skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is tangentially related, but hilarious, so bear with me.

Consider that Bumble was started by Whitney Wolfe Herd, after she left the company she co-founded, Tinder. Tinder of course was acquired by Match Group, and went public in November of 2015.

The Tinder CEO at the time was, uh, unfamiliar with how quiet periods are supposed to work in IPOs, and, I want to say interviews in general. As such Match had to amend their S-1, filing a free-writing prospectus, to include this absolute dumpster fire of an interview given during the quiet period. If you're having a tough morning, at least remember that you're not responsible for the only instance of the word "sodomy" on the SEC website. [1]

I'd highly encourage you to read the whole thing.

He continues: “Apparently there’s a term for someone who gets turned on by intellectual stuff. You know, just talking. What’s the word?” His face creases the effort of trying to remember. “I want to say ‘sodomy’?”

Rosette shrieks: “That’s it! We’re going to be fired” and Rad looks confused. “What? Why?”

I tell him it means something else and he thumbs his phone for a definition. “What? No, not that. That’s definitely not me. Oh, my God.”

I can't imagine why Whitney left Tinder lol.

On that note, a big congrats to Whitney, huge step for a great company!

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575189/000110465915...
What If the Web Looked More Like Wikipedia?
I suspect there are use cases that this is just a really good fit for. One session I had was helping a person find their friend in a park when they had got separated. I'm sure she could have managed other ways, but this was very quick (at least at my end).
Is there an official term for people that appear to be charming and outgoing to strangers, but often moody and/or distant to people they know well?
I think the poster's point is that people are reducing themselves to 0 or 1. That's essentially the problem with identity politics, people are complicated with many facets; why would you latch on to 1 identifying trait?
US government blacklists Xiaomi and 8 other Chinese companies
I used to do IT in the public sector but not for the court system. I'm saying that they're almost surely using some off-the-shelf backup tool and having "deletions will filter though the backups in $x months" as a good enough solution.

Reaching into the backups or doing per-record encryption isn't something that you can just buy at this point.
This article doesn't address important differences in the scenario in which a launch order is given out-of-the-blue, and when a launch order is issued following certain events.
The Thousand Talents Plan is part of Chinas quest to be global scientific leader
That makes total sense—thanks!
Good analogy; my hammer manufacturer, Evernote, also has this disease. No, I don't want chat or Evernote for Business ...
The desktop app shows a yellow "DISCONNECTED - Check your network connection" warning. They probably should work on better error/status reporting in next version.
The general view in the population is the police do not deal with normal people other than as victims.

Unfortunately, there is an element of human nature that says, "It won't happen to me." And then maybe one day, if you're unlucky, it does happen to you. And everyone else who is similarly confident that it could never happen to them won't necessarily be there for you, because it's so far out of their experience and frame of reference that even if they're a generally decent person, they have trouble relating to the situation you're in or understanding how they might feel in your place. And so the people who are least at risk, who are often the ones who could make the most difference, don't always act as strongly or as frequently as they could to mitigate the risk to others.
You can register/renew it for $59, see https://tld-list.com/tld/cd
This also looks like a good way to evaluate a potential employer.
> 'in the same ballpark as Go'

Not the lowest rung on the ladder.
>Can you run a Prosody server on a rasPI?

Sure.

>Do you need a static IP?

Well you need a domain name to identify your server. It's the same thing as with email. So however you can do that...

It might be less work to just use a preexisting public server:

* https://list.jabber.at/
Really? Nowadays ive found it hard to get good 4k hdr downloads of things with seeders. Piracy seems to top out at 1080p at least it bittorrent land
This is not good. I've moved so many people over in the last week. For purposes of getting them invested, this is a truly inopportune moment for an extended outage.
> It reminded everyone that it is still possible to disappear.

It's possible to disappear if nobody is looking for you and you have enough cash. Even the latter is somewhat optional, it just means you are much less comfortable.

