skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My (now-deceased) stepfather was Jewish and a historian. He focused on WWII and the US Civil War. When he and my mom went to sell their house about 12 years ago, the listing agent walked through and said, "Oh, you should probably clear out the bookcase a bit."

My stepfather had more than an entire shelf of books on Hitler in the living room as he had been working on an article about him.

Needless to say, my stepdad took the hint.
My personal experience over several decades aligns with what Taubes explains in the first book I cited. If you want the technical details, you could read it.

You can't get fat on a diet that is strongly deficient in carbs, while it's easy to get fat on a diet containing high proportions of fat and carbs.

The Eskimo subsist on meat and blubber alone. Roald Amundsen ran the experiment on himself and confirmed it.
"The concept of Evince is one document, one window"
We reverse engineered it so we can pull stuff ourselves.

BTW: don’t forget to empty trust in 1P. Noticed the API giving back a lot more stuff than expected and that is why.
This is an often said criticism but the reality is that the mobile app ecosystem fundimentally breaks this principle.

When was the last time you saw an mobile app taking advantage of another one apart from tre camera? The only and most common time Android apps communicate is with Google Play Services.

Context switching on mobile or GUIs in general also don't follow this principle. Modern GUIs integrate plenty of things (file explorer, image editor, basic camera, etc) becuase mobile package management doesn't resolve dependancies automatically or allow for a great deal of UI customisation. Especially in a messaging client imagine not being able to send photos, videos, audio, or files!c

GUIs are here to stay so until we figure out a composable and we'll adopted GUI solution "doing one thing well" is not really an option.
Maybe I just don't know how this industry works. Do people get paid based on the actual number of bathrooms cleaned and such? To be clear I'm talking about places where one of the regular employees just has 'bathroom duty'.

I've seen these logs and to me it always seemed that the point was for customers to see that the place was actually maintained. A customer can't tell whether a bathroom is cleaned only once a month and that's why it looks the way it does or whether the last guy just trashed the place after the last cleaning, which was an hour ago and based on the previous logs you can see, it will be cleaned again soon. Or that the cleaners didn't clean and just wrote on the paper. Which technology doesn't solve. You just wave the badge or whatever but don't do anything. And no, location tracking doesn't help with that. A dedicated slacker can listen to music or watch YouTube in different locations.
Sort of. It includes the ability to hook up to a docking station and pass USB, video, and Ethernet through the plug.

I use the dock for my Surface Book. With the dedicated GPU it comfortably drives two extra screens through the dock. If you don’t plan on using the dock though, it’s just another proprietary power plug.
This so called climate emergency isn’t a falsifiable theory. So why is an apparent science journal committing to it?

We know putting carbon in the air has an inverse square relation to temperature increases. We can prove this. So why not focus on the actual science instead of debasing yourself further? (2+2 can equal 5 was a recent position this journal took)

Do actual science, please.
> 2/4 of those examples are affluent island nations with low population densities.

Australia and NZ have densely populated cities, and what does being an island have to do with anything? Countries can close their borders. In fact, Australian states closed their borders to one another.

> Another one of those examples has been actively censoring covid information from the start, and thus cannot be trusted.

You don't have to trust the government. Just ask people you know in China what's going on there. Things have been mostly open for a year now, with no sign of the virus (outside of a few localized outbreaks, which have been dealt with through local lockdowns and blanket testing of the population). China is not the black box that many people think it is.

> As for Vietnam, it is an interesting case, and we don't have enough data to rule out cross reactivity or other factors playing a role.

Vietnamese people are not somehow immune to SARS-CoV-2. They're susceptible, just like everyone else.

> Extrapolating these data points to the entire world

This is the wrong way to think about this. These aren't data points generated by some semi-random process. They're countries that effectively implemented a strategy that we know should work, based on the basic principles of epidemiology. The virus is spread between people who are in close proximity to one another. If you drastically reduce contacts between people, the virus has far fewer chances to spread, and the epidemic recedes. If you do that long enough, you get down to a small enough number of cases that you can trace every single one and snuff out the virus completely. After that, you have to have strict measures at the border in order to catch imported cases, and you have to do regular testing in the population to make sure you don't miss the beginnings of any new outbreak.

There's nothing to "extrapolate." The strategy works because of very basic principles of how the virus spreads. The only question is whether each county has the organizational capacity and societal will to carry this strategy out.
That would all make sense, except that AWS has had a us-east-2 region in Ohio for a few years now.
QtPass works great for me on all platforms including Windows
Yeah, and annoyingly the paid platforms (like, FACEIT) have way fewer obvious cheaters - but also (due to the increased competition) a lot of subtle ones. Part of the problem is also related to the game going free-to-play, instead of taxing cheaters through time & cash, it's just time.
Makes me wonder how usability studies are run. I should look into that sometime.

