skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> at the risk of not being politically correct

I don't think it's so controversial to claim that different cultures have different default communication styles.

Israelis aren't the only ones who tend to be more direct than the average Californian. I usually appreciate it: corporate speech tends to dance around the point a bit, and bluntness saves time and clarifies where people stand. That said, I can also understand how some people would be taken aback or intimidated by excessive bluntness, especially from a superior.
I agree with almost every point Noam makes, but I feel he could have done a better job steelmanning the counterpoint.

There are upsides of having managers not have the level of control over their reports' futures that they do at most companies. (It accomplishes goals of reducing discrimination and it makes people less vulnerable and thus boosts retention.)

There are reasons that the process overhead to accomplish anything at Google is more than at a company like pre-acquisition Waze. (It simply gets 100x more backlash when Google makes a misstep on some of this stuff than any company, in part because they have a responsibility as stewards of so many experiences and so much data. There's also a culture of doing a really crappy job in a first pass -- I think this might be fostered by the process overhead, but it certainly makes removing it very dangerous.)

There are benefits to a comp model that doesn't actually reward you for what you accomplish. (You can get some of your best people to focus long-term.)

There are OBVIOUS benefits to a culture that values political correctness. The author didn't make it clear that he wasn't just being an asshole.

I think, on balance, that Google is unhealthy and could use some more Noam in it, but I think it's not intuitive to everyone why these things are done.
Atom is technically substantially superior to RSS. RSS is riddled with ambiguities which lead to inconsistency of interpretation, and being outright unable to express some useful things.

My favourite is the format of all content: is it HTML or text? RSS doesn’t care, and leaves you to guess. So people added a namespace to fix that up, and you end up with what I think is normally spelled <content:encoded> to replace <description> or whatever it is—but there’s no equivalent for other content fields like titles. And because you can’t trust that tool will use <content:encoded>, now you need both. (And when you get to podcasts, the theme of the day is having the same field expressed in four or five different namespaces for different tools, in some cases for things that Atom has but RSS lacks.)

I have an article on my blog entitled <_>::v::<_>. I expect that a few RSS readers would mangle it if I served an RSS feed, but I serve an Atom feed, so I can express the title correctly:

<title type="html">&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;_&amp;gt;::v::&amp;lt;_&amp;gt;&lt;&#x2F;code&gt;</title>

(Bet you didn’t anticipate the <code> wrapping of that title! Now try that in RSS!) Anyway, NewsBlur got it right, and if any other client gets it wrong I can point to it and say that it is unequivocally a bug, whereas with RSS… eh, there’s enough ambiguity to drive a spaceship through, so what does “bug” even mean?

I hate the way that feeds are so commonly generically called “RSS”, because it gives mindshare to the bad and inferior product.

The only reason you should ever use RSS feeds is because you’re dealing with podcasts, because Apple sadly ignored the emerging Atom format when they did podcasts in iTunes in 2005, and annoyingly froze things in time there and then, and everyone else stupidly followed them, so that most of the major podcast things don’t support Atom… even if they sometimes claim to. (Like validation tools that allege that Atom is fine, butcher it completely if you give it to them, and report false results like that this RSS feed is fine or whatnot.)
How do you check for and avoid (2) in new grad interview stages? Especially when you are not assigned to a team when applying
Clubhouse under scrutiny for sending data to Chinese servers
Who is to say that it isn't? If only we had a secure, decentralized system for mapping human-meaningful names to things...
I would just leave it at empathy personally. I've had technically minded managers, but my best manager actually empathized with the issues I was having and advocated for me when I needed it. She basically helped me handle non-technical issues to clear the way for me to do my technical work. When I needed technical help, she would assist in getting me the help I could if she shouldn't provide it. If I ever end up in a management position, I hope I can treat people in a similar way.
One right-wing demagogue down, entirely too many to go.
> An alien conspiracy theorist when presented with a particular phenomena would follow a chain of argument that look like this: "This isn't Venus. This isn't a weather balloon. This isn't anything I can imagine, therefore it must be aliens".

> Also, there is something distasteful about the author writing an entire blog post about how he is a critical thinker ... Uh huh. Sure you are.

An interesting combo.
I make $15/hr

which group am I not a part of?
This is the explanation for why the deeper you are in a bubble, the less likely you will be to detect it - yet will be utterly convinced you aren't.

Similar to why teenagers are convinced they are smarter than everyone older than they are. You don't know what you don't know. The more time you spend on this planet, the more you realize just how little of the world in general you do fully understand. Ultimate culmination of this is when Einstein is engaged in discussions about god. Want to have some fun honing critical thinking skills? Read up on his thoughts there. Fun stuff!
> Microsoft became almost irrelevant under Ballmer or was at least trending that way

I'm not Ballmer's biggest fan, but I think he's often sold short (to Nadella's benefit), you'd almost believe Microsoft was tanking, but it grew a lot under Ballmer (mobile failures notwithstanding).

