skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hilarious. None of those criticisms are even remotely privacy defeating in the current context yet Brave is marked as spyware. Is the author even aware of what real spyware is or are they pretending words don't matter?
The reasons for its survival cross many axis, it wasn't just for the language alone on its own.
Well let's hypothesize I have a botnet and either I've spent a few months creating accounts, or I just have a list of email addresses from some breached site, and my army of 30,000 color changing lightbulbs and smart fridges are spamming login requests as fast as you'll let them. That's still a lot of emails even if just some are legit. Your option at that point is basically shutting down logins for everyone, or find yourself blacklisted.
If Russia were threatened by an aggressive neighbor nation they would have no chance to defend against, I think there would be quite some support from Germany too. But currently Russia is the nation invading Ukraine.
(And of course, most Germans distinguish well between the Russian people and their government)
what do you mean lying through their teeth? citation needed.
I'm fine with being civil and approachable but I really don't want to make the effort of being friendly with people I work with just because higher ups think this will compensate for below market salary. If I click somewhere that's great but I don't really see a correlation with a good work environment.
I bought a Gryphon router to deal with this. It conditionally blocks VPN access by device/user. It's generally been really good, but I've had to back down some of the settings occasionally because school assignments/sites were blocked.
There's something gross in proposing happiness serves "performance". Happiness being defined as a productivity input isn't a great culture to find yourself participating in.
I think it depends on how long ago you need to go to be “classic”. I bet they were originally lard and tallow.
What other plausible interpretation could there be?
I care about my immediate co-workers as people, but as employees & bosses not so much.
But if dealers no longer add enough value to the process of buying a car, doesn't that just mean that they either have to find new value to add or simply cease to exist because their business model is no longer viable?
She needed a syringe driver – a pump that allows for small quantities of powerful medicines to be given via a small needle placed just under the skin. This isn’t something that GPs carry, and even if we did, we wouldn’t have the medicines to put into it. When I started out as a GP, my doctor’s bag contained ampules of morphine, pethidine and other painkillers I might need on my visits. But the days of carrying strong medication are long gone, since the restrictions imposed after the murderous actions of Harold Shipman.

I felt angry. Why had the hospital not arranged care before discharging her? Covid had meant that many patients were discharged as quickly as possible to clear beds for the expected surge but without, it seems, a thought as to what provision they needed in the coming days. That evening, I was all there was. My only option was to suggest a transfer back to hospital, to a busy accident and emergency department. I, but more importantly the system, had failed her in her final hours of need. My deep shame was hidden behind my mask.

I don't understand - is a home-visiting GP not authorized or able to give a painkiller prescription, or place a syringe driver? Why was her only option a hospital transfer?
Piping stdout and stderr to Preview (2021)
Officials of Koka City went to work in costume to celebrate Ninja Day
Exactly. Canada does not* have many cities and much of the nation has little to no infrastructure.

Even small towns are well >$600k for rundown detached houses here.

There's multiple considerations. For example. If you need access to quality healthcare for certain conditions, you'll need be limited in cities you can reside in/near.
No, it doesn't. Try dealing with accessibility, emoji, screen readers, non-English languages. The people in charge left all of that "TBD" and now they've backed themselves into on unsolvable corner with their "render everything to a canvas". They didn't understand what they were dong. The web apps feel like Swing in Java.

Type some CJK in here and watch as each letter appears 500ms late, or try to bring up the emoji input on MacOS

https://flutter.github.io/samples/web/form_app/#/form_widget...
> it doesn't sound like you're actually following Swift Evolution

Nope, you're completely wrong about that.
The conclusion would also be hold if the "circuit" was cultural.
I'm pretty familiar with the various alternatives. Mattermost isn't federated, right? Anything without a strong inter-instance collaboration story can't replicate the experience of Slack/Discord.
'Because there's no added risk; because we can adjust them should an issue arrive, and they will always, always do it the new way.' <-- That's quite a sterile, abstract way to say 'We can change how the computer behaves if the computer causes an accident.' Which is to say if the computer damages property and non-consenting people.

Rolling stops are illegal because they're dangerous. If a computer malfunctions, runs a stop sign and t-bones me, I could very well be paralyzed given the multiple structural issues with my spine.

My bodily health is more than an 'issue' which can be coded away. Because Tesla can fix their code, but that code fix isn't going to fix my back.
In anger with what? React ? ReactNative?
It doesn't matter. From https://lngprime.com/asia/chinas-zhejiang-energy-to-buy-stak...

> The firm said it expects Yatek’s gas reserves to rise to 567 billion cubic meters in the third quarter of 2022.
> Go was dumb from the start.

