skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're correct, the current intermediate condition where people have removed themselves from the (true) information loop but remain in the decision loop is the scariest state in that decline.
From a Russian history class long ago, we were taught that Russia has essentially had bad luck with their rulers _forever_, but they also typically have had strong/brutal centralized governments, it is all they know. It seems logical that would really affect the current state of things.
I would not discount visibility issues for anyone with a visual impairment. But at the same time there are a lot of issues listed on the page, with the color contrast only being one of them. You may consider the other usability issues more significant, but either way as a whole it seems to be a problem.
> Expecting anyone to stay 4 years in any 1 place is

So why would anyone hire junior developers than?
> What the fuck?! Sooner we can decouple from that regime the better in my book.

"The Saudis, a despotic, murderous regime who... er, what's that? Gas prices are where? The Saudis, a heroic, brave people, living in a wonderful country with a deep culture of..."

"Yeah, hey, buddy, pal, MBS-o, think you could maybe squeak out a couple more MBPD? Elections coming up and... oh... really? Few hundred thousand, tops? Well, I guess, see what you can do... thanks!"

sigh :(
The executive was mandated to produce a list of individuals that can be consumed in oan actionable way by industry, such that it can prevent access to the U.S. financial system.

It did exactly that.

These companies got that list, their legal, risk, and compliance departments got in a huddle, and they laid out an action plan to try to get ahead of the regulatory action, while minimizing any risk of contamination or liability.

The government did not tell them to do that. Note, this is by design. The government telling them to would be unconstitutional. Rather, they acted in their own way, which to them rang as reasonable.

That is how it rolls. Is it fair? No. Is it right? Arguably not. Is it concerning? Hell yes.

It is what it is though.
China is gonna be that second someone, with RISC-V.
Honestly, it's kind of amazing how bad it can get for them.
> Those funny CGI faces people put on in video meetings could become sufficently real to pull it off real soon now.

Except that the effects were much weaker online. Attraction works in more ways than just looks.
Japan went that way as well, Japan has held elections since 1889.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_Constitution

> The Lower House, or House of Representatives was directly elected by all males who paid at least 15 yen in property taxes, effectively limiting the suffrage to 1.1 percent of the population.

That 1.1 percent was expanded over the years. Then after WW2 USA just needed to finalize the expansion and you got a well functioning modern democracy.
Besides wxWidgets there's also SWT for Java which also wraps native widgets.
DuckDuckGo works a higher percentage of the time than Google does for me, with a lot less visual clutter, advertising, or underhanded attempts to trick me. YMMV. (Though I would still prefer have Google search from ca. 2005–2010.)

In particular,

> highly optimized results for complex search queries

Google has gotten almost completely worthless for these, but unfortunately no other search engine does a good job with them at this point either.
> I'd rather live in a world with spam than a world where corporations get to decide what I run on my devices, and cripple a bunch of critical applications if I decide I want to, y'know, actually do whatever I want with the hardware I own.

Egads, no. The abuse heaped on me by Apple pales in comparison to the spam phone calls and emails I get. If I start getting spam via iMessage, I'll be an extremely unhappy camper. It already happens with text messages and that's bad enough.
Japan has a long history of national government prior to the introduction of democracy. Even during the shogunate Japan had an elaborate national government with delegation of responsibility to elites. It’s worth remembering that the British “Parliament” arose from the king’s advisory body of nobles. The Meiji period saw further sophisticated administration and delegation of power to the imperial diet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Meiji_Japan.

By the time Japan became a democracy, the people were already accustomed to functional and orderly governance.
A lot of the comments here also completely ignore that basic fact when talking about alternatives to Google.
Generally I agree with everything you say. Each tool has areas where it shines and the opposite. One of the reasons I use multiple languages.
Assuming you have an operator that supports wifi calling and a phone that both supports it and is "whitelisted" (basically USA, Europe does not do such silly things)
Congrats on the launch Ruben! It's really exciting to see an open source tool like this out in the wild.
Planetary genocide is always a cure worse than the disease.
The last time I bought a car was in 2012, and I had to wait for a manual to arrive on the lot. I haven't looked, so I don't know whether they're more readily available nowadays. I hear there's been a lot of change in dealer inventory in the last decade.
> fetus putting the mother at risk

I have absolutely no qualms with abortion in the event of life-threatening complications experienced by the mother at any stage of pregnancy. That seems perfectly reasonable. In fact, I think most supposedly 'pro life' states carve out such exceptions?

> or the obligations on society to force the mother to behave in ways that care for the fetus and later for the child itself, with limited support or assistance

> What if you didn't consent to this thing living in you, maybe it was rape or accidental?

Does it really take 20-24 weeks to realize and act upon this? Keep in mind I'm asking about where the line is placed, not about whether or not abortion should be permissible.

