skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lesson is you can’t communicate too much the “selling” part of the pitch which in this case is the demo. Screenshots in addition to the demo which are links to the demo and have a caption underneath that is a link to the demo might be helpful. Demo demo demo!
Drugs in the military were a thing back then as well:

https://time.com/5752114/nazi-military-drugs/
I don't think it's Microsoft. Slack became too stagnated. They build a great product but didn't evolve.
They didn't seem to address the distraction part. It has created a culture of ASAP everything.

It just create too much anxiety with so much going on. It feels busy but not productive. It just seem the same product as it was 4 years ago.
Also, it never felt like that they cared about our work-life. Slack took away all the structure from our work and left fragmented chatter. It never felt like they cared for our work-life.

It's UI is still limited and searching for something is painful even though search is it its name - SLACK. It started as chat but stayed as chat and did nothing to fix issues that comes with chat. With mail, you have one inbox. With slack, you have so many random inbox.

All messages are treated equally..from lunch chatter to some important announcement? How do I decide what to mute or unmute? Why can't there be a better way? If it's an FYI, don't send me notification. If my response is needed on something make those messages different. I mean there has to be a better way then just a single chat only fit for picnic planning.

I don't know, I just feel that slack could have become a huge independent company if they had cared more about the problems of users. Everything starts in a slack message but slack did nothing to helps us achieve it. Instead, it just became a mess of emojis and random time-sucking chatter.
> We interpreted the email as: “We will compensate up to $500 per stolen item”.

Just about fell out of my chair at this one. They expected a blank check?
> they later got access to data on how affiliate references

That data also comes from the vendor, so it's only as correct as the vendor wants it to be. Affiliates are always at the mercy of their vendors.
Ah, good find! It appears that the Big Sur documentation notes this right up top, whereas for the earlier OS versions it's relegated to a note at the bottom.

Either way, I'm not sure this counts as a warning! It rather reminds me of:

As you are probably aware, plans for the development of the outlying regions of the galaxy invoke the building of a hyperspace express route through your star system. And your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition.

(Shouts of terror emit around the globe.)

There's no point acting all surprised about it; the plans and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your earth years. If you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that's your own lookout.

Most people setting up their keychain without iCloud will never see this, and there's not even an explicit mention here of the issue with backups (though one could sort of infer that).
That is a funny thing about young people. A lot of the time they want to find a silver bullet in area that they are interested in. It is not bad of course because maybe they can.

People would like to have nice simple answer for life, universe and everything. This seems like a likely trap for "developing personal philosophy". Where one is building up his perfect system and then things happen in life and it falls apart.

In my opinion best what one can take out of learning philosophy is understanding of other non philosophic works. Reading author that has nothing to do with pure philosophy and finding out patterns and themes that were already worked out by philosophers but have slightly different sprint.
I don't understand the need to separate "teams chat" and group chat, but seriously? The calls and screen sharing works pretty damn fine. I don't think I've used better.

Notifications default settings is a little bit unintuitive though.
Your faith in the human ability to avoid priming bias is unwavering.
How many vendors want to give a third party all their sales data?
I think it depends.

If there’s emerging research, which there is with micro dosing, that shows a potential tactical advantage for a particular substance certain groups within DoD will probably lean into it and try to get an exception. For things like marijuana or cocaine, not gonna happen, it’ll still get treated like alcohol influence even if it is removed from Federal scheduling. That said there’s been plenty of confusion in the past with workout supplements causing positive drug test results for Amphetamines. It’s an administrative problem without an easy solution that I can think of.
Definitely Ken Thompson's Turing Award lecture, Reflections on Trusting Trust. [0]

[0]: https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p7...
I don't mean that it will become a camera, but that it will be listed along side them. "Listen to this random persons living room / bedroom" makes for some entertainment for others.
I’ve used LinkedIn for 15 years. Used as in looked at twice a month.

What gets me is there are at least 2 dead people in my contacts and every year the platform asks me to congratulate them for sticking around so long at one employer. The avalanche of Congrats! they receive is nauseating and speaks to the shallow nature of LI relationship.
خزرشهر شمالی – ویکی سفر
"... the sale of soft drugs in coffee shops is a criminal offence but the Public Prosecution Service does not prosecute coffee shops for this offence."

https://www.government.nl/topics/drugs/toleration-policy-reg...
> would either provide or mandate insurance

No hotel does this. They clearly state that your possessions are solely your responsibility. Some may provide a small safe for valuables.
Good for you getting Ritalin in a time where it counted.

I was avg in school while being smarter than what i was able to bring to the paper and it frustrated me like hell.

With something like >20 i got myself Ritalin. Now i was able to get the next degree and actually start studying as well.

