skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could not agree more - I only replaced my MBP because it finally wore out, not because I wanted a new machine. There was so much on my machine that it would be a massive disruption to move it all.
It may seem feasible on the long run. Indeed, it can be easier for the parents of the new children to adapt their schedule.

But it can be very hard for the parents that previously chose the school (partly) because of its start time, and adapted their own life & work schedule around this time.
Media Companies Employ Many H-1B Workers, Mostly in Tech
Cheers)

(as for in english, i've rarely seen people talk in other languages, i thought maybe there was a rule)
If you look at some of those, he was right if you extend the timeline out.
"nobody wants a mouse" - True in the days of touch screens. "the mac is dead" - Becoming true as they continue with the hardware choices for their pro lines and iOS'ification of the MacOS.
"ipod is a niche product" - It is now for those who just want a music player and not a phone.
"apple watch's a flop" - That was true when it came out. Apple was expecting it to be far larger than it was. Its now starting to gain traction, but don't see it growing to the number users who have iphones.

It might be better to say he was ahead of the curve on many of his statements.
That's part of it. But there are other factors at work including political concerns -- for example in exempting rural majority-white counties in Kentucky from Medicaid work requirements while imposing them full-force on urban majority-black counties.
Not to speak of the horrible dark patterns - count down timers, "only 3 rooms left!!!!", alarming colors, confusing interface.

There was a time, oh what a time, when I could use hotels.com and booking.com to get really good prices and still stay at very nice hotels if I was ok with booking close to the date.

Remember a time when a friend and was given a literally shitty room (with overflowing toilet) in Cairo via hotels.com. Hm, doesn't rime well with the paragraph above. :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

I think it's disingenuous to think the only way workers can own the means of production is to take them from someone else.

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
I had a similar face palm recently using Chase online banking. I was exporting a csv of transactions from a business credit card. They didn’t escape the business name colum, so any name with a comma caused the total column to push over. Was pretty funny for an xx billion dollar bank. I typically use the Plaid API but was testing a manual download.
CFar: A Tool at Microsoft to Improve Collaborative Code Review [pdf]
That's fair but you can easily develop for the majority Chrome marketshare by focusing on designing and building your applications on top of the actual web standards instead of Chrome's specific implementations. Probably 95% of the APIs you use in a typical app will be easy to use in a standard way anyway.

WebRTC and some of the more mercurial APIs might be a challenge though.
...which can often be "the hotel I booked doesn't have the reservation, and I'm currently SOL". My wife and I booked a rental car for a trip through one of the many booking sites (Expedia, probably) and when we got there, the company that had been booked with was gone and they didn't have our reservation because it was a totally new company. But nothing told us about that, we only learned about it when we got there. Thankfully, people are generally understanding and they were able to get us a car for the same price, but my wife basically had a panic attack due to there being other mishaps on the way. (and she's the type of person who plans things months in advance and changes to the plan are very distressing to her)

So yes, "one thing" might go wrong out of the 10,000, but that "one thing" can cause a literal panic attack. I don't have sympathy for companies that create crappy software that barely limps along and causes a lot of distress to my wife over stuff like that, or not telling us we need to pay extra to book seats on an airplane in advance to be able to sit together for a 13 hours flight. No sympathy at all.
Rod Rosenstein Resigns to John Kelly as Deputy AG, Source Says
Being privacy concern i have stopped using email services.
I would self host a server, how about that?
Choosy opens every link in the right browser (Mac OS X)
> Trump made Kentucky worse

Unemployment rates and total laborforce are at lows and highs respectively since 2000 in Kentucky as of the latest bls data (look at the graph since 2000). Nonfarm wage and salary metrics are at all time record highs in Kentucky. The data suggests contrary, you may have a promising career at the NYT.

https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.ky.htm
> It also doesn't help that concert tickets for "classical" events like this are ferociously expensive.

That's common knowledge, I admit, but I just checked and at least in Seattle today, it's actually backwards. Seattle Opera tickets for the upcoming "The Turn of The Screw" (in English and with subtitles, in case anyone is worried!) are $25 to $314. The Seattle Symphony this Thursday is $22 to $122. Those starting prices are only a couple bucks more than a movie (Cinerama: $18.50).

It's pop music that's crazy expensive: Childish Gambino tickets for next weekend are $114 to $589. Festivals aren't necessarily any better: Bumbershoot tickets last month were $130 (single day) to $775.

I would say it's definitely a marketing problem when even people who might consider going to a concert assume that tickets are several times more expensive than they really are. $25 tickets are not aimed at 'extremely wealthy patrons', yet SO and SS ads don't mention tickets or do anything to dispel the myth of high prices.
Yes it was. The concept of gun rights cannot exist without the concept of gun control, it's quite literally the same theme. Gun control is what defines which gun rights people have.
LIGO provides observations simultaneously at the smallest and largest scales. This kind of experimentation is going to lead to theoretical advances.
There are ~20,000 human genes. Why do scientists only study a fraction of them?
Is there a good site out there to analyze "edit war" pages of wikipedia?

I've always been curious of locked topics to see some type of analytics breakdown. The most hotly edited items are generally the things I'd most like to see surfaced.
SiriusXM to pay $3.5B for Pandora
True, and this bias also applies to a bunch of other day to day things that we take for granted.

For the comedic view on this: "Louis CK Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBtKNzoKZ4
Windows peaked in quality around Win7. Everything they've added after, with possible half-exception of Metro UI[0], seems to have made the user-facing experience much worse (I'm not claiming they didn't improve the inner workings of the system, though).

--

[0] - half-exception, because while it made the desktop experience worse, it also enabled Windows to work well on mobile devices, and it turns out Windows is the only OS for tablets that's not a toy, but a tool for productive use.
Small Azure customer (five figures a month), but can co-sign all of this.

Azure looks shiny from the outside but we've had way, way more problems, from uptime to bad APIs to awful language SDKs to bad user interfaces to licensing hell, than I've ever had on AWS or GCP. It's so bad that I am currently weighing whether or not to advocate for a migration off of it, at nontrivial expense, because I cannot pretend to provide reliable services for our customers.
One problem is that local news doesn't scale. Nothing really replaces local reporters developing sources and attending a lot of boring selectman, zoning, etc. meetings. I live in a small town that had a "labor of love" local paper for a while but it went out of business and now there's effectively no local coverage.
I posted this because I want to use Chrome less, but it's still required for some work applications (Google Meet / Coda.io). This allows me to leave my default as Safari but open meeting links in Chrome.
I'm pretty sure the petroleum and coal industries could scrape together that kind of cash.
because they can't intercept your keys so cleverly as when on the internet ;)
Mathematician Claims Proof of Riemann Hypothesis
In another Republican Party controlled state, Florida, they've also forbidden agencies to talk about climate change, global warming.

The truth will eventually come out by way of reality, but people will suffer for their greed.
The thing is that you opted into the services you gave examples of, you aren't opting into the Chrome sign-in, it's forced upon you.

No one had a problem with Facebook collecting tons of meta data, until one day, it mattered. One more link in the chain that ties users down, everyone is complacent while slowly becoming a product.
Except in this case nobody is holding a gun to anyone's head. Amazon aren't saying "work on MTurk or we'll do some harm to you", they're saying "work on MTurk if you think the money is worth it".
The amateur public radio bands are supposed to be open and useful to everyone so the broadcasts in those spectra are supposed to be readable by everyone as part of the accessible part. On top of that encrypted transmissions would be basically noise pumped into the system making the open uses more difficult and harder to police.
Shucks, I can see how it becomes verbose.
You should file a False Claims Act then since they are FedRAMP verified for G Suite, unless you're just blowing smoke out of your ass.
And ironically, that Excel sheet is often the peak of productivity.
> little thought was put into the protocols from that point on

It's currently being implemented in Rust, and I'm personally working on off-chain content that would allow data to be passed in any syntax: JSON, YAML, TOML, ProtoBuf, or your favorite binary syntax. I believe there's also a Python implementation.

> Try it with 400 thousand users and 20 million messages

Why would I want to do that? I download and replicate the feeds of the people that I follow (and the people that they follow), and that ends up being about 2500 people out of the 8000 Scuttlebutt users.

Do you also scoff at apps like Signal that only download the threads you're a part of? My friends and I aren't sending each other millions of messages, we're chatting about life and playing chess and pushing Git commits. I think we can do better than ActivityPub.
QUALITY tutorial... I just did one and am not sure I explained as concisely﻿
I bet it has absolutely no idea what the colors on the stickers are. It's probably just keeping track of how the cubelets have been permuted from some initial state, and then figuring out how to get back to that state.

So, if you flip a single edge or corner piece, it'll just solve itself into a state where every cubelet is in the correct position, but that edge or corner piece is rotated.
I'm not your enemy. I don't even know you. So please send me your passwords to your online accounts. And I'd like to take a look at your home computer. So please install VNC and open your ports on the router so we don't waste too much time setting it up.
> Is there a way you could prevent this?

Yes, regulations on insurance pricing factors and on use of personal data.
What about protonmail?
This would be amazing, and especially extraordinary coming from a 90-year-old (considering the common views that mathematicians do their best work early in life, which I don't necessarily buy into).
Ugh, I'm living through this right now on an app I've been working on in my company for 3 years. Someone will create a user survey that gets a 5% response rate and use it to justify/rationalize some decision. They think that since they ran the survey they now have data that is good enough to base a decision, with zero desire to statistically validate whether that data is any good or not.

I can't remember which thread this came from, but this talk was posted here somewhere on HN recently and I found it pretty interesting and relevant to this sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGGGDpb04Yc
I'm not assuming that I know what's best for other people, I'm assuming that they know what's best, or are at least in the best position to know what's best.

If working for MTurk isn't their best option, they'll pick one of their better options. It follows that, for people who do work on MTurk, MTurk is their best option.
NASA's Curiosity has a glitch that needs fixing before more science experiments
This has been present since iOS 10, and on iPhones with force touch you can force touch the keyboard anywhere and it'll turn into a trackpad.
Police that collect more in fees and fines are less effective at solving crime
From the parent:

> show users how to contribute to pro-immigration organizations and contact lawmakers and government agencies

From you:

> fundamentally predicated on a well-informed electorate

Describe how anything in the parent statement fails to contribute to, or detracts from, a well-informed electorate. Both examples are involvement in the functioning of a democracy, not detracting from it.

Nor is any private party obligated to provide "equal coverage". That the level of "informed" goes up, but does not encapsulate information -you- think should be included, does not negate this.
From my own research, this is not true - the US system is a little bit cheaper for an average software engineer, with much higher quality. We have to co-pay things in Europe as well; only basic ("medically necessary") care is free and of course you have to wait, sometimes years, and I'm not even speaking about the quality. E.g. my braces were more expensive than in the USA, in absolute money, not relative! And don't forget that a public system carries zero accountability of anyone ("you know, that's just how it is" is a perfectly acceptable argument here - even if you're paying out of pocket, even if someone died).
I think this is 2018's version of "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem." [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Entirely anecdotal but I have noticed huge issues with Firefox when I hook my laptop up to a 4k display. My normal display is 1080p and no issues on the same machine.
"I don't see how that makes economic sense. "

I'm really befuddled at some of the reasoning here.

You buy groceries, right?

Because if you do, and you look at the prices, well then it's pretty clear.

So this should be an exercise in understanding why that is the case, not trying to reason against the reality that produce is cheap.

Most produce, and most of the best foods are really cheap.

Even other things like lentils, beans, quinoa (a little more expensive), chick peas.

You just have to cook it.

As for your argument 'preserved foods should be cheaper' - which by the way is a reasonable point for someone who takes an academic perspective and doesn't actually buy groceries, the answer is simply that those 'massive costs' are indeed that massive. They include expensive things like 'metal' in the cans. Fuel for transportation. Branding. Marketing. Distribution. Supply chains. Etc.

Fresh food is accessible to everyone in America with any kind of domicile. The notion that poor people eat more processed foods due to economic situation doesn't hold a lot of water, though there might be some issues around the margins (again: time), but I suggest it's more simply due to bad behaviours and bad eating habits.

FYI: poor people are also much more likely to smoke - which is a prohibitively expensive activity. Granted - it's addictive - but still.

The thought of homemade garlic hummus with baked peppers has inspired me to go and do that literally right now. It'll cost me $1 ... but a lot of time which I don't really have ...

Edit: My grandparents did not have electricity or cars as children and did not have plumbing until middle age w/ several children. Does that count as 'poor'?
> Most often, they represent a value system based on profit - effectively keeping others down rather than lifting others up.

I don't see how that follows at all. Profit motives have increased standards of living substantially across the board. In systems where wealth isn't generated at a rate fast enough to keep up with population growth zero sum games are a good approximation, but that hasn't been the case with capitalism so far....

(On a side note, I think vague and slightly negative headlines like this act like a canvas for us to paint our own ideological biases and anxieties on.)
wander is awesome - i spent over an hour playing this great game... very nice!
A tangential question: does Russian keyboard have the ")" character next to ".", or something? I see you and 'amaccuish making comments in this thread with the ")" char in place where a period should go.
I might recommend using an operating system that matches your values. Maybe something like Debian? I have my own criticisms of the GNOME project, but I really enjoy their release cycle.
my concern here is less on the password effectiveness, and more on the underlying whys
How the fuck do you break the start menu? I'm eagerly awaiting better gaming support for Linux system, so I can finally leave this POS OS behind for good.
You can do this on iPads with 2-fingers.
That's why the smartest people should shut up, create a great technology that solves issues people can't agree on for centuries, then entice young smart generation to adopt it and then overrun the issue in the real world by being the only solution. Once politics and interests get involved, it's over.
Ask HN: How much r u willing 2 pay/ month 4 replacing free products from Google?
Now that we are all aware that few google products which we thought are free are not actually free, instead of loosing some money over them we are loosing lot more critical stuff over them. Only in terms of money it is free and in terms of everything else its insanely over priced.

Instead of compromising on everything and then lot of unknown factors which we don't even know why not just compromise on some money and then save everything else.

So how much are you willing to pay for a good gmail and how much would it cost to build a good gmail?
I think it puts too much blame on the software developers. Agreed, over-engineering is usually the developers fault. But the fact we don't take time to investigate issues, rather work around them or half-ready stuff gets pushed into the market is rarely the developers fault. These things are decided by management.
Just to warn you - although you can put Yubikey 5C on a keychain, it's not robust, and the plastic disintegrates after light use in just months. I had two that got destroyed. Unlike the USB-A, which are highly resilient to wear, the USB-C version are greatly subpar! Given how expensive this is and how important is, it's highly disappointing that they didn't put more thought into the material selection process! Or maybe that was the main idea - make you buy a new key every year.
Octopuses on ecstasy just want a cuddle: Research Highlights
Touché, I keep forgetting what a weird bubble HN exists in.

That being said, if I sum up the languages you list in the TIOBE index, it amounts to less than 2% so by that measure I'm only off by a factor of 4. My point still stands.
It makes sense that it can be easier to be misunderstood by a human than by a robot. And what about the case when any decision will always be bad for some people? I would argue that using (at least partly) an algorithm can add some fairness to the process, as without an algorithm systems can favor people who know the system the most.
I think RxJS already solves the problem.

https://github.com/ReactiveX/rxjs
> Estimates range from $200,000 to $1m per person to undertake a relocation

Meanwhile, Atlanta metro, predicted to take 320,000 people, has brand new townhomes 30 minutes from the airport for $100k (in Newnan).
No, it does not mean that.
Sorry, I hadn't noticed any reasonable criticism.

The fact that the only reason people work for MTurk is because they're desperate for money is hardly a criticism of MTurk. If anything, it's a criticism of everyone else in the world for not providing better ways to make money.

For example, the only reason homeless people queue up to get food from soup kitchens is because they're desperate for food, but that doesn't mean soup kitchens are bad because the queues can be long. (Hypothetical; I don't actually know if queues are typically long).

You're right that nobody had advocated any specific action and I merely assumed that everybody who was against microtask work was in favour of shutting it down. My mistake.
'Organic' is definitely 'commercial' in most cases.

It usually just means no pesticides etc..
mail works fine for me with a large inbox (GMAIL).
13 trillion? Probably not. That's on the order of magnitude of a full year of US GDP
Wow, so ESP32 as ten times more ROM/Flash and RAM memory than previous ESP8266 chip.
Yea, if you're talking about non 1st world countries, the idea could definitely work i think.

Best of luck!
The title seems inline with the quotes from experts:

> “My first reaction on reading this paper was ‘No. This is wrong. Something’s wrong,'” said stone tool expert John McNabb of the University of Southampton in Britain. “If it does turn out to be true, it changes absolutely everything.”

And

> “This discovery is rewriting our understanding of when humans reached the New World,” Judy Gradwohl, president and CEO of the San Diego Natural History Museum, said in a statement.

Those quotes were probably cherry picked and a little out of context, but when experts in the field use such strong language, I think it's justified for reporters to do the same.
Agreed. And as bad as software is, humans are worse. Imagine how many things would go wrong if everything had to be done manually.
I prefer the term Human Accounting myself.
Spotify and AncestryDNA users can now generate DNA based personalized playlists
Concurrent and Distributed Programming in Web Prolog
Eye infection in contact lens wearers can cause blindness
Tesla’s battery in Australia cost $66M and already made ~$17M
Yes, thank you. That's what I get for posting too early in the morning.
The Tyranny of the Hot Desk
Hopefully it will split away from JavaScript.
Most people don't get it as they don't understand reason behind their "reasoning" - usually driven by feelings, instincts (biology) and default modes they learned from their parents, friends or at school. So implicit choices made for them already ("common sense") cover the reasons about what really drives them and these are completely out of their radar, but we have to cope with them when we want to get anywhere near automated intelligence and morality.
Externalities are a bitch, eh?
My personal experience is that the Socratic method is still used in academia and that classes are rarely "students passively learning through an authority figure." However I recognize my experiences are a very small sample size (I've only taken classes at a few different universities). Do you have any sources which show that "The Socratic method isn't really practiced anywhere in academia"?
We did a lot with jstd and used doors succesfully https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/rational-doors
Information about what you're willing to pay isn't sufficient to lead to you paying a higher price, like in your example. There has to be no competition in the given market (probably not the case in your particular example-- car insurance).
For some reason, all of the links are opening in new tabs. Is there any way for me to configure my browser to ignore the html and not do this? (A way to revert to system default scrolling would also be nice.)
Are you done with the free product you have used for free for 10+ years? Oh, you are still going to use Gmail and other free services for free? Quit your wining then.