skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>say what you want about MS Teams, but they improved their product by leaps and bounds over the pandemic, much of which after the first 6 months

Did they? I've been using it at my company for years, since long before the pandemic, and I don't think I've seen any improvements since the first day I started using it until now. Every issue I have with it has gone unchanged. The only change I can think of is when they added support for custom video backgrounds and blur, which is helpful but doesn't really affect the experience of the app itself.

I find it funny how at work I use this giant behemoth's chat app I hate and then when I'm done with work I use this silly app (that used to be) for people who play video games, Discord, which has had a far superior UI/UX to Teams for years and keeps getting better and better. For every issue I have with Teams, the same issue has never been present with Discord. Every time I use Teams I just wish I was using Discord.

And I'm not a Discord shill or something. It's just such a weird contrast. It feels like Discord has been enterprise-ready for years and Teams has never stopped being a toy rip-off. Trying to share anything technical or code-related has always been super seamless for Discord and is still basically a nightmare every time I try to do it with Teams.
It was called Technorati.
Girl Beats Rabies, No Vaccine (2004)
If you want to eat a vegetable patty, why does it have to be a fake meat burger? Why can't you enjoy a falafel?

More to the point, if you want to stop eating meat, why do you have to eat pretend-meat? If you're cutting out a major food group from your diet you're already making a huge commitment in time and effort to eat in a certain way while not missing out on nutrients (so no excuses about how it's simpler to eat fake meat). So why not spend this time and effort to learn to cook tasty, delicious foods, without meat?

Why not spend this time and effort to learn to cook the many traditional dishes of the many world cuisines that are majority vegetarian or vegan, that teem with dishes that are absolutely heavenly, without any animal products in them? Learn to cook Indian, or Mediterranean, or African, or Thai. Learn to cook with olive oil instead of butter, learn to cook succulent, decadent aubergine casseroles and succulent legume dishes. Learn to cook! And don't leave your nutrition to the same old actors in the same old food industry that is destroying the environment and abusing animals with industrial beef (and pig, and chicken) production.

Remember that the biggest investors in meat substitutes are... giant meat and dairy conglomerates. Check out this article:

https://www.just-food.com/features/eyeing-alternatives-meat-...

Recognise any names?
Yes, I was growing up with these, and spent a lot of 15-kopeck coins in these devices. The graphics was awful, but the games were... playable. The shooting games worked flawlessly. The "sea battle" torpedo launcher simulator was awesome, with realistic ship silhouettes. The games were not unlike Tetris: simple, but ingenious and addictive.
I have an old Medium account with the partner program activated. It doesn't earn a ton but I'm averaging ~ $10 per 2,500 views. 50k => $1,000 seems steep, but maybe their category is worth more. In addition, you can earn more for new reader referrals.
The reason they do it is a strategy called 'commoditize your complement'. [1]

If browsers were all private, and they had power and control, it'd be harder for G and MS to poke through.

So the 'erase' a layer of the value chain by making it all open-source.

One less barrier between them and the customer.

Chrome is as important to Google as many other things, it's just not where the revenue is captured.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/Complement
So it’s mandatory abortions then? Must be in response to Texas.
Are you at the right time? The time settings are strange - something going on with timezones perhaps.
Frankly they (archive.is) wouldn't have this issue if they used BGP anycast. DNS was never designed to facilitate regional load balancing.
I’m no expert at physics but the towers were more “collapsible” so they would absorb more of the momentum from the planes.
The entire point of ECS is to give the location, not the actual origin IP, which might be something you'd like to avoid giving away. The main point is that every resolver or network switch in the chain gets the ECS and would be able to combine it with the domain being requested. If you don't only visit Facebook/Google, your ipv4 /24 in combination with some obscure domain only you visit is very likely to give up your identity should an IX or resolver be watching for requests to such domain.
With the pandemic you have it exactly backwards, the goal of mask and vaccine mandates is actually to increase personal freedom and civil liberty, by preventing spread of the virus that has already claimed many lives.
Fair use applies i think.
I suppose it beats them thinking 'hey remote is great, why don't we start hiring more aggressively in Ukraine instead of Redmond'. If everything is remote companies won't have to pay non-remote wages anymore.
Woman cannot tell the gender without a help of technology. Technology can amplify good or bad results of person's actions . Therefore I would argue it requires debate and establishment of norms that are outside of natural laws.
That’s quite the accusation. What makes you say that?
Things on archive.org get DMCA'ed all the time
Props to You!. Very rare these days to see people just speak their honest mind anywhere, not just here on HN. I had an interview scheduled for July 2020. COVID hit and my plans changed and since then pivoted multiple times towards finally settling down on a niche where I have someone on the inside to help me out with MVP development.
Both sites are important, used by Wikipedia editors, and used by journalists worldwide.
https://efail.de/
Boundaries, especially explicit ones with clear contracts, are healthy and enable innovation (via refactoring, automation, efficient onboarding, quality control). In the organizational recesses, hiding within unaccountable reporting, away from healthy boundaries, is where sociopaths grow most influential.
Saudi Arabia is not a regime. It’s the most powerful tribal family in a country of family/tribes all of whom have the same perspective. Never mind the fact that it’s a very rich country in country with obnoxious human rights abuses when it comes to migrant workers but still has no poverty. Even amongst the migrants. Not to mention that in my opinion they treat women exactly how they should be treated.
"Communism" or "capitalism" just means "bad thing" according to different people.
I’m not going to debate your stance on how you assess someone’s motivations, but it does seem like you shouldn’t attempt to present your speculation as fact.
I personally cashed in >$1m in CD's and bought stocks because of my fear of being left behind because of inflation. Many of my CD's were callable, so I really had no choice.
Errors Found in Distributed Protocols
Do you give up rights to your work by posting on Medium?

