skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had so many beta users ask me this that I did some research and wrote this up:

https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/

TLDR: have multiple copies of everything. Printed copies on acid-free paper is great. Keep your original files of possible. If you can, store copies in more than one location.
> My issue is with the notion that the Civil War cause as it comes to the North

There's no serious dispute about that; preserving the Union was the overt aim, and there were slave states in the Union, who clearly weren't fighting against slavery.
Let’s not forget the companies that enabled Plaid to do this. One of the worst offenders was Carta. They made you use Plaid to exercise your stock options. So you had to let Plaid scrape your account info to get the stock you worked so hard for. Most people had no idea they were allowing this.
> with so much attention on replacing PGP

There actually isn't much attention on replacing PGP with anything specific.

What other completely decentralized alternatives exist with no single point of failure? libsodium? That's a good start but a long way from a complete alternative.

Plenty of quasi-centralized encrypted chat "apps" keep pretending they offer what PGP offers. The clueful ignore these gesticulations.
Being dead is not the same as being wrong.

It might be convenient to ignore arguments from dead people we don't agree with. But we seldom extend this to arguments from dead people we agree with.
Go pass the megaphone to your friends then
because "reports" of spying.
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>twitter link

How do you look up an original post in twitter that they replied to? If I tap on “in reply to @“ link it just shows their entire feed. Thanks in advance!
Incognito won't help unfortunately. I've tried this on a few occasions and it still pollutes my suggestions. I've noticed that using Brave seems to blunt it -- I have to watch alot more to notice the pollution.

Can't say more than that, I stopped experimenting and basically stopped using Youtube except for the same music I listen to over and over now. Nothing new.
Ask HN: How do you serve clients who are under NDA with their own clients?
I've been preparing a B2B service in which my customers are under NDA with their own customers, but they would be submitting business content to me.

That means they have an obligation to report to their customers that they're about to share content that would be covered under their Non-Disclosure Agreements.

No matter how reputable I am, they'd (rightly) rather not tell their customers, "hey by the way, we might submit your business info to this unrelated 3rd party".

How do document translation companies, for example, handle this sort of brick wall? They see a lot of text that would normally be covered under NDA, right?

I can sign an NDA with my customers, but they'd still be obligated to get the ok from their customers, and they don't want to have that conversation.

What business structure, legal structure or approach can you think of to solve the "I can't ask for your help because I'm under NDA" problem?
> I found Mexican mangoes to be a pale imitation of the Indian varieties.

Do you mean produce you bought fresh in tropical regions in Mexico e.g. at a local market stall, or produce you bought in a US supermarket, imported from Mexico by a large-scale distributor?

There are great fresh mangoes available in markets in southern Mexico, tastier than the ones easily found in the US. Similar story for other tropical fruits, including bananas. The demands of long-distance shipping and wide distribution force significant compromises in most types of fresh produce.

Disclaimer: I have never been to India.

> best mangoes I have tasted in America were from two huge trees in the backyard ... in Hawaii

Yeah now try to grow those at commercial scale and keep them as tasty weeks later after shipping them hundreds of miles across several layers of supply chain.
I would argue there hasn't been enough cooling. My mother has been having a vicious political argument with my aunts for the better part of a year. Created familial rifts that probably wouldn't have happened without social media.
I suspect this is related to the phenomenon that people often quite strongly need to justify their purchasing decisions, leading to fanboism (I know that free systems also have fanboys but I think there is a difference in the type).

So if people made a monetary investment they have the emotional need to justify to themselves and others that they made a good decision (hence you talk positively about that purchase), however somehow when they use something free, people don't feel that emotional need.
Horrible font kerning is arguably even more eggregious reason to not touch Substack.
He's playing one-dimensional chess.

And losing.
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I posted some examples in sibling comments, and the response was that leftist calls for violence are actually secret code about carnival games. So I'm not particularly inclined to post more.
Just look at Parler. That's the same thing which happened there.
Depends if you mean “tech” companies or “traditional” companies. Principal engineers at traditional companies is someone who has lived and breathed the product for 10-15+ years. Principal engineers at a tech company is someone who has a vision for a technology and understands what it’ll take to gather a team to execute on it.
Do we have any such examples with 50 different angles of the same UFO event?

Whenever an actual event occurs (meteor, explosion, and so on) we have video footage from multiple angles uploaded almost immediately. If UFO activity was a frequent occurrence happening to thousands of people, it would be truly remarkable if it was never captured by multiple cameras somehow.

