skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad you mentioned Chaturbate. I'm a consumer, but haven't the courage to log in or contribute yet! Whenever I get overdosed with women beating up on male sexuality, or the perpetual discussion of how awful and exploitative porn is, I know I can go to Chaturbate. I'll find lots of happy smiling people. On the couples page, young good looking couples, rightly proud of their skills, are having the sex we should all be having. Women are getting pleasured as much as men, by and large. Some might find the practices disgusting, but the practitioners don't seem to. Apart from perhaps the full-timers, I don't see much social-influencer preening. It's more spontaneous, plus preening in a bedroom setting seems less about vanity and more about getting yourself properly rogered. If we're having more and better sex, and it certainly looks like it, we probably have porn and the pill, and now chat sites to thank. Goodness, only a few decades ago we needed Alex Comfort to tell us that oral sex was alright. In particular, hope this isn't the dirty old man speaking, women (especially but not only on Chaturbate) seem to have thrown off the yoke of an imposed modesty, and seem not to be missing it much. I'm sure there are problems, and abuse, but I wish this and other hand-wringing discussions would start from the premise that if we are having more and freer sex, that's a good thing, and that men and women, despite all the problems, are made for each other.
SpaceX is a profitable business, especially with StarLink. They essentially got rival satellite operators to buy the rockets they then re-use to launch their payloads. And they managed to underbid everyone in the space launch business for government contracts (Even factoring in R&D costs the Dragon is incredibly cheap).

Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic are just hobbies for the rich, but SpaceX might bring real benefits to "average joes" (just like the GPS system did).
I think the test here is, "would an average person find offensive the idea of someone selling/disclosing their real-time location history without their knowledge?" For which I would hope the answer is "yes".
b/c many no longer trust authority.

After all who, through the Covid-19 panic, has maintained their integrity? FBI, CIA, NSA, CDC, DHS, NIH, governor Cuomo, universities, doctors, lawyers, presidents, and all governmental spokesmen have been revealed for what they are: politicians. And you know that old joke:

Q. How do you know when a politician is lying?

A. His lips are moving.
> either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius.

I'd say both. It's rubbish if you assume it's talking about what it claims to be talking about, but it's actually a deeply insightful view on the things it's actually talking about. Cf the Slate Star Codex book review[0], which calls it:

> a brilliant book, with only two minor flaws. First, that it purports to explains the origin of consciousness. And second, that it posits a breakdown of the bicameral mind.

0: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/01/book-review-origin-of-...
Everything is always politics ... however ...

Both Martin and Taylor ran far, far away from this scheme.

Gibson absolutely deserved the whacking they got.

You can get around these problems in a legal way and be somewhat responsible. Taylor, famously, bought all the ebony stands in the world and promised to buy all ebony at the same price because the local population were cutting down rare ebony trees and leaving them to rot if they didn't have black heartwood. This, of course, creates a monopoly which is its own problem ... however, any solution you come up with has to take into account that the locals will destroy the extremely rare ebony trees for absurdly small (to us) amounts of money.

You can work within the legal frameworks, and Gibson has more than enough staff to be able to comply. Gibson isn't some tiny company that unjustly trod by the government. Had you or I done this, we would be rotting in jail. Gibson merely got a fine and even got its wood back.
Never said "good old days". POP3 and IMAP were not part of the original design of email. The point of difference between then and now worth considering, IMO, is that the ISP's business plan was not personal data mining and online advertising services, it was internet service.

Perhaps it is a mistake to attribute improvements in syncing solely to the existence of a gigantic webmail service run by an online ad services company. There have been vast improvements in computers and networks since then.

What was arguably "good" about the "old days" was a relative absence of third party middlemen trying to make money from online advertising, and investing in surveillance as a "business model".

As for spam filtering, I agree. However I do not think "webmail" hosted by a third party is the final solution to the problems with email. The original SMTP-to-SMTP design used on a LAN overlay performs very well and attracts no spam, for example.
A response to this essay, “A better lesson,” by Rodney Brooks, former professor in robotics at MIT:

https://rodneybrooks.com/a-better-lesson/
If apple allowed me to install a different store or easily side load you wouldn’t be negatively impacted
than i guess it wasn't actually a lesson worth learning, although it was in his list of eight. ::shrugs::
It’s whataboutism. It’s changing the subject. It’s not grappling with the actual problem being presented. It’s presuming a bad faith attack on you via the group of words chosen. It’s about you having a desperate fear of being accused of something you didn’t do - it should be obvious that someone saying “men” is not literally talking about ALL MEN but you pretend as if it isn’t, and hijack the conversation.

