skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding other software / platforms, HTTP GET seems easy enough to work with.

My issue with wifi is really just a matter of too-many-networks and interference making it a bad solution for me.

But I understand the appeal of the ESP8266 (and the rest of that family of chips) and don't blame you one bit. IIRC it has a serial port on a couple of pins, so that's another comm option.

In any case, I look forward to seeing your progress. Good luck!
Yeah, I remember a lot of people mocking him during all of the hearings for his robot-like demeanour. Like this: https://twitter.com/bananaben420/status/1288564841742041089

I really can't imagine him giving a speech on a stage with cheering crowds.
in sports at least the old saying was:

"A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.

- Joe Dimaggio
Don't think there was any weighing in on fairness going on as much as it not being acknowledged enough.

I believe, from experience seeing it, many founders who succeed will quote literally everything but their background, upbringing, and privilege as a factor, even though the fact that they had little to worry about while building their empire with respect to you know, the things everyone else has to care about on a daily basis (bills, debt, what happens if I fail) is an extremely large factor.

The barrier to entry of them taking a risk is so much lower that it is (in my opinion) directly correlated to their success at the end of the day.

Anyway, that's all. Less about fairness, and more about wish this was really highlighted more.
Much of the first documented papers were done by people who had access to wealth and free time and wanted to just let other people know what they discovered.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/the...
Actually all the non switchers now see that there are really a lot of switchers. It's even on mainstream news websites here. I see this as a win.
There are plenty of times where someone can wait 5 minutes for an answer.
Just threw $10 to them. I'll gladly pay for a quality service.
> The real rule should be all poorly compensated folks paid $14/hr or less should automatically be in unions. That's where the real need is.

This way they get to be compensated at 12/hr
Of course it's relevant.

One is some guy posting someone in the issue tracker where 1000s of other ideas are. The other is "them working on it".

https://signal.org/blog/contact-discovery/ (2014)
This is a good sign. Thanks to Zuckerberg's mistake, Signal reaps all the rewards. What can we learn from this?

Just because you own a platform doesn't mean you have an economic moat. The crowd's sentiment can change overnight and I think Zuck is honestly out of touch with public sentiments.

He probably thinks that he can run for US presidency using Facebook as a launchpad but all the money in the world won't fix myopia.
should be very unlikely. Unfortunately, there's a lot of this sort of thing. It's especially popular with enterprise software, which will often be a Windows exe or msi that wraps Tomcat and a Java app.
To this point - Lately I've found myself arguing for Medicare for All from the "right", against e.g. classifying gig workers as employees so they get corporate benefits from the "left".

In a universe where public social programs are impossible; I find many of these corporatist-redistributionist arguments sort of interesting. But in this one; I really do think we should tax corporations more and fund State programs.

If everyone has medicare for all and eviction protections; do we still care whether amazon can fire a worker from a warehouse?
Lua was basically made as tool for making scripting environment for your app. It has minimal batteries because it's up to you to provide functions/API for your scripts.

I personally like lua because it's conceptually very simple. It has just eight basic types and that's all. Also it does not dictate you how to use it. It provides mechanisms, not policies.
"lording" was a bit strong, I just couldn't think of better words to describe it.

You clearly seem to want me to do or feel "something". In the other thread you talk about things like "the decent thing to do", "showing empathy", and so on.

My question was, why. What's it to you. As I said, I don't know the woman with the spoons, and I also don't play down her predicament.

So why do you want me to behave in a certain way? That's "lording", for lack of a better word. You want to determine how other people have to behave.
Because non-public startups don’t grow at all costs and hire too many people? You’re attributing things to public companies that any company can do or not.
What's even more wild is that the executives/directors didn't sell any of their stock on the massive increase.
Sorry, I don't buy it. Your ToS is binding, not your lousy explanation.

If you cared for my privacy there wouldn't be need for this change in ToS, would it?
You really think that? Talk to any of the chinese citizens that have fled the country to live elsewhere. Certain parts of how that government runs may look good from afar, but not if you are actually living under their rule.
Cool! I wonder how the pointing accuracy is? When we made something similar for a project that was a big problem with the Az-El servos. Is the microcontroller propagating TLEs itself or is that being done on the controlling device?
Well, the guy's dead. People should probably back off. An inability to change is almost a functional definition of death. If anything, those judging him could look in the mirror. Why the need to seek answers about someone? Why the need to judge whatever you find out? As someone who has only ever read a few comments on HN about this story - because I have no interest in this sort of thing - I'm judging society for how they handle this person. Harshly.

Edit-Why not check your egos and ids for once and let it go?
"It's not only anecdotes" and giving more anecdotes isn't an argument.
Exactly my point.