As far as I can tell, Nadella just reprioritized projects that Ballmer launched or shepherded in his boring-but-efficient way: what new tech or project did Satya launch that you can attribute MS's "turnaround" to? IMHO, it's mostly PR/hearts-and-minds stuff, but I quit MS tech a long time ago and haven't been following closely.

In retrospect, I think the Win mobile failures were overblown, the zeitgeist then was mobile would replace desktop/laptop computers, therefore failing on mobile could be fatal to Microsoft, and remained as a stain on Ballmers name. The "post-pc" world suggested by Apple/Jobs never materialized.
Using OpenBoard Keyboard as a Replacement for Google Gboard
Of course not. Not immediately. Just like you wouldn’t move cities if the police announced they’d no longer enforce traffic laws or investigate/attempt to prevent gun violence.

Then after the homicide rate doubles, there’s shootings almost daily, and you can’t get from point A to point B without a reckless driver risking your life, you might get stressed.

At first you’d consider moving to the suburb, but you can’t, because Epic’s lawsuit applied internationally and nationally, so actually no community is allowed to police itself in any way (Epic also sued Google for Google Play and I really don’t get why no one on HN is capable of remembering or considering that). And then you’d think, “if I can get murdered here or I could get murdered there, might as well save on rent”. And so, Epic has succeeded in destroying a large part of what makes the iPhone unique.
That sounds like a cool tool. It seems like Web is probably not the way to go for that though, as printing even just vanilla web pages can be a pain.

I could see something like automating a typesetting tool working however.

Edit: Side note, I'm kinda an idiot, so I could be wrong about web not being the right platform.
that guy was a true startup founder that created demand for his products and found the ultimate product market fit...

/semi-serious sarcasm... his product was essentially populism as a service
That was a Vista thing, definitely not 95. I have seen it working once, but I don't remember what the program was.
‘Roaring Kitty’ Sued for Securities Fraud over GameStop Rise
VSI OpenVMS v9.0-G Released (x86 port)
This drug reduces appetite which would mean less consumption overall (since overweight people are eating less). If it was a drug that magically got rid of fat, it'd be a different story
I don't think fees are as large a problem as competing against first party apps in the same marketplace that don't pay the fees or have the same restrictions. iMessage for example doesn't require granular permissions for photo access like Messenger does, Apple Music doesn't have an additional 30% overhead as Spotify, etc.

If you run a store your apps should play by the same rules as the apps you compete against.
At that weight, isn't catching COVID pretty much a death sentence? I would be terrified too.
>And it's something americans have traditionally been very bad at.

As this comment thread is proving :p
> It must be exhausting to be so much better than the rest of us.

I don't recall claiming such a thing. I'm sharing what I do and why, and if anyone wants to use my knowledge they're welcome to.

Sorry about the blackout, and any role I have inadvertently played in it.

No offense, there are many places around the world where blackouts are a regular everyday (or even every day) occurrence. Perhaps, you can give them a thought in an idle moment.
There are two different layers: The app has to have OS permission to install APKs, and then the app has to have user permission to install each individual APK. Android will prompt you each time. The only apps exempt from this are "system" apps (baked into the root-only partition) which are allowed to install/upgrade software without asking the user. It makes sense from an anti-malware perspective, but then again most malware finds ways around this anyway so you could argue that it serves no purpose and is only user hostile.
I'm using an uputronics GPS/RTC hat that has a u-blox M8 engine. I set it to stationary mode for extra accuracy. I'll have to look into other configuration options.

I'm currently trying to source PPS from software with this repo:
https://github.com/twteamware/raspberrypi-ptp/blob/master/pp...

You might find this repo interesting.

I have a 500 MHz oscilloscope on hand so I can decently measure the offset between the raspberry pi PPS and GPS PPS.
So what you want to say is that glitch that was fixed 20 years back in all major email clients is back and the "de-facto standard provider for personal email" has neglected it?! Probably deliberately.

Nice. With a huge facepalm. I wonder if they will also add support to run .pif files. /s

I really didn't know that, haven't used gmail from the times when it was invite only, I prefer better email clients than the default one (now that you have told me this - even more) and I am happy camper with my own mail server for even longer while on the other side I don't have time to track how far the Idiocracy[1] has progressed

It was 9 mail[2], not K-9. Firewalled to be able to access to only my and company domain. But yes. I am not typical user.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA

[2] https://www.9folders.com/en/index.html
Simple answer: People didn't use computers or phones to do most things. They'd pick up the phone and talk to a human, or they'd go to the physical store, and talk to a human.