Your argument in a vacuum I have no problem with - the frequency it comes up in order to distract from the context in which it comes up is troubling to say the least, and is something often done by bad faith actors. I’m not accusing you of bad faith - however, I’d invite you to look at the directionality of where the conversation has gone. Namely, very far away from the person being harmed and squarely into your feelings of being excluded.

For posterity I repost your original comment.

OP

> As a woman in tech, the problem is that men start hitting on you when they’ve had a few beers.

YOU

> I'm sorry you had to work with unprofessional assholes that won't take 'no' for an answer, but your experience is not license to slander literally half of the planet.

Your argument is as if the OP was saying that half of men on the planet come and hit on her specifically and inappropriately. For fucks sake.
The guy was an incel (before the term existed) and also evolved to become raging mad (but not clinically insane).
But sellfy started at under 5% fees and selly was originally free. These are the pricing models they moved to with the hopes of growing beyond the percent commissions which honestly isn't that great for the general “indie” market.

They do both have multiple clones that have popped up and which you could eventually probably find for free.

Sellfy sort of went with artists if I remember correctly. Another one focused on films. Another on ebooks. Others stay general to digital products but be aware you're also going to have to combat fraud.

Rocketr continues to process orders but development did for the most part stall after not being able to move toward payment processing more generally (costly).

Sharing this as a former team member
> due to a sexual relationship that she had been having with her make supervisor

Am I wrong or does the statement make no indication that the sexual relationship was non-consensual?
No black engineers or accountants in 1950? Whats the pay gap between you and a knowledgeable employee?
I feel like calling it "Hacker News" is a bit of a misnomer at this point, right? /s
Its not groundbreaking, it's just a condensed package of foundational knowledge that you'd be expected to understand implicitly. It's just a nice overview, all in one short book, that's all. It's a different category of thing.

The article is a technical overview of the way a single designer creates icons with a specific tool. The book isn't practical tips [well it is, but not at all the same]

If you're not interested in designing and just want to, say, add some icons to a set and call it a day, then that's fine

It's just, if you want to actually get very good at...anything I guess, there are base level skills and knowledge that you have to be able to unconsciously apply.

eg for a similar field, when learning to draw, you need to understand perspective, composition, effect of light. You do things like draw people without looking at the paper, over and over and over again. Or draw light hitting solids: spheres or cubes or pyramids. That's kinda the bulk of what you do for quite a long time. And I think that basically applies to most fields.

If you are not that interested in mastering it, then just following a step by step tutorial will get you a result, but it's just not the same thing -- there's nothing wrong with it, it just is what it is.

Edit: I think the article is great! I really liked the explanation of his process, it's really useful, I don't want to trivialise it. In-depth breakdowns of process by skilled people who know what they are doing are great
iOS requires apps to be signed with a certificate that chains to an Apple root of trust. The only way around this is jailbreak.

IMO this shouldn't be legal.
it's not an excuse; as with xenophobia and racism, these are phenomena which have to be understood and not dismissed. You cannot solve racism by just stating "races don't exist, here's the DNA evidence etc etc" perhaps implying that you're just an ignorant redneck if you don't understand science. Even if said science is solid, some people will not be moved by it because their bias doesn't stem from a misunderstanding of science (or math) but from somewhere deeper, and you don't have to excuse it in order to understanding and use that understanding to counter it.
Even children typically have some money. Not a lot, yes, but some, however, not all people who have phone numbers have addresses, as even homeless people will utilize cheap prepaid numbers or take advantage of programs designed to provide cheap cellphones to the needy.
This is a pretty glossy presentation of scary phenomena. It’s unsurprising that the Russian government wants to point to open sea lands and mammoth ivory as upsides of climate change. But, besides the emissions of permafrost, Russia might have to deal with the release of long-contained nuclear waste, buried anthrax and other dormant but malignant organisms as the permafrost turns to marsh.
> channel stuffing

I'm slightly confused, and forgive my ignorance: how do you channel stuff software? I mean, granted this is 2009 - 2011, but even back then were Autonomy really selling software as a physically packaged good, or is there some way that virtual goods can be channel stuffed? (E.g., selling a shedload of license keys to resellers, many of which remain unsold to end users? Would that be something that even applied to the software Autonomy made?)

EDIT: Similarly, for roundtripping, doesn't there need to be another company or companies involved? Doesn't there have to be some collusion? And if so, who are these other parties and why aren't we hearing about them?

EDIT 2: This might explain the channel stuffing comment, and provide some mechanism for it: "fraudulently concealed from investors and market analysts the scale of Autonomy’s hardware sales".
Maybe I am getting this wrong but that is not the opposite.

I think OP said: An UK citizen can be extradicted from the UK to the US just by having done a thing that it is illegal in the US but not in the UK.

You said: An US citizen can be charged in the US if he committed a crime abroad even if that thing is not typified as illegal in the US.