As for dismissing reports: There are hundreds of millions of people in the US alone. If you go searching for claims, you can find thousands of people who will make similar mistaken or untrue claims about anything. At scale, the amount of misperception and misremembering is massive.
New Zealand shooter was on 8chan and he was a lone wolf. Those are not easy to prevent but a mass discussion of a large coordinated event definitely can be.
OK, you were on a very different version of Parler than I was on. And different than the one that Amazon noted in their response to Parler or all of the various articles that I've read written about Parler. Maybe we all just ended up in the bad part of Parler.
> Worse when you were planning on implementing it soon anyways, but now if you do it's "rewarding" their behaviour (in their eyes at least), and they become invigorated to go and spread their toxicity even further.

No, please don't think like that.

Implement what you see fit when you planned to do it and you can ignore this.

1. You don't know how "toxic" people really are. Some of them are nice, but just put no time/understanding into their internet communication. They write and forgot what they wrote a minute later.

2. If they really need to learn something, talking to them politely "Thanks for the suggestion but...", "Could you please..." etc. will help over time. Not doing something in the fear of rewarding their behaviour is way too complex to understand.
> but using that No True Scotsman line of thinking, literally nothing will change your mind

I disagree, many forms of “simple” evidence would sway most people’s opinions and almost everyone would be persuaded by replicated clear detailed videos of crafts, attempted communication, or some alien artifact. Even a half eaten discarded alien candy bar would change the minds of almost any skeptic. Where is such evidence? After all these years, there are still no good pictures of an alien or its spaceship.
I’ve been learning about that Japanese trend of streamers/youtubers who are anime characters made from live capture, and many of the tutorials recommend mounting your phone on near face. This seems like a good alternative.
That's only true if you plan to use some of the many AWS "services".

Get an instance, choose some linux distro image that comes with ssh and nginx installed, start it up, configure a few files, grab an elastic IP, you're done.

I set up the first public web server in the pacific northwest in 1993. It wasn't that hard, but mostly because I already admin'ed the machine(s) it ran on anyway.
> Snakes have to be the most sinister animal evolution has ever created.

Wait until you find out about H. sapiens sapiens.
The extended validation code signing certificate you need for your software installer to get around Windows 10's SmartScreen isn't free either.
I would guess that the most well known charityware is Vim though I am not sure how well known it is that it is charityware. It has it embedded in the license [0].

[0]: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/uganda.html#license
not exactly the same situation but it happened with NKLA and GM, insufficient due diligence on what was vaporware. mistakes like that can happen.
Here (noris.de), a principal engineer is expected to:

* do some publications and/or publications in their field of expertise

* provide technical leadership (input on technology decisions, some architecture support, help write guidelines etc.)

* be part of the escalation path if problems cannot be solved otherwise

* help others in the company level up with their skills (at least as far as they are interested)

Here, principals are actively discouraged from becoming team leads (tech and people leadership are separate paths, which suits me quite well).
For me the contrarian impulse is that if Im arriving at the same conclusion as a large number of people, did I actually reason my way to that conclusion or am I letting unconscious social forces guide me? So, I play the devil's advocate. Then, after having challenged the conventional notions, I have more confidence in my conclusion. At the very least, I will usually have a more nuanced view.

Ironically, being contrarian can itself be an unconscious social force to differentiate yourself; sometimes the herd is right.
Using social media at all, feels very risky. No matter what you say it can be taken out of context, or the context will change within the next decade and you can be made out to be a monster.

I was actually able to find tons of friends and partners back in 2019 when I disconnected from social media. Even though there's a slight temptation to go back being trapped in the house, it's like the temptation to take another drink when you've already had too many.

In fact during the pandemic I decided to delete my Reddit account, I found it was making me very angry for naught.
Thanks! Will pass it on in my org.
Almost no tests in existence can confirm or deny particular infection.

Think of them (and symptoms) more as odds updater. If you have 20 minutes to spare this video [0] by 3 Blue 1 Brown is a brilliant introduction to the concept.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG4VkPoG3ko
People are people and whether they are maintainer or customer, we can all be ass-hats.

How would you prefer that kind of "arbitrary planning" be addressed though?

I don't have any luck with my FOSS projects but I am SUPER grateful for that because I just don't have the time to sit and work on them after I've done the job I have to pay the bills I also have.

Any advice for someone like me?
Simply, $250 is a scam given the limitations of that type of test. Its simply a money grab from those unaware.

Its been known for months that PCR is the gold standard, and rapid tests are not. Rapid tests are good for surveillance but not diagnosis.
Folks, don't forget IBM Cloud please. They're trying.
If it was 10 years ago, I could remember what sorts of things TOC was missing but OSCAR had, and give you a bit more useless information; but here's the best I've got.

