jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
we do. all letters sent in by emailed in get the following autoreply:

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elementary OS has an App Store: https://developer.elementary.io

I'm not sure if it'd be big enough to get you doing it full time though.
If it reaches SCOTUS, it means the law is already ambiguous the way its written and that no one interpretation is obviously the correct one.
that's fine, but why bother asking someone knowledgeable if you're just going to ignore their advice? an audiophile will be disappointed if you ask for a headphone recommendation and say your budget is only $50, but they will probably still suggest a good model for the price.
If that was the article's point, then unfortunately they chose the wrong title.
I'm not buying it. What you patent is a bunch of text that is clearly copyrightable.

If you patent a method how to organize APIs, that would be perfectly reasonable. In fact we have a bunch of patents like that for networking stuff.
I think the point is that if this case had gone the other way this kind of open licensing would happen a lot less. Companies would be obliged to enforce API copyright to protect themselves from loss of copyright (share holder value)
I'm not too sure about the paper quality/weight/foldability tradeoff, but I appreciate the fact that it's really light and I can just fold it in half and stuff it into my inside jacket pocket and go out and read it over coffee.
What is the basis by which you are claiming ADA compliance implies their drivers are employees? Providing usable service for ADA customers can and should be accomplished regardless of Uber/Lyft's driver contracting model.
This reminds me of that XKCD from a few years ago: https://uni.xkcd.com/
My dad recently had me help him remove "Maps Galaxy" which had taken over his Chrome homepage, and which he had accidentally picked it up trying to get to Mapquest (which he apparently still uses regularly).

He is also the kind of person who wants an iPhone because he was impressed by the quality and capabilities of the Apple ][ computers he used in college. It's difficult for me to understand, but I have to respect that kind of loyalty in our rapidly-changing digital world.
On that note, to today's 10,000: HN has a "noprocrast" feature that can help you break off the habit slowly. I love the defaults (20 minutes every three hours) and it's enforced across devices. Go to your profile to set it up.
Familiar with all in your list, plus I'd like to add a few:

Lawn darts, BB guns, wrist rockets, bottle rockets (I know you said M-80s, I had those too, but bottle rockets could be shot at friends), can of WD-40 (with requisite red straw) plus a lighter, backyard archery set.

Love you Mom and Dad! 70s were great!
What you want is "low code". Or less rhymey but more accurate: "minimal code".

Kind of. What I really want is something that can round-trip to a textual representation and is heavily visual with the possibility of adding custom actions. I guess a BizTalk Orchestration built from the start to be a programming tool. I often think in my retirement I am going to take a crack at doing Excel as graph of tables and components.
Is it?

> Only in a bubble as insular and tiny as the SSC community would this theory be even remotely plausible. To put this in context: SSC is influential in a small but powerful corner of the tech industry. It is not, however, a site that most people, even at the New York Times, are aware exists--and certainly, the Times and its journalists are not threatened by its existence. They are not out to destroy the site, or “get” Scott, or punish him. At the risk of puncturing egos: they are not thinking about Scott or the site at all. Even the reporter working on the story has no especial investment in its subject. That reporter is also probably working on six other stories at the same time, thinking about their friends, family, what their kid needs to do in Zoom school tomorrow, the book they want to read, whether Donald Trump will get arrested, whether rats dream of boredom. They do not sit around thinking about how they’re going to “get” people they write about, and when subjects think they do, it’s more a reflection of the subject’s self-perception (or self-importance) and, sometimes, a sprinkling of unadulterated narcissism.

I find it pretty plausible that no one gives a shit. It's just another article.
I'm still early in my career (around 32, 8 years in), and I can heavily relate to what you said at the beginning.

The company I work for recently got acquired and the entire culture changed to one of "fuck the engineers, only contracts matter, engineers are just butts in seats, the more the better (quality not required)".

My boss is constantly turned down when he tries to advocate for me, or say that I deserve a slight bonus.

At this point, I have had all productivity beaten out of me. I really don't understand the mindset.

It's been a crash course on how to take a wonderful company and burn it to the ground in a matter of less than 2 years. Most of my coworkers have moved on at this point, and each contract they got out of it has now failed. So what the fuck was even the point?

How do you have 40% turnover and not think "Am I the problem?"?
> I think most proposals - at least right now the serious ones - are only talking about those already receiving similar value government assistance

Its not easy to discuss this when the proposal being discussed seems to shift. Arguing that existing programs should be replaced with a single payment for the current beneficiaries is not UBI and the two should not be conflated.
> Maybe for manual entry, but not when importing a foreign format like one if the many CSV variants that we run into.

