skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a fair fear, but I'd guess my consumption rate for books slightly exceeds my former consumption rate for paper books. I don't always have my Kindle on me, but I almost always have my phone on me, which makes dipping into a book via the Kindle app easy as my digital distraction of choice.

(Though of course there are competing distractions, like HN and social media.)
I'm a bit skeptical of technology in general squashing diversity. Pre the printing press you could pretty much just get the bible hand written. With the early press far more then as you didn't need type setters more again. In general it seem better tech -> lower costs -> more diverse.
HN was designed for a small audience, and it intentionally did things to discourage growth. The goal was to preserve the community for longer.
How fast are the flips. I've known about this effect for maybe a couple of decades, but never heard any theories on how fast the flip is.

If the flip is really slow, then that seems to lead to less human catastrophe, but more difficult perhaps for other species?

edit: s/far/fast
If there are any initiatives vex in that direction, all I can say is their publicity activities are unimpressive to say the least. Have you heard of any? I mean sure, go and find some now we’re talking about it, but before?

Actually even if you can find some by going and looking, I am interested.
Bill vehicles according to the length of time spent in the area, minus any period spent off-road in a parking facility or similar (which will presumably be charged separately by the operator of the parking facility).
I'll take 'things a rapist would say' for $1000 Alex.
Why do people who don't need multiple serial ports stop being real users?
Sounds like this stuff would be amazing to put in my ham shack!
Trump was also speaking down on the stock market bubble and the inflated banking system...until he was elected.
I'm not the one you're asking. But to me, the (most recent) way they ruined Windows was the new interface. I don't want to interact with my desktop via a phone/tablet interface. I don't want to use a touchscreen. I want to use only the keyboard and mouse.

More: I don't want to use my computer as a media consumption device.

So for me, all the new UI changes are counterproductive. But that's me. Others have different usage profiles; whether it's a net win or a net loss depends on the customer mix.
For non-disastrous problems, we should wait until a problem manifests before implementing a solution and paying the costs of its tradeoffs. However, it would be wise to theorise about solutions so that we have time to design cheap ones.
Have you ever considered using any HR tools like video-interviewing? A candidate using webcam records their answers to your questions (you can add any questions you want) and then send this video recording to you. You can understand why candidates want this position, how they speak, how they look like. If you need to check technical skills, are you willing to use this kind of online assessment app?
Yeah, we don't want any unconventional ideas to slip through; cause that might lead to changes, and evolution and all sorts of scary shit.
It gets weirder, the money was released but then maybe not? In any case, I'm gonna go ahead and guess my original theory was wrong.

https://toinformistoinfluence.com/2018/09/23/global-engageme...
> There will have to be a mechanism for it to pay tolls, parking meters, etc

We have transponders for this, in wide use, across the world.
I wouldn't call these issues matters of computer science. They're just marketing and consumer psych, and they've existed as long as businesses have.

The only difference now is that computers have enabled a level of efficient manipulation that wasn't possible before.
“Just charge for road use instead.”

I am fine if the road fees are proportional to income. Otherwise we are creating a world where public infrastructure is only available to people with plenty of money.
Here's another, this time with LinkedIn.

I took an ambulance ride. The attendant in the back talked with me during the ride to monitor whether I was remaining lucid. Did not know him, never met him before, never saw him since.

A week later, I was scrolling through LinkedIn recommended connections and saw a face I recognized, but could not place.... until I saw that they worked for the ambulance company that I had ridden with.

Did LinkedIn track both of our locations and figure out that we rode in the same vehicle at the same time? This is absolutely possible. Did LinkedIn use voice prints to confirm that his voice came through my phone and mine through his and therefore we had a conversation? Can do.

Did they?

Color me freaked out.
As you allude to, the euro is the thing that's so bad for periphery economies.

Everything else that comes with EU membership is clearly net positives, though some individual groups may turn out to be losers from it.
The elephant in the room is lack of consideration for how CS surprisingly may impact society negatively through its disruptive nature.

Recognize that your QA Organization is a force for social good.
Are you even allowed to call them cheese? I thought they had to be labeled as a processed milk product or something.
Charge $2 / 15mins for a SDC to be present downtown?
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I understand the reason. That doesn't make it any less hostile to users with poor eye-sight.
Microsoft deserves to go gentle into that good night because of all the damage they’ve done to the computing industry over the years, for example killing Be and Netscape with monopolist tactics and creating a terminally insecure software monoculture of the lowest common denominator of Windows and IE, that we’re still recovering from today. (Google is repeating the lesson today - Android is the Windows 98 of mobile).

I’m glad to see them disappear and it drives me crazy to talk to all of these people who think Office 365 and Azure are sex on a stick. They’ve either forgotten the past or they don’t care.

Microsoft deserves to die.
Their youtube channel used to deliver incredibly raw and direct coverage of world events other US news sources seemed to be ignoring. Over the last few years though I've become increasingly annoyed with what content of theirs I saw, it's definitely changed.

Their coverage of the rebuilding efforts and failures in Afghanistan for instance was very illuminating and well done, I highly recommend giving this a watch though it's very upsetting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5Q75hf6QI
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Having worked on desktop software, I much prefer the services model.

I think that's one portion of how we ended up where we are now: The companies thinking more about what is easier for the company than the needs of the customer.
What is the concern about there being a record of your nasal congestion? There's a much firmer record of every sensitive prescription you've ever been given.
I didn't mind vice media until I watched their 'documentary' about crokodil in Russia. The whole thing was dramatized around the idea of a new horrifying, skin melting drug that was killing people. Throughout the whole thing there was one very small mention about the fact it's actually codeine with the solvents used in production improperly purged and no real mention about the flesh melting being caused by red phosphorus not being completely removed.

