skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not on the inside but thought I'd share my take.

I think the overall sentiment is that some people are realizing there are alternatives that .eet their criteria. One of the major criteria is probably around getting a job with a top tier tech company and being in an environment/area that promotes the cross pollination of ideas and skills. It might be that the forced remote work has made some people realize they can do that this sort of stuff online, at least to the degree that they find it acceptable. I would also say that the tech culture has expanded to other cities (or at least it exists to some degree) where there wasn't any in the past.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are some ideological or lifestyle differences driving people to other states. Probably some of the same stuff that has prompted some companies to move. Stuff like lower taxes, less regulation (more freedom), lower cost of living (more land or things to buy), less drought to deal with (depends on state), etc. I know I don't have any interest in living in California. I think a lot of that has to do with me liking a more rural life. Yes, I know California has some nice rural areas. California's policies and legislation is basically dominated by the big cities though (not a bad thing, but not my cup of tea).
I think their budget including a reasonable percentage of income to 401ks and charity is actually a fine thing. Sure, call out the vacation if you like, but saying "people should be putting 5% away for retirement (most companies max match) and donating 2% to charity at the middle class level" is a perfectly reasonable statement. Well, feel free to argue about tweaking the percentages.
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Honestly I really enjoyed open PvP when I played WoW what now seems like ages ago. It really adds a lot of interesting tension when I'd encounter players from the opposing faction.

Are they hostile? Do they see me? Should I try and stealth kill them? Are they just passing through?

Eventually one learns to deal with the murderhobos and cope. Then it becomes even more fun.
>The fact they have significantly more than 250 employees in the first place is a bit mind boggling. As far as I can tell most of the spending is unrelated to Firefox. What do all of these people do and why are they needed?

I sometimes have the same reaction when learning the number of people employed for what I would have otherwise thought to be some meager thing. Then I get reminded about the folks over in external/internal support; marketing; design; IT/infrastructure; legal; compliance; etc.

Here's Mozilla's listing:

https://careers.mozilla.org/listings/
I've been on the bivector discord since the beginning (aka chakravala), you can find my geometric algebra library Grassmann.jl
https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl
Would you call Sacha Baron Cohen a troll?
Out of curiosity, what is it that remarkable should be doing differently? They seem to have the source code on GitHub (https://github.com/remarkable) and have ssh root access to the device usable without any major hoops to jump through (the IP and randomly generated password is in one of the about screens).
Google Wave did this (and with nest threads)! I never tried it for serious conversations, but it was quite fun to write at the same time as 1-3 other people and see them amend their messages in real time.
Stuxnet, to this day, is utterly amazing....

The docu from microsoft team on it was very interesting to listen to...

Whats amazing, is that DUQU, stuxnets 'brother' was also ultra-zero-day and super complex...

Its super cyberpunk, that entire story...
I don't buy it.

I think there is simple statistical/neurological explanation.

Part 1:

We are exposed to much more information and interaction that we have evolved for. Our brains have very biased/impractical approach to understanding the world: if you hear about something happening many times in large number then it automatically gives large weight to it and treats it as normal/prevalent/dangerous etc.

This is also what somebody might mean when they say "a lie repeated frequently enough becomes truth". That's how our brains are built.

Part 2:

We tend to notice things that are out of ordinary more than normal. Nobody spends time revisiting "normal" comments, but people will notice and spend their focus disproportionately more on mean behavior.

Part 3:

Internet amplifies things, but mostly things we focus on. This means an extremely mean comment will tend to be amplified more and get more visibility than a perfectly normal comment.

Part 4:

Even if 1 percent of 1 percent of people write an extremely mean comment just once that is still deluge of meanness that your biased brain will understand as "mean" being frequent behavior on the internet, something that is done by many people and probably frequently.
The Telegram Apps are all great and have so many awesome features that are crucially also extremely well implemented. Everything seems so well thought through!

It's just incredibly scary not to know anything about who these developers are, where they are located and most importantly how this is all financed!

I understand Pavel Durov is a very wealthy man, but developing and hosting a popular global messenger service can't be cheap.
If I need a job, if the money is right my ethics are negotiable.

This is the norm.
4. It doesn't work because much of the article is missing. It's not just an overlay, it's behind a paywall.

5. Google what "paywalled" means

6. ...

7. Profit
Is this definitely true, or is it rumored?

I have trouble believing this one because there are so many edge-cases that would cause it to behave poorly - universities and companies with a single shared IP address, VPN users etc.

I suppose the rule-of-thumb could be "if this IP address has only had <4 unique cookies associated with it, consider a match - if it has had >100 it's probably shared too broadly, ignore it"
> ... fiasco

Not sure if you had the chance to hear the "other side" of the "fiasco" already. I found it here and it was interesting: https://samharris.org/podcasts/253-corporate-courage/
Actually I'm being silly, there is a good solution: Workplace Democracy. You can fool the higher ups come promotion time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.

