skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why this got downvoted — a personal anecdote as a reply to personal anecdote.

On the subject — I’ve learned the “classic” office but really like the ribbon. I’m not a power user though — just a doc or a spreadsheet every now and then.
It's just a cutesy way of saying a long time ago when all the lawyers used Wordperfect. (A word processing program that I hated almost as much as Wordstar.)
Where have the big thoughts led him? Maybe you could post that directly instead of some vague innuendo and save us all some wasted time.
It is a failing of some philosophical debate to try and consider ideas in a vacuum.

When considering something John Cleese said, one can consider where John Cleese has gone in the 3 years since he said it.

In Cleese's case, our understanding of his idea of "political correctness" is informed by his subsequent exiting of the UK because he feels London is "no longer English."
>Basically our system is, we want every country to be able to elect their government through some sort of democracy.

you are leaving aside the fact that your system also involves an armed invasion by the USA if a certain country does something the USA doesn't like.
> Sensor Tower is a reputable analytics company known for reporting accurate estimates

I see SensorTower quoted a lot for mobile analytics, but their methods are completely opaque AFAIK. For all I know, one can “buy” good analytics by giving them some money, in order to promote an app.

Alternatively, nepotism could skew analytics: the CTO’s brother-in-law’s app gets higher usage and download ratings than a competitor.

How can we trust that such companies are honest?
I think framing this A/B divide in terms of sex is needlessly conflating different topics. Surely there's a statistical bias of some sort, but it doesn't really add to this conversation.
I try, but I have a family and my wife does not financially contribute.

I have a garden (big enough I can stuff), keep bees (and sell honey), grow shiitake and lions mane, make our alcohol (fruit wines, mostly from stuff I grow), make our own soap, and other hobbies that save or make some money. Of course I do the usual stuff like Netflix instead of cable, use a budget cell carrier, etc.

It helps, but the big influence is one's spouse. My spouse spends most of her money on horse stuff. I'm left to pay the bills and basically support us on a single income. She does not share my dream of retiring early.
Ask HN: If WinServer2019 was made free to use tomorrow,would you start using it
If Microsoft decided to make using Windows Server 2019 (all edition) free to use tomorrow, would you start using it? And if so how?

Would you be more likely to adopt it if Microsoft open-sourced it? (I know very little chance of that)

In either case Microsoft could make money on support, and consulting services.

I think more competition on the server side, than various flavours of Linux and some flavours of UNIX would be healthy.

For a time I worked in Windows only enterprises and I had little to do with administering any of the servers, but code got deployed to them and I never had any issues with the parts of the server I used.

I would think that there are some workloads and tasks that might make more sense to run on a Windows Server vs a Linux one but I am not sure what (aside from legacy Windows only applications)
This is why you still use TLS/HTTPS with tor.
Wrong. When you have dozens of systems to manage that can all have security vulnerabilities, the less burden involved in keeping everything up to date and secure. Uniqueness breeds unique and unforeseen problems. (The modern way to describe this is to make servers like cattle, not pets.)

In a Windows environment, the best tool for the job is almost always another Windows box. Arguably, sure, PHP is a poor choice for a Windows environment, but IT/operations rarely has the luxury of deciding what line of business apps other departments use.
UI spacing: I’m not at all convinced.

iOS apps: but consider how Apple added (is adding? I don’t use the ecosystem) a pointer to iPadOS. That’s heading towards apps not requiring touch for interactions.

Webcam quality: I dunno, most expensive laptops I’ve seen also have lousy 720p webcams. (I have a Surface Book, which is more like a tablet in this regard, having both a front- and a rear-facing camera, both fairly decent.

LTE: not particularly common in laptops. It’s always been niche functionality.

It has always seemed weird to me how much of a schism there has been between tablets and laptops in things like cameras and LTE. (Microsoft are the ones that started tearing down the dividing wall of partition in the Surface line of products; but it’s still mostly intact.)

I’ll be interested to see what comes of it (though have no plans to ever acquire any Apple gear).
My personal interests are too varied and too niche to have much overlap with anyone else. The number of people interested in compilers, cryptography, radio electronics, trad climbing, bouldering, bird watching (I post checklists to Cornell eBird), marlinespike seamanship, knots in general (I'm in the International Guild of Knot Tyers), who play the Great Highland bagpipes, Irish traditional music (tin whistle & bodhran), Scottish Country Dancing (in the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society), and live near where those birding checklists get posted is probably 1.

Yet I'm likely to write about all of those interests. De-anonymizing me from that is probably not terribly difficult. The intersection of the RSCDS, IGKT, and IEEE member directories probably doesn't contain many people, so even knowing that is likely enough to narrow it down to a handful, if not be outright unique.
That wasn't the only argument though. If the data was encrypted with a facebook held private key, the user would still not be able to see it. If it was E2E encrypted with the only key being on the device, people will get mad when they reset their phone and get a new one, only to find their messages are gone.