The entire focus was on this 'new terrifying drug' when it really should have been about the abject poverty leading those desperate junkies to shooting up cheap, solvent laced opiates.

The whole thing really bugged me and honestly, the attitudes of their journalists when they go into places like that is really just terrible sometimes. Though I guess it did lead me to research more on the subject and learn enough to know what a poor documentary it really was...
But all the cards and the tablet interface stuff ... is all side stuff that you don't need to use? At least I hardly ever see any sign of it.

Am I missing something?

There was an issue a LONG time ago when the tiles were more front and center but they dumped that a while ago.
Why would you need a messaging service on top of a website that already has a messaging service?

Also, most mobile users can't (or don't know how to) install mobile browser extensions.
All the things I've seen today make up just 4% of my apt building. The other 96% is made up of things I can't see, detect, or even comprehend.

Therefore this periodic table must only describe 4% of my apt building.
> and yet their employees are pretty comfortable admitting to their friends that Windows and Azure are crap

You make a whole lot of claims with absolutely zero evidence to back it up.
So anybody on Bell Canada wouldn't be able to work remote and VPN into work? Would that apply to those working for Bell Canada, too? The absurdity of these companies is beyond belief.
That is a very key point. Everyone focuses on digital nomads and living in Thailand. For the cost of the plane ticket there you could probably pay several months’ rent in Kansas.

Is that ideal? Maybe, maybe not. Will it make a blog post that gets you on HN? Of course not.

Still, if you need to be near a US time zone it’s a fantastic alternative to South America that doesn’t involve visas, dealing with a foreign language, etc.
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FB blocks those numbers, I've tried those in the past. Almost all major services that use phone verification ignore those numbers out right or act like they accept it but either:

1. don't bother sending texts

2. shadowban you
It's not surprising, we're talking about the same company that want to remove net neutrality in Canada.

Not only that, but they want to create a "website police" to block any website that they deem "dangerous".

Of course they don't want people to use VPN...
Microsoft hated netbooks because they ran on Linux and low-spec older versions of Windows, rather than the latest full-price versions. Intel hated netbooks because they used low-end, low-margin Atom CPUs.

Microsoft's response was to put a variety of netbook-gimping restrictions on the things they allowed OEMs to do if they wanted to be able to sell machines with Windows preinstalled. Some of those tactics are recounted in this 2009 article from PC World: https://www.pcworld.com/article/169919/5_netbooks_microsoft_...

Intel's response was to develop and drive OEMs to the competing Ultrabook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrabook) standard, which kept the netbook's focus on "small and light" but replaced the "inexpensive" part with premium materials and full-fat Core processors.

The release of the iPad put the final coup de grâce on the netbook market, but its success there was driven at least in part by the ways MS and Intel had forced OEMs to kneecap their netbook products in order to stay in good graces with the two companies you absolutely had to be in good graces with to make any products (netbook or otherwise) in the PC business.
Katherine Maher is Now CEO and Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation
> they will come from a handful of companies who will face public pressure not to program them to allow grossly wasteful or antisocial behavior.

One hopes. But one could also say: they will come from a handful of companies that will endeavor to make it seem that _the things that are most profitable for them and convenient for their customers_ are one and the same as the public interest.

There are already narratives at hand that will make this easier: "40,000 lives a year!", etc.

I've gone from being kind of excited about robot cars to realizing that we will have to be very vigilant.
Why do you think your survey will give you better data than the hundreds of clinical studies that have assessed OCD treatments? Why don't you just read the literature that already exists?
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There will be self driving (mini)buses too cheaper than a self driving car ride (more stops because of more passengers carried).
Your links are 404'ing
You can buy acid free archival paper that will last 500 years with careful storage. It costs ~3-5x as much, but is available.
A few years ago I made a comment about how funny it was that I would immediately delete all the Apple default apps and replace with Google apps (gmail, maps, etc). Now I'm back on the flipside and only use Apple Maps, Mail, etc. Unless Apple really F's up, they are going to win the privacy game and see a lot more usage of their native apps and services.
Considering that states like Texas used to publicly brag about taking care of their homeless and druguser populations by shipping them to California, it's totally believable that there are a large number of (non-local) drug addicts now living in SF.

For the record, Texas still openly admits to shipping its homeless and drug addicts to California.
This is about corporate ethics. Just because these corporations happen to make use of computers doesn't make this a computer science issue.
Just a perspective - €10k with a margin of 5% (is what I see after all the expenses for such a small volume) leaves you with €500 to comply with regulations. VAT compliance with the just UK costs us 700 GBP per year so far and few hours each quarter.
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It wasn't mentioned in the article, it is something they did while keeping a representative on that panel.

This thread:

"hey my country does horrible things (that I'm totally exempt from in the upper echelon) but I'm not allowed to research what other countries do on the panel formed specifically to do that"
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Github is a recent acquisition, but Linkedin and Skype are not exactly shining examples.
There can be single passenger cars too instead of the current 4-5 seaters, which will take up less space than current cars.
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You can make a version for your location here: https://bitbucket.org/subraizada3/weather-generator/src - it should just generate a single HTML file which you can host anywhere.

An older version also showed the 'normal' weather.gov forecast embedded to the left of the hourly forecast, you can get that if you copy/paste the deleted part of this commit back into the python file: https://bitbucket.org/subraizada3/weather-generator/commits/...
I guess I hate to be a person who does not agree, and thinks higher prices is actually good for mostly everyone. Higher prices means less driving! Which means reductions in auto accidents, noise, pollution, obesity, and sprawl. Add leads to more fuel efficient vehicles and transit options.
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