skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I joined Uber a few months before Travis left. I can share a few things that come to mind:

- shortly after Dara joined, he sent a company-wide email to the effect of "all corporate espionage projects must be halted effectively now"

- he introduced a new guiding motto: "We do the right thing. Period." and repeatedly refers back to it

- he found out about a previously undisclosed data leak and went ahead and made a proper public disclosure. The CSO had to leave the company and eventually got charged as a result[0]

- on an all-hands meeting centrally themed on making things better after the Fowler scandal fallout, a board member made a cringey sexist joke. He had to resign from the board that afternoon. This incident spoke volumes about how discrimination culture was no longer going to be tolerated.

- around the same time, as part of the HR revamp, a number of policies were introduced (training courses, anon hotline)

- there was a huge internal project called 180 days of change in response to the wave of scandals. This encompasses the safety features, along with improvements to the driver UX to make it easier to understand their income, among other things (which I hear were very well received by users).

[0] https://slate.com/technology/2020/08/uber-joseph-sullivan-ch...
This macro goes a very long way toward solving the problem: https://github.com/dtolnay/async-trait
CVE-2021-21300 – Update your Git client (especially if you're u (cont)
In German it's literally "travel pass"
Quitting a Nine-to-Five
Our experience has been absolutely not with an inhouse atomic css framework we ultimately ripped out of a project. Something like pd-md (for "medium padding") gets applied somewhere, then the decision is made that e.g. buttons should have less padding unless they're in a dialog, so someone goes around replacing it with "pd-sm" on buttons except they miss some and other developers don't get the message and add new buttons still using "pd-md" as they just copied and pasted the styling from a button that hadn't been updated and all of a sudden different forms have different padding on all your buttons, something that wouldn't have happened if making a button was just applying class="button".
When I was learning Swahili while living in Tanzania, I used the Teach Yourself series and it really helped me. I loved how it had such a strong focus on grammar.

Similarly, I think I will love this link. I didn't like having to click through Duolingo's gamified structure to get at the grammatical rules, and I've also struggled to find such coherent sets of grammar on other websites. Maybe Duolingo is less gamified than it was before, and yet, I still think I will love having all of the grammar lessons in one spot.

Thank you for building this!
Altruism is simply a concern for others. In broad sense it can mean that you care whether others get more value (according to either receivers' opinion or your opinion about values).

"Effective" just means you don't want to waste money or time on values not important (according to either receivers' opinion or your opinion).

The fact that Givewell chooses certain values (the rational ones) and Christianity slightly different values is orthogonal to the concept of altruism.

Even if I believed in Flying Spaghetti Monster I could care whether others have a steady supply of macaroni. This makes me an altruist in my book. And I could act effectively about it. But I wouldn't complain about Givewell in that case.

And that's why I don't like conflating rationalism with effective altruism. It's just another case of emotional loading of a phrase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
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That doesn't really work for me with my fading vision in my senescence. My monitor that I work on is a super-wide screen monitor about 2 feet away. The optimum TV-watching distance is much further for me.
A look at search engines with their own indexes
On the one hand, I'm single and if I wanted to I could also blow a few grand on emoji domains for an experiment, then I could.
On the other, I'd be taking a few grand from my savings for my mortgage deposit.

This isn't about relationship status, the author of this post just has money to burn.

And even if the author expected to get their money back through paid sales...they're on the hook for those accounts now unless he personally writes it off.
I'd tend to agree for a small package. But, this was a company with a community (according to author). Pointing requests to the paid support page would turn lemons into lemonade. We can only speculate why this didn't happen.
"because many people are uncomfortable recognizing white identity"

There is no unified "white" identity. I am white, my ethnicity is Romanian. There is no shared identity between me, and for example someone with German heritage. So to capitalize "White" is silly in my eyes.

edit: unified may have been a poor choice here. "Shared" is what I was getting at. Of course people across the US have different experiences and opinions.
Definitely some of #2 going on. A lot of the language surrounding privacy disclosure requirements under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act is literally copy-paste from a form that the FTC suggests for compliance with the law.

Just about anyone with a financial account in the US will probably instantly recognize this form:

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/rules/privacy-con...
While that is definitely concerning, they did clarify that missing card payments will not result in a Apple lockout.

