skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That hot mess is interesting (and obviously never brought up by the Apple is Evil crowd) - if you don't want to identify the destination of funds just don't call it a "Donate" button and let Apple take their cut. 70% of something is still more than 100% of zero.
First, let me tell you I had this exact idea, when I was thinking about improving social skills. After some time thinking, I would say it's not the way to go.

Let me tell you why. You probably would improve your communication skills, but I think there are other more effective and less risky ways to improve your social skills.

1. Maybe you would benefit from visiting therapist. After few sessions, you may understand yourself better and you'll be also talking therefore improving your communication skills. It's really interesting and effective way to know yourself.

2. As others mentioned - Toastmasters. You'll get used to giving speech in front of people which will significantly improve your overall social skills.
>It's actually tiny enough to hurt a lot of compelling reasons for it; state-sanctioned marriage as a tool to help combat gay male promiscuity for one, or any form of economic benefit to it.

I'm not sure what this statement means. Are you claiming combating gay male promiscuity is beneficial for society?

>Ironically SSM wasn't something to worry about because the people who want or need it are small enough a population not to impact anything in practice; it was more of an ideological issue it seems.

I disagree. Freedom, for populations small or big, for actions that have no effect on anyone else is very important to worry about it. And I don't see what can be wrong with that ideological issue, unless you're anti freedom.

>As for climate change, yeah my point is if we do identity politics now, over things which are let or let live, what is going to happen when there are things that we cannot do so? I think it will ramp up more even.

With any limited resource (such as the global environment and natural resources like clean water and air), the ones with power will end up with most of it, and the people alive have more power than the people that have yet to be born.

The only identity politics that matter in the climate change situation is those who will consume today or those who will sacrifice today. But I predict this will be an unsolvable problem due to lack of buy in from the global population, for variety of reasons.
> Nuvia has shown [1] they have designs with Pref Per Watts that rivals or exceed Apple's current A14.

Your linked article 1) doesn't mention A14, and 2) only contains a marketing image for something that didn't yet exist. It doesn't appear like they _showed_ anything. Did you mean to link to a different article?
The Green Revolution and improvements in political stability were each the result of huge amounts of hard work by people who recognized crippling problems ahead, and acted to avert them. If you were to tell them they were wrong to perceive a problem and invest the effort, they would be well justified in punching you in the nose.
I don't mean to be a pedant, but you mean when you say 'UFOs' you mean extra-terrestrial visitors, don't you? It's an important distinction because even if you assume any given UFO sighting was not just a hallucination or misinterpretation but something real and unprecedented, assuming it's aliens from space is still a wild leap. A leap people tend to make because we're so primed to think "aliens" when we hear "UFO".
> There are various reasons for the data collection. One is obviously marketing, but another may also be identifying bad actors.

And my point is that since companies can't be trusted to not use this data for marketing purposes (and the legal/regulatory environment is ineffective at deterring that) then they should not have that data.

> almost all stores have rewards programs [...]. People will, by and large, willingly give their identifying information in exchange for this, so I think it's inevitable

I don't have a problem with it being optional and voluntary (though I still think more regulation and transparency around what is done with that data is badly needed), but the problem begins when you need a loyalty card or providing identifying data to return an item for example, since as per the previous point they can't be trusted with not misusing this data. I don't want to live in a world where you have to "Login with Facebook" to purchase or return something.

> I just know I would rather have something new

I agree, but I mean whether it's worth proposing and normalizing a large-scale data collection scheme and all the problems this entails (especially around bias - what if your algorithm start declining returns from black people because blacks were under-represented in the data and a single individual making a bad return was enough to sway the balance) to weed out maybe 1% of bad returns?

> How are you determining that money is being pissed away?

Because paying companies to waste people's time and annoy them with ads does not improve the quality of the products that I am buying, and yet part of the price I pay for most goods goes to this useless and counter-productive endeavour.

> It's very easy to start a retail business.

I am talking about starting a business that can compete with the big-box stores, since your original argument was that screening returns would translate to savings and that would give the businesses who do pass on those savings to the customer a competitive advantage, but the average 2-4% saving (or less) isn't enough for a brand new competitor to emerge, thus the established retailers don't actually have pressure to pass on those savings onto the customer instead of making them disappear into a black hole.
Probably because it wants to be a privacy focused alternative to WhatsApp. Not a full-blown privacy-first IM platform.
Maybe the network uses integers for other reasons. Perhaps due to the history of the program. I don’t know how the search works but I would imagine it would consider more than 50 moves with lots of backtracking and trying different possible moves.
Mass Effect taught me this.

