skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aim the conversation towards their feelings instead of "facts" or the "truth".

Here's some structure to pull from :

https://www.cnvc.org/training/resource/needs-inventory

https://www.cnvc.org/training/resource/feelings-inventory

The needs:feelings model from the Non Violent Communication course is great.
If you think advertisers refusing to have anything to do with platforms that refuse to serve as a check against hate speech is worse than platforms refusing to serve as a check against hate speech, then you very clearly don’t give a flying duck about right or wrong, either. Get your priorities in order.
It's a few years since I've used AWS, but is deleting stuff that hard? I seem to remember it was a matter of deleting a cloud formation stack and maybe cleaning up a few things that you'd explicitly ask to be preserved (usually storage things like S3 buckets and DBs).
Speaking about pandemic, I was very surprised at the cultural differences about face masks. And I don't mean whether people want to use them or not, because you find both kinds of people everywhere. The surprising difference was at behavior of people who thought that using a face mask was a good thing... what was their following step?

My American friends typically did some research, found which types of face masks offer the highest protection, and refused to settle for anything less. Then they complained on social networks about the good masks being sold out.

My Eastern European friends typically found some DYI videos, and then either started making their own face masks at home and selling them on social networks, or just bought them if someone else was faster. In a week or two, everyone had as many masks as they wanted to have. Lower quality, sure, but way better than nothing.

Of course, I am generalizing here, but this was the pattern I noticed, and it quite surprised me, because I honestly expected the opposite thing to happen. I expected Eastern Europeans to beg their governments to do something about the situation, and Americans to handle the situation using their entrepreneurial spirit. But somehow I saw Americans complaining about why Trump didn't do this or that, and Eastern Europeans taking initiative in their own hands; and even the statistics show how the latter approach saved thousands of lives.

Seems like living in a country where you know that everything is unreliable, especially the system (whether you use this word to mean goverment, market, or whatever other power greater than you and your neighbors), provides some valuable survival skills. Now I guess the question is how to develop or maintain those skills when your environment improves. Because, obviously, most people would like to see their situation improve and the environment become more reliable.
[I typed this up as a reply to a comment that has now been flagged. I think it's a conversation worth having, so I'm putting it at the top level instead.]
I'd argue that "intellectual property" is fundamentally different from physical property, and can't really be "stolen" per se.

If I steal your car, I have a car and you don't have a car. If I "steal" your book, we both have the book. I'm better off, and you're no worse off. In an "ideal" society, the free sharing of knowledge would be not just allowed, but encouraged.

I imagine there's been measurable harm to our society's cultural and scientific advancement because copyright forces us to recreate others' work instead of building off of it.

But what does that world look like? Quite frankly, I'm not sure. Of course, we can't just abolish copyright with no replacement; it's certainly necessary to reward the creation of this work somehow.

One thing I've thought about is a sort of "crowdfunded patronage" model, where the creator of a work declares upfront how much money they want to make off of it, and releases it into the public domain once they've received that much money.

Another possibility is drastically reducing the term of copyright to 20 years or so. That'd still give 20 years to exploit the work—and I imagine most copyrighted works make most of their money in the first 20 years—while allowing others to reuse the work much more quickly.
Learning the Language of Failure – Andreas Zeller, CASA Distinguished Lecture
My experience in a couple of my own exits and having been on due diligence teams for a few organizations. Rarely is your software what the value is based on, it is the business, revenue and people. The software is just the tool which you are using to solve the problem so it will not get much value assigned to it. Patents hold value, and so if your software implements the patent that does help change the picture some, but the value of the company will still be in the business.

If you want your business to be valuable it is the combination of the software, people, process, clients and revenue that will make it valuable. If you have negative revenue then you will only have the value of the team, processes & clients, the software (without patents) will be worth nearly 0 and even with patents will only be slightly more valuable. Usually new founders struggle with this fact thinking the software is super valuable, when in reality it is no different then having a CNC machine. The CNC machine doesn't hold the value, the parts coming out of it, clients and processes hold the value.
The most underrepresented demographic at tech companies is people who grew up in poverty. If you work at a tech company I challenge you to find a colleague who had significant housing or food insecurity growing up. There are a few, but it's extremely rare.
There are a few other issues with cheating, such as devaluing a degree for all others who didn't cheat to earn it.
It is not taking off in the consumer space because of cost. Hololens 2 is the best headset available today that has a relevant software platform and it isn't even sold to end customers anymore but just to enterprises.

What keeps costs up are the technical limitations. Microsoft and Magicleap invested both more than a billion each to solve the tech challenges, but the truth is that the displays are not good enough. Framerate is too low (compare with VR what would be necessary), FoV still rather limiting, colors and blacks are still to faint for many environment lighting conditions, room scanning is still too inaccurate, battery life too short.