In this case, the person received a trade-in credit for a phone, did not send the phone in, and then when Apple tried to collect the trade-in credit, that payment bounced.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/03/03/apple-card-apple-id-unrelated...
I am conversant with both. You are not really missing anything. I use vi when emacs is not already installed and I need to quickly edit a file. That's the main difference, for me. vi is already there, but emacs has to be installed.
It has a long history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_passport
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I've never been that poor, but I've had limited funds in the past, and I can say that having even a small amount of money that you're psychologically comfortable spending on anything is a massive relief. Sometimes the best thing you can do in a situation largely out of your control is to consciously take back any amount of control you can, even if it ends up being more symbolic than anything.
Those "free adwords" coupons are horribly difficult to get out of again (you have to add your CC when you sign up, and it has to be a new account).
I'm in the market for a new tv. Any pros/cons of doing this? I'll use Kodi which is installed on an old laptop
I imagine the flayed human corpses in the background don't help with the sociopath thing.
Pretty sure commodity servers have now eclipsed any compute, IO, etc, advantage mainframes ever had. With perhaps a few exceptions for some really niche things...like VISA using TPF (which is an unusual OS on a mainframe) because it's basically a huge, high transaction rate, distributed NoSql database.

The only real remaining advantage is probably the overall reliability, redundancy, engineering, etc. Like being able to swap out a CPU while the system is running.
Related recentish thread:

Nickel: Better Configuration for Less - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24858456 - Oct 2020 (60 comments)
Note to self: never move to Sweden.

(Although I lived there as an exchange student for a summer many years ago...)
Awesome Chalice: Serverless on AWS
SUSE prepares for multi-billion Euro IPO
Well yes, and people still successfully sell photos of game consoles when they launch because they put “NOT A PS5. ONLY A PHOTO” in the description.

But we all know it’s buyer beware. My point is more about the people who outright commit fraud (say for example by selling an NFT as a certificate of ownership for something they don’t have the rights to)
This is where Scala (and JVM based languages) would shine in theory, the JVM has a well defined memory model, provides great low-level tools, etc. (But JVM-based software is always very bulky to deploy, both in terms of memory and size, so this shining is rarely seen in practice.)
Okay sorry, I was being Quick Draw McGraw with the articles.

This was the article published by time referencing the "New Ice Age": http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,9449.... I knew I saw it before ;) And of course, the paper you linked quotes many, many more that perpetuates the myth. I'll be bookmarking that!

A quote:

"As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."

So the scientific community seems to have the same perspective as I, whereby the media alarmists cause unnecessary fear among the population that accepts their orthodoxy unabated.
This should not surprise anyone. Microsoft own Exchange. Microsoft own Github. Thinking like a lawyer, I would be surprised if that repo lasted 24 hours. It would last longer on a repo not owned by them as they have to submit the takedown requests to the provider, registrar, etc... Some providers would tell them to pound sand. I am not saying that what they did was right or wrong, just that it should not be a shock to anyone.
You should buy this guy’s application, but also keep in mind you can put Jellyfin on any Mac/Linux/Windows box and connect to it locally from your web browser. Obviously you’d also have to move any video you want to watch offline to your travel computer, but that’s true for any offline viewing.
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> In time we’ll look back at current iterations of the standard model and our understanding of the physics of the small and wonder...

I’m not sure about that.

Everything we have to analogize to and obtain an intuition about relates to the macro world. There’s no reason the quantum phenomena have any analog to what we experience on a daily basis.

That is, all the cosmological models from Ptolemy, epicycles, heliocentric, and even Newton’s derivations were arrived at by analogy to things we already experience. To be sure, Principia Mathematica is dense, but Newton’s derivation of the effects of an inverse-squared force can be followed by, ultimately, grasping Euclid’s Elements (which in turn can be grasped through familiarity with a compass and straightedge.)

I recall a Feynman interview where he was asked why magnets repel. And, he explained there is no analogy that can help ones understanding, as the behavior of anything you’d use in your analogy is ultimately governed by the same principles that make magnets repel.
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Look at this from the bank's point of view.

If someone on the phone could convince a card company to send a new credit card to a random address in a random country, do you have any idea what kind of field day scammers would have?
Yeah, I think the problem with this is that you need some way to store data without anyone being able to read the data on the blockchain.