IIRC, it was mostly anything you needed to get beyond the bare minimum. TOC could message, and manage your buddy list, and set your idle time and your status message; but it couldn't do typing notifications, and probably not some other things. I believe they used TOC tunneled over HTTP(s?) for their Java applet client, if you used that.

I seem to recall it went through periods of unavailability from time to time, so I would go back and forth between TOC stuff I wrote and understood and OSCAR libraries that barely half worked.
I literally started asking around on the web for exactly this today.

Seriously taking a look, this looks promising. We built an app on AppSync and Cognito and I want to get off AWS so I'm looking for alternatives, and this... fits the bill.
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I’m betting it was styled as a loan for tax purposes.
A North American exodus of a political subset off these tech platforms is irrelevant in 2020 because all of the companies reached global scale. Maybe back in 2005 this would have mattered, but it is totally not enough today.
It is a mathematical certainty that if the monetary supply went up by 25%, someone has to have 25% more money in an account somewhere.

I'm not sure where this 'no evidence' accusation comes from. It isn't in contention that the monetary supply went up 25%, the population isn't growing at anything near that sort of rate. There aren't many ways to make that work out, mathematically, unless someone (realistically, quite a few someone) have 25% more dollars in an account.
One possible path here is to build something so close to a company that you're likely to end up getting hired to maintain it. One notable example is the author of the "boto" aws SDK (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/big-news-regarding-python-b...), who was hired by amazon to keep working on it. It still took 6 years for him to get hired. The majority of projects like this end up not resulting in hires to work on that project (though they can result in hires pretty easily to do other work at the company).

A second path is to join a faang company that does OSS work, specifically on a team that does so. You could join facebook on the react team, google on the chromium/android/go team, etc etc. In all of those teams, you'll probably be a small cog in the machine for a while, but if you persevere, it's possible to create an adjacent project that you own. It's much easier to split out into your own company-paid-for OSS work from a team that already does OSS work. This option is unquestionably the easiest path. It's still not easy.

A third path is to build something that is valuable enough to be acquired, but coincidentally is open source, and then make it remaining open source a condition of being acquired. Zulip managed this route when dropbox acquired them, and there's a few other examples, but this is a very hard route.

Notice that none of these examples are great for most open source projects. Those options mostly require you to change the OSS projects you work on from what you want to something a faang wants you to work on.

To get paid a faang salary working on your own project of your own invention is practically impossible without incredible luck, or being a principal engineer (i.e. guido getting paid by google to work on python, rob pike to create go, other examples certainly exist).

My recommendation? If you want a faang salary to do oss work, but are okay compromising on the project, pick the faang company with a project closest to what you want to do and get hired for that oss project specifically.

If you'd rather work on your oss project than have a faang salary to work on someone else's project, then that's great! You have the passion to work on your foss thing, and that's a good sign. Keep working on it, and understand that your chance of making any money is almost nil.
Usually original tweets are just shown in the feed, but if you click on the tweet body, it will explicitly unfold the thread, if I got what you are asking.
There will be many explanations. One explanation not seen here yet:

People working for companies who pay are more likely to be well paid and both of (a) technically competent and (b) having empathy and some amount of charm as qualifying criteria to get that well paid gig.

It's no slam-dunk but it's more likely. People who work for organisations who don't pay are likely to be paid a little less and include some who are working a second choice gig because of some deficiencies in (a) or (b) or both. (L. is great but difficult to work with and we'll never find someone like that to hire to replace them.) As individuals they may improve their abilities in time, possibly dramatically too. The young, arrogant hotheads, sheesh. None of us were ever like that. Obviously...

The paying can be a fuzzy select for kinds of people who behave in particular ways rather than the paying itself causing particular behavior in a given person.
For bugfixes: yes. For feature requests: this will really amplify Zawinski’s law. Limiting scope is important imho.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
Agree.

It is actually disturbing in that it seems by implication that many politicians are portraying what Trump was doing as legitimate speech - and in doing so they are effectively legitimising it. Whereas anybody I am sure in the big tech decision making on this was treating this as "shouting fire in a theater" exception to speech. I think it will be very harmful if the "legitimate speech" interpretation becomes the dominant view - in that case we are effectively setting a precedent here that inciting a riot to overturn your own government is legitimate free speech.
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Can, but often enough, it doesn't. We end up with a cancelled product/service, or one maligned beyond recognition by the acquirer, with users having to untangle the service from their lives at last minute, while acquirer holds all the IP.

