skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you want the conspiracy or official version?

It is probable it has nothing to do with politics and the individuals (or people in the area) in question are suspects in a standard criminal activity.

It is also possible it is political.

The lack of transparency in government / police operations leads to this kind of speculation. The massive lose of trust in police (rightfully so) over the past few years also has eroded any "benefit of the doubt" people may have given them in the past

Unless an arrest is made or a lawsuit files we will probably never know the real truth.
The One is actually a pretty good deal if you want something of that form factor that isn’t a laptop in a box.

It’s completely water cooled and the majority of the parts are reusable/pc compatible.

Building something of that small factor will cost you a lot in exotic and custom parts.

For what it is the markup isn’t actually terrible it’s pretty cheap considering it costs about as much or even less than some standard tower gaming PCs from big brands and it comes with better hardware.

You can build a mini-ITX for cheaper but nothing of that size that and an SFF build will cost you more.
You can add the niceties all in the same message, as the website describes. The initial message can contain the greeting, the hedging about not wanting to bother someone, and also the specific question and details, and any other needed information (error message, traceback, whatever). So much time is saved by just including it all in one message, separated with newlines where needed.
There is a strong counter-argument though, based on the increase of online meetings and screen sharing scenarios...
Not everybody always remembers to silence screen notifications while sharing screens.

Which leads to more-than-once-a-week situations of "Hi - full question or comment notification that probably shouldn't be seen by co-worker/boss/client" popping up during the share.

A simple "hello" --wait for answer-- protocol makes it a quick way of checking if it's a good time.
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At this point I would just buy a $12 HDMI to USB dongle and side step the need for any of these apps. Way better, no new software required, no OS specifics.

Ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daS5RHVAl2U
Ahh yes, historicity masquerading as evidence of inherent attributes strikes again.
There are times I have done this if I am not sure if the person at the other end is presenting/sharing screen and the matter is somewhat sensitive.

If that screen sharing software world and messaging/chat software works had some sort of protocol/handshake not to step on each other, many frustrating situations can be avoided.
A Hello wastes my time, but sometimes I go along with it to see if that's what they really wanted - maybe they didn't have a question after all, and when I have time I'm happy to have a friendly chat:

them: Hello
*hour or two passes*
me: Hey how are you?

But so far every time they say Good and then ask their question :(. A surprising amount of the time when I wait an hour to respond to a Hello they'll tell me they already figured out the answer to their question too (I would never wait that long to respond to actual questions though).
I blame the Resume Driven Development mindset.

"Maintained a COBOL system that processes twenty zillion transactions per hour" just doesn't sparkle like "replaced 40-year-old monolith with a galaxy of JavaScript microsoervices that get winded at 100 requests per hour."
> "It was mildly infuriating because I would check the internal chat about once an hour in order to remain productive. So the first time I check I see the hello, then next time I check I see what they actually wanted to say doubling the amount of time until they got a response compared to asking in one go"

But why is that your problem to be infuriated about? If they weren't bothered by doubling the time to a response, why should you be? And if they are ... why should you be?
I think this is wrong. The property of high school that led to this being named that way is that high school facilitates immature, consequence-free social contexts where asserting individuality is key to your social status among peers.

In-person workplaces do not foster this usually, with some exceptions in immature start-ups or bro-y Wall Street.

By contrast, it’s exactly the kind of atmosphere that instant messaging environments foster.
That stack shouldn't be slow unless the code is horrible. Especially if you migrate it to .NET core.

We used to run ASP.NET MVC apps on the smallest VM's on Azure and they could still handle a lot of traffic
I've just received mine and I must say I find it so much nicer to learn using the print copy book! It forces me to type out (rather than copy and paste) the code, and I like being able to scribble all over the book. Given the thousands of dollars of value I've gained from the courses, I have to say that spending another $60 for the book was well worth it.
Curious, are you using GSuites? Because I had very negative experiences when it comes to reading/writing email with it.
that's an unusual style of communication. You are coworkers. If you don't know the answer immediately, say it.

Consider too, that i might be blocked as long as i don't have an answer.
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Wow, that seems kinda huge.

I've got a "big" one that has served me well for a long time. Not sure of the exact size but it's like roughly 4x the area of a standard mousepad. Maybe 24" x 15", something like that? I actually have it oriented portrait because I actually don't need that much width.

Basically just wanted coverage from the right edge of my keyboard to the edge of my desk.
> They mention nationality stereotypes in particular as being quite inaccurate.

National stereotypes are actually quite interesting because they come in two flavors:

"Swiss are punctual" is a regular stereotype that by and large applies to the average Swiss.