Use Get and Transform Data -> CSV

You can control the typing per column when you import, split columns, etc.
What if I criticize platforms canceling speech I disagree with, and don't intimidate anyone?

You've built a strawman model of a free speech advocate and are focusing on that. There may be some real life personalities who call themselves free speech advocates who resemble that strawman, but it's still a strawman.
Is that happening?

I was really hoping someone was actually checking beyond quotes, sentiment, and their own topics not getting enough airtime.
You're vastly overestimating the temperature sensitivity of lithium batteries. They explode due to short circuits (allowing the stored energy to be quickly converted into heat, also heating the battery itself in the discharge process), not a simple warm-up to 60°C.

For comparison, leaving your laptop (or cellphone) on a car's dashboard on a sunny day is more dangerous than this; with very bad luck (and dark colors) you can almost get water boiling there. (Quick googling says 90-95°C.)

FWIW though the higher temperatures will degrade the battery quicker.

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For reference: (tested at 130°C, safety limit at 100°C, operational up to 60°C)

https://www.orbtronic.com/content/samsung-35e-datasheet-inr1...

9.4 Heating Test

Test method: To heat the standard charged cell at heating rate of 5°C per minute up to 130°C and keep the cell in oven for 10 minutes.

Criteria: No fire, and no explosion.

...

8.7. Caution - The Battery used in this device may present a risk of fire or chemical burn if mistreated. Do not disassemble, heat above 100°C or incinerate.

...

The battery can be used within the following temperature ranges. Don't exceed these ranges.

Charge temperature ranges: 0°C ~ 45°C

Discharge Temperature ranges: -10°C ~ 60°C

Store the battery at temperature below 60°C
It is especially useful in China. Since google is blocked, we can not use google font apis as well.
Joining an indie metaverse seems like insanity, I'd rather just keep socializing in the real world. Damn, have I reached "Get off my lawn"-age?

The rich and famous would still hang out in the "officially sanctioned" metaverse(s) though, but I guess going into the indie ones would be like going to the dodgy parts of town. Where the famous Hollywood/Netflix/Onlyfans/Twitch stars have alternative logins to go incognito.

And maybe the sanctioned metaverses will have exploits so "hackers" can still participate in it. My imagination of this future is a lame imitation the Matrix movies.
Not a whole lot going on. Back in the day, you always would have some kind of good war going on, for one. And then you had all of those other big cultural issues, you could always pump out a book about communism or three. Today, all we can do is to express our opinion on whether or not a man named Joe Rogan has a good podcast.
I can't believe they didn't mention their big US navy contract! Cartridged rounds are a big plus at sea!
A lot of developers, myself included, do not perform well under a microscope. They almost can't even type when someone is watching them, making stupid mistakes and blanking on simple concepts. Luckily, the vast majority of programmers don't have to code under this kind of pressure on a daily basis. I find the most effective way to get a good sense of how someone can code is to give them homework to do that they can bring to the interview and discuss. That way they can take their time, put their best foot forward, and it won't weed out introverts or people with test or social anxiety.
With a stipend, the money is theirs. With a government job, some of their salary would go to a politically-potent union that constantly lobbies for raises. Might not be worth the 'work' they're doing!
.. but first finish your donut, check email one more time -- oh there's the icon for that cool new iPhone game you bought last night but haven't played yet, it will just take a minute to get a taste of that -- hold it, phone's ringing, a client, better take it! :)
it's not sarcasm
The poll the TSA is citing isn't an Internet poll. It counts more than the other poll you're citing to oppose it.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/15/politics/main70579...
This is one of those "speak for yourself" articles. Meaning, it assumes that everybody has this problem. When they don't. And for those folks who do feel like they have this problem, well, they have a lot of options and control at their fingertips to fight against and probably make it go away, or at least reduce it. There have been times where I've felt overwhelmed or had a hunger for solitude and it's almost always possible to deal with it. There are knobs you can turn. Leave your cellphone at home. Stay away from Twitter or Facebook or web forums (like HN) for a day or a week. Check email only once a day rather than 20 times a day. Plan a weekend vacation, offline, someplace quiet. And so on.
How about instead of offering everybody $20,000 a year, we offer everyone a government job that pays $20,000 a year?

There's no sense in paying people without receiving something in return and there are always infrastructure improvements that could be made.
Worth a test on a small scale. I'd be most worried about very long-term multi-generational effects, given that such a program could be impossible to undo or adjust once people get used to it -- like other broad-based entitlements.

For example, the first generation to enjoy such a guaranteed minimum income might still have the traditional ambitions... but over time and with practice, the bohemian ideal of making-do on just the guarantee could grow in attractiveness. And, the discretionaty time offered by the stipend could be directed chiefly at lobbying/politicking/mass-protesting for ever-larger benefits. After a few generations, might we get a combination of the worst stereotypical qualities of both the 'underclass' and 'trust-funders'?

