skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please enlighten us. Porn networks do not count.
Unions in many places explicitly have board seats. No need to imagine it. Of course a board seat is not voting control over management.
I disagree we are near to that, and believe if we don't keep an eye on their tactics and society, we will have them exported to us, upon us.
The "IM" part through me off, as I don't associate that with "sms style" as I might call Signal or WhatsApp.
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So the answer is... people should stop working?
My old company used a mix of Slack and RocketChat. Functionally, it's fine but I was never a big fan of the UI and how attachments were handled. Also, cross-channel search was kinda bad. Mind you, this was well over a year ago so I'm sure things have improved.
> What's the reason for allowing judges to remove jurors who admit their intent to acquit a guilty defendant?

Arguably, the same reason judges should be allowed to remove jurors who admit their intent to convict an innocent defendant: jurors must apply the law impartially. The LII has a pretty decent primer on all this entails[1].

And almost all state laws require a jury to unanimously vote to convict, so empaneling a jury that has someone who will always acquit means that the jury's decision has been set from the beginning.

Personally, I live in a state that requires a unanimous vote to convict or acquit, and prohibits the judge from "poking at" a deadlocked jury[2]. In the few times I've been selected for a jury I haven't gone far enough to be asked if I would be impartial, and I'm glad because I've yet to decide where my personal ethics take me.

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[2]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/allen_charge
Thanks for the info, would be curious to know by what practical means you're shorting BTC.

Also, it is traditional (and a good self-preservation move), when posting financial opinion - positive or negative - about an asset or instrument to disclose one's position if any.

You may want to consider editing your article.
Yes, exactly. There is no "workers rights" argument for a union at Google.

It is purely a hard-left power grab, just like at Kickstarter when they unionised for the pure, noble purpose of forcing their employer to allow fundraisers that were threatening violence against conservatives (and thus had been taken down as a ToS violation).

As a former Googler myself (not for quite some years), I see this as the inevitable end result of always kowtowing and giving in to ever more radical left extremism. It started with nice but trivial sounding language about how there should be more women in tech, and it ends with hiring endless full time activists like Timnit Gebru.

If Google is ever to regain its former glory, it needs a serious purge. There won't be one: instead I suspect it will become a cautionary tale spoken about quietly throughout the world, for many decades to come. The lesson drawn will be: don't hire SJWs or else you might end up like Google did, with managers being deposed by a unionised mob demanding endless and ever-spiralling purity warns.
> The final paragraph makes me sad - this company is entirely at the mercy of Facebook.

The content is up, go read. Shared.com, fun.shared.com, see if you would ever want their headlines in your news feed.
The author is fully dependent from FB. He cannot bite the hand that feeds him. I think it’s a smart move to reach the front page of HN before taking this to court.
They do say that they no longer have that avenue in the article:

> I have visited their offices and have hosted their representatives at mine. I still cherish my relationships with all of them.

> Over the past few years, however, the lines of communication have gone dark. Instead of our trusted Facebook partners, we found ourselves trying to communicate with 3rd party contractors who didn’t always share our goals and objectives or understand our business. There was little interest in helping us understand new Facebook policies or what we were expected to do to comply with them.
> They mention they had FB representatives physically received at their offices. Couldn't they join those directly?

Two sentences later it becomes clearly that those contacts have left or whatever and they have been since dealing with whoever was not really involved with Facebook.
I thought Slack was not on AWS, but Oracle.
KARR

You get 10 demerits on your nerd card.

Also KARR was white, not black.
(1) is tractable. A number of email sending providers offer SLAs around delivery latency. Some also provide significant deliverability resources to help senders mitigate the risk of spam foldering.

Source: I work for SparkPost and we do all of the above.
He also stopped posting on social media and has yet to surface to reject claims that he's missing.
Why am I not surprised that super-liberal Slate says my right to privacy should be overlooked because some idiot with an iphone wants to record every conversation?

