skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised we haven't seen more of the mixed compromise:

Monday - Thursday: 10 hour days
Friday - Monday: 4 day weekend
Tuesday - Friday: 10 hour days
Saturday - Sunday: 2 day weekend

and then it repeats. Same hours worked overall.

Work longer days, but get 4 day weekends every other week. The people I've known who've had this setup would generally work 6am-4pm.
Space law school better be on the moon
Yep, you are correct about generic truthy. We have standard library function empty(), which is custom (agreed internally what is empty) and which everyone knows. That solves many issues you pointed.
Hey, Michi here, from Arc Studio Pro.

As MartinMond said, this is indeed an attempt to bring a GitHub style workflow to a field outside of software development.

The app is written in Clojure(Script), implementing OT for collaboration.

Happy to answer any questions!
> the nightly network news certainly isn't covering it

Even from here in Germany, newspapers make headlines with every little tweet that Trump spews out, not to mention every tiny detail from the Mueller probe. Same for social media. You gotta run through the world blindfolded to be unaware of Trumps scandals...
It shouldn't but ...these people don't have to testify in court. They get to cast a vote, in private, while also publicly decrying Trump and harmful GOP policies to their neighbors.
Ah, I think you may be talking about the repeatable reads property? All readers in LogDevice are guaranteed to see the same records in the same order (aside from trimmed data).
> Change location settings remotely

You don't have to change a setting if it never works.

points at temple

https://bgr.com/2018/08/20/lawsuit-google-violates-privacy-t...
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My point was: Are people who live in an area for a long time happy if a low immigration area turns into a high immigration area.

High immigration(besides nearby catastrophes) usually means something good happended to the area. So people can have the same overall happiness but for different reasons.

For example: Job opportunities are better now, Property prices are rising(Great my home is worth more), but it feels less at home then before.
to make progress, rollback the last 5 years of changes
Congrats! Where i work Mojolicious is what keeps us using Perl.
sociopaths
>Have certainly experienced much more direct communication styles, e.g. in Holland, than are the norm in say UK.

I would say UK are quite far on the opposite spectrum. And Cultural differences in coomunication are vastly amplify on the Internet.
Wages haven't risen for the bottom 60% of the country since the late 60's, early 70's. This is of course continued by Trump, but he isn't the cause.
> The other is the issue of Amazon employees receiving food stamps (now called SNAP, apparently). This one seems particularly odd to me, because I'm not sure how to interpret it.

You should interpret it as sign that even among much of what passes for the left in America, corporate feudalism is deeply entrenched in consciousness. Instead of meeting basic needs being seen as a responsibility of public authority, to be addressed out of tax revenue, it is seen as the duty of the feudal lord (employer) to whom peasants (employees) are bound.
Fiber optic ines also work alright.
> Journalists do this work for you and are trained to do it, but of course there is nothing wrong with going closer to the source.

Journalists are trained in journalism, not particular problem domains. Someone writing an article on an event in the middle east may have no education in Middle Eastern history. Without domain specific knowledge, it's impossible to write a coherent article on complex topics like these.

The very premise of general-purpose journalism is obsolete for numerous subjects. For foreign affairs, for example, the underlying facts all come from the same AP wires or press briefings. There is no value-add to having a non-expert massage those into an article. Likewise for politics. Most technology news comes from press releases, etc.
Fearmongering and FUD on security by short sighted and self serving technical folks on forums like this has got us to the point where backdoors and remote execution by 'trusted parties' are the norm while users root access to their own device is demonized as a security hole.

These are folks who are constantly 'empowering' themselves at the cost of others so getting root on your own phone is now thought of some sort of great security hole and some apps will detect it and refuse to work. This is the future of software freedom courtesy ex freedom and liberty poseurs and now greedy out of control tinpots.
>you'd swear we were living in a communist society

Communism has no money though? Time to read what Communism actually means!
> that the only reason we teach our kids not to swear is because we want them to remain cute

I disagree with that. For swearing to be useful as swearing, it must be taboo. Avoiding it in certain places and teaching children not to do it is part of preserving the taboo; it's preserving the cultural heritage for your children to enjoy when they grow up.
That's the status quo only because the government shut down its long-term storage facility, for which nuclear companies have already provided $46 billion.

However, for the fast neutron reactors supported by this new law, long-term waste storage is less of a problem. 99% of our nuclear waste is U238 and transuranics, all of which are fissioned in fast reactors. The remaining 1% is fission products, which have much shorter half-lives. For those, the general idea is to encase them in glass blocks and bury them; they'll be back to the radioactivity of the original ore in 300 years.
They're both the same issue, a lack of regulation creates an entire web that makes everything it touches super fragile.

