skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And should they be able to do all or any of this?

Personally, I don't think they should which is why I wouldn't work for anyone who tried to enforce this. It would be a massive red flag if an employer brought this up. Also, the companies that manage remote well know this and none of them are implementing invasive monitoring. The ones that try it are a small number of short-sighted old-fashioned shops that feel like they're losing control if an employee is remote and are desperately tring to gain that control back.
> The funny thing is that people who want to get rid of marriage as a legal concept seem to pipe up almost exclusively in discussions about gay marriage.

If Eich had donated money towards an organization that opposes marriages of more than two people, so this discussion had been about those types of relationships instead, I would have brought forward the same arguments. But I have the feeling that Eich wouldn't had lost its job in that case in the first place.

> Why do you think this idea is relevant here? It's only relevant if you want to argue that gay marriages shouldn't be legally recognized because no marriages should be legally recognized

No my take is: Either make all relationships legal (of course as long as none of the participants are exploited), if you insist on keeping marriages as a legal concept. Or, preferably, get rid of marriages altogether from the states point of view, since this is much more efficient and practical.
> The argument goes, if you had perfect information symmetry, then the transaction would not have occurred, as the person who was willing to buy or sell the stock (for your profit, with information assymetry) would rather keep the profit for themselves.

Additional relevant context: whilst most trades can be considered to have winners and losers, in the case of insider trading the executives responsible have created losers from the [former] shareholders they're being paid to work for.

Aside from undermining trust in their communication if they're intentionally concealing information to profit from, the other problem is that it's easier for executives to create insider trading opportunities by making unexpectedly bad decisions than unexpectedly positive announcements...
Every Tom, Dick, and Harry can already be selling "jamón ibérico" because the USA does not in general recognize protected origins (viz. the sawdust that gets sold as "parmesan" over there)---there's no integrity to protect. In places that recognize protected origin using the same pigs wouldn't allow you to sell under the name jamón ibérico anyway. So blame the feckless governments that think names should only be protected when it suits them.

Trademarks on food are fine. Trying to copyright an animal is... I really don't have the words.
Microsoft's Surface Duo is a big-picture product
Plenty of good customers take a grievance to social media immediately. We are emotional animals. If you are using angry tweets as your signal for what makes a bad customer, you're going to lose a lot of good customers to the competition willing to see past the initial emotions and get to the root of the problem. Solving your customers' problems is pretty much what keeps you in business.
This is not from vitalik’s account, so either scam or comedy?
A) Your comments about smaller mags are false; try and find some evidence to back your claims - there is none. Smaller mags are not 'unsafe'.

B) You're missing the point about 'availability of weapons'.

We don't need to speculate as to 'what might be' - we know exactly what 'would be' because here are dozens of other civilised countries as a basis of comparison.

There is a perfect correlation between 'less guns widely available' and 'less gun crime'.

It's blatantly obvious to anyone who's been outside the US for more than a few months.

(And FYI - guns are not widely available in Switzerland as they are in the US).

USA - tons of guns, tons of gun crime.
Canada - less guns, less gun crime.
Most of Europe (including CH) - very few guns, very little gun crime.
Japan - almost zero guns, almost zero gun crime.

If it's difficult to grasp the obvious, consider 'market forces' and 'supply and demand': when guns are 'banned' and they exist nowhere legally in a nation, they are actually quite hard to get hands on.

A 'thug' in the US can easily get his hands on a weapon. In Canada, it's that much harder. In Europe, it's a huge pain. In Japan, it's almost impossible.

And guess what? Why would they need them? As there are fewer guns, and the punishment for having them goes way up, the level of violence is de-escelated. In the UK they have a 'knife problem' - which is bad - but it's much better than having a 'gun problem'.

Have you ever been to the UK? Most cops don't carry guns.

How is this possible? Come on now - add up the points ...

It's possible because there are almost no guns in the country, and the level of violence is low enough that they don't need to carry for the most part.

Once again: the ignorance of 'gun lovers' who literally can't see the data in front of them, or who are completely incapable of grasping a situation that is 'beyond their borders'.

It's a uniquely American thing, and it's really odd.

---> When there are considerably fewer guns in a civilised society, there is considerably less gun violence. Full Stop.

C) As for my 'experience' with weapons - 4 years, Army. Yes, I've played with some nice toys, in the field, where they belong. But that's completely irrelevant.
Take it up with your company. If you can't change it then leave and become your own CEO?..
Steve Bellovin asked a good question in twitter: is it a real kill switch which breaks a line or is it a DIP switch which sets a flag the kernel is meant to honour?
So VMS has gone full circle in terms of target architecture type. CISC (VAX) -> RISC (Alpha) -> VLIW (IA-64) -> CISC (x86).
Do you have source?