Also, do you have a link to your work?
Why do you think this is a relevant critique to the article/paper? The study is about a global trend in increasing appendage size within populations due to warming ("Allen's rule"), not whole body size ("Bergmann's rule"). Secondly, the role of food is acknowledged as a potential factor in the section on causality, but justifiably rejected as the sole factor.
The American Car Dealership Is for Sale
Absolutely! I started a scheduled call for a weekly "monorepo morning tea" for people interested in the mechanics of our monorepo and how we build/version/distribute software in-house. No agenda, no commitment, the meeting link is posted weekly via a Slack reminder to a public channel. It gets a couple of folks from our build farm team, a couple of people who are experts in specific languages/runtimes (Python, Node, etc.), a couple of SREs, a couple of random developers across the company who find this stuff interesting, etc. The topics tend to be pretty wide-ranging but it's a good way to find people doing interesting and relevant work that you might not ordinarily think of talking to and hear what's on their minds.

Also, my company already had (before the pandemic) a voluntary program to match with random coworkers to get lunch, specifically to facilitate this sort of thing, and that's been turned into online coffee chats. Seems to work pretty well.

If you value these serendipitous interactions as part of your company culture, then it behooves you to properly support and encourage them. You can't just set off a weird smell and let the two coworkers who feel like speaking up meet each other. They're probably the least shy people on the floor and know each other anyway.
Yes, sorry, not the first. Too late to edit, unfortunately.
Causality bias
I think they mean they're working on an alternative standard, not anywhere near "we give you an API to match DNS requests to origin city". These talks might have been as simple as "we'll give you [and everyone] geoip information for the datacenters we request from based on IP, and you can load balance off that".
Some dev boards have a PCIe slot with an "open back".
All promo juice was squeezed

/s

I heard it was the combo of battery life and ability to package an SoC that could perform the features they wanted wasn’t available.
I am frequently paranoid about things that people don't think. One of those is inhaling microparticles from whatever wood/plastic combos get overheated there.
It’s always at “your own expense.” Me and my partner who also works full time wound up moving to a two-bedroom unit down the hall. Why would the company pay for this?
I think the hardest thing remote work has to replicate is just random small talk between smart people that can lead to great ideas. This speech from Richard Hamming about Bell Labs sticks in my mind, especially the segment about open vs closed office doors. I'd say remote work is objectively better for pure productivity in terms of getting things done, but you run the risk of limiting innovation I think

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

>Another trait, it took me a while to notice. I noticed the following facts about people who work with the door open or the door closed. I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don't know quite know what problems are worth working on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in importance. He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important. Now I cannot prove the cause and effect sequence because you might say, ``The closed door is symbolic of a closed mind.'' I don't know. But I can say there is a pretty good correlation between those who work with the doors open and those who ultimately do important things, although people who work with doors closed often work harder. Somehow they seem to work on slightly the wrong thing - not much, but enough that they miss fame.
Ask HN: Why can't I use my body fat to power my devices?
Hi - This sounds like sci-fi brain storming, but I am actually asking a serious question.

I often think that the key to weight-loss in 21st century could be some kind of way to convert energy stored in our body to electricity. Maybe you can plug in your laptop to your body, or have a chip inside your body to mine Bitcoin or whatever. After some research, I assume the generated energy would not be that much but the goal here is to find a way to burn [use/waste] the extra energy so that you can lose weight.