"Germans wear lederhosen" is a stereotype that is wrong for the vast majority of Germans. It's still true/useful in the sense that if you see someone wearing lederhosen they are most likely German. That makes is a good visual shorthand for "German", which can feed the impression that it's common.
The university is trying to protect its reputation and goodwill. The trial helps as a warning to other parents: cough up the money the way they want and your kids get in, or risk the lottery.
Or you can just send me a brief sentence about what your problem is. So I can decide how much of a context switch it is. At my last company, I could be working on any number of problems from the front end (not likely), to infrastructure, to dealing with documentation for a customer. If you tell me what the issue is, when I do come up for air, I can decide where I place you in the queue. A “hello” goes to the bottom of the queue. I might not even put “respond to bo1234 to see what he wants.”

If I am asking a question where your response isn’t blocking me, I’ll say that...

“No rush, it’s not blocking me. I have X,Y I can be working on”.

“I’m working a little late tonight. If you’re busy, this can be a tomorrow problem.”

I personally prefer a wall of text telling me everything they have already tried. If they have already tried my first ideas, I can decide whether I have time or not.
Oh I'm sure. We wanted to be able to automatically cancel your Apple subscription if you upgrade on Android or Web, but we can't. We do this for Android where we can programmatically cancel.
Amusing, in this context, that Google decided to base ChromeOS on Gentoo.
Giving money to the development office doesn't get your kids legacy status. They'll get admitted, but not in a way that is unfairly taking away a slot from an actual legacy.
This doesn't surprise me at all, I spend 5x times more money on video games per year than dev education and I don't even game that much, maybe once a month. Video game markets just gonna keep getting bigger.
Its just about being polite and wasting time.

He explained it. Its the equivalent of calling someone for help and putting them on hold.

I think it's okay if you at least give the topic of your question or start asking it in the first line and within five seconds or so get to the point.

But if you just give a greeting or something and then delay, it wastes people's time.
no, just communicating with my coworkers.
Citation for for IQ test results == intelligence?
What's amazing is that solitaire isn't a single game with a set rules. It's an entire category of card games. The "game developers" of the past were just people agreeing on a set of rules.
The reason your username and password are on different pages is to handle federated identities.
Take a typical saas product.
Initially you build your own login username and password.
As you grow your users ask to login using gmail, LinkedIn or Microsoft so they don’t have to remember multiple usernames and passwords.
If you enable third party login it means you have to redirect the site to the third party login page to authenticate.

To accomodate that you design your page so the user first enters username.
In your system you check based on email who the identity provider is and redirect to that login journey.

For e.g. if Microsoft you redirect to Microsoft login page to authenticate.

If successful the third party login provider will send you back to your app with a JWT. In your app you check if the JWT is valid - if so allow access.

On first entering email on login, If your login provider is your own app, you redirect to your own login password page.
"Yeah, but my metabolic processes sometimes do have an effect many kilometers away."

No they don't and I have never heard of you.

Ants are not elephantine.
> should be really simple

Ummm... no, state management is pretty much the only hard problem in programming.
How many of these "phone numbers" aren't eligible voters though (e.g. under 18)?
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Of course you can also use Nix or Guix in a more Gentoo-like fashion and forbid binary downloads, requiring everything to be built locally.
I grew up being taught that sterotypes are a myth. Everyone is the same.

Boy I was in for a rude awakening
You can use stock Android without a Google account. You can avoid the Google Play Store, disable most google default provided apps, and sideload apps of your choosing. You can use a browser (such as Firefox) that the phone vendor has no control over. You can even install an alternate app store. This sounds like what the parent is doing, and it's the best mainstream experience for anybody looking for a privacy and security oriented mobile device (while still actually having control of their own device).

With a Pixel phone, you can go further, unlock the bootloader and install a third party OS that does not even include Google services installed at all.

Of course, on the other hand, you could sign up for every google service, load all their apps, and consent to all their tracking, in which case you give away everything. Google makes it very easy to do this.

But either way, it's at least your choice. Unlike Apple, which thinks it certainly knows best what code should be allowed on your computer and how it should be placed there.
Are you saying that he is factually wrong or that it is merely socially unacceptable?
I had a colleague at a company that would always start his Slack chats with “Hey” and then wait for a reply. My “response” was to not respond until he finally got the message and would continue with what he actually had to say. Worked for me but YMMV.
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That's a pretty big oversimplification of their argument and antitrust law usually isn't so cut and dried.

