skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people can literally believe their dicks are disappearing, while said organ is in plain view, any extraordinary claims about UFOs should be treated sceptically:

"Koro is a culture-bound syndrome delusional disorder in which an individual has an overpowering belief that his or her sex organs are retracting and will disappear"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_(medicine)
I suspect the project was started by a FAANG business, eg React or something like that.
Invading Cuba without Congressional approval would be a clear violation of the Constitution.

But I think it's very dangerous to assume that institutions have the internal integrity to shrug off abuse of power because of their rules and norms.
In case it helps, I tried to recount my thoughts in the first few seconds after clicking the link.

"An alternative AWS console" - cool. I'd been wondering if there were any good ones.

What does it look like?

There's a video, but as usual I don't want to watch a product video; I don't want to disturb people by playing audio over the speakers, and it takes too long.

I scroll down… nope, no screenshots.

There's "Get Started for Free", but that's going to lead to some complicated setup process.

Oh well, I'm not interested enough to investigate further. Pass.

…Well, in reality I did investigate further, because I wanted to provide constructive feedback.

It looks like there are some screenshots on the Features page, but they should be on the front page. Also, I didn't initially realize there was a Features page, because with my browser window at 900 pixels wide (half of my MacBook Pro screen), the site dumps the navigation links at the top into a hamburger menu, which I didn't notice and wouldn't want to click. Plus, even after clicking on the screenshots to zoom them, they are too small to comfortably read the text, because they're fit to the window width minus some padding. I'd have preferred if it just showed the screenshot at full size and let me scroll.

I guess this sort of narrow (but not phone-level narrow) window size is uncommon, so it's probably not worth worrying about too much, but that is the experience I had.

Also... I tried clicking Get Started for Free. It wants me to make an account. That's friction. Oh, now it wants me to confirm my email. More friction. Where's the email? Oh, it went to spam, with a scary message in Gmail [1]. Yikes… you should figure out what's going on with that.

I confirmed my email and now it prompts me to link my AWS account. Well, finally. I would have been more likely to sign up (if I were just a potential user rather than someone trying to provide feedback) if clicking the button on the homepage took me directly to the AWS login.

Well, I went ahead and connected…

More issues with my browser width - the Plans page is kind of broken. [2]

The service itself… seems fine for a launch. I like the easy-to-understand breakdown of the monthly cost! On the other hand, the service seems to just provide an overview rather than actually replacing the AWS console. Maybe there would be more functionality if I got off of read-only mode, but I couldn't figure out how.

I proceeded to delete my account. It did not automatically delete the CloudFormation stack that the signup process had me create, which is unfortunate.

[1] https://drop.qoid.us/fah8Eit5.png

[2] https://drop.qoid.us/Ek9ieSoh.png
I feel like most of these arguments can be made about in person meetings, too. Decision making needs to be documented somewhere regardless of the medium the conversation took place in.

Live chat could maybe be a good place for that to happen but then someone needs to transfer that information into a tool designed for it. Just like you would if you had a meeting in a physical office.

Now if the argument you want to make is that live chat is a bad place for those discussions to be had then that is different. Having worked at multiple fully-remote orgs with team members across many timezones and working different schedules I can agree live chat is not a great place for decision making to happen either.

We use RFCs for async decision making when live chat, zooms, or in-person meetings aren't possible. It is slower since you are often waiting for a response until the next day, but I also find that the waiting time can be quite productive for other tasks and gives everyone more time to think about an issue.
Actually, the worst possible party to limit your free speech is government. The government holds an exclusive monopoly on violence and killing. Almost every government that has obtained power over speech uses their violence monopoly to enforce it.

The best party to limit speech that is considered bad is private individuals and companies in their own venues. If I own a comedy theater, I should be able to kick out obnoxious patrons or comics. They can always go somewhere else. The same principle applies online, only it is much easier for someone who is not welcome in one community to go somewhere else or start their own.

Never give the government control over what is acceptable speech, let each business cater to the crowd they want.
And violence is the only thing you can think of in a thread about a cms revoking services to said opposition?

That’s all I meant. If you’re American, you have to pick a side. Do you condemn or condone? No one is sitting around going like “I feel like they had some good points but I donnu”.

This is bigger than covid, and at some point, at this point in my opinion, we have to make a decision. We either nip this in the bud now or watch it get worse. And if you work at Twitter, that might mean pushing to ban Trump for the last four years. Some tech savvy individual went and reverse engineered Parler’s API and archived 96% of public content. All this in the hopes that it’ll dissuade any further escalation. And if that isn’t a good enough explanation, then maybe people are just fucking tired of enabling or doing business with people they consider to be deranged and dangerous.

