skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've actually said publicly that they're working on making it possible to use Signal without a phone number, via usernames. Here's a recent hint at that: https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1347248608660185089
MAU must have dropped off a cliff LOL
I don't agree with the language you used on your original post; however I can wholeheartedly concur on that idea of personal responsibility.
> $100 million given current growth wont last as long.

That is 100% their problem, though. I trust that they will develop a sustainable business model when it becomes necessary. Otherwise, look at their tax info shared above. Sporadic donations won't even make a small dent.

I mean, shoot, they won't even give us a hint at how much to donate to cover our own costs. That would be a start.
I think my comment might have been severely misunderstood. By saying that everybody struggles I did not mean "Stop wining because it's worse for others". What I meant was, we all go thorough periods when our spoons are not enough, and that this is totally okay. Going trough difficulties and thinking you are the only one is harmful and feeling alone in such circumstances is unnecessary because we all find our self there sometimes.
Tinder is riddled with spam accounts for Insta and Snap. If you swipe through the women available you can then see the new accounts hitting the area. A lot of them are created in the middle of the night. Bio to Insta or being a FWB with a Snap account. The app stores should hold Match responsible for allowing them to lure dumb, lonely guys into fraud.
I think you're painting it as more cynical and malicious than it was. There was probably too much naivety, but "open source your software and charge for support and operations" was promoted pretty heavily for a while not just by these companies, but by people who wanted to enjoy those projects being open source.

And then it got torpedoed...
The idea of rewarding devs from my team for following collaboration best practices first arose when I was managing a team of 6 junior developers, nearly all of them freshly graduated from coding bootcamps. I was losing a lot of energy to remind them about the need to quickly fix bugs, minimise WIP etc. And clearly, rewarding good behaviour with gamification works better than playing the blame game for suboptimal behavior.

As time went I got the chance to work with and manage more senior and incredibly talented devs - but still, some issues remained around sticking to our commonly agreed best practices.

Then came COVID and the full-remote setup and it also became increasingly important to keep regular interactions within the team, even micro-interactions when some folks don't get the opportunity to work together but still want to connect.

So I ended up building Karma initially as a side-project to learn Go during my paternity leave (oops). I've had a lot of fun building that little CLI with the Cobra framework (same one as the one that powers Github CLI). The front-end is built using Tailwind UI and Vue 2.

I hope you'll have good fun trying this out, and that like me you will also discover what a cool TUI looks like :) Go spread the good karma, looking forward to getting feedback.
> Given the current political climate,

Not sure what politics have to do with it.

> such a SOC-2 auditor should be outed by name.

That would be defamatory, and potentially extremely unfair, especially if someone lied or was just incorrect, in an anonymous internet forum.

If someone experienced a loss because they relied on untrue statements from an auditor, they would have grounds to bring a case, and the auditor would have a chance at due process to respond to that case.

It probably seems slow and unwieldy when we all want justice now, but this is how we can be assured that justice is, in fact, done, and not injustice.
> You're assuming that the set of genes that produce multicellular life are largely disjoint from those that produce unicellular life,

I assume no such thing.

I've read (but can't cite) that roughly 90% of our genes are related to construction and maintenance of the cell itself, and only about 10% are related to higher order organization. Just as it has been said that something like humans and tomatoes have 50% of our genomes in common, there is a significant but smaller percent that we have in common with single-celled life forms.

> HeLa

I read the book years ago.
“This update does not expand our ability to share data with Facebook.

We’re now moving back the date on which people will be asked to review and accept the terms. No one will have their account suspended or deleted on February 8.”

Is there an unbiased analysis somewhere about what actually is changed by the new privacy policy?
The point that the OP is making is that the negative propaganda against unions is not just entirely made up, but also something that many people with kids in school have experienced first-hand. This does factor in when that same parent then goes to their workplace and is pitched to form/join a union. I am not saying they won't agree to it, but they might remember the negative aspects of dealing with the concept of a union in another aspect of their lives.
What he's likely refering to is that TSMC has huge backorders as it is, why they would allocate their resources to Intel rather than their existing partners which already fill their pipes makes little sense unless Intel commits fully to TSMC to become a partner which they can count on when expanding their production.
I’ve received some 8 calls, and being outrun several other times... It feels like losing a race!
Thanks for this link. I donated seeing this link. Should encourage signal to do more
Is it going to be a proper union or a political tool for alt-left ideals (like Google's recent unionization attempt)?
I mean, I suppose if you zoom in on the shitty parts of life and you want to debate whether there are zones of stability in crappiness, all the best to you. That there are local extrema doesn't really deal with the global analysis, which I suppose brings it back to the initial discussions, as I'm not sure anybody would give a passably livable or somewhat positive evaluation of "being homeless and just a bit drunk but not too drunk".
Right, but AMD may not gain enough market share if it loses the competitive advantage that TSMC provides.