This is not to say there hasn't been great progress. Hololens 2 solves the comfort problem and is a nice step with resolution and FoV. They just messed up with image quality (color banding/rainbows are a big issue).
I'm curious: what's the use case you're interested in these for? And what makes these more appealing than, say, earbuds that offer the same functionality?
This was insightful - thanks!

Do you have any people or communities or reading materials you'd recommend to get more familiar with AR in industry?
I suppose this will kill multi-emulators like RetroArch. No-longer will they be able to load arbitrary ROMs from a microSD card or other generic storage.
> I don’t want any websites sending me any notifications ever.

I agree with you actually, but not everybody does. Some people do want push notifications when they get a new email or Facebook update. I wish it weren't so, but it is.

> I don’t want any websites triggering the browser to ask me if they can send me notifications.

> I don’t want any websites asking me if they can ask the browser to ask me to send me notifications.

> I don’t want any websites using their classic scams like tiny “x” buttons...

Given that we live in a world where there are notifications, you have the choice to disable them on your device, or decline them on a site by site basis. For your grandma, I'd suggest the former strategy.

But if you don't want the site to ask you, and you don't want the browser to ask you, and you don't want to disable them for all sites, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. All the whining isn't going to bring back 90s internet.

> It seems to me like you believe everyone is the same as you: they value small package size, they personally audit all code they run, they want random corporations to have an easier time getting a presence on their home screen, and they’d be able to easily identify and stop all corporate badgering they do end up receiving

What's the difference between a native app asking to send you notifications vs a web app?
Boo to this take. Not all tools are the same and “Good tools obviate bad processes.” is a mantra I saw once in a talk that has stuck with me for 15 years. You’re not wrong that it’s a people problem, but tools shape human behavior. That’s Design.

The quote is attributed to Michael B. Johnson, aka wave, Software Director at Pixar.
So we have a meta-problem of different abilities to visualize or imagine the concepts of visualization :)

Sorry, but this is too funny. There's some sort of fundamental difficulty when humans are trying to compare their varying (or not?) qualia.

Like those stoner-philosphy questions. ("Is the 'red' I see the same hue as the 'red' you see? How would we ever know??")

There's an element of that unsolvable problem here; of knowing whether the other person is describing their internal mental state using the same definitions as you are.
What a coward, and what an undeserved entitlement. Who exactly gave you the right to represent "The React community", and why the hell are you hiding behind--not even a pseudonym but--anonymity to tell people to give up their job?

There's not a single detail about who is running this site. Just some righteous internet rando who is pretending to be something that they're not.
I don't like copyright either; I think that it is bad and it (and patents, too) should be abolished. However, there are some other opinions (for example, I have seen the suggestion that you have copyright limited to only a few years, that after the first year you have to pay a fee, and other changes to improve it), but I would be OK to just abolish copyright entirely. I don't want to copyright my own writings either, and would rather be public domain, so that is what I do.
If BSA is bankrupt, would it be an opportune time for the Girl Scouts of America to admit boys?
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I'm genuinely interested: is this really true? Is Jira necessarily slow when there's a lot of stuff in it? I'm not sure I believe it. There are graph-of-objects-plus-metadata applications out there that are pretty fast. I'm not an expert in this domain, but I bet an issue tracker can be made that doesn't feel painful at real scales.
One thing about Modelica is quite important and might confuse newcomers: the language specification mostly only covers the model, not the equations. That is, when you evaluate your model under, e.g., Dymola and Openmodelica you will (most of the time) end up with equal (or rather similar) systems of equations. The meaning of these equations, i.e., the actual simulation can easily differ, though (except for the most trivial models).

The reason for this is that the equations are extremely powerful (you can express pretty much anything computable inside an equation) and their numerical solution is often driven by heuristics (e.g., finding initial values). This makes it extremely difficult to come up with a common standard for the solution of Midelica's hybrid DAEs. Hence you will find little written information about what exactly happens during a simulation that applies to more than one implementation.
Preserving and archiving television history with an eye toward the future
> So we anticipate many of the current cases for iframes, such as ads, being able to be replaced with portals.

I love how the reason Google is pushing this spec is buried near the bottom.
No, it’s just electron. I don’t see the benefit over making it a PWA or even just a regular self-hosted web app.
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I remember using Trillian back in the day, and the problem was that they couldn't keep up with features of each chat network, so I had go back to using ICQ, MSN Messenger, etc. separately.
The target customer seems a bit odd. Typically people will have exactly 1 paid service for chat. Like, probably Slack. And that's already $$ per month per user. So is this for individuals that have their company pay for slack, and then like, what also pay for the luxury chat client that let's the employee add like a bunch of personal chat accounts?