When Lehman Brother's tanked they were one of the highest leveraged at 38:1, and current legislation allows 20:1 which many were originally operating at. If you look at any wealth asset, real-estate, wine, art, etc. these are all artificially high making the leverage crisis exponentially worse because when it comes time to shore up accounts these people don't actually have the value their writing in their books.

Most of these retirement funds have to prove some basic stress solvency, but they're doing it with leveraged funds and debt. Thus when a downturn happens and it comes time to pay back the middle class we will have to bail them back out. We're paying twice! Student loans almost certainly will be the next bubble, Wall Street already sells these as an asset backed security (see SLABS). At over a trillion in value with the rules written against students when mass defaulting happens the whole system will come down again with individuals having absolutely no protection, and no one willing to fight for them.
It really does perplex me that the iCloud website is as bad as it is. I'd almost think it was abandoned-ware except that Apple continues to update it. Their whole cloud offering (iTunes store, Apple Music, iCloud) needs a MASSIVE overhaul. Everything should be available via the web and on a modern accessible website.

I'd go as far as to say that they need a new point-person in charge of their Cloud Services because whoever is doing it now is completely out of touch. iTunes in particular is embarrassing, and I personally buy less stuff because I don't want to run it (instead use Vudu, Amazon Digital, etc).
The arts are generally grossly underpaid. That's because people want to do the work.

If your goal is making money, you find something that's uninteresting, unfulfilling, and maybe unethical, but solves big problems for people who have money. If your goal is creative fulfillment, prepare yourself to be poor, or work a boring job to pay for your art.
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Yeah, how was this rolled out? I assume a play services update? I mean - I expected it to be possible just because they're the ones who signed both play services and the settings apps - but for them to actually use that capability seems completely insane.

I'm almost wondering if we could do some sort of crowd auditing of play services changes, automatically grab changes pushed via play store, pass through appropriate decompilers and disassemblers and highlight modified sections, similar to what tools like bindiff do... I know, I know, install MicroG/switch to an iPhone/burn your phone with fire, but many people run these devices and would be interested in any impacts like this being had on user security and privacy I'm sure.
Why is this downvoted?
The only way to make this change is for people to boycott the service.
It depends on how useful the advertising is. It's not the tracking or privacy the regular user is most concerned about, it's the everyday experience that tells him advertising is still stupid and annoying.

Despite all the billion dollars ML systems with gazillion of factors analyzed on petabytes of data, all we've got is 'hey, you googled for a 10uA accuracy bench multimeter yesterday! now for two weeks we will show you all the $15 multimeters ever existed!'.

Look at this (don't worry, it's short one-page) thread for example of how it might be instead - https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/benchtop-dmm-advise-n... - and what if the message from Tek engineer that closed a deal was actually advertising? He just posted a link to relevant appnote, that's it. What if automatical advertising system showed the same link to the same appnote as an advertising to the same user?
In Georgia, a legal battle over electronic vs. paper voting
> Art? Any criticism of art is always inherently subjective, it can easily be blown off as the critic not getting it, not liking that style of art, etc.

I chose Art as an example simply because it was the farthest thing from a technical field and thus refutes the assertion that "direct criticism" in non-technical realms is rare.

All I am stating is that criticism of work is a central component of art (and other non-tech domains). It is not "rare".

You are saying that art criticism is "subjective" and that therefore it "doesn't count"-- that's your personal opinion that I don't care to argue about. Subjectivity is as much a part of the human experience as anything else.
I don't really see the problem here. You tweak settings and collect data so you can pick better defaults in the future. Why wouldn't you do this?

I worry that users imagine software to be static, complete, and never in need of change... and the world just doesn't work that way. Software is in a constant state of "works just well enough to maybe deploy". Experimentation and refinement are always necessary.

I don't see outrage when Microsoft updates Windows and it starts deleting malware from your system. What's the difference?
Congrats, you're not a pushover.
This is definitely not what coffeemug was saying though. He was complaining about all the people who don't appreciate him calling them stupid, so we has to "be more diplomatic" which he considers lying.

That is a different thing altogether from what you're saying.
Yes, feelings matter.

"Going personal", as the grandparent pointed out, doesn't help anyone improve themselves. You can point out issues with someone's contribution without attacking them, and that's all they need to improve.

If someone is incapable or refuses to learn from that, then you can say that they need to before you can accept contributions from them, but attacking them personally is just unacceptable.
> If that was the case piracy would be legal, software trails wouldn't be legal. Windows license or photoshop trial up? Well I downloaded, your server fulfilled the request. I have legal rights to it now.