We are going to have to live with various systems for a long time, IMO hopefully "forever" since competition typically often does wonderful things.
I did work as a senior/tech lead position in multiple US startups (VC backed, seed to series A) for few years while being 100% remote. I was independent contractor billing via llc equivalent company I own.

I guess it is all about positioning, there is no way to win trying to compete in budget low quality work (fixing small business websites, writing scrapers and whatever is trending on upwork these days) and hoping to climb ladder somehow.

I went through subcontracting for digital agency I've met through some of my open source work.

At the end I've made nice money, bought a house and hit glass ceiling few times. It was fun, but then kids happened and time zones together with work pace required to sustain senior roles in startups just make me quit and don't look for another opportunity.
OpenVR/OpenXR are already decoupled from games. You can target both Oculus and SteamVR with these APIs and pretty much do whatever you want. I think the only reason games dominate the medium is because of the hardware. It's very difficult to do productivity in VR, but comparatively easy to put a player into a simulated world to have fun.
Every time lua is mentioned someone forgets that counting from 1 is natural.
I already see people complaining over this that their machines would not be owned by them anymore and that enough is enough.

In some cases they are right in that we should demand openness of closed devices such as e.g. iPhones.

But in this case the app developers are to blame as they opted out.
Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust?
That string trim problem is easily solved - just copy&paste one of these functions to your code.
> Millions upon millions of new users are sending a message that privacy matters

Awesome
The premise of treating everyone equally under the law (or otherwise) despite knowing for certain that not everyone is equal is that it helps prove beyond reason of doubt who the elite truly is. That is, the top contributers are in part there because of socioeconomic factors, exeptional parental support or a culture of sorts (Think Chess versus Go) But trying to at least give everyone resources to compete helps us find the exeptional few.
A crazy city council member claimed fires were started by cops in Portland...without evidence and despite contrary evidence showing them being started by the protestors/rioters.
I migrated my mails from Gmail to fastmail.com two years ago and never looked back. Imported all my google mail, so I did not loose anything. What I love about fastmail is their pure focus on mailing. It’s a beautiful product with many useful features. For instance you can create as many alias names as you like (although I heard there is a limit, but I haven’t hit that yet). I create an alias for any new website I sign up. I also have aliasses that serve as a base-name (for instance mypurchases@fastmail.com) and can be used multiple times like so for instance: amazon@mypurchases.fastmail.com.

Edit:

I am also using my personal domain instead of @fastmail.com You never know when / if you need to leave a service provider again, and you don‘t want to change your email address again.
Let me try. I am not a legal person.

I think there is a limit to the amount of gift in cash or other assets you can make without triggering a federal gift tax of around 40%. For an individual there is a limit of life time gift tax exemption around 11.5 million and 23 million if the gift is made as a couple.

1. A loan is a business transaction here. There is an expectation that it will be repaid. It can also be forgiven. A donation to a non profit can be ‘rewarded’ by way of tax deductions.

So Acton will profit from a similar tech he has already sold to Facebook as WhatsApp. His wealth likely came from WhatsApp sale to Facebook. It can be argued as conflict of interest.

Loan deals are very clean. Cut and dried. Any implied contract between the parties ends when the loan is repaid and the relationship is terminated.

2. I can’t speak for Acton. Or in any legal capacity, but if it were me, tax deductions to a non profit can be rife with complications because if he ever gets involved with signal as a board member or employee, it might rise questions.

3. Signal foundation is not a charity.

4. Even a billionaire ..and especially one..would prefer to keep books less complicated for IRS. Donations are often scrutinized for money laundering or tax evasion.

5. A gift invites taxes, iirc. Like..if I gifted you above 15k(and you are not my family or part of a trust/insurance beneficiary etc), you will have to pay taxes on the realized value of the gift.

6. This might have been an ideological instinct for Acton as there seems to have been some disagreement between Acton and FB on how they intended to take WhatsApp. Maybe this isn’t about money at all. Who knows. Hence the ‘Etc’.

Also I don’t know exactly what kind of non profit Signal is...
Kinda surprised that Signal doesn't support bitcoin/crypto donations
Agreed, that does sound overblown
Just like a woman walking down the street getting far more attention than men do. The only difference online is that it’s more quantifiable.
My impression is that "privilege" has by now taken on that meaning of "unfairness". It seems to be the most common modern use ("check your privilege" and so on). It sounds as if those people don't deserve it.

