skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly, the Government blames "Havana Syndrome" on 'adversaries', instead of admitting that the Syndrome is really a workplace injury, caused by unrecognised (as yet) workplace activities.

Those 'adversaries' are remarkably scattered all around the world, even in Washington DC.
Even Antarctica?
Perhaps my tone was lost, but I was describing the typical American tech company, not what I think is right. I'm agree with your values, but I don't think the economy is setup to support those values.

Looks like Henry Ford discovered that profit was affected by overworking. He was still maximizing that function, no?

Sometimes that function includes making the worker happier, but sometimes it is inversely related.

re: startups, my point was that they have near zero chance of succeeding against large incumbents by moving at a leisurely pace. Sure, great technologies can be invented slowly. But once great tech is given VC money, it's a race. That race has created such a lead between the US and every other country in the tech world.
The #1 message I got from Creativity Inc is the amount of luck involved, something which Catmull acknowledges in the book and even points he might have survivor bias.

Luck: Lucas let them leave as a division rather than just shut them down or have them each choose other divisions.

Luck: They didn't get sold to HP but instead to Jobs

Luck: Jobs was willing to blow 70 million over 4 years on them failing to be a computer company before letting them pivot to movies. Lots of people could probably pull some level of success from being given $70 million+ (though probably not Pixar level success)

Luck: Lassiter didn't get fired earlier for sexual harassment (not in the book)

Luck: Catmull didn't get sued for illegal anti-competitive practices. (not in the book)

Of course I love many Pixar movies and respect the amount of effort and talent that goes into them.
One Chromium runtime managing five tabs is more efficient than five Chromium runtimes running one site each (because those instances aren't able to share anything with one another).
Ha that thing that moves on the side got me.
Perhaps happiness is not produced by amazement alone.
Searching for Mr. X (2021)
I think the difference is a real vs nominal increase in supply. Is the quantity of supply higher or is the supply just being used more efficiently? It is the difference between roads being added and the speed limit being increased.

Lots of topics in economics are talked about as if they occur in isolation, but that rarely happens in practice. The bandwidth example includes both because we were increasing efficiency of existing data lines as well as adding more lines, but I think the latter was much more impactful than the former.
My art newsletter is very dumb:

https://randomdailyart.com

The website is a static site made with go hugo.

The art is just data in a flat yml file that I manually update every week.

A zapier zap tells netlify to update the site, daily, from the github repo.

An email service sends the emails automatically by dynamically pulling the data in from the static json endpoint.
Thanks for the tip about the long press, I had no idea - this will be useful for some contacts that have installed Signal some time ago but forgotten about it (and haven't deregistered their number!).
SMS/MMS is insecure, so ability to replace an authenticated iMessage user with an SMS recipient in existing groups would endanger the whole groups.
Zero-Interest-Rate Policy Explains the World (2020)
How is that any worse than iMessage degrading to the lowest common denominator of SMS/MMS? And SMS/MMS is a much lower common denominator than RCS.

Look, I'm not asking for the perfect messaging system here. Because we're never going to get that. I just want something secure and private, and that works by default. Agreed that other client implementors don't have to support E2EE, but Google does, and Apple certainly would, and that covers enough cases right now to make me happy.

I'd grudgingly accept an iMessage app for Android, or (better) iMessage integration with the stock Android app. But I'd much prefer a standard that isn't controlled by a single company's goodwill... goodwill that they have already shown is in short supply.
I think this is probably why we'll eventually have some sort of carbon rationing if we really want to take limiting carbon emissions seriously. There's only so much making things more efficient can accomplish.
> an individual's Messages label that happens to look like their phone number.

So it looks like your phone number, but isn't. Have fun explaining that to any random trying to message you at your phone number.

> then remove the label yourself before ditching your iPhone

First: thanks for the link, I genuinely didn't know Apple added a service to deregister. It took them so long.

Then, you still have a flurry of issues if you want to keep iMessage for some people on your iPad or Mac for instance, but switch to an android phone. You can deregister the number, but contacts that were using your email in iMessage (so "the label that looks like your email but actually isn't") and try to just send a message to "you" (your name in the "To" field) will send an iMessage when every party involved really wants an SMS to be sent.

I think you'll blame the user for not understanding the situation, that what worked before won't anymore, and they should either realize your phone is not on the "blue bubbles" anymore and they need to force "green bubbles" even if they're sending messages to seemingly the same person using the same app. And they propably will need to do that at every message until they realize they need to recreate a new thread, explicitely with your phone number this time.
Can’t you make up for nutrition dense foods with supplements?
I remember a time where I kept that DSL link saturated, because there was enough bandwidth to download anything I wanted, but it might take twelve hours. With fiber, I can download just about anything in seconds, and as a result I don't download anything until I actually need it.