I am curious.
How does Chrome make money though?
Irate customers can be a treasure trove of information but indulging irate customers incentivizes some to game the company's goodwill.

I think this complaint is of the first variety. Ultimately, the question is how to flexibly enforce the limits associated with tiered plans: strict enforcement vs. flexible limits with e-mail notified auto upgrades.

The Ghost CEO should be asking his team if they can improve their current flexible e-mail notified auto upgrade approach.
This is the exact opposite of the usual complaint: that if you don't pay for support you can expect Google to arbitrarily shut your account and scoop up all your data - however paying them actually allows you some control.
if the WiFi devices are ubiquitous, then there would be less incentive to steal.
bravo :clap:!
This was a nice tour of how concise J can be. To see more of this stuff I highly recommend the Concrete Mathematics Companion[0], which uses J as an algebraic tool to reason about the correctness of derivations in that excellent book by Knuth.

[0] https://www.jsoftware.com/books/pdf/cmc.pdf
Live Functional Programming with Typed Holes
> Gecko is alive and well, and there are no plans to switch to Blink.

Gecko seems to be tightly bound to Firefox. Are there any plans on decoupling that and making it easily embeddable for other projects? Even MDN doesn't seem to have up to date documentation on that [0].

I purport that allowing easy embedding will allow more people to play around with Gecko, discover wildly different classes of bugs, contribute code in order to add improvements and fix bugs that they discover while embedding the project.

Given a more visible and active community around Gecko, Microsoft might've even switched to Gecko, but that's just a wild guess.

0: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Gecko/Gecko...
What do you think is the difference between the way GPT-3 works and human beings work?
Customers who immediately try to raise a mob on social media whenever they encounter the slightest issue are toxic customers, there's no way around it. There should be a list of such customers for companies to filter them out of their business when possible, ideally at signup. I know multiple small companies that would gladly pay for this service. Market for a new startup?
It seems to me you are just introducing lots of distractions and hypotheticals to avoid saying anything specific about gay marriage. I'm married to another man. Do you think my marriage should be legally recognized or not?
The CEO of Ghost did not ever call his ex-customer an asshole, though.
Dothot.dog – Spotify music discovery platform
When your first response is to shittalk the vendor on social media rather than contact them through normal channels, you're likely to be a net-negative customer.

His shitpost tweet timestamp was 07:21; his screenshot of his email says it was sent at 13:29. Maybe time zone accounts for some disparity, but there was certainly no attempt to allow a response before shitposting.
CEOs have bad days too. At least it was a human acting with cause and not an algorithm that killed his site with no explanation and no recourse. They gave him his money back instead of holding it forever.
I agree. Use your brand and use Apple-like privacy oriented marketing.

Start with a VPN. Other products could be: password manager; secure storage like Dropbox; and one day even email. Anything which dovetails with the browser and includes privacy issues.

Having a well known browser brand is a huge asset to build upon.
It’s the Access Virus Ti3 Synthesizer
It's the kind of thing you learn as a kid in Australia. It's super common to have "red back" spiders under rocks, logs, or pretty much any object that's stationary on the ground for more than a few days.

Red back spiders are poisonous, evil looking little buggers! ;)

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

Funnel web spiders are a thing as well, but they seem to be less common here in Victoria (south eastern Australia). Red backs though are everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_funnel-web_spider
He doesn't call anyone shady, it's the practice of billing someone 3 times the amount of the last bill with just 7 days notice is shady. Not reading emails for 7 days is standard for me at least, I try to be effective with my own time.
That is fine IF you warn your customer about scaling BEFORE the customer gives you the credit card.

This system does make sense for some customers, it does not for others, some will agree and subscribe to the service, some will not.
Playing card symbols are -- like chess symbols -- typeset inline with ordinary text in books that deal with the strategy of those games. So, IMO it makes since to include them in a character set that a font and typesetting engine will support.
"There's also zero evidence that larger magazines makes anyone unsafer. "

I didn't say there was.

But there is absolute evidence that 'not having guns widespread' will keep people safer.

Not only is it blatantly obvious, the evidence is there in every civilised nation. Go ahead and get a passport, and visit another civilised country. Then ask around 'why there is so much less gun violence' and also why 'people don't feel the need to buy guns'. Or even as a UK cop why he doesn't even carry a gun, which is unthinkable in the US.