Any input on this would be appreciated.
I haven’t. I’m going to watch it tonight, thanks for the recommendation!
Lol. I’ll just leave a quote instead of a reply.
“There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” — Samuel Clemens
The fallback has to be client dependent. With E2EE the server can't decrypt messages. So there's no way for the server to decrypt the message to "downgrade" the channel. The client is also the node responsible for encrypting all messages for all recipients so it has to know if any of those recipients haven't done a key exchange.
That "free 3 articles" is REALLY annoying. We are actually building a content-oriented app and Medium is the #1 example of what we DON'T wanna become on all the meetings. Having a completely subscribed platform? Fine. Giving some stuff free then asking for money (Which in my case switching to Private Browsing/Incognito): annoying. It might look nice for authors, but at the end of the day it's the readers who enable that monetization. If you can't make readers happy, they'll eventually go away no matter how compelling the platform looks for the authors. And I frankly want to see quality content move to other platforms that deserve to be monetized and doesn't annoy readers.
Yes!

I expect any app or service to at least warn me first before they instigate unsolicited actions on my behalf.

Signal has no doubt already legally covered their ass with regards to me giving this consent.

However in reality I never would have allowed this if I was asked or even given a fraction of a hint as to what was about to happen once I gave them the requested permissions to be installed.
It’s pretty shadowy for sure.

There’s basically no information on the web site about the company, how they operate, who finances them, what their privacy policy is, or even how to contact them. Their “blog” is an anonymous Tumblr site.
Attacking another user like that will get you banned here. Please read the rules and stick to them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've been posting flamewar comments repeatedly, and that's not what this site is for, so I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
I don't think we need metaphors to grasp what it is. Its importance is so obvious, even the people that wrote copyright law created an exemption for.

That exemption includes an opt-out provision. And while I could see how ignoring such requests could be in the public interest in some cases, ignoring them wholesale is fundamentally incompatible with any view of morality that condemns "doxing".
This seems like really stretching the analogy just to remove personal responsibility.

If I am the father of the missing children and I see the "family and friends" sharing their condolences, I would go talk to them first. If someone comes with pictures trying to accuse someone of something, no matter how shocking the accusations, there would still be the question of (a) why is someone bothering with taking pictures and not taking to the authorities beforehand and (b) what are the consequences for me if I went on a rampage attack based on bogus evidence.

To get a little bit on topic: the reason that censorship is worse than misinformation is that we should always operate on the premise that our information is incomplete, inaccurate or distorted by those controlling the information channels.

Without censorship, I can listen to different sources (no matter how crazy or unsound they are) and I can try to discern what makes sense and does not. With censorship, any dissent is silenced, so we get one source of information - who can never get questioned - or worse we get to see many sources of information but only the ones that are aligned with the censors and gives us a false consensus and the illusion of quality in information.

Only idiots can walk around in the world of today and confidently repeat whatever they hear from "official" sources as unquestionable truths.
Reminds me of this quote from anyone's grandmother...

"The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence."
I recall in the 70s electro-mechanical games were pretty common here (Italy), just a few years before Pong, Asteroids and later Space Invaders and Pacman changed it all. There was that shooting game with the base projecting beams shaped as flying birds on a big screen and real size rifles with photocells that would score a point when hitting a bird, or the bear hunting game, probably using IR as I don't recall any visible beams, then F1 racing games, naval warfare ones, and many others I don't recall atm. And of course pinball, the king of all mechanical games. If I invested 10% of what I spent there I would have some serious money by now:).
Those games were mostly electro-mechanical, built to perform one function and of course not programmable, they likely had just the minimum electronics necessary to play sounds or drive actuators. Taking one apart would have an enormous instructional factor.
First of all, we waste a lot of food, so reducing that would help get part of that 0.2% carrot.

The figures hardly support weight loss as a solution, but even if it were, we couldn't do it. Every time we've faced a major issue, "do less of the bad thing because it helps directly solve the problem" doesn't work. We do the bad thing because it's something we find valuable, and each one of us doing it doesn't add terribly much to the heap. Note I'm talking about tragedy of the commons type issues. Not smoking really does help the individual not get lung cancer, and people did it.

What works is when new tech is invented/expanded:

- Drowning in horse poop? "Ride your horse less" didn't work, inventing cars worked.

- Bad air quality? "Use your car less" is hard when it's so useful to drive to places. Then someone invented catalytic converters.

- Ozone layer hole? Was the answer to use less cold storage? It was non-CFC fridges.

