skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, something that used to be a simple that could be done from muscle memory is now either (a) a slider that requires change of focus or (b) a multi-key combination which is totally the same thing as the thing you miss, and in summary, everything is fine.

No. I only suggested the buttons because the author of this post thought that the slider was "bad". I don't buy their reasoning; you don't even have to look down to see the slider's progress because macOS will mirror it smack-dab in the middle of your display.

I really think that the author's complaints show that they really haven't been using macOS the way it's normally used. The Touch Bar is not your Notification Center. It's not your menu bar. It's not your Dock. It has a very clear purpose, and I feel that the author is just trying to give Touch Bar functionality that they wished it had because they just don't know about the other built-in features. My guess is that they haven't really used macOS (i.e. they're coming from another OS, and are used to what that provides), but take this with a grain of salt because I have no evidence to back it up.
After my email was leaked on the bit coin forum dump, I get the same kind of spam via email and also targeted ads on Google and Facebook.
On the other hand, I could never get over how many German washrooms I have see that had urinals in a corner such that they couldn’t both be used comfortably. I have never seen anything like it in the states.

Far from the most extreme example:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8329oawvs9utt4n/german_urinals.jpg...
Freedom of Speech, does not imply ORDERLY speech.

If a bunch of Americans want to yell at each other, they're free to do so. That's what the First Amendment is all about. And that's what I think you guys all don't understand. The government doesn't have to give you pristine conditions under which you can speak, they just have to let you speak.

Unfortunately... they have to let everyone else speak too.

At the same time if those people choose.

That's what freedom is all about. That's why America is great.
Does anyone know if their private API is still accessible?

https://github.com/mgp25/Instagram-API
Apple recently hired the Google A.I. Chief[1]. I wonder how much this is related.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/business/apple-hires-goog...
Normally? The only program I use regularly which needs function keys is htop. The only other I can think of is gitk, and I try to avoid that thing.

MacOS/OSX doesn't really have a history of using function keys, so pretty much the only software which does is stuff which was "ported" from other unices where relying on function keys is more standard.
> Logging errors can be done in <100 lines of JavaScript, so if that were the value added of this service, they would be in trouble.

No it cannot. You need a backend to send and store the logs, a dashboard with some grouping/filtering features to analyze anything, an alerting system to send you daily/weekly emails, user/group/permission management if you don't work alone, and so on.

Don't act like this guy who said Dropbox has no value because it's trivial to make a FTP account online and sync it with your machine.
I think the kernel docs[0] indicate that it's a kernel-managed abstraction?

[0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt
“Something must be done” turned into “something was done”, but what’s been done is nowhere near enough.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-still-havent-made...
It reads more like that you shouldn’t expect the state to behave ethically if there is no legal obligation to do so, and that what is considered ethical and/or legal can change over time.

Defending potentially bad behaviour solely on the basis that it’s legal behaviour may not be the best defence (outside of a court of law.)
What happens when someone looks into the laser? Is the damage cumulative?
Not that it will comfort you much but you are hardly alone in this. Bad backups, logging on the same servers as where access takes place and single points of failure in personnel are some of the most frequently occurring things I come across in my 'day job'.
Ask HN: What are your experiences with recruiters?
Hello HN,

I’m located in Germany. Every other day, I receive an email or message from a random recruiter, who wants to hire for some client. In most cases, they’re using “spray and pray” because they require skills I don’t have, nor want to learn.

What’s the deal outside of Germany? Is this a global “problem”, or are we living in a bubble?

(Dear Recruiters: I appreciate your work! You guys rock, and I love to talk to you. At least if you’re good at your job, and treat us as humans — not resources.)
Ask HN: Flat structure or Hierarchy in a company?
Hey HN,

Just wanted to know whether your company is a flat structure or is a hierarchy in terms of employees. We are a relatively small 20 people marketing company and are deciding if we should stay flat or become hierarchical.
> The leader of Students for Fair Admissions and the architect of the case against Harvard is Edward Blum, a longtime crusader against affirmative action who has recruited plaintiffs, hired sympathetic lawyers and raised millions of dollars from conservative groups to challenge voting rights laws and affirmative action policies, often successfully.

Is this really about discrimination against Asian-Americans?
This is one reason why I feel so satisfied when I can work on internal tools. If I build something for other people in the office I can get direct feedback and see how I have helped them.
I don't think @banach did that.

The point of the quote was to point out that laws aren't necessarily right.

And this point you keep making about it only being a small % of the total water isn't very convincing. I'm sure you would mind if I embezzled 1/2000th of Michigan's GDP.
Do such "fossil aquifers" exist? Yes.

Are they widely used in places like Michigan, where there is plenty of precipitation? No.
Sure but that in itself is a valuable lesson. Grow your asset base. It's starts hard and gets exponentially easier.
Sounds great.

