skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you're referring to the University of Baltimore/MICA light rail stop[0], where you have to get off if heading south or heading north but not on the Penn line, to catch the 'Penn Station - Camden Yards' line. I mean, it's in the name of the light rail line...it lets you off right at the station[1].

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+Baltimore+-+...

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Penn+Station/@39.3071436,-...
What you’re saying about the motivations of candidate sourcing is not reflected in my experience as a startup ceo or an engineer at a large tech company.
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https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people

The Oatmeal sums this up very well.
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Reading this makes me worry that they will no longer be providing easily installable downloads that are free for commercial use.

I suppose that is a good tradeoff, like Red Hat providing RHEL source but not installation media. But it will make harder to get started with Chef, and I don't know if there is enough community motivation to create a CentOS equivalent for Chef. I hope AWS's Open Distro project takes on more software projects (https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/).
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It's such a passive agressive tactic. It boggles the mind that it's the browser vendors that implemented it. Google spent years blocking popups to the point where I never get them anymore, which is amazing, but clearly they learned a few nasty tricks along the way.
If you lose your early adopters you lose everything in the longer run. Every new product needs early adopters.
“one of their product evangelists called me just to say hello. ”

They are good at that but if you need actual support they are much less eager to talk to you.
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It looks like most of the previous lawsuits were thrown out because the private entity suing didn't have legal standing to bring such a suit. From later in the article:

> It seems more like something the FTC or state Attorneys General could go after instead.
I don't understand the product. Why would someone use Soldit instead of directly using Stripe?
This is outrageous. 团结
This only exists in our engineering bubble. No average user has ever heard of all the products listed.

This does explain their lack of enterprise customers though.
The best way to get a law changed is for everyone to be breaking it all of the time.

Laws only works because everyone follows it most of the time. If everyone is breaking a law, the government can't punish everyone, and eventually people start to wonder why it is a law in the first place.

We've seen this happen with other laws in the past, quite often. Pot legalization comes to mind.
Hormone "K".

Reference: https://archive.org/details/TedChiangUnderstand
You forgot probably their only actually good product: maps
Original author of Chef here (although no longer with the company day-to-day). I would not assume that - 100% of the software Chef produces is open source, so no reason to ever differentiate on features in licensing. So I doubt they would remove anything.
Why does the headline get a free pass?
For me I wouldn't say they're as good as the burgers I would normally have on rare occasion but the ones I've had were better than the sort of burger I'd expect to get at Burger King, where they're being introduced.

As a heathen who likes to have things like jalapenos on my burger I think I'm quicker to embrace it than I would be if I liked my burgers straight.
Having worked at Google, this really isn't the case, at minimum because a large number of their business units are not and are never expected to be profitable. It is a bit difficult to describe what system is used to coordinate between business units, but it doesn't really resemble an economic marketplace.
Gmail and G-Suite (professoinal Gmail) allow useful notifications. But those notifications only popup while a Gmail tab is open (such as in the background or not visible). So I like to open gmail while I am waiting for an email, I will get the notifications, can read the email, then close that tab and notifications are no longer arriving. One of the very few use cases for notifications that I appreciate. I have the same setup for Slack & Discord online versions.
> A site should essentially say "click here to enable XXX" as part of the page.

Then the site will just make their own annoying popup asking to enable notifications. By giving UI control to the browser, the browser vendor can decide how forceful it should be.
Hey how often do y’all clean your computers?

Like alcohol wipe + vacuum out the keyboard?
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Thanks, the tingling and numbness really does mess with ones head. It's disheartening just how out of touch a lot of healthcare workers are with prescription medication withdrawal. Glad to hear you're doing better.
The following essay by pg's explains how wealth is not conserved in simple terms: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
>why browsers ever allowed sites to take control from the user is beyond me.

Because users wanted sites to be able to control that?
Maybe those web browsers are linked to a online URL database. If any URL is matched in the database, then they will refuse to load the page.

But if true, that also means those web browsers are querying a online database when user is trying to access a URL.