Wake me up when an US citizen is extradicted to the UK because he did something perfectly legal in Washington but which is considered a crime in London.
Touché, I edited it. I still thought it's worth keeping the comment because people might not always realise how useful these hacks can be when performance is important e.g. games.
I think you're missing a lot of information here.

"Without states, there are no borders"

Well, the 'Nation State' is a modern concept, so no.

But if you were to say 'borders imply an administrative region of some kind' - then maybe.

But even without official, stated administrative organization, 'borders' still exist as the demarcation point between groups.

"You can’t just ignore the existence of the nation-state in discussing borders."

I absolutely did not, and I have no idea what you are referring to here.

"your argument here completely falls apart for America. "

No, it doesn't.

Start with the point that most 'states' (or administrative regions) in history, have been ethnocentric. From Egypt through Minoan, Greek, Roman etc..

Some more so than others. The US, no, Sweden, mostly.
Then.....extending distribution wasn't really a problem or lesson learned. It's a nice to have.
Umm... no automated tests? Junior engineers responsible for security of half of the world without proper code review?
Oh, ok.

That makes more sense; thanks for the clarification.
Perhaps right mouse click on the task bar and check to see if you have a checkmark next to "lock the taskbar"
I don't know why we think the user is some child and try to abstract away any and all complexity from their job, which ends up leading to some proprietary solution with huge inefficiencies somewhere compared to a flat file and a script in python or R. Software like excel is often seen as a way to do stuff you could do in R but without having to write code.

Imo that thinking is wrong because it makes this assumption that doing anything at all with a gui is easy and frictionless. I don't know how to do anything in excel. If I have to look up how to make a plot in excel, I will have to find some article on the internet of how to do that in my particular excel version. Excel is tough software to use that only becomes easier after you spend time with it (hint hint, just like programming). If I don't know how to make a plot in R, I might also have to find an article. It's no different, no harder, usually easier in fact, to just do the job in R. All these common tasks in R or excel are all 5 min articles worth of information you have to cram in your head.

It's not hard to code, children do it. I'd love to see spreadsheet power users realize that they could be working with much simpler things like parsing plain text files with a few lines of code rather than trying to open some macro heavy spreadsheet on the shared network drive that takes 5 mins just to open on the work issued workstation. I'd guess it would be up to business programs and accounting programs and all these other college majors to actually teach classes in python and R, rather than what they do now which is teach classes in excel. Imo the entrenchment in excel is rooted in ignorance to other (often simpler) options available with python or R, than in any actual critical proprietary features offered by excel. Microsoft is probably pretty happy that their software is so baked into these different academic curriculums, keeping it alive in industry going forward for an entire working persons career after college.
Almost any drug would have been better as long as the supply was clean and stable.

Even heroin can be used intravenously for decades as long as proper caution is observed, but that tends to become a low priority if availability and thus price fluctuates. If quality fluctuates, death by overdose is a matter of time. The opioid epidemic is no joke, but it took a turn for the worse once doctors stopped prescribing opioids and supplies dried out, making people pay inflated prices and/or switch to fentanyl.

At least alcohol is available, so people don’t drink mouthwash.
Not sure if I want more alerts in my life, but i absolutely LOVE a picture of Paul Graham with anime eyes!!
Show HN: Cloud Guardrails – Rapidly apply 100s of security controls in Azure
This take is a little too extreme, it is one you see a lot on the internet, but if you talk to actual women in the industry there are much more varied experiences. Some don’t perceive any problems at all, others do but consider it minor, others are depressed and angry as hell.
I worked at a company that did product testing from spreadsheets. And not statistically modelling them. Like physical products. The spreadsheet logic was controlling power supplies on a physical test bench.
Well, what makes you so sure about your worldview?

How do you become so confident, I want to know?
This seems less about spreadsheets in general and much more about Microsoft not wanting Excel to eat into sales of Access and SQL server.

Even now the limit is ~1million rows, meaning that if you have even a very simple table but lots of rows then you have to pay more for Access.
I like that you kept at it for 1.5 year - it is inspiring me to pick up some projects I've half-started.
The reason the survival rate across all ages is so high is because the elderly are bearing the brunt of this. If I knew grandma and grandpa had basically a dice-roll's chance of dying from COVID I wouldn't be putting too much stock into that 99% number.
A nice post, brought low by the unfortunate fact that it misses the primary reason we were able to eradicate smallpox (and it wasn't data tracking):

smallpox had no animal reservoirs

Most viruses (and other diseases) have animal reservoirs, and that's why few diseases which ever get widespread, are ever eradicated, and it's nothing to do with spreadsheets.

Now if he wanted to make a point about data, it would be good to mention that we have very little data on, say, how many species have which of these diseases, and how that's changing over time. But that wouldn't have much to do with spreadsheets either.
It might be an innante intractable problem of your religion, though.
This raises a question I've always wondered:

How many of you prefer to run a native app rather than the web app?