What they're saying is that in the market for product A, if sales of product A are usually bundled with product B, then the courts view product A and B as one product sold together. The fact that product B might be sold separately in other markets doesn't change the facts and circumstances as they pertain to product A's market.

The precedent they cite in Rick-Mik Enters., Inc. v. Equilon Enters. LLC demonstrates an example of this, where credit card processing services are typically bundled with sales of gas station franchises, and therefore in the market of "gas station franchise sales", "credit card processing services" were not considered a separate product even though you can obviously purchase "credit card processing services" separately in other markets.

While I don't know if this particular argument will hold up in court, it's not "so lousy & so easily proven false" either.
"The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

"The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different, rather than how we are similar."

-- Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
It doesn't appear that the Swift port for fast.ai is a high priority, but Jeremy, Sylvain, and co have rewritten the Python library from scratch and it is much more sensibly organized now. The version 2 codebase is completed developed (generated, along with documentation) from Jupyter notebooks.
(Potential) counterpoint: there are those who sometimes prefer indirect language.

E.g. I would prefer if you said "I don't mean to be rude, but in my honest opinion you're looking kind of shabby these days" rather than "You're ugly" (statements exaggerated for emphasis).

I think this matters less in the context of the original thread (the "hello" back-and-forth).
Why have families if ones goal is to minimize time with them? I suppose during the challenging seasons work may feel like an escape. But that doesn't seem like a solution so much as a work around to the root problems.
Exactly, you need the risk adjusted prices to match up. Getting paid a bug bounty isn't very risky, so the price is always going to be lower than selling or using the exploit yourself.

That being said, I still think bug bounties are too low, even when risk adjusting.
I will confess to not making it to the end of the introduction, but this is a general comment about anti-trust and monopoly laws.

They're made up and arbitrary. The best definition I have seen is that someone is a monopoly if they haven't made enough campaign contributions and weild enough political influence to appease government bureaucrats from shaking them down. The exception is for a monopoly created by the government itself by legislation/regulation giving someone special privileges or banning competitors.

I challenge a reply to this comment for a definition of monopoly that rational+reasonable people could use to unambiguously differentiate between business that are and are not a monopoly (asside from the one I gave above).

I like Walter Block's joke on monopolies. He starts with 3 prisoners in a gulag who are chatting amongst themselves about how they got there. First guy, "I was always late to work. I was accused of depriving the Soviet people of my labour, so was sent to the gulag." The second guy, "gosh, I was always early. They accused me of being selfish and ambitious: trying to brown-nose and get ahead of my fellow workers, so I got sent here too." The last guy, "I was always precisely on time. They said I must be a spy and accused me of having a western wristwatch."

The same joke applies to monopolies. Three businessmen are all accused of being monopolists and are sent to prison. First guy, "I was charging more than my peers. They accused me of price gauging." Second guy, "I was charging less than everybody else, they accused me of undercutting the competition." Last guy, "I charged exactly the same as my competitors: I got charged with collusion and participation in a cartel."
Nah, I think you’re wrong. It would require a very revisionist / mental gymnastics interpretations of your original post and it just doesn’t seem reasonable given all your other follow up comments.

You said “just fire the shitty people” in response to a very low stakes topic like misbehavior on a chat program, and then vigorously added response comments all over defending the claim that any type of community gathering of coworkers begets this shitty behavior.

The most reasonable take possible on your initial comment is that you are suggesting a very extreme low bar for firing people rather than helping them improve.
I'll just link to a comment I made about 3 months ago, regarding this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23418356
I still do play solitaire. I taught a few variations to my kids early on when the pandemic locked us at home. I don't judge either style of game as better or worse than the other... just different. Video games are clearly richer games, but the conversations I had with my family growing up were often while sitting around a table playing card games.
Yes, it was spun out of PayPal’s fraud detection [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
It’s possible, just not obvious. Create a Shortcut with the “Open URL” action and point it to “itms-apps://apps.apple.com/updates”

You can then add the shortcut to your home screen, run it from the shortcuts widget, via search, etc.
basic politeness involves not appearances of being polite, but rather thinking of the other person

THIS!!!

I have the unfortunate experience of somewhat regularly engaging with people who:

1. Act in a manner / do something they think the other party should appreciate, where

2. The other party does not in fact appreciate this, and is often burdened, bothered, or inconvenienced.

3. When informed of this, the first party both accuses the second that they are ungrateful (for not actually being helped) and controlling (for expressing alternate preferences, including often no assistance).

The cycle can reepeat, over precisely the same exchanges, repeatedly and over long periods.

Small children not knowing better is excusable. Adults not so much.