I realize you want everyone to come together and find some compromise or common ground but like, where do we even begin? There was no election fraud. Not even Trump’s lawyers could utter those words in court, because they understood that repeating their clients’ overt lies could get them disbarred. I genuinely think that the stop the steal is run by opportunistic leeches who prey on the mentally ill. And that taking away their platforms on private social media might actually give us the pause we need for a peaceful transfer of power. No one should be forced to bake a cake at gunpoint and no one should be forced to go to work on making an online platform work for people we (and the law) view as terrorists.

That’s my rant. You can disagree with all of if you want, but you can’t argue with individuals not wanting to go to work for other individuals. Whether it be Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook...they chose to do something and frankly, those who are worried about this potentially happening to them need to realize how bad what happened at the capitol was, and how rare it is. There’s no slippery slope here.
Sure, not denying that, especially for the more hardcore wine aficionados out there. That's why I said weakly fungible, and not perfectly. However, I do believe that the intended result will happen still, and there will be a shift of spending from French -> US domestic.

It's bad for the consumer, but that applies to anything that isn't fully free trade.
First of all, this is a great reply and yes it does clarify your viewpoint. I really value that it's possible to have discussions like this on the internet.

>I am yet to be convinced that "neutrality" or a requirement to provide service regardless of content should be enforced by any government regulation above the network layer.

I agree with you. I wouldn't be in favor of a government regulation at the level of social media that would prevent specific services like Facebook or Twitter from banning things. But the bigger problem for me is that we've all just decided that it's okay for really fundamental things about the web to be controlled by private companies.

The web was designed to be an open system and it's slowly being more closed in. There's still areas of openness, but they get smaller every year. And every time there's a new layer of restriction added there's always someone to point out that you still can do x y and z, it's just 10-20% harder than it used to be.

When apps for phones came out it was "Well, you can always just make a web app. They have no control over that." but consumers are less likely to use a web app and you don't have the same access to the device.

Now it's "Just move to a different hosting company!" which is disingenuous for several reasons. First, any company they move to is going to get pressured to drop them in the same way. Secondly, even if they did find a new hosting company that was okay with them, the pressure would just get applied to a different point (like Cloudflare.) You can roll your own hosting system but it's prohibitively expensive for most people especially if the site has a lot of traffic, DDoS and regular hacking attempts. The fact that web hosting beyond the basics is complex and hard is the reason that cloud services exist and are so popular these days to begin with.

So yeah, I think we're basically on the same page. I don't see this getting better. But I still think it's worth pointing out.
Ask HN: Where will communities hang out in the upcoming decade?
It feels like established social networks are getting less popular. There is less going on Facebook and Twitter.

Is there any emerging social network worth committing to for the next decade? Good old Reddit? TikTok? Clubhouse? Telegram channels? Slack groups? Discord?
(No Ads Version) Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos
Depends how much prep they did beforehand. Lots of businesses have contingency plans for negative situations including needing to leave AWS, and they're far less likely to get booted. I’m not sure why they didn’t just start with Epik; they already host Gab and won’t give a crap about what Parler does.

FWIW the Parler CEO claimed 12 hours, an obvious falsehood, and that’s now being used against him in his lawsuit against AWS.
I seem to recall dems saying that trump colluded with russians to steal the election...

<<“I think it’s also critical to understand that, as I’ve been telling candidates who have come to see me, you can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you,” the former secretary of state said.

She's hardly the only prominent Democrat claiming to have been wrongly kept out of office. On Friday, Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams again claimed she won the state's 2018 gubernatorial race, despite losing to now-Gov. Brian Kemp.>>

<<For the third night in a row, anti-Donald Trump demonstrators took to the streets in several big cities and on college campuses across the United States, including an outburst of smashed windows and a dumpster fire in Portland that police countered with pepper spray and flash-bang devices.

About 4,000 protesters assembled downtown late Thursday chanting “we reject the president-elect!” the Associated Press reported. Some among the crowd vandalized 19 cars at a dealership in Northeast Portland, according to a sales manager, Oregonlive.com reports. Protesters then headed west, over the Broadway Bridge and into the Pearl District, where the windows of several businesses were smashed.>>
How can we know the acceleration of the expanding universe?
Think of it the other way round. Long warranties are indicative of a durable, long lasting product. A short warranty, however, does not necessarily indicate a crap product.

Of course this is not a perfect measure, but I do think that a correlation would exist here.
This simultaneously sounds realistic for the future, and very 90s.
So according to your argument the users are compensating the FOSS maintainers by using the software?

That's an interesting concept of compensation, does this apply in other domains, e.g. if I go to a soup kitchen which donates free food is my eating that food compensation?

