skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because the chat app shows that you are logged in, it does not mean that you are immediately available to chat. If I want to leave a message for someone with a response accepted at their convenience, then I send an email. If I reach out via chat, it's because I expect a realtime exchange. Again, because the little green dot appears next to user's name does not mean they are not deep in the tall grass and readily available to chat. To me, chat is just like walking up to someone at the cubicle to have a conversation. If I walk up to someone and notice they are deep in it, I don't bother them. Chat doesn't allow for that kind of signaling, so a "got a sec?" isn't a wast of time as it allows for them to not reply indicating "no" without stopping to type "no".
During the cold war the Soviet Union needed buffer States.
Are we now, 70 years later, having the Soviet Union again?
I thought it dissolved in the '90, exactly when the Austrian
and Hungarian PM cut the barbed wire between their Countries.
Hungary was NEVER part of the SU. In fact Austria risked the
same fate of Hungary: after 10 years of Allied occupation
they were willing to sign ANYTHING to get rid of foreign
armed forces, they accepted VOLUNTARILY to be a neutral State.
The same thing someone asks Ukraine to do today.
History repeats.
46 points by dfboyd on Jan 23, 2021 | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: Please don't say just hello in chat (2013)

I am the original author of the document this document was based on. It was an internal Wiki page at Google written when I was an SRE. After I wrote the original page, someone put up an internal shortlink at "go/nohello". After I left Google, someone took the Wiki page content and [illegally, since it was Google confidential, simply from being on the internal Wiki], and put it up on the net at "nohello.com".
Israel seems to care quite a bit about its image in the west, which is why every time news such as this comes out you see the same arguments trotted out over and over about how this is what’s necessary.

Is western oriented propaganda and it’s important that it is seen for what it is.

Now, as to your point about persecution. I do care about the safety and well-being of all involved in this. But your argument boils down to one of two things: either there is something inherent in middle eastern culture writ large that makes people utterly incapable of living peacefully together, or the Israelis have mistreated the Palestinians so much that they have opened themselves up to terrifying revenge.

Now for the latter case, that is simply no excuse for continuing said behavior. And as to the former, it simply is not true. The Middle East has been a melting pot for centuries and it hasn’t been remarkably more violent than other regions of the world is one takes a longer historical view (not to mention the significant conflict over oil resources with the west)
I have extensions turned off in private browsing and then use this mode for banking etc.
> By whose standards?

Monetary policy types. I'm not saying they are correct or incorrect, I'm saying this is how they look at it.
> Why would existing ATMs become a thing of the past?

I just followed up on the Uber analogy: the only people I know to still be using regular taxis are old people.

When they retire, I think Uber/Lyft will dominate the market.

> The economy isn't going to switch from cash to crypto in a few years time.

Likewise, the economy is not going to fully deprecate taxis: in a few years time, there will still be taxis. Then maybe just in some high density cities like NYC or London.

But I think the business model of a taxi you can't book from a smartphone is going to end up very dead
> With it, a teacher can’t say anything if a 2nd grader, a 7 or 8 year old, asks what it means to be gay.

I would expect them to say nothing other than "ask your parents" and I don't know why anyone would think anything else makes sense.
What I want to know is why someone would buy a domain and build this fancy website just to make this one simple point.

Same thing also on the front page rn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30639225
Presumably not a problem as Jewish is an ethnicity as well as a religion.
NY energy grid: Real-time dashboard
One of my kids got into vinyl a few years ago and that triggered me to get my CD collection out of the attic and I started buying CDs again. I really enjoy listening to entire albums.

Lately though, I've been using Apple Music because I got a free trial and found I really like their spatial audio and ATMOS tracks. Just about everything I stream is lossless and most that I listen to are higher than CD quality.

The big question is (ignoring spatial audio), can I tell a difference between 16 bit / 44 kHz (CD) and 24 bit / 192 kHz (studio master)? The answer seems to be maybe. I've tried A-B tests where I switch between the two and I can never notice any differences. But after listening to an entire album I can often say that the album was CD or studio master quality. I wonder if maybe the two formats are mixed differently?

The CD format is trapped in amber and the world is moving on (esp. with spatial audio) and I think that's too bad for people who like to buy music.
Nowadays it's https://www.google.com/?gl=us&hl=en (US region, English language). Works for /maps too.

If that still redirects you to a local version for some reason, append &gws_rd=cr (which AFAIK tells Google Web Server that a country redirect already happened and that no further country redirect should be triggered).

Youtube needs uppercase region and usually disrespects language if you don't append &persist_hl=1 (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/?hl=en&gl=US&persist_hl=1). Might as well append &persist_gl=1 too.