Nothing wrong with that, but app stores, among other things, made computers far more accessible for non technical people, to do things like shop from their couch without talking to anyone.
If I couldn't send an email to a gmail account from a hotmail account then something is wrong.
Rush Limbaugh Has Died
There is absolutely no evidence that Amazon is a monopoly in India, Flipkart is their main competitor and e-commerce is one of the hottest markets in India we increasing competition from all sides. There is no evidence that Amazon will make any profits either from India for foreseeable future.

Indian people should ask why Indian government is creating laws that need "evasion", that too from a massively successful, well respected and very innovative company, Amazon wants to invest in India and India needs to change its laws if needed to welcome more investment and more competition.

Perhaps it is the indian government that is wrong here?
Very ignorant comment. Of course people are aware of their weight. The issue is very complex. A person may not prefer their weight, but not want to change their lifestyle. They may be depressed, causing them to make poor decisions, find comfort in binging, etc. The weight could cause sleep problems which compound the problems.

Your comment basically amounts to: "I've never dealt with this medical issue and don't understand anything about it. I also believe that it's easy to fix if everyone acted like me."

I seriously hope you review your thinking on this and learn more on the subject.
What am I missing? You name the feed and then get a link to subscribe to it. How does the supply side actually provide the newsletter/content that will be distributed to that address?
Elixir as a language is really approachable. If you're looking to dive in I recommend the book `Elixir in Action` but the official docs are also quite good.
It's not an alternative if it does not meet the necessary conditions for use.
Exponential Ventures Is Hiring Python Engineers (Fully Remote)
They're paying you to do a job. They're not just paying you to "put in the hours".
I don't find this useful in any way since Elixir is weakly typed and a worse Lisp than Python..
Migrating a gigantic financial system to 20k pods in the cloud
Exactly.

Another way to put it - don't add armor to the parts of the plane returning from battle that have holes, add armor to the parts of the plane that don't have any holes!
Well this is depressing to read, especially this bit: "The sweet spot is somewhere between "I don't hate it" and "I kind of like it". You can learn to like something if you do it long enough."

It seems like a great way to waste 40 hours of your life every week.
The record for heaviest person in the world was 442KG (974lb), so yes, definitely possible.
I’d be far happier emitting Atom via printf than RSS via printf. The Atom spec tells me what I should write, whereas RSS goes in for unspecified behaviour and exotic date formats that force me to look up strftime. Beyond that, they’re both XML, which is easy to write.
Life is short, political leanings aside, Rest In Peace rush
They are unlikely to be more efficient than VCs but that’s not really relevant when VCs have completely different goals and incentives than what the government may need.

If there was an effective way to enlist VCs while aligning goals then they would opt for it.

Space exploration is a good use case here. The US government has found a way to align its goals with that of the private space industry and is therefore seeing tremendous efficiencies. However, because of a whole bunch of reasons (largely because there was a lot of basic open ended R&D that needed to be done) this alignment was probably not possible in the 60s and NASA was more successful.
To summarize: jquery used to be best answer to many JS questions. And now it never is unless the question specifies its use.

No one should be recommending the introduction of jquery (to solve some discrete issue) unless it’s already part of the stack.

But that’s exactly the opposite of how the current state of JS answers appears.
What you are wishing for though is the death of computing.
Clubhouse’s response seems to partly side-step the reported use of Agora’s infrastructure...

> “Clubhouse is deeply committed to data protection and user privacy.

We designed the service to be a place where people around the world can come together to talk, listen and learn from each other. Given China’s track record on data privacy, we made the difficult decision when we launched Clubhouse on the App Store to make it available in every country around the world, with the exception of China. Some people in China found a workaround to download the app, which meant that—until the app was blocked by China earlier this week—the conversations they were a part of could be transmitted via Chinese servers.

With the help of researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory, we have identified a few areas where we can further strengthen our data protection. For example, for a small percentage of our traffic, network pings containing the user ID are sent to servers around the globe—which can include servers in China—to determine the fastest route to the client. Over the next 72 hours, we are rolling out changes to add additional encryption and blocks to prevent Clubhouse clients from ever transmitting pings to Chinese servers. We also plan to engage an external data security firm to review and validate these changes.

We welcome collaboration with the security and privacy community as we continue to grow. We also have a bug bounty program that we operate in collaboration with HackerOne, and welcome any security disclosures to be sent directly to security@joinclubhouse.com.”

Countered by Alex Stamos with:

“We found that the use of Shanghai-based Agora is fundamental to the function of the app and building logical and technical controls between the US and PRC infrastructure will be extremely complicated.”
What a great idea. Let's place all our dollars into bitcoin and watch the dollar price grow. Seems like a great way to grow the economy. So many new goods and services will be produced. Just feed the cargo cult. Price != value. When prices are unconnected to real economic production of goods and services the economy is running inefficiently.
Fun happens in your head. That said I have been feeling much like the author in recent past even though I know in the back of my mind that this is not based in reality.