Fundamentally in this world, many (most?) of us are redundant. A person missing here or there is only missed if their social web is wide enough.
> I was there in the past and the tools are really not comparable. I just inserted a floppy disk and did D: then TP.EXE but do I really want to work on Turbo Pascal in MS-DOS? Of course complexity skyrocketed!

Did it do so for reasons that are still relevant today, is the question.

> That's not a counterexample because beginners have contemporary expectations.

Alright I'll present a counterexample: Lazarus. You download it and install it [0], then you run it and make programs. It has a WYSIWYG GUI builder and produces stand-alone executables for multiple operating systems. There is no complicated build environment to set up.

> If you're not using $PATH you'd be using an analogue system to solve the same problem, and you'd lose portability with current OSes.

I contend that the problem $PATH solves has nothing to do with programming. $PATH is a solution for finding programs when you type their name on the commandline, nothing more. Windows and Mac programs don't really use or need it for the vast majority of tasks. Programming does not fundamentally require $PATH.

> Sounds like NIH to me.

And arguments that understanding $PATH is somehow a necessary pre-requisite to get into programming sound like needless complexity fetishism to me.

[0] I would argue that the installation step here is also unnecessary as there is no reason Lazarus cannot operate as a stand-alone self-contained portable folder other than the developers insistence on hardcoded paths.
The optparse-generic library in Haskell generates a CLI directly from a struct.
Facebook had a dating app before COVID that they were heavily promoting.
Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) is one test that uses this effect and it is used for monitoring some cancers. It's non-specific to cancer, but elevated levels can be cause by a range of not-great conditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactate_dehydrogenase#Testing_...
That works for a while so long as it's not fraying near the Magsafe connector itself. I eventually threw out my older charger because there was more electrical tape than original coating. My current one started deteriorating right at the connector so it's patched up with epoxy paste to provide strain relief.

I tend to agree that Apple isn't going to retreat on USB-C. That just doesn't make a lot of sense. And whatever minor virtues Magsafe may have, I'm happy when traveling not to have to remember a one-off charger for a laptop. (Which I have forgotten a couple of times.)
Amazon.com and 'Big Five' publishers accused of eBook price-fixing
Seems like a rogue presidential order wouldn't get past the "war room at the Pentagon", they need to actually send the message to the silos.

I assume they are fully aware of the threat level and aren't going to level London on a Tuesday afternoon for no reason.
I’m inside Vim and suddenly ESC disappeared from my Mac touch bar
Ramping up activity in midlife may mean better brain health later
You're right. I just did that.
I'm disagreeing that "the average american has a six figure debt load" is a problem to begin with. if you take the total outstanding consumer debt in the US and divide by the number of households, you get about $110k for the mean, which is pretty close to the median household net worth. unless the distributions of debt and net worth look quite different, this implies that a typical household has a debt-to-assets ratio of <0.5. this doesn't strike me as a problem.

this is independent of whether I think UBI is a good idea in general (I do, actually).
Site is hugged for me, so I can't check to see if the author addresses this. I've been wondering - wouldn't UBI tend towards an inflationary spiral?

I'm sympathetic to the goals of UBI. But without price controls, what would prevent rent/mortage/food/entertainment prices from just rising to absorb everybody's newfound income?

College tuition has been going up exponentially since the introduction of federal student aid. Is there any reason to assume UBI wouldn't do the same thing (albeit without the debt)?
PowerShell is very close to what I think we need, but even PS is not quite cutting deeply enough. We need to rethink the command line rather than apply band-aids to an idiosyncratic model. Terminology is great, but it cannot solve the fundamental problems at the layers below that.
Airtable tries this too but you can still deny access, for now. Very off-putting first impressions for what is otherwise a solid app.
"technically" by what technical definition?
The history in the article strongly suggests he was abused by his father.
it was "russians" vs "maroccans" (actually all of them jews). fights were between kids that were troublemakers anyway on either side of equation. usually as follow up to some slur like "dirty russian" and whatever could be thrown into other direction.
but there were only like 2 or 3 of those fights over 4 years in school. rest of time it was quiet
Sigh I am still waiting for Logic Pro X in iOS
Even if they did, creating a Chinese IME is a really difficult problem space. Since typing is generally done phonetically in mainland/HK/taiwan and the real words being typed are ideographic, there's a lot of inference to translate in between.