When I think about using this, the main question that comes to mind is about the scale and scope of your infrastructure, compared to Cloudflare, for example, which recently came out with a way to run JavaScript at the edge, and has more "edge chops," as a company, than I could ever ask for. I say this having started a YC company that advertised "scalable" hosted apps, but planned to deal with the actual scaling as it came up. With start-ups, you never know when you are just using an MVP, you know?

This is a new enough type of thing (edge apps) that it's not going to become a commodity overnight, but it seems like the kind of business where, once there's competition, small customers will care about developer experience, but larger customers will care more about price and performance. This is the problem with "easy-to-use" developer tools and services; customers with money can burn a few extra developer hours getting a more complicated service configured.

All that said, Fly sounds legit and innovative. :)
I don't know, but there's a recommendation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=869042
They were accurately pointing out that conflating legal with ethical is not just incorrect but dangerous.

They were not comparing the activities.
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You aren’t missing anything. It’s just “outrage logic”.
Well, for one thing, it's not a "stall", it's a (very small) room. With a door. You can either look at the marker, or try to open the door. If the door is locked, it won't open. That's it. No need to bang or yell?
It really is a useless gimmick. Even when limiting it to the standard brightness, volume, etc. controls, I find myself accidentally touching it and triggering some unwanted function. I really hope Apple abandons it or at the very least, offers a MBP with top of the line specs and standard function keys.
Likelihood really isn't irrelevant.

A micro-meteor could have penetrated the captain's skull and brain, subtly altering his decision making, but we figure that's not very likely.
We're still discovering the use cases ourselves! We totally agree about an edge db, though.

Right now it's _best_ suited for building proxy-like applications. Aggregating APIs, speeding up existing apps without touching them, user aware caching, etc.

But we're getting constant pressure to expand the scope of what they do, too, which is pretty exciting.
You are correct in your assessment, that this is subtle trolling.

HN has been flooded by low quality user participation, and an explosion in downvote privileges. Pretty sure HN is suffering from serious forum sliding, and it's just time to move on to some other aggregator.

Too bad lobste.rs is run by pushcx now, and not jcs anymore.
I believe they're referring to:

"the other crypto bans (Facebook ads [...] etc.) remind me of [...] old regimes afraid of [...] competition that aims to remove/replace them"
100% this. Actually seeing through to the incentives and motives behind it in order to see the context for what it is.
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Oi vey. Thanks :)
Sounds like a great application for an e-ink display. No burn-in, low power, and can always emit as much light as the keys on the keyboard do (by front-illuminating the bar when the keyboard backlight is on).
It's basically how an electric train does it.
Show HN: Web browsing using your keyboard and binary space partitioning (BSP)
>Pretty sure HN is suffering from serious forum sliding, and it's just time to move on to some other aggregator.

Has to be a better solution than this imo.
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Dragons' Den is the show that Shark Tank is based on. It has run for many seasons in the UK and Canada (and short runs in Australia and Ireland and elsewhere). Episodes can be found on Youtube.

In turn, Dragon's Den was based on a Japanese show (The Tigers of Money).
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Hmm. Can Bob use it on the Laundry, though?

Ob. Charles Stross reference :-)

Seriously, though, this sounds like a really interesting hack for reusing stuff that wasn’t intended to be reused. Cool.
If someone owns a gun in a lax gun control states, do they take it to work?
Yeah, I've got a few projects that I'm not doing much where scaling would be an issue, but I really want easy multi-master. I want to be able to have a few database servers and be able to take one offline for maintenance (or because of mishap) with minimal fanfare, without it causing downtime, and without it feeling like I'm performing open heart surgery. There's plenty of ways to fuck up a manual switchover, and I don't want to discover more of them again in production.

Technically, I don't really need multi-master, a "standard RDBMS" with automatic failover would probably fit the bill, but I could not for the life of me figure out any standard (and free) way of doing that for mysql/mariadb or postgresql.
There's a movie that reviews that situation in a navy (nuclear submarine) context, it's called 'Crimson Tide'.
Source maps do work today but nobody likes them. In general it’s a very important thing to the WASM WG.
You have already taken a political stance -- that the common welfare of the labor force is of no concern to you.
This is devastating to the professional victim industry. Asians ARE discriminated AGAINST at almost all of the nation's top schools.
Where do people expect all the bottled water they buy comes from?
Looking at slides while reading subtitles is really hard.
Are Funhog Towns 'Better' Than the Ones They're Replacing?
>you had many people in that group other than neo-nazis and white nationalists, okay, and the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.

