skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The PRISM partners claim is still pretty interesting: Like some other computer security scares (Supermicro?), years later, the PRISM partners slide has never been corroborated by anyone since. And there's a lot of evidence that companies listed on it have actively fought government collection strategies. If these companies were willing participants, Google would not have started encrypting it's datacenter linkages which were subject to NSA fiber taps, Apple wouldn't have continually sought to improve device encryption to defeat law enforcement, etc.

It is true most web services are impossible to audit the privacy of, as always, storing things yourself on hardware you control is the safest, but I'd argue that Google and Apple have very clearly different stances, if you follow the money.
> Also, what's up with the pictures of humans riding sea creatures?!

Probably had a lot to do with 20000 leagues under the sea.

I was actually surprised at how much flying was depicted. While blimps were a thing, the idea of an aircraft as pictured wasn't something that existed (AFAIK). You can see some of that with the fact that everyone just had wings and nothing else. However, there were a few propeller airplanes in the mix which somewhat surprised me.

The other part I find fascinating is what they thought you COULD easily automate with mechanical means (like a barber, lol!)

Some of it they hit right on the mark (like farming) others were way off on how easily they'd be automated.

I also thought the automated band was simply funny. I'm sure we could do it today, but why? We'd rather digitally record and replay that 10000 times.
A big issue with things like “while x is boiling, chop the vegetables.” is that they depend on the number of people you're cooking for - I've had a bad experience with recipes where I do that when I do the same thing for twice as many people; because it takes twice as much chopping and suddenly the other stuff has been in the heat for far too long.
Imperfect as they are, these abstractions impact the universe though, through our thoughts and actions, and getting them wrong can have dramatic consequences.

Thinking in terms of composable attributes maps the world a lot better than dichotomic, essential taxonomy (composition > inheritance in the CS world).

Taxonomy is a premature optimization that comes intuitively because it's been selected by evolution since it was good enough for most purposes.
We had a similar experience, where my wife was STRESSED OUT ALL THE TIME at the data in these apps. Everything was tracked and it was fucking awful. The reliance on them meant she had no idea how to feel intuitively about our kid growing inside of her. After some convincing, the apps were ditched, she felt more "in tune" with what was going on, and we even had a ride to hospital to check on things because she felt things had gone quiet movement wise. Our kid moved like clockwork at certain times of the day and after meals, no app needed to figure that out.

These apps are a fucking cancer on what should be an enjoyable and natural time.
You only quote the fixed bits and charge by the hour for the rest. If you need to give a quote for an unknown you multiply the quote by N to cover a worst case.
I'm assuming this was a Woz invention and it continuously blows my mind at how practical he was.
It’s the largest Asian group.
Hopefully this is the beginning of the end for JVM use in data-centric applications like this. I'm not particularly bothered if it's Rust or C++
Is this a problem?

First, it is good that software feature ideas aren't copyrightable. Arguably many of them shouldn't even be patentable.

That means that yes, proprietary apps can look at your software and say, "that's cool, we should do that too." But it also means that people can write Open Source software that takes lessons from proprietary apps. We want software devs working on productivity tools and practical software to copy each other, we don't want everyone to reinvent the wheel all the time.

I mean, heck, can you imagine if Finale came out with a new feature and that was just it, no other competitors or Open Source apps like MuseScore were allowed to offer that feature? Can you imagine trying to build a piece of software like Blender in that world, where Autodesk had a monopoly on "things that a 3D editor can do?"

Second, 9 years to clone a feature in the world of software is a really long time. If you can launch a piece of software and you have 9 years before other people start building similar things... I mean, what else do you even want at that point? If it takes 9 years for a dev to capitalize on a unique feature in their app, I don't think it's the eventual imitators that are the problem.
Consider yourself lucky, a few years ago it was under the "share" button. Yes, really.
> Semantically, tabs are simply correct. They encode actual meaning rather than merely presentation.

Yes, but tabs are defined in terms of presentation. Therein lies the confusion.
Well at least their CEO will be OK https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elastic-nv-estc-ceo-chairman-...
Who cares when it's done? Often there are external deadlines like a start of production of a car for example which can not realistically be moved because too much planning would need to be redone and too much disruption would cause so much overhead that it could break a company.

Also when price and time are fixed, there is only one thing left for negotiation and it is the amount of features being delivered. Sometimes people have a hard time to cope with it but if you do it correctly it's a great thing for everyone. The most important features could be delivered early and the closer to the deadline the non critical features can be implemented which are nice to have but won't break the product if they're not in place. That's a great way to bring as much value as possible without breaking anyone.
Agreed, and I used to be a "tabber". I'm not sure you can indent lisp using tabs though. For instance, indentation of "let" and "let*" differ by a single space I believe.
Nice one!
But still not cross platform.
You have demonstrated my argument.