Considering how quickly the language moves to keep up with internet culture and new newsworthy names, new parlances, new memes, an IME has to do the equivalent of staying up to date with the equivalent of urbandictionary for users to be able to invoke the latest "lit" colloquialism. This is a full-time job on its own.
until chrome starts doing in-app doh by default and everyone else will be be drowned in captchas :-D
According to tld-list.com, the .th TLD is the most expensive ccTLD at $5000 and .ru is the cheapest at $2.99
Whew! Turns out Joe the pigeon is Australian after all and was an unwitting pawn in someone's prank/con game.
https://www.awe.gov.au/news/media-releases/protecting-aus-bi...
Gotcha, encryption and privacy focused services are "a threat to our core tenents of freedom." Let's wipe it all out.

Good call.
But it’s par for the course for newly popular services. Some don’t survive the popularity and some thrive in spite of the degraded service. Signal will figure it out. All the best to the engineering team at Signal right now!
Happy to answer questions if anyone has them. (I'm one of the volunteers running this.)
I really wanted to like the Touch Bar for scrubbing, but then I hooked up the external monitor and the Bluetooth magic keyboard and...

To this day I can not figure out why Apple doesn’t sell an external Touch Bar of some kind, for use by the actual professional video editors out there.
>/usr/local/bin is an implementation detail from an OS nobody has used for decades.

/usr/local/bin is where most Linux distros put binaries that were built locally, as opposed to those that came from the package manager...

Not to mention, if you don't understand how and where your binary is supposed to run, what on earth are you doing making it in the first place?
I believe the calls still require the server to bootstrap to connection but I could be wrong.
Suddenly Futurama is a little bit less funny for me.
The tmux default is C-b which hasn't yet conflicted with anything for me (and I am very keyboard oriented). But the other suggestions might be just as good or better.
What irony? I've been involved with bitcoin since 2010, and I too think all exchanges should have reserves enforced and audited.

Not all bitcoin enthusiasts are anarcho-capitalist extremists.
I have a system76 but it uses an NVIDIA GPU for the external monitors.

It works fine when plugged in, but I basically don't use it as a portable computer because it's such a pain to switch back to Intel graphics. There are some options for hybrid graphics but it limits the options I have for external monitor orientation.
I used to use Bumble when I was single years ago, and I just looked at their pricing and it seems they've massively jacked up the prices of Boost and added a ton of more expensive things. If you're using multiple dating apps and paying for premium, you could be paying, what, over a $100 a month easily?

I remember when paying for dating apps was considered taboo. I don't envy single people...I don't doubt they intentionally make it difficult to get a date now if you're not paying.
compare it to alternatives
This is so funny till it's real.
LedgerX options.
I think it is perfectly reasonable to question whether all of that is necessary just to program stuff for the web.
Ask HN: Modern Mental Arithmetic Methods?
I would like to improve my mental arithmetic. While okay in some areas, I am bad in others. I graduated in (pure) mathematics for my undergrad, while never having learnt my multiplication tables fully.

I have had the Trachtenberg book lying around for years, but I am not sure whether it is worth the time investment. I would also prefer having a computer programme which went through it, but I am open to doing it by hand if others can recommend it.

I would like to know what HN's experience is with improving mental arithmetic.

1. Have you always been naturally good? If so, what do you think about existing systems?

2. Were you bad but became good with a certain system?

3. Have you tried multiple systems? How do they compare?

4. Did you take classes or do it independently?

5. If system, what age did you learn?
> For anyone interested, such a binary ends up at least 50MB

.. if you don't make any use of assembly optimisation/trimming, sure.