Whilei never took it every single day, i do took learned behaviour, like a certain 'i'm cleaning now everything' with me and other work/learning behaviours.

I prefer my current live and while i have full appreciation for everyone doing jobs which require less smarts, i would have been very depressed and unhappy if i would be stuck in another type of job without the need of my smarts.
Isn’t this what they thought it was ages ago? Still seems to be just as much of a mystery as when I first read about it.
Those pins are not connected to the external package. See page 4 of the Caravel datasheet here:

https://github.com/efabless/caravel/blob/master/doc/caravel_datasheet.pdf

Only the digital I/Os are accessible from outside the package. Every entry in the table has either "power", "ground", or "digital {in,out,I/O}" for the "type" column.

They appear to have some kind of simple output-only analog driver (see "analog output" in the Summary Description column) but no analog input according to the datasheet.
A perfect match for the basement dweller! Stick him at a terminal until he goes terminal.
I like to think of Teams as Skype for Business on steroids. If you look at it from that angle it's a much better product. I dislike Skype for Business with a passion.
> I don’t think the USSR existed during a global pandemic.

The USSR existed during multiple global conflicts. The USSR existed during the oil crisis in the 70s. Russia existed during multiple global conflicts. Russia existed through multiple global economic crises including the one in 2008.

And through it all the fall f the US dollar was just around the corner. Within weeks. Well, months at most.

In 1998 I was an exchange student in the US. I read an editorial in some newspaper like The NY Timesthat argued that financial crisis that would kill the dollar was inevitable within at most two-three years. And yet, here we are.

So no, I don't buy "you sould put money in bitcoin because of course USD is going to deflate and is on the brink of major problems." as an argument for storing 10 million dollars in Bitcoin.

On top of that this entire argument ignores the actual reality of how people protected their assets before Bitcoin. Let me show you how: https://dataroma.com/m/holdings.php?m=BRK
A reference on that wikipedia article claims that the original phrasing of Murphy's law was: "Every component than can be installed backward, eventually will be."

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6301146
What annoys me most about "smart" TVs is they are complete crap. I tried to use a friend's TV that cost several thousands. It had an "air mouse" remote. But the thing was more laggy than the first time I tried a full GNOME desktop on my Pentium 2 back in the day. Barely usable. I have a Raspberry Pi 2 that's been running for years now hooked up to a projector that wipes the floor with that piece of junk. But he's now stuck with that interface for years.
I think the real answer is that the EU will come up with some "Right to disconnect" which mandates that all devices request user consent to connect and retain as much functionality as physically possible while in offline mode.

The technical battle is basically lost on IoT once they can embed modems.
This is just another version of a reset style sheet no? Very, very basic stuff and there are many online. From memory I used to use normalize.css.

I think if you want to really add value, create a version that also works for responsive web sites. That is an area that is not covered that well. There are some default usage patterns that work well for responsive web so I think it can be done.

In any case, making it easy for others to use with the cdn links is a good step and your documentation is very clean - good work on that. But again, this is exceptionally basic stuff. Not sure why it’s on the front page of HN.
Someone requested to add a project to Quicklisp; that project does just what you describe. See the ASD file for details.

https://github.com/tdrhq/cl-unix-sockets
No. That's sleeping time.
I'm working on flockingbird (dot social), which is a federated professional network. No blockchain, just activitypub (mastodon, peertube, pixelfed et.al.)

The only feature is to be 'a Rolodex on steroids', or 'an adressbook in which some entries are maintained by the contacts themselves'

No social network features beyond that. We're doing our best to align the businessmodel with this. And truly believe it can carve out a niche (and slowly grow from there) without adding all the perverse attentionseeking, 'garbage layers'.

Is that naive?
It's be good to block people who believe stories like this but then think 5G conspiracies are crazy.

Crazy people are interesting at least.

Inconsistent people are just boring.

It's CIA UFOs or Mass Hysteria. Chose one.
They seem to be going for pure volume of engagement. Left to its own devices, it would send you notifications for anything.

The last few times I’ve looked for a job, I’ve started on LinkedIn but always ended up speaking to recruiters about some mediocre roles and then finding something better through my actual network. LinkedIn seems to prefer to generate so much noise that I’m not sure how useful it really is.
Military spending is $934 billion in the 2021 budget. It's spread out among different agencies and budget categories, so you must add it all together. It includes:

Defense Department base budget: $636 billion.
DoD Overseas Contingency Operations: $69 billion.
Departments that support defense: $228 billion. They include the Department of Veterans Affairs ($93 billion), State Department ($48 billion), Homeland Security ($48 billion), FBI and Cybersecurity ($10 billion), and the National Nuclear Security Administration ($17 billion).