The US has zero credibility on the issue - aside from some legitimate issues around the second amendment - the 'safety' arguments are asinine. Considerably fewer guns in civilised countries leads to less gun violence literally by supply and demand and simple probabilities of people being able to access them.
I hate hate hate hate hate this shady behaviour from web hosting type companies. Fuck them. Fuck fuck fuck them.
I hate hate hate hate hate this shady behaviour from web hosting type companies. Fk them. Fk fk fk them. These are the companies that make life joyless.
Well, we are as much alike as our consciousness/brain can manage to find a pattern for. The consciousness compresses reality by finding patterns. As long as we are able to understand some phenomenon, there will always be a pattern that this understanding is serviced by, and we will be able to see some relation between two different things through that pattern. In that sense, everything we perceive will be connected in one way or another. In that sense, everything is "one".

But does that say anything about the physical world, or rather about our own brains, our consciousness and how it works? A matter of perspective. And of how you define "real".
I don't think it's fair to make Google particularly responsible for WHATWG and the over complicated web. The other vendors were on board and used the sentiment against XHTML from those who directly did write-once HTML, right before the web out grew their manual skill level and became capable of offering tooling. The results have naturally been a hodge-podge since WHATWG was about using the sentiments of everyone against a standard, and the results are everything in every direction except the track the W3C standard was on.
I would actually say the same thing about pretty much any topic, I think, provided that it passes the test of “if I didn’t know anything about what this person does outside of work, would I think this person was a bad coworker?” I can’t speak for you of course ;)

And it’s hard to come up with something specific to you without really knowing much about you, but I’ll try my hand by randomly picking something which I haven’t made up my mind about yet (so ideally I can be more likely to come up with case for either side) and perhaps you might fall on one side and see how either way you’re infringing on some kind of human right: it’s the “right to be forgotten” topic. On one side, if you let people deleting things about them online, it’s a way to censor discussion about them, you could probably abuse this to get everything negative about you removed, and it would generally lead to an erosion of freedom of speech if people could come after you for what you said and force you to delete it. On the other hand, you have a right to privacy, it’s difficult to consent to sharing once something goes online, there’s already been huge problems with doxxing and people being permanently unemployable because of something that ended up on the Internet about them that was no longer relevant or true and they are haunted by it forever.

I think the issue probably affects fewer people than say racism might, but it’s a clear example of how you could take a viewpoint and have entirely reasonable people claim you are infringing in their rights with your opinion.
OP has one user too much

Actually, double (4 users, 2 allowed under plan).
Obviously there’s more reasons to backstab when the pay is hundreds of times that of a regular employee
Fungi and animals actually have a common ancestor, protista. It's not exactly my area of expertise, but I believe that the way a fungus grows its tendrils and communicates over it is much like our nervous system.
Here[0] is a fancy graphic that succinctly displays how the kingdoms of life are categorized.

[0]https://biologydictionary.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Tre...
Well some CEO's maybe should; I don't know how it is to run companies with 50000+ employees; as a long term CTO myself, I look to work with CEO's who are not greedy and spread the wealth with the employees and who are not just out there to buy jets and ferrari's. (Actually, I have a natural aversion to people who buy sportscars with their wealth as I find it rancid and decadent in this day-and-age, but that's another story. Also probably because I'm Dutch and know many very rich people over there who drive shit cars, live in small houses and go by car and caravan to France on vacation.)

I do see why CEO's (and all c-level if they are founders, have board seats, are early investors, have a high amount of %) should be compensated well over employees; they take the risks. Or rather; they should take the risks. If times are bad, I am looking to work with people who cut their own salary or reinvest to keep the employees and not just throw everyone out and take the bonus and then close up shop (which seems to happen a lot with startups right now).

200x is over the top I guess; I cannot see how you bring that much more value than your employees. Like said; no idea how it works at real enterprises, but in companies I see with few 100 to few 1000 people; I can walk around and remove a few dozen people (employees) and the entire company will grind to a halt. There are always vital things that are governed by a few (early?) employees which, if removed, are extremely hard to replace. This means that at least those employees cannot earn 200x less than the CEO, not 100x less either.

I saw a post on Twitter a few days ago about those kind of employees of these kind of companies starting a company together, resigning and then having the new company acqui-hired by the old company for many millions. That's how you should handle that situation if you have a CEO that is that greedy indeed.
Well, this.field also can be used to signal visually what is a private member or what is a private method. And it's supported by the language, and there's no need to use such magic prefix strings.

My point was that the same people who insist that 'this' is superfluous because "IDE can handle it" are also advocating use of "m_" because of "visual signal". I simply think 'this' is superior to "m_" in every way.
Money and hierarchy
Interesting read.

The point about Intel having many units waiting for 14nm capacity to be gradually released to them from CPU/Server business is good one. All those 14nm fabs should be used for other things already.
My takeaway was that "software developer" is not a very useful job description anymore. CRUD, web dev, games, HPC, embedded and other fields require vastly different skill sets. Changing between these fields can be like starting your first job out of college, learning to use not just different tools but also focusing on very different priorities.

