skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until an editor comes along that is as extensible and keyboard efficient as emacs with lsp integration, or I get one of those combination mouse/ergonomic keyboard contraptions, I'll stay there.

Every other IDE requires mouse usage to accomplish even the most basic commands. With helm in emacs, my hands never have to leave the keyboard. Vocoder comes really close, but still requires you to build a plug in rather than exposing a quick api to do project specific one off tasks with eval or macro recording and repetitive application without using the mouse for anything.
In what sane world do you merit a police raid for publishing public health data?

Assuming the worst that she accessed a computer she was not authorized to access. This data, in the aggregate, is public data.

Regardless innocent until proven guilty applies. And to date the state hasn’t even made their charges public which seems ridiculous. ‘I have an arrest warrant for you, but I can’t tell you the charge’.
Further: the employee was seen to be mischaracterising the protestors/rioters (take your pic) as nazis.

The claims 'there were literal nazi flags' (see https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/8a1wytwIU2Ic52sok2ly14RUQNM=...) seem to based on the very broad assumption that Confederate, Kekistan, upside down US flags, 'release the kraken' etc flags are Nazis.

See https://qz.com/1953366/decoding-the-pro-trump-insurrectionis... for an example.

Update: this comment has been been flagged, but let me point out:

1. The comment was 'there were literal nazi flags'. We are still at 0 nazi flags.

2. The 'six million' shirt pointed out by Griffinsauce
below wasn't from the Capitol: https://forward.com/fast-forward/461761/fact-check-the-6-mil...

The guy in the Auschwitz hoodie is a nazi and obviously an even bigger moron than the other rioters but maybe we'd be able to find out more about actual extremists if we didn't label everything we don't like as extremist?
That's the same suit that Apple claimed dominion over rounded corners, too, isn't it?
I disagree too, I known the people behind signal and signal protocol by far 10 years, I been see their work for a long time in different fields, when I read "We can do better than Signal" It's a natural thought human to find better in all things, but I don't really see more in the article
Vaccine Site Uses Credit History to Verify Patients’ Identities
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The only thing I would want for it is to have a desktop version and syncing between devices.
Companies don't want you to opt-out, they have no incentive to make it easier than the GDPR regulations require. I think the annoying popup boxes in fact want to you give up and just click 'ok' rather than dealing with the fine-print.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track didn't catch on.
> Stating that fact ultimately lead to a nazi-apologist coworker denying it

Where?
Terrible guess.
Excellent point. And important to remember that her claims really circle around interpretation.

Measuring her claims really requires knowledges of how the state made its interpretation. If those interpretations don't correspond to how most other data outside of Florida is counted, then there is a problem.

This is why data transparency is so important: Accurately understanding regional and nation trends can help inform where resources are dedicated and how the virus spreads.
Can you show us evidence of the nazis? I can't find anything beyond somewhat obscure links between eg "Don't tread on me", "Release the kraken", the OK symbol and nazism when searching.
Yes, that's what I appreciate the most with the USB-C on my 2019 MBP. No matter where I am I can plug the charger in on either side nearest to the wall. Of course with the M1 or later ARM chips charging will be less of an issue.
> "Nazis gave the Jews free healthcare"

It's not a joke. I can only assume this is a reference to the abhorrent "medical" experiments the Nazis were doing on prisoners, Dr Death being one of the more famous proponents.

The wikipedia article barely scratches the surface of the depravity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation
Read the definition more closely:

"the desire by a group of people who share the same race, culture, language, etc. to form an independent country Scottish nationalism"

Emphasis on the "share the same race, culture, language, etc".

That's very different from the simple notion that nations should exist.

At the root of this are feelings of superiority to those that don't share those aspects -- the out-group -- as illustrated again and again and again by the oppression of the out-group by the in-group.

"Obviously anyone would denounce xenophobia, racism, bigotry, and fascism and all the other vile actions you mention."

Obviously not anyone, or they would not be so popular.
Messages arriving out of order when you switch devices and missed notifications isn't supposed to be a high bar for a messenger.

Telegram and WhatsApp get these things right, Signal is just lacking at the moment.
The Internet was great when it was mostly nerds. Then the plebs got in, and everything's gone to shiyte. Sigh...
>"In electronics, negative resistance (NR) is a property of some electrical circuits and devices in which an increase in voltage across the device's terminals results in a decrease in electric current through it.[4][5]"

PDS: Which, conversely, would mean that a decrease in voltage -- would result in an increase of current...