Mondragon please get in the tech biz.
Show HN: Notes, Simple delightful note taking, with more Unix and less lock-in
I feel this way and I have a very easy job and life
While the development teams at Telegram should be applauded I can't stress enough that it helps that they don't have E2EE and centralized most of the complexity to their server.

Related regarding feature deployment: I got some negative feedback for dumping on Matrix for announcing Spaces without iOS client support. They should have waited until Element had all their major platforms covered before announcing it. It's maybe an unpopular take but when around 40% of my homeserver's users can't use a major feature, that's a shitty rollout.
“Insane” is mostly meant in jest here, not to imply that heavy contributors are mentally ill. The examples they picked out are pretty ridiculous but are also the biggest outliers. The real point here is that <1% of the users account for ~99% or so of the consumed content. Which is interesting in its own right.
That is news to me and I used to use Angular a lot. (angular.js 1.3 - 1.5 and Angular 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 I think.)
>What if, instead of companies taking your data without giving you a say, you could select who gets access to your data and put it to work for public good?

Implied false dichotomy. What if I refuse to use companies that do not fully encrypt my data in such a a way as to them not having any access to it.

Also, Mozilla isn't going even half this far. They are relying on a contractual obligation with their partners and internal audits to protect my identity. I'm skeptical of their ability to protect my data to the point I will never use this service.
Anything that makes me call to cancel never ever gets my business again.
Pretty cool, but isn't that more a gardening robot than a farm robot? I wonder how it handles weeding chores...
I absolutely hated that, guess that's a success.
I feel like I've been in this experiment for the last 20 years...
> if there are never any negative indicators that you are the problem, rather than everyone else… there is a mathematically insignificant chance you will ever realize something might be wrong.

Then again, depending on the psychological issues it doesn't matter how many negative indicators there are that you are the problem. Some people just seem unable to accept they have issues, or unable to correctly process that people's reaction to them is in fact negative.

There's just such a wide range of things here.
Can you elaborate a little bit on what you find contradictory in these statements?
50% of them didn't
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> It was impossible to use my phone with “only” 64GB without constantly deleting and reinstalling depending on what I needed at the time.

I too have 64GB. I just checked and my phone says apps take 11GB, and I have about 33GB free. At 250MB each (and many on my phone take less) that would be over 250 apps on a 64GB phone...

Do you actually use that many apps. Am I just a Luddite?
The main problem with Option B is the potential for bad/inconsistent app download experiences. Many companies may cheap out on binary hosting and have very slow or broken downloads (especially in certain countries), which results in a kind of random "never know if this will work well" patchy UX for iOS/Android users at large.

This isn't an insurmountable problem of course. Perhaps Apple/Google could charge fixed bandwidth rates and host it themselves, or they could contractually set SLA requirements that could be verified regularly with an uptime service.
Yes right, and a completely meaningless quantity without saying it’s the average /over a year/, so the accumulation interval is essential - thus cannot be thought of as a speed or velocity.
They've also seen an increase in domestic violence by ~150%, so yeah, that's a pretty obvious indicator of where the murders are coming from... It's not a bunch of street violence preventable by policing though, it's a bunch of dysfunctional families that could be prevented with education and community.
Lots of trans people in fact are mentally ill.

Given the additional stresses and oppresive social experiences trans people face and are outspoken about, this is entirely unsurprising.
There’s no magic in Hey. No algorithms or AI. You literally filter everything manually.

It’s the complete opposite of what you’re describing.
I know I’m supposed to hate it, but at first glance the color scheme reminded me of NC and I … I … liked it
what kind of work do you do now?
cannot stop laughing!
Yes but without Android we might have gotten something decent.
That is like arguing "not all cars need seatbelts." You might disagree on how many airbags or crash avoidance widgets a car needs, but the vast majority of the industry agrees that seatbelts are a requirement.
This is one reason I won't purchase a subscription any longer unless they accept Paypal, which makes it ridiculously easy to terminate recurring payments to them (easier than calling my credit card company to dispute a charge). Having such a kill switch was how I was able to cancel my NYTimes subscription (another org notorious for making it impossible to cancel) without going through the same kind of hassle of dealing with a sales rep trying to keep my account.
I have a similar story for internet. I tried to cancel my Xfinity (Comcast) internet service through the online chat. After being transferred several times, the person said they will do it but then disconnected right after they said that. I had to restart the process and in the end they told me I had to call. So I called and finally was able to cancel after they wasted hours of my time.

I will never use Xfinity/Comcast again in my life if I have a choice and will try to make sure everyone knows how shitty they are. Unfortunately they have monopolies in many areas and can be as shitty as they want, but if you have a choice I recommend never using them.