> The point being, there is no science to draw on for the cutoff

I disagree. Science tells us very precisely what kind of life is being disposed of at every stage of pregnancy.

People are being intellectually dishonest about this on both sides to serve their own purposes. Extreme pro-lifers, for example, will argue that life begins at conception merely because of the potential for it to become a child. My point was that setting the cutoff at "viability outside the womb" is equally as extreme and just as likely to be motivated by political expediency, in the opposing direction.

I see nothing in your comment that meaningfully invalidates that assertion.
If you're 100% sure it's iMessage and not SMS, report it to Apple. They can ban that account.
As I was saying a few days ago:
https://twitter.com/geolytica/status/1550787103268769792

Google maps is going the way if google search. I looked up directions from orikum to rinas and i first get a full page ads that's tricky to take off. Then 2/3 of the page is hotel ads.
Obviously, you need a second phone to put the sim or esim in. It doesn’t necessarily need service though.

You just need an internet connection to get the QR code for the esim (though I have a paper version I can scan as well). The beauty is I don’t have to swim to the bottom of a lake to get the original phone to get the original sim. I can just scan the piece of paper and put my pin into the new phone. Though I think no matter what, I would have to go online to give the IMEID so the phone will successfully activate.
One report I read was that much of it was discarded as it got too damaged to use. So hardly an accidental loss.
It's objectively much worse contrast.

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/B3-CB781_1017ST_2_...

My contrast tool says the blue contrast is 3.4:1 while the green is 1.9:1
This is the most trivial complaint I've ever read. I'm in my 50s and I have zero problems reading green bubbles - it just means that it hasn't been sent via iMessage - if I send to an iPhone and sending falls back to SMS it looks just the same. I can't believe people get that upset about green v blue.
Having a duplex next door doesn't put you in a "dense urban jungle".
Is iMessage not end to end encrypted? Facebook Messenger has end to end encryption. How does Apple not?
Hence why I wrote "For an ultra simple hash table". I think that for C that doesn't natively have such a data structure, a couple of lines to introduce such a structure really isn't too bad.
A lot of people on my team are from other big tech companies so I think a pretty large % is just bouncing around getting a reset on RSUs, a promotion, or just a fresh start on a new project.
> I'd rather live in a world with spam than a world where corporations get to decide what I run on my devices, and cripple a bunch of critical applications if I decide I want to, y'know, actually do whatever I want with the hardware I own.

It’s really oppressive that Apple doesn’t let you install WhatsApp, Secret, Telegram, FB Messenger or any other communications app beyond their own.

While it’s all sweetness and light that Google got into bed with the phone carriers to develop this new “standard” tied to a phone number subscription that brings along all the retrograde privacy nightmares of Big Telecom since the bell system broke up.

The points you want to raise are crucial, but this is far from the hill to die on.
Its this ad I'm talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Oc2acTvvYo
I don't think the other submission included the actual chat transcript.
The automatics I have driven had either that or a foot-operated handbrake to the left of where the clutch pedal would normally be. I wouldn’t pretend to know how a Ferrari does it though.
Given how cruel and capricious children tend to be, it would not surprise me in the least that iPhone-using US teenagers ostracize peers with Android devices because of the green bubbles.
Michael Siebel has some great video discussing this exact topic. One thing he reiterates often is how most of these startups take too long to ship an MVP. They spend months, years in a vacuum burning cash and building something they think is needed, without ever actually testing their assumptions.

I notice this happens when teams lack someone with product management skills. It’s not enough to be a great engineer or a Steve Jobs level marketer. You need someone who tests assumptions in the field with real users and maps out what the market really wants.
On my own Twitter feed, there were plenty of pro-choice activists who seemed unaware message apps are the primary threat.

The idea that Twitter is a threat doesn’t go down well with the Twitter crowd.

Same is true for FB, etc.

I personally had to explain to a number of people, face to face, that whatever threat is posed by menstrual tracking apps is nothing compared to FB, Twitter, and Google.

People seemed especially suprised that Twitter was a problem.
Oops, we killed it already.

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When news broke that Carly Florina was stepping down, HP's stock gained 3 billion dollars in response.

