skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I read it, I don't think the Mission Protocol is about accomplishing the mission at all costs, even if it means sacrificing our morals or doing anything illegal.

It's very difficult to create meaningful and impactful change to improve society, and this advocates being laser-focused to give your mission the best chance be successful. If all (good) missions are given their full attention, they all have a higher chance of success instead of everyone trying to trying to do everything, and then not doing any mission well enough to be successful.

It is advocating for people to choose a company with a mission they believe in because they think it can make a positive contribution to society. For example, if you care about having a world-wide open financial system but take a job at Tesla, according to the Mission Protocol you would be doing a disservice to bringing clean energy to the world if you also asked Tesla to put effort into contributing to an open financial system.
"League of Legends" by Foxxcon
Outfoxed.
Requiring a mobile phone number to use Signal is a NOGO.
As someone who has never paid for cosmetic or superficial features for a service (chat, games, websites etc), I am grateful for people who do.
I am, but I cannot go through the source code of everything I use. :/ I was merely trying to say that it seems like future programs might be stained with anti-privacy bullshit. Soon it will be foolish to upgrade.
Please please please be true. TouchID is objectively superior to FaceId, by a long shot. It is my soap box... but TouchID RARELY failed and could be activated BEFORE you had the phone in front of you. FaceID fails constantly and MUST be in view to start the unlock process.

TouchID has a single failure mode (and a half) that isn't that common. Wet / dampness. Solution, dry your finger, try again. Gloves are the 'half' mode as what can you expect, you can't access the finger.

FaceID has no less than 3 FREQUENT failures and a myriad of other smaller less frequent ones. Occlusion, distance and light.

Occlusion - Have your face resting on your palm... fail. Have a hat on, fail. Have a mask on...

Distance is an interesting one, but for those of us with terrible eyesight, it is constant. Phone call / text at night? Put the phone up to my face to see... FaceID fail (too close). I have to move it back away so I can't read it to unlock... hoping it did unlock before I move it forward again to read it.

Light - This really shows up when outdoors in the sun. The IR sensor gets washed out and can't work. It isn't that bad, but it does happen frequently enough to notice.

The other thing that is SO annoying about FaceID is that is has no idea WHEN you want to use it... see a face 'I must SCAN IT!' Oh, that is someone else, now you are locked out and need your password. Pick up your phone, SCAN! Oh, that is your pocket, now you need your password. The latter can be turned off, the former, not so much.

I ALMOST bought an 8 instead of a Xs when I finally upgraded, but OLED pushed me over the edge. I do love the screen, but I scorn FaceID daily and was hoping for TouchId to return to the 12. Fingers crossed for the 13, lol.
Really cheapening Snowden here if you think he wasn't going to sacrifice his life to reveal these practices if a little mission protocol document had been there.
Yeah, I've bought a bunch of Google Home devices because I really like the Google Assistant, but I don't think I'll buy any more because I just can't rely on Google for anything. Might have to switch to Apple HomePods and put up with Siri (ew).

Also in the process of switching over everything from my personal free gmail to an email that I own the domain for, as I've recently heard some horror stories about losing access to your gmail account and no recourse.
When you’re Selbstandig and not Freierberuf, there is also Gewerbesteuer. Depends on the location one has the Gewerbe registered. NRW being the most expensive one. Yup, taxes are progressive but one reaches that level.
> It's shocking how many data scientist I've known how no idea how to correctly model churn,

This is because most 'data scientists' have never actually studied much statistics.

And for the rest, it's easy to forgot all the cool tools we learnt about at university when everyone in the corporate world just says 'give me the average revenue per customer', 'give me the average tenure' etc, etc.
I don't think a 25 year old paper on the topic would still hold that much relevance today. I'd also suggest that the difference is why software is created could be having an influence over something like this. The fundamentals of the Unix design philosophy are "Make each program do one thing well" and "Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program". You could debate exactly how influential that has actually been over GNU design, but it's quite different from the typical approach taken with commercial software, which is not to write programs that perform a single function, but to write programs that solve an entire category of problems for the customer. When I think about the opensource "solution-oriented" products that I've used (Elastic stack and Zabbix come to mind), I don't get the impression that they're more reliable than their commercial counterparts.

One of the things I've always thought about open source tooling in general, is that I expect to find a collection of highly reliable and performant utilities, and I expect it to be entirely my problem to turn them into a working system that's going to solve my problems. With commercial software, I would just expect it to just work off the shelf and consume much less of my time to maintain. That said, it is a fantastic feeling to find a bug or missing piece of functionality and to just write a pull request for it, rather than waiting for an account manager to get back to you saying "it's on the roadmap" or something else equally unhelpful.
Websites will, at their option, be able to require Apple hardware to use them.
We've banned this account.