SMS had the same problems forever, but isn't owned by a company, thus you can't blame xyz company if random apps access your SMS. No company got ever investigated by multiple nation states over that.

You still haven't addressed my main question though, how will a random app scraping your WhatsApp be any less of a scandal than Cambridge Analytica?
I think it's interesting to take a look at history. Many famous writers used or use a nom de plume or published anonymously because they didn't want their identities to draw the attention away from their writing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudonyms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pen_names

Few people know who Jean Baptiste Poquelin or François-Marie Arouet were. But Molière and Voltaire should ring a bell, right?

Ironically, here, we don't use our own name, but a digital handle when posting comments. This allows us to create this persona on HN which doesn't really have to converge with our real selves.
I would challenge even this framing. Amphetamines were widely used and abused between the 1940s and 1960s without social stigma. They are for sure a problematic class of chemicals, but I think the perception that they are uniquely dangerous is tied up in their present association with societal out groups, classism, and disdain for the rural poor, whereas cannabis has become accepted among the upper class.

You could make some arguments about relative health effects, but those just as easily apply to alcohol which we readily accept and consume in polite company.
* product name: boomroom

* product description: music with friends - everyone can tune in to boomroom and add songs to the shared queue

* market research/validation: tried it with coworkers and they found it fun - someone's kids ended up taking over the queue and adding tons of fun. No regular use besides that

* number of users: a few users came by but no returning or regular users

* business model: none

* product implementation stage: launched v1

* tech stack: React, WebSocket, Django

* cost of running: $7 for heroku worker + pay as you go for now.sh front-end hosting

* domain name(s) owned: boomroom.co

* available platforms: web (boomroom.co)

* patent(s): none

* next steps: add multiple rooms, try to get events to use it. business model could be ads

* minimum offer: $2500
Someone from TDF responded to a similar comment on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ho0n51/update_on_lib...
In Planck time.
>Aren't those "lockdown deaths" still "Coronavirus deaths" though?

Depends on the intended use of the information.

Calling them coronavirus deaths and then turning around and using the size of that number as an reason to continue lockdown would be foolhardy at best.

If you're trying to evaluate the impact of the virus on X or you're writing a passage for a history textbook years later I see no problem lumping them in together.
Lawsuit Alleges: Sephora IDs Fraud Through Unlawful Use of Customer Data [pdf]
Haven't used AutoCAD in anger for a while, but my default rest position on the keyboard is still fingers over Esc, thumb over space. I always preferred using the command line. Not out of some 'power user' power trip, but more for screen space and efficiency. Being able to use AutoLISP was pretty neat too.
I agree that its implicit values are generally egalitarian, or at least aspire to be egalitarian, but I don't think there's a clear left-right split. My concern is not that we shouldn't be egalitarians. I'm a socialist; my avatar is named after a famous anarchist. It's that there is a culture of debate - 'cancel culture' - that betrays several flaws.

Should we value debate and engage with those we disagree with or ignore their arguments and ostracise them? Should we persuade those we disagree with or tell them they're horrible people? Should we address ourselves to the causes of prejudice and small-mindedness, or retributively punish those who misstep? Debate, persuasion, and opposition to retributive justice - those are scarcely values that are the monopoly of the right, and indeed, the last one runs counter to the right.

You are focusing on 'easy cases'. You write, 'you're saying that we need to welcome, broadcast and hire people who we genuinely think are vile and awful?' But that presupposes the precise crux of the debate: whether most people targeted by 'cancel culture' really are, as you say, 'vile and awful'.

You say we should encourage the firing of 'violent racists'. I think that's a reasonable option, depending on the context. But that's an easy case. The kind of problems I highlighted are found arrayed against people of all political stripes, often for minor offences or errors.

I was reading a large number of people abuse a Guardian journalist this morning for including the owner of a Pizzeria in a write-up of how working-class life has been affected by COVID - a mistake, for sure, even a humorous one, but not one that should be met by abuse. The owner in question was being doxxed, and his restaurant down-voted on review sites. To me, this kind of case is entirely typical of cancel culture, not anti-fascism.
Just spitballing here, but it could be due to previous bad encounters with Zoom, previous cases where Zoom has dismissed or downplayed an exploit, etc. Is Zoom one of those companies that requires excessive NDA's for exploits? That could be a factor.

