skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont want to be too harsh but I wouldnt find this useful (and my job depends a lot on crawling data)

1. When most people scrape data, they generally are interested in a very specific niche subset of the web. Sure you might have a billion row database of every article ever publisbed, but do you have all the rows of every item sold in FootLocker.com, for instance? As well as the price of each item(which is extracted from some obscure xpath)

2. Second, most people are interested in daily snapshots of a page. Like the daily prices of items in an ecommerce store. Not a static, one time snapshot.

I strongly believe crawling is something that can rarely be productized. the needs are so different for every use case. And even if you were to provide a product that would make crawling obsolete, I would still never use it. Because I dont trust you crawled the data correctly. And clean, accurate data is everything
Picking a popular framework is most useful when you come to an edge/rare case and stackoverflow.com and forums are needed because the docs/manual fail.
In practice this switching ability isn't true or easy. Sandwich workers in Seattle had to sign non-competes and couldn't go work at other restaurants. There was a lawsuit from the city to stop it.
Create React XP app
Crypto Theme for September: Enforcement
The best is the code the more and better the comments usually... No mutual exclusivity.
When it is some factories and some workplaces it is ok. When you try to adopt it nationwide it breaks down.

Like in hospitality, hotels are not going to stop cleaning rooms on weekends. You are not going to close restaurants on weekends. So quite some people in services also have random days in week off.
God forbid! That science is settled by consensus, after all.
Yes, that's important too. Such a system shouldn't work at all when there's no power. I imagine that can be accomplished with a mechanism that has to have power to stay in a position that interferes with opening the door.

What happens when power fails is pretty important. What happens to an automated vehicle when that happens, for example? If there's no driver, they'll a mechanical brake that isn't used whenever power IS available. When power fails, it would engage.

More to your point, I've heard the Tesla Model 3 rear doors can't be opened from inside when power is lost in an accident. That could be a serious problem in an accident. Maybe they've fixed that or will soon. They will definitely fix it before I would purchase one.
> I don't think you can explain this by simply categorizing people

I was not trying to categorize people, but I was trying to abstractly point out how this might happen, but I used a "category" to explain it simply.

> I think initially the Internet brought people closer together. It was like ham radio - you could connect with people in a relatively small but very distributed community of hobbyists and experts. Once everyone joined and it became ubiquitous, it's had the opposite effect - it's replaced most of our social interactions but there's an increased anonymity and social separation.

Exactly!

"nerds" is just a type of social circle, who're also the initial adopters of a tech, you don't want to be an outcast by doing something that is not "nerdy" in the early stages, because it is easily noticeable by other nerds of that tech. When the social circle expands to potentially bring in other types of social circles (by going mainstream) and becomes (pseudo)anonymous, you'll obviously find a large variation of (acceptable) behaviors among the different social circles, which may or may not overlap with each other.
There is no such thing as a "Linux desktop community" that can listen or respond to user requests (nor are Apple or MS listening to what their users actually want). There are, or have been, individual developers interested in particular tasks to scratch their itch, developing for fun, under a grant or GSoC-like sponsorship, etc.

Wrt fragmentation: on Windows there's a confusing choice of multiple app frameworks with no clear roadmap as well, which is very frustrating to Windows developers: Win32/Winforms, WPF, UWP, etc. Most new desktop apps, even those by MS such as Skype Desktop and VS Code, are cross-platform and based on Electron.

Apple has recently ditched Open GL; what kind of message does that send to Mac OS app publishers regarding any long-time commitment to the Mac platform?

The situation on Linux has been like that for ages; it's not going to change unless you want to throw away all the apps there are (cf. https://xkcd.com/927/). And maybe Ubuntu's UI is a bit frugal and ugly compared to Mac OS, but it's working in a predictable and rational way, and no less unified than Windows. If you have an issue with it, you can change it the way you like, rather than expect others to do it for free.
Absolutely. But often not every day. And more often not in the same physical place.
On a related note, readers might enjoy Adam Curtis' piece about intelligence agencies. The crux of his argument is that often, they're not magic super-spies; often, they're pretty bad at their job.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-...
I get that there is linguistic overlap and some similar conditions, but business consulting is better described as a professional service (like lawyering or accounting) than it is as gig labor.
Meditation/mindfulness is a proven method to alleviate the symptoms of depression and anxiety such as a lack of focus. I use it regularly, and can recommend it however psychotherapy with or without drugs would be my primary recommendation.

It is going to take effort, either way. There's no magic stick which can be waved to fix the issues at hand.
These green-washed headlines are getting absurd.