Too much interaction with frustrating or dull technology (business software) or consumer-oriented software leaves you feeling disengaged and in the shallows.

Perhaps the author needs to look for communities that engage in the more imaginative and creative pursuits like demoscene, emulation, esolang or nixos :P Can't rely on cool things falling right in front of your doorsteps anymore.
I eat fast food almost everyday. I get the same thing overweight people get, but I just eat less of it, or span it out to eat the rest at a later sitting. I just can't come to terms with how the majority of people completely ignore their weight gain, and just continue to buy larger clothes, without caring at all.
> fundamentally about automation.

I agree software has more leverage, sometimes but we are talking here about how decision making power is distributed in a company.

Regardless about how much impact the IC technical output can have that is about how. The skills & information needed to make good decisions about what and when are different.

Unfortunately, being highly effective at both requires spending time and focus in ways that are somewhat mutually exclusive, which makes this quite hard.
It's not localization that's stopping European companies from taking over the entire EU market, it's competition from other companies.

If a French company wants to expand into the Spanish market, they can localize their app all they want; if their prospective customers in Spain are already using a different app that works just as well, they're going to have a hard time convincing them to switch.

The same dynamic also applies within countries, where two interchangeable apps might dominate in different areas or demographics of the same country, without either able to gain significant market share from the other, but it's a bit rarer because of network effects, where people start using an app because they know someone else using it and the app with the most users grows the fastest, eclipsing the competition.

Cross-border network effects in Europe are much weaker than within countries, and not much stronger than between European and non-European countries, so if a company manages to dominate their niche across all of Europe, they'll probably also win in much of the rest of the world.
Yea but that’s what people thought at 100, 1000, and 10000 too.

A lot of people dismiss the possibility of a 10x rise in price and fixate on the 2x reduction. That kind of pessimism is hardwired in: humans have stronger loss aversion.

But if something has a 20% chance at 10x and 80% chance of 1/2x, that’s still positive EV.
The article I linked goes into that. Apparently, fresh meat contains enough vitamin C to keep him going, especially the organs. At the time of the interview, he'd been doing it for several years, and was healthier than ever:

> The organ meat of the animal actually contains vitamin C. And the thing about vitamin C is that you need more of it in a high-carbohydrate diet, but if you're eating carnivorously, there's enough in the animal flesh. So I just eat the organ meat and the connective tissue and everything else.

(Sheep is the animal he is referring to.)
Reading Apple's policy makes it seem not so simple. Netflix, for example, avoids the cost because it is a subscription service which is specifically excluded from having a cut taken out. I can't speak for Kindle, but when I very recently read over this it was clear that just routing to a site to handle the purchase would not be sufficient to bypass this
I don't mean to be sarcastic. Thanks for sharing your personal experience, but can I ask if you understand that perhaps you are not like the majority of people with regards to your weight?
But I literally can email somebody from email-provider a to email-provider b. But, lets be realistic, if the email would be discovered/invented today, that would not be the case ;-)
Enacting regulation to force open access is well-trod the world over. Apple may not need to port FaceTime, but there is strong cause to demand that all social networks and communication providers either adopt open standards or open their protocols and adhere to them.
http://archive.is/PBwSa
I'm about to graduate from a 4 year university in CA (edit: CS major) and we are taught a fairly in depth numerical methods class as part of our 3000 series of classes (i.e. it's intended for third-year students).

It's certainly possible to take it in your second year where I am, but usually students opt for other classes that will help them get an internship before they go to numerical methods, so it's a common third year class IMO. It doesn't normally get pushed off farther than that though, since it's a common prerequisite for fourth year classes.
I think the problem people have is the FOI exception. There is no good reason for this, save corruption and wasting public funds. Other agencies are subject to FOI requests and public oversight, why should this one be different?

So the objection is to that specific clause and based on very real facts about recent and ongoing corruption. Priti Patel is another example and there is a very long list if you want one of abuse of public office from the current cabinet, this is not an abstract concern or one without foundation.

Nobody on this thread has said that everything the Conservatives do is bad, just that they are proven to be corrupt and therefore a FOI exception is a bad idea in this case.
> it has one downside in the inability afaik to do static analysis of forth programs

I believe it is possible with annotations, at least for basic checks, and assuming you don't go too crazy (e.g. returning a variable number of results depending on the inputs).

> I think for the most part, Python/MicroPython now occupies the same place Forth once did in the embedded world

Lua is a bit closer: REPL, quite efficient, and is not a kitchen sink. Python is more like BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code).
Eating bad food is quite pleasurable and consequently ends up like something between a bad habit and an addiction.