You betrayed your own credibility. As previously mentioned, those who can't articulate the tradeoffs associated with the generics question lack qualifications--they are amateurs, and their opinions aren't interesting to professionals. Consequently, for lack of interest, I'll leave you to your opinions.
They've got to nail the integrations. Anytime moving to slack alternatives is brought up with people I work with, it always comes down to everything integrating with slack.
The way I see it, managing people is not your main objective even as a team lead. Your primary responsibility is to drive the project forward and get the work done, and managing people is the how. So in essence, you'll be doing a lot of people management but you should be laser focused on the project your team is working on. It's like the difference between writing code for code's sake and writing code to solve a problem.
That's one of the strategies behind the Tesla model.
Wrong

https://flutter.github.io/samples/web/form_app/#/form_widget...
Please don't act like a Russian media bot.
Can't access github.com from Colorado.
Intuitively the converse seems to be true: getting into a hot bath, the muscles relax, the arteries relax and the mind goes merrily off to the races with interesting ideas. Presumably because it is freed from a certain amount of its bodily management duties.
You are missing part of the point, in my view.

There are people who don't have access to the content. Simple as that. Good content is irrelevant if it cannot be accessed.

Yes, quite often a good samaritan will come and provide a workaround link, but there are two problems with that:

1. The immediate one which is that, if the canonically accessible article is at a separate link, then this is the link that should be the main article. Not the pay/loginwalled one.

2. The ethical one: should we as a community be promoting content controlled by a closed platform (and thus endorsing/promoting/requiring subscription to that platform)? There's a reason you don't get facebook stories on HN. Up until now twitter was not closed like facebook, but now it is.
This is also one of the biggest dating mistakes people make, believing a partner will change. Odds are they won't, and if they do it may not be in the way you wanted them to change.
Very true, but as with the Iraq war, the guilty are easily found and support for a war quickly comes from the righteous®.

Russia actually does have an argument for protecting former Russians in some countries. These are people that suddenly lost their nationality with the collapse of the soviet union and don't want to relieve it in favor of the new countries. That puts them in a situation where they are not allowed to travel because of lacking passports. There is additional discrimination that the population faces. Of course that is not at all an excuse for an invasion. But if you deny that Russia has security interests in that region, you basically are asking for a war. And the Russians have made it very clear that it is seen that way and made their reaction very predictable. Yet, western nations ignored that completely.

After what the US media conjured as Russian election interference it certainly drove more animosity towards Russians. Completely irresponsible behavior and not a lesser extend of state propaganda than you would hear from Kremlin media. But people will completely deny this reality due to a religious self-image, even if they know it was bollocks. Shame on those that reiterated that message which was not restricted to the US at all.

The US might have some obligations towards Ukraine, as has Great Britain. But I don't think the involvement of the US has been very helpful. Bush wanted to be seen as strong everywhere after 9-11 and that extended to giving Ukraine and Georgia hope of Nato membership. At that time Russia didn't even react much. But the course for the escalation was set.

One common factor of those that asked for a strong response, which the west mostly gave with the exception of Germany perhaps, was being profoundly ignorant in how to talk to Russia and its interest. Ukraine has interests too, but there is no solution for them without a dialogue with its neighbor.

And just promising to not include Ukraine in a military alliance (it is not just a defensive pact) would have mostly ended the conflict and most arguments. Yet, some people decided not to do that.
A is normally typed using the left pinky, so holding left shift will force you to use the left ring finger for it.

To be fair, on some keyboards, including the one I use, it's easy to reach both the right and left shift keys, so it's easy to alternate shift keys as needed to avoid using other fingers or moving your hand from the home row.
I agree. Their comments were patronizing...typical of a bully/jerk...
Kids stopped using PCs.
"ps. restart of slack in browser? wtf?"

In all seriousness, since I'm sure a lot of people don't know this, use SHIFT-CTRL-r. That instructs the browser to reload everything, ignoring cached resources. This can occasionally "restart" a web page that even a reload or loading the URL in the URL bar again is not sufficient for. Slack is one of those things I've seen it work on.

However, SHIFT-CTRL-r isn't enough now.
I'm pretty sure it's sarcastic, at least in places:

> It is important to me that you know that I have a great deal of respect for the work you do and I am very sorry that I wasted some of your valuable time today. This project is in no way a critique on security or what defines safety in contemporary society.

Though I think there's also an undercurrent of fellow-feeling for the actual in-the-flesh human beings who do that job, who don't exactly bear the blame for 'what defines safety in contemporary society' or anything like that. (In that, you know, the policeman is playing a part precisely as much as the prisoner is.)

I get the sense he may be a bit mentally unsure of the line he's drawing between respecting the workers and disrespecting their work.
Tutorial is longish and slow, but the game is definitely worth it!
Google is certainly more secure than Zoom to outside attacks.

Regardless of what Google chooses to do with your data, they do want to protect that data from everyone else, on your behalf. At least as much as any company can (government subpoena affects all companies).
Definitely. I think that what's happening now may actually help swinging skeptics to renewables. It's no longer an ideological reason, it's a real physical, short term existential and measurable threat.
PlayStation Network already does OAuth2. Here is an example of a website making use of it → https://accounts.klei.com/login
That's interesting. We've played with a couple integrations but don't use any. What sort of org are you in? We're an academic bioinformatics lab with 15-20 people.
I had to go recheck and assure myself that Union Jack is still rotationally symmetrical.
Probably much less than 1% English speakers know how to to select a text encoding in a browser, but for speakers of languages where multiple non-utf encodings were common until recently this knowledge is more common.

My anecdata: once having only a smartphone with me I needed information from a txt file in cp1251 encoding. The server was configured correctly for .html, but not for .txt Mobile browsers available on the smartphone didn't allow me to override text encoding. It was very frustrating experience and it would be enough for me to switch to another browser in future except I don't know a mobile browser which allows to select text encoding and not much worse than mobile Firefox. And I don't blame the maintainer of that site - he does (or did) this in his spare time and had more important tasks than to check text encodings for every single URL on the site so users of crippled web browsers would have no problems.

I like comparison of this feature to emergency services - you rarely need it but when you need it you need it very much.
At some point you cannot become more productive as an individual and you need to start coordinating the work of many people if you want to increase your productivity.

Neat. Another manifestation of the attitude regarding productivity of "more, more, and more still" as the default trajectory in the name of 'growth'. Calling it "inescapable" even. Sheesh. What's the point at which we realize "enough" productivity is exactly "enough" and give people the agency and autonomy to perform where they are most capable at a velocity of work that is stable, sustainable and...fuck it, I'll say it: sane?

Commenter, please understand: this isn't an attack on you for merely saying it, but is instead a full-frontal assault on the concept in general because honeslty...personally...I'm sick of it.

Alright, I'm done venting.
Not the person you're responding to, but my experience as a runner and someone who practices breathing is that it does engage some specific mechanisms that promote certain kinds of blood flow. I think your intuition here is off, and you're treating the body as a pretty simple machine rather than something that has some pretty sophisticated feedback mechanisms between the mind and the body.
Fake Internet Points only matter when you have something to sell.

Not true. If you get 1,000,000 HN karma, pg gifts you a pony.
Or lobby politicians for laws which entrench their position at the expense of wider society.
Yeah. It's a minority I'm not ashamed to be in.

I also prefer blog posts to YouTube videos for most things I can skim read 10x faster than someone can speak.

I can't understand why people tolerate spoken instruction (the visual side of video content is a different thing entirely. That I understand)
I sidestepped a whole bunch of user/password management/verification complexity by restricting my toy app (https://pitchy.ninja) to "login via email" where you get sent a code anytime you need to log in.

I wasn't sure about how well it would work when I first launched it, but now, about a year and a half later, I'm really happy with it.

The biggest advantages are: I'm not tied to an SSO provider, I don't have deal with password management/security/reset/etc., and I have a super simple UX (identical flows for signup and login.)
The answer to this for me has been to transition to something more specialized: from full stack developer to working in robotics. The previous skills are still relevant and all the new domain knowledge keeps me interested. The combo of domain knowledge and software skills is more rare, so it feels a bit more satisfying than working as a senior IC the way I did 10+ years ago 5 years into my software career out of college. And I still spend my days not in meetings, thinking about how to solve hard problems and implementing solutions. I haven't (yet) felt compelled to rise up the senior staff / fellow or whatever levels where you end up in meetings anyways. And not to knock the super senior folks who do this well, I just still really like coding for the time being.
One example of tethered animals that have a choice are falcons and other raptors that are tied to a perch during the day when they are not being flown. These birds usually return to their handlers at the end of a display (admittedly food is involved) and submit to be being re-perched. Either they have appallingly bad memories or don't mind the perch, which is understandable given that many of them are sprint predators who when fed would naturally perch in a tree for hours.
I'll remind you that the higher levels of IC and management also are a narrowing pyramid. The reality is that the expectation is people move up to a certain point through experience, and that at that point most will stay there.
True, but at least to me switching between CAPS MODE and lowercase mode is less distracting than switching between editing and command/visual modes.
US deployments aren’t generally against the will of host nations.

There certainly is plenty of coercion involved in having so many deployments, but plenty of it has to do with strategic alliances.
I guess it's important to note that I would use the right shift for this. I have the ability to choose on-the-fly rather than be forced into one or the other by a typing method that I learned in school. I could still do it with the left shift but it's not the one I would choose for this.