It's a shame, because I think it used to mean exactly the opposite, having a privilege was an honor. Is the phrase "it was a privilege to have known you" still being used?
Index will work with anything. And vice versa, any headset can play Alyx well. If you're not up for spending all the money, you can mix and match SteamVR controllers/headsets (e.g. old school Vive with the fancier Knuckles Controllers).
People employed as programmers who are vocal in mailing lists, forums, blogs, etc. can have some very warped views on programming. Curiously, their statements often take a didactic tone. It seems they want to tell others what to do and what not to do. Sadly, these are not the folks who anyone should be attempting to "learn" from. They are antithetical to curiousity. Nice to hear something from someone who is not working as a programmer. This is a much clearer perspective, IMO. At the very least, regardless of anyone's opinion, it gives us a more balanced perspective.
I suspect the intention is to never stop being a phone companion. Having the phone there allows the watch to be very low power, which helps greatly with battery life.

It also means that goals such as yours are possible with the mere addition of a companion app on the phone.

If you want more than that, you'd probably want to consider something like an Android Wear device, with the accompanying tradeoffs.
Exactly, they have made arguments for the usefulness of the phone number as an identifier. But to the best of my knowledge, they have never specifically acknowledged in a blog post the state’s linkage of phone numbers to individual identities in many countries today, and the risks that this poses to dissidents.

Moxie is one of the best security researchers in the business, he was definitely aware of this before anyone ever brought it up on GitHub. Was it really so hard for the Signal devs to acknowledge this downside on the blog?
What kind of common roles in an IT org fall into professional services?
Uganda votes amidst failing biometric machines and an internet shutdown
“There was a real fear that we would not make it out”: escape from Capitol
Right, and Google was using Golang extensively internally - but that doesn't mean it made the impact that docker's use did.

I was curious about specific products/projects, seems like you may be able to answer my question. Do you know of any large product/projects in particular that are written in clojure and very popular?
Good to know!

But your link now leads to a “The charity you're looking for isn't available right now” page?
Unless they bought Bitcoin for 1$ in 2009.

Another tried and proven way is to marry somebody who is rich. Mostly just an option for women, though.
Anyone thinks this applies to competitive enterprise software business? Or is there large complex systems models where innovation happens (like in science discoveries) at scale.
The plural of anecdotes is called data.

There are plenty of examples of unions being really bad in the US, the burden of proof is now on the other side of the court.
> I know a lot of you are married so let me put this out here: I (and most young people) will not put their romantic life on pause cause of a virus.

I'm Gen X, I came of age the last time there was a virus going around that had potentially lethal repercussions if you got it.

We didn't stop dating. We took reasonable precautions. To be blunt, you didn't raw-dog someone you just met.

Only fools expect you to abstain for years. Only fools look at a person and think "well they _look_ healthy, I'm probably OK."
Lifetime boost on bumble is $124 last I checked. So if someone only wanted to allocate $100 towards dating apps, bumble would be the best economic decision if their area is active with bumble users they find attractive.

I like the idea of that one time fee compared to the monthly IAP through tinder/hinge.

However I can’t provide any anecdotes on the paid stuff, I prefer not to spend money on those things.

Ya I feel like it was until recently that dating apps attracted normal people. Now references to ‘swiping right’ are common in pop songs.

I know many girls that will share their dating app experiences with their parents, which I find odd.
I don't particularly want to go on hate sites to find examples at this moment.

But the gist is, there are statements that are not falsifiable, like that "inferior race" that is not fact, it is the conclusion, but it is not falsifiable easily because there is no clear metric being used for that judgment.

If you look at U.S. race based hate sites that are easiest to find now, you will see things like accurate references to crime rates and such. The number is true, but it is missing all kinds of context and correlations and such.

For example, I have seen many references to lower IQ scores for certain groups. There are many ways to interpret this, but the racists use it as evidence. The "number" is true.

Also, the anecdotes they tell are largely true, but to pick and choose emotional one off examples is misleading.

By warping "true" things, you maintain credibility.

Look at some of the election stuff. For example, if someone said "They were bringing suitcases into the polling place" (I can't remember the exact details) There is video it is true, but it is not nefarious. But it takes a long time to rebuff the implication and explain proper procedure.

Now, I may have overstated "best", because the best is emotional, and a lot of that is art, nothing to do with fact, and portrayal of the enemy. You see this in a lot of the Nazi imagery. It has nothing to do with facts, true or false.
> They didn't emerge from React - but it isn't possible to do React without them.

Here is a React/WebGL game I made which tracks a lot of variables and state, but does not use redux/flux...because it's 100% possible to make even make a 3D game with React without them!!!

https://focused-ritchie-7245d6.netlify.app/
Am I the only one thinking that Elon should already be testing some beta Mars habitats on Earth by now? Why aren't we seeing more Biosphere-style experiments?
Honestly I've stopped using Chrome and always use DDG, and Firefox is my default web browser now. I've ditched Chrome for good as Firefox is just as good and I feel less creeped out.