Not a good news no matter how you hold it.
You support censorship then?
Microsoft or Evernote?
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I use it for calendar notifications.
Isn’t that a straw man though? The media hasn’t even hinted at Idaho being into coal, heck, reading the paper or watching CNN one would think that no one used coal west of the Mississippi (when in reality Wyoming is a big coal user). If you didn’t...study it in school you wouldn’t even know how much hydro California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho had. Or maybe you simply didn’t care, because how is that information even useful to you?

There is also a term when purposely describing the media as misleading in a misleading way.
I didn't even know they had a web interface! I just logged into iCloud in the browser for the first time...
I was going to comment to recommend orgmode too. Like you said, the org files are plain text, they can be opened by practically anything, and can be saved practically anywhere.

I use Orgzly on Android, which syncs manually to DropBox. A free dropbox 2GB space is going to store a lot of orgmode files! I edit mostly through Orgzly, although I do use the orgmode extension in Visual Studio Code to edit on my laptop.

http://www.orgzly.com/
> Decomposable plastics are not new and they’re perfectly usable for “throwaway” containers. I’ve always wondered why they’re not more commonly used in these cases.

There are basically two types of "compostable" [1] plastic. One type uses an additive which allegedly breaks down the long polymer chains into smaller pieces which are then degradable. These come under a few titles, but generally called oxo-degradable. Most scientific consensus is these are nasty and just result in micro-plastic fragments being left behind.

The second is PLA, derived from corn starch. This can look like regular plastic but has a lot of limitations, mainly around the usable temperature range and isn’t suitable for any warm/hot use. There are derivations such as C-PLA which can be used for cutlery and some other limited uses, it still doesn’t perform that well with heat though.

Both of these also have challenges for their end-of-life processing. They both look like regular plastic and are very hard / impossible to sort from regular plastic which means it’s very hard to avoid contamination both ways. If some regular plastic gets into the composting stream then the whole batch of compost is contaminated and will need to destroyed. Likewise, degradable plastic contamination will destroy a recycling batch.

It’s horrendously complex and involves the whole product lifecycle.

[1] Note I’ve used the term loosely as it’s a lot more complicated than that as compostable doesn’t mean what the man ins the street generally thinks it does.
> Black is no color

It is, though.
Odd, I found Eve to be extremely shallow gameplay.

For example combat is only nominally 3D as guns fire in all directions equally well turning any fight between two ships into a 2d slug match. Large scale combat is mostly about calling out targets than positioning etc.

Extreme grinding combined with permanent ship loss hide a multitude of sins. But, spend some time fighting in relatively cheap ships and the game becomes boring.
My list of degooglifying actions (mostly from my older post [1])

* switch default search engine to DuckDuckGo (one can still use the !s bang when one wants to see what Google has)

* use tracking blockers (uBlock origin, BlockBear on iOS)

* use anonymous/private/porn mode browsing most of the time (except for sites I actually want to be logged in permanently)

* use Zoho as a replacement for shared Google docs

* use Youtube either in private window, and/or download content once with youtube-dl

* use Apple Maps or OpenStreetMaps instead of Google maps, though still revert to Google maps sometimes, lamentably. It's good. (I never log in, though.)

* long ago switched to different email for main email, and forwarded gmail account to it (and now, basically nobody emails to my old gmail address anymore). (In fact, I use a catch-all domain now (very easy to set up), and a fresh email for basically every account. Quite handy.)

* for contacts, photos, etc. I use Apple's built-in stuff. I do trust Apple a bit more (different business model; look at recent iPhone prices.)

* Signal, Wire, iMessage for messaging

All in all, I think a fairly degooglified life is eminently possible.

In response, people furthermore suggested:

* Firefox with Multi-Account Container function to separate browsing, or just a temporary session with `firefox -no-remote -profile $(mktemp -d)`

* Lineage OS for Android phones (though somewhat controversial)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19057709
The verilator team also wrote the verilog mode for emacs. Very well done.
> (otherwise why wouldn't they publish the numbers?)

To prevent competitors, providers or customers from learning how profitable this particular business is. (Probably not the case here, but it’s an actual reason for companies to disclose as little as possible about their operations.)
> Most prompts are dismissed, while almost 19% of prompts caused users to leave the site immediately after being confronted with them.

Guilty. I've started taking requests for permission to send push notifications as a strong signal that I've accidentally clicked on clickbait.
Drove through Idaho on the way to Spokane from Omaha and was so struck by Coeur d'alene I made sure to go back for a vacation years later.
Understood. Good point!