Kindness and consideration are not forcing your preferences down another's throat (exceptions for specific therapeutic expertise and treatment), but in offering to someone that which they express a preference for or interest in. So long as this isn't actively acutely harmful, one should oblige, aand graciously.

Keep in mind that "where the roles reversed" may not be a reliable guide. It's not what you would want, but what they prefer.

This lesson seems poorly assimilated by many.
See, at least at the places I've worked, Slack is absolutely not an async communication channel. Some things are async, some need an answer now.
Taking a single statistic on something as complex and multivariate as "intelligence" is already discarding a lot of information. When you throw in social factors (Who is writing the tests? What are the challenges faced by the various populations taking the test?), it becomes utterly absurd and unscientific to conclude that your statistic is free of some systemic source of error.

If IQ tests were presented in, say, a physics context as a serious experiment, the presenter would be laughed out of the room. Taking them seriously and uncritically indicates nothing less than a complete lack of understanding of how the scientific method is to be carried out and how its results are to be interpreted.
Some of my fondest computer memories are working through the LFS guide on a home-built computer in highschool. Wish I still had the time to do stuff like that!
Lots of folks will guard against strong assertions like that out of habit, especially if it's not their area of expertise. They're leaving open the possibility that they could be wrong.
Well, the bribes paid in this scandal were on the order of a few hundred thousand dollars paid per admission.

Another way to look at it is to look at the total cost of fully private preparatory primary and secondary schooling for a child, in programs that groom them to maximize their chance for admission (what a lovely childhood that sounds like). That's probably about half a million dollars, give or take, depending upon where you live.

So I'd guess it's somewhere in that ballpark of 200k-500k. I don't know what the median size of donation-based admissions is though.
Because (1) the test can in fact be racist in the sense that it's optimised/over fitted toward the white (majority) population, but most importantly (2) the correlation between IQ and race is an entirely false one! Or rather, the correlation is indirect. In fact what is truly happening is that higher test scores are caused by such things as: family wealth, school, parental education, home life, etc, which black people statistically lack more than white people. Hence the correlation between IQ and race, a simplistic analysis that obscures the actual mechanisms at hand.
if I'm in regular communication with someone, I'll skip the hi or inline it. the hello comes in handy when I'm getting in touch with someone I might only talk to once every couple weeks. then I like to just kind of break the ice, make friendly conversation so we both can feel at ease and friendly with each other.

I like to be friends with my co-workers - and there are times where if you are hitting them up for an ask, and ignoring them otherwise, thet might feel like you don't value them as a person ... A greeting, a little gossip or "HR" repartée can make two people trust each other - which in the end can foster its own kind of efficiency!
>Dennis Ritchie said: "What really tore it (just when ADA was catching on), was that Bjarne Stroustrup caught onto our joke

Lol.
He is wrong, as pointed out in other comments. I'd rather him not delete it though.
A related annoyance is people who hit return after every statement, so that you end up with multiple alerts for the same message, and worse, the alert you see first is for the last statement that was posted.
While not perfect, they are the best metric we currently have.

Wikipedia says "In psychology, human intelligence is commonly assessed by IQ scores that are determined by IQ tests. However, there are critics of IQ tests who, while they do not dispute the stability of IQ test scores, or the fact that they predict certain forms of achievement rather effectively, do on the other hand argue that to base a concept of intelligence on IQ test scores alone is to ignore many important aspects of mental ability.

On the other hand, Linda S. Gottfredson (2006) has argued that the results of thousands of studies support the importance of IQ for school and job performance. She says that IQ also predicts or correlates with numerous other life outcomes. In contrast, empirical support for non-g intelligences is lacking or very poor."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_intelligence#Relevance_o...
I'm going to copy-paste from an older comment of mine (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22332136) that I think captures my opinions on this question:

Client-side tracking, if you need any at all, should be a) high value, b) aligned with my goals as a user, and c) as respectful as possible of my privacy (eg. anonymising values, only taking what info you need).

The b) condition there is most nebulous - I'm mainly thinking of things like reporting client-side javascript errors. This is aligned with my goal of your site being bug-free so I can use it better. Another example would be an (opt-in!) recommendation system that I find valuable. What would NOT be an example of this would be tracking of my actions on the page in order to optimize the chances that I'll engage with the content. Engagement is your priority, not mine.
Given how prevalent police unions are, and how incredibly quick they are to raise complaints, you'd hope for more self-awareness/solidarity and less hypocrisy.
Its probably also worth noting that it is $13/hour while working. Your income will fluctuate heavily with demand, which further increases your risk. This of course is also true of taxi drivers.