I can think of a few other reasons, although it probably would have been better to disclose to Zoom /alongside/ whoever else they thought should get it.
Taking the canoe over your Waterfall planning.
The proponents still fear inflation. And some goods may become inflated if everyone starts consistently receiving UBI payments. I'd see media increasing in price since those that are currently buying it are not necessarily destitute for food. There'd be plenty of payments towards debt... which I'm not an economist so I can't say what exactly that liquidity in the credit markets would do. You'd see an uptick in food purchases as EBT, food pantries, etc. decrease in capacity and food is purchased directly from stores without limitation on purchased items.

Plenty of consumer crap would be consumed too. Magic cards, Funko Pop figurines, Alco-pops and Big Macs.

What I don't see happening is the cost of housing skyrocketing. That assumes we have a limited supply, we do not we have a excess. We could house every person in the US today... well tomorrow with realistic travel times.
Here is a doctor claiming they've seen a 13x increase (+1200%) in suicides: https://abc7news.com/health/suicides-on-the-rise-amid-stay-a...
Literally who does it hurt if there are no lootboxes that are essentially slot machines?

Does it hurt the people who waste huge amount of money, who further develop bad economic habits and potentially harm their loved ones (their parents or god forbid their kids)? No.

Does it hurt regular consumers that want to buy the item they want instead of gambling for it? No.

Does it hurt a large abstract entity that doesn't get to maximize their profits? I guess it would! (Epic has grown from a few hundred million company in the early 2010s to an almost 20 billion company in mid 2020, literally all of it based on Fortnite which only brings money through these microtransactions)

So you're arguing for a business model that is not beneficial to any consumer, that decreases net happiness, all in the name of "freedom".

There are a million other things we don't allow because if we let people take personal responsibility for them they consistently fuck up.
It's the exact same situation with a lot of softer drugs.
Punishing Risk Guarantees Failure
> whether or not they spend their free time coding outside of work

I would argue that candidates should absolutely be judged on whether they have significant portfolio work available to view publicly. Of course, this is dependent on the hiring managers' being competent.

Candidates shouldn't necessarily be judged on not having any public portfolio work though. I'm an advocate for take-home challenges. I think these give the best representation of actual work.
People can get different jobs; its not a blanket "they're all on welfare". That's the issue: what will people do when they don't starve if they don't work? Historically, they get better jobs. Because they have the leisure to do so, and partly because employers must pay well to get anyone.
> there was a study released by Cornell this week

Which was funded by the rideshare companies themselves and which has been heavily criticized for its methods, it should be pointed out.
The study you linked measures a completely different thing all together. It measures psychiatric treatment over time after surgery. It makes no mention of suicide, and seems to just gloss over the fact that psychiatric treatment tends not to be sought by the dead.

I also don’t think it’s a very valid criticism to dismiss the most comprehensive research on this topic to date, performed at Sweden’s largest medical research institution, as “American right-wing propaganda”.
What the tu quoque arguments show is that the US' actions have nothing to do with human rights. The US cannot simultaneously support Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, itself kill hundreds of thousands of people throughout the Muslim world in several different wars, and then turn around and pretend to care about the human rights of Muslims in China.

This is about the US' geopolitical struggle with China over the question of whether or not China will become an equal power with the US.
Far too many people watch porn excessively too.

People just don't realize it precisely because we don't talk about it, people around don't notice it and you can keep the same pair of trousers (unlike when you drink too much soda).

I think that in a few years, opinion will shift and we'll consider porn as a public health problem.
Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better
Catholic Church lobbied for taxpayer funds, got $1.4B
The Facebook SDK is written in obj-c, where calling `count` on `nil` is perfectly valid and returns 0. It only doesn't work on NSNull, which is a weird different thing that does not work like the language's built-in null.
I believe the author thought the proposal itself ("I will bill you hourly for the time I spend I spend reviewing your hourly bill") was a terrible idea, and in that section, I understood the tone. But he kept it up for the rest of the article as well, despite explicitly saying "Alright, that was fun, but now I’ll break character." I don't think he was being satirical at that point.

I feel guilty for complaining about the tone rather than addressing the substance, but it was really hard to concentrate on the substance through the tone, and I think the tone speaks to the level of empathy the author has for his colleagues. That matters a lot when you're making an argument like this.
Bob Martin was talking about this in May too. I think he decided to go back to tdd. http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2020/05/27/ReplDrivenDe...
Scaling financial audit logs at TransferWise with MongoDB
TransferWise is a global technology company that is building the best way to move money around the world and 6M users are transferring more than $5 billion every month with us. All transfers within TransferWise are processed by strict state machine rules handled by "Transfer Service". The state machine has a lot of different states like "New", "Money Received", "Converted", "Transferred", and the Transfer object itself contains the most basic data like source/target values and all necessary IDs of linked domain objects which other micro-services use to execute their part of the processing job. In this talk, I will go through TransferWise transfer flow and show how we scaled the transfer state changes workload - internally defined as transfer audit log - by moving it from a relational #DB to a sharded #MongoDB cluster. I will also go through the JSON "schema" modelling and how we defined the audit log shard key.
It's been a while since I worked in adult, but I recall when Germany did something similar, no one outside their jurisdiction had to follow the rules, so no one did. Additionally it just required the user to enter an ID number the site owner had to validate against a government API, that charged per request. This was flawed because... Kids could find/share the ID card numbers and bad actors could run up your bills by dictionary attacking the validation form. It was a need and was utterly unenforceable.