$ dotnet publish -c Release
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 16.8.3+39993bd9d for .NET
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Determining projects to restore...
Restored /tmp/ConsoleApp/ConsoleApp.csproj (in 18.97 sec).
ConsoleApp -> /tmp/ConsoleApp/bin/Release/net5.0/linux-x64/ConsoleApp.dll
Optimizing assemblies for size, which may change the behavior of the app. Be sure to test after publishing. See: https://aka.ms/dotnet-illink
ConsoleApp -> /tmp/ConsoleApp/bin/Release/net5.0/linux-x64/publish/
$ cd /tmp/ConsoleApp/bin/Release/net5.0/linux-x64/publish/
$ ls
total 29M

> When talking about the size required for a program to run, you have to weigh all of its dependencies.

Except the dependencies might not even be relevant depending on which OS you're targeting - and in the context of this article, why is this even interesting? You can make all of the same criticisms of the JVM, or .NET web apps or anything else - do you statically link libc?
I am afraid of Bitcoin because of Tether.

However, there is one part of this argument that I don't quite understand:

If we woke up tomorrow to find out that Tether caused a disruptive event overnight and BTC/USD fell from $30,000 to $10,000 or $3,000.....

Wouldn't there be a gigantic line of people who have been experiencing FOMO for the last 6 months ready to jump in at the new attractive price level, driving the price straight back up?

Or is the side of people who could lose out on Tether just so huge that the newcomers would not be able to cover them all?
> Once people get a taste of UBI, how do we prevent voters and politicians from pushing it to unsustainable levels?

You might also ask: Once corporations get a taste of increasing the national debt, how do we prevent them from lobbying politicians to push it to unsustainable levels?

As to your actual question, don't worry, the wishes of voters have very little effect on US government policy.

> Motivation and purpose. Imagining a world with UBI, widespread automation, and general or close-to-general AI, ...

Removing UBI from that equation doesn't lead to a better outcome in terms of motivation and purpose, unless you include the motivation and purpose of the unemployed masses fighting an (unwinnable) war against the elites who control the economy and the killbots.

Perhaps we need to accept that jobs are just leaky abstractions for motivation and purpose, and governments should be trying to create positive outlets for people's talents and social instincts, rather than constructing ever more dehumanizing ways of punishing people for being poor as incentive to work in pointless jobs.
Is this being caused by the tons of WhatsApp users joining Signal ?
Why fire? If America is already gone, why retaliate? Revenge? What is there to gain? Retaliation would just make things that much more difficult for the rest of humanity, assuming the first strike didn't already make the earth uninhabitable...
Maybe this is oversharing, but maybe not. I have shades of this in myself. I have a much smaller friend group than many folks and a cynical take on most peoples motivations. I can say that some of why I feel this way is just "how Im bent" and some is from childhood experiences of having my trust betrayed or my naivety taken advantage of. Throw in a bit of unpredictable mom behavior and I generally dont want to owe anything to anyone.

When I first meet people Im more than happy to share, give of myself, etc. Usually I will either feel that gestures are not reciprocated, or taken for granted, so I pull back. Ive wondered if I feel like Im expecting too much of my generosity and I think Ive been guilty of that before. At this point though I think I have reflected enough and changed to where this is not the case.

Long term- I feel like being social requires me to "be on" which is exhausting to me. I would rather only see people when I can be decent company so I end up seeing people much less than more socially adept folks...
> speeding up the growth at expense of your users

Rather at the "expense" of Amazon AWS
Ah yes, the old slippery slope argument. First they banned posts saying a man's children should be skinned alive in front of him to teach him a lesson (actual post I saw on Parler) then they're going to come for me making reasonable and acceptable by normal standards political arguments.
I do think there's probably an interesting opportunity again in the dating app market that's unfulfilled.

Something that is remote first (but regional), group based, and shared activity based. Like playing a board game or among us style game with audio or something with two groups of 3.