Over-abundance has the upside that there is no need to over-consume, as there is in the case of a generous but still limited resource.

Of course, on the other hand, over-abundance easily leads to excessive waste, which is where metering plays a role. Even for a very cheap resource.
Tipping is governed by two separate races to the bottom:

* Buying social prestige amongst your group by showing generosity.

* Buying better service by showing generosity.

Both these result in motivation in favor of tipping more and against tipping less. Both of these require your tips to be above average, and not everyone can be above average.

What makes it somewhat tricky is that tipping to show generosity is a type of virtue signalling. And virtue signalling generally doesn't work if you admit you are doing it for self serving reasons. Since the best liars believe their own lies, our brain is resistant to acknowledging that these are the true reasons behind tipping. It prefers to pick justifications that align with the virtue being signalled.
Now find a company that has 30% profits (= revenue - money that they spend).

Grocery stores run on <2%.
I'm actually surprised either Microsoft, Slack or a new startup in the space haven't made a native app yet. Wouldn't even need to be all of them; Teams could be a native Windows app and keep the electron one for mac/linux/mobile. Or Slack could make a native Mac one first.

Seems quite mad considering the use/value of the tools and the absolutely enormous user base they have.
What if those already-used tools weren't as-good for writing Smalltalk programs?

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> … its own OS and GUI.

Well there are examples of bare metal Smalltalk (I'm guessing we could say the same of Java?)

https://github.com/michaelengel/crosstalk

but that was kind-of unusual and afaik commercial Smalltalk implementations targeted specific host OSes.

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Similarly back in the '80s commercial Smalltalk implementations provided their own GUI L&F (and in the '90s Java provided their CrossPlatformLookAndFeel aka Metal).

When OS GUIs became available in the '80s, Smalltalk implementations either targeted specific host OS GUIs (so on MS Win use MS Win controls) or provided portable GUIs based on emulated L&Fs (OS/2, Motif, MacOS, MSWin) (and in the '90s Java provided AWT/Swing…).

IBM Smalltalk (Visual Age) GUIs were based on what would become in the '90s Java SWT.

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So no, not really "its own OS and GUI" — when GUIs became provided by the host OS, Smalltalk implementations provided ways to use the platform L&F.
Why do you think writing libraries is usually better?
"a bunch of empty cars beside you wasting space"

So if you're sending your car to pick up your grandparents, you are 'wasting space' for the first leg of the journey if you don't sit in the car during the round trip?
I mean I agree with you but the fact that iCloud does not provide a decent Api and OAuth makes it significantly worse in terms of lock in than Google.
If someone already has managed to swap/clone/steal my SIM, them being able to disable RCS on my number is pretty low on the list of problems I am going to care about.
Almost no inflation, and yet wages were growing? Sounds great. It's amazing what a lack of cheap credit can do. Cheap credit does allow upward social class mobility, but at the expense of a rat race economy, inflation, stifling wage growth, and arguably many other negative effects.
To be more specific it's "don't pay in runtime cost for what you don't use". As the OP says that courtesy isn't extended to compile times - simply enabling C++17/20 can balloon your compile times even if you don't touch a single new feature, because the standard headers get more and more bloated with each new version.

https://build-bench.com/b/FW3EPgB1t0fmpIr1TB_vJbbb0Vw

Which is exacerbated even more by the leaky #include system, where you can easily end up pulling enormous standard headers into translation units that don't even reference them directly. The only reprieve is to ban most of the standard library from your project and write your own leaner version from scratch, as most big C++ projects end up doing.
Canada implemented socialized healthcare regionally. Provincial hospitalization insurance was available in Saskatchewan many years before any federal program. So your assertions conflict with the historical fact of how successful social programs came into being.

With regard to homelessness, the solution is to build socialized housing with integrated health services. This will never happen at the federal level until some states (or counties, or cities) take the lead. In line with how a great many people believe federal politics should be.
Hum... We are down in a thread where people are complaining it takes several seconds to see a set of text messages.
Is noone bothered that proposed gradient alternatives go through additional completely different colors?
> There are not many places left to build them

...unless you go radical? https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/anu-finds-530000-potent...
> Remember the Microsoft antitrust charges? It seems silly now, but there was a case made then and there is a similar case to be made here.

Microsoft was accused of using their Windows monopoly to put Netscape out of business. Which monopoly is Apple using to what end, and who are they putting out of business? Microsoft’s behaviour resulted in the Great Web Stagnation in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but there is nothing of the sort here. Facebook, WhatsApp, Signal, Discord, and Telegram seem to be doing ok. So who is being harmed here?

