skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal experience, 100% of the reasons for meetings being a waste of time was because the meeting was being held for the wrong reasons.
Besides that, they keep saying things like "price first" but then talking about focusing on what customers actually want, like bigger cup holders. As far as I can tell bigger cup holders don't have much influence on the price of a luxury SUV.
Asking for sources is fair, but when they are readily available can be a bit tiresome:

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/cloud-computing...
Actually pretty easy. Thought of it after that post. No physical id requirement. Look into camera and enter SSN/DOB/name into PIN pad. If no match no vote. In case of identity theft there will be a collision and in that case let them through but send the photos and data to the police to arrest the faker.
Don't delude yourself that you're the only one to see that this is a marketing move. They're differentiating themselves from the rest, and clearly signaling to customers--what else would they possibly do?
Damn!
There comes the bullying of upgrading. :(
I am sure they want the best for us when they shove it down our throat.
That's the root of the problem. The police and prosecutors simply aren't interested in misdemeanors, despite the fact that the penalties can be quite severe.

I think because for decades so many crimes were potential felonies that police and prosecutors used the misdemeanor/felony dividing line to systemize the allocation of resources--prosecute felonies, ignore misdemeanors. Most of these felonies were ultimately prosecuted as misdemeanors through plea arrangements, which shows another aspect of the system: heavy potential penalties made it easier to secure pleas, which reinforced reliance on felonies to filter prosecutions.

Now that penalties are actually fair, police and prosecutors need to change their habits. But they haven't, despite the fact that they'll openly admit they won't prosecute the exact same crimes they once did.

It's perverse and there's no excuse for it. Felonies may have made it easier to secure plea deals, but misdemeanors are easier to prosecute from a technical perspective[1] and because of the lower penalty easier to secure plea deals closer to the maximum sentence. It's an open question whether they're cheap enough, but nobody has yet even bothered to suggest it's not practical, let alone prove it or show that there aren't measures we could take to streamline enforcement.

[1] More safeguards in place to ensure fair trial when felonies are involved. Compare traffic court, where indigent aren't even guaranteed counsel. Indeed, counsel for indigent defendants is only required by the Federal constitution for potential sentences of 6 months or longer. First offense shoplifting kids could theoretically be swiftly prosecuted in the blink of an eye (especially given camera evidence), though in some states that may require changes in the law as defendant protections were often fashioned in the context of insane penalties for common offenses.
I've tried to use anti-aliasing but for menus and titlebars it looks quite weird to my taste. Maybe it's a libfreetype packaged with CentOS? I don't know. I left this question unanswered for the future.
This would be a great "Hello World" snippet to thrill the newcomers on the website. That simple paragraph as you wrote.

Enough already to entice further curiosity now to explore on the dynamic content portion and start thinking on where this thing can be used on my daily tasks. All the best with Lucee.
Feels a bit similar to PS3/PS4 game, Flower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPZU6NeGf30
I'm sorry do I have this wrong? You read one story in source X from author A which you determine to be incorrect based on your own personal knowledge. Now we should assume everything published from source X is wrong because author A was incorrect? Is that what this is trying to say?

Journalists get things wrong. Doesn't mean I am going to completely ignore the nytimes from then on.

Or am I just a sucker now, according to Michael Chriton.
> claiming all 60+ third parties are necessary for the functionality of the site

If you consider financial needs underpinning the site operation, it's technically true - without the 60+ 3rd parties, they could run out of funds to host the site, after which the site would not function at all.
I tried to switch to Firefox. But the biggest roadblock for me were Profiles. My Google Chrome profiles are so old and useful that I feel handicapped when on Firefox.

Also, does Firefox can I have multiple profiles on Firefox now?
> Humans are already too disconnected from the physical world, I'd hate to see us completely lose the association of "Noon" with the Sun being at it's highest point in the sky.

This has never really been the case to begin as a wide (geographical) range of countries is part of the same time zone, meaning for instance that noon in Spain is not really noon.
Still satisfied with iOS 10. The only thing that interests me in the updates anymore is the security and the tables in Notes (iOS 10 doesn't have that).
It was fine, in the 80's, for me, because I didn't have anything better to compare it to.
In France, the norm is to start work three/four hours before noon and finish six/seven hours after noon (and of course do stuff after work but not before). If we stay on winter time, I can say goodbye to sunlight for most of the year.
>Does anyone else know about an announced Apple product that never came to market?