At the moment all user data is auto-deleted after 30 days of the last message sent. I should probably add this to the privacy policy.

Does this face your concerns or you would like to see some other solution?
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I don't really see how the four categories would help with training spam filters. "Social" is half spam, half maybe not. "Promotions" is mostly spam, though Google would rather see it as ham. "Updates" and "Forums" are mostly not spam.
I'm afraid this will backfire. We might see another wave of "click this icon in your browser to receive the latest notifications!" pop-ups showing up. Which would then require an adblocker to block these kind of popups.

So we use an ad-blocker to block a popup, which only appears because a browser vendor decided to hide a popup.

This is absurd.
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I've always had a terrible experience using Evernote across multiple devices. Editing a note on mobile seemed like a surefire way to get a merge conflict. I believe I also experienced a mysterious disappearance of a large chunk of my notes.

I just opened for Evernote for the first time in years and it looks like all my notes are now duplicated for some reason. Awesome.
The Black-Scholes equation is literally the basic heat diffusion equation [1].

[1] https://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/84/transformation-...
I'll have to check it out again.

Last time I spent some time with it, the UI just never clicked for me. My main notetaking device is my iPad with a Pencil stylus and GoodNotes. It does a great job of interpreting my handwriting and then I can export a searchable PDF to Evernote, or I guess, OneNote.

Is the metadata search in OneNote decent? For example, can I search for notes I created in Houston?
I imagine EA doesn't care about sales of FIFA 96, but they sure as shit worry about losing their FIFA license.
We contacted Evernote in 2012, 13, 14 begging them to try CRDT based synchronisation.

First, it might have fixed their sync glitches.
Second, that would make the client a full copy of the data, very much like a git repo. You can't lose data that way.
Third, that would be a step towards collaborative features.

We got brushed off. We used personal connections as well as official channels.
In 2014 we annoyed them so much, we're got a very confident response: sync is not a problem. Ironically, in a couple of months that "bug ridden elephant" post was out with all the reputational consequences.
>Do spectral violet and ultraviolet differ? In what way?

It's ultra because it isn't within the visible spectrum. Violet is a spectral color, which means it's evoked by a single wavelength of light. So the term spectral violet refers to all the shades of violet.

>>why does it matter?

You have a word for it.
That's irrelevant. Pretty much everyone calls text games "ASCII" regardless of the character set used. Take Dwarf Fortress, which uses an extended ASCII character set (code page 437).
> resources available for many other considerations such as preservation of nature and general beautification (which is obviously often expensive, close to a luxury depending on what stage of development you're at)

I am not sure this is true, isn't it that potential for damage to the enviroment (beyond only simple trash) increases with the economic power of the nation and therefore preservation would have to track economic progress?

I would think that preservation efforts would have track economic progress, but the effects lag in time and therefore gets noticed too late and costly renaturation efforts need to happen.
> Perhaps someone is confusing them with a charity or an Internet do-gooder enthusiasts club.

The amount of products that get launched and then closed is to me sign that Google is a company unable to manage product after launch (and probably even more before, for the business part). More than that it gives that message that you shouldn't use a Google product until it reaches a critical mass, or you risk to have it axed one day.
As more people think this way it will be more difficult for any google product to reach that mass of users.
The Gang of Four is wrong and you don't understand delegation (2012)
I wonder what the OS/2 folks think about the name. :)
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I don't want to receive notifications from any site nor grant any permissions to any website ever. Perhaps some people want to grant permissions and to receive notifications from some websites but it seems obvious that will always be about just a small selection of favourite websites. So I doubt it even is reasonable to pop anything up, just make subscribe/allow buttons easy to find yet waiting for the user passively.
Same. Except I didn't know about Libgen so I spun up a windows vm and installed some dubious software to extract the epub.
Without money to move, there is no economic growth. There are supply-side problems, and demand-side problems.

Sowell's example is woefully incomplete. He's talking only of limited, unique physical goods. He's not talking about things where production can increase in response to demand. He's not talking about services. And bluntly, UBI isn't there to help people buy beach houses, and won't cause enough inflationary pressure on beach houses to make a damn bit of difference on their price. It's there to help people afford a car, or child care, or medical bills, or any of the countless things that plague the poor rabble in this country.