I miss old school BioWare.
We used Paper for awhile, but eventually didn't want to keep paying for both that and G suite (which we do anyway for mail). Personally, though, I think Paper is excellent. It's the first document-authoring tool I've spent much time with that understands that most of what we write will be consumed on (variably-sized) screens rather than in print, and yet is still accessible to less-technical folks. My sense, though, from our experience, was that it's pretty polarizing, and some people strongly prefer something more like Word.
I'd regret not trying with every bit of my intellect and ability more than burning out in the process of trying. Up until my mid twenties I realized I'd been "protecting myself" and in effect making myself miserable because I kept telling myself that my goals would just lead to burn out and wouldn't be worth it.
I bet Airbnb has a lot of data and does have some ability to make a good guess if a property is listed on other sites.
> A small group of hillbillies and anarchists storming the capital is not something to be concerned with as the OP suggested.

This opinion stands in stark contrast to the unified message coming from most journalists and left-leaning politicians - according to them, this was(!) a coup, a indisputable attempt to overthrow our most sacred institution.

Never mind of course the fact that the USA itself is the grand daddy of regime changers - I guess it isn't so sacred when the regime being changed is the democratically elected government of a foreign nation, and the one doing the regime change is us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
I'm sure the Fedora builds aren't designed for cross compilation (which is far from trivial for most packages not designed for it). Also, man-power is the most precious resource so it would be a waste to spend time trying to cross-compile what could be built natively.
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I’ve witnessed this phenomenon too, and have been guilty myself. Any more writing on this concept that you’ve read?
Not really---similar for sure, but not as bad for black. Consider that computer chess tournaments do not start with the pieces in their initial positions. The first 5-15 moves are predetermined by human master players to achieve positions that are imbalanced while not having a side with a clearer advantage. Otherwise it would be even more of a draw fest.

This makes things a bit worse for black, typically, because playing for the win as black means making some positional concession (that white can exploit after successfully defending) in exchange for the initiative and a chance for an attack.

In human play, black has a little more ability than white to steer the game towards their opening preparation[1]. If they want to win, they will try to get have a position that they know in and out from (computer-assisted) home preparation. But there are still a lot of draws in classical (many hours per game) chess.

[1] Chess openings that white chooses are typically called "attack" (King's Indian Attack) or "game" (Scotch Game), while those that black chooses are called "defense" (Sicilian defense). You'll find that there are a lot more "defenses" that black can choose from than "attacks".
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The money quote, after several pages of did-you-try-submitting-a-ticket and no-the-other-ticket-system-via-the-help-pages:

> Sorry for the inconvenience here, currently we do not have the ability to revoke the free Universal SSL certificates, however, after disabling Universal SSL, the certificates are removed from our edge. If you enable it again, new certificates are issued, since we do not have those old certificates anymore.

> However, depending on the issuer you may be able to request their revocation directly with the CA:
In Italy, one of the biggest[0] (if not the biggest) supermarket chain is a consumers' co-operative[1]. They are just filling gaps and often preceding legislation regarding ethical consumption, I think it's a pretty good concept after all.

-[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coop_(Italy)

-[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%27_co-operative
I once read that they needed a powerful energy source for nuclear fusion. In the fusion bomb they could use a fission bomb as source, but that was overkill for a fusion reactor.

Then someone invented the laser and it was like you build a cart and someone with a horse to pull it came around the corner.
This is my fault, I have old info here.

I underwent LASIK in 2002. At that time, it cost me about 1000 USD here in Czechia. On American web discussions, mostly quoted amounts were USD 5-7000.
> There are 5 or 6 initiatives they could implement now that would turn the tide.

And those are?
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Fair enough, I was just imagining more like a Tuktuk with a single front wheel.