Sure. It's rare precisely because it's such footgun and so "easy" to avoid simply by never keynoting and talking about stuff that isn't actually in mass production and ready to ship, and Apple has generally been very conservative about that and taken their secrecy seriously. But it has happened, one of the most famous ones of the Jobs era was the PowerMac G5 intro, where there was a slide (IIRC) and explicit promise that the PowerMac G5 would reach 3.0+ GHz within a year. But the G5 could never manage that, and my vague recollection on internal scuttlebutt at that point was the Jobs was pretty fucking furious about it. The G5's problems and the massively increasing importance of notebooks vs desktops to Apple made the Intel switch inevitable anyway but that didn't hurt the push.

Edit to add that it's happened more with software related promises then hardware, though in fairness the two big ones I can think of instantly there were ZFS and FaceTime open source and such and both were down to IP bullshit. Maybe Apple could have had its ducks in a row there somewhat better, but maybe not, and at any rate it wasn't due to technical fault on their part. Software patents have been an eternal plague upon our industry.
Can you now finally toggle location data in the control center?
Forget a college professor.

Jesus himself could come down from Heaven, bring the Ark of the Covenant out of hiding, join forces with Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, get the endorsement of the Clintons and the Bushes, and we still wouldn't do squat with the workday or workweek. It'll still be 8 hours 5 days a week 100 years from now. Probably even 500.

8 hours is a convenient fiction we tell ourselves. People with no leverage work more or less depending on if they are salaried or hourly. People with leverage and the willingness to deploy it work what they want to work.

No employer is going to willingly increase their own costs. The employer-employee relationship grew out of the old serf-lord relationship. Most firms still think of their employees as 'resources'.

We've been prophesizing the coming of a brave new world of material plenty and leisure since the Industrial Revolution. It didn't happen then and it's not going to happen now.
> Why do people still support the company? Shouldn't people suspect something is fishy with that company's offering?

> My assumption to begin with is that consumers were turning a blind eye in order to keep using the service. That may not be the case.

I think a lot of people do not have the kind of personalities that drive them to get to the bottom of things. They didn't turn a blind eye, they just never looked beyond the surface in the first place. If pressed to explain how Amazon does what it does, they'll probably hand-wave that they're a tech company that uses magic computer innovation to out-compete old-fashioned dinosaurs.

> How can we fix this?

I don't know, but probably the first step is a lot of awareness-raising in ways that can emotionally grab the attention of the common man. Closely related is to also raise awareness of more ethical competitors, like Costco and others.

The second step is to somehow defeat the layers of pro-business propaganda and political polarization it's associated with in order to motivate real legislative action. That's a problem I have no idea how to solve.
So? It's not a vote, it's a consultation. The idea being that anyone can give their input on the matter so it doesn't matter who is responding. The voting part, if it comes to that, comes later by the European Parliament.
You will achieve nothing by getting rid of timezones, really.

Instead of calculating timezones, you will start to calculate when people actually want to sleep, which is actually harder without set "zones". So you end up with "awake/business zones" instead of timezones.
How do you feel about https://qntm.org/abolish , "So You Want To Abolish Time Zones"
We're really close. Actually Intel announced a 49-qubit quantum computer which would have beaten existing classical platforms, but just after that, another team at IBM [edit: not Intel] made an algorithmic breakthrough and simulated 56 qubits on a classical supercomputer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_supremacy
How does the hardware work with the web SDK? I didn't think it was possible to interface with hardware from a browser.
I had never thought of it. But with the decline of religion, it seems faith is now directed at authority, mostly of the political but also the 'scientific' kind. Great point, thank you.
Everyone? I don't get a say. This parliament doesn't represent me. All it does is force decisions on me.
You can get that in Emacs with the which-key: https://github.com/justbur/emacs-which-key
I'll offer my anecdata as a counter-example. Within the past year I was offered a nice 6-figure salary at a prominent banking company after a single phone interview. I'm (just barely) a millennial also with no degree, no certifications, didn't even go to tech school.

I can't speak to your personal situation, but speaking generally I think too many tech people over-value their technical skills. If all a company needs is a warm body that can code or patch servers they will hire a better coder in India for half the price. The number one differentiator is communication and social skills. At my job there are 4 main groups I talk to: local coworkers, India coworkers, management, clients. Being a person who can talk to all 4 of those groups is valuable. Being a person who can churn out code is not particularly valuable.

Communication, of course, starts on the resume. If you're not even getting calls, I would suggest getting some help on your resume. Hire a professional if you need to.

If your job history is a mess take a few crappy consulting gigs and then a year from now you can say, "I've been successfully consulting for a while but now am looking for a place to settle in." That way you at least look consistent.