Wind-powered suggests there's no fossil fuel based propulsion, when these rotors are driven by the same propulsion system as the ship's propellors: diesel.
My favorite part about this article is the extra wide space that follows their apostrophe character. It really gives an air of legitimacy to their LaTeX distribution...
No, it's written in Haskell
That's not a book of scholarship. Read an actual historical account of the gulag system. Trust me, its depressing enough without literary embellishment.

And then compare it to the atrocities that established western capitalism. Fairly, I recommend.
"I know it pays little and is repetitive. But my question with this kind of analysis is always: why do they keep finding people to do it?"

Why do you keep finding people to go into prostitution?
Germany. That is, as long as Walmart had tried to fight German labour laws.

They've since given up, so I guess it's really "Germany, in the past".
Hardly arrogant. If you are willing to tow the corrupt party line and give up your personal self and identity on a subliminal level just to work for people who will never trust you, always keep you in the dark about what you're really doing, and potentially have you be party to illegal acts (most likely given the CIA's history) then you are literally a "sheep". You can choose any road in life to go down, should you go down that road then I too have no sympathy for whatever pains you must endure as a result.
Chinese cake factory complex is made up of fairy castles
I don't think it's actually wrong to call it an alternative. If someone says that going to a restaurant is an alternative to cooking, you know exactly what they mean. It's not an alternative method, but it is an alternative choice.

The problem is that there are two valid interpretations here, and it wasn't clear which was the right one.
If some group of people think Wikipedia is bullshit, they're going to miss out on the most accessible repository of human knowledge that Man has ever compiled.

That's their own problem. They will fall behind others.
Why would I read western propaganda? I'm not defending the Soviet Union, simply pointing out that the horrors y'all make up about them are largely made up, and that the United States does every one of them, if not worse, both to our own citizens and to people around the world. You think the Soviet Union was bad at silencing their enemies? The US assassinated Fred Hampton for telling black people they don't have to bow down anymore. They assassinated Allende in Chile because he had the audacity of being democratically elected and a socialist, and then backed a fascist (Pinochet) and helped him become one of the most murderous dictators in history. In Iran when the Mossadegh was democratically elected, he told BP gas that their monopoly on Iranian Oil was over. In return the US orchestrated a coup, installed a brutal dictator, and set up the Iranian secret police that we now view as the epitomy of evil.

Eventually you are going to have to wake up and realize that the West has been the largest force for evil in the history of the world. And I'm not talking about Hitler.
Some probably will. But won’t most see a raise? Are we now vilifying amazon for doing exactly what we asked them to do because of something that might happen?
Distance fields, coordinate fields, and marching parabolas
Rotor sails aren't really low-tech though, the original pre-WWII attempts failed because the sails were too heavy and the engines (to rotate the "sails") not efficient enough, so the rotor sails were a net energy loss (aka using the engines to power regular screws was more efficient even in best-case scenarios).

The new attempts (since the mid-augths) use advanced modern material science to build the sails, no way you can replicate that in a low-tech non-industrial context. It's way more complex than an ICE (and in fact requires one to power the rotors themselves).
The first trailer for Good Omens will make you long for the end of times
I'd always thought I was a good person. Now I wasn't sure.

Laughed out loud at this part. "It wasn't until my interviewer for a position at The Torture Center questioned my unflinching loyalty to authority -- that, until now, I had been certain was absolute -- that I began to doubt if I was really a good person"
In civilized countries it's legally mandated to pay more for nights and weekends.
My four months as a private prison guard (2016)
Toyota's safety system has some detection of cyclists in front of a vehicle. I just asked them on FB if there are any plans to implement anything to help keep passing cyclists safe.
Or politically caused sterilization programs. The blame game could take another few rounds.
Maybe I am getting too familiar with bad code, but as I get more experienced, I tend to read comments less and less, sometimes actively avoiding them.

Most of the comments I see are useless, outdated, or worse. Code, on the other hand, doesn't lie. Well commented code is nice, but there is no guarantee that comments match the code, it is better if code can be understood without the comments.

This is a common problem in companies with coding rules that require a minimum comment/code ratio. People will write comments for the sake of writing comments. There will probably be also formal specification and design documents, user manuals, etc... That's great on paper, and the dev doing that will probably answer correctly to your interview questions. However, chances are they are all full of lies. Because, doing all that and keeping it up to date is really time consuming, and there are deadlines to meet.