This strategy may not play well for TSMC in the long term.
Indeed. It is part of the game I guess.
Grafana started out as a fork of Kibana 3 if I remember correctly, which was around the time Elastic acquired Kibana. Since then, it has become a nice product in its own right. But the shared history is interesting.

https://grafana.com/blog/2019/09/03/the-mostly-complete-hist...
woot woot! proud this is in alabama.
“release the source code for your entire stack”.

It’s not “your entire stack” but rather your entire stack:

> If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service

...

> Making the functionality of the Program or modified version available to third parties as a service includes, without limitation, enabling third parties to interact with the functionality of the Program or modified version remotely through a computer network, offering a service the value of which entirely or primarily derives from the value of the Program or modified version, or offering a service that accomplishes for users the primary purpose of the Program or modified version.

Where:

> “The Program” refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this License.
I try to think about nuclear energy the same way I think about chemical hazards. Chemical spills are happening all the time and we hardly notice unless we are ordered to evacuate. Nuclear seems a lot more scary, but it's not really much more dangerous than a LOT of industrial chemical plants.

In addition oversight for Nuclear is WAY better. If there is a breach we're way more likely to know, rather than wondering why everyone in a certain Indiana town is getting a rare form of cancer from an unreported chemical spill.

Risk tolerance wise, I would rather have one of these running next door, than having a steel plant 20 miles away...

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/...

https://apnews.com/article/27ee93094ce81e2522bd495138db9554

https://apnews.com/article/61b2a91a8e4042f1a8d43e734551f159
Yet another reason to want 24V or 48V systems to displace 12V systems. The base-model car amp is going to always use the battery voltage, due to the noise, the max volume is going to be high, and that means 2Ohm (or lower) speakers built for maximum dB/W (so often no crossover) with a single +12V rail.

I have a few rock CDs from the 90s (Dizzy up the Girl is one) that ar completely unlistenable in many cars; too bad Petty wasn't involved in mastering those.
I use Lua daily at work for implementing new features for our robot offerings.

One of our motion equipment suppliers had an existing set of products for industrial automation which were originally programmed in C++, but also offered a more standards compliant version for doing PLC programming.

My employer negotiated very early on ( pre 2000 ) for them to provide a simpler interfacing layer, and we got Lua libraries as a result.

Now we do the bulk of our automation equipment programming using a fully featured Lua library, which interfaces with the core controller/amplifier/motor/sensor/IO libraries already present on their original product.

A sizeable portion of our equipment now are programmed purely in Lua, and we work closely with said supplier so that they update the library when a feature deficiency is noted.

Wish I could say more about it, but you can count me in the group that enjoys programming in Lua, and does it daily.

I'm not using it for general purpose software, its for a highly specific use case that is tied very tightly to proprietary hardware unavailable for purchase without purchase contracts, so this is very different from what normal programmers might have to deal with.
Many/most supporters of unions argue that police should not be able to form or join unions. "Cops are not workers" is a common phrase I've seen.
I'd make a case for El-B, too:

Express: https://youtu.be/SLbXmPvtZXA

A lot of proto-wobble in this one.
Yes, and I acknowledged that in my own post. But it took years to get to the point where they are even talking about upcoming support for this, let alone actually providing it. In the interim, this aspect of great importance to people living in authoritarian regimes was ignored.
For those of you outside of the UK, the home office has a reputation for a horrible beauracracy where nothing works and everything gets screwed up. Imagine that instead of accidentally destroying police records, you destroyed the paperwork showing people had a legal right to live in the UK. And imagine that you then instituted a policy of deporting the people who couldn't prove they had a legal right to live in the UK. And imagine that all happened under the person who would go on to become prime minister, and that it would all come to light whilst she was prime minister....

And that wasn't the thing to cause her to resign.

This is just a minor blip for the home office, and your ideas of back ups are quaint, but that's not he problem here.
> So don't trust what YC says...

I'm pretty sure they've said multiple times that traction is the best indicator of future success. Very rarely do they fund startups without traction (if they do, it's usually someone from within their network).
You mean survivorship bias? Interesting to think how many web flows does that were so close. The difference was 1 mere hacker news post. Crazy to think how big of a factor luck plays
The point is that at this point Tesla itself could pay Elon Musk absolutely nothing. His stock appreciation as a shareholder is where the majority of his income is coming from. It has nothing to do with CEO compensation at that point.