It's the sort of positive-feedback loop that -- like financial leverage tricks and other forms of moral hazard -- can build on itself until disasterous collapse.
Go backpacking. I go crazy without it too. It slowly creeps up on me over months. If you haven't done it before, I wrote this to help: http://knol.google.com/k/how-to-backpack
I won't downvote you, could you explain why you think this is worse than the existing system?
Depends on a case by case basis. I think in some cases one might actually want a jury trial. Still there isn't many people being tried by a jury of their peers anymore, if you know what I mean.
> you are generally overlooked for lead developer/mgmt positions because you are not on site.

This probably wouldn't be as bad if there was no "on site." If a startup is willing to hire remote developers, it can get away with having no office.
I was aware of that ("Obviously Dave Thomas is a little different"), and I first read the manifesto a long time ago. I've also used ThoughWork's Mingle, and he's accepted speaking money from one of the absolute worst offenders of get-in-your-way, process-over-progress APM crapware that exists.

I watched the whole video, and I'm not impressed. Same old 'no true Scotsmen' crap that is epidemic to Agile. Yes, in almost 15 years, we are all still failing Agile instead of the other way around. Only now, it's gotten so bad it needs a new name. What he should realize that he doesn't like is complexity. If you have more than a thousand developers working together across multiple related product lines with various marketing, sales, and development dependencies then the 12 original principles and $2 will get you a bottle of soda. He shouldn't be mocking Agile in the Enterprise, he should be trying to figure out what is wrong/missing in Agile that causes it to become so pathological at scale.
People's mouse grip varies immensely. But the one thing that should be easily controlled, in any reasonable case, is the surface.

A mouse mat will often reduce friction greatly, and you can augment your mouse with custom teflon "feet". Gamer peripherals, basically.

I see a lot of people who just run their mice across their desk, which no doubt works, but is sub-optimal in that it's not a particularly durable surface in most cases. This will lead to scratches, and thus increased friction on top of the noise and now ruined surface.

Another thing I've seen is a really nasty build-up of gunk (for lack of a better term) underneath the mouse. All of this adds up to increased friction and a "sticky" feel at times, which results in erratic movement and possibly a need for tighter grip.

Then, of course, there's always the option to switch the mice out. A wired option will obviously forgo the batteries, lowering the weight of the unit, at a negligible convenience price.
Just the first counterpoint that comes to mind, the Bolsheviks were angry hillbillies?
> No 46 year old wants to be doing the same thing for the same pay as a 26 year old.

<foghorn-leghorn>I say, I say, I say boy, I resemble that remark</>
> Why does the web browser need to make available the list of all fonts on a user's machine?

In many cases I think the question is more "what functionality would the web browser need to break to prevent pages detecting X, and is that worth it?".

I remember doing this kind of detection years ago for an (entirely benign) chart authoring webapp; you don't want to offer a font for client-side rendering if the client doesn't have it. You can generally assume that the `monospace` and `serif` fallbacks are different, so if you have one layout box with text in `font-family:FontToDetect,monospace` and another with the same text but `font-family:FontToDetect,serif` and they both come out the same width, it's good odds that the user has that font. [EDIT: originally got that backwards due to brainfart]

Nowadays the existence of `@font-face` makes that particular problem mostly obsolete, but the same general principle applies all over.
They probably let them in because they don't want to be the one that starts shooting first.

The national guard will probably be activated at some point and if they do there could be a bloodbath.
Woah, sweet!!
Closing the conversation with a 9gag link. How professional.
That's the way it works, right? At one of my employers, I was stunned to see a number of people's farewell letters filled with complaints and how bad their experience was. I was quite shocked personally. That said, I accept people needed to vent and it didn't really seem to burn a bridge when it comes to their colleagues (maybe the organization).
We're on the internet, can you just link to the episode where this happens instead of possible altering the story?
Not sure about how it looked when you posted, but right now a casual scan of the top voted top level comments show that people are mostly against it.
"this algorithm is biased" = "attacking Western values" is not a rational leap. You seem to have some deep-seated emotional issue with this. I can't otherwise understand why this would trigger you so much.

That's totally fine, we all have emotions. I think we all have to struggle with the temptation to lash out when we see something that doesn't fit with our preconceptions (me included). This headline seems like a very innocuous thing to me personally though.
Cool, so my phone has a 69.6 btu battery.