Not really an issue if you use bookmarks on your own devices, but super annoying otherwise.
I read GP's comment as saying "Hey I have a quick question for you: INSERT QUESTION HERE", so it sounds like you are in agreement actually.
I really, truly, sincerely wish more developers put compatibility with adblockers at the top of their priority list. I have so many customer support issues to deal with because some of the SaaS platforms we use are not compatible with ad blocking software.

Usually, the first thing I tell people is to turn off their adblocker. This almost always fixed the issue. Yes, I absolutely hate asking our customers to do this.

If you want adblocking software to thrive -- then please make sure you test your software with adblocking software enabled. (Please!)
I have no seen that yet. Is that prevalent somewhere? Seems like a lot of effort to talk to someone as sibling says.
I used to like fyne a lot, it is simple yet very extensible, much more approachable than other mainstream GUI binding like QT. however like OP mentioned fyne is not production ready yet, one key issue for me is IME support, it is based on glfw, and glfw doesn't have proper support for IME input.
I wonder if people downvoting you realize you basically just stated a fact. It’s possible to support Ukraine while making room for the truth that there is propaganda in both directions.
This is.... a paid for, less functional version of uBlock Origin?
My comment was phrased poorly. I didn't mean to say it was disgusting to call Israel a racist state, I commented on people who are calling Israel's actions disgusting--I apologize if that wasn't a clear distinction in my comment--quotation marks would have made it clearer. I don't think it's disgusting to have an opinion on Israel's actions and policies.

I would argue that the core issue around this article is not the occupations of Gaza and the West Bank. For one, while Israel has tremendous control over the Gaza region, it is self governed and not occupied by Israel--that's semantics, but I do want to make the distinction between the level of autonomy Gaza has versus the level the West Bank has.

I agree with the two options you put forwards, and I personally prefer the latter. I think the only path to peace in Israel is to end the occupation, make peace with Gaza, move the capital to Tel Aviv, and establish Jerusalem as a U.N. Mandate. I don't think Israel has a valid claim to exclusive control over what many groups consider the holiest place on earth, but I also don't think other groups who consider it a holy place should have exclusive control over it either. Putting the U.N. in control of it is an imperfect solution, but better than what we have now for peace in the region. That's my two cents that no one asked for.
This still seems like an example where you could directly state your request and avoid some unnecessary ceremony. When I want to have a synchronous conversation, I don't send "you there?", I send "Could you call me when you have a minute? I want to chat about <some topic>."
Not to mention the use of a hacked autonomous vehicle as a weapon.
Irregardless of your subjective opinion about grammar, you literally expressed the exact same thing. It’s either a pun in both or it’s a pun in neither.
... I think maybe you need to rethink or work on that one.

Do you just run up to people and ask them a question in person, or do some kind of greeting first?

I don't think it's a bad thing that people share some mannerisms in IM that they do in person. Are you really stressed out? Either way, looking at the world at the moment, what a great thing to have as a huge problem.
In 16 years on the internet with as blocking limited to manually blocked annoyances only I have never had any of those issues.

I’m almost certain it’s just an argument to justify adblocking. I wish people had the ability to avoid all the motivated reasoning and just honestly admit the selfishness of their behavior.
'Consistency isn’t the paramount principle in a moral system.'

I think the argument is different- if your moral system contradicts itself logically, it's likely it's hypocritical or self-serving
To this day I cherish the memory when a friend and I got to one of the local computer shops and bought 2 identical PII-350s and, as high school students buying with a random mix of 10s, 20s and the occasional 50 DM bill and the shopkeeper lamenting the students and their small bills on the one hand and being happy to accept this sale on the other hand of course.
You know you are on HN when hello/hi is explained in terms of SYN/ACK and not the other way around... Jokes aside this is actually called a "phatic expression" in linguistics:

> In linguistics, a phatic expression is communication which serves to establish or maintain social relationships rather than to impart information. Phatic expressions are a socio-pragmatic function and are used in everyday conversational exchange typically expressed in situational instances that call for social cues [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phatic_expression
At least for google.com, you can use google.com/ncr to get it[1] in English (just tested in incognito mode from a non-English location).

[1] it = the front page. No guarantees that it'll work for other parts or other Google sites like Google Maps[2]. I remember noticing years ago that even with the /ncr, when the front page had a doodle, mousing over it still showed the tooltip in the local language. Billions of dollars, and can't even program a website.

[2] Yeah it still gives me my local currency for hotels in Google Maps. I live in country A, I was visiting country B, and I needed to find a hotel in my home country A. I was logged in. Google knows my address and that my account is tied to Country A (because... Play Store region locking for content, blah blah), but it still showed me the hotel prices for the country I live in and was looking for hotels in, in the foreign currency of the place I was currently sitting at. Fuck you very much, Google!
The "computer" is not really the interesting part here. In fact, this product seems to exclusively rely on cheap devices that anyone can already buy (current supply chain notwithstanding) linked together by very well-standardized buses.

The magic here is the overall flexibility and modularity of the system taken to a nearly absurd level. Kickstarter is lousy with smaller-scale attempts at what Anil has achieved. But where this really shines is in the software: You plug in some components and the system can automatically figure out what you want to do with them, and configure an application to use them instantly, at least for many simple but common cases.

I really hope that when this is available, it ends up being a largely open ecosystem like the Framework laptop.
> I don’t think people do this because they want to be polite

Actually, yes, we really are (were). I don't have a problem with it, but the people who do have a problem with it seem to have a problem with it with the intense burning passion of a thousand suns so I've stopped doing it, but don't attribute malice to people who were just trying to follow social conventions.
Wait, are you saying we will never run out of cheap oil? Sure, there will still be drillable oil in my lifetime but it isnt going to be used to push cars around. I am also willing to bet, insofar as getting rid of all my ICE vehicles and getting solar going etc, that petroleum products are going to be prohibitively expensive in the next 10-15 years. There is more intrigue to oil than just the cost of turning it into gas.
The issue is that the YouTube webpage video player itself tries to detect when it is backgrounded - seemingly via both APIs and usage patterns - and will stop playback when it detects that. This is true on desktops as well.

There were extensions to disable this behaviour that thankfully work with Firefox for Android.
Twitter is censoring reporting on Ukrainian Nazis on “abusive behavior” pretext
>These ATMs are no different than the shenanigans that Uber got up to: deliberately skirting or outright violating not just the intent but letter of the law in order to "disrupt".

To play devil's advocate: they might not exist as a company today had they complied with the law. There's a critical mass problem with trying to do something new that toes the legality line and had they not had the user-base they might not have been able to gain the funding that then allowed them to lobby to change the laws. They lucked out, though, and were popular enough that nobody was able to successfully shut them down for operating what essentially came down to an unlicensed (and maybe uninsured at the time?) cab company.
It's defensive speech. None of this would have happened if Russians didn't invade a sovereign country and murdered thousands of civilians.
This sort of thing: https://polyfecta.com/personal-readme/
Hey! What's up?
I applaud your patience, as the thread was really clear about this from the beginning, and comments were missing the point one by one. This is a beautiful HN moment were people managed to have a debate about a very touchy topic, and everyone stayed very polite.
Minimal Viable Product is old and busted
I find this super annoying in the context of getting help via chat from the support staff. They always say hi and then wait for you to reply (all this could take minutes sometimes cause they're handling multiple tickets at the same time and won't respond right away). Could just ask 'hi - what seems to be the issue?'
Didn't know it is possible to do exhaustive matching in TypeScript, quite impressed to be honest, but this looks a bit too complicated to be used widely
I was also unsure if that was just opinion of the core maintainer or a collective of committers. Again a "they" would have fine :) .
My favourite is just mashing keys for a few minutes, then deleting it all and writing 'hey' or just turning my phone off ;)

It's a good way to encourage patience with your audience...
the day is coming - between changing how 3rd party cookies work, how ads are served from the same domain as content itself, to the intended feature-creep of Trusted Computer.. that ublock origin, pihole (which is already a piss poor solution), and other tools are going to be rendered useless.

It's a great tool. But it's days are numbered. A couple more years and mark my words, things like ublock, will be defeated.
I removed my account and my postings from habr at the start of the war by writing to its support.

Many habr users did the same, because the company behind habr chose not to speak up and decided to censor the site to avoid any mention of war.

At the same time, habr seems to suffer from increased activity of kremlinbots.

So what you see there are remnants of a once sprawling community.

Habr is irrelevant now.
"A major reason people do it is to query presence-at-keyboard before continuing." That's what in-app statuses are for: so they don't have to wait for an answer to that, they can just look.

"Maybe the matter is time sensitive." Asking whether I'm there and waiting for a response before continuing takes longer. If it's time-sensitive, they can just ask what they need in the first message, and then move on if I don't reply within a decent enough timeframe.

"Maybe they don't want to disclose something immediately without setting context, finding something out first, whatever." Context? "Hello" is not context for anything other than the existence of the person, which I hope I'm capable of inferring on my own. Similarly. what could they possibly find out from "hello"?
It has already been done, e.g. windows DEP. Main blocker is that software which generates code needs to be adapted to tell the OS where it put that code.

Attackers adapted by e.g.inventing Return Oriented Programming(ROP): As they could not inject code into processes directly, they started overwriting the stack with adresses to interesting functions. When an attacked function returns, it does not resume the caller, but executes code in the executable chosen by attackers, with args dictated by the attacker.
Right, it should only make their concerns bigger if Palestinians have a genuine reason to despise them.
You're right. I disagree with the policy myself but others are making it look like this would be abnormal. If they didn't have to pander to western ideals they could maybe implement a clean and painless definition of a border. Taking decades to colonize an area helps no one.

I support the right for Israel to exist and if they must expel the inhabitants of the land they have taken. But the mistreatment of palestinians is not acceptable by theirs or any other abrahamic faith.
> Which is trap.

This is a completely normal day-to-day conversation topic I have with my buddies via text.

> Friend: What're you getting into tomorrow?

> Me: Not much man, doing some chores around the house. Got a pork butt I need to butcher. Typical Saturday.

> Me: What about you?

At which point my friend will either directly ask or otherwise mention that he is moving. At this point I may volunteer all, some, or none of my time depending on what life has.
"Should I eat ice cream or steak?"
For a more recent development, https://blockprotocol.org/
I don't personally have a problem with Arabs so take what I say with a grain of salt.

However, isn't what you're describing colonization? If the US or the UK announced a program of attempting to colonize 3rd-world countries, those countries would reflexively ban US immigration. Why the double standard?
This comes up from time to time on HN. Humans aren't machines. As self-important and busy as you think you are, why not take a beat and respond with 'Hey' and ask them how they are.

Humans are more than just social creatures - we actually NEED social interaction to stay healthy. Remote work is hard enough. Being alone in a room for days is hard enough. Don't be afraid to remove the stick from your behind and add a little social padding to your conversations. It's good for you, and it's good for the person this site is telling you to get cranky at.
It's unlikely that antique/classic cars will ever be banned, although getting gas may start becoming harder to come by in 2050.
I saw a comment more or less like "Please add more ads and make the x button to close them smaller" today on a website. I was seeing no ads and I never did see one there. I was about to reply to use an adblocker, then wondered if that could make me banned and the reply deleted (they have a moderator approve every single comment).
I don't see the profit in trying to catch them on a small and clearly not meaningful technicality in their phrasing.

Genuine question, do you truly feel the commenter is a racist, and you just stepped in and called them out successfully?

What seems much more likely is that they, in their sarcasm, were doing an imitation of an ignorant conservative stereotype by focusing on skin color and grouping all middle easterners into a group. This seems fairly obvious to me - is that not how you're interpreting this?
> if you meant moral support by the citizens of other countries I'm not sure how much Israel cares about that.

They care a lot. That's why they try so hard to counter pro-Palestinian sentiment with full-time paid propagandists, threat campaigns, media campaigns, smear campaigns, political bribes, getting people fired, attacking students and groups that support Palestine, throwing shit-fits at growing BDS campaigns, etc, etc, etc...

Yes, the US population is similarly quiet on the SA front - that's neither accidental or natural. Even then, it's crumbling.

> Hasn't quantifiable monetary support towards Israel been growing for decades?

Globally speaking, the US govt haven't really been on the side of the 'good guys' for decades. Realizing that, it doesn't make all that much sense to use their funding of evil regimes as any sort of justification, or reflection of the will of the general populace.
>300 years ago, the number of religions and ethnicities currently existing in US or Western Europe would have meant a constant state of civil war.

300 years ago the Ottoman Empire was in full swing and quite religiously and ethnically diverse (probably more so than modern Europe or America). Not to say everyone had equal rights or was nice to each other, but historically a cornerstone for the success of many (not all) empires has been a significant degree of diversity and tolerance of both religions and ethnicity. It also wasn't new, Rome was also quite diverse and tolerant. (not always, not to everyone, but still quite so)
Definitely hate when someone delivers the only hello and then just nothing for next 30mins...
I think it's notable that Steer by Wire on Infiniti Q50 was a reverted change: users apparently wanted anti-torques and vibrations from steering as a cue/driving input.
I've been working remote for ~7 years. The way I would handle this is simply saying something like "You available? Wanted to get a few minutes to discuss X/Y/Z"

When you're attempting to set up synchronous communication, it's essential to let the other person know what the communication is about, and what level of focus you need from them, so they have time to prepare and ensure they have enough time for a proper dialogue. Can't count the number of times someone has said "you there?" while I'm in a meeting, which in my mind is "I'm available to answer simple questions" but not available to jump on a voice call, which is what they wanted originally.
Being "confident" and "informed" are not virtues when investing for middle/upper-middle class people. They simply need to put money in a good ETF or managed money-market fund with low fees, and contribute regularly. No "research" should be involved.