It has nothing to do with “labels”. There is a fundamental different between what a company pays its CEO and what the value of its shares provide through appreciation.
My point being that the reason many products end up not usable, ref. accounts in this thread, is the same reason why science isn’t solved and doing ML correctly isn’t easy.
Public sector unions feel so strange to me- could you imagine there being military unions?
Unions were proponents for worker safety, fair wages, anti-discrimination. They are the reason why such thing as OSHA exists today. They are the reason some laws were passed to protect workers in the US.

But once these mandates became law, corporations used the arguments of "why do we need unions if the law already protects workers?" This and following Reagan's firing of the air traffic controllers changed the image of unions. They were now corrupt middlemen that charged you a fee to be part of the club.

And it worked. Trying to form a union is now news instead of being the natural course of things. I wager that most people in the tech side of Amazon have a hard time grasping why their coworkers are trying to unionize. (we get paid well, what's the fuss all about?)

I hope they vote in their interest, but I'm doubtful it will pass (I hope I'm wrong). These laws that are supposed to protect workers are enforced by the company's HR department[1]. The problem is that HR will side with the company before siding with any employee.

I think we need to start looking into reforming HR and making it a public service.

[1]: https://idiallo.com/blog/unions-are-not-coming-back
A run-only AppleScript shouldn’t be fundamentally any harder to detect than any other form of compiled binary. Does this just mean that security researchers and antivirus tools simply haven’t paid attention to run-only AppleScripts as a vector worth investigating?
On that note, i made a comment in another thread here about how i'm terrified of getting something wrong/etc. However, if the app were to connect me more frequently with people i've positively helped, bonded with, etc (mutually i imagine, tinder-esque hah), it feels less intimidating to mess up if i knew the person a bit.

It seems to me part of my fear resolves around a vacuum of fire and forget - never being able to correct my mistake, or help them more to make up for it, or etc.

Plus building relationships is neat hah.
Scientists grasp the heat death of the earth from the explosion of the sun, what is worse than that?
Ooh, that's a great example.
And if you want the second best example, take a look at the MTA union. Rife with corruption for the union managers at the top, projects delayed by years to decades, cost overruns in the billions, etc.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
It doesn’t matter. The amount the company paid is the price of the stock at that particular grant time.
Social Networks and Degradation to the Public Square of Discourse
> WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger offer the same level of security as Telegram.

If you look only at encryption, WhatsApp is even better.

Once you factor in the fact that all your metadata is vacuumed into Facebooks data lake and that it might very well end up in Google Cloud if either you or someone you chat with activate cloud backups.
If anything, they are better off with conversations.im, blabber.im, etc for now, given how rough matrix can get.
Not realizing sooner that networking with others and creating easy-to-consume content (blog/tweets/conference presentations) that will help other programmers and raise my own visibility was vastly more important that learning new and niche programming languages for career development.

Not understanding that the manager career track in my geographic region was usually paid at least 25%-50% more than software engineers.

Not a huge regret, but I should have job-hopped much more frequently - I have worked at only 4 companies in those 20 years and one of those for a decade+.

Institutional knowledge doesn't build resumes.
Google and Amazon unions represent quite fundamentally different kinds of organizing principles.

The Amazon union is of the much more classical form, is well past due, it's not entirely necessary, but it would be beneficial.

I don't actually think that regular Google employees should be unionized, rather, it should be the non-technical staff, contractors and so many people not in privileged positions that should be probably be unionized to the exclusion of the talent, who want to form their union for entirely different reasons. I do not believe that the Google Union is oriented towards helping those who actually are powerless.

Google technical staff are the most privileged and well taken care of workers literally in the entire world.
I would expect that tactic to still require that they give the workers at the facility shutting down similar opportunities to what they have given other employees in the past in similar situations.
Firefox finally getting hardware acceleration on Linux
I've personally found Fluentd to be flaky at scale or under heavy load, but it does talk to damn near everything and is pretty simple to stand up
Yeah, we do specify that the values we collect our annual on our form. But we might be able to make it more clear.

We had this issue earlier on in our first 2 years since our form was much more rudimentary – could it be that the data points you're visiting are from 2019 or earlier? Also in any case, feel free to report those entries, and we'll make sure to take a look.
Maybe if student unions weren't a complete joke, the situation would improve. As it stands, teachers unions keep terrible teachers employed, against the interest of the students, while the students have no real representation or organization to provide balance by looking after student interests.