But yeah, that kind of design seems more like what an Alienware electric car might be rather than an Apple one.
I understand that Dropbox feels they need to add features to compete, especially as they compete with Google and OneDrive, which both bundle a bunch of extra free stuff. But that should never be at the cost of your core product. Dropbox purchased zulip, and then dropped it. They also launched paper. Not sure anyone uses that.
That would be catastrophic for TikTok from a business perspective, as they'd lose 30% of their content overnight. In my experience, most 16+ year olds are quite capable handling themselves on social media.
The lawsuit is already happening: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-14/nuvia-exe...
If you use one of those devices you have to accept what happenes within the limits of the law. I need to carry a phone but would never buy one those listening devices.
> To me it’s amazing how such wondrous technological advances become mundane so quickly, the future is here and nobody is astonished.

When they're ubiquitous they lose a lot of wonder. But furthermore, a lot of these advances are buried/not directly visible to the end-user. Think of a CD player: You use a laser to produce sound from (what apppears to be) a smooth plastic disc.

I bet the concept of the wheel was pretty damn wondrous in the beginning too.
Yah, it's definitely not "the one perfect idea to fix the problem." Tho, FWIW, I think that Uber and Amazon and the Xbox division were all working towards profitability the entire time. By contrast, I don't believe Google has ever said they intend to make Keep profitable. This wouldn't be the first time the regulators are given the responsibility of telling the difference between incompetence and bad luck v.s. anticompetitive malfeasance.
Dropbox tried to branch out into the "collaboration space" with their Paper feature/product and since then, the web UI has got worse.
The absolute audacity of free tier customers lol. You were a liability on their balance sheet.
I knew a dude in college that was trying to set up a campus wide mesh network (he worked in IT) with these. The college bought some and he started working on it.

Then 2008 happened and he got laid off. It was a cool idea but long term would have been a burden.
I think your sibling poster has it right: lack of evidence.

All the speed of light problems can be ameliorated. The entire galaxy could be visited (if not colonized) in a relatively short amount of time by something like a Von Neumann probe at even 0.01c. The 'aliens' needn't be biological.
Man, this is me as well. I DREAD the weekends cause I don't know what to do with myself. I sit around feeling anxious and half-depressed, and my mind runs in circles. I'm typically excited for Monday so I can get back to work and distract myself from whatever is going on inside my head.
My local NAS includes replication to cloud storage and is encrypted so not super useful if stolen.

I prefer having access from my devices without the replication.
The point was that you claimed that close to 100% of businesses were owned and managed by “white men”. Clearly that’s not remotely true.
It seems lame to downvote due to a debatable disagreement. It stomps out unpopular ideas in a forum where they should be allowed and discussed/debated. I don't agree with the viewpoint that OOP should be avoided, but I would like to hear why some people are opposed to OOP.
> So your hyperbole has estopped your criticism of Bannon's hyperbole.

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
You do if you have the only product that is doing the feature well.

But that doesn’t mean that file sharing isn’t like CDRW or Zip drives or small cameras.

After being a keen user for years I uninstalled Dropbox from my computer last week. It’s been replaced by iCloud, S3, google docs and other things that are easier for me to use in my workflow.
Unless you manage your portfolio for fun as a hobby, I recommend you let a professional do that for you. Even investing in index funds is likely a fine first step. You should build your skills and "invest" in yourself. Something a portfolio manager can't do for you.
The WRT54GL was $50 when I picked it up new many, many years ago.

EDIT: apparently it dropped in price considerably in the first few years.
And the finest in government scan-of-a-photocopy-of-a-photocopy documents such as the COMSECNAVGRU one definitely don’t count as extra-ordinary evidence... heck some of the documents are barely legible evidence at best!
Thanks for the feedback. Are you interested in algorithms?
Why are we lumping in Netflix instead of Microsoft in the group of big tech?
You're right to point out what is and isn't the users control.

As others are pointing out the reason a lot of people trust Telegrem and Signal is that corrupt governments don't!

That the few times the "kimono" had been opened both Telegram and Signal were doing what they said they were doing -- even if they both have different approaches.

This isn't like Facebook who just lie and have been caught doing so.
That example is not even one of my most downvoted comments, it actually had upvotes before sliding to -1 downvotes over all. The op you are replying to has more downvotes than that, sitting at -2. Why?

Don’t forget the fact I used to have close to 1000 karma on HN. So clearly something changed at some point and my decline in popularity picked up momentum. I really wish I could see data on my upvotes and downvotes history.