To put things simply, I've never worked on a well documented project. By well documented I mean that the documentation is better than grep. Some big open source project are good but I still sometimes end up with grep. The only part where people can be serious is in public API documentation.
Banksy Shredder Built with CSS Grid
A book just was published with this article as the base. Here's the NY Times review of the book:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/books/review/shane-bauer-...
#APT28 group return to covert #intel gathering ops in Europe and South America
nothing matters

there is just endless work, endless things that need to be done to keep yourself alive

and why do you bother when the reward is just more endless days like today? nothing to live for, nothing to care about, no energy to do anything but just sit around watching your body slowly fall apart

fighting against entropy is constant work and actually giving a shit about anything helps give you a reason to put in that work

and by "work" i don't just mean "your day job", I also mean things like "getting out of bed" or "feeding yourself" or "doing anything at all interesting"
> They do it on mobile only as well, videos do play in the background when I use the desktop site.

Or if you use a browser that supports add-ons and install something like https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/video-background-pl... to block Youtube from accessing the APIs it uses to detect when a tab has been backgrounded.

And the reasons aren't that unknown - if I'm not mistaken background playback is one of the selling points of a Youtube Premium (formerly Red) subscription.
Really? I'm living in Russia right now and can purchase an Advacodo from just about any grocery store.
Wind-powered suggests that motile power is provided by the wind, which is the case here.

Surely a sailboat with electrically controlled surfaces is still wind-powered?
> With more time, Pinscreen, the Los Angeles start-up behind the technology, believes its renderings will become so accurate they will defy reality.

Pinscreen is getting sued by their former VP of Engineering for faking their results and for assault and battery [1].

[1] http://sadeghi.com/dr-iman-sadeghi-v-pinscreen-inc-et-al/
Or use CSPv2's frame-ancestors.
"the nature of the things means that if it suffers structural failure"

What actual dam did you mean to refer to there?
No. Take it or leave it is them dictating a price.
Not sure why you're being downvoted...

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/29/in-russia-no...
This site can’t provide a secure connection
archive.fo uses an unsupported protocol.
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

Remember when the web just worked?
Teaching CS in the schools
Waist Ache in Pregnancy
Same in Massachusetts with sandwich workers, they finally had to make a law limiting no competes even though there had been political opposition to that idea for years.

Companies are attempting to monopolize the employees output, but only pay for the seconds the employee is producing for them
"product visionary" is hilarious for an app literally designed for college girls to send nude photos.

Edit, it's true the co-founders were in a dorm room and came up with an idea for girls to securely send nudes. There is a reason it is commonly referred to as snachchat.
Medical 3D printing
They can't because they are empirical sciences. They only can find out facts about the world.

Philosophy has already shown that moral is not derivable from facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem.
Otto Warburg figured out a lot about cancer. Unfortunately he was a jew in Nazi Germany, and his insights were mostly forgotten when the “bad genes” theory of cancer took hold of the medical profession. There was a semi-recent NY Times article about the resurgence of Warburg’s metabolic theory of cancer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493566/#!po=5....

> but it's one of the few things we know that kind of works

Chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer is one of many pseudo-scientific medical practices commonly used by conventional medical practitioners.

Edit: link to NY Times article on Warburg: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/magazine/warburg-effect-a...
A problem with IO
You're right, though GHP is a bad example since it includes a Markdown renderer.
350 lines of Haskell.
Using a Raspberry Pi as KPI Dashboard
I could use it for a lots of things if it could filter for HTTP header. If there would be additional plug-ins to detect e.g. 3rd party tags it would be even more powerful for testing.
With depression, the measure is always subjective since you're trying to resolve a problem with someone's subjective experience. You can say this isn't useful since N=1, but I think it is safe to say we can take her word for the outcome - she has clearly tried many things and this has been her best outcome.
>Nation-wide solidarity costs little to each person

Federal income tax in France is greater than 45%[1]. There's nothing cheap about that. I much prefer the freedom of saving my own money, especially when working in something as lucrative as tech.

1.https://tradingeconomics.com/france/personal-income-tax-rate
> I rarely come across engineers who even know what XML is (no, it’s not an alternative encoding format to JSON).

Why? I've been around since HTML 1.0 and used to be a die-hard strict XHTML advocate (now I'm not just because today HTML5 still is written as pretty well-formed XML usually + has more semantic tags and is more readable and more unified this way) and actually love XML as I find it more readable than JSON but how I still don't get how is XML better than JSON in any aspect other than readability (which is subjective, many people say XML is pain to read). Sure, XML provides 2 distinct ways of expressing object properties and allows unencapsulated text within an element alongside subelements but I doubt these are a good things at all. I feel like I would even prefer JSON to replace HTML itself as it could introduce more order to the chaos and make the web more machine-readable.
Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
I'm glad you are getting the help you need.

Michael Jordan has a coach. Programmers and other brain workers have therapists.

It's so obvious to me that having a neutral person who helps you track and set goals, track your moods, and help you process work relationships and events has a huge benefit.

But people ignore this! They are in this macho culture where you need to be self reliant and going to a therapist is weird and weak.

