skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They might know how to open it and shake out the hair that's inside it, but very few people bother to figure out how to clean every nook and cranny and wash out the oils that can accumulate in dark corners.

Have you seen a Braun razor? There are no corners. The product is as ergonomic as can be and since it's entirely waterproof, I don't know how you can say that "hidden oils" accumulate anywhere. The company even sells a station that cleans it for you. You've unwittingly fallen victim to the same effect you just mentioned: a feeling of contamination that is not actually there.

Ultimately, there is little reason for companies to design repairable products when most consumers disdain repair and even used items. I know many people that turn up their nose at buying used items such as cameras or headphones. "Certified pre-owned" is the magic dust that car dealerships need to sprinkle on their cars to make a used car seem new again, along with some vague incantations about inspections. Amazon even sells "expert assembly" packages for products as simple as a bookcase [0]!

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Atlantic-DrawBridge-Storage-Organizat...
There are two problems that you will have to deal with:

- auto-discovery and growth through r/all - no longer will you have people popping in because you made it to Reddit's front page

- loss of the great number of current subscribers who (before) can go to their reddit homepage and see your top posts automatically, but (now) would have to go to a totally new website to see your posts. I subscribe to about 40 subreddits but only visit deliberately about 3 of those.

Good luck (sincerely), but I would not be surprised if r/CMV stays larger than your new independent website.
I hate this trend in management so much. I'm a combat vet with ptsd, and I've noticed companies more and more trying to do stupid open office layouts to save money and achieve this same result, but there are those of us it majorly negatively impacts our productivity in the medium to long term. Add on top that now instead of being able to think about a problem deeply, I get interrupted every 3 minutes by some adhoc query by those around me, so my thinking power feels hampered to the point it's stressing me so bad it's been aggravating my ptsd and I find myself wanting to drink and smoke.

Companies are digging their own grave with shit like this.
Is it now? Better to get fired? Really? Jobs are so easy to find?

Well, what if the alternative is actually death by exposure on the streets? What other options do you see on the table?

I know what comes next.

Shoveling out driveways? Work in a car wash?

Wendy, I have let you fuck up my life so far, but I am not going to let you fuck this up.
With $12.2 million stolen in the fictional heist, the per-capita loss would be quite a bit less than one dime.
Well I suppose there is not much stopping you from still using one of those, right? Except the technology is quite outdated now, so in a way it is a bit moot how maintainable the hardware is, beyond a certain point. Unless they went an extra step, and made things like the processor or even the motherboard upgradeable.
Oh dear, the poor investors, That's a catastrophe right there.
But that's not the part of your argument I was criticizing. It may well be that Shkreli got a disproportionate punishment simply because he's an asshole. I'm not taking a position on that. What I was talking about is this:

> He raised prices on those who could pay: insurance companies.

With the implication that that makes what he did OK. Well, it doesn't. One way or another, the costs get passed on to consumers and taxpayers, which is to say, everyone. Spreading the pain so that it is not immediately apparent to any one individual doesn't change that. It is simply not the case that insurance companies are independent wealthy entities who "can pay" without any negative consequences to anyone else. It is in no small measure this mistaken assumption that has led to the mess that the U.S. health care system is currently in.
Wait for Pine Phone for $150 [0] or preorder Librem 5 for $649 [1]. However expect beta experience either way.

Also remember that you probably don't want to entirely cut Google out of your life, as for example Linux have Google salaried developers. But that's, I imagine, not what you meant.

[0] https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7339 - no canonical site yet

[1] https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
Did you know user scripts can give you a night mode?
it was the result of a mistaken transcription, the accidental omission of the letter "p" – "by which the customary and solemn formula for announcing the death of a martyr – passus est ["he suffered," that is, was martyred] – was made to read assus est [he was roasted]."