Spare productive capacity is why UBI is feasible in the first place. The economy is producing more than people can afford to buy, and the machinery that makes it so productive is displacing jobs they need to afford anything at all.

If you're reading Sowell, you should read Yang's book. He addresses this stuff. He's not just treating UBI as a golden hammer. It's a straightforward, workable way to cope with a lot of problems that keep us from coping with other problems.

If technological advances wipe out 10% or more of existing jobs in the next couple of decades with no replacements in sight, what do we do? Blame them for being lazy? Retrain those truck drivers as computer programmers so they can get those hot programming jobs in their population 800 midwestern town? And move those local startups into the strip mall that closed because retail got wiped out by Amazon? If we don't do something about it, there will be blood in the streets, sooner or later. That's a much bigger problem than taxes.
The news are driven by political interests. The actual investments are driven by potential for profit. Wind is big business in Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, for example. Texas alone generates more than a quarter of its electricity from wind, but you don't often hear local politicians bragging about it.
Your country and social group determine this.

Hangouts and Gchat before it certainly have been used by a lot of people. In my experience, it has gotten less popular since the Gchat days but I’ve never chatted to anyone on WhatsApp...
Jacob Kaplan-Moss had some practical advice in response to this post which I found interesting:

https://jacobian.org/2019/apr/1/talk-about-performance/
There are many many googlers from top are also here at hacker news, reading these very criticisms often, why nothing has changed in years and years ?
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So in order to get really smart must qualify by getting really stupid first.
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You don't want to use anything Google except search? That was about the easiest one to step away from (using duckduckgo now).
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According to the article, overall acceptance rate on the notifications popup is 3%. But that will include legitimate notification requests like Gmail, Discord, Slack, etc..

That also includes people that just randomly accept any notification their computer gives them. This is older people who don't understand the specific permissions they are granting.

There was one time I was clicking on a navigation element right as a popup for notifications popped up and i accidently clicked it. I immediately went in and reverse the permission to block access, but I am sure there are use cases of accidental acceptance as well.

So considering all of that. My guess is that real intentional adoption is below 1%.
It's not ironic.

It's like Facebook asking for legislation.

"Look what we'll have to (feel we'll have to) do in the current paradigm, unless..."
This is probably a much bigger factor than usually thought. Military necessity will trump budget constrictions and property rights. Railways pre WW1, roads during and after WW2 and in preparation for the Cold War.
Chef co-founder and board member Adam Jacob has a blog post about it: https://medium.com/@adamhjk/goodbye-open-core-good-riddance-...

> This morning, Chef Software announced that it will be releasing 100% of its software as Open Source, under the Apache License. Going forward, all of its product development will be done in the open, with the community, and released as Open Source Software. Chef is done with being Open Core, and is now a Free Software Product company. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Then "Allow" should be less susceptible as well.
I've wasted eons on Slant. I love opening up a huge field on hard and clicking away at my virtual rock garden.
If you have a release deadline for a quarter and PDF export is supposed to be part of the release, if the export does not work will you ship the feature?

You're either going to "hold the release" or you're going to release without the feature...because shipping with the broken feature will only create a huge support burden and a negative perception of your product.
Non-technical people on Android definitely do because they either come preinstalled on the phone or they're heavily promoted/advertised. Even in my relatively small city I saw huge billboards and posters advertising Allo and Duo when they were released.
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I would not presume to have any opinion on the direction such traffic might have taken. All I know is the one certain, observed fact in this case is that pieces of Mars have indeed fallen to the surface of Earth. There is of course no known reason why the reverse would not have happened.

From your writings (added to feed, thank you) I notice we share a belief: That life may well be quite common out there, but human level intelligence exceedingly rare. I somehow believed this from a very young age, long before I ever heard of Drake or his equation or any such calculation.
Happy to answer questions about it, if anyone has any. :)
It depends on what you mean by “physical enhancers” and “mental enhancers” - my understanding is that stimulants are already much more widely used than steroids. I certainly agree that some theoretical physically enhancing drugs would be more popular than some theoretic mentally enhancing drugs.
If by "everyone", you mean the Military Industrial folks, and politicians paid by them, then, yeah.