skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's Qt :) - lol, me too though, but seeing QT I thought it was QuickTime TBH (... not really ...)
It wasn't FOMO for me, but rather a exhaustion from interoperability between the two platforms.
Group chats become impossible with iphone users, so you stop being invited. Texts were constantly dropping, so people would think I was ignoring messages.

Just switched from android to iPhone after 12 years of owning and working with android as a developer. I just got tired of fiddling. Most of my social group and family uses iPhone and there's no way the non-technical folks in my life are switching, so... If you can't beat, join.

So now least you've now heard of it from someone other than these articles :shrug:
Appreciate your input. Perhaps it is seen as a waterfall way of doing a things. Personally I would write it alongside building the system, then continue to evolve it as the architecture matures. It does not need to be a case of writing everything down first before building things. Although it might be cheaper to change the words in the document compared to destroying Infra and rebuilding it!

This can then be used to show customers or auditors that we have been diligent and designed the system carefully, even if they find some flaws.
Since I was the one to pitch the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons I should probably try to answer some of these.

I don’t know what kind of a plan would be sufficient for you, but the point of this treaty is to come up with this plan and the signatories are intended to be all the nation’s states. Some very powerful governments (like Austria, Brazil, and Indonesia) have already signed it and it is already ratified by 59 nations. This is hardly a bunch of plebs signing a petition. What I’m pitching here is for you to contact your national government and encourage them to sign it if they haven’t done so already.

I’m not gonna go into the philosophy of violence here. I’m just gonna leave my earlier appeal to authority as good enough of a justification. If the national governments of 86 nations think that total elimination is needed, as described by some of the world’s leading experts at the UN comity which called for this proposal, then perhaps arguments they have are good enough to overcome the problems proposed by the above conjectures of the philosophy of violence.

The preamble of the treaty it self might actually answer some of your concerns. Perhaps you should read it, it is really legible and straight forward. So I will simply refer to it and leave it at that.

https://undocs.org/A/CONF.229/2017/8
Putin’s Challenge to Western Hegemony
Creating social sharing images in Rust
The scarcity is real right now because of supply chain issues and people robbing trains doesn't help. And no, these people aren't "stealing to survive" they're stealing because they can. Crime rates shot up all over the country wherever laws were slackened or police forces torn down.
> We learned that the key to a post reaching the front page was the content itself.

Content is King.
Medium-Well Paywalled? I can only see the hero image and first paragraph.
What's already happening is that languages that aren't tied to their own unique literary cultures are slowly shrinking. The countries that don't have their own media import it, and will often learn other languages to access it rather than waiting for translations of varying quality. France, Germany, South Korea, Japan, and India all have enough unique, untranslated culture to get people to consider learning the languages that culture is written in.

This isn't the case for, say, the Netherlands, or Sweden. And I'd specifically cite the need to import English-language cultural works as driving the use of English in those countries. There's plenty of other countries' whose languages never really had a literary culture to begin with, too - although usually at that point you can find some kind of forced cultural erasure rather than mere economic need to learn English.

>Multilingualism (both in countries and individuals) lessens the zero-sum nature of language competition. But it is costly, in both time and money. Ultimately, some societies may have to put a price on a cultural inheritance that, once lost, is nigh-impossible to recover.

That being said, this is peak anglobrain. The EU bloc is already a deeply multilingual society, and people are perfectly willing to dabble with multiple language proficiencies. Ironically, this is because much of the EU just falls back to English - like, to the point where the EU has it's own dialect of it[0]. French, German, and Spanish are also commonly learned and used as second languages, too.

This "languages are hard to learn" meme is, more than anything, the product of bad educational practices, lack of student motivation, and difficulty in finding speaking partners. For some reason, the entire anglosphere[1] is just plain bad at language education[2]. That's not to say that learning a new language is easy, of course. It's just that we aren't even really trying. The anglosphere is perfectly willing to just sit and make the rest of the world speak our language.

[0] This is known as Euro English.

[1] And, arguably, Japan.

[2] The UK is so bad at it that it was probably the deciding factor in Brexit. Nobody wants to immigrate to countries they can't speak the languages of. This meant that the UK had a uniquely lopsided ratio of immigrants to emigrants, and that much of the UK simply didn't get the benefits of being allowed to leave.
> people will put money behind the research that they believe is correct

s/they believe is correct/the narrative of which benefits them.

Unfortunately it's hard to separate funding from the science. What can one do? Ban privately funded research? Force funders of a study to fund another attempting to find contrary results/pick it apart?

While I agree that some source of funding doesn't automatically invalidate a study, but anecdotally (and probably empirically), studies surprisingly often agree with the people who fund them.
I wonder why your thought process goes towards locking people up more to help poor people, rather than to help poor people not be poor. Countries with less crime tend to have less poverty. If you want to reduce crime, reduce poverty.