The real roast is always in the comments. I like to imagine that it wasn't so much a transcription error as it was a bored monk looking for some variety.
Our 2015 model year Leaf has not had any observable loss of range, FWIW.
I wonder how they compute the fine line between luxury and crap so that people don't feel their brand new "high end" car was not what was advertised..
Where can I view the documentary Rams?
I’m reminded of how being gay was once considered grounds for denying a clearance. Why? Because a foreign government could discover that and threaten to blackmail you with it. What if you’re already out? Doesn’t matter, they could threaten to destroy your career since it would get your clearance revoked!
Well played. I noticed neither until you pointed them out. Certainly would have missed it in a code review.
What I found work surprisingly well is to sit in a cafe with my back to busy foot traffic. There're lots of transient strangers passing by behind with the potential of seeing my screen. In that case, I cannot really goof off, like browsing ycombinator.
Startup stole my Facebook page vanity URL
That's the point. The US has a loose approach. China is aggressive and takes advantage of every weakness. This is not an isolated case, as you will be well aware.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/state-department-employee-arr... https://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/using-china-... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie...

> "the country’s extensive security apparatus makes it exceptionally hard for Western spy services to develop sources there"

That's why I wrote it's an asymmetry.
I think Japan knocks down homes after 30 years because their building technology have evolved so rapidly that it would be irresponsible to keep people living in vulnerable homes (a bit like running similarly outdated nuclear power plants /s) when much better options have been developed. Plus, we all realized concrete does not last as long as wat thought to be in the '60s.

What I mean is, Japan might be special and not necessarily generalizable.
Lake Ontario (where Toronto is situated on) has fairly deep water not too far off-shore which is close to 4-5C year-round (the temperature where water is densest).

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/jerry-langton/toronto-beaches_...
Society is always panicking about something. Before that it was rock n roll and birth control.
Sharing accounts across apps also works on iOS, FWIW. Most Google-branded apps will offer a “Continue as _____” button on the first open if you’ve signed in to another one of their apps.
I don't understand the thesis - releasing the source code costs nothing and the user can choose whether to look at it or not. They could've spent the time apologising for virus ""false alarms"" publishing the code instead.
That way one can trivially look through it instead of wasting time on different analyzers.
Working from home changed my life in the opposite direction. Being able to fully manage my own time and not have someone breathing down my neck has enabled me to actually not procrastinate.

I used to suffer from a lot of stress and anxiety and I think that fueled my procrastination. Now that I no longer suffer from those, I can just focus on work.

For a while I've wondered how I even started procrastinating as hard as I did. I used to be the type to first get all pending tasks done and then go and enjoy my free time, but at some point it flipped. It's weird.
Why are you linking to a completely unrelated article about the chances of a human being hit by debris from a Chinese space station falling out of orbit in this discussion?

The original article says it is hard to estimate the increased risk due to this incident but says one NASA official estimates an increased chance of the ISS needing to maneuver to avoid debris from 20% to 30%, although that estimate should really be given with an associated time period to be meaningful.
There is an option in the settings to display the old version on https://reddit.com
Thank you for the insight. I appreciate it.
We all know the story: someone's uncle invented it. The government refused to give him a patent, and then he died before he could tell anyone about it.
Mostly "wanting to use the law". You can disclose that information if you want, but you really don't want to, because you give up any legal power you might have had if you do.

If you rile up a mob (and an internet mob certainly counts), even if you don't do so directly but let "the comment section figure it out", and then don't get that content moderated, you lose whatever legal standing you might have had if the courts need to become involved. Any lawsuit you file will get thrown out immediately.

Which is why on Reddit the mods will aggressively redact any attempt to identify legal parties. You might want to name and shame, but that is a destructive desire.
The problem is that good schools that are outcompeting other schools do not scale up to absorb their competitors' customers, like you would see in a normal market. Education is hard to scale up; even if you get the approvals, school space isn't cheap, maintaining standards with more teachers, staff, and students can get more chaotic, etc.