Also, I question the general usefulness of startups created to pursue an exit in the first place. Besides there being often no point in entangling yourself with a service that's meant to be transient, the goals will be different too - the company will try to force hypergrowth by underhanded, and ultimately user-hostile means, vs. letting a thing grow on the strength of its usefulness. Myself, I strongly avoid dealing with any startup that I can smell was built for an exit.
Ah yes, let’s just let open Holocaust-denial or Hitler-worshipping or white supremacy all be absolutely fine. Or what about doxxing or a focused effort to destroy a business online through lies and slander, on a social network that doesn’t have any rules? Is that allowed? It’s my free speech to tell lies of course.

Free speech without restrictions is a silly liberal dream that never works. It’s like capitalism in that it holds it own downfall within its internal logic.
I think part of the problem is the expectation of instantaneous gratification today. Individuals can get any item they want shipped premium to their door step the next day nearly everywhere. So why shouldn't software features be the same? The problem with "free" is that many, many more people can use the software.

Large corporations (which the $10k/mo user probably is) on the other hand calculate updates in months or even years.

My company also has a very large customer that asks us to implement something "whenever possible" and if we need 2 years they are just happy we did it. Why? Because they have a long update cycle. It's not really important if it's in the next release because they might not even install that but wait for the release after that.
Is that according to CNN?
> toxic users who hop on to issues demanding you implement them immediately

I would have a policy of not allowing feature requests, only bug reports. Their demands gets immediately deleted. Either report a bug or GTFO - and make this the norm!
> When does an insurrectionist turn into a revolutionary?

A reasonable question in the abstract, but in this case the distinction is rather simple: 1776 was people revolting against a king to create a democracy. What we saw this month was quite the opposite - trying to undo democracy (i.e. negate the results of popular vote).
I feel like this is a good starting point. It's bikesheds all the way down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
The M1 macs apparently use the same or similar camera used since 2011, albeit with better image processing, which is kind of disappointing.
Seems expensive and you'd have to trust that admitted data thieves would give you the data after you paid them.
Mate, this is getting silly. Here's what you said one comment ago:

>Erecting a gallow outside of the Capitol with a mob of angry rioters chanting about hanging Pence isn't really comparable. Those threats should be considered real, not performance art. It's not entertainment, it's real. Pull your head in mate.

I'm linking you to a video showing a mob enacting an act of killing a symbolic cop and literally saying they'll do it and wearing Tshirts with the slogan "Kill Cops" or variants of that phrase.

You may choose to read this comment and instinctively pull up the reply box to try and justify your position and defend it further, but i'd implore you to realize that this is not about you or me. I assume the both of us want what's best for this country and what we're seeing here with two differing standards of judgement and law for two political positions differing only in political affiliation, is not something i'd expect you or anyone as intelligent as someone working in the tech sector to be defending.
I always find it quite funny how many people label themselves as "Expert" in each category. It's always a large majority.

Seems like overconfidence is endemic to the human race.

I've been doing JS for 13 years and I am far from an expert. I don't think you could ever really be an expert except for a brief period and only in a narrow area.
Why would the NSA bother with hacking American companies? The American security establishment is only one warrant or national security letter away from getting all the information they need from any of these companies.
The guy who runs signal said that he believes science isn’t about discovering truth. I still can’t wrap my head around it.
In case you’re wondering what is happening with Uighur in China, please read this recent piece: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/12/uighur-xinjian...
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I like this idea though prefer the term "managerial debt" just because it more closely reflects the original "technical debt".

My own favourite are the swashbuckling, resume-impressing "transformation" programmes in big corporations and their corollary "consultancy debt" which involve much scratching of heads by the hoi-polloi at the time of execution, and often severely depleted and inadequate services long after the debtors have fled the scene...
Brahmi is likely not from Aramaic, The Indus script is much older and is a lot more similar to Brahmi and is from the same region unlike Aramaic which is from a region 5000Kms away separated by massive deserts. it could also be other way around as Indus people were sea faring and their coins and stamps are found in Egypt and Mesopotamia

The other thing is that Brahmi is an abugida and not an aramaic abjad(alphabets with no vowels) so even influence seems unlikely. for people interested, abugida is like a mini algorithm where you can derive infinite symbols from a given set of symbols, you basically decode it back like an MP3 decoder while reading it. due to this nature, you don't need to learn spellings and there are no two ways of reading the same set of symbols, this also means that any text written in abugida 2000 years will be pronounced the same today, so unlike English which changes pronunciation every 100 or so years, An abugida reader can pronounce texts that were written 2000 years ago and know this is exactly how they were pronounced. This is a major reason why Indian youtube isn't filled with "how this was pronounced 200 years ago", would have been fun but unfortunately we are stuck with words and pronunciations from 2k years ago or more and they likely won't change for another 2000 years.