Putting people into prison makes them (and their families) poorer. Should we put violent criminals into prison? Yes. Should we put shoplifters into prison? Probably not.

Most of the sentencing and prosecution changes that have been coming through are for crimes that are generally considered minor: shoplifting, drug possession, etc.

The reason you believe otherwise is because of police propaganda. A lot of their crime numbers are linked to these arrests, because these arrests are easy, safe, and require little to no investigation. The drug arrests tend to be associated with their profit centers too (traffic stops). They have a strong incentive to lie to you about these changes, because their jobs are tied to it.
I wouldn't say so... It pays well and has relatively little accountability (proof: look at how many chat apps failed while PMs congratulated themselves launching them). You might not be able to have any meaningful impact but you won't suffer much consequences either. Heck if you play your cards right you may even land the CEO spot.
I never said homeless people are committing these crimes. Countless studies show the link between a lack of economic opportunity and property crime. Homelessness is a proxy for lack of economic opportunity in these communities.

If you don't like homeless as that proxy, here[1] is a list of the median income of various LA county neighborhoods. Union Station is situated where Lincoln Heights, Chinatown, and Downtown meet. Those are ranked 250th, 263rd, and 265th out of the 265 neighborhoods that were ranked. These are incredibly poor neighborhoods, especially in terms of income inequality compared to the rest of LA.

Either way, I thought it was clear I was not "blaming" the homeless or the poor for these crimes. I am trying to highlight that these crimes are a symptom of a larger problem in which the people in these neighborhoods are the victim.

And if this were part of organized crime, that invalidates Union Pacific's entire point of blaming the lack of prosecution. The government is perfectly willing to go after organized crime. It is the lower level property crime that they are pushing back on prosecuting.

[1] - https://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/income/median/neighbo...
Any idea what that size is? When should one be worried?
The most impactful change in my life ("life hack" if you will) was when I stopped reading/watching/listening to news entirely, and I soon after deactivated my Facebook account. Significantly reduced my stress almost immediately.

The truly important news still reach me through friends and colleagues or random chance. The rest, all the useless or depressing stuff is filtered out.
I feel like requiring users to enter into a legal agreement with a private third party in order to perform legally required obligations for a government entity has some troubling edge cases.

What happens if a user has a dispute with ID.me, who decides to terminate their account for violating their ToS? Something tells me they will still be on the hook to pay their taxes (presumably via paper, for however long that's still supported).
Jumping between iMessage, telegram, WhatsApp, and slack, the big missing feature in iMessage for me is the inability to delete messages. It’s way too easy to select the wrong photo or text the wrong person and have to awkwardly wiggle your way out of it. WhatsApp shows the message was deleted and has (had?) a timeout for the delete which feels like a nice implementation. Telegram’s deletion functionality of your and the recipients messages without leaving a trace might be overkill for iMessage.
> Both of these situations are driven by money, not by some desire to help others.

I've learned a lot from pseudonymous or even anonymous people with no money or fame involved. And helped others this way too.

> Fine, then you’re essentially saying that all the learning you did was free for you. It required no effort at all, all you had to do was read.

That's not what I'm saying at all and you would have known that if you would read what I wrote with comprehension. It took a lot of effort, but I recognize that this effort alone is just a single factor that influenced what I earn, and not even the most important one. Other factors outside of my control could have easily ruined (or boosted) it all, and it's true for everyone.
Gonna guess that this is like Sorry to Bother You crossed with the show Counterpart.
Yes I agree. This sets a dangerous precedent saying basically the police won't enforce laws.
> Ukraine’s experience contrasts sharply with that of Russian Federation which since the 1998 crisis has seen much more dramatic and sustained recovery. It also contrasts painfully with the growth trajectory of Ukraine’s neighbors Turkey and Poland.
of course.

look at the code base for a product like YouTube and then look at the product.

there is no difference between looking at a bridge and the people driving on it.
Yep, it's tricky...It could also be that there's a need for clarity, for example a minimum objective level of architecture documentation and test-passing... It might help take the pressure off of individuals who have a high personal standard of work, with little perceived recompense from the org.
Generally, 25 years is considered a generation.

so nearly 3 generations.
There are better means to that end.. such as immuno-modulating parasites. The good old hookworm is a fine example.

(Not actually kidding)
You skipped the first part, where Google Reader drove out most of the rest of the rss ecosystem, replacing it with something more centralized around Google. Then killed it.