My mother was a middleschool teacher when I was in highschool, and drove me to highschool in the morning. Because she was a teacher, she had to get there before the school obstensibly opened, which wasn't a problem for me or my brothers because the administration of the highschool was reasonable and let us sit quietly in the office until the school opened. A handful of other kids had this arrangement too. It worked fine until my junior year, when the teachers union decided to throw a hissy fit. The result of that was all students being made to stand outside in the cold until the school was officially open. The teachers Union said that allowing students into the building before school hours unfairly saddled them with more labor... never mind that we were all quietly sitting in the office receiving compliments from the secretaries for being well behaved.
Teachers and police officers are public servants. If they want to bargain, they should be negotiating with the public, not government officials. Otherwise, it's just collusion.
I don't remember this game at all, but it sounds like it would have been a fun follow up to The Halley Project, which was kind of a scavenger hunt through the solar system.
Pretty easy. You open the app, click "call first available volunteer", and you're good to go. There's also a "specialized help" button, which lets you quickly connect to accessibility support hotlines for some companies, like Google and Microsoft for example.
Masks with exhalation vents protect you but not others, and are not permitted under CDC guidelines.
Surely it’s not this alone. Most of the people who seem to be switching that I know still use Facebook itself anyway?
Apple begins blocking M1 Mac users from side loading iPhone and iPad apps
It's hard to agree completely with this. On the one hand you can accomplish just about anything with a $150 phone, and I used one for many years. Recently though my midrange 2 year old phone could barely keep up with certain basic apps, and a upper-mid phone has been night-and-day higher quality usage experience.

I suspect a mix of Wirth's Law plus a lower level of polish on things like drivers on cheaper phones (inexplicably poor WiFi stability, for example)
Of course signal is not the only way people get compromised in China but if the claim in TFA that 70% of Chinese users use a third party IME is correct, it seems reasonable that some of them, thinking their chat is secure, would say something that gets them in trouble. Naomi Wu has claimed this has happened and I have no reason to doubt her.

Yes OWS is small, but a major security vulnerability for a country with over a billion people seems worth addressing, no? Naomi Wu is certainly a big account on Twitter and we can see from TFA that Moxie and OWS are aware of this complaint. The question is what to do about it. If you read TFA you will see that the best suggestion seems to be a warning to users using any third party IME. Seems quite reasonable to me.
It's a strange system we live in where teachers get fired at the drop of a hat for seemingly innocuous offenses like teaching evolution or breaking up a fight, while also being absolutely untouchable.
Unions are like corporations - there is good and bad, benefits and drawbacks.

One thing I've noticed, is that where 'new unions' are forming, there is' probably a good reason for it.
they literally chose the worst week of the decade to be strong-handed with users. Now signal and telegram are #1 and #2 on the app store.
Neither of those settings help on web. You can stop the previews when you’re browsing around. And you can stop the auto play of the next episode. I have both of those turned off. The annoying one I get hit with (on web) is that when you get to the end of a whole series (or movie, I guess) they roll more or less straight into another trailer.

Bojack Horseman; I laughed, I cried, I lived...I jumped up out of my seat after six seasons to turn off some offensive trailer when it was finally over.
I actually wonder if that will help people to move to alternatives before what is perceived as a "privacy wall".
I have to say, for all the valid hate it usually gets, iCloud is actually becoming a pretty nice “usb drive in the cloud” compared to the bullshit that is getting tacked on to Dropbox, Google Drive and to a lesser extent OneDrive.

On the other hand, I still keep a large WebDAV/OwnCloud server close for the moment iCloud turns to shit too.
> the availability of documentation doesn't mean it can't be intuitive

Sure, I'm not saying that either, and Matrix has been improving a lot since I first tried it maybe 2 years ago. But there's still a long way to go. I wasn't as focused on onboarding as I was on criticizing Element's UI/UX in general.

> And we definitely don't need phone numbers and SMS verification for usability: a username will do just fine

Phone number is just the easiest thing to do. No one is confused by the process and you immediately have access to all of your contacts, while with a username you somehow need to get all the usernames of all of your friends. Inviting new users to various channels kind of works, but it's not as personal as your own contact list.

Mind you I'm not saying it's the best option. Personally I'd rather register with a username, not only because I currently have three different phone numbers in use.

> we don't have to spend 1.5 million USD from donations just on SMS codes in 2018 alone (source: tax filing)

Signal was paying that much? That's crazy.
Care to share it with the class?
Non-profit 501c3 is a sustainable model. Plenty of non-profits span decades.
That’s just because most of the QE/money printing from the FED went to equity and real estate inflation, instead of just giving money directly to the citizens (e.g. about $20k per citizen was spent on the stimulus).
It does look interesting, but maybe a little too exciting: "Super experimental". One advantage of loki, is that it is part of hosted grafana, so there's some commitment to it as a product.
Washington Post and NY Times digital subscriptions do the same thing. If you subscribe to either, you can try cancelling and they’ll restore the reasonable price.