I mean all of them. Black-Scholes was used in industry before academia, and is only used in a heavily adjusted form (for example, option MMs have never used it as the only pricing input). MPT isn't useful: volatility doesn't describe risk to any degree (possibly as you move to the limit of retirement age...but then, not really), the empirical relationship is actually the inverse of that predicted by MPT (i.e. the model is not only wrong, it is misleading and will cause you to lose money), and it is easy to construct superior models that beat MPT models in every way (and even those aren't very good because they often use the same theoretical underpinning...again, most of these models exist because the subject needs to be taught in universities and needs to build on stuff learned earlier...the practical use is zero, which is why no-one really uses these theories...the only place I have seen them used at scale is in investment consultancies, and most of these places are clueless).
Any plan to support other css styling, like tailwindcss?
This is a fair post and fair enough for striving for simplicity.

On the TypeScript thing, if you're already using Parcel it can do all the TypeScript stuff for you with nothing extra required!
The moral differentiation is one the author talks about a lot, because it's the usual reaction.

That said; which engineering field are you basing this on? I thought that generally only lead engineers or architects were responsible in that way.
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The video from the bottom of the stairs shows the second
officer entering pointing his weapon at the top of the stairs where the husband and children were standing and they were already informed that's where the children were.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/12/07/agents-rai...

This isn't bodycam footage, that was a camera the family had facing the door.
This is why every project should have a .editorconfig associated with it.

https://editorconfig.org/
Minor nitpick: I wish you could toggle the sound page-wide instead of having to toggle it on per-video.

I had combed through one of the first archive /r/DataHoarder made of social media in general (Twitter, Parler, FB, Livestreams, etc) but this (especially the videos from inside the capitol) is even more damning.

"This is our house", "I paid for that", "Where are they counting the votes?", to a security guard "Yeah you better be scared now", "1776"-chant, "U S A"-chant (very ironic), and more... I'm sorry but only a moron could watch this and not see this is the logical end to Fox/OANN/Newsmax/Trump/etc whipping their base(s) into a frenzy over lies about a "stolen election".

I'm glad the people who committed these insurrectionist acts were stupid enough to document every step of it, it should make the FBI's job all the easier. My personal /favorite/ (so far) is this woman pulling down her mask and looking right into the camera to talk about how "It's amazing" after they broke in and her husband/boyfriend/significant-other saying "Put your mask on, I don't want them to see you" after filming her face... [0]

[0] https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/?id=4w... [~16 second mark]
Yup, we make it super easy for you to make study materials. And you can share them with other groups.
I can see why Google might want to downplay this. Partner websites could obtain the history info directly from users and Google would not need to disclose the data sharing. I'm sure the watchlists/history would be valuable tools for profiling and advertising purposes.
I hate video, like audio for discussion type topics, and text for everything else.

But, nothing annoys me more than when I'm looking for how to do something (let's say fix my refrigerator), and I have to watch/skip around a 10 minute youtube video then pause so I can see the picture and then listen to bits over and over to understand what I need to do. Maybe I'm just old, but a few pics and text description would be so much easier.
I mean, you said it yourself, it is a beta.
Too bad it isn’t Reddit, I’d love to see the weightlifters arguing over how many days are in a week.
The package is huge, even the Debian package. Are you shipping a bunch of dependencies/frameworks in the package? Aren't there more system-components you could use?
Yeah for sure, I've been on Clubhouse for a bit now and it's devolved from casual hangout dominant to self-promo/shark-tank like room dominant.
On the flipside, looking only for Earth-like life - like focusing on the "habitable zone" - may be extremely limiting.

Europa, for example, isn't in said zone.
The demo video looks promising.
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Wise use of estimation is projection. You don't need to do much more than count stories. It would be honest and without agenda.

I've never seen it either.
Yeah in the Zuckerman book they mention an employee who worked on getting and cleaning data for decades, far before data science techniques were common in finance. I could see RenTech having good quality data going back decades being a serious advantage.
Yep. And I had finally gotten used to that when they moved it. At least the "share" button in iOS is a bit of a catch all (sharing with messaging apps, email, make a bookmark, print it, add to home screen, copy, and more actions), so it at least made some sense. Moving it behind a font control button makes no sense.
It could be slander, because unfortunately the daily mail has a history of making up garbage.