The worst of both worlds.
This is the result of woke policies in public schools. They already removed gifted programs and magnet schools because most of the students benefiting from the programs were White and Asian (more Asian). For the same reason they are trying to remove calculus [1][2]. And the UC system will stop accepting SAT scores [3].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/california-math-curric...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-20/californ...

[3] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-18/uc-slams...
I tested into the gifted program in elementary school, and honestly it was refreshing in that it gave me something else to do. I didn’t have great instruction or curriculum. But I was given freedom. I’m sure lots of kids need these rich curated experiences to thrive, but lots of kids also just need room to develop and follow their own academic interests. In 6th grade my English teacher took me and another boy aside. She said based on our initial evals she didn’t have anything to teach us for at least 9 weeks and we were free to choose a research topic and present it to her at the end of the quarter. She checked in with us once a week or so. We spent class time in the library otherwise. It was one of the more memorable positive experiences I had in school.
The DA of that county is currently pretty busy trying to undo all the damage that yet another gang of openly racist cops in Torrance has done to thousands of his cases. I find it understandable that property theft has fallen down this list.
I'm not seeing the connection.
That's not the request being made. What people want is for the button that says "this expired cert is fine, whatever" to still be available for hsts https sites.
Alphahub looks interesting, but their algorithms are quite different from mine. Theirs are picking individual stocks and sending out a signal at a regular frequency, every day, telling you what they think will be the best performing for that day.

By contrast, our models only send out signals on average of once per 2-4 weeks depending on the model. Our signals are always macro signals--they have an opinion only on where they see the overall market (S&P 500) heading next. The signals are irregular. During extremely calm times like in 2013 or 2017, there can be months without a signal. On the other hand, during highly volatile times like the COVID crash in 2020, there can be multiple signals per day, but there will never be more than 1 per hour.

Naturally, their drawdowns will be worse because individual stocks are inherently more risky than the index. As far as which will be the best absolute performer over the long term? I guess we'll have to wait and see :)

One last note about ours that could make a difference depending on your account type and country of residence. Since our models are macro models, if you live in the USA and implement them exactly by trading the S&P 500 Futures, you'll save money in taxes as all gains are taxed at 60% long term and 40% short term regardless of holding period. Alphahub gains will be taxed always at 100% short term rates unless held for more than a year which is unlikely with their systems.

I'm glad to hear you are interested in setting up your own automatic trading system! I'm in the process of writing some docs on exactly how it works, but in essence, we'll give you an access token for the API and then you can call it from your bot locally or in the cloud to get the live signals for all the models you have access to.
Signal's desktop app takes, and this is not an exaggeration, minutes to start on a desktop once you have a few thousand messages for it to chew on. Signal also likes losing your login besides so you have to re-pair it to your phone, losing message history on the desktop in the process.

Messages is instant and doesn't lose history. And nobody I know uses Telegram or WhatsApp. If they work for you, then more power to you, but they do for me. Because with them I can talk to anybody if I need to, and if Android people don't like getting 3GPP videos or whatever that's just not really a problem that I care about.

The bar is really, really low. I'm sure WhatsApp or Telegram pass it if you know people who care about them. I don't, and I suspect most Americans are in the same boat on that one.
I can't just automatically return stuff.

I'm in Australia. Although we're covered by what I consider to be pretty good consumer guarantees, you can still only demand a refund in the case of a "major problem" with the product.

I don't think simply being unhappy with it connecting outside would qualify, although IMO it should.

https://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/products-and-services/refund...

What are the rules on returning stuff where you are?

Can you just buy a TV, use it for 6 months, and return it no questions asked?

If so, it sounds ripe for abuse, and surprisingly lenient especially if it's the US where I thought there were much less consumer guarantees.
Me, too. I expected it to be regarding the discontinuing of open source support for old QT “LTS” versions. Fits the title.
> but you could argue that they are taking advantage of the homeless crisis to recruit foot soldiers for their enterprise.

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bont... "Over the course of the investigation, $1,874,633.65 was seized from the defendants’ various bank accounts."

Yeah, if a two-million-dollar crime organization is supposed to be some "gotcha" then let's compare their possible ratio of crime-boss versus street-thug pay to the ratio of Silicon-Valley-engineer TC versus Tech-CEO TC. Do yours first :D
Craig was Wright then, you can't derive the private key from a single transaction. Bitcoin would be broken if you could.
What is the current state of research into the safety of e-cigs? The things have been around for over a decade now, but I haven't seen studies to show how much of a carcinogen they are for regular users. Has the product not been on the market lot enough for studies to be able to prove much of anything in either direction?
Anyone else think this is a bit... icky?

If you have to game the "system", sorry, I mean, provide "social media guidelines" to this extent, maaaaybe your [whatever you're trying to push/advertise/spread] isn't all that worthwhile...? Especially in the "nerd" world, it seems word of mouth will get out without having to rely on such inane strategizing.