Everybody else: could you please follow the site guidelines and flag egregious comments rather than feeding the trolls?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Fox in the cheesehouse"?

While you wait, American Factory is a pretty good documentary about a Chinese auto glass manufacturer trying to set up a stateside plant in an area that aggressively courted them.
My personal experience has been different. Windows has been reasonably reliable since, oh, Win2k pro or so. These days, I never encounter full OS freezes or crashes, but I do encounter them occasionally at work, using Linux.
So what are the KPI's for a mission focused enterprise?

And how does this protocol help reach them.
You're entirely correct about Discord but it will be difficult to switch over completely unless you make it almost a drop in replacement for discord (eg. supporting discord bots). I can imagine moving over some of the small servers with just a few friends but getting bigger communities to switch is a hard problem and unless you do that, almost everyone will still have a reason to stay on discord.
Signal doesn't require Google Play Services. It will use Play Services if installed for notifications, but works fine without them, and it can be installed on LineageOS etc.
Newton famously taught himsef Calculus. As did Leibnitz.
Free software and proprietary software have big incentive problems, but the problems are different:

In proprietary software, acting in a scummy way many times doesn't result in loss of profits, it may even increase profits.

Free software has the problem that usually there are no hierarchies and, consequently, no responsibilities. That makes it harder to imprint a coherent vision on a project. It also makes it harder for non-software people (graphic designers et al) to join, since complex cross-discipline ventures require a lot of organization and structure. QA, writing docs and other "boring" jobs become an afterthought.

I think the way to fix this is making free software organizations akin to commercial entities in their internal organization: have bosses and pay salaries, but still be non-profits so that the incentive to be scummy is small. The source of income being, obviously, donations.
The message was very easily missed because the story doesn't actually start until halfway through the book. Most of our class had already given up on the book by that point.

There's a movie based on it called Easy A [0], set in highschool, that gets across a similar message except it actually works because it's a comedy that keeps you interested.

(And I only say "similar" instead of "the same" because although I can remember what the A was, I can't remember anything about the narrative in The Scarlet Letter)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_A
I’ve been using git since a year or two after it was released and I’ve never paid any attention to that part of the diff. I could see it that preventing some editing of the wrong method but that is something testing should reveal.

I’m curious if others see some value in it, either before or with changes from this post?
> I don't follow. Can you explain why choosing to not work for or dine at a racist lunch counter, instead of work there and then complain to management about their racism, is ignoring the problem?

It isn't! It's strictly better to boycott than to abide.

The observations are as follows:

* Boycotting is, for a multitude of reasons, not always a reasonable option for individuals

* Companies are aware that some of their best potential talent won't work for them unless they emphasize at least some social good

* It's not especially surprising that people who are attracted by the promise of some social good want more, and are upset or angry when they realize that their company's ethical stances are superficial or self-serving

* Conversely, it's not especially surprising that companies that aggressively pursue "apolitical" positions are the ones that are perhaps the most objectionable: defense contractors, financial companies that benefit from organized crime, &c, and find themselves in the company of employees who actively favor the company's unethical positions

To be clear: it's a double bind for companies, and it's always been one. I wouldn't want it any other way!
https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/save-local-journalism-...

https://www.courthousenews.com/governor-newsom-signs-newspap...

The CA legislature just passed AB323, which exempts journalists from AB5, with a 71-4 margin (94.7%) in the Assembly and unanimously in the Senate. So 87.5% is certainly doable!

Funnily enough, the website advocating for journalists to be exempt says the following. Sound familiar?

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* If forced to comply with AB 5, many community newspapers, including local, ethnic, urban, suburban and metro papers, will be unable to sustain operations. They will close their doors, leaving many communities with no local news source.

* For those that continue to exist, news operations will be forced to make deep cuts to both print and digital community coverage and offerings in order to survive.

[IF NEWSPAPERS ARE NOT EXEMPTED FROM AB 5, READERS WILL LOSE.]

* Limited home delivery.

* Fewer local news reporters and less hometown coverage.

* Loss of sports, comics, games and investigative reporting.

* Days of week eliminated from print.

More at: https://savemypaper.com
Those selected in the screenshot are included in the Mozilla list, thus to be trusted. They instruct to distrust the inversion. Here's quote from the instruction:

2. Right-click the selection and click Invert selection
3. Right-click the selection and click Distrust
VFX Forth 64 for Linux – Beta version available (Sept 2020)
Put it this way: It's possible that you could manufacture LCDs profitably in Wisconsin...

...but nobody has ever proposed an even vaguely plausible plan to do so. Foxconn seems to have to viewed it as so obviously absurd they never even tried to develop a plan, much less started building a factory.