% units --verbose -1 '4080mA hours * 5V' btu
4080mA hours * 5V = 69.607689 btu
I'm having a hard time understanding how WhatsApp could be convenient enough to replace most online services and apps. Do you send text messages with some magic keywords to order at Burger King, or is there a person on the other end reading it, or how does that work? How do you pay? How do you browse the menu? I don't understand.
Regardless of your opinion of BLM, there's a huge difference between rioting in the streets, and rioting in the fucking Capitol building while Congress is in session.

The latter seems to wander dangerously close to treason, depending on their goals.
My yawning aside, Tesla turned a profit last year; hence its inclusion in the S&P500. It wasn't waiting to be big, it was waiting to profit, at which point it joined at #6.
> When mail is delivered to a POP3 maildrop, envelope information is destroyed. To combat this, you would need to tunnel the enveleope information in headers.

Isn't that exactly what Envelope-to is supposed to be? Protocol-level data? It's not really part of the e-mail, but added when sending it. If you forward the mail to another machine, there will be a new envelope.

I can see that it's all a gray-ish area with email (because email is a mess (which might be part of why it's been successful)) but I can't see a reason to complain about losing Envelope-to.
No backup on iOS, only a live move of Signal data from one working iOS handset to another.
A lot of issues are partisan. What happened yesterday is not. Yesterday both Republicans and Democrats came out and denounced the insurrection in the stronges of terms.
Google Messages have E2E encryption and support SMS, if other party doesn't have Chat feature, only comparable app is Signal, I used it for years until I gave up after nagging PIN popup, during this period I experienced extensive problems with sending/receiving problems if you often switch between mobile network and WiFi Signal is very slow to recognize this and choose the best network, while Whatsapp does this almost instantly

Signal has also pretty horrible management, I remember one day outage for many house because admins in US just went sleep, so Signal is all nice if you dont care about reliability and can get through bad UX, for instance very well hidden option for force sending SMS to Signal contact through long tap Send button, there is now ay to find this during using the app
That's with only 4KiB of DRAM; per Wikipedia, $2,638 for 48KiB (and it was indeed very expensive back then). And using tape cassette for storage like other computers of that era. Add quite a bit for 1 or 2 floppies, and I found a reference to a 10 MiB (true MiB! :-) Covrus hard disk that went for $5,350 in apparently 1980.
This kind of unsubstantiated ad-hominem attack only proves Snowden's point and bolsters his credibility.

You're not a whistleblower either: you just want to DIVERT attention from the FACTS Snowden revealed that you can't refute.

"I'll try and dig up the link(s) but ..." is in the same league with "I'm not racist but ..." and "some of my best friends are black".
You can give vimpager a try. It even supports vimrc. But I have felt it to be considerably slower than less.
No, the ESP8266 does implement Wifi. And not only that, as it can also run custom code, so it could be the only IC in the package.
Digital Ocean has a dokku image. Within a few minutes you could be running several apps for $5/month.

https://digitalocean.com

https://github.com/progrium/dokku
It's not about opening a website, its about having technology integrated into your workflow such that you don't have to use a computer to finish a task.

There was an article posted about usage of bands in Disney world. The idea is to have technology integrated with you such that the idea of interacting with a generic computer shouldn't exist.
This is running an ARM chip, not an x86 one.
You could do both at the same time, for one thing. For another, communicating with the ground also has a remote chance of succeeding - if ATC knows one of the pilots is behaving erratically they can communicate with him or her on that basis, instead of inquiring about whether there is a problem with the plane. Finally, while in this case there were no survivors, in other crashes there have been survivors who died of injuries or exposure because rescue workers didn't get there in time, because they were still looking for the crash site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123
> once they cannot legally drive due to health reasons

The state of Florida used a simple hack to solve this problem. They just let 'em keep driving no matter what.

Driving through my granny's subdivision is like a game of bumper cars lol.
They add a little javascript function that they call advertisment.js or something similar which just adds a div to the page (e.g.: document.write('<div id="test"></div>');
). They then check if the div exists when the document is ready and notify the server. Adblock has a filter feature where you can enable specific javascript functions on a site, which allows you to circumvent this trick.
I've literally never had this problem and nothing is wrong with tail -f for me. Quitting tail to use grep on the file is anything but inconvenient for me.
Of course it's Spanish and about sex, indirectly. I think I prefer the German poets and their poems about nature, the human struggle, etc. (I'm sure someone will provide some examples of German poets that write about sex)
A lot of this was fixed by working remote, and being a founder of the company.

I'm CTO of a very small startup, and we're experimenting with an organizational structure based on the causes of this list and a bunch of other stuff-- found a CEO whose really all about the love- there is no other word for it.

We're not hiring yet, unfortunately.
How loud is your open office?
They were still getting ddos'd up until yesterday.