I understand that this is just the tip of the iceberg, and other companies/orgs likely have similar strategy pages, but it all seems a bit, i dunno, anti-HN to me.
They might have all lost to Discord and they just don't realise it yet!

My kids / tweeners and their friends all use Discord.

They all have iPads and iPhones too.

All they iMessage for is to message me and ask for food

Discord is fun and encourages community and exploration, as well as one on one messaging.

I can't see why they'd move to iMessage.

And before you claim it's just for gamers... it's not, they are all on it! Boys and girls.

Even the parents who organise for kids to get together k ow to share their children Discord ID!

iMessage is the Facebook of the messaging world.

Used be billions but yesterdays news.
And they will be doing the same thing when getting paid.
In clinical terms what you're describing is the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity. This remains controversial in the field and hasn't been completely proven, but there is some experimental evidence to support it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-020-0658-8
How much did you invest?
Looking for Metadata in All the Wrong Places
Good suggestion. Thanks. I documented it here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing/corporate_marketing/...
I think this would be too nuanced to think about while you're shopping at a grocery store, but every absorbed calorie is a calorie. Sugar is a very direct and easy source of energy that does not take much additional energy to be made into a usable form by the body. There's no additional food slowing or stopping the absorption of sugars. On the other hand, if you look at some complex fats and proteins, the body takes some energy to break it down or convert it into something usable. In addition, if you look at the complex make up actual foods like fruit, your body isn't able to exact every single calorie a nutrition label states. Ingesting 100 calories of sugar is going to give you pretty close to a net of 100 calories. If you ingest a fruit, your body has to break down the plant cells by chewing, the fibers have to be broken down, the stomach has to digest and crush and humans still aren't able to extract all of the nutrition in food. As you age, your ability to absorb or breakdown nutrients might even change. You probably won't be getting much energy from lactose if you're intolerant. But if you just read a nutrition label, it will say it's 100 calories of energy. Every absorbed calorie is a calorie and at the end of the day it is calories in vs calories out if you can control the psychological urges to eat or not eat. Humans aren't that simple, but CICO does work. Dietary education needs to have a foundation of CICO.
Thank you for explaining this so clearly. Like the other poster commented, this gives me a sense of closure.
I noticed in one article that the railroad referred to the crime as "vandalism." It could be that they are using charges such as trespassing and vandalism, rather than outright theft, to bring it under the purview of local authorities.
The day used to be that "good enough for government work" was a compliment, an expression of the satisfaction that comes to a craftsman for doing work to high standards.
The letter said they made ~100 arrests for vandalism and didn't break out a number for thefts IIRC.

This increasingly smells like a company trying to save money by firing their security force and passing sole responsibility for thefts off on publicly funded law enforcement.
> The dismantling / overlooking of crime is not conducive to a good society.

The funny thing here is that your post is considerably more self-righteous, and it's also hypocritical.

You're saying that it's not conducive to society to overlook crime, while ignoring the fact that police are committing crimes with essentially no repercussions. We don't even have requirements to track the crimes the police commit.

This point is especially funny when you consider that crime rates are at historic lows, nationwide, but we still have the largest per-capita number of prisoners in the world.
What's the biggest cost? The disparity between the rev and net are pretty big
Given that essentially every American in the country interacts with USPS tangentially every day except Sundays, it seems reasonable. I get an email every day with an image of all mail coming to my mailbox, that probably counts when I open up the mail.
It doesn't have to be a big fraction, just non-zero. Trying to ban the expression of improbable states is a form of trying to force the territory to fit the map, then also suppressing the creation of more accurate maps. I can't overstate how stupid this is.

Under such a moronic system, with your reports' welfare on the line, I believe marking everyone as a top performer is an admirable form of rebellion.
This is actually an improvement over stereo soundtracks, as you can just raise the relative volume of the center channel!
Great summary.

I know you meant a different PCR, but the late Kary Mullis, inventor of Polymerase Chain Reaction, which we've all unfortunately gotten to know about, spoke at Google and I got to hear him.

He said he had taken a programming class and the idea of "looping" had really caught his imagination, and that was part of what inspired PCR.

Of course we wouldn't have had a genetic revolution without PCR.
The issue is that with wealth comes an ever increasing focus on risks as you address the most severe first.

Come visit a developing country and you’ll find that wearing a seatbelt or drinking clean water is still not widely accepted. They have bigger problem right now.
The absolute worst part is that all of the above are actually extremely valuable and useful tools, that now have unnecessary hysteria and stigma around them.
That's so like Apple. Finally, a way to enforce an NDA.