Getting fired from a university, getting called in to a psych ward to make sure she was okay, and then immediately after being let go is pretty irrelevant to the case. I'm no lawyer but I'm pretty sure this would be objected as irrelevant if anyone tried to use it in the court case. For all we know it may even be defamation.
I’m glad to have contributed to MuseScore 13 (time flies!) years ago. Haven’t tried it in awhile, but glad to see it still going and from what it seems, thriving. The authors are very dedicated.
> Hell, it's faster than how many days it took the current US president to concede he lost the election.

Did that actually happen? Promising a “peaceful transfer” is not the same thing.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10565641
"Hate" speech doesn't exist in the USA, it's protected speech. There was a Supreme Court decision regarding this a while back.
This looks awesome Gabe. Is there somewhere we can see a roadmap of future improvements/features?

I'm currently building things with React, tailwind, FastAPI, and hosting on Render.

I'm thinking of buying it just to explore and use the codebase as an example of what best practices to use. (Seeing as the CTO of Stripe even mentioned the code quality on your testimonials haha)
Exactly what money did it take?
Back then most satellites were likely just hardwired electronics, possibly with some limited remote command support. Sure, there were exceptions for high profile missions such as space probes and spy satellites.

IIRC there have been some proposals to use Pulsar signals on satellites/probes not just for time synchronization but more importantly navigation. Not sure if it's actually in production use yet.
I like your idea, but I’m confused why you didn’t try the webmd competitor route.. 50c/user that webmd makes is pretty good really , with good SEO + content marketing you could scale to enough users to make things interesting
I never experienced the dynamic you are talking about. Sounds like your workplace is terrible.

I've almost always had business partners that were just that - partners - invested in the product and the team long term. I am the same way now that I am "the business."

Estimation is a useful forcing exercise for thinking through what something takes, identifying risks and hard parts and deciding upfront what to do about them.

It also becomes a good measure of people's integrity - what they do once it's apparent the estimate is off. 100% of the time, when engineering came back saying "we underestimated X, it's much harder" - it was totally fine.
You can tell a Lotta Hart went into this.
Could I ask you why/how it started taking off in Europe? Was there a specific big name who joined, pulling everyone in? For example, when Joe Budden joined C.H. in early October, he mobilized many people in the ATL music scene to join. And there was a sudden influx of music industry and Music adjacent people.
The OG Comic Chat client is available[0]; too bad Slack killed the irc gateway.

[0]: http://www.mermeliz.com/cchat.htm
Can't believe a comment this ignorant is so highly upvoted. Quant funds that do well are a real thing. Many people here work at them. Renaissance used a technicality to try to avoid taxes, and they are in a dispute over it with the IRS. That has absolutely nothing to do with the legitimacy of their primary fund. Medallion predates their public funds. They launched their public funds because Medallion was capacity constrained, and they thought they could cash in on its reputation. It's the public funds that are the afterthought, not Medallion. They are not moving the strategies around ex-post. You're just completely making things up here. Anyone with any knowledge of the history of Renaissance knows that that doesn't even make chronological sense.
This reminds me of an idea I had days ago of using an AI to tell poisonous mushrooms from edible ones apart, from photos.

Then I realized I don't want to be responsible for anyone's death.
Did you design some software or hardware? Did somebody pay you for it? Congratulations, you're an engineer. That, plus $4, will get you a cuppa joe at Starbucks.
I'm going to be adding a Tailwind option soon that gives you the basic config + no UI. Hopefully useful to people that want to roll their own or drop in components from tailwindui.com. Later this year will be building out my own Tailwind kit for Divjoy users.
Wonder whether it has the same impact on salary like the common IT certifications (see e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2020/02/10/15-top...). Otherwise it's just a waste of time.
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I think this was posted already (a couple of years? ago)

Anyway, yeah, it wasn't a good value proposition (and is it just me or GlacierMD is a bad name for this)?

Because in the end, it doesn't matter much if you don't get "the absolutely best choice of drug". If it solves your problem great, if not, doctors can exchange it, but that's when the drug or dosage is bad, not "not great".
Are you suggesting that it's hard to teach an intern how to consistently align code with spaces but not with tabs?

Or that people using tabs-only are in general more consistent in the other parts of code styling?

I _don't_ have any data to support either, but I strongly suspect it's completely unrelated to one another.

But I still disagree with your take on whether a team activity to achieve something of practical value can be or can contain art (and I am not thinking only about the presentation/appearance of code).
Some newspapers explicitly advice against this practice in their style guides.
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If it's an app, you're being commercially surveiled and exploited.