If interviewing is tough for you, then do it more. If you have stable job put your resume out there and accept at least 2-3 interviews every 6 months. Even/Especially if you are happy with your current job. Not needing the new job takes the pressure off. The practice will be good for you and you never know, you might find an amazing opportunity.
You "can't delete" but there are in-fact ways to clean up deleted items and get rid of them completely.
> CALPERS is rescued from bankruptcy by investment in AirBnB and Uber

I would like to know more.
The fact that each device has an IDFA that any app can share with literally anyone in the world, without the need to tell you, because IDFA is a quasi-persistent identifier I suppose doesn't matter.
> Because nuclear waste is an unsolved problem

People keep saying that, but it's been solved for years, we just haven't built the reactors that solve it. The new designs use the "waste" from the old ones as fuel.

> cheap renewables promotes decentralized energy production using inputs that’s can’t be controlled

Nobody is preventing you from putting solar panels on your roof. But the person who lives in a studio apartment in a fifty story building has a patch of sunlight exposure that would be lucky to run a hair drier from solar, much less climate control the apartment.

> If we’re going to subsidize anything, it might as well be solar and wind.

If we're going to subsidize anything, it should be nuclear and renewables. They actually work great together -- nuclear for baseload (at night) and solar during the day when the sun is out and the load is higher.
For most people international time coordination issues are rare, rare enough that it's more valuable to have a local time, to tell someone you're meeting at 13:30 so they have a natural feeling for the fact it's comfortably after lunch, but not too late.

For everything else there's UTC.
I've spend some time to make keyboard shortcuts consistent across applications and window manager part. My thoughts partly described here https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/wiki/Keyboard. I hope this document help you answer to your question.
> companies started to offer 10 hours of work time in return to extra day off.

That would equate to 18 hour days. Give yourself 2 hours of time spread across the morning and evening to wash, dress, eat etc. you'd be looking at 4 hours sleep a night for 4 nights and no relaxation time. That seems unsustainable.
Check out https://connect.yandex.com
If the site is down, there's also...

Could activity pub be the future [1]? Yes, it could be [2].

[1] https://blog.digitalscofflaw.com/articles/activitypub-could-...

[2] https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/why-activitypub-is-the...
Been running iOS betas on my primary device since around iOS 8 or 9, and never really experienced any super annoying bugs until the 11 beta, which made me question if I really wanted to run betas on my phone ever again. But, my impatience gave out and I upgraded to the 12 beta, and it was like I had a new phone.

Updated to the GM a couple days ago and my 6S is running as good as the day I got it. Super happy with iOS 12 currently.
You’re free to use GMT if you want. The rest of us would prefer it not to change from Friday to Saturday in the middle of lunch.
You can run multiple tab containers[1] in Firefox as well as multiple Firefox profiles[2] at the same time.

On Linux, I use:

alias ff='firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote &'

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Mul...
Summer time really only matters for a few weeks of the year in the farish north of Ireland. (Coincidentally, right around now) when the sunrise and sunset are changing the fastest. We're losing 4 minutes of daylight a day now as we slam towards equinox. Middle of the summer? Sky never really gets dark.

Though, with brexit over the horizon, it's conceivable that Ireland and Northern Ireland will end up on two different sides of daylight savings. Which will be all sorts of annoying.
“Shoving it down your throat” would mean that you had no choice but to install it. You do have a choice. Just ignore the red dot. It’s not that hard.

Although why you’d want to is beyond me. We’ve been saying this here since iOS was a thing. People didn’t want to go from 6 to 7, or 7 to 8, and now 11 to 12. And yet, here we all are.
The Leidenfrost Maze: https://youtu.be/w0lMJcAfzU4
I am in NYC, which is pretty far east in the timezone (although not as east as others), and I still vote for DST being the permanent time.
You do realize the 5-day workweek is a relatively new invention even in the US, right? Let alone in my country, Romania, where six days was the rule until 1990 or so.
I can't help but think that citizens giving their views on the

"Public consultation on the Evaluation of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive"

isn't quite at the same level as getting rid of daylight savings time.
Wasn't Minix a whole operating system?

Linux is not an OS. It's a kernel. The OS was GNU, and Linux was only the missing piece.

I maintain that any kernel that worked with GNU would have taken off.
Mathematics matters
That is not true at all. There’s only ever been one SE and it was always based on the 6S hardware. The closest thing to a refresh was a mid-cycle bump to the base storage.
Pre-Solitaire and Minesweeper. As I recall, read or at least pretend to. Whatever else you could read on a text screen--even most tech people didn't have Usenet or that sort of thing though. Made phone calls. Took a walk around the building or campus to chat with people.

There was probably less overt barely- or non-work-related fiddling but people weren't heads-down all day either.
On the contrary, there is a lot of engineering work to be done before we get a working quantum computer.
You realize that the very premise of Wall Street is in large part "guess the price of money".
Overweight people apparently live longer.
That would give up one very valuable feature, namely, that scanning it at the time you're voting gives you immediate feedback about the validity of your ballot. If you accidentally voided your ballot by voting for more than the allowed # of candidates in any given election, or if you didn't bubble in the ovals properly and it can't read them, then your ballot will be rejected and you can fill in a new one. If you wait to scan until after voting has closed, then the person's vote will be thrown away instead of fixed.