You should recall what the rally was about, and what "that group" was trying to accomplish. That group was opposing the removal of monument to a general that fought a treasonous war against our country over the right for humans to keep other humans enslaved. Heather Heyer, an anti-racist protester, was murdered by a member of "that group" that ran her over with a car.

>Trump’s been trying to get a legal fix for DACA for months now.

Trump has been using these children as pawns in a ploy to close doors for legal immigrants. He does not offer fixes, the conman only offers cons.

> As far as TPS is concerned, maybe the “T” doesn’t stand for what I think it does

TPS was a compromise reached with a cadre of powerful xenophobes. It in no way excused or repaired the damage done to El Salvador by the civil war promulgated by the US-backed right-wing government[1]. The people that were displaced by the war and earthquake should have been granted asylum and a path to full citizenship, instead they were left in limbo and abandoned by our leaders, on both sides of the aisle.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran_Civil_War
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I guess you also need time-of-flight to counter "aliasing" problems (e.g. laser light bouncing off of objects and illuminating nearby objects).
The reason to believe it won't be so is the same reason not all tragedies of the common end in resource exhaustion - cooperation is possible, especially in such an internationally-connected industry as software development.

From a less grassroots perspective, international regulations and sanctions tend to be fairly effective.
I definitely disagree. I think we're at a great balancing point with touchscreen laptops, the keyboards aren't perfect but they get the job done, and the touchscreen augments that wonderfully. Phones are inherently limited by size, and while I miss physical keyboards, the flexibility of on-screen keyboards more than makes up for it.
The problem isn’t necessarily “fake news”, it’s the ability to target it. This targeting subjects each person to a completely personalized information flow. It’s one thing to have propaganda be broadcast to all, where as a society we can discuss, debate and choose to accept or reject it. With hyper targeting that process can’t exist. How am I supposed to talk to my neighbours or colleagues about current events (or “fake news”) that I don’t know exists? Democracy does not exist in isolation. We can reject the lunatic town crier, but it is much harder when he knows you deeply and is whispering in your ear.
Bernie Madoff's $68.5 billion ponzi scheme was a MERE 0.09% of the world's $78.3 trillion GDP.
Based on the perp walks I've seen on TV they don't look exceptionally intelligent.
You wouldn't necessarily have to change every word; just enough to break the decoding scheme. But even then it's totally random, so the longer the document, the more opportunities to be fingerprinted. It's like the old saying goes, "the police only need to be lucky once, but the criminals need to be lucky all the time." [0]

[0] I never bothered looking up where this came from until just now... interestingly it's from the IRA, and used in the total opposite way most people use it now... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing
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Also note that B.V.S did appear to have a 'Hourly Update' feature that did not appear to be subscribed to.

It's also important to realize that the captain was confident with the plan- except the storm in question was abnormal. That's an important fact to consider, as it throws the mariners heuristics off deciding how much more attention to pay.
What is the square of numbers at the bottom middle of the last page? Some kind of multiplication table?
> I don't think @banach did that.

I think he clearly did do that.

> And this point you keep making about it only being a small % of the total water isn't very convincing.

I'm sorry you don't find arithmetic convincing, but there's not much I can do about that.

> I'm sure you would mind if I embezzled 1/2000th of Michigan's GDP.

Now you're wandering off into non sequitur.
> We will continue to vigorously defend the right of Harvard, and other universities, to seek the educational benefits that come from a class that is diverse on multiple dimensions

Speaking as an Asian, the insinuation that my race might be considered a meaningful dimension in the pursuit of class diversity makes my blood boil. This PR rep is barely even trying to hide the real implication here: "we want our class to be visibly colorful". That's some grade A bullsh*t.
I absolutely loved this. Might be the lateness of the hour here, but I actually giggled when I got to the "Fine, I'm gonna code my own BetterTouchTool. With blackjack!" bit.
Bidets are pretty weird, but I totally recognize their superiority to plain ol' toilet paper.

+1 for wet wipes.
Puritanical reasons would be a character flaw, maybe, but not security. From the other comments it seems the main reason is easiness to clean.

But my point was about the fact that the author of the article was shocked that latrines in Pompei were public and shared, while in the US toilets are almost as public as in Pompei (not exactly as much, but still too much for someone from a different culture).
Thanks, and I know it well; that was an early lesson. Backups in particular are an amazing cesspool of problems for something so conceptually simple.
I would have said this a year ago without blinking an eye, but React is a little different.

There are a few things that make react different from stuff I've seen before about core react itself
1) Extremely fast release cycles with huge updates
2) Immense amounts of effort in backwards compatibility and codemod tools
3) Very cool and hard to do things being implemented in the core layer

For an example of 3, watch this talk: https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/01/sneak-peek-beyond-react-...

Dan Abramov does an amazing job at conveying some hard concepts beautifully.
This is actually a question that was featured in an xkcd comic[1].