The solution is parents need to be parenting. Where there is a will, there is a way (and that's directed to both sides).
Were they real name, or did they just look real.

Like I could post under the name JosephDotson, that could be a real name but it is not my real name
Can you give some concrete examples of someone being censured for criticizing people being called cancer-whore? It's not out of the realm of possibility, but that seems an extraordinary claim.
People are curious about Deno and where it will go. Right now it is a new project, so we have more questions than answers.

My pet question: Will there be a CLI-local debugger with a good UX like pry+byebug or ipdb?

With the current chrome-based setup, it takes far more click-and-drag in js than in python and ruby to stick a `debugger;` in a function, run a single automated test which calls that function, and see how variables are defined.
Someone I know once got brief access to source code for a version of Windows that included paint. He had just a few mins with it and opened up the source to paint because he liked the software. One of the variable names was something like “fluffy_bunny_rabbit” and he read a comment that said “this fixes bug X, I don’t understand why, but just leave this code here.” Unsure if former softies can confirm this was code quality back then...
Prizes are every week. Sunday nights the prizes get paid out
I imagine, in a country with UBI, people wouldn't talk about "minimum livable wage", but rather "minimum livable all-source income."

Also, UBI provides a minimum standard of living, but I believe the idea there is that you'd have to make several potentially-drastic changes in your life to truly be living the sort of "minimum" life that it pays for. For example, I believe that UBI isn't supposed to pay out more for people who live in areas of a country with higher costs of living; so part of "living minimally" would be moving to the lowest cost-of-living part of the country.

Remember, UBI is usually spoken of as a federal program; whereas "minimum livable wage" is usually modelled by state or even by city. So it'd make sense to talk about needing a certain level of wages, above-and-beyond your UBI, to survive in a high cost-of-living area.

(What would happen if UBI was based on regional cost-of-living? Well, for one thing, we'd see a lot of people who either don't "live where they live", but instead consistently renew their IDs within the highest cost-of-living areas; or, if the controls are tighter, we'd see people migrating to high cost-of-living areas to live out of their cars in the middle of them, to save up the most money.)
ad income generated by traffic to page (either organic or typos) exceeds the cost of the domains. then scale to 10s of thousands.
Are... are epidemiologists not part of the medical or scientific community?

(Genuinely asking, since I wasn't aware epidemiology wasn't a science.)
> There are probably some mechanisms to speed this up, but that's for another post.

Hmm, is it though? Maybe take those extra couple hours to figure it out
But if Schily is any indication (and why not?) it doesn't help to have a different party fill that position. Just like it took Nixon to go to China (because he wasn't at risk of being mistaken for a friend of communism) other partys can't afford to look much "weaker" than the current folks - and then have _anything_ go wrong.
I am amazed at the, apparently almost exclusive, use of formed composites for the entire skin of the aircraft. This was an aircraft skin design no no for a long time because of the susceptibility of graphite filled epoxy composites to failure under shock and/or point loading even though the specific strength/rigidity was better than any metal. I wonder what the composition of the composites used now are comprised of. Anyone know?
Are you saying that people are offended easily, and accredit too many things to "hate", so then everything called hate is just people taking offense, and is not actually hateful?

What if someone calls a young black girl the n word and nobody got offended. Is it not still hate? What's the intention of saying that? To demean or intimidate? That's hateful (abusive, mean, bullying, whatever you want to call it) and I wouldn't tolerate it if I witnessed it.

I hope you consider opening your heart up a little more when thinking about something like this. There are lots of nice people out there who get treated like crap and we can do better as apes on this rock.
>No lockdown => hospitals overwhelmed => people can't get care they need or people avoid hospitals to avoid getting sick => excess deaths

>Lockdown => hospitals less overwhelmed => people avoid hospitals due to lockdown or to avoid getting sick => excess deaths (but less than the no lockdown scenario)

Right, but eventually as things taper off there's a crossover point where the first option will have less deaths going forward. Where that crossover point is the point of contention.
> the strong belief it propagates that nobody should talk about the Basilisk

Looks like it didn't propagate very well. I'm a few degrees removed from the "rationalist community" and I heard about it years ago.

Yudkowsky tried to prevent people from talking about it, which predictably backfired. The LessWrong wiki has an entry on the whole thing.