Piracy is someone intentionally breaking a known license contract. Software trials require contracts first. Either upon download or installation. You agree to a license before you use Windows. Those agreements are binding. The web also has systems in place for similar contract negotiation. If you don't use that, it's kinda on you. Some users will choose to use your content in the way you intended, others won't, and you have no recourse.

> You know that isn't a solid argument you made at all.

Unfortunately for you, it's already held up under law. There's a reason the big players are trying for new solutions than attempting to ban users from blocking them.

> If they did implement that you'd need a multiple round trip check, the site would be slammed for being slow to respond cause it have to download a script, check if your blocking, report back then start the downloading process for the site. Just not feasible.

We already have that. Quite seriously. HTTP has the structure for authorisation, and the process for handling it if you're not. Not using that structure, is a choice that leaves you vulnerable.
The federal government and these huge corps REALLY do not want unions to form, and they will do anything in their power to prevent it from happening.

It seems simple: Do the smart thing, form a union! But the reality is that the people working in these warehouses and these types of jobs are so terrorized economically, medically, and in just about any way you can imagine, that it's unrealistic for them to stick their neck out to try and improve things.
My gym phone still has android 5 on it - nothing like having everyone see you're pumping yourself up for your big lift with Frozen. "LET IT GOOOOOOO!!!!"
It seems that not suffering fools gladly could well be correlated with success. It reduces time wasted (although doing so extremely impolitely may have other negative results).
The exercise can help relieve lower back pain
For now, that might be the case; however, there are a large number of more insidious uses when that data is sold to/shared with third parties (e.g. insurance companies could use that data to increase your rates or deny insurance depending on your web traffic, employers could make inferences based on your data and deny employment, banks could use the data to deny loans or charge increased rates, etc.).
AFAIK nuclear power generation is outright banned in Australia (with the exclusion of the Lucas Heights medical reactor).
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An interesting feature idea would be to allow there to be multiple links for a given article topic, and allow upvoting and downvoting on the particular links, without having to submit new links that are not obviously related to the same story (and do not share comment threads, etc.).

This might lead to a little bit of confusion over particular points made in one of the articles, but it would be balanced against the accessibility of other news sources, and would give us a way to organically work free of blog spam.
This isn't new or the fault of immigrants - I went to Sweden almost 20 years ago and almost every young person I came into contact with was an introvert average-to-pretty looking Smiths fan who was depressed or extrovert very attractive dance/pop fan who was depreseed/worried about not being taken seriously whilst taking their art shots on their retro camera.
There are looking, sure, but at the same time investing in projects in fossil fuels like Nord Stream. And fossil fuels are less environment friendly than nuclear power. To me this anti-nuclear sentiment in Europe looks like pure populism.
I'm missing depth in their UI. I liked the Windows 7 UX the most.
The view from Iowa: where immigrants are at the heart of America's culture war
This is a pretty good explanation for why 'fake news' is a thing.

"Michael Crichton concluded in the same essay that there is absolutely no value in the media, as society continues to seek information from the same source that was entirely wrong on the topic in which one retains expertise"
I guess this depends on the context, but I don't really see the problem. If I reject a patch due to some specific problems with the code, then surely I should reconsider if the submitter could refactor to avoid the reasons for rejection? And if I was actually wrong about X, Y or Z, then I would like to have that pointed out. Everybody can make mistakes.
> Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible

{Looks at unrepairable phone}

{Looks at unrepairable laptop}

{Looks at cord with no strain relief}

I don't believe you.
> it's not like anybody will need to act immediately upon some news regarding foreign affairs for example

Well, that's not quite true: there are organisations which need to act immediately upon news of foreign affairs. Those organisations are nation-states, and they tend to have well-funded and -staffed intelligence operations for precisely that reason.
Germany has 5% Muslims now, but they reproduce at a much higher rate. Unless they manage to integrate those children much better than in the past, in two generations Muslims will be a majority.
> most lower to middle class people would drop substantially - while the upper class would be unaffected.

which is why taxation needs to be progressive. The rich who have their wealth created by using other people needs to pay a larger proportion of the tax burden to make society more comfortable for everybody. The idea is that with added infrastructure and education and healthcare paid for by the higher taxes, the poor will eventually not be forced into the position of having to slave away.
I'll believe it when the keyboard on a six month old MBP doesn't feel like the keys are about to fall off.
Regarding Theory as Technology
I was under the impression that you had to have your photo taken at the post office. In the case where you've already provided verifying documentation, having that official also take the picture neatly verifies the picture at the time of the application.

I just looked, and apply by mail is only available in certain situations, one of which is that it must be a renewal, and the prior on must have been within the last 15 years and you must have been over 16. It sort of makes sense with those rules, but still seems somewhat lax to me.
Oh no. If the seller, represented it that way, sure.