On the other hand, if they're expecting individuals to pay for this (at $10/mo and that's during beta) just like, because, that's going to be a challenging market.
The option is simple although tiresome, reimplement it in Android Java or Kotlin, instead of trying to pretend Android is Linux, given that POSIX or Linux specific calls aren't even part of NDK Stable APIs documentation.

Any app that access the Linux features directly just works out of luck, given that there are no compatibility guarantees.
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There are commercial ones like ones like Altair SolidThinking, Wolfram System Modeller, ESI's SimulationX and there are open source ones such as OMedit. Which meets your needs will be partly budget / workflow / toolbox support based. If your new to Modelica - then OpenModelica and OMEdit (OMEdit comes as part of the OpenModelica download) are great starting points. To get an idea of the available commercial and open source options see:

https://www.modelica.org/tools

and https://openmodelica.org/openmodelicaworld/tools
The Unruly Genius of Joyce Carol Oates
America is not literally a third world country. The expression "The US is a 3rd world with a Gucci belt" means that it is an extreme outlier for a 1st world country. The opposite is true in that China is an extreme outlier for a developing country.

Per 100,000 people, the US has 655 of them in prisons. The UK, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, and Japan have 140, 114, 100, 98, 75, and 41 respectively.
> 99th percentile of energy
99th percentile of persistence
99th percentile of raw mental power and creativity
99th percentile of ambition
99th percentile risk and pain tolerance
99th percentile of long-term planning and vision-making

They forgot also the 99th percentile in dishonesty.
Chrome lets you do exactly this: https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/3060053?hl...

I imagine other browsers probably do, too.
Not sure about the wavelength, but I believe the claim can be found in Aldous Huxley’s “The Art of Seeing” which is an account of vision therapies using the Bates method.
There's a Youtuber named Hotep Jesus who had an interesting plan about cleaning up after the various protests/riots. His idea was to give all the government contracts for cleanup to minority owned local businesses. Additionally, he discouraged people volunteering to help cleanup for free. This would create a big local stimulus for the local community, people would be learning skills like how to install windows, how to rebuild structures, re-pave roads, plumbing, etc. Some wiggle room could be given on licensed professionals there. Of course, the work would have to be to code, and oversight by a skilled/experienced person is necessary for important things like buildings, but with guidance people could pick up a lot of skills.
A large part of the reason for the success of these movements, starting with the feminist movement is redefining and overloading things.

They redefined scrutiny as attacking.

They redefined gender (a word used people it wasn’t proper to say sex) to “what sex you feel you are”.

They are trying to redefine racism so only white people can have it.

They are redefining majority as “not by numbers”.

They are redefining past suffering as “only that which happened to blacks or glbt”.

I know people who come from places with 25% casualty rates during WWII (actual recent immigrants) and are told they need to check their privilege and they don’t know what suffering is.

They have redefined slavery as the only crime that matters and slavery if blacks as the only one that counts.

Not buying in is now a phobia.

When people redefine words like this it is the clearest sign of a campaign of gatekeeping and attempt to expunge history and culture.

To be fair, the other side did it too. When Texas school textbooks redefine slaves as “migrant workers” you can’t tell me that’s not an attempt to expunge history.
After working almost exclusively via remote desktop, I am left wondering what is actually important in a client device. Maybe an iphone with a monitor hooked up to cloud processing and GPUs is the future.
Yes they were, except I think Trillian had a pro version.
There was a scandal a few years back when a Kaggle team did something simar with ML. They were treating the competition as a black box and optimising for the unknown dataset instead of actually building better AI algorithms.
Funny, the website aims at "Design Thinking" and fails to understand some basic needs right on the front page. The collapsible "Goals" section has arrows flop-sided. They point upwards when the goal is collapsed and downwards when the goal is expanded. Seems like a 101 error to me.

And before someone points out, I understand design thinking goes beyond pixel design.
I'm not sure that's an accurate description of VW's cheat.

VW knew the parameters of the test (stationary car, no steering input, prescribed throttle inputs, etc). And they configured the car to pass the test.

Water-heater engineer knew the parameters of the test (number and location of probes). And he configure the water-heater to pass the test.

Same-same. In both cases, an engineering team willfully committed fraud to improve their sales figures.

The only differences are a bit pedantic. VW's "configuration" was more elaborate. But, both groups gamed the test.
Most financial advice and even some loan approval is based on only 25% of income going towards housing.
Here's the Indiana one if you want some more color:

> Back in May, three Indiana judges got into a fight. It was the crescendo of an incident brimming with colorful details: a gaggle of judges drinking the night before a judicial conference, a failed attempt to visit a strip club called the Red Garter, a brawl in the parking lot of an Indianapolis White Castle.