There must be a middle-ground between your solution (dead simple) and the OP, which I find to be overly complex with all the "Curse", "Archeologist", etc. shenanigans.
> PPV is available for most movies, you can rent them from iTunes or amazon for $3-5 for a single watch in my experience.

Which is insanely expensive. $5 buys a month of Apple TV+, almost 2 weeks of Netflix, or 2 hours of PPV.
The same is true of harimaru777's post. Why single out zozbot234's post to get all debate-standards-of-technicalities huffy about? It makes you look like you have a one-sided axe to grind.

And, if we're really going to get technical, nobody asked a question. Both harimaru777 and zozbot234 gave opinions, but nobody posed a question to be answered.
There is a dire need for some less-metaphorical terminology here, I think.
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LambdaMOO is mostly people being idle. There is, however, a spiritual successor called ChatMUD. It's based on a fork of a fork of the original LambdaMOO server called ToastStunt (forked from Stunt). It seems to have a bit more pep in its step if you're looking for a semi-active social / programming MOO.

https://chatmud.com/
https://github.com/lisdude/toaststunt
I think the archeologists need to agree to unwrap sarcophagus, so the logic is the same as any other blockchain – anyone with 51% control can do whatever they want, otherwise you need coordination between parties that are only incentivized to act "properly".
That is a separate issue, and one I wholeheartedly agree with. If that is what the IT department or administration said, I would also be upset. Saying that it is locked down for XYZ is one thing, adding in a line which threatens kids with police action for wanting to learn something is obviously out of bounds and inappropriate.

However, that is different than claiming that schools purpose is no longer education. It's conflating an entire system with the disappointing actions of a few people working within a school.
Your comment doesn't make any sense.

Open Source Software is a solution for the problem of companies writing bad software under the assumption that no one will bother finding bugs if they are too annoying to find. History proved that wrong.

There would be no point in doing any of that if you wanted the data to be freely available too. If so, you could just publish your database as a read-only file, and call it a day. Or just forgo any accounts at all.

It literally makes no sense to blame OSS for privacy problems. The last I checked, Google Search is not open-source... These are two completely separate issues.
I worked for a while at ISI. They let people choose their hardware for a desktop and laptop with a generous budget. One of the guys on the team had some monster gaming laptop as his laptop—I think it was a 20" screen or something on that beast.
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Blockchains are definitely oversold and overhyped but they do make improvements in certain areas. It's like discounting TOR just because steaming youtube is a lesser experience.

Their use of consensus mechanisms make what was implicit explicit. Their global nature is truly without borders. Specific cryptocurrencies are mathematically private and more censorship resistant.

Blockchain for the most part isn't ready for the vast majority of people, but discounting it entirely seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Not everything needs blockchain but for the things that do they really do.

Real world companies also make tradeoffs, often a single point of trust (the company) and implicit assumptions or state.

The current systems that work are great and I don't want to dismiss them at all, but there are specific cryptocurrencies that currently serve some specific needs better. In future I'd imagine there are other ways to take advantage of DHT to serve even more needs better.
That’s a bit disingenuous. Ethereum isn’t as static as bitcoin; they’ve been making steady progress. Proof of stake also has started rolling out already
The Lightning-Fast Series A (That Was 3 Years in the Making)
The key part there is that in such an environment it is obvious for any company (and their customers) that "something your spouse or mom would know" is not an acceptable security measure for anything, so it does not get used. But it does not have to be a tradeoff, we could easily have companies avoid such security questions even if privacy is still mostly a thing we get.
Some of that list is at risk. "4 of the top 5 airlines" for example. Amadeus finally shuttered their TPF mainframe, so Sabre can't be that far behind.
Surely you can get more memory/IO/CPU on a mainframe than a commodity server, no?
The algorithms are not complicated.
> Denmark has seen a steady increase in immigration over the past 30 years, with the majority of new immigrants originating from non-Western countries. As of 2014, more than 8 percent of the population of Denmark consists of immigrants. The population of immigrants is approximately 476,059, excluding Danish born descendants of immigrants to Denmark. This recent shift in demographics has posed challenges to the nation as it attempts to address religious and cultural difference, employment gaps, education of both immigrants and their descendants, spatial segregation, crime rates and language abilities.