I don’t buy the RCS argument. RCS is insecure and inferior to all the platforms I mentioned, and pushed only by carriers (who I am sure have the users’ interests at heart) and Google.

Also, if we follow your logic, Apple needs to authorise other apps to process SMSes. That would be the equivalent to Microsoft letting users change the default browser. Microsoft was never forced to port IE to any other platform.
> Drilling holes in your boat to sink it means yes, it is sinking "as intended", but it's still an act of sabotage.

No, it's scuttling. "Sabotage" is when you do it to other people's stuff.

It was his code, so it can't have been sabotage.
Healthy Humans Drive the Economy
Refusing to disperse isn't a violent attack on the government. At best, when BLM protests do become violent, they are riots. Until a BLM protest attempts to use force to overthrow a city, state, or federal government, it's a riot at best when violence is involved.

I've not seen anyone having a problem calling BLM riots riots when they happen. I've seen a lot of people struggle to call Jan 6 a riot or insurrection.
To be fair, Discord is only as popular as it is because Microsoft was insistent upon alienating its Skype user base to the maximum extent of its ability.
That would actually mean they can't stop inflation. If you think it's so bad, then you could take down another country by getting its citizens to adopt your new cryptocurrency then inflating it. (More realistically, a small country might adopt a different fiat currency if it's really easy to get because there's a lot of it.)

Luckily most people do want to make transactions in the official currency though; that's the upside of sales taxes.
Regarding teeth, one thought is that over/underbite was less frequent before cutlery became commonplace. Our ancestors had to bite/tear their food using their incisors and canines a lot more than we do, which meant their jaws would strengthen in the biting position - thus with their lower and upper incisors aligned.

Personally I wonder if this would affect speech as well, so perhaps out ancestors sounded different too?
https://outline.com/FyUGg8
Indeed, and to some extent this still applies today.
Interesting. Do those reviews apply to packages as a whole, or different versions of a specific package? Edit: Yes, the reviews can apply to specific versions.

I'm personally a fan of using Debian/Ubuntu packages, because generally code goes through a human before it gets published. That human has already been trusted by the Debian or Ubuntu organization.
I mean, all of that sounds pretty do-able if you put the work in. Ponies? Not a problem. However in my experience the more sophisticated the animal behaviour in my modded Minecraft the less I like it.

Vanilla Minecraft cows produce milk if you click them with a bucket to put the milk in. Convenient. Some packs though provide real cattle. You need a cow, and a bull, and they need to be together with plenty of good food, and then the cow becomes pregnant. So you wait until she gives birth, steal her calf and now you can get milk. Or, you can decide actually you don't need milk that badly and the cows should get on with their lives unmolested.

I don't entirely sympathise with the people who wrote Better Than Wolves, but, you know, their water powered machinery is probably better than wolves considering the effort that went into each feature...
At this point, more people are using Chromium, so more devs target it, so more browsers are based on it. However, in the beginning, Firefox’s engine (Gecko) was harder to embed than Chromium’s engine (Blink).

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/m8cwdu/why_arent_t...
Yeah, I remember the blue bubbles appeared back in this aesthetic
One reason is that Firefox is an older browser design (compared to Chrome), in parts retrofitted. That's a difficult, laborious rut to get out of, especially if your competition has more resources and a big head start. If you're starting a new browser variant, it doesn't make much sense to also start with Mozilla's disadvantage.
> This report identifies, for each of the 50 states, the constitutional and statutory provisions relevant to paramilitary and private militia activity. Importantly, each state has at least one constitutional or statutory provision that applies to the type of paramilitary and private militia activity that may arise at future rallies similar to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

> ICAP has categorized the relevant state laws into four groups: (1) constitutional provisions requiring the subordination of the military to civilian authorities; (2) statutes restricting unauthorized private militia activity; (3) anti-paramilitary-activity criminal laws; and (4) prohibitions on the false assumption of the uniform or duties of a peace officer or member of the military. The report describes these categories in more detail below and notes which states have statutes or constitutional provisions falling into each category. Following that summary is a chart listing each state’s relevant provisions, and finally each constitutional or statutory provision in full, organized by state. The chart also includes annotations of relevant case law.

* https://www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-content/uploads/sites...
Unfortunately that approach doesn't work for many (most?) use cases.
No, like he said... you don't inherently _deserve_ anything. Answers, non-answers, good luck, bad luck, wealth, happiness, etc, etc, etc.

Like my kid's kindergarten teacher always says, you get what you get and you don't fuss a bit.