Also up where I live there's still anger over the layoffs. For a lot of people HP was something more than a job, but more like the hub of their entire community.
Our local composting company explicitly excludes compostable utensils and food containers. Compostable doesn't mean biodegradable. For example, compostable cardboard food containers may be coated with perfluoro compounds to prevent liquids from soaking into the cardboard. These don't biodegrade.
Perhaps it was explained to him that he better go down quietly or his loved ones might get bonesawed.
We live in a highly competitive individualistic society where money and power buy all, including the ability to dip into playing zoning games using migration strategies. If people don't like that, they should move to a region which has a society more in accordance with their values.
That sounds horrible to be so locked-in.
I really wanted to try this out, but the learning curve for godot was a little steep, cause there is all the game related stuff I don’t really care about. Any tutorial to create a simple app with a few controls?
tradeoffs. boost now or in the fall when covid may surge
While it's a clickable headline it isn't near as inflammatory as it could be; "the data" is a very anodyne way to refer to "Facebook Messenger conversation between mother and daughter".
I don't know if it's still the case, but GMaps drove me away from using it for nav a couple years ago by recommending "shortcuts" that led to dangerous situations, for example an uncontrolled crossing of 6-lane surface roads, just to avoid a single crowded intersection. Adjusting the "aggression" of recommendations (I forgot the setting) did not seem to help. Have never had the problem with Apple Maps.

Nowadays the ads seem really bad when I see somebody else using it.
But it turns automatically green when you text a non iPhone device.

You have no idea how much of a hot topic this is I modern bullying
Yeah, except the wrapping part is probably not needed.
According to this source, about ~20% of the value that has gone through tornado cash is thought to be criminal proceeds.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/08/treasury-tornado-cash-laun...
> Received messages are always black on grey.

What on Earth are you talking about?
We did, that's the problem! Facebook didn't send the messages to the police because they thought the issue needed attention; they sent the messages to the police because a court order threatened them with contempt of court if they didn't.
I'm not clear how that would have changed the outcome in this case
1. Pass law. 2. Put people in jail. Oh...wait this is America..
Meta's Quarterly Adversarial Threat Report Q2 2022 [pdf]
ANC freed the country from white rule. It will take generations to forget that.
Well if you go back far enough isn't everything the Romans' fault? Even the C(ae)zars styled themselves as inheritors of the Roman Empire.

> Note that this isn't the same as saying "meh, we found it like this, let's not do anything".

But isn't that how it's often deployed? "Don't look at me, blame the previous boss!" is an age old diversion strategy.
Because for most of the XIX century, "republic" became synonymous with massacres, and the violence applied to the peasants created an entrenched opposition to the republic (which ultimately lead to the 2nd empire). The ancien regime was on its last leg and I think it is likely France would have otherwise taken the path to a constitutional monarchy that it started in the early days of the revolution, effectively following what happened in the UK.
Sippy cups are underrated.
Yup! The interviewer can see my thought process. I can also evaluate my peers and ask questions about the work. The interviewer can also see how easy or cumbersome it is to set up the environment and code in the allotted time. Win-win.
Apparently someone on my ISP has same IP as me, or it has over a year old data.
> but if you're spinning up eight different Kubernetes clusters for eight different teams then you probably need to collaborate a bit better

Why? there can be reasonable scenario for that - say 8 reasonably seperated projects run by 100 people?

Also I do not see how being serverless "doesnt apply". It does apply because a lot of your infra is security, especially company-wide security configuration.

I understand the deeper meaning of the message, but at the same time devops is a thing because it likely hurt more than other cases mentioned. But I think the whole thing is often a balance between integrated / standalone.

Every team and project requires breathing room but also requires certain level of integration. Devops was needed and is proceeding - find an engineer who has no docker experience today, compared to the past where often engineers had 0 idea of delivery. Other groups may rise their own requests if they feel, but they will lose some flexibility from being standalone.
Bingo. My carrier offers it as Wifi Calling. It worked surprisingly well.
The F.B.I. began monitoring the Twitter employees in 2014, according to the complaint. Investigators did not contact Twitter until the end of 2015, when they informed executives that the Saudi government was grooming employees to gain information about the company’s users.

[...]

During his employment at Twitter, Mr. Alzabarah had grown increasingly close to Saudi intelligence operatives, Western intelligence officials told executives. The operatives eventually persuaded Mr. Alzabarah to peer into the accounts of users they sought information on, including dissidents and activists who spoke against the crown, multiple people have told The Times.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191107003511/https://www.nytim...

Mr. Khashoggi’s online attackers were part of a broad effort dictated by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his close advisers to silence critics both inside Saudi Arabia and abroad. Hundreds of people work at a so-called troll farm in Riyadh to smother the voices of dissidents like Mr. Khashoggi. The vigorous push also appears to include the grooming — not previously reported — of a Saudi employee at Twitter whom Western intelligence officials suspected of spying on user accounts to help the Saudi leadership.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191107062324/https://www.nytim...

Charges were for acting as foreign agent without notice and records falsification.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200920010209/https://www.washi...
Didn't Apartheid South Africa effectively have the exact same kind of limited franchise you're discussing?

IE, it didn't go from "no voting" to "every adult can vote". Millions of people voted in every single election from '48 onward.