I think the era of "free stuff for your data" is over. People have witnessed the true cost of a zero barrier social network services which is the division of society and people creating their own realities and clashing with others (ex. flat earthers, trump etc.)

Going forward I expect lot of these decentralized, run-by-donations services to trend upwards. We will still have FB, Google, and the likes but as they lose users their pervasiveness will have to increase to compensate for the loss in users.

This is good. This is what blockchain should've been but couldn't.
> The example on the website uses closures to handle component state

This looks a lot like closure components from Mithril.js[0], which have been around for several years. It's nice to see people independently come to the conclusion that this approach is simpler :)

[0] https://mithril.js.org/components.html#closure-component-sta...
libsignal-client – a Signal protocol implementation in Rust
Spotify/luigi: build complex pipelines of batch jobs in Python
>> European unions spend a lot of time running apprenticeship programs

Trade unions in the US do exactly that
Anyone else notice the Adam Newman style loans to the founder in the footnotes?

" (ii) cash proceeds to our Founder in an amount of $125 million, (iii) a loan to an entity controlled by our Founder in an amount of $119.0 million, as described further below under “—Loan to our Founder,” (iv) certain transaction expenses and (v) the contribution of $87.0 million to the balance sheet of the surviving company of the Merger."
Me too. I am just waiting for my family members to switch, then I can be off FB once and for all..
Too late. When there is a mandatory requirement to share data with Facebook that is a hard no regardless of the details. I'd be happy to pay or get ads within reason, but to monetize my privacy, no way.

My user experience on Signal has been excellent so far, family switched without difficulty.
Facebook guy tells us that the changes are harmless and that there is nothing to worry about. Nothing to see here I guess.

Amazing what some internal koolaid can do to you (well more than this,it's really probably greed). Please rethink critically the ethics of your employer.
I'm surprised they didn't flat-out call it "fake news".
I don't see the issue, tbh. Hopeing that the issues are waning and more aspects of our lives will return to normal is not inconsistent with an expectation that some restrictions will continue throughout the year.

That those restrictions will soon trend downward instead of upward is a great hope for a lot of people this year, all throughout the world.
> I can't use a singleton for that; how do I know when that singleton is updated?

It's up to the developer to make that decision. An AccountInfo control could be listening to "ACCOUNT_INFO_CHANGE" events (emitted when account info changes), and can subsequently rerender and read off some singleton state. Rerenders are explicit.

And like you said, proxies could be another option.
A quick look around and I see McAfee EPO and microstrategy running this configuration in one organisation. Seems common across my customers.
> well, I guess in February^W March, Zuck's going to pop up on your phone and say "Surprise, motherfucker!".

This made me chuckle. I could totally see this becoming a thing, but I'm imagining it like Microsoft's Clippy. You're doing your normal thing using an app, when all of a sudden this caricature of The Zuck pops out of the lower corner and screams "I see you are looking at a post from someone in your friends list. Wouldn't you rather look at this <insert random thing> instead?" The harder/faster you swipe to make him go away the more insistent he gets.
You can also get to millions by investing while working a regular job
The comment said "one of the most reliable ways", not the only reliable way. Furthermore the two are not mutually exclusive. I worked at Microsoft and Google before starting my own company, mostly as a way to pay off student debt. A few of my co-workers at Google also left to start their own companies as well. There's no reason why you can't put in a couple of years at a large company to make some early cash, then leave to start your own company.

If it fails you can almost certainly go back to working at a big company and heck even try again later on in life.
Nope.

Everything happens in WhatsApp here. Just moved to a new building and they added me to a whatsapp group for announcements / requests etc. Also, movers, utility people etc would call and ask for a “location”. Not an address. A “location”, meaning sharing a location via whatsapp. Noone even mentions the name whatsapp. It is implied.

If you have children, most schools have whatsapp groups for parents and teachers to get in contact.

I mean I can find much more. Not having WhatsApp is not an option here. It is almost like not having a cell phone.
Translation: "Oops, sorry we turned up the flame under the pot of frogs too quickly. We will boil them more slowly in the future."

(I've also heard it claimed that it's an urban legend that frogs won't jump if you cook them slowly. But, maybe it's an urban legend that it's an urban legend.)
Sideloading iOS Apps No Longer Possible on M1 Macs
This is sad to see. More context on BugTraq (it looks like the wiki page has already been updated with this note): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugtraq