skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first part of your sentence is true. As a marketplace, dating apps need as many users as possible.
I feel like [3] is the heart of the matter. The value is open-source to companies is that it commodifies support. Also software at an enterprise scale costs money. Not being held hostage allows you to switch support providers or go internal or fly blind.

What these new quasi-open source (ie source available) companies want to do leverage their authorship of the software to be sole support service provider (of meaningful size)... which is exactly the sole value the enterprises extract from opensource: the lack of vendor leverage!

The market does not tolerate a contradiction.
> The US Department of Labor takes wage theft very seriously.

As, often, do state labor authorities.
>I think this is why a lot of crazy big startups come from younger people, they can afford to go for broke before they have a family and other obligations, because the worst that can happen is they are left with nothing, then they settle for a high-paying job at a big tech company and 2 months later they can afford a new car.

This really isn't true. The average age of a successful entrepreneur is 45.
Lua, a Misunderstood Language
Well I don't know if it was value subtracting, I learned a lot and there was a lot of interesting discussion about history and attempts at graphical programming environments.
what i find amazing is his thoughts on failure and asking for help
from same series i believe

Steve Jobs on Failure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTf0LmDqKI

now I've actually always found something
that to be very true which is most
people don't get those experiences
because they'd never asked

I've never found anybody that didn't want to help
me if I asked them for help
I always call him up I called up this will date
me but I called up Bill Hewlett when I
was 12 years old and he lived in Palo
Alto his number was still in a phonebook
and he answered the phone himself you
know yes hi I'm Steve Jobs I'm 12 years
old I'm a student in high school and I
want to build a frequency counter and I
was wondering if you had any spare parts
I could have and he laughed and he gave
me the spare parts to build his
frequency counter and he gave me a job
that summer in Hewlett Packard working
on the assembly line putting nuts and
bolts together on frequency counters
he got me a job in the place that built him
and I was in heaven

and I've never found anyone who said no or hung up the phone
when I call I just asked and when people
ask me I try to be as responsive to pay
that that debt of gratitude back
most people never pick up the phone and call
most people never ask and that's what
separates sometimes the people that do
things from the people that just dream
about them you got it you got to act and
you've got to be willing to fail you've
got to be willing to crash and burn you
know with people on the phone with
starting a company with whatever if
you're afraid of failing you won't get
very far
Yeah that's true. I humbly fall on my sword.
Yes, having money is good. That's why many people strive to have money.

I personally also don't think it is unfair if kids of rich parents inherit their money (or their support). After all, being able to take care of one's children is a major motivation of many people for trying to make money.

It's also well known that money is an important factor in mate choice for women.

Even without money, biology would be at work and people would be striving to find attractive mates to conceive "fit" children.

You could then also say those "fit" children are "privileged" compared to "less fit" children.

--

Anyway, as your own anecdotes highlight, if you are not rich, find another way, for example a rich person who gives you money.
As an Apple user myself, it’s easy to forget details like this and be blinded by the “Apple is more secure” mantra...
I'm not really sure what the outrage is then? We're providing hosted WhatsApp clients for businesses to use and letting them know if your number is registered on WhatsApp doesn't sound like "end of days abandon ship" nefarious.
Great product! I like your landing page design
It's a custom bytecode, so it's definitely harder than just throwing it into a disassembler - you have to understand the VM it runs in, and depending on how it's implemented, that can be a whole other skill set - especially since AppleScript bytecode seems to be mostly undocumented.

If you're an experienced security researcher, you'll get there of course, but definitely not a thing you press F5 at in IDA and go "ah yes, that's how it works".
Not now. I'll take a look at it if it doesn't add too much complexity. Thanks for the question, this is one of the reasons I posted the project early.
Valve's been amazing. Without their (ongoing, even after SteamOS pretty much flopped!) support, I don't know if I could've survived on Linux. xP

What's surprising is how many games are native through Steam. It tends to be the types of games I think most Linux nerds (like me) would stereotypically tend to prefer, too (Factorio, Europa Universalis 4, Kerbal Space Program, Cities: Skylines, most roguelikes). That said, I think a varied gaming diet is important. For non-native (especially AAA) games, https://www.protondb.com/ is very handy. Even games that can't run seem to get more runnable over time. Not long ago (a year or two?), Fallout 4 would run hilariously badly -- tons of graphical assets would be missing, and it was unplayable. Today, it runs "okay" (a subset of the sounds don't work unless you use a Proton flag in Steam, and the mouse is pretty sluggish).
In my current and previous workplace, the unions negotiate the group contract. For example setting pay bands, group benefits, etc. The union can also represent you during disciplinary proceedings. There's nothing stopping you negotiating more if you want - or can.
As a Tolkien aficionado, Larry Wall I think knew what he was saying when he made this comparison. I think that if you compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit#Plot with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings#Plot, you'll get an appreciation as to what Larry Wall meant.
That is not how math works. My kids day care has a government mandated 8 to 1 ratio. That teacher doesn't get paid 8x the average wage to watch kids. I don't pay $25/hr for my 2 kids to be at daycare.

A local babysitter can watch more than 1 kid for that $12.75 an hour as well...it's not per kid.

Nice try. Also, continued education is a requirement as it should be for such a career, but don't forget that her pay will go up as she completes credits (on top of her yearly increase).

Just so you know, teachers in my area start at $55K/yr right now, not including benefits.
How would they enforce such a ban?
Your mental gymnastics are impressive, if not a little scary.

Having lived decades in both Canada and Australia, I can tell you there is a much better way, that works extremely well. Imagine nobody ever worrying about medical bills, ever again.

It's like the future.
That was a regression in version 3.4, fixed here: https://github.com/hopsoft/stimulus_reflex/pull/418
It is not hard to critique. The hard part is finding how to change while moving existing ecosystem and preserving all the use cases people depend on.

I expect there is a reason Arch Linux symlinks to /usr/bin and not to /bin:

$ ls -l /
bin -> usr/bin
lib -> usr/lib
lib64 -> usr/lib
sbin -> usr/bin

$PATH is configurable and allows several directories. One needs something like Plan 9 namespaces and union mount to replicate, for example, rbenv:

; cd foo
; bind -a /ruby2.6/lib /lib
; bind -a /ruby2.6/bin /bin

Real world analogy: we are not perfect as species, but let's spend our time where and how we can improve instead of speaking of "garbage" in our DNA and how it would be great without it.
Specs will be released later on since its still in prototyping phase. Satnogs looks sturdy and has a similar control board but seems more complicated. My goal is to offer complete kits for 200USD (shipping and customs not included) but if you can 3D-print the plastic parts yourself you'll more or less cut the price in half.
Another option might be compiling on an RPi4 (haven't checked if it's the same ARM arch) or other "powerful" ARM machine.

You could also not compile by using a language that doesn't require it.
I was presently surprised at how easy the transition from Chrome onto Brave was. Multiple profile support with a great import tool. Switched to from GMail to ProtonMail as well.

The only thing I can't figure out is how to get off google calendar.
I donated!
I have not dug into WASM myself. But, I've heard there are multiple implementations out there that are very nicely embeddable. They might well be good competition for Lua. I guess I'd ask a few different questions. Who is your target audience? Are they professional coders or semi-technical users? Are they in-house or are the customers in the wild?

If you have in-house coders who can't agree on what language to use, I guess WASM could allow them to agree to disagree. I'm not sure if that's a better path than using the languages' native tools and focusing on improving the compile-debug iteration time.

If you have external coder customers who will demand differing languages, WASM sounds great!

If you have external, semi-technical users who don't flat-out demand JavaScript-or-Die, standardizing on either Lua or Python is probably better for them both in terms of complexity and consistency of documentation and community help.

In general, for semi-technical users, see my above post on power levels.
It doesn't matter what they say, or what has technically changed. I fundamentally don't trust Facebook, I won't agree to any terms different to the ones I'm already signed up to, and this has nudged me into completely de-Facebooking my life as I was unhappy with their reach and influence as it was.
And what do you think the most popular opening message from men is? In my experience it’s usually some version of “hey”, “hi”, “hello” if you’re lucky. Or something slightly more creative but crass/disgusting if you’re not.

I don’t think it’s fair to characterize it as “women punting the ball back” so much as it’s just not usually worth the effort for a lot of people — no matter their gender — to think of something more original to say.

I don’t know why people complain about it though. It seems like the perfect way to really stand out in the crowd. Everyone wants to be recognized as a unique individual and when your inbox is full of “hey” all the way down then a message from someone who took the time to get to know you a bit is definitely going to be opened and replied to more often.
Believe what you want. No one is really trying to convince you, specifically. It's just a human interest story at the end of it.

For my part, I find it sufficient for me to conclude this guy hit his girlfriend.
Someday probably, but those are some fairly varied tasks and I suspect they're more difficult than they initially sound.
I noticed a huge improvement in the quality of my home office videoconferencing after pulling all my sleeping bags out of my camping gear and spreading them on the floor and hanging them around the room, just out of frame.
Facebook does it all the time. Time to move away from its services
NRA files for bankruptcy, says it will reincorporate in Texas
I am thankful they pushed hard because that gave me reason enough to leave Whatsapp, an otherwise wonderful product, but I despised using a product that is associated with Facebook. Left FB and Instagram years ago, only Whatsapp was left.

Edit: Bought a piece of software [1] that perfectly exported five years of messages out of my cellphone, then I didn’t hesitate one day to delete my WhatsApp accout. I felt an incredible relief abandoning the last service I used from Facebook.

[1]: „Backuptrans iPhone WhatsApp Transfer for Mac“
It’s... not difficult at all? A myriad of grocery chains offer curbside pickup and/or delivery. Walmart delivers, Home Depot, blah blah blah.

What makes it so difficult?
National Rifle Association Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
I suspect it's something like Facebook knows both your and their phone number, sees a WhatsApp messages between them, and connects the dots. Technically there wasn't any contact sharing.
> There is a value to just human responses, answering someone's questions can help you look inwards to your service/product as well.

We do respond to every single email, and hopefully fairly intelligently most of the time ;), even if the customer is a hobbyist or free tier user, especially with regards to security questions. (Although internal stats are slightly meaningless, and survey responses are relatively uncommon for the volume of emails we receive, we do have >99% customer support satisfaction based on our internal tracking.)

> Is it possible you could have caught that when replying to a simple set questionnaire like the one in the link but focused on HIPAA?

Ha, looks like we mispelled it in one place and spelled it correctly in another! Are you asking if we'd have caught a misspelling or other oversight on our website on the basis of an emailed questionnaire? Good question, but, to be honest, doubtful (but thank you for bringing it to my attention -- fixed!)

We've had wall-of-questions requests like that before, and we either respond with our other certs/attestations, or negotiate a BAA, once we get down to more specific questions. For HIPAA, we're providing on-premise security software, and not working with PHI in any way (we're deployed in some hospital systems in the US), so generally customers are just looking to understand our general security stance and how we can help them meet the Security Rule with login accounts.
Whether they were working on the Github issue or not, is irrelevant. Those Github issues (if not their own intuition already) would have already made them aware that by requiring a phone number, they were compromising user privacy. Of course they had their arguments for requiring a phone number.