So instead of getting help, they place the burden on their friends and family and co-workers to tolerate and correct their shitty behavior.

Your friends or wife is not your therapist. They are not trained, are not impartial, and wouldn't you rather be having a good time then forcing them to listen to your constant whining?

I'm diagnosed bipolar and have gotten things under control with the help of a therapist WITHOUT medication. It's a powerful experience and a cheat-code to productivity.
Thanks for mentioning this[1]! I just realized that I was only using the Prebake[2] list, which doesn't appear to be actively maintained.

[1] https://www.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-cookiemonster.txt

[2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamja/Prebake/master/obtr...
The only ones that I know with a good reputation are ipredator.se and Mullvad, though those aren't free.
>why do they keep finding people to do it?

hunger
I'm personally not a big fan of households as a unit of analysis, at least not in isolation of any context. As far as I'd understand it, they hide meaningful issues.

For example, if everyone had high personal income and an abundance of space, they'd likely live privately.

Whereas if you've got no income, you risk homelessness, you may live with someone you'd rather not. e.g. bad marriages, domestic violence etc is often tolerated due to a lack of financial power to move out.

As such you may find the median household income overstates wealth. It may be considerable simply because multiple people live there, who are too poor to live by themselves. In this sense, household income may hide poverty and overstates affluence. Particularly when you consider that there's a negative correlation between income and birth rates, you end up seeing large families (and possibly considerable household income) who are poor, in the data. But just reporting on household income doesn't do that justice.

Similarly, this creates an apples/oranges comparison with median/average household income.

The median household in the US today is 2 people. In the 1960s it was 3 people. (close to 4, even!) But it's different from the average household size, which has dropped too. As such, you may just be observing that the median household relative to the average household size has been dropping. That could have nothing to do with polarization, it may just mean there's a shift in living preferences. I'm not asserting anything here, just that there are alternative explanations for the observation you make, and that just looking at these averages without context, controlling for confounding variables or any theoretical basis may lead you to incorrect conclusions.
maybe Google finally gets their social network
That's totally ridiculous and not even worth discussing. Unless you're a full-blown Nazi, terrorist, or communist and your main goal in life is trolling and spreading hatred, you'll have zero problems with any of the above essential platforms.

Just to give you a sense of how wrong you are, I'm working at a university and one of my colleagues is a fully convinced communist and another colleague is an overtly racist Social Darwinist. They are luckily the exception, but that's just because they defend fringe positions that most people do not and never will endorse. Big surprise. The center portion of the normal distribution is larger.
Your stories about Russia are specific to CNN & MSNBC, but plenty of other reporting has been done on this matter. I think it's safe to assume the narrative has moved from 'hacking' and more to highlight the weaponinzing of social media for political propaganda.

> there's a shadowy, far reaching conspiracy by men against women
> To back that up, examine how they falsely reported the contents of Damore's memo

Picking these two specific things pretty much shows your hand in this matter. You're clearly someone who has made up their mind that women & men are in fact treated equal despite stories, lawsuits, and salary data proving other wise.

However, Wired did a write up[1] on why Damore's memo was clumsy despite trying to use scientific evidence. Mainly in that he cited facts without extrapolating on them and noting the small differences in the numbers. Further, there is a lot of nuiance in all of this and societal studies that get picked apart for gotcha facts is not a great way of using studies.
[1] - https://www.wired.com/story/the-pernicious-science-of-james-...
If we're going to compare apples to apples (or really avocado to avocado), the US couldn't consistently put avocados on grocery store shelves outside of California until the late 1980s either. There were trade restrictions with Mexico, and California didn't yet have the capacity for much beyond local sales.
Well for one, you have a choice of where you want to work.

If you can convince someone to hire you, the government isn't going to come in and say "actually, we need more factory workers. So you don't work there any more. You instead are working here."

I'd also like to point out that there are numerous places in the US where people are perfectly capable of living on minimum wage, working 40 hours a week.

Most homeless people are homeless not because it is impossible for someone to live off of these wages, in the right areas. They are instead homeless because they have some sort of mental or physical disability that makes them incapable of work.

The idea though, that able bodied adults are unable to provide for themselves, is ridiculous. There are numerous living conditions and places where it is cheap enough to live off of.
On a tangential note, I wish there were a single-executable "distribution" of Plain TeX that would simply "do one thing well" - convert a TeX source to more or less nicely typeset PDF.
The problems mentioned here is that it’s obvious a number of people have had meaningfully bad interactions with him, it’s an unfortunate pattern.
Immoral is fine, I'm not too surprised. People who do immoral things are immoral, and the company not treating you well is just an excuse.

I'm surprised one would do illegal things though, especially knowing it's illegal.