There was a massive jump in voters in the first multiracial election of '94 (10+ million). But that's not the same as going from zero to full franchise.
We are using helm at work but I've never touched it so I cannot comment on it being bad. However cargo cult habits have made quite a few technologies over the years take off when they never should have just because someone with either the right sort of intelligence and/or charisma made people believe it was good, and then the ripple effect made it take off.
That’s very ableist of you.

About 1 in 12 males are colorblind. I’m in this group.

I find white text on a bright green background very difficult to read.
Yes, but the people in question are from Nebraska.
Isn't this what YC is geared to help with? Get early-stage startups on the rails?
Gin is excellent. It's the right balance of batteries included, sensible defaults, and black magic
Not to defend the incompetent jerks who run Twitter or anything, but only a complete idiot would have ever trusted them with private or damaging information (including metadata such as locations). Twitter never made any reliable, verifiable guarantees about security or internal controls.
I hear you believe me.

But in the past five years, I have received so much call spam that I just don't answer my phone anymore. Imagine that, the primary use of a phone and it's all cocked up.

Imagine what happens to imessages if they leave it open.

Blame the cretins that spam people.
To place this in context, it's 50,000 tons/year of fishing waste, versus 200,000 tons/year of microplastics from car tires:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/14/car-tyre...

Further, microplastics enter the ecosystem far easier than the bulky big plastic from fishing gear, so the tire microplastics should be far more concerning to people.

It's really weird how cars get a pass for so much. Try to live a life without a car, and people think you are weird, and pass laws preventing you from building a community that is accessible without a car (at least in the US). And that's before we get to the violent deaths caused by car crashes, or the wheezing deaths caused by COPD, or the quality years of life reduced by asthma from cars...
+1 for Here Maps navigation (especially like the speed limits and speed trap features), but they make keeping a list of locations really painful. You'd think they purposefully trying to make it unusable.
Interesting. The top comment for a descrimination claim is to "just move on"? If he were a black woman you'd never dare suggest that.
I find it super fascination that this guy, as a strategic partner, is at the same time:

1) Completely out of his f---ing mind!

2) Indisputably important and in control.

3) Remarkably easy to please.

Now, sure, I could be wrong about any of these -- my sources of information are almost exclusively the US/EU press, which are not free of bias and might hold a globally minority definition of "truth."

But when you consider what's at stake, and which other famous defenders of Human Rights we're in bed with, I honestly can't understand why we (US/EU) are not working more actively with the most transparent one.
In a product development org, refusing to prioritize something is identical to deprioritizing it.

@Time0 -> Priority1=X, Priority2=Y

@Time1 -> Priority1=X, Priority2=Z, Priority3=Y

Across this timeframe, Y's priority was lowered from P2 to P3, because the org intentionally decided to make Z a higher priority.

One could argue that improving this experience was never in their priority list; but as long as product leaders in the org knew about it; its the same thing. Letting something linger in the backlog, and intentionally deciding to never add it to the backlog in the first place, are identical.

I don't know about "maleficence", but intentional: Yes. Cognizant inaction conveys intentionality.
The idea that a compressor is a compiler made me think back of Chaitin's work on incompleteness and the limits of mathematics, which I wrote a review of a few years ago: https://p4bl0.net/shebang/the-limits-of-mathematics.html
The media, being in constant competition with entertainment, wants to impress readers with promises of spectacular crashes, but it's not what happens in this case.

Here's a random example of probable outcome, when incident report coldly notices that a dozen other things inside the cabin are either broken or ignored.

https://avherald.com/h?article=4e1a3c8f
This is a lawyer excuse. I've had Signal for years and the number of spam messages I've received over it is none. It's not a real problem.

SMS on the other hand... but iPhones receive SMS too, don't they?
> I wonder how Blockchain explorers deal with more complex scripts. For example on blockchain.com one can look up coins by putting an "address" into the search bar. But how would one look up coins that are not locked by a script that puts the coins under control of a certain key? Or a script that puts them under control of multiple keys?

I used to build blockchain explorers, and the answer is "they usually don't deal with it." Depending on how much resources the operator can devote to it, of couse. Some of the information simply cannot be pulled out because of cryptography, some require graph-like processing. Ethereum was/is a dream to work with compared to UTXO.
If you read the article, you’d know that there are actually multiple functional issues due to Apple insisting on SMS/MMS.
Hydroponics: Growing an Appreciation for Plants
An affluent person can certainly sustain themselves more easily where bad values are concerned like single motherhood, etc. So much they can actually promote it as a value which eventually gets picked up by middle and lower classes and is destructive there.

Poor communities had as a value the 2-parent family and their crime rates were far lower than today. As our social values have changed our crime rates have generally increased. We like to point out that since the 90’s they’ve gone down but not overall the last 100 years.