. If its done right (as it is on mac, and to a _very_ slightly lesser extent, Windows) there isn't 'blurriness' at all. One monitor will just happen to be sharper than the other.

I work every day with a 4K monitor and a 1080p monitor side-by-side and it works well. Linux couldn't handle it in any configuration, especially with mixed Intel integrated+nvidia graphics, but Windows is a champ.
Law has not been revoked until 2018 though.

> It's simply ridiculous to not have Russian as an official language in such conditions.

They allowed Russian to be official regional language in regions where more than 10% population speaks Russian. Sounds reasonable to me.

Window of opportunity was caused by messed up government in Ukraine, which couldn't produce any resistance against Russia's military invasion.
/me wonders which Mozilla marketing person is responsible for planting this comment to justify value. Firefox accounts has a loooong ways to go. There's no webauthn support ( Mozilla's own standard ) and no recovery process. Clear disconnect between value and reality.
They weighed the option of not having to pay 30% and (understandably) didn’t want to do it. If a company run by the creator of Ruby on Rails can’t do that without spending “hundreds of thousands” of dollars they are grossly incompetent. I doubt that they are.
Serious question: what should a company like MS do in that position ? I think this is a nice feature and it's useful, it's also open source and MIT licenced, so in other word, it's an open as it can get.
Is there anyway for MS to not making you uncomfortable apart from just not adding any new feature ?
There were a lot of complaints about UAT when it was first introduced, claiming it was too confusing for casual users. It was a factor in the huge unpopularity of Vista.
I've setup the Snowplow collector and tracker on some of my sites because that part is very straightforward (and the tutorial on the wiki is great), but I've never gotten past those steps to analyse the data collected.

Is there a highly-opinionated tutorial that shows how one can get some vanity metrics out from Snowplow?
There was less copyright concern back then too. Remember “Make James Earl Jones speak”? Or the Hamster Dance?
I'm totally on the opposite side.

A Linux environment is superior for doing development (for everything I care about), and nowadays I've been able to play every game that doesn't have a native Linux port in Proton.
a few thousand dollars worth of insured inventory in a corner store is certainly not worth killing someone over. but surely you can envision a scale of destruction where use of violence is justified. suppose for instance a group of people is rampaging through the countryside burning fields and destroying a meaningful portion of the food supply for a country. is it still wrong to do what it takes to stop these people before everyone starves?
whoa any forecast reports? I think the tourists are suing the tourism companies right now
Yeah, I think we agree on the excellent typist point. It needs to be fast enough, but I suspect what happens is that pretty much everybody using a computer sufficiently to become a great developer reaches "fast enough" naturally through implicit practice.
Facebook Removes Trump Political Ads with Nazi Symbol. Campaign Calls It 'Emoji'
Happy Fastmail user here. I love it for the snappy web client. It's only after I switched that I realized how slow Gmail felt.
Using information theory to decode network coevolution
Is ADA compliance even so expensive? Making sidewalks a certain width and grade isn't hard nor any more expensive than not doing that, I helped my dad pretty much do this when we repoured his driveway apron ourselves.

The rules seem pretty simple and not expensive to implement if you are pouring the concrete anyway:
https://legalbeagle.com/5561359-ada-standards-sidewalks.html

On the other hand, what I notice more often is a lack of ADA maintenance, after the initial construction might have been compliant. Back in the 80s, LA planted a lot of trees which seemed like a great idea. Today, we are no longer planting that type of tree because it has destroyed sidewalks all over town, making it impossible to travel if you needed ADA specifications to get around. When the city repairs the sidewalk, they don't cut down the newly formed 1' skateboard ramp at all, they just fill in the cracks crudely and quickly with asphalt, which pits in no time. I am stumbling and tripping on the sidewalk all of the time, and I don't even have any conditions affecting my mobility.
Looking at the rest of the economy, public infrastructure projects like this are the only hope to keep the economy running. Yeah there will be some paper debt on municipal books but the net benefit of the money unlocked from this is much higher. At least from an economic sense. In a perverse way the more these projects costs, the more money is redistributed.
I'm not sure whether nuclear is better, and renewables definitely is a good thing to have in the mix. But comparing the carbon emissions of Germany and France, and the cost of electricity in both countries would suggest that at least currently, renewables without nuclear isn't as effective for supplying our power needs as renewables with nuclear.

If I've misunderstood this somewhere, I would love to learn more.
You are way way way oversimplifying nearly 1000 years of history between the plague of Justinian and the fall of Constantinople.

The Justinian expansion was untenable. If you look at it on the map - there are strong enemies on literally all sides. It was a desperate but hopeless attempt to regain the Western Empire.

The plague made it worse - but was hardly the catalyst. ...and the East Roman Empire was far more than a city state for a majority of the remaining NINE centuries.
Even more bizarre considering Hey is not even publicly available yet. They could have easily deferred this fight without it having any effect on the absolutely miniscule number of new clients that are getting in before the general availability.
DMOZ started stagnating around 2005. By the time it closed, it was already considered irrelevant, and much of the index had been unmaintained for years -- there was really nothing left to hold on to.
>if low quality media is everywhere, doesn't high quality media stand out?

You would think so, but more often than not, most people don't want high quality. What happens is that the media that panders to the lowest common denominator stands out the most, since that what the majority focus on.
> You can't buy a house now with $250k/yr in inner sunset. Go to Zillow and find me a nice house you can afford on $250k/yr and won't be house poor in the end with.

> You're not even close to being "poor in the end with it"

> The fact that you think this would make you "poor" is absurd and quite frankly, insulting

"House poor" is a distinct term that describes a home purchase where home expenses (not just mortgage) drain cash flow in a way that prevents hitting other goals - hence this point:

> You shouldn't be spending close to 50% of your take home on RENT. You will never be able to retire and live the same lifestyle.

A very different notion than "poor" alone. Also, you'd have to put at least closer 25-30% down on that home without absolutely perfect credit; jumbo loans have been tightening awhile.

> Again, the median family income in SF is less than $100k, and they seem to be doing fine.

What do you mean by doing fine, exactly? Not to nitpick, but I was under the impression most people buying in SF are not native to the city.
I've been holding my tongue lately since Dang had to chide me for a bunch of angry comments and calling out an account I felt was astroturfing. Just so you know, it turns out comments like that are actually against the rules. Just passing on what I learned not long ago.
Creating a Human-Friendly Graph Format
I'd call it a duopoly, which is not as bad as a monopoly but it's definitely enough to set market prices and arguably should subject them to antitrust scrutiny for anti-competitive behavior.

They have more than 50% of global app sales revenue; Apple's App Store revenue is about 80% higher than Google Play. They also have about 57% of the "premium" ($400+) smartphone market. That has a strong impact on the ability for developers to create and sell apps.

Not to say that Google is innocent either; they've started adopting some of Apple's practices as well. Unless you're a masochist, going outside the Apple/Google ecosystem is not really a viable option.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/03/app-revenue-tops-39-billio...

https://www.gsmarena.com/counterpoint_flagship_smartphone_sh...
So long as it will never have anything to do with Firefox. Using it for work would be risky if they did that.
<joke>

Perhaps it's because minix in the Management Engine has to boot before the BIOS can run so you can take it over remotely? OS bootup usually takes a while.

</joke>
I've took a second look: on the first page look for the first "pay off" words, then analyze the look of the ff shapes there. See "effort" and "official" there too. If all this is not surprising to you, for something you surely haven't expected, see all the occurrence of "employees". Do you notice something? It's so obvious there's something different going on, compared to what we are used to today.
Thank you for typing this well thought out response! I see the fiduciary duty canard brought out and it usually functions in debate as a thought-terminating cliche. My comment was meant to elucidate whether or not it was the last word on fiduciary duty; your comment helps clarify the judicial and fiduciary reality on the ground, and really added a lot to my understanding of these issues. Thanks again.
Vatican urges Catholics to drop investments in fossil fuels, arms
I got out a couple of years ago. Their Cyber program is much better than most of their other technical training but it was heavily influenced by what other branches were doing. Maybe they changed it but another thing is that their cyber training was mostly SANS courses and the joint course someone else already mentioned. So it was good because it was some of the better training offered by the private sector.

I have met some ex NSA guys from the Army that were amazing. Not really sure what kind of training they got. Their experience isn't really a good representation of IT as a whole in the Army.

There are exceptions to everything. There are small teams/groups within every branch of the military doing really cool stuff. Some of them have many more opportunities for excellent training that the average person in a similar role in the Army will have.

>Other branches send their people to gordon for it.

Also, a lot of the technical schools at Gordon had instructors from the Air Force and the Navy teaching alongside the Army.
I'm actually surprised there wasn't more supply chain disruption. Cleaning supplies, meat, TP, cold medicine (initially), disinfectants of any sort, canned goods, rice, dry beans, baking supplies, thermometers, masks, and gloves are the major things I noticed had gone "missing." My girlfriend and I could have certainly survived by modifying our diet and, as I mentioned, possibly buying a bidet.

But, we are both fortunate to still have jobs, and places to store a small stockpile of these things. I literally was able to turn a spare closet into a dry pantry by putting a wire shelving unit in there. We still have basically a lifetime supply of rice, and a nice selection of staple canned goods, just in case things go further south. We were not real particular about brands. We have access to Amazon and Costco. We will be fine.

This was nowhere near Soviet bread line status. In the Soviet Union, perhaps you had to stand in line for bread, but, at least there was bread. Here, we let some people go without bread, because they're drug addicts, mentally unstable, or just don't want to have religion pushed on them.

I'm sure this also falls into #ShitYouCantSayOnHN, and I don't care about the downvotes. I know you can't say anything against the free market or capitalism and expect to win any points here. That mildly annoys me, but I'd rather have my gray comment out there for other people to see, and sacrifice a couple of fake internet points to do it. I win enough points back in technical discussions that I'm in no danger of losing my downvoting, flagging, or vouching capabilities, so it literally does not matter to me; I've net gained 12 points just today. I'd rather draw the lightning rod to myself so people can see how rabid free-market capitalists don't even bother to argue a point, instead mashing that down arrow.

People dismiss socialist perspectives here without even comment, which is sad. They don't even give the ideas the consideration that those who claim socialists are all economically illiterate 14 year olds in their mothers' basements do. They ignore that Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and other prominent intellectuals espouse socialist philosophies.

Honestly, I'd be pleased to get downvotes, if there was any actual discussion, but that's appararently verboten here.
There is a need to move away from CUDA to begin with. It's an ugly solution since it's tied to Nvidia.
Yes, the main reason why it has happened is the strategic value of Crimea (Donbas was not so lucky in this regard...), but the overwhelming local support (which originated from factors like ethnicity, culture, language, poor Ukrainian rule, etc.) made everything much easier and cheaper for Russia. I highly doubt that with a hypothetical level of support 50% or lower Russia would have risked to take such action.
I wonder if it's actually related. More exposure to blood born viruses => better immunity to some class of viruses.
Yes, that worked out very well in 00’s with windows mobile. /s

People don’t understand the power of consumer friendly digital experience
Agree. There are a lot of bad SPAs out there, but that's a testament to how easy they are to get started with and their popularity.

That doesn't mean good SPAs don't exist - many do!
Concrete roads aren't as good where it winters. They shift as the ground changes temperature and expands or contracts, and trucks and plows destroy them at the seams.
>I can sign up in the app

You absolutely can't. The first thing you see when you download the app is a info string telling you how you can't sign up inside the app.

https://miro.medium.com/1*-mAqC-14gV7zNvWdn_SNxA.jpeg