I'm really trying to understand this argument.
Redline the hell out of your contract or follow the standard "Don't be a problem for us" rules. It's really not that hard.
Debian discusses vendoring again
Very similar to the antifa rhetoric that we have seen over the past few years. I am not sure how alt-left is good and alt-right is bad when it seems that rioters are all assholes.
Yeah you are trying to reframe from your original position

“The civil war wasn’t about slavery”

To

“From the perspective of the north the primary motivation was not slavery”

And it’s not convincing to me or to others. The big picture here: was the civil war about slavery? I think the answer is yes, what about you?
After what I've seen in the last week, I have loaded both Telegram and Signal on my phone and desktop. I am also going to return to my roots in ham/packet radio.
Possibly Craig Silverstein, but my guess is Urs Hölzle. He was Google's first VP of engineering and a huge advocate for everything mentioned in the article: "design docs, audited code reviews, early design reviews, readability reviews, resisting introduction of new languages, unit testing and code coverage, profiling and performance testing".

Early Google had more than its fair share of genius engineers with giant egos. Urs was brilliant and tough - a perfect combination for keeping everybody in check and shaping the engineering culture.
In my corner of Amazon, PEs are the technical peer to high-level people/program managers. The people/project managers are there to make sure that human work proceeds according to plan and have small understanding or concern for nitty gritty technical architecture. In comparison, the PEs have small understanding of the nitty gritty of the human labor management and are there to drive design reviews and act as kind of a veto board for architectural decisions.

PEs rarely provide new ideas in design reviews (our product teams don't need help with that) but often will strike things down or modify existing ideas to fit in with other products, for business reasons, or perhaps because their human management counterpart doesn't like the idea.

Alongside, they usually have some variety of R&D style side projects that they pursue according to their interests/specialties.
Is it at least available in all countries?
I suspect that what meetups323 means is that they work for a FAANG company on a piece of software that company uses that is also open-source, not that it's their own FOSS project and it draws them a FAANG-equivalent salary.
One Finance: Upcoming features for Simple customers
I was about to check if I could register it, but then thought that might be a bad idea.
Presumably, Trump had been briefed about all of these things before giving the "inject bleach" press conference. The press conference is not the time to be asking questions you just thought about of medical experts. Not if you are the one giving the press conference at least. That is where the messaging fell apart.
I don’t think there is an actual “shadowbanned” on Hacker News, I’ve just seen various stages of banned/flagged/dead users. I mean, I guess I wouldn’t know if there was, but I’ve never heard anyone mention it so…
>Samsung is so terrified of Qualcomm's patent library

Samsung has reached a deal with Qualcomm and settled all on-going patent issues in 2018. So I would not be surprised if Exynos comes to US in 2021 or 2022.

But right now nothing has been shown by Samsung to be competitive with Qualcomm's mmWave offering. And interestingly enough US is the only market which has implemented mmWave with one carrier and other two are "looking at it" closely. As far as I know NO other market currently has plans for mmWave. Which means if mmWave is mandatory for US market, you would likely continue to see Qualcomm in Samsung Smartphone.
That’s sort of dispersing the problem onto some other poor sap or group of saps. Businesses do need to set boundaries and it’s terrifying to do so because “the mob” can suddenly decide against having goodwill. Best bet is to set standards very early and firmly like you’d treat a child - EG “we do NOT put our hand in the fire, but you can do just about anything else” and “we do NOT adjust our roadmap to people who yell the loudest but we are happy to have a conversation over why it’s important”
> That is because three Silicon Valley monopolies — Amazon, Google and Apple — abruptly united to remove Parler from the internet, exactly at the moment when it became the most-downloaded app in the country

It became the most downloaded app _because_ Apple gave them the 1 day ultimatum to start moderating their content. Only then more people heard of the app and downloaded it before it’s off the store.
> they make it SO onerous for Desktop users to explicitly allow unsigned apps

Not really onerous. However, you do have to use a terminal command to turn off Gatekeeper.

https://www.imore.com/how-open-apps-anywhere-macos-catalina-...
It is like codecademy forums. I am talking of UI I think creator is in hurry for launching website.
If you allow trolls and nazis to take over an online space, it scares people away and is no longer a place for open interaction
I was going to write the exact same thing. It's even more extreme, I generally have much more problems parting with a gift, even if it is genuinely useless and holds no particular emotional value to me, just because it was given to me.
https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1316452083583811584
Snakes have to be the most sinister animal evolution has ever created. Venomous, and some of them can apply skull crushing pressure if they wrap around you.

I see no reason to allow these things to live in this world.
I have a slightly different experience. I find aggressive users very easy to ignore. What does drive me mad is that some non-hostile users put zero value on my time.