Is that where we are now?
There are tons. I don't know which ones he's thinking of, but off the top of my head: PDT, Jump Trading, Domeyard, Two Sigma, DE Shaw, Jane Street, Citadel.
>but no one of the many great employees I worked with hijacked mass communication software to send an inane message.

What she's alleged to have done is basically on par with a fired employee sending off a net send on their way out the door.

>I understand why they fired her, you can't have data analysts hijacking your software to send mass messages of protest.

She was fired before the message was sent. She publicly stated that she was pressured to modify the data provided to make it look like the state was handling the pandemic better than they were. She did draw attention to this by going to the media, this was after she had been a thorn in the side of the state for a while.
You are a propaganda victim. He never intended to cripple the US, he simply lacks enough power to do it. Why would he want it, anyway? It's a county where his children will likely live (like children of most Soviet leaders since Stalin), his assets are stored in US currency, too.

I guess he is quite happy with people like you believing in his overinflated image of a powerful adversary to the US, but in reality he's just a crook who is profiteering while he can. Everything else is just a sideshow.
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I was expecting "don't need sunlight" and "do consume/need oxygen", though I suppose those are offshoots of what was listed.
> a closed-resolved issue could mean there’s a known workaround, which the user needs to apply.

I disagree. Because a workaround is generally, and should be treated as, temporary. Which means there should still be an open issue tracking the fact that your software has an unresolved issue.
We'll figure out how to clean it up when or if it's ever a problem. He shouldn't worry about it.
There is evidence of fungi appearing over 1 billion years ago [1].

Plants first appeared around 400 million years ago or later [2]. In fact, early plants required symbiosis with fungi to grow. Even now, plants grow better if they have symbiosis with fungi and most plants (such as tomatoes) can grow symbiotically with fungi. But it is cheaper to use fertilizers, and those are used instead.
Still, forest ecosystems still depend on fungi and require them as a way to recycle plant material (fallen leaves, dead plants and trees).

Evolutionary, fungi existed well before plants managed to evolve.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_fungi

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_history_of_plants
My bulletproof formula for doing estimations in corporate environments:

InternalEstimation = estimate the work as truly as possible (ie. in MD)
ExternalEstimation = double the value of InternalEstimation, and increase units by one order

Example:
1 day (MD) = 2 weeks
2 weeks = 4 months
/Google decided their engineers aren't up to using more powerful tools./

I think you fundamentally misunderstand the reason for using Go. It's NOT about whether a developer is/isn't capable of understanding how to write code with a particular set of tools.

Instead, it's almost entirely about making that code simple to read and understand at a later date. Complex/'powerful' language tools complicate reading, which slows down later fixes and small modifications at best, and at worst leads to additional bugs in later iterations over the code. Thus, the core belief in Go's design is that 'powerful' languages are optimizing for entirely the wrong things.

From my perspective, this is a good change of focus. I want simple tools that I don't have to worry about. We have finite attention, so we should actively try to reduce cognitive load whenever possible, as it frees up attention for other things. For example, it's a much better use of my time to think about bayesian optimization than whether an array pointer is being safely handled... If I need to worry less about the latter, I have more time to think about the former.
Sometimes a request for an “estimate” is really a request for a promise, quotation, a guarantee that something will be delivered by X time or cost.

It's easy to detect this:

Gently begin a discussion of how much uncertainty is tolerable, do they want to know the number we are 50% likely to hit? 80%?

If you get emotional pushback to discussing uncertainty, they are looking for a promise.
it would probably cost what, $20 a month to keep this on line if it has very few users? why not just keep it online and stop updating it?
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Philadelphia recently passed a law outright requiring stores to accept cash; they viewed requiring a bank account and credit card to be an accessibility problem for homeless residents. A couple of fast-food places I (pre-pandemic) used to frequent switched from requiring credit cards to accepting both afterwards, which was kind of nice.

There is reason in general to be concerned about the lack of good, private digital payment systems, but there are still plenty of cities where a pro-cash sentiment is strong, or at least a pro-"cash should be an option" sentiment. And I suspect (but can't confirm) that rural areas might also bias towards more cash transactions as well.

The general trend away from cash is something to pay attention to, but depending on where you live, it may not be an emergency right now.
You're being downvoted but it's worth considering the advantage of using services/hosts that are 'immune' from Bay Area progressive pressure.
The same scenario as described in this paper is what led Microsoft to develop Control Flow Guard for LLVM/Rust:

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/08/17/control-flow-guar...
You just mansplained the importance of pregnancy data to a mother and academic who spent years studying the subject.
Vietnam is nothing more than a Chinese colony at this point.
Watched the demo. Impressive.

It grinds that (all too common) petty drama into sausage.
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