So, next question: What happens when the voltage is zero? Does current/current capacity increase to infinite? Or is there some limit?

What about just before zero, like 0.0001 volts?

Also, what about negative (reversed) voltages?

(Note To Future Self: Investigate this...)
Disable cookies directly in your browser..? As for the obnoxious popups, if the above does not address those, several extensions will block them for you.
The speed of the SD is far more limiting than the speed of the card reader itself, even for USB2.0.

As for whether I consider the nuances of "real life," I traveled by land across several countries with a DSLR, and took hundreds of photos a week. My DSLR has a CF slot and an SD slot; I used the SD slot for a wifi chip, and saved all photos to CF. My CF reader hasn't gotten lost or broken, and I didn't have "an entourage of assistants doing the heavy lifting" (whatever that means when talking about a card reader).

In real life, you can just use an external card reader. It's not a big limitation, just like it's not a big limitation that laptops these days don't have optical drives.
It is a weird story. I do not think she is being targeted for speaking her mind or advocating a particular view of the COVID, the charges almost certainly are for accessing the non-public data she should not have accessed.

And some data is sensitive. For example, if someone was pulling private medical records and harassing or blackmailing another person with that information it would, to me, justify both the search and the potential arrest. It should not be the statistics about COVID -- that data is usually available to the public after some aggregation.

That said, the state response and the arrest warrant look very strange in this case; so strange that it smells of a personal vendetta (e.g., find a potential HIPAA violation and throw a book at her). I hope the state will clearly identify what the heck she is accused of accessing and why it is so damaging that the state resorted to its recent actions. My 2c.
To read mail, I used (version 5 of) Kyle Jones's VM, but (out of my being too lazy to configure mail fetching and mail sending) switched to gmail.com about 6 years ago.

I never embraced org mode because I didn't want to learn another few dozen keyboard shortcuts ("keys" in Emacs terminology). There are for example in org mode keyboard shortcuts for moving the current line up a line and down a line. Even before I saw vscode my reaction to learning about those 2 shortcuts was that such functionality would be useful (particularly in to-do lists), but I would prefer to execute the functionality by dragging with the mouse, which it turns out that vscode lets me do (in its default configuration): particularly, I click on the line's line number to select the line (to set the mark and activate the region in Emacs terminology) then move the mouse cursor into the selection, then drag. (In emacs, I'd kill and yank to move a line relative to the other lines -- and I configured my emacs to have a menu on the right mouse button with the kill and yank actions on it.)

In general, vscode is a nice environment for keeping to-do lists. Consider for example this next small "hierarchy" of actions:

buy milk

drive to store

find car keys

If we replace "find car keys" above with a string of text too long to fit on one line, then the basic structure of the small hierarchy becomes obscured in Emacs (even with visual-line mode on) but not in vscode as I explain in greater detail here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25311743
NASA forgot how to make rockets:

“Both NASA and contractor officials explained that nearly 50 years have passed since development of the last major space flight program—the Space Shuttle—and the learning curve for new development has been steep as many experienced engineers have retired or moved to other industries.”
How about blacklisting people from monetary/financial services such as banks and credit card co's based on their political views? That goes even further.

https://spectator.us/topic/financial-blacklisting-sargon-akk...

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/02/27/financial-blacklis...
I mean, isn’t part of the reason we have comments is to discuss opinions? The majority (though not all) of the comments I’m reading here are saying that there’s not enough information to form a good, educated one.
I work for a large bank and they basically built they own private cloud
I didn't realise they were all in DC, I thought GitHub was in the valley?
From a right wing newspaper so you can't claim liberal bias: https://nypost.com/2021/01/06/neo-nazis-among-protesters-who...
I never needed an SD card until suddenly I needed one. And then there I was with one permanantly lodged in my old Air's SD port, with my music collection on it, because I needed more room on the HD.

I have been enjoying being able to dock my current Pro to the desk setup with one cable that carries power/video/audio/USB but I keep on eyeing my slowly-filling hard drive and worrying about what I'll do when I need more space. I hate carrying external drives around.

A "magsafe USBc" connector would be super awesome, IMHO.
I agree completely... Then to try to hold a "empathy circle" to resolve the concerns raised by it...