I’ve painstakingly implemented debug logs and carefully prepared issue templates yet I still get these “does not work (EOM)” (effectively) issues. In the back-and-forth that ensues, sometimes it takes three or four attempts of asking the same question to get what I need, possibly separated by a day each time. Sometimes they’ll eventually realize what they missed was documented in the first place and would have been obvious if they followed the issue template to begin with.

Then there are users expecting me to help with an incomplete, out of context code snippet, or quite the opposite, with their 5k LoC repository, hoping I’d fish out the 50 or 5 lines that are actually relevant on my own.

These users are not outright assholes, so it’s somewhat harder to justify passive-aggressiveness against them. And they may have actual issues locked behind three or four back-and-forths.

(For the record, I got maybe a total of $10 in donations from thousands of hours of FOSS work. Actually a high profile project I worked for did receive sponsorship, but nothing went into my pocket for obvious reasons.)
I think it's really cool to see a company step up in the newly opened hole Simple is leaving behind and adopting a lot of the same features quickly. There's a lot of opportunity here for other online banks to capitalize on this market segment and gain a lot of very loyal customers.

The friends that I invited to Simple mostly all ended up using it as a primary bank and they all want to find someone new to switch to with the same features that they've come to depend on.

Personally for me, virtual cards for Pockets seems like the last thing I need to finally switch over, but I imagine I'll stick with Simple until they announce actual end of service dates in the slim chance that they don't actually shut the service down.
To me it sounds like you are cleanly separating

1. The moral principle of what should be platformed (which you agree is not everything)
2. The moral principle of free speech (which is what is in the constitution preventing the government from preventing freedom of expression)
In aditions to uploading them to cloud or having them in cold-storage at home, you can also print some of the photos and store them in various places. If you want to store pictures of your children for example, a printed photobook sent to various family members is a nice gift and a safe way to keep the pictures for a long time even after your death or a meteorite crashing into your house.
So just ignore the slew of other violent crimes that were prevented by federal law enforcement monitoring anonymous message boards?
Reminds me of the 2020 Hacktoberfest. Tons of users would submit spam PRs, when you'd close them and tell them to read the contribution guide they'd start personally attacking you.
It should be a requirement to eat your own dog food regarding laws and regulations.
I cant help but laugh, since this is very likely the kind of things he fields, but is also totally natural for techies to suggest.
React isn’t something we all use, as OP implied...on the other hand, OP might be maintaining a left padding package!
When I got a “?” email from Jeff Bezos. A lesson for founders, PMs and builders
There are many reasons the scenarios are different. I’m calling out the fallacy in saying “one side went full kinetic”. This point has nothing to do with Twitter. This is about violent rhetoric leading to violent action, and a false supposition that “one side” in this has no history of violent political action (e.g. clean hands) in comparison to the other.
Hi OP here, yes I did, I want people to use Signal so bad but none of my contacts are on Signal, so what can I do? Just install the app and keep it doing nothing?

No, what I did was email all my contacts urging them to switch to Signal, I really like signal and I want everyone to use it,

The more people using it the stronger the network effect gets

Edit : fixed typo
A More Human Approach to Databases
It would be interesting to know if flu viruses could also lay dormant and reactivate during certain events. Perhaps it would be in line with the popular notion that, say, people get the flu if exposed to cold weather, as well as the concept of seasonal flus.
Where did you read that? The article doesn't mention it.
Free speech is not a right granted by the government, it is a principle and a natural right. We all have it.

The government has nothing to do with it.

Even if we all lived in anarchy, free speech would still be a thing.
It's surprising how facts like this are downvoted simply because people don't like hearing the truth.

I can understand it happening on Reddit, but really thought HN would have more knowledgeable users.

The fact is Microsoft and Apple follow Chinese laws and they operate there with no issues, while Facebook and Twitter do not.

Google was even going to reenter the Chinese market but was shamed into abandoning that project.
Generics are awful. They solve no problem in the domain space, only the developer space.

Which then creates the problem of developers who insist on writing infinitely extensible generics with indecipherable bounds.

Just repeat code. You'll be fine.

If you find yourself repeating a LOT of code because Go does not support generics, maybe stop and think about your design. Putting generics in as an escape hatch will do you more than good, guaranteed
Not everyone can afford to stay home with minor illness. Not everyone will be employed if they stay home and can't "cover" their days off with measly 40 hrs a year of paid time for such purpose ( if they have any paid time at all).

This issue existed long before COVID. COVID is spreading partially due to this issue. Many people have no choice but work to avoid homelessness and/or hunger.
Your house, a personal area, is in no way comparable to a public messenger network.

> What software I use is none of his business right up until it starts affecting computers he owns.

Which client implementing the Signal protocol you use does not affect him, therefore it's none of his business.