It's probably fairly obvious what I think about the taught-at-school touch typing method. It's a decent middle-of-the-road option that's intended to be easy to teach and to work for most people in most situations; that's all.
I remember the Basic Stamp being incredibly popular in the 90's and not being able to get one.
Thanks for chiming in. I find counselling useful, but not everybody does!

I enlisted the help of a psychologist advertising quick symptom-relief with his published set of CBT tools without first needing a protracted psychological deep dive. Avoiding imminent, life-altering consequences required fast results. I reckoned we could address less cut-and-dried matters down the line and gave it a shot. The tools worked, but I needed more connection. Our session began by quantifying the efficacy of parts of an exercise with 1-10 scales and a/b comparisons, and ended with him walking me through a tweaked version of an exercise and emailing me a copy in a word document. Exchanges not directly advancing that process frustrated him. A two-sentence response to “how are you doing?” felt inappropriate, like explaining the impact of unreliable transportation on your life to a busy auto mechanic expecting terse, actionable bullet points. He’d almost certainly have preferred a 1-10 answer. He was pretty upfront about it when we started, but I expected less of a departure.

That said, he’d have been perfect for my father— a lovely and very type-A retired engineer. At my mom’s behest, he gave therapy a shot with a trusted family counselor they’d previously used for family therapy. He truly gave it his type-A best, but couldn’t open up. The counselor essentially said that so many years of psychological self-policing rendered talk therapy too difficult to pursue barring a mental health crisis.
Outer arm pocket, upper sleeve
I joined Twitter very early on, I believe, the same year it was released. Early on, it was boring, and I was feeding in my site's RSS feed and a few other stuff.

Now, I like/use Twitter for a few reasons;

- I can write/rant/complain or blurb out something without worrying about feedback or trying to get into a conversation.

- I watch people that I admire/like/appreciate via Lists. Twitter does the job of putting them in the timeline based on that. Other topics creep up, but I just ignore them.

- I don't try to market, grow, "engage" but instead just browse and tweet when I feel like it.

- If I don't like what someone says, I unfollow or block specific keywords. Words such as Cricket, Wordle, etc., are blocked. :-)

- I follow people whom I mutually respect and/or admire or people I knew loooong back and have nostalgic relationships from the early days.
Fun fact: For a lot of us, Slack web is down, but Slack mobile is still working.
Lol what?

https://techtalk.pcmatic.com/2021/08/03/zoom-settlement/

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/30/21242421/zoom-300-million...
Oddly, I'm the only person on my team of 15 that is having any issues.
Shopify’s Evolution
I am baffled that Twitter is still around.

But I also know that I've been using it wrong for over 10 years. I have two accounts with zero overlap. One that's kinda tacked to my real name and where at max I followed 200 people, of which 75% I've met in person - the 'lowest interaction' would be: met at a conference and had a beer or something. The other account is for some different field of interest, but I'm also only following and interacting with ~100 people. The result is that I only barely notice all the drama and repeatedly don't get all the fuzz. It feels more like IRC than social media, because it's a net positive and I can mostly opt out of the bad stuff.

It's fascinating that you can keep your bubble so well inside this larger ecosystem, but as I said, that's why I don't get how the company is still alive if the majority of users would be me.
Letting users do stats on business data in spreadsheets
Well Germany also got rid of it's perfectly well working Nuclear power stations just so they could rely on Russia even more.
True. Another thing that I noticed is that, outside of special places like parks, the skill level of the average snowboarder is very low. It's rare to meet someone who started snowboarding 15 years ago and still doing this, while it's pretty common for a skier.

I switched to backcountry, bought a splitboard set and pretty happy with it. But I'd have chosen skis if I was starting now
Another go developer here, also worked with flutter / dart. Dart felt to me like a simpler Java.
Wikipedia has a few paragraphs dedicated to their lack of privacy, security, and other unethical telemetry practices. I believe it was a couple years ago when these stories maintained headline positions for a few weeks.
Putin's been telling these oligarchs to bring their money back for years. https://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/20/putin-urges-billionaires-to-...
You'd be doing him a favour.
There was a similar story some years ago about a person or a group of people who built a secret room in a parking garage out of cinderblocks and painted to look like part of the facility. Can't find it.
I think long-time users of Apple's various platforms will notice, especially. I bought my first Performa back in 1996. That old OS -- especially up against Windows 95/2000/XP apps -- conditioned people to be UI snobs. If I download an app from the App Store, and something rubs me the wrong way within the first few seconds, I will almost always ditch it. I want a native experience, and I don't think I'm alone.
Logic analyzers don't typically allow for continuous traces; they fill their memory pretty quickly. So you can only expect screen shots at best.

Also, most logic analyzers don't work with VGA since it's an analog protocol.
The obvious interpretation is “you shouldn’t stress out about your kids seeing asses on TV”.

Not “you should show porn to your kids”.