In my case, I've never liked the OSX style dock, and I use the super key to switch windows all the time. So the two biggest features I pulled out of that article are actually things I'll have to turn off.

Oh, and I used to love the hot corner, but it didn't work so well when I had multiple monitors on both sides of my main monitor. So I got used to just hitting super.
Not a great example even otherwise considering what a cesspool Craigslist eventually became.
friends don't let friends run on us-east-1
Because MobileCoin is a scam and people want to know if this guy is naive or a scammer
> the old perfect MacBook Scissors Keyboard

No way, the unibody MacBook Pro (2008-2011) had the perfect keyboard. I still have my 17”. The Retina’s keyboard was a painful downgrade that I never got used to.
Upstash has two consistency modes. Eventual consistency and Strong consistency. Please see: https://docs.upstash.com/overall/consistency

In my code, Upstash database was eventually consistent. Similarly the index in the FaunaDB was not serialized.

But both of those should not affect the latency numbers in the histogram because those numbers are all read latency.
This isn't valid syntax, no
Android doesn’t allow first class alternative stores.
Lenovo Legion Y540 also did this. I was using that laptop last spring when we switched to WFH... didn't last long! Ended up moving to my desktop and using a dedicated webcam before long.

Fortunately, the replacement Lenovo Legion 5 moves the webcam back to the top.
You're the one who has fallen for divisive and hateful propaganda, my poor friend. I hope you manage to recover one day.
Working out with a VR headset sounds like a sweatfest
It works perfectly both over NFC and USB either OTG micro USB or USB-C.

I only use hardware keys now.
The antibodies are not all that matters, they would simply disappear over time. The second dose spurs the B & T lymphocytes to produce even more.

> That booster shot is necessary for the T-cells to stimulate the memory B-cells to produce massive quantities of antibodies. If the booster isn’t given within the appropriate window, lower quantities of antibodies will be produced that may not provide as powerful protection from the virus.

https://theconversation.com/why-it-takes-2-shots-to-make-mrn...
Faceit AC is technologically superior, it's not just the payment on-boarding. The cheats for faceit cost $200+ and are all private. There are free, open source, undetected cheats for CSGO that are VAC undetected for 4+ years. The difference is staggering
It doesn't meet the strict definition of wormable, but the user action required for it to spread is so benign that it's pretty close

A CS:GO player getting an invite to play CS:GO from someone on their friends list isn't likely to raise any red flags
That is, if you have had it then you start out susceptible to it.

That implicitly assumes equal opportunity for exposure for everyone. This seems rather implausible.

You have to be exposed to it to get it. Lifestyle influences who gets exposed.
"I maintain about 100 files all for business which are viable-now my definition of viable is that they solve the immediate problem I was thinking about. Fiscal viability is yet to be proven- (IE: they haven't been built out and validated with actual customers and money yet. I am not techie and the build out and daily running of such things is...BORING."

Well I'm impressed.
What if servers that got “fixed” weren’t American? Would that mean the FBI went outside its jurisdiction and could be seen as an illegal act across international borders?
Not clear how that has any relevance here. If the encryption is broken, pretty sure most encryption is busted.
It’s at least one copy of the dependency...
What kind of solution is there to this? Only trust studies which have been successfully reproduced several times? Raise the bar for an acceptable p value so it becomes less practical to p-hack?
No, they haven't rolled out yet.
It’s not really a dead end, since you can go coding and you can stay in your job.

What you worry about is what will happen in 10 years...

Thinking that choosing a path now may lead to a dead end in 10 years is overthinking it to me.

You can always switch back to engineering management if/when you need it.

Ageism is likely going to be less pronounced in the future than it has been in the 2000s as well. New companies were created by young people, but all these companies are still there, managed by people who also get old.

The way I see it is that we’re in an industry with no shortage of jobs, and that’ll likely be the same for the foreseeable future. We are so lucky that is is the case. So maybe try and stop worrying, you’ll be fine coding...
It is difficult but not impossible. Everyone switched from Myspace to Facebook. Thing was the Facebook offered something different. But it did start small. The way you defeat network lock-in is by fighting against it hard. It definitely is not easy. I lost friends when I deleted my Facebook. But truth is, they weren't people I frequently talked to anyways so it is probably better to call them acquaintances. The thing is that I've contacted plenty of those people years after nothing and they are all happy to grab a beer. But we pretend that this isn't the case. We say "Yeah, I'd do that, but they wouldn't." Or something similar.

Though I'll admit, getting people to switch to Signal was a lot of work. People like Elon and Joe Rogan helped onboard a lot of the people that were holding out. One group chat has a member that is only there because everyone else bought in and he complains, but uses it (big WA user).