Whatever else you may say about Foxconn, they seem to be pretty decent at manufacturing things cheaply. If they considered the idea to be a joke, it's probably safe to assume it's utterly impractical.
Why bother with the coverup then? Just have the journalist say he stole bidens laptop and is now releasing all the info
Gemini exchange seems to have no difficulty with banking. Coinbase seems to have no difficulty with banking.
...anyone with a packet sniffer?
Hmm, odd. I bought the cheapest AIO printer with wifi at Walmart years ago and it has worked flawlessly. Besides the ink cartridges being terrible. Connectivity though...perfect.
Recently I've been doing a lot of work with Blender for my side project (https://lulimjewelry.com - custom 3d printed jewelry), and it has excellent python support.

I understand that Blended is also seeing more use in real professional studios, and its cool that python is such a big part of it.

I see Blender as one of the best examples of an open source project succeeding.
This seems more like neckbeard snobbery to me. As in: "hey, look at this totally pointless thing I did just to show-off to uninformed people that I can do something mildly different." It's self-serving, needlessly dazzling, and completely useless. A good hack is actually good for accomplishing something. While this is just intellectual masturbation contributed for upboats and believe me: Hacker News has far too much of that cancer already.
I was homeschooled with my brother up until high school, and it was a mixed experience for me. Academically both myself and my brother were far, far above our peers in public school. The main difference was that especially with math, we had understanding of the material rather than just knowledge. Our parents flipped houses a lot so we'd often have to use our math skills regularly when helping out. How much area is a deck that's 15'x40' with a curved section at the end that has a 7.5' radius? Applied geometry was reinforced heavily. In addition we were able to do more community activities, which boosted our ability to talk with people older than us.
The disadvantage however was in our ability to socialize with our peers. The trope of homeschooled kids being weird is 100% true, and is a factor of a lack of a peer group to test social norms with. When you have an insular network your set of social norms only evolves around what's acceptable within your family. I personally struggled a lot with socializing and I wasn't really able to properly integrate until I was ~25 or so.

I disagree with Amanda's statement that you have to have faith in a child's wonder to facilitate their development. I would say the onus is on the parents to provide things to wonder about. This is a hard task, one that my mother worked endlessly on. It was a 50 hour a week job for her to educate us. Even with that though there are still the social downsides. For parents that are considering it, I would still recommend it, but know that you're taking on a significant responsibility and that you'll need to find after school programs for your kids to have a chance to socialize with other kids their age. This can be hard to find, especially in earlier years.
If I had to guess, I would say that they thought that they'd still get the money anyways for a greatly stepped-down facility. The fact that Wisconsin is cancelling the money for Foxconn not delivering on their promises (which they probably never intended to keep in the first place) seems to have come as a surprise to Foxconn.
Somewhat off topic but the Sun logo is a masterpiece.
work at Sequoia
Matt Jackson is one of the most respected game theorists at probably the best game theory department in the US.

His goal is just pretty different. He's presenting the mathematical / intuitive foundation that underly more advanced models (probably for the purposes of academic classes).

A lot of commonly understood stuff you mention (like reputation) is hard to define in the rational math of game theory, especially when you start layering real-world complexity like incomplete information.

See Kreps Milgrom Roberts Wilson (1981) for a fun example from two recent Nobel Prize winners on how hard this gets (and why it's useful to understand Matt Jackson's intro if you want to get into academic / theory stuff)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022053182...
Considering they're removing food completely yea. I do think most of the changes are thoughtful and make sense but sanding all the edges off makes the game seem a little bland these days.
Yes, it's called SaaS, and their "ad-blogs" make up about 20% of all the top stories on HN. Startups that charge you to use their proprietary software but write good clickbait or Show HNs. (I'm not hating, I'm just saying this is not surprising in any way)
Nice. I was thinking Outfoxed 2.0 but I like Foxconned.
Though forums were of course dying before Discord came around, probably mainly because mainstream users aren't going to register for a bunch of different forums. So a centralized forum like Reddit had the advantage of people not needing to be enough of an <interest> fanatic to join <Interest>Forum.com but enough to want to poke around on r/<interest> from time to time. So r/<interest> is going to have an advantage over the forum.

And people also like interactivity and group chats. Group chats weren't a thing when I built my slowly dying forum, but they are now. And now I'm in like 5 group chats. And Discord is just an extension of that desire for interactivity that isn't just f5ing a forum. There's more to life and human interaction than writing paragraphs to each other on a forum. Something isn't lost just because people find other casual ways to interact online.