Also, how are you going to scan all these ballots after voting has closed? That would require opening up the lockbox, which tampers with the security of the system. Plus, you're no longer getting results instantly; you'd have to wait until the polling place is closed down, and then open up the box and scan all the ballots. What possible advantage does this have? It'd just slow everything down.
It exists. Conversion rates on sites that use 3D-Secure in the US went through the floor, which is why merchants focusing on that market have largely abandoned it.
I was also puzzled by this earlier in my career. If tech is so hot why is it hard to get hired? I will now share the answer I spent years looking for with you, perhaps it will help.

There’s an enormous shortage of software developers. What there is not though, is an enormous shortage of software developer applicants. By this I mean people who heard programming was good money, went two weeks to rockstar coding ninja boot camp react JS and are now applying to job postings that say “lead engineer”.

So you are a hiring manager trying to find a team lead for your next project, you put out a job ad and you get 500 resumes for folks who can’t code their way out of a CS1 exam. In reality you need to reject all of them. But you can’t reject all of them, because if we could implement a hiring manager with a mail rule what would we need hiring managers for?

So instead we set up some convoluted method to reject nearly all of them that is not obviously equivalent to a mail rule. Phone screens, coding tests, five rounds of interviews so if in a desperate moment we do hire this idiot at least four other people at the company signed off on it.

Somewhere in this stack of resumes there will be exactly 0.3 people who can code their way out of a CS1 exam. However they will have things to do besides engage a kafkaseque hiring process, like, I don’t know, writing software for a living. Once they realize this they will not participate in the process, self-fulfilling the prophesy that no good candidates are ever in the pile.

Meanwhile in another part of town, someone is leaning on the existing engineers until they cough up a name of an (un)happily employeed lead engineer who can be poached from his dysfunctional organization to work for ours, which is not-at-all-dysfunctional, stop-talking-Jim-don’t-spook-him. Depending on the size of the organization that person will be hired either openly skipping whatever bizarre paper-pusher hiring process is nominally in place, or in some cases “HR makes us do this but it’s just a formality”.

The moral of this story is, if you want to be hired, a) ignore pretty much anything that purports to be hiring process for programmers, b) befriend engineers who will cough up your name under pressure.
Hey if Stripe really is reaping in the profits I have great news for you! Someone, maybe even you, can launch a competing project, offer a similarly polished API, and charge 2.5% and reap slightly less profit but still almost pure profit! Once that happens, Stripe will be forced to reduce its fee and everyone on the internet will be able to keep a little bit more of their money. Everyone wins (except Stripe and NewCo)! In the meantime, people get to choose if paying Stripe 3% is worth all the headache that it saves or if they are better off with a different approach. Hopefully not to many people will get tricked into pay Stripe outrageous fees for being a middleman while we wait for capitalism to work.
it's certainly not the weirdest thing that has ever been done, the Chinese government has tried to enforce a single time zone across a incredibly wide range of longitude.
>Clients using the IPFS protocol will ignore them and fetch the distributed version

Except they won't know the hash for the content they're looking for..
We are certainly at work for long periods, but are we working enough?
Sure. The point is that the whole thing is a mirage, an illusion, a lie we tell ourselves. Only the very lucky get a 5 day workweek. Everyone else barely scrapes by with however long they're working. It just wasn't a fiction before the "5 day workweek."
The WWDC app has a new short video called “What’s new in Core NFC” which mentiones the new features in the Iphones such as reading NFC in the background.
Ponferrada, Spain (42°33′N) has the same time as Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (42°0′N) (both are on CEST); however, in Ponferrada the sun passes through the meridian at 2:20pm today while in Skopje it does at 12:28pm.

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/spain/ponferrada

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/republic-of-macedonia/...

With this new regulation, Spain can adopt a time zone that makes more sense for them while not having to change clocks twice a year.
No plans currently. I'm not really familiar with Dat. Can it do something that IPFS can't?
Great Scott! 122GB.
A weekly update of the local rpi would seem quite irresponsible on a regular basis - how would I use rsync with IPFS? (I could not find Wayne Davison's user id on HN, he seems to maintain rsync)
- Are zim files optimized for rsync?
If you met a recruiter in person and then they ghosted you, that means you failed the "sniff test." That's not literal, I'm not suggesting you literally smell, but it means you failed to present well socially. If recruiters place bad candidates they stop getting business and they go broke. Recruiters are totally technically illiterate, so they are all about that social "feel." Something you did put them off and made them not feel comfortable betting their income on you.