skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Linux, macOS, and Windows on a regular basis. I use mostly default settings, only a couple changes. Over time my settings move closer and closer to defaults. I tell people to upgrade their OS (with a couple exceptions). I was on-board with GNOME 3 when it came out (I was an Arch user at the time, but I’m in remission now).

The GTK file chooser dialog is easily the most garbage piece of fucking shit. Honestly, sometimes, if I want to post something online I just copy the file to my Mac first just to avoid dealing with the fucking piece of shit GTK file chooser. If I need to sort through a bunch of files, easier to run Samba and sort through them on my Mac, because Nautilus was scooped out of the same fucking pile of shit than the GTK file chooser was scooped from.

As far as I can tell, the last time that browsing files on macOS really changed was 2007, when 10.5 came out and had Quick Look. Since then, browsing files on Linux has somehow gotten worse. Do you know what it’s like on macOS? Every once in a while, Apple quietly adds support for previewing a couple more formats.
I'm only half serious ;) Of course this doesn't scale to infinity (work as slowly as possible), but I think some "tactical" inefficiencies are part of almost every project (especially in the public sector). But I didn't want to accuse you or your company of doing this!
The parent post violates the guidelot in two ways, violating both the rule against commenting on downvotes and the rule about assuming good faith.
Do you have any evidence that this madness can’t happen to “our side?
How it worked for us was as follows:

the business goals were translated into "epic" tickets, after that it was entirely up to the engineers.

An example of this would be something like:

We need an API that allows secure access to service x. It must have authentication, respond with an answer inside x milliseconds, It must work with a developer admin interface (see ticket z)

Ticket z would be assigned to the web team, and we would work closely on an interface between the API backend and the dev interface.

After that, my team would layout and make a high level design. We'd break that design down into individual "sub epics" and let each dev create and work on tickets as they see fit.
sounds similar to military.
WTF Is Alert Fatigue
Yeah, but if you are like me someone who always wanted to get out of software completely, this would have been a god send. But over here in the UK I've never been at a company that has allowed me to even have a sniff of the business side. And I'm nearly 20 years into an IT career spanning 8 different companies.
I feel like your analysis misses the forest for the trees.

Even if Facebook, Twitter, etc, had banned all these platforms and politicians, I'm confident people still would have come out for the protest. Taking away people's ability to organize on mainstream platforms didn't stop the HK protestors from organizing against the CCP. The lack of online platforms didn't stop the Color Revolutions in Eastern Europe. Even the Arab Spring, while often attributed to Twitter, happened in the face of mass censorship and Internet shutdowns.

IMHO the decisions to de-platform these groups will do nothing to put a dent in their political ideology, and will only serve to throw gasoline on the fire at a contentious period where many millions of people feel like they don't have a voice. And it's likely that peaceful discourse and political thought will be wiped out as collateral damage as a result of the decisions these companies are making.
If by "nothing" you mean "nothing but looping", then yes, you are right. Any loop that "just loops" is doing something by definition: looping.
As a native speaker, it's probably a distinction without a difference. Both sound more harsh than regular suspension and both sound less harsh than permanently banned. Neither one tells you exactly what they've done in terms of the amount of effort required to re-instate him if they change their mind. Both signal that they're unlikely to change their minds any time soon.

With a physical location, "banned" sometimes implies they've been declared a persona non grata, and the police will be called if they return. Clearly that doesn't apply to an online platform.
I hate this question. this question is unable to take an ecological perspective. There are plenty of organisms that cause harm to a subset of a population under circumstance or temporarily, they then inevitably feed an orthogonal population. It does not even make sense to say "oh this X just cause harm".

It is not a realistic understanding of systems. I would suggest reaching out to an ecologist, or if you want someone to relate it to humans, somebody in "social ecology"

In before "Google Bookchin"
The Rise of Apocalyptic Novels
The clipboard history feature is the best thing since sliced bread
If you ask me, I think freedom of speech includes criticism.
Thread in Two Directions at Once
I've been working on a project off and on where I'm implementing the processor described in that course on an FPGA. Most of the digital design is done at this point: https://github.com/ibeckermayer/Nand2TetrisFPGA
Sounds like cheaper version of linkedin.
I bought a mattress off of Amazon a few months back. I like it but my wife hated it. So I went to return it and Amazon said I could keep it. Put it in a guest bedroom, whatever I wanted. Refunded me the $400. I’m laying on it right now and sometimes feel guilty, but my wife is sleeping on our old queen sized bed so I guess I don’t feel that guilty, since eventually I’ll still need to get a mattress she likes.
Building cranes is most the boring part of this project. It's far more interesting to know how they are going to make the 35 ton weights.