Or from that song "Don't worry be happy":

"In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double."
This is neat!

My version of this is `sqlite-utils memory`, but it only handles JSON, newline-delimited JSON and CSV/TSV at the moment: https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jun/19/sqlite-utils-memory/
One problem solving approach which I adopted around the time that I was very frequently reading Terry's blog was to personify the problem as a combatant. For example, when trying to prove an inequality that seemed straightforward I would focus on how it could be false, and to then consider what structure the resulting 'conspiracy' of variables would have to have. I have a feeling that this is something that Terry did (and I emulated), but I can't remember a specific post.

He also has a very nice post on 'amplification and arbitrage' as tricks for strengthening inequalities.
Skype before Microsoft was great. It was simple and reliable.

Microsoft just kept making it slower, buggier, easier to eavesdrop on, and kept "refreshing" the UI over and over again until it became unbearable.
> This is literally an irrelevant example because it's not related to Wikipedia.

rel·e·vant
/ˈreləvənt/

closely connected or appropriate to what is being done or considered.

appropriate to the current time, period, or circumstances; of contemporary interest.

> New, evolving science (especially as it intersects with many governments' policies) is always going to be wrong to some degree.

Now this is an irrelevant criticism. Nobody asked for an example that isn't in dispute.

New, evolving science is the thing you would expect there to be the most political disputes over because the uncertainty causes people to believe whatever most benefits their coalition.
The source for this is The Reactionary, a right-wing substack blog by "Techno Fog", which has cherry-picked quotes from heavily redacted emails without context of reply thread from very early in the pandemic released by Republicans Jim Jordan and James Comer.
> In 1998, Zimov brought the first horses to what he called Pleistocene Park, a fenced tract of land an hour’s boat ride from the research station. Since then, the park has grown to eight square miles, and it is now home to a hundred and fifty animals, not just horses but bison, sheep, yaks, and camels. To give them a head start, Nikita sped about the territory in the family’s “tank”—a hefty, all-terrain transport vehicle on treads—knocking down trees and under­growth.

For more on the human angle, see this piece, which includes a fascinating video:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/pleisto...
Guess that guy who posted a link to an article about PR teams writing articles wasn't BS.
I do not understand how that would work. The clients don't have any way to synchronize with server changes, so they can read data in an inconsistent state.
This is one of my gripes with the Julia programming language. The community really likes Greek letters and math notation mixed in with their code. And I just can’t.
> in the very same sentence that he attempts to extol the superior intelligence of IT professionals of yore.

Whenever someone tries to express this sort of of thing, I always have to wonder whether these superior professional of yore are pioneers of the industry back in days when commercial commuting was just starting to bud, but it’s always some guys from the mid-late 90s who seem much angrier.
> but for almost the entire decade prior Firefox was unstable trash.

I don't think it was any more unstable than other browsers at the time, however they were the ones who introduced session restore to combat crashing. It's funny how a mitigation to crashing evolved into a must have feature.

I've been using it since it was called Phoenix and trash is the last word I'd use to describe it.
Open Source Tax Software for Filing US Taxes
I have no opinion on the latter, there haven't been any movies except Bond that are in theaters and I'd like to see. You could have just referred to more specific instances of CCP censorship with regard to previous Marvel releases, because I don't follow it and it just comes across as fear-baiting rather than having substance. With respect to those things like Eternals not being released in China, and Hollywood probably wanting to court their audience, afaik it was not released there and I also don't think it looks very good, so I wouldn't necessarily attribute it to censorship because obviously it didn't work to get into that market. Every superhero oriented movie I've seen, or seen a trailer for, looks awful, but unfortunately they often do sell quite well in the North American market and make up disproportionately large amount of released movies over the last decade.

In summary, the movies I've seen that suck tend to just suck. Usually it's because they're way too long, or they don't tell a story very well, or the plot is just rehashed and contrived. James Bond was great, 1917 etc, but others just seem uninspired. To make a case that censorship is the reason, I think you'd need be annoyed with specific aspects of a production, rather than the entire thing.

I think there's an issue on the internet of people wanting to discuss somewhat contentious issues that are assumed to be followed by everyone, like CCP stuff or immigration or trans issues or whatever, but most people just don't care or aren't in that bubble, so it tend to come across as a bit sus unless you can tie it in together and make a reasonable case for it.
But aren’t Brave, Edge and Opera based on Chromium instead of only Blink? Am I missing something?
> The semantic web will never happen if it requires additional manual labor.

Is manual labor the reason things turned out the way they did, with google spending whatever it took to index and monetise the whole web the way it did?

Or might money have something to do with it?