And I don't think Discord is as competitive with forums as you think. My forum has a Discord. Yeah, people hang out on it, and now it's an essential part of the community. A lot of our casual conversations and friend-making is just shooting the shit which forums are awful at. But now I see my users engaging each other on more and more personal levels and getting to know each other.

But as someone who spent a summer of my youth arguing on forums that Xbox > PS2, I don't see gaming culture as something that's gotten worse. I think it's much better now because it went mainstream. When I was growing up, being a "gamer" still had that loser virgin stereotype. Now I see my friend's 13yo son in Discord voice chats when I'm hanging out at their place and you hear a healthy assortment of even women gamers. Seems so so much better than when I was 13yo. Also, 20 years ago my friend and I were voice chatting by strapping our house phone to our head with headbands.

There are always things that change for the worse in these kinds of shifts, but it's also important to understand the upsides.
Better than that, if you have useful contributions to public oversight of the Web PKI you can contribute to m.d.s.policy.

https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.security.policy

For example m.d.s.policy is currently considering an application from NAVER Business Platform, a South Korean outfit and I'm quite sure that a native Korean IT person could usefully contribute to the discussion.
thats mostly a romantic fantasy. reality is poring over books and practicing by doing the exercises.
This might work for outliers/higher IQ/elite people in the HN community, but consider this:

1. School is probably the best public invention to systematically distribute knowledge to the masses. Some like to point out "dropouts", "self-taught" geniuses or the "lucky few" as models instead of exceptions to the rule.

2. Not everyone is self-motivated to learn. Children, at critical developmental ages, are more prone to be led astray than "follow their passions" (at this age, really?). They will more likely be manipulated by vices if not constantly monitored.

3. Not all parents are good teachers. Usually, responsible families understand the value proposition- they wish their children have a better future- and education is the ticket that provides these opportunities.

4. School's purpose is not to teach obedience or even getting a job. It is there to teach us critical thinking, and consequently, how to be a good citizen.

Public schools, with all its flaws, are the best instruments to free the masses. Knowledge is democratized power to avoid the corruption that absolute power entails.
Understanding the Junior Developer
If you keep posting unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments to HN and ignoring our requests to stop, we are going to have to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you are a native English speaker, higher education should not be required for basic writing. There is no requirement to use complicated words, but I'd expect someone to be able to spell correctly (especially on a device with spell checking).

If you are not a native speaker, corrections are one way to learn from your mistakes and improve your English.

If you are in a hurry then maybe you should wait until you are not in a hurry before posting to HN.

I do agree that correcting someone often comes across in a bad way, but at the same time so does leaving a comment riddled with mistakes.
Founder-led firms outpacing CEO-led ones in market recovery
Yet another entry for https://killedbygoogle.com. ;)

They're up to 208 now. (!)
> What free software is good at is proof-of-concept solutions. Someone looked at a tough problem and spent some evenings making an elegant solution.

That's pretty dismissive of gcc, clang, linux, apache etc. "some evenings", eh? By 2000 I'd put probably $60M into gcc alone.

> The thing I care the most is how much effort (physical time and also distraction) does it take to solve my typical workday problems with certain software. And, based on my experience, GNU tools very rarely excel at this metric.

Whereas based on my experience it excels, in particular over software that only, or primarily works with a GUI.

The GNU tools in particular are optimized for their target end-user base.

You may happen not to be in it. Nothing bad or good about that; there's plenty of stuff for which I am not in the target user base. It just seems odd you are so casually dismissive.

> As an end user, the least thing I care about is how the program behaves under some synthetic circumstances [fuzz test] that I will very likely never encounter.

Actually you care a lot that your program is robust against fizz tests like these, for security and accident reasons... or you will care if it has not been subject to such tests. Just as you care that your car has been crash tested "under some synthetic circumstances"
Even for someone living on $3/day, paying $10 once every ten years represents 0.09% of their income. You could also plausibly impose alternative costs, like making someone solve captchas for an hour. Then people in rich countries pay $10, people in poor countries spend an hour (which to them is significantly less than $10 of their time).
As stated above, I have a serious genetic disorder. It's supposed to be killing me and it's supposed to cost up to a quarter of a million dollars annually to treat under conventional medical approaches.

There's no reward for being poor. My poverty hasn't grown. I used to be homeless. I've gotten myself off the street.

I've saved an estimated $9.5 million over the last 19 years in terms of what should have been spent on medical care for me and my oldest son but wasn't because of the diet and lifestyle based approach we have pursued.

I would like to get support for what I'm doing via Patreon. I face credibility challenges and sexism is a factor and yadda.

I would appreciate it if you would leave me alone. Someone who claims to be familiar with my writing and can reference something I said in 2009 but has zero understanding of the reasons I remain poor and then asks questions like this that amount to victim blaming isn't something I need in my life at all.