("$language developer" is only slightly more useful, especially for languages which are used across many different fields such as Python (web dev and science), C# (web dev and games), C (games and embedded), etc.)

The article revolves around the continuum from building everything yourself to importing a third party library whenever it can speed up delivering the current feature just a little bit. It's pretty clear by now that the many software development fields fall into different parts of that continuum.
Feel free to be as cynical as you want, but it also happens to be the far more user friendly thing to do.
In my opinion, Ghost made a mistake in terminating the service without prior notice (although I think it would be okay for them to do so with prior notice). The terms of the service allow doing so for any reason, but that's no justification. In fact, having such a term is a good reason to avoid Ghost.

Also, I find it interesting that Ghost didn't answer "What happens if an article goes viral and it breaks the 100k views boundary? Automatic charge?" question. The pricing page provides a reasonable response here.

> We never disable sites for traffic spikes, so no need to worry about the front page of Reddit or HN. If you exceed your limit consistently on a 3 month rolling average, we'll just let you know that you need to upgrade.
Woah. I feel like I might have heard about Linseed oil’s propensity to spontaneously combust but forgotten about it. Thanks for the reminder.
> That is fine IF you warn your customer about scaling BEFORE the customer gives you the credit card.

Ghost is pretty clear on their signup pages. For example, if you go over your traffic limits:

https://ghost.org/pricing/

> Average views per month

> Views refer to the number of requests to your site each month. These are tracked much like an analytics 'pageview' - and are incremented with each page or API request.

> We never disable sites for traffic spikes, so no need to worry about the front page of Reddit or HN. If you exceed your limit consistently on a 3 month rolling average, we'll just let you know that you need to upgrade.

And for staffing:

> Staff users

> Staff users refers to the total number of active team members invited to Ghost Admin whom you collaborate with. For the purposes of billing, we only count staff users who have logged in at least once in the last 30 days.

> If you have lots of authors of posts who are not logging into Ghost Admin on a regular basis, they won't count towards your plan limits.

And if you don't want to upgrade they tell you how to avoid it before charging.
There's no focused argument here. Mere polemic.

> the evolutionary argument...rests of [sic] a big mistake about what nervous systems, immune systems, genetic regulatory nets, etc., evolve to do. This is not transmit information from one place to another, or be "flexible" in some abstract sense, but cause actions which enhance the fitness of the organism they happen to be in.

What reasons does the author have for maintaining these ideas? Naturally, none are given.

It's just a bunch of disconnected opinions.
I think other countries do well without such expensive universities, like Germany for instance where students are much more on their own. So I disagree with reducing "non-academic staff" and making admissions more difficult. In my opinion class sizes could be even larger and moved online completely. After all students only spend a fraction of their time in classes. Most of the time needs to be spent actually learning the stuff from the lectures, both alone and in groups with other students. Universities are there to facilitate the latter, it's just not possible with pure online learning - yet. To me most valuable are tutoring classes that are lead by staff or just more senior students, so it's possible to get qualified feedback and help with exercises and to actually understand things on a deeper level. At least for CS, Math, Natural Sciences.

There is a tendency to automatize a lot of basic work. Speaking for myself, I moved out from home 15 years ago and had to hire someone to repair something at my place only once. And that was because they messed up an installation that was initiated by the landlord. Societies as a whole are economically much better off when people get a higher education and should strive to enable it for everybody who wants to get it. (Many people actually don't want to study.)
Nah, FUCK Ghost and their CEO.

The practice is SUPER shady and people should most certainly raise awareness about an issue where other users can end up paying a lot more without even noticing or before its too late.

Secondly, the CEO acting like he's got a small penis syndrome and erratically deleting someone's content because they had a reasonable complaint is just utter nuts.

Zero tolerance or understanding from me. This is not how you deal with anything in life.
There is no expectation that customers be professional. There is no profession, no salary, and no stakeholders. The failure here is almost all with the one professional involved: the CEO.
Has AWS ever sunsetted a service?

I know they deprecated SimpleDB but I don't think they ever actually shut it down for existing customers, that might have changed in the last few years though.
I personally think he could've handled this is in a much nicer way, calling a business shady or saying they screw over clients instantly sets the precedent that you're trying to attack them. If he just asked them what would happen when his website goes viral, I'm sure he would've gotten a proper response.

The CEO definitely wasn't as professional as he should've been, but I'm not sure how I would feel when someone calls my business shady or says I'm screwing over clients over what might have been a misunderstanding.
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