Glad I don't work there!
'Daily standups on Mars' that would make an epic show.
So a Jewish employee points out (factually!) that there are nazis at an armed attack on the capitol, and to be careful, and then gets fired for saying that. You call this "appalling from both sides?" I just have to laugh.
Actually it may also be about warships; the US has language related to the issuing of letters of marque embedded within the Constitution, and issued them from the nation's creation up through the civil war.
How is that inappropriate? The employee should have stayed separated.
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Emacs buffers don't need to be associated with open files.

Basically menus, project trees, terminal tabs, etc. Are all just text buffers. So you can navigate them like they were a file opened in a regular text buffer.
I know the term has a real legal meaning that doesn't apply here, but it's what everyone in the real world seems to say.
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Its a little frightening to see purportedly intelligent people running around talking about, "nazis" invading the capital. The delusional, unhinged rhetoric that has been mainstreamed is another symptom of our fraying society and the widespread mental illness that has resulted. There are numerous accurate (and pejorative) terms that can be used to describe the mob on January 6th, but they were not members of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. The use of such delusional and hyperbolic language by the brass at Github certainly doesn't inspire confidence in the organization.
Are you okay over there? It sounds like you got a little lost.
While e-mail usercount is not evenly distributed across many servers, the fact that it's open an interoperable gives you several things:

- you can use whatever client/server you want (or host your own)

- you can still communicate with your friends if they're on another server

- servers are run by separate entities in politically distinct regions

None of these things depend on there being a uniform spread of users across servers.
As a long time chess player and moderately rated (2100) player, this is a fascinating development! I played the 1900 and beat it in a pretty interesting game! Can you increase the strength to 2100+?
Here you go: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wnja/neo-nazis-boast-about...
That may happen in exceptional cases, but less so for sciences with more concrete results. To learn about human psychology and society perhaps you're better off reading great novels than p-hacked sexy "research".

Regarding replication... Replication is boring in the eyes of funding committees. They want new and sexy results for their money, preferably at a steady rate of a bunch of papers each year.
No. It’s not. Because homelessness is primarily a health problem not a monetary one.

And also, every were the problem primary economic, it doesn’t necessarily follow that capitalism is the problem, it could be bad or corrupt policy that is straightforward to change without diving in on reforming capitalism.
Which part? It takes a lot to admit you were wrong, backstep to do the right thing, and then hold the responsible party accountable, so I'm missing the sad part.
A lot of what defines AAA games these days is that, as much as possible, every moment has some kind of hand crafted element to it, often not constructed from the core mechanics. In the days of half life and what not, distinct content was mostly in the form of level design and enemy placement and what not. In AAA games of today its from scripted sequences that are more movie esque. I think its a bad direction tbh. It's too expensive and, especially in an open world game, you end up with an uncanny valley of super deep and super uninteresting gaps of content. I think breath of the wild was the one game to make a more traditional approach work with open world content. There's NOT a lot scripted sequences. Most of the fun is emergent from a small but comprehensive physics system. You don't see a whole lot of new elements around each corner, but it works.

But if your goal is hip cliche AAA game, yeah, you need the huge team. I don't know if its much of a diminishing marginal utility of devs/artists either, so much as a sprawling tree of parallel but unrelated pieces.

The newer tomb raiders are the epitome of this to me. Every five minutes you're on a death defying leap with crumbling architecture or whatever. As close to the video game ideal of "every frame a painting".
They are presumably fully remote right now and most large organization have multiple offices. This slack statement was from what I can tell aimed at those in DC.
Does Wechat on Windows have a similar feature?
There is quite literally photographs of some guy with a Camp Auschwitz hoodie on.
Evaluate the authors directly.
Is the timestamp on that video accurate? T13:26 sounds like the early afternoon, not even the morning let alone late at night.
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> Meetings are for collaboration, not demos...

Meetings can absolutely be used for demos. Maybe you're demoing for an audience that's large enough to not fit next to your desk. Maybe you're demoing something that you don't want other people to overhear. Maybe multiple people are all demoing projects to each other.
Unrealistic though it may be, I'd rather they just stuffed a half dozen USB-C connectors on either side instead, and the world could stop making custom connectors for every different device.
There are a bunch of magnetic usb c adapters on Amazon for not very much money, I can’t speak to quality
From the article:

>The current conflict began the day of the riots in Washington, DC when a Jewish employee told co-workers: “stay safe homies, nazis are about.” Some colleagues took offense to the language, although neo-Nazi organizations were, in fact, present at the riots. One engineer responded: “This is untasteful conduct for workplace [in my opinion], people have the right to protest period.”

