skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't watch the video because i don't want this type of nonsense in my viewing history and because the premise is inherently flawed.

Socialism means something, and Nazi Germany and the NSDAP don't fit any of the criteria. Did the workers own the means of production ? Did the NSDAP even remotely move in that direction? No and hell no. The NSDAP worked closely with industrialists ( which helped finance their rise to power), destroyed unions, etc. Having a few national programs ( Volkswahen, the Autobahn, etc.) doesn't mean socialism.

They were as socialistic as horses are fish. Yeah, they have two eyes, but that's about it.
My company is pushing Python to mechanical engineers as an alternative to complex spreadsheets (with many sheets, complex formulas, and VBA). In practice it's already a massive pain to just get a working installation with the correct modules. Even if I make a working script, 95% of my colleagues can't run it. While Excel is just there, everywhere.
This was the source of my bemusement, as well. In that light, it just reads like a branding gimmick.

Friendship bread and other hereditary sourdoughs don't last more than a reculture against local wildtypes. Unless they're culturing and preparing the yeast and bacteria by strain and handling this industrially to prevent cross contamination, I don't have any hope they'll be able to do what they claim.
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I did this several years back in university. Bitcoin mining wasn’t really profitable on my GPU, BUT it made enough to pay for its own electricity. I considered crypto to be a wash, but the real profit came from free heat.
First online chats based around a theme or game I'd guess was the Plato system. Look it up. Somehow I got to use the Plato system in rural Maine one day.

Plato out of Urbana and so was Mosaic. I wonder if that was or was not a coincidence.
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> plugins

Seeing you write this, a doubt creeps that you ever used Sketch.
You’re assuming the level of care the Dr. has. Maybe she specifically means to say that she could care less.
>That doesn't make sense. You are in favour of systemic obfuscation and low quality support to discourage people who don't have problems from taking up the time of support staff? Even though the barriers make life hell for people with legitimate problems like the guy whose $1.5m inventory was destroyed?

I'm never said I'm personally in favour of that approach, I just saw a lot of comments talking about how terrible it is without any consideration of why certain companies might not want to make support accessible. As you said, an ideal solution would redirect people who don't need customer support elsewhere, but I couldn't imagine this is easy for an organisation the size of Amazon. I hope they can work out a better balance in future.

>If that's an unrealistic expectation, could you provide more detail about how it is unavoidable to spend "hours with mentally ill people"?

Just to clarify, I'm not talking about garden-variety depression/anxiety but people with serious issues that lead to them being completely isolated from regular society.

Honestly, we try to avoid dealing with them altogether. If someone sends us 12 messages in a row at 4am asking for information about a product, we don't respond in the morning. I have done in the past and learned the hard way that it is a bad idea.
Of course, this is not possible for a business like Amazon with tickets and phone support.
Or because the application hacked together in Excel for "free" already does the job. Ugly, but it works for cheap.
i am still baffled that we haven't moved away from this old html thing and made new protocols and new ways to draw UI over internet already. html protocol and markup language was never designed to do what we're doing with it today to begin with. and don't get me started with javascript. i guess backwards compatibility is more important than solid architecture and advancing the technology.
They harvested the data about users without their consent. This is about users wanting to protect against said data collection, so I think your angle comes from the wrong perspective and the juxtaposition (Which way is it?) is wrong.

> Should they let people do whatever they want with their accounts

That CA didn't have the consent of users was the scandal.
Labor Union leaders were put into concentration camps.
Regarding handicapped and disabled:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_euthanasia_in_Nazi_Germa...

They were not really cared for ... I agree this reads like a bad faith argument.
I haven't characterized anything you've said at all. I made a top level comment. You chose to argue with it for whatever reason.

All I've done is try to reiterate and clarify what my own position is. That's it.
> Physics are not changing, it's our understanding of physics that changes

No, it's right the way it is. Physics is a science. Physics is the understanding. The universe is terrain and sciences are maps -- though some are more localized and specialized than others.
From the first two links:

> Vastaamo board fires CEO, says he kept [a previous] data breach secret for year and a half

> [The CEO's family] owned the company until it was bought by Helsinki-based private equity firm Intera Partners in May 2019, not long after a second breach of the psychotherapy provider’s data security systems.
I respect Gabriel Weinberg a lot. I have his book, Super Thinking. My default search engine is DuckDuckGo.

But 90% of the time I tab over to Google and hit enter instead of letting it go through DDG because I already know Google will give me the technical resource I need.

DuckDuckGo also suffers from a readability problem. The text is less crisp, more rounded, the URL is switched with the page title and makes scanning URLs harder, which is my default. Little things like this keep me trapped.
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Am I the only one who doesn't think Apple have much interest in supporting classic MacOS apps in the future?

Back in the day we used to judge the viability of Apples new techon if the Adobe suite was using them. This was a big deal during the Classic to OS X switch and the PPC to Intel switch.

I'm convinced Apple sees the future of Macs as running iPad apps, Photoshop and Illustrator are already there. Just how many other classic Mac apps do you think Apple consider critical? I think I can name 8.
"I'm scared that I'll end up like the first 300 people who had all of their info dumped on [anonymity network] Tor, with people going through them, reading everything about their lives and abusing their info for identity thefts."

Also another good reason for people not to seek mental help, on top of being able to own a gun.

And with the recent rush to transition online, I hope this 2018 hack doesn't give the bad guys any ideas.
By removing the charger from the package, you may have to buy a charger that comes in its own packaging. Net new waste.

Including the charger in the package was actually the best way to prevent additional waste.

Moreover, an iPhone box is potentially an item people will not throw out, while the charger packaging is.
There's also smaller, but less efficient and slower 6 transistors cells versus larger but more efficient and faster 8 transistor cells to compare.
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Identifying the incompetend IT security department responsible for this is likely pretty easy.
It is much harder to make the message heard that those in charge of taking care of sensible data are those putting people at risk. How the stuff gets stolen isnt very relevant if it has been stolen.
Healthcare data should simply not be allowed to be stored in a way where it can get lost. Period. If the people in charge can not guarantee that, then digital storage needs to be stopped immediately.
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Google really has turned into one of those "Do as I say, not as I do" types.

Why do we listen to them about web standards again?

I mean we all agree Material looks like shit, right?
Classic anti hype cycle. Won't age well.
Sketch's Mac-only focus is a major strategic mistake
We convert sunglight in to Vitamin D.

Surely the most plantlike phenomena in our bodies or are there other examples of such phenomena?
>Might there be more customers asking for phones to be thinner

But those customers have a worthless opinion.
I think platform specific frameworks that won't work anywhere else easily will be detrimental to Apple in the long term. I think it's ultimately in Apple's interest to try to make tooling that enables MacOS/iOS apps to work on other platforms too, including the web.

Even their own apps would benefit from this. What if iMessage and FaceTime were cross-platform? Short term, maybe it was a moat for Apple - but now there are so many other cross-platform apps which will slowly kill the Apple-only ones because of network effects (pronounced in chat/calling/social apps).

I think iMessage and FaceTime could have taken significant market share from WhatsApp and Zoom/Skype - this will become even more relevant when those apps become more platform-like (WeChat style).
I trained as a therapist a decade ago, and even then it was written into my organisational code of ethics that patient notes be stored encrypted with identifying codes rather than names, and the list of name / numbers stored and encrypted separately. While our code of practice didn't specify scheme or location, it's pretty awful that this company didn't seem to have anything in place. But I guess that's to be expected from what sounds like a corporate firm rather than a set of practitioners. At this scale, clients are just numbers on a balance sheet.
As an interviewer at one of these companies, I try really hard to only ask questions that people will not have seen before. I agree that if you're asking a question which some of your audience has heard and some hasn't, that's terrible for the interviewee, but it's also terrible for the company.
Sketch isn't a print design tool, that is all still very locked up in Adobe with Affinity being the only real competitor. Not sure why it's being brought up in this context.
Visual Studio of 20 years ago was in many ways superior to Xcode of today, but you need Xcode to make iOS apps, and iPhones are cool. Moral of the story is better technology does not always win. It’s a fallacy that technology is a continuous positive progression.
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Perhaps because FB leadership had nothing to do with the decision in the first place? When WA was acquired they maintained fierce independence and would not interact with FB unless absolutely necessary. No code was shared, WA kept its old offices away from the FB campus, they were for all intents and purposes operating as individual companies.

After WA added e2e it became politically possible within FB to add the same to Messenger (as long as it behind a few conversation gateways that made it hidden for most users) but FB leadership did _not_ support adding e2e to WA and certain groups continued to fight against adding it to Messenger because it was going to close off a channel for the ads team to pick up signal by spying on user conversations.
I don't put stock in claims of illegibility by Amazon.

I had a similar (but by comparison nearly inconsequential) experience with Amazon where they accused me of running a fraudulent account (for reasons that are still bewildering to me).

The whole experience was too kafkaesque to summarize here while on my phone, but at some point they demanded scans of something be faxed.

I sent it twice and both were rejected as illegible.

First, if amazon gave a damn about legibility they wouldn't be insisting on faxes.

Second, if I sent those faxes to a million people, I'm confident less than one percent of them would have said they were illegible.

"Illegible" is an excuse used by Amazon because it's in their control to decide, and is ambiguous enough and plausibily denialable enough in a legal sense that it protects them.

To me "illegibility" is just what Amazon gives as a reason when they don't want to give a reason. It's bureaucratic stonewalling.
Decades ago one of my first jobs was as an IT bod for a regional health service.

One of their facilities was an family psychiatry centre. The staff there refused to let their records be held centrally, and instead had everything on clunky PCs bolted into lockable safes in the corner of each doctor's office. When the safe opened the keyboard slid out.

The doctor in charge had also built their own database that they used. Early adopters, before the rest of the health service was modernizing with newfangled computer thingies. Clever people, those doctors.
> Being a civilian doesn't grant you special plot shield.

In my army it does. We take all precautions to shield civilians where practical. I'm an infantryman and I've seen soldiers continue to take fire to protect Arab civilians from getting caught in the middle. I cannot tell you if by policy that is a result of every time the Israeli army so much as scratches an Arab civilian that it becomes international news, but it is ingrained in most soldiers personal moral beliefs as well.

There is no lack of counterexamples that you could google, but as policy and as most soldiers' morals, protecting civilians - from both sides - is as paramount to us as the Prime Directive is to Picard.

What nation do you represent that "being a civilian doesn't grant you special plot shield"? I thought that was standard military procedure to avoid civilian casualties since at least the second world war.
> Design is all about inclusion.

Just pointing out that your post is built on this fallacy.
Want to start a blog and document these instances? Maybe we can shame a few people into fixing these issues.
Personally I feel browsers got feature complete already somewhere around 2011, Firefox 4 was a great release and did pretty much everything I would want from browser. Last really important spec feature I feel was video element, which was added around that time. Got us rid of need for crappy plugins.

Honestly I'm not sure what I'd miss if I had to go back to Fx4.
https://levels.fyi is great for understanding what statements like "pay like Google" etc mean.

(I've entered my comp there)
mostlove said:

"Also another good reason for people not to seek mental help,"

Are you actually advocating that people ignore health issues and not seek help because the way you worded you statement it certainly seems so.
"No code" means the humans is liberated from creating and maintaining code by hand, because there is now a machine doing it. More specifically it means to generate highly abstracted interfaces for common tasks and hiding all the boilerplate and problems from the humans.

Basically it's "decrading" a developer to be a normal user who is just using some software. Which has the benefit that now every non-developer can do the same work as the developer, and they both have the same output and qualification (theoretically).

Thinking about, the endgoal of this is similar to a full self-driving car. You just name the target and the software drives you there.
I find myself gritting my teeth sometimes at the design decisions I'm left to implement.
No, we hate it too, trust me.
With sharepoint you can check the file in/out and see version history, possibly with a comment on each versio. But it’s not very similar to version control system. Particularly since formulas and data live together. Better than nothing. (As soon as it gets harder to use, people revert to saving files locally and emailing them to each other... so it’s about as good as it can be really)
Agree. Hackers in this case ought to be treated as a force of nature and those responsible for security treated as though they had failed to put adequate "weather protection" in place.
I didn't knew Poe's law.
Yes this is a parody and I guess you all know the president I am talking about. This ideas are created with sensible persons in mind. But not all politicians are sensible people
Choose a small team with strong opinions over an army with a marketing budget
Could someone explain what VMWare ESXi is? Is is just another Unix-like operating system? Is it compatible with things like Nvidia GPUs?
How does owing a gun would help here?
That's complete and utter bullshit.

Germany's social programs ( including pensions and workers' insurance ) date back to Bismarck, decades before the Nazis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Socialism_(Germany)

> As is well known, the Nazi state was not friendly, at all, to capitalists (in fact this was one of the main supposed problems with the Jews. Early on the enemy was "Jews and Bankers". Not exactly laissez-faire rhetoric ...)

You might want to check out who bankrolled Hitler's rise to power ( industrialists like Thyssen) and what happened to them once he was in power ( they gained a lot of money ).
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Venmo = digital currency

Apple Cash = digital currency

ACH = digital currency

Direct Deposit = digital currency

Bitcoin = Digital currency

Credit/Debit Card = digital currency

Cash = an annoyance

I guess you are trying to make a point but if you don't have your head in the sand cash and bitcoin mean the same.
“Revision Tracking” is the built-in tool for this, which is about as good as most no-code solutions I’ve seen.

There’s a git extension, git-xltrail, if you want to use Excel with git.
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> But I'm assuming that the functions aren't mucking about with global state or something equally distasteful.

It seems fairly obvious to me that either the former example is waaaay simpler or it is doing something really distasteful.
Yikes! Every slice is a different size. How do you make a sandwich with that?
That was it! Thanks! I would add the link if I could still edit
In the current world where Apple's computer choices are so restricted, locking yourself into that platform seems a bad idea. I was a Mac only user for about 19 years but was forced to use PCs again recently because Apple just didn't sell a machine the level of performance I need for 3D/Video work, even if money were no object. I mean they sell the Mac Pro again now but it's embarrassing how much it's put to shame for a fraction of the price when you can just use gaming GPUs for a CUDA render engine.

Figma has been a godsend allowing me to do my 2D design work on any platform.
The fact that this was based on only 31 people, showed a marginal effect (barely passed even the lenient p < 0.05 threshold) and doesn't seem to have been replicated in a bigger study despite being published 4 years ago should make you very sceptical about it. Sure, more research would be good, but nobody should be making any decisions based on this.
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Yeh you’re right. But the other element he’s throwing in is Fogg’s Tiny Habits. So it’s those three combined, in such a way that he makes it his own, and as demonstrated here, achieves a bit of erasure along the way.

Also - that life hack article - he’s published that same stuff many many times before. It’s basically an extract from his book. He republishes it every where. And it works, he takes ownership of the idea in people’s minds.
> The lengths some people go to continue working with Windows and the hassle they are putting up with for that amazes me.

Agreed, even gaming on Linux has progressed to the point that unless you're a competitive gamer you can play nearly any Windows game on Linux thanks to Valve's Proton, as well as the advancements made by the Wine team and the growing Vulkan support by game developers.
Another option is to go live in a forest and not use any of the digital tech at all. But that isn’t a smart solution if you’re doing all of this only not to get hacked.

PS: let’s say a patient in that clinic wanted to move their history to another clinic. Are they now supposed to pro-rata their surgeon just to get the information from that custom-built database? That is incredibly expensive; and no matter how smart that surgeon is that database is almost certainly not that much more secure than off-the-shelf solution.
One OS per SSD is what I do on my desktop. Though these days the only thing I have been using Windows for really is Matlab (anyone get matlab working in Wine or otherwise?), so I really probably could just run a VM now.

My progression has been:

-> 2000 dual-boot Gentoo/Windows (mostly because of gaming)
-> 2012 (? I think, maybe 2014) Gentoo host with Qemu guest Windows GPU Passthrough (which was still sort of a dual boot since I could actually boot into that Windows SSD normally)
-> whenever proton came out, Gentoo 99% of the time and rarely boot into Windows getting rid of GPU/SSD passthrough because it was cool but ultimately too much hassle
-> now almost never boot into Windows (once every few months) except when working with one specific researcher who only uses Matlab, because Win is where my working Matlab install is ...

Inertia has kept the dual boot around because I don't want to set it all up again in a VM really.
You don't own anything, though. I listen to CDs I bought 20+ years ago and then ripped all the time, in my home, at work and in cars. If you cancel your streaming service today what will you listen to tomorrow?
Exactly, and they don't get much sunlight while in a hospital
> That paper seems like a window to an alternate reality in which everything that's currently hot in tech has been done 20 years ago, except programming language-agnostic, using saner (i.e. binary) protocols, offline-first, and with advanced security built in from the start.

Honestly this happens all the time. Not only do we seem to reinvent the wheel but we almost invariably reinvent it worse. Take 'dark mode' for instance. Everybody lauds that they can switch to a different theme that they feel is easier on their eyes, apparently oblivious to the fact that we could do that in Windows 95 with significantly greater and more granular control at the OS level. This industry is overrun with complexity fetishists who keep piling on more and more abstractions and calling it progress when they manage to catch up with the less-abstracted past.
I have not seen similar solution before. How sensitive is location data from GDPR or CCPA perspective. I mean if, the data that is passed to 3rd parties is anonymous, do I still need to consider privacy stuff??
Many people move across the country or even between countries for these jobs, especially to the SF Bay Area. You want more assurance than that before you uproot your life.

Additionally, the time to spin up at a mature company with it's on tooling and enormous amounts of existing code can be really long. I don't think you can generally tell in two days whether a person is going to do well.
I would like to see a discussion about how Siri Suggested Sites works. Say what you want about Google, but they should be admired for taking the high road on content development to support search. Their participation in schema.org, Wikipedia, and other knowledge resources leads to result that can be used at a low level by anyone. It's another matter that we should be concerned that only a few companies will have the capacity to build the brain to support all this creates, which is well beyond browsing the web, a web site like Amazon, or silo'd apps (though a really large and ultimately non-open site like Facebook could become its own world).
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