When they don"t, and at those times they are asking dollars for implied value, they need to either earn it, or quit making those representations.

To their credit many have, I will no longer buy from them.

The few that still do tend to get this right.

I have had few incidents in the last decade. The 90's and lesser degree 00's were particularly bad.
"Sanders has introduced a bill designed to force companies such as Amazon to pay their workers higher wages."

Instead of picking on Amazon perhaps politicians should look at the actual root cause here.

If there are minimum wages laws (and there are) and people paid minimum wage still need food stamps then perhaps the problem lies with minimum wages and those who set them... Politicians.
> This is not true for the journalist who reports international events and affairs - these are based on much simpler facts such as "which government decided what" and "which spokesperson of some organisation said what when".

I disagree very strongly with this statement. The "facts" may be simpler in that it doesn't take research to uncover them, but the "reporting" is far more complex because there are so many and contradicting facts. Take any international conflict and you have multiple truths about which gov't decided what. Additionally the actors are motivated to create confusion.
> I worry that users imagine software to be static, complete, and never in need of change... and the world just doesn't work that way.

For users who have stable, working software, it should. If I voluntarily update my device that's a different scenario. Quietly pushing changes like this that impact user settings, not so much.

> I don't see outrage when Microsoft updates Windows and it starts deleting malware from your system.

Googling "Disable malicious software removal tool" certainly reveals otherwise.
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> Passion.

Luck.

Being best is no guarantee of success, and successful people are not necessarily reliable in attributing the actual reasons for their success.
Startups were a rarity in 2008?
Do you even read what you post links to? You are posting ONE quarter results from winter of 2018 that completely backs up what I just wrote. You need to at least review what you are randomly Googling.
What does "real-time" mean in terms of a web framework? As a web developer for over a decade, I don't recall seeing a web framework described with that before and have no idea how to interpret it.
It's not free. People are paying the economist with their time.
Naomi Wu is dressing as sexually provocative as possible.
Is a transparent LED bra somehow a lot more suitable for hot weather.
> If all of those subsidies were to vanish, the standard of living for most lower to middle class people would drop substantially

I see so many discussions in US politics that go around and around and bend over backwards to never, ever propose the extremely simple and obvious solution....

(...drum roll...)

Companies simply lower profits.

Conditions for the workers go up with better conditions & higher pay. The prices of products and services need not change, so consumers are not worse off.

It appears that what I'm saying is tantamount to blasphemy in the US, nobody is even willing to suggest lowering corporate profits as one possible option with associated pros and cons.
I noticed that about Slate too, yesterday, when another HN article linked to them. Now I just open sites that break GDPR laws in a private tab, accept all of their cookie things and skim the article and determine if it's worth properly reading (while blocking ads, canvas super cookies, etc.). When I'm done I close the window and all the data they place on my machine is wiped. This means the outcome for them is even worse than if they had behaved themselves and offered a "minimum required" box that I would have probably ticked.
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Just to ++ this sentiment. This echoes my situation back then as well. The only thing I can think that _might_ have helped me in hindsight, was a combination of better consumer protections (I got that loan with zero down ... and they glossed over the details of the adjustable rate mortgage); and also just wish I would have had better financial literacy.

I take full responsibility for my own situation and the outcome. The only thing I can do now, is incessantly knock the knowledge into my kids. Hopefully when it comes time for them to "make their own mistakes", they can at least learn from our experience.
> 99% of people

You are saying that 99% of people live in the same residence for years?

I'd love to see a source on this.

Between transient people, houseless people, digital nomads, business travelers, jetsetters, RVers, and all sorts of other people who don't live in one place all year, I have no doubt that the various modes of nomadism, taken together, account for far, far higher than 1%.

Heck, in NYC alone, I'll wager that less than 70% of today's population has lived in the same domicile for the past 2 years. There's no way it's 99%.

> When you work in the city, grew up in the city, have met almost everyone you know in the city

I made clear in my post that people in those circumstances might have a different experience. But is this the only audience NYC is designed to serve? People who grew up in the city? What about those of us in the Hudson Valley? Do we not deserve any of the economic benefits of the city (for which we pay in many ways, not least of which our watershed) just because we were born 50-150 miles away?

I think it's about time that real opportunities to live in the city for a few weeks out of the year become available to other NYers and not just the super rich.

I didn't grow up in NYC, but I consider it my city too. I know the best open mics, the places where I can order authentic Mexican or Puerto Rican food en español, the incubators and co-working spaces, the subway system, etc.

Just because you grew up there doesn't give you exclusive ownership of the culture of NYC.
As long as RSS is available and not being abandoned by publishers, why do you care about the number of users?