I don't know anything about the construction industry but some googling showed that 1 m^3 of concrete weighs 2.4 tons. You will need 15 m^3 weights. 1 m^3 costs $200 so each weight costs $3000.

35000kg×9.81m/s^2×100m is 34335000 Joules or 9.5kWH. $3000 / 9.5kWH is $315 per kWH.

I'm generous and assume that the tower is 100m high. I haven't seen a real number on the website.

It's possible that they are using a cheaper material mix but that's the entire problem. What materials are they using? They never say so on the website. This is not rocket science. We are merely talking about how to build the cheapest 35 ton rock on earth and yet these people are silent about that.
https://uniqpath.com p2p search and newsfeeds (soon)
join the discussion ^_^
The One-Way Speed of Light and the Milne Universe
A bit ho hum - the author is right that higher quality video and audio helps a lot.

I have never understood the problem people have having video active - id describe my self as fairly introverted and have no problem with this, in fact I do between 4-6 hours a week streaming DnD
If autism is defined as having a slightly different brain structure which leads to differences in how stimuli are processed. Do we call this a disorder or a trait? Is having a brain structure outside of the median set of types a disorder? Depending on the level of differences in the brain, one may be labelled as “Aspergers” and appear externally like everyone else, or on the other end of the scale, may need assistance with every day living. Neither disorder or trait captures nearly both ends of the scale.

It’s probably also unhelpful to label someone with ‘asbergers’ as disordered. They have traits, some that are beneficial and at the same time some that create problems functioning in every day society.
You can't blame the lack of "enforcement" to be the cause of the ills created by bad standards. I'm fairly certain that 2 official certified USB-3 cables can brick devices even though the physical form factor is the same.

Relying on cables internals for function is just as stupid as can be.
Norway uses 1-based, which confused me once I was used to 0-based.
I've been working remotely for about 5 years and the first two were like this.

When I realized how unhappy it made me I made a conscious effort to stop.

I set an alarm at 6pm and when it rang I'd stop working.

The most difficult part was stopping to feel guilty when someone contacts you after hours. But after a while I managed to get over that as well.

It was practice, that's all. It got easier after a while.

There were two things that helped quite a lot (besides that I worked for decent people the entire time)

First, I told a few people who would contact me after hours frequently thay I wouldn't reply after office hours but that they're free to contact me and I'd get back to them first thing. And I always did. I also told them not to call unless shit is on fire. When they did call if things were on fire I'd fix them immediately, but if they weren't I'd repeat to not call me and told them I'd handle it tomorrow.

Second was to make a dedicated work area. In the beginning I was in a small shared apartment and the desk was next to my bed. After I'd moved to a bigger place I had a spot in the living room made up as my "office". I'd not use that space for anything else. It was just the corner where there desk and the chair were but I'd not sit at the desk or use that chair other than while at work.

I'd guess it took about a six months for this to be normal but it survived changing jobs.
Do you believe the product managers would have defined the spec both faster and equally correctly in all the details, if they'd done it in advance before getting the engineers involved? (My guess from experience of comparable situations would be no, but keen to hear alternative perspectives)
It’s because the masses are trying to partake in serious discourse in a non-serious way.

On any given day, two different perspectives agreeing to intellectually consider why the other side is objectively incorrect (as in, not just agreeing they are simply different) is a serious undertaking. If you casually take any topic, every single day, and allow people to do the thought experiment that one argument is more valid in a casual manner, you will 100% have to cut corners because you did not seriously approach the task. The most obvious way is you paint an enemy, or the notion of the other, an idea of a threat.

The average person in NYC really has no business having a dinner time objective discussion with someone from Missouri about gun ownership. Really the discussion should come down to ‘we have a lot space and gun culture in Missouri and it’s something we enjoy’, followed by ‘Interesting, it’s not the biggest thing here in NYC actually’. That’s about it.

But if there is an institution, I don’t know, let’s call it a fight club (the media), that says ‘you two at dinner, get ready to fight’, the two contestants will fight in an inexperienced way. Hair pulling, throwing rocks, no real jabs, conditioning, submissions, no fight experience.

It is not a casual ordeal to debate, and this is what the media is making people do.

We are not ready amongst ourselves to debate constitutional law and the rights of man, and the compromises needed to maintain society. It’s a serious thing to enter into that discussion.