The same is true with our CO2 issue. Telling people to eat less, fly less, drive less, etc just ain't gonna work. The thing to try is to invent our way out of it. Fusion, solar, electric transport, batteries, and a bunch of others are what we need, and it can't go fast enough. Techies have bailed the world out of every shitty situation ever (yes including sewer engineers) and if we get out of this one it will be techies who are to thank.
"worst-case they're a little nuts and talking shit"
That is NOT the worst case. If they were serious in the bounty case it could result in punishment for multiple people and reward of $10000 for the "trolls".
In the trans case, it could result in child abuse or animal abuse.
And this would be true if even ONE of those posts were serious. Not to mention it could give actual crazy people some horrible ideas.
In light of today's date,remember that Sudan offered up Osama Bin Ladin to the US in the 90s before shipping him off to Afghanistan. Imagine if the US didn't dismiss the offer as "well you are just offering us one crazy guy and we don't care". 3000+ people in NYC and millions in the Middle East and South East Asia would be safer.
I assumed he wanted to get back at Saddam Hussein for trying to assassinate his father.
You really can, though. This discussion is considered “solved” in most of the so-called civilized world.

Your argument could be equally applied to other topics that were once debated hotly but now are mostly considered “solved”, such as “is it good to have slaves”, or “should women be allowed to vote”.
> Ostensibly, if half of your human intellectual capital as a nation is getting underutilized, it makes sense that you're gonna be poorer, and poorer countries are probably inherently less stable.

That depends. Slavery underuses the intellectual capital of slaves but makes the society richer. Humans don't only have their intelligence to offer.
>we must be less cynical about the motivations of those that seek temporal power

is there anyone not seeking temporal power? Are private sector shareholders on a quest for spiritual enlightenment or something? Is the board of Facebook filled with Zen Buddhists?

The notion that competing for petty status and power is somehow unique to administration and government is one of the consequences of shows like Yes, Minister. And actually yes, we should be less cynical of civil servants and politicians. A pathological disregard of them has, for example, significantly worsened one of the worst public health crisis in decades.
Past threads:

No Medium – Build Your Own Site, Please - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19602238 - April 2019 (11 comments)

No Medium - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19442873 - March 2019 (3 comments)
Why did you have 1M in CDs in the first place?
Did experts-exchange ever have any real experts anyway?
Would you mind linking to your medium blog?
To be fair a 22kW generator is massive overkill for anyone not living in a 8000 square foot home.
"Most movers to Texas are from California and Florida":

https://apnews.com/article/texas-business-census-2020-scienc...
Well there is https://www.netlifycms.org/
If you are drinking 3 beers during your breaks forget any health benefit my friend
Your comment makes no sense to me. The guy wanted something, he went after it, and he succeeded. How is that a slave mentality?
Firefox lets you set up custom search engines with bookmarks' keyword and %s replacement variable

So I have a bookmark to "https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+-medium.com+-quora.com+-a..." and "g" as keyword

When I type "g center div" in my search bar, I will get a search page for "center div" with all of my excluded sites
What I like most about PGP is message signing.
A signed message can prove to the receiving party that it was really me who send the message.
Also it does not require any setup on the receiving end.
Apparently adding this hoop is filtering for a lot more readers who are willing to pay, though. You're probably not willing to pay. I'm not either. From a financial point of view, both of our opinions on the Medium paywall are worth absolutely nothing.

There are other ways to make money on the internet, personally I like the "post shit everywhere for free, have a Patreon" model, which is giving me similar numbers of around $1k/mo for not much energy put into promotion, with a little bit more every month as my patrons grow. But some people like putting up paywalls, and it's their choice to do that with whatever they're creating.
Exactly. If he believed it to the degree he espoused it, he would have put up an actual female candidate for public office. Instead, for decades he ran for various public offices.
Patriot Act is unconstitutional. You think I watch Faux News?

By the way, the first article on your site has nothing to do with the title. You don't even mention lossless audio format in the entire body, just pure UX gripes with the app (design and bugs).

You must be real smart though. Have you thought about applying to work at the White House?
The resource usage required to tank a small startup (that could’ve become a bigger customer later) is probably peanuts to Amazon. I’m not sure how often they do this (or whether they do it at all) but it would make business sense for them to occasionally grant “billing forgiveness” in serious situations.
Love the name move-78.
I feel like you're not giving enough credit to a professional programmer.
Because they don't have to pay for those offices anymore. If the company is allowing for remote work, they can also downsize those offices (subject to lease conditions), saving piles of money. (Commerical space is expensive!) If some of those savings aren't passed onto their employees, those employees will choose to move to a different company that has a more general WFH allowance, probably get a raise in the process, and work with a company that's just generally less obtuse to work at/for.
> Preindustrial diets where mostly plant based in aggregate.

You’re telling me my snow-bound ancestors were eating vegetables in the dead of winter, prior to the advent of agriculture?
I took a look at that, and it's completely incomprehensible to me why I should use it and what actual benefits I get for adding all this extra tooling and complexity as compared to just having a company monorepo for reusable components.
Brazilian regulator still unsatisfied with safety of 12M Coronavac doses
Very topical satire from The Onion: https://youtu.be/vb5rHthCXoA