I don't think people calling for disconnecting are unaware of the difficulties. Ripping off a bandaid hurts, but the thought of ripping it off often is more painful than the actual experience.
Yes. Contrary to what the talking heads want people to think, getting natural immunity to COVID by allowing your body to fight it off with its own defenses is a totally legitimate way to navigate this pandemic.
he is one of the tailwind guys, I don't think there advice is one size fits all, there are different scenarios where you want different things. The point they basically make is to make a design system using generated a utility first approach. Nearly everywhere in the their tutorials etc they encourage customization to your specific needs.
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You're right, chat apps have evolved. That's the problem; Signal is good, but it's not the best. I wish it'd focus on matching or overtaking WhatsApp feature-wise rather than getting distracted 10 meters from the finish line.

When I'm trying to convince people to switch, privacy isn't the main draw, but if the features they care about are there, then privacy can push them over the edge to switch. I view this foray into payments as a sign that Signal feels its already "good enough" in the chat app department and will be spending its effort elsewhere.

Learn from SnapChat: if you're going to shoot the king, don't miss.
Obviously not, because the Mac has only ever had minor sales relative to the PC even, and minuscule compared to iOS.

It’s never been a serious target.
AMD has left Intel in the dust on efficiency as well. It's mostly due to process tech: Intel is stuck on an advanced 14nm node, AMD is on TSMC 7nm, and Apple has bought out TSMC 5nm.
This seems to be another example of the trend to AI based hiring, where the candidate interacts with zero humans until they have invested a huge amount of time and energy[0]. Good on you for telling them off.

[0] https://www.asktheheadhunter.com/15129/before-you-risk-your-...
It's not all that unstructured. Most apps support using Login: or URL: prefixes. Like browserpass and the Android app
> Existing instances and networks continue to work normally.

This suggests that one can minimize certain failure modes by making the configuration as static as possible, i.e. creating a fixed number of long-running instances. But then, using immutable, ephemeral instances can make for a more resilient system when the EC2 control plane is working normally. There are always tradeoffs.
To your first point:

https://www.coindesk.com/signal-founder-may-have-been-more-t...

The thing that gets me the most though is not what they are doing, it's the way they are going about it.

The leader of a privacy focused app is now hiding secrets from everyone about the technology he convinced people was safe.

I've had to write off signal for this reason alone. I mean the only reason I ever used the app was trust.
I learnt Colemak but I reverted to Qwerty as using what's used everywhere is just much more convenient.
I can’t tell whether your comment is agreeing or mocking.
What kind of WFH are you able to do from a fitness-bike-mounted screen? At the very least you are missing important peripherals?

I find it really hard to operate a touchscreen with any dexterity whilst running on an elliptical. Sure the bike itself had really big buttons on the UI, but when I brought in my ipad to play some XCOM, one encounter (usually 10-15 minutes) would take nearly the entire hour I would ride due to butterfingering everything. I can't imagine trying to do anything productive on such a setup.
Any text box.

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Indeed. And such sound and fury is wonderfully on display just about every time some celebrity goes on about what everyone else must do to save the planet, them, of course, being able to continue doing the good work from their private jet and mansion in the foothills.

Like Thunberg or not, at least she's very evidently trying, as well as she's able, to practice what she preaches.
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And if I join this community, I need to go through the effort of setting up software/apps to enforce my content choices.

And if I'm viewing a conversation/thread/topic with something blocked in it, where I have blocked it but other members of the community have not, what does that experience look like to me?

And if a spammer posts a dozen links to their website, but I haven't blocked that content yet in my content filtering setup, that'll be fun.

This just sounds something like Parler. You can post anything you want there, nothing is blocked, and you're free to set up browser-based filters to hide the content you don't wish to see. In effect, you end up with a community biased towards those who are comfortable with vitriol, and as such it's filled with terrible content.
I hope getting the opportunity to be a prick was worth the downvotes.
The most updated webview bindings I know of for deno: https://github.com/webview/webview_deno

It's likely you will find some hiccups in latest deno release because it uses rust plug-ins and they are getting overhauled at the moment. Maybe a few more months before getting stabilized.
From what I’ve observed, large organizations tend to be driven by relatively small groups of people. It’s often hard to identify who exactly is in those groups, but the fact remains that humans can only take so much complexity, so it gets blame shifted across increasingly smaller groups of people until it arrives at the “core” of an organization. It would be interesting to know who the is in that core group of people at the NSA.
This could be coincidence, synchronicity or déjà vu, unless it's merely hilarious. Because if seeing the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon everywhere is in fact the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, then it becomes recursive. I'm guessing it is hilarious.
To be fair, the noise is a lot louder now than it ever has been.
AI is amazing.
Is very difficult coding for V8, nodejs is very easy for a noob like me.
There is a constitutional basis for a warrant being permitted, upon probable cause, to execute specifically and exclusively a search.