The only take away I see in all of this is that there is a market for the un-serious, and there are some serious people (media) interested in that market.
The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes Governing Online Speech
You are probably right that it's two sides of the same coin. As societal preference has shifted towards people with longer attention spans it exposes the group that has stayed behind. People who already had short attention spans are now even further from the norm and are forced to function in a society increasingly designed against them.
I've become a fan of terminal, I use the i3 tiling window manager. Thumbnails is one of the few remaining reasons why I occasionally launch Thunar file manager. Whenever I have a messy folder like Downloads, having thumbnails at a glance makes it easier to spot patterns in it and decide where to put files. Thumbnails are one of the best features of graphical interfaces.
There's a link under every headline that says "hide". Use it, and you won't see these stories anymore.
That the file save dialog isn't based on the explorer tool is precisely why a windows file save dialog has e.g. thumbnails "for free" while the gtk file picker doesn't.

It very clearly explains why you want to choose to base every file listing tool on the single file navigation tool. Any effort that goes into one is reflected in the other. If that means a surprising UX at times - that's probably worth it.
>> The core principle of Tor, "onion routing", was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson, and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag, with the purpose of protecting U.S. intelligence communications online. Onion routing was further developed by DARPA in 1997.[18][19][20][21][22][23] The alpha version of Tor, developed by Syverson and computer scientists Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson[16] and then called The Onion Routing project (which later simply became "Tor", as an acronym for the former name), launched on 20 September 2002.[1][24] The first public release occurred a year later.[25] In 2004, the Naval Research Laboratory released the code for Tor under a free license, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) began funding Dingledine and Mathewson to continue its development.[16] In 2006, Dingledine, Mathewson, and five others founded The Tor Project, a Massachusetts-based 501(c)(3) research-education nonprofit organization responsible for maintaining Tor.[26] The EFF acted as The Tor Project's fiscal sponsor in its early years, and early financial supporters of The Tor Project included the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau, Internews, Human Rights Watch, the University of Cambridge, Google, and Netherlands-based Stichting NLnet.[27][28][29][30][31] Prior to 2014, the majority of funding sources came from the U.S. government.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
asyncmap using a thread pool with more than one worker by default is a little silly. Unless you map to a C function, you're just spawning a bunch of threads to contend for the GIL anyway.
https://uniqpath.com !
The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen
Efficacy and Safety of Ivermectin for Treatment and Prophylaxis of Covid-19
Every social media story this weekend is turning into a referendum on the marketplace of ideas, which HN can probably argue endlessly about without reaching a novel conclusion.
Pretty much most of Android phones have QR code reader embedded in the camera app as well.
To make desktop-work more collaborative, and fit different personalities / attitudes / work-modes, Multiuser desktop environment where everyone controls widgets, and there is one "host" user for a widget who can delegate.

"Inverted Slack / Zoom / IDE" ... turned inside out so they support attaching multiple simultaneous editors, and attaching apps to each other to form ad-hoc "desktops".

This has been done over the years, in different forms. And it is a lot of fun, speaking from personal experience. And the market need was not there, for a business to be built on this, or a standard, until perhaps now because we're forced to be separate for at least four more months.

Video conversations for the talkative, in a mutable / auto-transcribed, resizable / mutable widget. Polls for those who just "need a decision", where additional "poll options" can be added by others. Text chats for asynchronous discussions. App-scoped shared copy-paste-buffers. Live people Directories showing which apps your colleagues are "in" now, groups of which can be collected into ad-hoc dynamic work-desktops, to focus on a task.
I tried to dm you, but you disabled dm on twitter. Somehow we have almost same path, running an agency at the moment with 9 ppl :-)
> There shouldn't be any problem with these discussions when they're posed without hate. Immigration for example should be discussed in terms of cost/benefit and immigration of talent, policies, etc.,

The idea that immigration is solely about “cost/benefit” and “talent, policies, etc.” is an inherently liberal, and indeed quite radically liberal framing of the issue.

The International Convention on Civil and Political rights recognizes that distinct “peoples’” have a human right to self determination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination. That is, distinct identifiable groups have a right right to self-governance.

That is the basis for national borders as we know them today. But if distinct people have a right to self governance, it follows that nations have a right to control immigration for whatever reason they want, including the characteristics that make them distinct.

It’s wholly legitimate for a country not to take immigrants who they think might change the culture of the country, or not fit in, or simply because they don’t want to. It doesn’t have to be justified with some sort of economic analysis. It’s not “hate spewing” when the Japanese refuse to accept immigrants for no reason other than large scale immigration would change Japan’s culture. It’s likewise not “hate spewing” for someone in Boise Idaho to say “I like my society the way it is, and I don’t want people here who have a different history, political tradition, etc., especially when they’ll be voting on the laws that govern me.”

My family is from Bangladesh. My parents are fairly Americanized, but they really don’t understand some of the subtler things about American culture, like our anti-elitism and love of guns. In Bangladesh, the elite govern and there is no “glorification of the common man.” It was also disarmed by the British, so there is no gun culture. This results in hilarious arguments between my dad and my wife, whose family populated the Oregon coast on the wagon trails, who still hunt for food and hate the government for taking their homestead to build the pacific coast highway. Immigration inherently changes the culture and people are fully entitled to support it or oppose it, or support slowing it or increasing it on that basis.

But liberals usually can’t even see that dimension of the issue because they’ve internalized cultural relativism.
Why do you need push to talk?
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This is the first line of the first paragraph of the Mueller Report:

> The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion. Evidence of Russian government operations began to surface in mid-2016.

What part of this was a lie?

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/18/708850903/read-the-full-muell...
> It cannot be emphasized enough how much the recent USB specifications are dropping the ball.

This outcome was pretty obvious, it's literally in the name of the damn thing: UNIVERSAL Serial Bus. The only way to achive that is to lower yourself to the lower common denominator.
If author ever reads comments here: date in the post says 2020 but is from 2021, right?..
This is called [Duverger's law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law) in political science. The effect is increased by how relatively small the US legislature is -- there are more members of the UK House of Commons than there are US Representatives and Senators combined! This makes it more difficult for third parties to develop in regional strongholds. (The US also doesn't have the strong regionalism that bolsters third parties in Canada and the UK, for that matter.)

My understanding is that the presidential system also tends to favor two-party politics. The Federalists and Democratic-Republicans formed from pro- and anti-administration factions during Washington's presidency, while the Democrats and Whigs formed in support and opposition to Jackson.
Rails 6.1 adds support for check constraints to database migrations
Certain topics are stigmatized for various reasons so lots of people don't want to be seen to complain about things because they would then be associated with the topic and get the stigma too.
>"Won't this change mean we operate at a loss to subsidize your other company, which will affect staff bonuses".

I don't get it. Can you explain?
ConcurrentSkipListMap for Golang -- 3x ~ 10x faster than sync.Map
I can count the number of times I've used anything like that on the fingers of one hand.
Autism is a disorder. Having a different brain structure is (not necessarily) a disorder but an observation. Having different traits is also not a disorder.
I have a Pixel 2. It scans QR codes with the default camera app just fine. When it detects a QR code you get a little popup you can click. It even works with regular 1D barcodes.
I wish this wasn’t being downvoted. It’s so tempting to sit back and let the news networks do your thinking for you. In reality, just 10 minutes of news browsing a day will garner 80% of the news you need to know about.

Yes, keeping up with current events is an important part of being a good citizen but there are quickly diminishing returns on that and it’s never worth sacrificing parts of your life and livelihood for.
But that's the point, right? For a manufacturer "universal" means the lowest common denominator whereas for an end user "universal" means...well, universal.
>We need solutions that don’t start after untold damage has been done.

Mozilla Pre-crime addon when?
Would be interesting to track the use now. There was a return to enforced "joined up" writing as part of the national curriculum for exactly the reason outlined here : non-joined writing is seen as childish. Print script more or less goes away by age 6/7.
It's starting to come out that his death was a driven by a medical condition and not actually as a result of violent attack. While the news is still fairly fresh it seems like most mainstream news organizations have been misrepresenting the facts.
It's great to have an Amazon card... :-)
In the early-2000s like many other people I was attracted to the Crystal[1] theme/icon pack, but it did not take long for it to start looking tacky to me. I feel like KDE never really abandoned this kind of look-and-feel until Plasma was released, which is very clean and pleasant. It has discarded cartoon-ish icons and has sharper lines and colours which are nicer to look at. I am a big fan!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everaldo_Coelho#Crystal
I have tried VR chat, which sounds like a massive fail on paper:

o there is no video feed

o You only have an avatar

o You need to wear VR goggles

However in practice it feels far more natural than "good" VC. The biggest reason is spacial audio. In VR VC its perfectly possible to turn to your neighbour and have a conversation without disturbing the rest of the meeting

Even better, its possible to sustain a normal social speaking flow. There are no awkward pauses, just free flow of talking like you are in the room.
The idea is that you would be going slow enough already (and if not, slow down). Then, if there’s no children, you can speed up.
Oh come on. There was a rioter wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" sweatshirt in the Capitol this week. Nazis are very much still around and they were there in DC.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/world/europe/us-capitol-r...
Hi Krish! So to be clear I absolutely love Chargebee! It's rich of features, very flexible and support is always friendly and ready to help. It's probably the best experience I've had in a while with any SaaS.

The problem is that I don't want to handle VAT :( Are there any plans to do something so that Chargebee can act as a MoR as well? That would be super awesome!
> How many guns, bombs and zip ties?

Good question. We don’t know the answer because federal authorities have not held a press briefing on this incident.

> those that I've seen look like very poorly behaved tourists with souvenirs and selfies

Perhaps you should watch this:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJxPQcXgq6H/