Pervasiveness-of-technology should not ever be a reason to obviate the rights of the individual.
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I really like the bit about merging a working PR, then touching it up later and CCing the original author. Keeps everything moving forward while still keeping stuff clean and providing good feedback.
Show HN: Convert any audio file into video
there certainly was a connection, if not a logical one
aqt uses the upstream qt repos
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Should I contact Salesforce?
Before you get upset, is this company actually providing any service of value to anyone but themselves or is their entire business based on arbitrage of ads from traffic they are able to siphon away and off from FB?
I agree in principle, but IRC is a poor way to do this. I love IRC for it's simplicity, but that makes it hard to do more advanced features. It's a text-only protocol (other than DCC), so if you want to do something like allow users to click phone numbers to dial them then you have to regex it and hope for the best. Any kind of link is the same way. If you want to show images inline, you'll have to search for links, then either do another regex to see if the link is an image or prefetch the page to see if it's an image. Most servers still implement user authentication as a secondary service (i.e. it isn't part of the IRC server itself) afaik. I think the newer IRC specs include those, but support for it is missing in many servers.

Really a huge part of IRC's difficulty and beauty is in not having a markup language, but most of that beauty is for the eyes of the developer, not the user.

I like the concept of Matrix. That's kind of what they're trying to do by creating an open protocol, but when I looked at implementing a client it was non-trivial. For IRC, you can usually send someone a telnet log of you joining an IRC server and they could implement a client. I don't get the impression that that's true for Matrix.
Assange is responsible for compromising US Diplomatic relations, placing diplomats and, along with Snowden, informants in actual real life danger, and breaking countless US and international laws. To compare the two is laughable. (aside: This single side of this issue is overrepresented here and in tech circles in general. Talk to an FBI agent or a diplomat sometime that was working on key issues to hear their takes to at least balance the perspective.)
Quantum Chess Implemented in Rust
> I know that Python 3 can do some runtime stuff that Nodejs can't

Examples? This is too interesting to just throw in then hand wave away.
Finally a way to stop hearing that bloody Mariah Carey Christmas song all the time in every store I go to...
I haven't managed a 6TB file before, but I did have a >100GB log file I ended up parsing with awk just to be sure that the memory consumption on the consuming process wouldn't go crazy.
Day 4 text to speech is done for second component and more about dohackathon
Huh? It's definitely an outage.
Another twitter thread that should have been a blog post...
Buildig a Firefox Fork
I spent lots of time elbow-deep in the guts of Gecko and all things XUL and XPCOM once upon a time as a former Mozillian. This blog post is a good, entry-level peek at some of the sources of friction independent contributors will run into even if trying to hack directly on Firefox itself.

There are several groups trying to do similar enough work. To wit:

- Thunderbird is still using XUL and XPCOM to the best of my knowledge and has been looking to move away, but it pervades a huge part of the application

- As Sam describes in the post, there are companies with a serious interest in working on Firefox-derived Firefox alternatives

- GNU has the IceCat and LibreJS projects, which have been fraught with build/reproducibility problems of their own, to say nothing of the scope of trying to maintain a fork of a complex project like Firefox on a shoestring "budget" (of what my best guess is $0 and 2–3(?) people who could be considered part-time, where most others are drive-bys, and none are domain experts)

- Zotero is a citation and note-taking PIM app that you probably wouldn't know was built on XULRunner/Gecko, but it is

... and there are probably many others that either don't immediately come to mind, or I'm not aware of them.

An observation: there are enough stakeholders at this time that it would make sense to loosely band together and focus on reducing the costs of building on top of Gecko (without incurring even more costs associated with ongoing development with some other platform). I have some ideas of my own about what this could/should look like, taking into account actual, worldly constraints to give a glimpse of something that could be considered a realistic, workable proposal, but it's a bit too niche to just drop a detailed rundown into a comment here.
Time is money, no double counting: either you can say you lost the time, or you can say you lost the money. Claiming you lost both would not be true in this case.
He knows better, we would never know what pushed him to say that.
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Emacs is slightly painful to use on Windows just because I don't want to have WSL2 just for an agreeable set of Unix tools, so I have tried to fall in love with VSCode for the times I find myself there and not in Linux. It is good, and will probably and deservedly dominate developer mindshare for a generation.

That said, there are a lot of fundamental differences that might be painful for someone transitioning from Emacs. First obviously is just keybindings, there are great packages to handle most of the basics but like with any new editor it's a faff to get everything right over time.