This isn't a search, it isn't a warrant, and there's no constitutional amendment that outlines the situations in which the feds are allowed to break into my computers.
Pardon the nit-pick but it's more accurate to say: Virus' variants that avoid immune responses persist.

That is, effectively, to evolve is reactive, not proactive.
Not who, but what--self-interest, the natural human predisposition to obey cultural norms, biologically innate concept of "fairness", etc.

A cultural norm is also a mechanism for streamlining cooperation--whenever some person or entity breaks established norms, you don't need to convene and deliberate to decide whether it was wrong, it's just per se wrong and members can instantaneously begin acting accordingly. It keeps everybody aligned. Not perfectly, but to a much greater degree than when the particular invisible boundaries don't exist. And that's one reason why it's in everybody's self-interest to substantially promote obeyance to such norms, and avoid harming the norm.

Some norms are more important than others. In the context of international relations, sovereignty is perhaps still the most important one. Unless you're prepared to conquer the entire world, anything you do that harms the principle harms yourself as other nation-states are less likely to respect your own sovereignty. Balancing these interests (e.g. short-term gain vs long-term harm) is complex, but as I said upholding the principle of sovereignty is one of the most sacrosanct. And so when it's violated it's quite understandable why even super powers like the U.S. and China remain circumspect, invariably resorting to plausible deniability or pretense justifications that at least nominally avoid openly flouting the principle.
And the Israelis will blow it up, one way or another.
I thought we were already doomed and past the point where any change would matter 5 years ago? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CXRaTnKDXA Sure it is fiction, but a real take by people and that aired 6 years ago.
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S05E20/291123.jpg?b64lines=IEFNIEk...
From other comments, it appears OP is associated with upstash.
It's not at all hard to believe. All the people in my family, for instance, have changed grocery habits and stopped discretionary shopping in stores essentially entirely. Why? Many are older and have risks yet also have full lives and want to live to play with their grandkids. We prioritized gathering with each other cautiously over spending money shopping and changed habits immediately (I started working from home March 12, before any US guidance).

Sweden is an interesting example. Comparing Sweden and Finland, for instance, older people essentially cloistered themselves in Sweden because they had no trust that they'd be safe in society, and their spending dropped by a higher amount than old people in Finland, who changed their habits less due to the swift and more stringent government response? My old-person family members in Finland were able to keep shopping, going to church, and having birthday parties with many families due to that response (as opposed to in the US where we limited ourselves to gatherings with max 3 households and did everything masked or outdoors due to several people still working on site).

Perhaps you live in a very different place. You certainly interpret statistics quite differently given your example of Florida.
Yes but, to be clear, we are only fixing the climate emergency _for_ our children, and their children.

Climate change will not really impact most of us alive today.

This is why it has been so hard to get people to make real changes, spend real money reducing our footprint. A lot of people just don't care because they will be dead and gone when the real trouble starts.
Good thing then that there won't be any bitcoins in Signal.
It's always unfortunate when a presumably valuable asset - CS:GO brought in over $400M in 2018 [1] - does not receive the attention it deserves, nonetheless requires, for continued successful operation.

We see this with other games as studios spend more time preparing "future IP" and less time preserving their existing. One example is Bungie's Destiny franchise. Studios need to continue monitoring - and interacting with - their playerbase to find a middle that satisfies all. Bungie made a decision a few months ago that has been reversed, per community feedback about the massively negative impact said decision would have on the game and its playerbase.

Studios like Valve, Bungie, and others truly need to step up what is essentially customer service, especially as the digital entertainment market only continues to grow and open up even more opportunities for success than before.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/808773/csgo-revenue/
There is simplicity in knowing that if you know how to fetch one type of resource, you can learn how to fetch them all.
This is a pretty interesting take. Can someone who disagrees respond?
I think the other key issue around scale is that at FB scale, you simply can't realistically get consistency of moderation - or even a person reading each post.

At FB scale their moderation started with "you can hide it if it annoys you" (aka not bothering) - the easiest technical solution. Doesn't actual address the problematic content, but perhaps doesn't feed the trolls.

Going beyond that to any kind of action requires determining whether something breaks any rules, and also faces the issue that reporting is used as a weapon, so simply deleting everything (mass) reported doesn't work either... And figuring out if it breaks rules just falls back onto rules which are imperfect.

As you sum up well, they're at such a scale that they have complete polar opposites on the platform. And in a sense, perhaps what we need are more subdivisions, not fewer - maybe what we are seeing here is the symptom of existing tensions, albeit exacerbated through being able to reach an audience that disagrees in real-time.