[1]: https://www.xkcd.com/504/
> So, by losing a small amount of money on some ridiculous businesses

Check out the recap in episode 1, season 5. Some of them make quite a good profit.. and some don't.

> he makes a whole lot more on the back end of being on TV, selling business books, giving speeches..

hm.. did you do the math on this? Seems like you would have to sell a lot of books to cover losses of a few million USD per year [1]. And AFAIK he's not selling any books (?).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Profit_(TV_series)
They're afraid they'll enjoy it, and it will undermine their fragile macho manhood.
> They were accurately pointing out that conflating legal with ethical is not just incorrect but dangerous.

Equating the legal system of Michigan with the legal system of Nazi Germany is ludicrously incorrect.
> Is this really about discrimination against Asian-Americans?

It's not at all. Unsurprisingly, East Asian and South Asian community groups have by and large gone incredibly far out of their way to distance themselves from this lawsuit. It took Blum a comically long period of time even to find people with standing who were willing to participate in it.

You won't find that to be the predominant sentiment on HN, but HN has never been particularly representative of other populations when it comes to political topics, especially race and discrimination.
Kind of an introduction to the idea of brainstorming without any solid advice on how to do it. Based on the title I was expecting more.
My belief is that natural rights are defined by God and therefore exist regardless of whether people agree with them or not. Sort of the rights equivalent of divine command theory.
"the South Atlantic ocean, which resulted from the break up of South America and Africa around 138m years ago – ever noticed how their coastlines match like pieces of the same puzzle?"

No I had not but now that I look at it it's so obvious. And wow!
> Capitalism is tasteless, then, right?

Oh, I don't think I'm well-informed enough to answer that question properly. Let's suppose by "capitalism" you meant allowing market forces to operate freely. No, I wouldn't say that's entirely tasteless, but yes it has tasteless aspects.

And a principle one is advertising, i.e. standing up and saying "Hey, I suggest you buy this, and here's why" when

(a) you have a financial motivation to encourage the sale

(b) quite obviously, that motivation corrupts your role as the recommender

(c) despite being educated people you make no acknowledgement of that corruption.

Ideally, the best way for consumers to choose between competing products would be for them to read peer-reviewed scientific literature comparing the merits of the products and their suitability for the intended use. That again is basically definitional -- that's what science means.

Now, do you think science should be conducted by people with a financial interest in the conclusions of each paper? No, you don't. And that's why you shouldn't have a hard time accepting that advertising is inherently undesirable.

> As a matter of principle, if you have something and don't need it, and someone else needs it, you should give it to them, right?

Yes.

> I'm just trying to understand your principle and where the boundaries of it are

Sure, happy to continue the discussion.
We learn something every day
John Locke and many American Founding Fathers definitely do cite the existence of a Creator, but that isn't a fundamental requirement of the argument. Part of the derivations of natural rights (at least in Locke) comes from observing animals in nature, and applying these "natural" rules to humanity.
hope they have a backup google doc for when it gets deleted for "tos violations"
Well, it's not an IDE, so it's not fair to compare it to Pharo which is trying to be both a runtime environment and an IDE. If anything, it's an advantage that Ruby allows you to make choices about the development environment you use.
Just this afternoon I finished reading David Harland's 1988 book "Rekursiv: Object-Oriented Computer Architecture". It describes a completely different way of designing machines at the low level that can support better programming environments at the high level. You might want to check it out.

I believe we are going to see further balkanization between different operating systems / programming systems and computers based upon what they are use for. Cloud services will be the domain of what today we call "systems programmers" who work in compiled languages and care about speed. In contrast, we might now be able to get real "personal computers" running environments that teach their users how to peel back the layers and manipulate them — the long sought personal computing medium. This all could have happened back in the 80s, but we didn't have widespread or fast use of the Internet. Now it's different, and both of these types of systems can interop together in the blink of an eye because of it.

Both will require completely new computing architectures.
> Can you explain the mechanics of that happening?

It's simple - unions can force you to join, take your money, and give it to political causes you don't support. And if you're in the minority, you don't have any say in it. See Abood v. Detroit Board of Education and several more recent cases (Friedrichs v. CTA, Janus v AFSCME).

Picture this - if you were a minority opinion holder in a Google Union, and the majority of the members decided to strike to protest Google's work with the Pentagon, you would be subject to union discipline, including fines and lawsuits.

Basically, unions are fine as long as you agree with everything they say and do...
But they did tho. At least to Stalin. Had they not, all of Europe would now be Soviet Union. This is also why Japan was nuked — to ensure compliance, and create better leverage in negotiations. Otherwise the red army could just continue as far as it wished to go and take over the rest of Europe.