Second is that is has lots of special cases of windows, which are hard to manage. In Emacs everything is the same, just a buffer. Your shell, your database client, your code, all buffers. You decide how all this is laid out and have absolute control. The same navigation, manipulation and search functionality exists everywhere. When you get an autocompletion of some text, it works the same everywhere, and the same navigation and search functions work in those menus. In VSCode, you have some text editor windows, but also tab groups which behave subtly differently, and then the panel and sidebar which are both different. I don't know how to 100% stop these things popping up, and the terminal seems like the only one available, so they're a regular annoyance to someone who is used to owning every character of screen real estate. Extension developers don't create extensions from the point of view that users want to consume textual information like everything else. It's not bad or wrong, it's just that Emacs works at a lower level of abstraction. It would be entirely valid to point out that VSCode's level of abstraction enables a more vibrant extension ecosystem.

Third is that there are modes in Emacs that are much more mature than VSCode. Calva for Clojure REPLs is pretty weak compared to CIDER in Emacs. All the git modes are inferior to Magit, even the direct clones of Magit (which are good and tastefully done). All of these are very actively developed and will get better, they're just not there yet.

Overall Emacs has fewer primitives, but they apply everywhere to everything, and I find that a much more humane environment for the kind of work I do (it's why it's a nice environment for a Lisp, which has the same philosophy to code).
Which single wrong decision is going to collapse China? Their administration have made wrong decisions before — unless you subscribe to some outlandish conspiracy theory. It seems far more likely that if they collapse, it will be as a consequence of a series of wrong decisions, in a completely boring way. The straw that breaks the camel's back will be the same as all the straws before it, except that everyone will analyse it to death considering the camel could hold thousands of other very similar straws, just not this one.
I find it hard to square your statement with the election of Joe Biden, is he an outlier? I guess only time will tell.
I don't understand why people keep trying to compare Bitcoin to traditional fiat money when it is an entirely new asset class that we have never seen. It is sorta like money (or can easily be converted to "real" money), an asset, store of value, protocol, and secure network all at once. Trying to simplify it into a narrower definition of currency is like trying to fit a tesseract shaped object through a sphere shaped hole.
What force prevents unions bosses from becoming corrupt and self serving; just like we can agree a corporate boss can become? It's silly to pretend they just "always work"
Why would you ever want to migrate your personal line to a work owned device?
Particularly on a Monday morning after a holiday, there are tasks that I know I need to be working on but cannot because relevant details were never transposed from slack to our actual work scheduling tools like google docs, jira, etc. and I cannot access Slack history.
That just establishes a price floor. Gold's "inherent" value is substantially below the current price. It is, like BTC, a largely speculative asset that holds the majority of its value "because other people also want it."
Yeah, really not high-quality content, I don't want to read that stuff . Nevertheless that should not be the reason to kill your accounts without any prior notice after spending 60 million in ads.
The case is being heard in the UK so I'm only talking about the UK. Unlike the US, court appointments in the UK are not political and not for a life long term. Even the public image of a judge as being conservative/liberal is not something really seen here.
Last year I attended FOSDEM not for the talks but for meeting people, the social events and the stickers. It was fun event and I watched a few talk that I wanted to watch after FOSDEM.
I think the opposite is really the case.

Back in the day, fact checking was incredibly difficult. If you were a domain expert, you might notice something was off, then go to the library to double check the information, and if the library happened to have what you needed you could try to convince your close friends and family of the truth. The other 99.99% of what you heard on the news or read in the paper was simply accepted as fact. Conspiracy theories were, at the time, either what the news said were conspiracy theories, or ideas so fringe that the news didn't even talk about them.

Nowadays, we are a few thumb movements away from fact checking literally any piece of human knowledge. There hasn't been a sudden proliferation of fake news, it's just more readily apparent. As it has become easier to spot the holes in shoddy reporting, faith in journalistic institutions has plummeted. More people are getting news from alternative sources whose quality is variable. For better or for worse, there are simply more versions of stories nowadays.