Ctrl-F for that to see the screenshot with the full context.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232766/github-employees...
PCI is as much of a operational joke as SOC2. All of the major credit card breaches have been from companies with PCI cert.
I disagree. Perhaps AWS should be more selective in what they choose to launch, but once a service is launched you should have a very compelling reason to deprecate it. This creates a positive feedback loop that AWS is safe —- in the sense that if you build on top of their services you know that they will continue to be around.

It makes the AWS dashboard a bit more cluttered, but if you use one of AWS’ half-baked services you know it will be around for as long as you want. Maybe you outgrow it; that’s fine. You can opt to move off, but AWS won’t force your hand.

There’s a ton of value in that stability. Your MySQL server running on EC2 still works today if you haven’t migrated to RDS. And if you migrate to RDS, you can be confident that it will be around until well after you’ve moved to your next job.

Ironically, this is related to Golang’s strong 1.X backwards compatibility guarantee. Knowing that what works today will work tomorrow has tremendous value. You don’t have to wake up and migrate everything from vendor to modules. You can build on ECS today and have confidence ECS will be around tomorrow.
To add to your point, Nic Jackson from hashicorp has a bunch of how-to videos and presentations that I've found good also.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2V1SxXFUa5YxVJvTsrCgyg
They’re remote, this was said in their DC slack channel.
Rules are different now. If you’re making a negative statement regarding anyone on the tight, it seems to get more support than derision.
Any recommendations for a DO-likd experience that supports windows? As much as I'd like to use DO, it's a show stopper for people who want the simplicity of DO but have a requirement on windows (hello, MSVC)
How do you know from this little context? People are so jumpy nowadays, which will lead just to misunderstandings and bad decisions/witch hunts.
this is exactly why peer reviews and editorial decisions need to be publicized, whether you're a tiny publisher or Nature
fwiw, the healthcare joke was tongue-in-cheek for the discussion which, ironically enough, was also about Republicans in 2014. They were discussing how many on the right compared Obamacare to Nazism and how disgusting it was to make that comparison.
It's weird to me that this was the head of HR's mistake (sort of implied) and not a more junior manager (both in reality, and in who usually gets the blame even if it's a senior manager's fuck-up). There is some unnamed VP of engineering who may have kicked off the process with HR. I don't know.

I'm glad GH (1) took another look at the firing, (2) realized they were mistaken, and (3) mea culpa'd publicly.
There's detail missing, so it's hard to be sure, but this just seems like HR incompetence more than anything else, and it's right that the head of HR left.

Companies shouldn't have political discussions in work forums, so the comment about Nazis was inappropriate. But was it a firing offense? They do talk about a "pattern of behaviour", but this comment can't trigger a firing. If they had just reinforced that work forums aren't the places for political discussion, that might have been the end of it.

Now they have to put out a virtue-signalling report about racism and actually encouraging people to discuss politics in internal forums.
Why is not wanting vendor lock-in a high bar? After dealing with Messenger, WhatsApp, Face time, etc all my life I'm tired of it.

It doesn't matter if the code is open source, I'm still going to be locked in when all my friends move to Signal.
> The employee was chastised for using divisive language, according to news first reported by Business Insider.

For calling, erm, Nazis Nazis? (and yes, given the photos of the event that monicker can be applied to some people present there)

No wonder the head of HR quit, this is such top level corporate PR BS that it's hard to justify.
I think the GP was referring to the free healthcare.
"Finally, we would like to acknowledge that this study would not have been possible had it not been for the predatory journal industry. Without it, academia and society would be a better place."

Acknowledgement is gold.
> If anyone in the "I tried Matrix and it was awful" camp could give detailed feedback (either here, or on github.com/vector-im/element-{web,ios,android}/issues) then it would be genuinely useful for prioritising our work. At the moment the vast majority of negative feedback on HN has been "it sucked" without giving a hint of what actually went wrong.

Your two modes of suggested contact (HN, GitHub) ensure only a certain type of user will contact (both require tech skills and a login). If there really are UX issues, you might want to encourage different types of users to give feedback (and if the fear is that the feedback won't be detailed/useful, maybe a guided form can help).
I wasn't planning to (I'm a liberal) - just asking for a link. Fair enough, the man with the 'camp Auschwitz' hoodie is a nazi.
a public company Slack channel is not the right place for it
Climate Change will be the great filter for humanity.