You think I’m knocking the app. I’m not, I think it is the best option available. I just feel that as long as the phone number was required, they could have been clearer to ordinary users about the threats that Signal aimed to protect users from: advertisers and ordinary criminals, sure, but not necessarily the state authorities, and so it might not be suitable for dissidents for the time being.
Yup, buy a Mac, have issues with it, grumble lots, see an advert for an alternative, send the Mac back and replace it with the shiny.
despite extraodinary good data regarding human experience of living in isolated/enclosed conolies, we persist on believing the fundmantal obstacle to livign on the moon is technological.
An aside...

In the early 2000's I created an app called ButtonWiz that made web buttons. I was in a funny mood and gave the buttons crazy descriptive names like "spicy fire red".

I started to get lots of registrations on the new version and then I started to get positive feedback from users with vision impairments. Apparently, they liked selecting the buttons with my quirky names. It was a pretty cool niche to serve.
555-Powered Trollduino – Hackster.io
Just make sure you aren't limited by the number outgoing messages.

I joined a small DeltaChat group with less than 10 participants, and the chat wasn't overly busy. But with 10 participants and outgoing return-receipts I was soon over the 400 outgoing messages per day that my email provider allowed for. To stay on DeltaChat ) had to switch email provider.

Other than that, DeltaChat works like a charm.
For maybe the first time I can recall I wasn’t able to locate a webpage via google search yesterday.

(Described in my last comment if anyone knows the source)

Seemed like every attempt to better describe it as a query took me further from what I was looking for.

Results were all (from my perspective) SEO hijacking, clearly having nothing to do with my search. And that was behind the wall of advertisements and their own google cards of noise they plug up front. Going to the next page of results was surprisingly difficult.

First time I’ve considered, maybe this is the wrong tool for traversing the memory palace of one’s interactions with the internet.
I just set a monthly 10 dollar donation for them.

All my friends are in Signal. One of my favorite group chats is in Signal. My mom is using Signal, I just sent her a message I might need to leave WhatsApp, so she immediately installed Signal all by herself. Now we have video chats that have been working really well.

I mean, this is the first time the mobile app gives trouble. I'd wish the desktop app would be better, like it's been the biggest problem between me and Signal. Otherwise it's an amazing tool and I'm happy to donate for it to be even better.
Quoting from your source, "setting fires inside the fence" (what kind of fire?) and cutting through a fence is not the same thing as setting a building on fire.

To be frank, any statement by Bill Barr must be treated with skepticism. He has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to exaggerate, omit context, and just make things up in his public statements.

I don't know what happened with that Reinoehl guy. He sounded mentally unstable to me, and should not have had access to guns. But from what I have read he was a random independent dude who showed up to protests, not part of an organized group.

He claimed he shot the white supremacist in defense of his friend who was being held at knifepoint. Instead of investigating and charging him with a crime in a court of law, police went and assassinated him. We might never find out exactly what happened.
I'm working on Abletable: a Javascript lib that converts your HTML table into an interactive table, with sorting, filters, frozen rows and columns as well as Excel-like edit abilities.

Think DataTables and Handsontable in one. And with eye for performance and reliability.

It's the successor of my product DataGridXL (https://datagridxl.com).
Database has one column on the user table:

display_badge_until

Store no payment info.
A little bit?

You've got it essentially correct, it's just that every metabolic pathway is in a dynamic equilibrium. So let's say you do deprive the body of fresh glucose intake. While liver is turning fat into ketone bodies, and brain and skeletal muscle are digesting those ketone bodies, at the same time that TCA cycle that is now getting fed ketone bodies is going to push back upstream to tilt 'eat sugar' (glycolysis) a little bit more towards 'make sugar' (gluconeogenesis); meanwhile, other ketone bodies (dihydroxyacetone) are going to plug right into the gluconeogenic pathway.

The body will be making glucose where it can, because, if I recall correctly, red blood cells can't make use of ketone bodies, full stop. Some level of production must be maintained.

Which, in the body's parlance, is 'starvation'. If red blood cells are going hungry, from the body's perspective, there's a serious problem. But that's part of the difference between true ketosis and a ketogenic diet - the latter continues glucose intake, with a preference towards stimulating ketogenesis. The former is "oh fuck where's the glucose why can't I use the glucose aaaaaah!"