> The altercation apparently started sometime after 3 a.m., when one of the judges, Sabrina Bell, raised a middle finger at two men yelling from a passing SUV, and ended after one of those men shot two of the judges.

...

> Bell "was intoxicated enough that she lacks any memory of the incident."

...

> The court says its penalties are designed "not primarily to punish a judge, but rather to preserve the integrity of and public confidence in the judicial system" and, when necessary, to remove those who are unfit.

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/14/779339897/3-indiana-judges-su...
> in both cases someone could accidentally optimize the test

I think this is what I disagree with.

The water heater story is about a viable-for-market design which also optimized for the test. The equivalent for a car emissions test might be optimizing the transmission to reduce emissions at the specific speeds which will be tested. Those speeds could be sweet spots of the engine curve by accident, or they could be planned that way. I don't think that's necessarily right, but it's within the bounds of "natural" design for the product.

Instead of doing that, VW submitted something for testing which was fundamentally different from what went to market. Rather than being misleading, the test results were fundamentally irrelevant. Creating two completely different modes of behavior isn't something you could do by chance, and it means there's no real limit on how badly they could cheat.
Surely you jest. Compared to digging around in the kernel and device drivers, the current PR process is probably the most user-friendly and simple-to-use thing that kernel developers deal with in their work.
I remember the curved white kidney-shaped enamel bowl! After the operation, I joined an adjoining room where a number of other stunned and stupefied children were sitting, each grappling their own little enamel bowl and staring at pieces of their flesh, blood dripping from their nose and mouths.
It's true, but for some workloads.

I wonder, and I really wish it's gonna be a game changer, how well they will behave on jobs that go on for hours or days at full CPU load.
Eagle Scouts get special consideration in court. Ironic -- I think they should be held to a higher standard, but instead it's used as a "sign of good character" that results in lesser penalties.
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> Judges like this should be put disbarred so that they cant practice law or serve time themselves.

That's just your opinion, and you're in the minority. Probably most people in that jurisdiction are happy with the overall behavior of the judge.

Democracy doesn't care about the needs of the individual, only the wants of the group. The group wants exclusive use of a particular area, thus limits parking. Public streets with reserved parking, the antithesis of a functioning society.
A mental image of a concrete building somehow messes with my attempts to think in abstract terms.
I saw the onion article and ordered 5lbs of Vidalia onions from vidaliaonions.com on a lark because I had never had one. Never again, maybe I just don't have a taste for them, but loved the site and was very happy with the service and product in principle. :D
Thanks for the feedback and trying it out!

I do agree that lot of the process issues often reside in the organization itself.

In ideal world, you don't need any kind of tracking or process. Right things just happen. However, in reality is that companies often have goals and roadmaps they have to deliver. Things move fast and teams need to know what is being worked on. We've worked in 5 and 5000 person engineering organizations and need for coordination is always there. And personally, I just need to know what I need to do next.

We spent the past year talking with our our early users. New startups and even teams of very successful companies, struggle with the process. They might know how they should improve things, but it's hard to find the time or energy to actually implement it. We want to help with this.

So in addition to the tool, we are developing the understanding and practices software help the team to focus and reduces some of the bad habits we might have. The tool will then help teams implement and maintain these practices going forward. We ourselves also been working with this "Linear Method" which we shared here: http://linear.app/linear-method
I get that sharing is a core thing for this app. I just don't think sharing should have anything to do with my identity. It can be a hash that is shared across any communications platform (even by meat-space, vocally!).

If the goal for the app is for itself to be a tool for identity management, then knowing my email is especially not needed...after all, all identity context is already in the app!

UX should center around ease of sharing some hash value across some other medium, not "searching by identity."

I do honestly empathize with the app creators. But anybody choosing an obscuring email by definition does not want to be identified by email.
i prefer this behavior, as i often want to see the "old" version of pages that i had been looking at before and avoid a barrage of network requests at startup. in any case, i'm pretty sure there's an about:config setting to change it.
I've made a little bit of money thanks to Redis [0]. All I did was build integration for Redis on cPanel. So that speaks to the great quality brand of Redis.

Thank you and Godspeed!

[0] https://www.unixy.net/redis
They don't have to be directly overturned--I can't imagine that many judges are still ordering people involuntarily sterilized. All you need are other precedents or laws for something like, say, bodily autonomy ("my body my choice") that's sufficiently persuasive.

I really can't imagine those rulings happening today. Did you know? In May 2020, Maryland passed into law a repeal of the crime of sodomy, effective October 1st, 2020.

And there are plenty of similar laws still on the books even now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_Stat...