To try to retain viewers, traditional media outlets have tried to cultivate an image of themselves as the arbiters of truth which they once defacto were, and to do so have been quite liberal with labelling their competition as conspiracy theories. We haven't seen any uptick in the number of people wearing tinfoil hats to keep out the mind control rays or claiming any given senator is a lizard person. Instead, we live in a world where you're labelled a conspiracy theorist if you don't think there is a shadowy cabal of government agents spreading misinformation to manipulate us or depending on which of the past two presidential elections you think was illegitimate.

Even small deviations from the narrative of any particular bubble are heretical, but that narrative, and every other one, is composed from the incomplete knowledge of fallible people, so invariably as time goes on you will start to notice inconsistencies in the story. In years gone by, we would have simply chalked this up to someone being misinformed, people could admit they were wrong and papers could print retractions and we'd all forget about it. But now the combination of the record being so readily accessible and the increased role of our media consumption in our personal identity means we have forgone nuance and are strongly pressured to adhere to increasingly absurd stories. It's so much easier to label the other side as stupid and crazy than to try to demonstrate the veracity of our position and face the fact that we are not entirely correct either, but if we do not strive for truth ourselves, it becomes easy for them to see the faults in our logic and further convince themselves that we, in fact, are the crazy and stupid ones.

tl;dr there are many more non-mainstream narratives being labelled as conspiracy theories at the same time that the mainstream narrators who would normally dispel them are losing credibility.
> I'm actually short BTC

How's that going for you?
Yes, one option currently on the table is to bootstrap ourselves using a service model at first; either around the core business (probably better I imagine), or through IT services.

Another option would be to monetize the existing version that my partner created and is actually using with multiple clients already (made using FileMaker)

Another is to try and avoid funding for one more year, using more of our personal savings to continue moving forward (albeit with a different approach).

We still have to decide.. It's a pretty tough decision, and not straightforward at all :)
From looking at your application, you were not patenting a chatbot, but a vastly different thing. The word "chat" only appears once in your application, but only as an input source, not a conversation tool.
This stood out to me too, but that's ~$2.5m a year, and if the business is ad-arbitrage (buying FB ads to get views on ads on their own site), then I could imagine it being quite low margin, 15% margin is a ~$3m a year business, and if you're paying 5 employees, taxes, etc out of that last $500k, I can understand calling that "small".
OpenTTD is indeed great, but I wouldn't categorize Transport Tycoon as a city building game, instead you build a transport company. You can have some influence on how the cities in the game develop, but they are more tricks to influence the city building AI in building a more optmized city instead of actual intended gameplay elements imho. Things like grid layouts for roads (which the AI won't destroy) or terraforming terrain around the city.
The ~$60million is over 15 years, so it's about $330k/month on average, which is still a very substantial amount of money, but at "Facebook scale" this is pocket money you find in the sofa; their revenue is about $5.8 billion a month. For Facebook, the effect is like refusing to serve a customer their coffee at a coffee shop.

I suppose that's the real problem with these kind of issues; you see the same on e.g. YouTube where even fairly large channels acting in good faith can run in to problems. I don't think there's any malice involved, but it's just too much effort to fix, there are other things going on, and they've got enough money anyway: so why bother?

Even just a few years ago, Facebook's revenue was a lot smaller, so that would explain why they were more outgoing at the time.
I get this argument but you can long BTC if you are long internet.

BTC has some superior properties:

1. Censorship resistance / Self custody

2. Reasonably cheap to transact large value across space.

3. Network effects

Also, gold like bitcoin have a huge monetary premium so the same argument applies.
> Current value January 4, 2021 - $2,238 billion

Seriously... this out paced Microstraegy's core business now in just the last year's investment, and who knows how much Saylor put in of his own money without the need to disclose it. Personally, I think Saylor doesn't understand the tech very well and is more focused on selling the news to his investment Corpo class friends sitting on piles of cheap and depreciating fiat, which has it use but is waste of time as he should be using his gains to focus on development in the ecosystem in things like LN, Schnoor and other critical things like micro loan systems in Africa to really make full use of this tech.

Jack Dorsey, by contrast, has done most and all of those things and more, was actually on his way to Africa prior to COVID to embark on that.

'Badeconomics' should be what we call the advent of central bank based fiat currencies, as that has untold amounts of blood on its collective hands.
“internal server error” yup about correct
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