I can't believe that in 2021 these tactics are still legal. It's also stupidly shortsighted because in the long term I'm pretty sure they lose money by making everyone hate them. If it was easy to cancel, I would happily sign up again in the future without giving it much thought and would think positively of the company.

Edit: I also want to add that I was paying extra to not have a contract so I could easily cancel.
Telegrams devs are next level
I unfortunately would not recommend running this in production. I don't see anything like debugging or centralized or distributed logging either way, no performance metrics either from a raw code or stats performance measurements. I could go on, but there are many software projects out there that try to productionalize ML and know nothing about stats, but this is the opposite, it seems knowledgeable about statistical methods more than most of these kinds of things, but doesn't seem to have a production mindset.
To me, the interesting question here is whether symptoms of BPD (or mental illness more generally) might confer an advantage when it comes to building a following on social media. For example, catastrophizing seems to be a staple on the many popular social media accounts.
"If you look at what happened in 2019 the H1 envelope protein..." was that date a typo?
And now any trust you ever had in wickr should vanish.

You think a company enabling the police state through Ring doorbells gives a rats ass about privacy?
That has worked for me before. A company which explicitly said they do not process cancellations via support form or email. I sent an email saying I wish to cancel and I consider the email reasonable notification and I will chargeback any further charges. They cancelled the account.
> (arguably most importantly) overall efficiency

Sorry but pretty much no one cares about efficiency after you break 300-400km range
>It didn't really feel like a decision though. It felt like I was at my wits end. I gave everything and had nothing left.

I feel the same way at my FANG job. The spiral has been astounding.

Most people I know at the same company already see therapists and take SSRIs. I know I could go down that path and force my body to adjust and perform as I need it, as if my body and mind are a horse that just needs the right kind of whip to get racing. It feels so much healthier and less stressful to leave and address my root cause (the isolation of wfh).

Currently looking for a new in-office job outside of FANG in a more chill location, and planning on quitting in 3 weeks regardless of the outcome.

I had a similar experience 7 years ago (also after a year of working remotely), and the freedom I felt after quitting was sweeter than any amount of money they could paid me.
I love the double indirection on the cookie dialog. You're used to the small, unhighlighted option being the one to click to reject cookies, but here the question is asked the other way around, making the big button the one you want to click instead.
"that is a massive breach of my own rights to control my own speech"

Nope. It's a constraint on where you can go. You come into my home, then you follow my rules.
Hey! Impressed by how dedicated you are. Right now, we want to focus on the <25% range, just to make sure we can get people to the six-pack. As we get more confident, we'd love to have you join us.

Keep pushing, and here's to transformation!
Yeah, I can relate. The ephemeral and mercurial character of those things really bugs me. I stopped using Facebook because it's useless - once I scrolled past something I could never find it again. Infuriating.

On a funny note, I seem to recall a Dilbert strip with a spam filter that became sentient and started controlling the company by controlling the flow of email but I'm unable to find it at the moment ;)
I've been using C# with recent features like Function Pointers, [UnmanagedCallersOnly], Dotnet Native Exports, etc

Have been writing C# to interact with C/C++ and publishing C ABIs as static/shared libs that are natively compiled

My mind has been absolutely blown with what modern .NET and C# are capable of doing in terms of low level/systems program and interop with C/C++/Rust etc.

The performance and object sizes are killer too.

I think most people don't know or think C#/.NET are capable of this

Can envision a not so distant future where C# is a common choice for places when you'd typically reach for C++

Also, the folks on the .NET Interop team are all super friendly and willing to have a conversation with you or answer questions. My experiences with the whole .NET organization at MS as a random person has been nothing short of shockingly pleasant.
I'd agree with that. I view a troll as having no ideals they cling to. They have a goal to provoke and incite with the least amount of effort and that usually involves taking a controversial stance for that given audience. It's what makes arguing with trolls, or feeding trolls, so pointless.
Mobile networks evolve fairly quickly. Spectrum is limited so mobile operators like to phase out older standards in favour of newer ones to make better use of their available spectrum.

Upgrading the modem in a smart meter requires visiting every location you serve. That's not something a utility would like to do more than once every few decades. With 3G and 2G now being phased out, will utilities have to replace all their smart meters?

https://hyphabit.io/2g-network-closure-uk/
A perfect match for Microsoft who saw that shady shit and said, "that's perfect for us!"
I appreciate this. I'm so sick of seeing links hit the top of HN that are utterly broken in landscape orientation because some stupid pop-up renders with the close button off-screen.
Why is it irrelevant post-2016? Wickr was still a preferred choice of drug dealers well up to 2018 (and probably beyond). I know this because I was using it to communicate with them.
Correct.