Might be too short lived with vaccines on the way.
That's not how markets work. There isn't an infinite buy wall at the current spot price.
You can’t write code inside your browser because there are better environments for writing code for most people who want to write code, and enabling in-browser coding without it being a giant and regularly exploited security hole through which non-technical users would be exploited is nontrivial.

Yes, it would be very convenient for beginner programmers, but beginner programmers are a very small subset of browser users. (And a robust and even less-secure-against-”paste this command into your browser programming environment” attacks version would be good for more advanced programmers, but even worse for everyone else.) And having specific browsers targeting each of those environments would be possible, but negate (especially for beginner programmers) a significant part of the advantage of having the programming environment integrated in the browser in the first place.
I'm not familiar with encryption and how does either of services work on the backend, but shouldn't E2E happen on users devices? (like... end to end). And if that's the case - how does this impact Signal's infrastructure?
There’s a good Omega Tau podcast episode froma few weeks ago, called “Modern Fission Reactors”, that covers modular reactors (and many other interesting reactor topics)

https://omegataupodcast.net/359-modern-fission-reactors/
The authors conclusion honestly makes me feel sad for her and misses the point entirely. I personally think she did a bold thing and tried something that obviously was out of her comfort zone (and should be commended), but the takeaway was wrong.

The takeaway as written: "That by rehearsing for a situation, we were, in a small way, calling it into being". I cannot disagree with this more strongly.

Practice means you don't panic & freeze when the real thing happens, rehearsing anything is to make you proficient, develop muscle memory and to so your brain doesn't freeze (fight or flight is better then freeze). Dr's and paramedics do simulated training (rehearsals) all the time for the same reason, does that mean they are calling peoples worst day into being? No of course not. Martial artists train constantly using different scenarios (and weapons) and how to respond, are they wishing those situations into being? No of course not, in all these cases they are simply preparing themselves to have as calm a mind as possible when it does occur because they have the skills and their brain has already seen that or similar scenarios.
I tried vivaldi, but found its slowness and the bugs in making it show a blank tab for new windows and tabs not worth it. Especially when its missing firefox’s container tabs
Yes, but it still means that when input is re-enabled later, the buttons are in an unknown state and you don't know if you'll be receiving unexpected button up events.

Also, it's very frustrating for users when input gets dropped on the floor at times where they don't expect. Determining when to queue that input and when to forget it is a real art. Humans have subtle, complex expectations there and there's no simple solution.
> The whole point is, there is no reason to require a programmer to know them.

There's no point to making sure a programmer knows how his environment is set up? Are you being serious right now?
It’s called slippery slope fallacy for a reason.
Related, a few hours ago Bobi Wine (main opposition candidate) reported the military had entered his home. Unclear how the situation will play out, the incumbent is currently leading in the polls but there's been a huge amount of violence, arrests, etc. so I'm not sure one could say it's been a "free and fair" election. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-01-15/uganda...
The proceeds from whatever growth there is should go to the people involved in growing it, not uninvolved previously-wealthy bystanders. With deflationary currencies, any growth in the total amount of stuff leads to one dollar corresponding to more stuff, which is like a tax on all of the people making stuff paid to the people holding mattress money. That's the most powerful argument against the gold standard, for example. People who spend gold to do actually useful things are punished and people who pile it up are rewarded.
What a workaround. SMS are not encrypted, cost money, have a length limit, don’t support images or groups...
I"m not saying this is what happened this time, but I would suspect we'll see a lot more outages of encrypted centralized chat like this as nation states try to prevent general society from moving away from the social media websites almost solely designed for mass surveillance.
The purpose of a retaliatory posture is the foundation of MAD. If the posture, instead, is: We'll just rollover and die, then (the theory goes) there's reduced reason for others to avoid a first strike.
we probably misunderstood one each other - i though that you wrote that you had fights in raanana :)
in general it was totally peaceful in netanya, no "testosterone measurements" with exception of couple of big fights that did get police involvement