When you know you’re going to be downvoted regardless of what you post, it’s easy for your writing to take on a bitter and cynical tone. That said, most of my comments aren’t even like that and still get inexplicable downvotes.
While this is somewhat true, most databases are not designed for _fast_ recovery.
I respectfully disagree. Lets take a simple case I know of personally -- a family with children.

A remote graduate program with evening classes works for a lot of people. A program where you need to commute into the city, commute back late at night after group meetings, or change cities all-together is just not practical for all but the wealthiest individuals (those who can afford 18hr nannies).

Those who aren't wealthy enough to do that aren't stupid or lazy, they are just lacking wealth.

Consider also that hundreds of millions of people live within un-commuteable distance to a university. They aren't stupid or lazy -- they are just unlucky -- they happened to grow up or settle in a particular area.
> Of course they are still there! But the conversations increasingly aren't taking place there. If free speech is essential to a liberal democracy, we're moving to a place where the majority of speech takes place in non-free-speech areas, and that does not bode well for the health of our democracy.

You have a right to speak, but not a right to reach.

The majority of speech always took place in areas with some kind of limits. For instance: in some guy's tavern or in the pages of a local newspaper.

Furthermore, what's happening to Parler could also be conceived as a kind of self-defense exception: the factions it embraced have recently attempted to literally attack (in the name of a selfish demagogue) the heart of the liberal order that enables free speech, and they cannot be tolerated if toleration is to survive.
Just wanted to say thanks for many years of fantastic work on both Stockfish and Leela. The computer chess community owes you a huge debt of gratitude!
Forced Perspective
My experience with Slack is the opposite. Scanning through my list of channels, I'll see some channel I don't recognize, and it will still be pinned at the top unread message 4 months ago when someone added me for some reason.
I think you're right about the separation of ecosystems into .NET vs. everything else. I often idly run a find-in-page for .NET/C# on the Who's Hiring threads just to monitor uptake in the start-up world and rarely get more than about 6 hits in 100s of posts.

I ended up in a C# role by chance coming from a non-software background and it can often feel like a separate world; so many discussions in the other ecosystems just feel less relevant since C# is so batteries included you rarely have to venture outside the confines of the officially mandated environment.

While there's a lot of stuff in the corporate environment on Windows servers and old full-framework code there's also a healthy and growing Linux first community using .NET.

I don't know that I'd recommend it particularly from outside if not trying to start a .NET role specifically, I don't think (based on the languages you list having experience with) it will help you learn anything particularly new, in the way that learning a functional language does for someone with an OOP background. Though LINQ is quite a nice way for people unfamiliar with functional programming to ease into it from an OOP environment.

With .NET 5 / dotnet core the getting started is easier than it used to be (thanks to dotnet new https://dotnet.microsoft.com/learn/dotnet/hello-world-tutori...) and a lot more like other languages/frameworks, but without a specific aim I think it's going to be hard to be motivated to get in-depth with the environment.

To be clear I wouldn't want to work in any other language or framework (though React with functional components and TypeScript comes pretty close to the developer experience quality of C#/.NET) but I'm just not sure how porous the ecosystem boundary is and how transferable the skills are.
That's fine, then don't ever ask me to use your product or pretend like it is a serious tool.

I find it funny how often FOSS advocates extoll the virtues of FOSS, only to turn around and silence complaint with statements like "what do you want for free?".
>societal pressure to be in a relationship is real.

Thanks for saying this. I had a partner who was divorced in 2019 as well, she really made it seem like she stayed in multiple crappy marriages to look good.

I'm grateful for a safe place to sleep and food, which is much more than I expected to have in my youth.
> People like to do the "success!" victory laps quite early. There's more to success than a cool product and insiders getting to exit wealthy. I think this is still a yet-to-be-seen situation.

Is success only taking over the world?
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This is not backed up by anything besides your opinion. The main chart you should look at is the increase in number of paying customers month after month.

Dropbox is much more than just storage. They also have their own infrastructure and don't depend on GAFA. They made a decision to not compete on the consumer side. I didn't like it but you cannot blame them given the large pockets of the competition and the fact they can monetize those costumers with their other products unlike Dropbox. They compete in enterprise where price is not the main factor like it's for consumers and doing it successfully.

I will ping you in 5 years... (they might indeed get acquired though. If that happens it's gonna be for at least double of what $dbx is worth today)