Personally I hate installing things on my desktop if there is a website because it is just another thing I have to manage. (Even more so because I have multiple Windows, Mac and Linux boxes I'm bouncing around between during the day and rather just have sync'd Firefox bookmarks than have to install s/w on each box.)

Am I in the minority, majority, both, neither?
> That's patently false.

Gamergate started because a dude spread lies about his ex-gf. Not a single one of his accusations regarding her behavior or the behavior of employees of gaming websites was true.

It was always, always about harassing women. It still is. The main places where Gamergate is still discussed are chock full of misogynist bullshit.

The gaming publishing industry does have conflict of interest issues, but Gamergate approached and approaches the problem from an entirely wrong-headed point of view. Criticism of the industry should be entirely detached from the clusterfuck that is Gamergate.
FYI, it's not nowadays obscure. There's a current series The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show on Netflix, and Hollywood made a Mr. Peabody and Sherman movie (by Dreamworks) in 2014.
I suggest that you have some mental issues to sort out, is there someone you can talk to?
The limit is far more how tight you can beamform the signals and how much usable spectrum there is: this is the fundamental thing limiting the density and hence number of users starlink can have.
Gavin Newsom invites world's homeless to California
So I could test out a storefront for no cost, and if it looks like it isn't viable it's not much of a loss?

Is there any kind of tracking or metrics? Like if I setup a storefront, could I A/B test different marketing copy and be able to figure out what was working?

This frankly sounds pretty awesome.
Does the Algolia hackernews api ( the specific API this client uses ) still require you to query in a tree like fashion, every comment item id if you want an entire page of comments?

Its extremely inefficient, to the point where I have a better time curling the HN web page and piping it through python beautifulsoup

Regarding a native app vs the using the HN website. The HN website I think is pretty ideal for the type of content its displaying, a native app doesn't give you much over having a HN tab open. I guess only if you want to read HN but not have a web browser open? But how often does that happen?

The only benefit I see from a native app ( and why I use one on Android ) is the ability to save articles and comments for offline reading, say, when I get on a plane.
Cutting steak with a fork is a pretty good metaphor for working with a spreadsheet heavy enterprise team.
I am not sure if you are arguing if that is how it is or how it should be.
> I do get we should not be importing endangered s pieces of wood. This seems like someone overreacted?

Exotic wood is in many ways like conflict diamonds. It funds some quite horrible people who will denude a country of its exotic wood if allowed--we have seen this in action already.

Enforcement is far easier on the US side than on the origin side--which is normally some corrupt as hell dictatorship with people who are brutally poor.
This is meaningless, since it conflates tobacco smoking with pure nicotine. In reality, tobacco smoke contains dozens if not hundreds of different psychoactive chemicals, and certain ones acting as monoamine oxidase inhibitors contribute heavily to tobacco dependence.
Many Have the Worst Summer Cold Ever
> You can tell a professional icon, because it's crisp and clean when displayed.

I've got to disagree with that part -- these days you have no control over pixel alignment or blurry edges. Both OS-level and browser-level zoom is the norm, not the exception, which means your icon edges will usually straddle pixels. And on retina-level displays, the alignment/blur doesn't really matter anyways.

Designing icons to some fixed pixel grid in order to achieve "crispness" is a relic from a 72dpi or 96dpi past that is in the process of entirely disappearing.

So it's not something to worry about anymore, and certainly not something that separates "professional" icons from non-professional ones.
Interesting. I wish the article went more into this subject though.
I agree about the IC terminology.

The best I've seen so far is "maker" vs "manager"
Sure, but MariaDB is the more obvious choice surely?
Yes, but in many cases it does (not-huge companies with enough data on role, experience, location to disambiguate)...
Wouldn’t Vienna with the RSS feed give you the same?
If you stop integer values from being implicitly convertible to booleans, you break the language and its compatibility with C.

The inverse is debatable, though. I honestly don't see why someone would do bitwise operations on boolean, unless they really wish to die a slow death from thousand cuts. Integer promotion rules make even the simplest operations a wild mess, and there's nothing in the standard that prevents bool from having a sizeof equal to int (thus further complicating everything).

It might be sensible for newer language revisions to consider deprecating certain operators from being applied to bool, given that there is a strong change that 99% of the time their use is not on purpose, but I guess it depends on how much disruptive such change would turn out to be.
If looking for a lower-bound to the expected impact, some early analysis that helps clarify what “conservative” model inputs look like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949379
I've definitely been in a company where they referred to me pointedly as an IC, as a way to signal they were not interested in me taking on tech leadership roles. I got the fuck out.
Is weed legal and culturally accepted where you live?