Thats why it may be a good idea to test higher risk populations or people with health issues.

It could make the ratio of absolute true positives to false positives 10x better
Speaking for myself and not @droopyEyelids, absolutely.
Expand in the place of the close button is the best part.
Maybe it's easy to feel it's disrespectful because they've made social networks out of contributing to repositories.

Accreditation for the modification of petty and trivial issues is a nice and decent gesture, but overall unworthy of a paper trail binding me to any random none-of-my-business project for such a drive-by PR.

Personally, I would feel more comfortable sending that kind of inane PRs if the parent's way of merging was the standard one, but I know it isn't and therefore opt to keep separate accounts to compartmentalize (which unfortunately increases friction to such contributions).
Would be fun to reverse that app and find out!
When a scientist says 'irrefutably' that just means you should check their work even more carefully.

One of the authors of this paper is mentioned in the article, he's walked back his stance a bit.
Actually I was able to find an old version via the Internet archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210624160236/http://strlen.com...

I took a stab and got a version from July 2011 going, then worked forward and ended up with a version from August 2 2019, which may be the version you're mentioning.

I appreciate that you would have compiled it for me! I would like to give it a shot myself some day.
It launched Future Publishing (their first magazine was "Amstrad Action"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_plc
What I love about C#:

- very active language development, modern functional features
- very strong standard library. I used to take this for granted, but over the years I realised many other languages and are nowhere near where .NET is
- exceptional IDE. VS has no competition
In years gone by social media sites would try to login to your email provider using the social media password to scrape your contacts. This often worked because people reuse passwords.

More recently, they were explicit about what they were doing and offered it is a convenience feature.

Have they stopped this now?
How could that possibly be a privacy concern?

A lot more private information is already placed onto the street, in public: the contents of your garbage cans.
As someone who is periodically involved with this sort of thing, the challenge is that far and away the easiest things to objectively measure are almost always output metrics: commits, blog posts, external presentations at conferences, etc.

Output metrics chosen correctly also tend to represent things that the team/person has a reasonable degree of control over. For example, a developer KPI probably shouldn't be number of new customers because that's something they have vanishingly little control over, especially at an individual level.

The problem is that those things that a number of different teams are contributing to are probably the thing that the company cares about.
Guess what? Last night when I wrote that comment the link said

> TPM 1.2 is a “hard floor” for installing Windows 11 TPM 2.0 is a "soft floor"

Now, presumably because everyone's hotlinking to the one place where they admitted "Well actually you don't *need* TPM 2.0" they cut and paste data from some other page and put that note on the bottom

It's amazing, through sheer will in rejecting a not-very-well-hidden truth, people got MS to bury this even further. Impressive!
Scientist hail discovery of dragon man skull
If you have product market fit i.e. you know exactly what your product is and who your customers are (which can take months to years), you may outsource it afterwards. However until then, you will be wasting money.

There is no shortcut to this. If you want to create recurring income (no matter how small), you have to work your ass off yourself initially. You need to learn how to find initial customers yourself. If you cannot, it's most likely game over. You cannot just build a cool side project and expect it to magically find customers using outsourcing. No such thing. Now, you could find someone else to help you with skin in the game but then that's different. You still need to get a few customers yourself in the beginning.

So initially, the goal is to find your first 1-10 paying customers yourself. In the process of doing that, you will learn a lot about the product and the market. You will then adjust things. Anything else is premature and you will just get burnt with the outsourced marketing crowds that are plenty.
I've had bad experiences and reliability issues with some of their software. For example: OneDrive for Windows, Teams, Azure AD, Windows Bluetooth Stack, Azure Functions, Azure SQL Database.

All of those are mostly ok, but we encounter reliability issues on a more frequent basis than software from other vendors, like Amazon and Google.
> https://twitter.com/yorecomputer/status/1408482184089026567

Ahh, the contrast between the box art and what's implied by the marketing copy, and the actual gameplay screenshots.

ISTR that in the mid-90s, there was this notion that with games finally becoming truly 3d on 5th-gen videogame consoles, they'd be realistic enough to match the cover art, and that would be the end of that eternally recurring disappointment. Well, come 5th- and 6th-gen systems, the disappointment of the contrast between the cover art and the actual gameplay footage was then replaced by the contrast between the FMV and regular gameplay footage.

No real point to that mini-rant, just the image above reminded me of its base complaint.

> https://twitter.com/robmanuel/status/1110143735860523009/pho...

I know these are made up titles, crafted with a light streak of smart-ass, but I actually want to play some of them, "The Final Cut: A Pink Floyd Text Adventure"? "Revenge of Rubic's Tetrahedron? I'm also midly curious what the difference in system reqs is between "Night Simulator" and "Advanced Night Simulator".