I gotta go refresh this now - you're painfully reminding me of how long it's been since I reviewed biochem.
Well, I don't use Chrome or Google search (for most part). Had moved to iOS from Android last year..

I'm finding Gmail to be most difficult to transition off of. I do have personal domain and use Zoho with it, but I think there is this mental block.. It will happen..
Some are just finding out now that FB ads aren't effective.
Attributing conversions to ads is a really difficult problem. There's probably a decent amount of cluelessness and institutional inertia that keeps them spending on ineffective ads. See the recent stories on Uber drastically reducing ad spend without seeing any downstream effects.
The benchmarks game shows 2.5 elapsed secs for Java and 2.4 for C#

You seem to be showing 2.6s for Java but 9.9s for C# ?

Did you use ServerGarbageCollection for C# ?
No scientist of that caliber would certainly want to publish that kind of research, even if their career depended on it. If they did, it certainly would be ignored by Nature, Science and others, and the newspapers who pick their content from those would have no idea.
I think a simple approach to this problem, and I think it’s an important issue, is to just assign a guid to each file and create a link with that guid that pulls the individual note from Dropbox/whatever.

This can be on top of the file structure and this is sort of how google docs and Dropbox already function where there’s a file structure and also a permalink.

I think it’s hard to balance ease of use with portability. I imagine that’s why there are so many homegrown solutions. For me, keeping knowledge is really important and I value this as more important than being able to easily share and integrate information with others (something I almost never do). But if there’s a market for recipe clubs or whatnot that might be really important.

I think this is the difference between independent mental models and shared mental models. Where for a wiki, a group needs to agree on a shared mental model and work together. For note taking, I don’t want to preemptively think in a common model so that I can easily share 1% of my thoughts.

I do this currently by keeping a bunch of markdown files in gdrive and sending links to particular items when I want to. The link is never stale and changes are visible immediately, and I can even grant edit permissions. AND I can port that to any file system that ever existed or will ever exist through dragging and dropping. I can even keep the same files synced into gdrive/Dropbox. Of course when I port, all the links die.
Grew up in a union family where I benefited greatly from the protections provided. But it seems to me that they really only help blue collar workers get higher, some would say reasonable, wages. As someone who worked their ass off for 10 years since graduating and negotiated my way to a senior role, I haven't seen one compelling reason to let someone negotiate on my behalf. Think of the smartest engineer you know. Are they in a union? Probably not.
i mean, yeah, is it really a surprise? most of the purpose (in terms of "the purpose of a thing is what it does" thinking) of organized labor in the US is basically countering ridiculous labor conditions: child labor, not having weekends, etc. when that didn't work, in came the police and the pinkertons (read: violence by the state on behalf of capital, or just violence via capital itself). so it's no surprise that the relationship is adversarial.

plus, i don't really buy this anti-union propaganda. there's a strong correlation between between union membership going down and wealth inequality going up. i didn't say that was causation, but is it interesting enough to warrant consideration? hell yes it is.

i'm guessing most people on this sites are of engineering mind, where they see an "unnecessary" layer of abstraction upon something as worth refactoring out. well... this ain't really in that lane, you see. it turns out that capital is so powerful in the 21st C. that they can straight up move your job to a country with worse environmental and labor regulations, and we all cheer it on in the name of "efficiency". little do we appreciate that that attack on labor is rotting the hell out of the country itself.
Neuralink will make sure we don’t feel lonely on the colony.
This is only good as long as you can guarantee that you're not infected. Remember, you're potentially infectious a few days before your first symptoms even develop, if they even develop.

This is why valves are not useful and not accepted.

If your mask gets moisture-saturated, just replace it.
I concur. Given current offerings from the Big G, I find it either inconvenient or requiring massive efforts to wean off of them.