This is 63% of all the discretionary spending in the budget, i.e. the budget outside of mandatory payments such as Social Security.
>If your use case is what the author describes then why consider Apple products anyway?...

I was wondering that too. For someone so declaredly privacy conscious and suspicious of Apple's motives, he sure does seem to throw a lot of money their way:

https://sneak.berlin/20170107/current-daily-carry/
> why are they approving the usage of this technology, when there are no long term (10+ years) studies on the safety of this technology?

Under normal conditions, the FDA might be more reluctant. However, a substantial number of people are dying every day to Covid. Additionally, there is a substantial economic impact due to how easily it spreads.

It seems prudent that this technology be approved if there is a reasonable, although less stringent than normal, reason to believe that it is both safe and effective.
Nice work Lex.
Love your conversations.

Edit: I b dumb
What frustrates me most about Slack Video/Audio is that they bought and shut down Screenhero. Screenhero was an excellent tool I got to use for audio calls and screensharing about five years ago. It was clearly an acquihire but somehow when they integrated the product into Slack it became the shit show it is today.
I agree somewhat natural. Sometimes it is just bad luck and there isn’t a next step or something we should be doing. Just keep using Airbnb and hope it doesn’t happen again. Thats what I would do.
I think OPs point was that teams is effectively slack + zoom for most organisations, and that video calling was the ‘must have’ Covid feature, so while Zoom and Teams have won (because they both have great video calling) Slack lost.
When I moved to Europe, I was VERY surprised to say the least that this doesn’t apply at all here.

The attitude is more like “you should feel lucky we let you give us your money and purchase something from us. Now fuck off.”

I tried the professional attitude, I tried threatening legal action (I have legal insurance that would pay an obscene amount of lawyer fees if it came to that), I have tried the angry consumer, I have tried to complain to the regulator... None of that worked. Most of the time, they basically say something like “kiss my ass”

I don’t know how to deal with EU companies. I was always getting what I wanted in North America by using the organized professional method. I’m at a complete loss in Europe. Any advice?
> hahaha that's insane.

Moreover, out of the box driver is a stock intel wifi driver. It's not vendor-specific. Phew.

> I remember having an issue with the onboard one in my desktop where it would randomly disconnect after negotiating 1Gbps.

That's how the new driver broke one of the NICs. Other ones were just failing to detect carrier at all. The bug you're referring is [0], which I also added some feedback.

[0]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205047

Realtek's cards are not bad. They're not slow (in terms of latency). They're just not suited to sustained high loads (~60% of interface capacity).
Chromium is maintained by only one person in Debian. This person is currently unavailable. Debian does not have good procedures to handle unavailable maintainers. There are also older reasons why there is only one person. In the past, it was a two-person effort.
Yep, Next.js export build to static HTML is pretty impressive.
Another good article to drill down the point:
https://aeon.co/essays/why-working-class-britons-loved-readi...
I also miss South Africa
React is a symptom of the disease that is js. Unorganized, entangled spaghetti of unreadable and undebuggable code and callbacks. And js is not a real language. Or to put it in another way, javascript is to a programming language what a paper plane is to a Eurofighter typhoon: one is a toy to entertain little children, the other one is an actual product of engineering.
this is the real question here. how is the state of affiliate marketing so bad that affiliates have to trust without any means of verification the very people inclined to scam them?
Sure you can, but treat them as a standalone product. Currently companies (like Amazon with AWS) are using massively profitable products to dump prices in totally unrelated industries and kill off the competition.

Not to mention companies like Uber using massive amounts of VC money to break laws and social contracts in whole countries despite no goal of actually being profitable. Medium did the same when providing free access and then turning on the paywall after that. There are many more examples.
Either Australian digits are vastly different from everywhere in the world, or the author has some major problem with elementary arithmetics.
Well if you founded a company then you should probably go with your instincts on what is good advice and what isn't. A random angel investor knows far less about your company than you do, no matter how successful their company was.
The British Marines tried this in Operation Moneybags.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WscQIp3Kac
Sue them for real, or at least have a lawyer write a letter.
Slack is basically just IRC with stickers for children. Did they ever have a unique selling point? I'm not surprised that the winds of fashion have turned now to some other set of stickers.

Easy come, easy go.
I reached a level where i wanted to learn, prepared everything, my desk, materials, made a plan and i knew why i had to learn and honestly i like to learn new things.

When you sit in front of your clean and prepared desk with over 20 and you sit there and hold a pen and you look at the book and nothing happens and you just can't and give up after 15 or 20 minutes starring at it, i realized thats how it is.

I don't know where this blockage comes from, i know it took me quite a while to see this barrier so clearly but i know now this was always here.

Ritalin just solved this problem. I had a small wall to break through with Ritalin, easy and then i just did it.
I've seen people send money even to Turkmenistan. So yeah, people will always find a way.

And for the vast majority of people bitcoin will be significany less convenient than sending money through Western Union or Moneygram.
The Screenhero guys launched https://screen.so
The problem with the trend is the next step, where significant monetisation only starts once a monopoly has been created (first kill the competition through subsidisation from a big company and a price tag of £free, then create a poorer product with loads of ads to profit once the original company is dead).
Regarding 4, I'd suggest reading Object-Oriented Programming: The CLOS Perspective first. It also has a great cover (same illustrator as AMOP), though it's not evident from Amazon's page last time I checked. This book is really a big collection of papers from several authors. It covers the topics of Lisp's OOP system and some of its history, its unique features (especially some comparison chapters with C++, Smalltalk, Eiffel), its meta-object protocol (and why you'd want it), some production reports from the field on its use in helping application development, and some implementation details to ward off "surely this is sooo much slower than a plain old function call?"
I also struggled with this transition a bit so here are some of the things I learned that help me get to L5:

1/ The key thing for getting to L5 is to take on large problems (usually 3-6 month long efforts), figure out how to solve them, and ship them successfully. You can do this by leading a small group of people (2-4 engs), but also by working as an individual, so I don't think leadership skills in that sense are required for L5.

2/ Usually managers are quite good at coaching for this transition (things get harder going from L5 => L6 and further on). Try to find a team that is seeing some growth and with a manager you enjoy talking to. Managers with some experience (2-3 years) are better at figuring out what gaps you need to fill to get promoted.

3/ Also try to figure out what type of team you will be successful in. For introverted people often product teams are not a great fit as they require tons of coordination to ship anything: you might have to work with a designer, a content strategist, a product manager, and a data scientist for a typical L5-scope project. Infrastructure / backend teams can offer better opportunities for people who want to grow as individual contributors. I know many senior engineers (L6+) in infra teams who aren't tech leads leading large teams -- they are simply strong engineers who can solve complex problems on their own.
Does this actually mean desktop Linux has little to no path for revenue generation?

Maybe that was ZaReason it when out of business and the pandemic did the final blow.
Vue vs Svelte with Evan You and Rich Harris [audio]
Have not experienced that at all, and subject talking had been using slack (and loved it) for a couple of years before corporate forced us to use Skype for business. Made me reconsider career choices.

When I joined my cureent employer and they told me they were all into teams, the trauma from skype was still lingering.

But to my biggest surprise, it's actually fine; I'd even go the lengths to say it's good. Has most, if not all, features I think a developer would expect in 2020, plus they just work (at least so far).

Hard to believe msft could pull off something like that having seen skype for biz before.
I like this post but “unscrupulous merchant” seems harsh for a company that may have changed their policies and didn’t realize they had to inform the referring agent of those changes.

It’s not uncommon for policies to change; that initial marketing spiel for bringing agents aboard doesn’t look like a contract.

The reselling agent probably didn’t have a case here, and the merchant went out of their way to assist when presented with a good argument.

So, this is less about the “unscrupulous merchant” and more a warning to businesses to be clear and contractual with your policy and policy changes in order to avoid PR disasters like this.
But there is a state of the art to music, and it’s fair to say that classical music is dead as it’s basically a fossil now. Hence Lady Gaga.
They do exist but only for certain niches. For example in the case of the european air passenger rights. My partner missed a connection flight by a few minutes and had to wait overnight. On the next day she had to take another two stop flight instead of a direct flight. They gave her a hotel, a taxi and a little voucher for food but this wasn’t enough according to her rights.

There are various only services who go to court for you and will get as much money as they can. You go to their website, enter your flight, they calculate the probability that it was the airlines fault , they show you what you maybe can expect, you give them the permission and then they do everything else. The company takes something like 25% comission and that‘s it. It takes a few minutes. In the end she payed 100-200€ for the return flight and got something like 350€ back via the company.

Made me think if one could find the most unreliable flights, with the worst delay in case of a delay and fly them profitably by going to court all the time.
Passive income gets mentioned a lot here. He's collected over $100 for previous conversions and about $60 after that, and he'll keep collecting as long as the affiliate program runs. It's not a lot of money in general, but you don't start a keto blog with dreams of billions either.
Handy tips for staying secure on the go
This is an interesting idea. I found the "How it Works" page a little confusing and have tried to explain the core ideas in a different way here:

http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/12/understanding-peer-to-peer-...

This doesn't cover how Radicle works but instead explains the general ideas of peer-to-peer git forges.
It's almost 2021 and Slack still can't syntax highlight code blocks.