If the capitalist rightists only admitted that it likes to import cheap non-unionized labor to get factory rich. Instead it flirts with xenophobia (imported labour problems unequally damages low-middle class blue-collar jobs so these vote right), and the left becomes pro-immigration by opposition and because it is progressive, unwilling to even name the problems. Why is that? Too many levels above my understanding.
each keystroke has to be sent to Redwood City to be individually massaged and returned

Is it an older terminal-based system? Lots of those were designed (and still in use, 40+ years later). Usually it's not a big deal, in fact faster than modern interfaces, because they're built for decades-old hardware and low baud rates. Of course if you're still running the original hardware or have really screwed things up then performance goes out the window.
"okay for black people form an identity behind their race"

Probably because they get referred to as black and get discriminated against due to their physical appearance regardless of their actual heritage or where they're from? It's not so much a choice as something that they get constantly reminded about.

Anecdotally speaking, there are Black communities, but I've never seen a "white" community (aside from white supremacist type groups)- just communities of nationalities or ethnicity. I grew up in Romanian communities and none of us ever used "white" as an identity.

Not everything is about you or me.
If that's the best use of your donation, then the charity you donate to can invest the money themselves and make use of the continuous supply of funds from interest. University endowments for example (even if they are only technically 'charities').
A true "cost comparison" would have to include existing on-prem platforms, and account for new players like Oxide Computer Systems who are working to bring newer, cloud-native technologies to the on-prem datacenter. The mainframe may be competitive with "cloud" solutions, but that's not where the most obvious comparison is.
Sure, except it's way easier and legally less risky to compromise or co-opt the "oracle" than to murder somebody.

This is the same problem every single foo-on-the-blockchain project faces: all the interfaces with the real, actual world are obvious vulnerabilities that obviate the supposed security benefits of this convoluted crypto system.
There's no unified black identity either though. There are millions of black people in both USA and Africa, but their cultures and lived experiences are so incredibly different. Not to mention the diversity within the country.
Did anyone see the movie Brazil?

This is exactly what that movie is about. The bureaucratic-technological engine being prone to tiny errors, which have cascading effects on the people affected. And despite putting in some effort and telling that engine that what it is doing is ridiculous, fixing it is very much non-trivial. Luckily, this time the consequences are minor. A beautiful illustration of "La technique", the runaway engine of rationality and efficiency, as philosopher Jacques Ellul referred to it.

This is a beautiful illustration of that concept!
One good reason is programmability. You can write lisp scripts to automate some routine editing.

For me the main reason I prefer emacs is the key bindings are better.

Another reason that emacs (the real thing) is available everywhere. You can install it on Linux, Mac and Windows. And you can run it in console mode (terminal) as well as GUI (even on Windows).
Hey thanks! yeah we need to make that more intuitive, the x button is to leave the room, but you can swipe down to hide that view.
he still pays taxes on the gifted land :) thats very interesting

not that there is a tax, but that the collector has still been in contact with him or his estate
My first computer was a lunchbox portable. It had a monochrome plasma display and one or two open ISA slots inside (I remember I added a SCSI controller to it to drive an external CD-ROM drive). No battery power, but back in the 90s it wasn't that big of a deal to only use your computer somewhere you could plug it in.
"I am fortunate to have only worked with Tailwind CSS in local sandboxes, and not in any production projects or on an actual team of other devs."

Does anyone else get frustrated when people post blogs like this without actually using the technology in any meaningful way? I was also skeptical of Tailwind, and disliked it for the first 2 weeks or so of using it, but now I'm not so sure.

This reminds me of the phenomenon in outdoor gear where 75% of the reviews are people who bought a tent and set it up in their backyard and for some reason deigned it necessary to write a review.
The next progression is Something+
If I wasn't clear, the market price is just a variable that could be set. If they wanted they could set this at the initial sale price.
It is very strange... I have some assumptions that it would be better for the general public to not have a credit card culture. Very rarely have I "required" the use of one, but when I was moving for my first real job out of school it was somewhat essential as a sort of buffer until the first paycheck kicked in. Not a comfortable place, but one I bet a lot of people could resonate with, and IMO a responsible use of credit.
Is there any chance of fixing Pin/Unpin via a later Rust edition?