It's why, for example, this particular charter discussed in the article didn't see a drop in enrollment; spots at good schools can be hard to come by. And because enrollment doesn't drop the market doesn't actually correct, and you're still fucking up childrens' schooling for at least a year.
I love this subreddit but wouldn't visit a separate website.
They could solve both issues by federating with Mastodon instead. No, they wouldn't be on Reddit specifically, but they'd be interacting with a fairly sizeable userbase nonetheless.
No. Reminds me of Netflix. Both have gotten substantially worse. To the point of me not even visiting or cancelling my subscription in the case of Netflix.

Is anyone or any company actually improving their website?

What is the cause of this? Any one have insight? I have a theory or thought, but I'm interested if anyone has some real insight or reason?

Edit: The constant use our app banner and nag is the worse.
House prices are getting pretty high on cities all over the world; there's plenty of market if they were willing to go global.
The concept in itself doesn't seem to be obviously broken to me.
Well good luck. Given that current grid battery storage seems to cost 100+ if people can ship in bulk for <40 it should make quite a difference to the economics of renewable energy.
Historically on built-in iOS apps settings go in the Settings app. With that pattern in mind, it makes no sense to have settings in the app itself because the user would be looking in the Settings app.
I worked in a small team of 6 or so on a web application running in a company data centre, 2 people in the team were doing nearly all the work of implementing deployment automation & rearchitecture to migrate the app into AWS. They both got good job offers from different companies and quit within about a month of each other, shortly before we were scheduled to migrate production.

Fun times! I was happy they'd both found better jobs. Before they left there were lots of knowledge transfer sessions with the team all in a room for a few hours diving through all the layers of all the automation, trying to understand how it fit together, and what the design constraints were.

It could have been much worse: enough lead time to do some knowledge transfer and bring rest of team up to speed, none of the technology involved was proprietary, everything was reasonably standard mix of open source automation approaches + AWS, so plenty of access to documentation or working examples from outside of the project.

In ended up okay in the end but it's still a small bit of data that perhaps you don't want 2 people in the team with specialist knowledge, more than two would be even better.
Original: https://theconversation.com/is-it-the-end-of-statistical-sig...
Radical politics, emma's quotes and...cloudflare
I wonder what this means? Have we become weaker or has Candida mutated into something stronger?
Not everything needs to last but I mostly agree.

Some items simply can't last a lifetime like shoe soles. You can buy a shoe that can be re-soled but even that will eventually wear down.

Tech products that outlast their usefulness or any product for that matter, should be made from more sustainable materials. Whenever I throw something out I get the mental image of that item sitting in a landfill for eternity and it upsets me. Moreso if it's mostly plastic and contains electronics. This disposable mentality is not sustainable.
Data Compression Explained
Also, Servo isn't a general-purpose browser project anymore at Mozilla. It's part of the "Mixed Reality" department:

https://blog.servo.org/2018/03/09/servo-and-mixed-reality/
Screens, Teens, and Psychological Well-Being: Three Time-Use-Diary Studies
I'm sure people who used to use Slashdot and Digg thought the same thing.

I enjoy being a bystander to efforts to break free from platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc; Stackoverflow, for example, pushes their data dumps into the Internet Archive [1] and that data will never be locked up. Even if unsuccessful, efforts to break free of closed platforms are necessary, otherwise we're burning up untold amounts of human effort for data that will be lost to time in the name of VC and shareholder profits.

[1] https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
Thank you for clarifying. To clarify further, this is the FISA (secret) court that Will is referring to that also ended up rubber stamping surveillance of a political campaign.
March Startup Funding Report: Here's Where The $s Went
Hey, maybe what actually „destroyed your life” was the dream to have your own company? Seems like you may not be built for it, it is definitely not for everyone.
"There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files."

— Bruce Schneier

I respectfully disagree... <g>

"There are three (3) kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files, and finally, the strongest cryptography -- cryptography that will stop Bruce Schneier -- from reading your files." <g>

(Bruce Schneier = Cryptography's Chuck Norris...<g>)

((And the third such cryptography, if it exists... will be found to have been created by -- you guessed it -- Bruce Schneier! <g>))
Conveniently linked above, both his book and a podcast interview :)
Does your company not have productivity rooms/spaces? I've found that to be the happy middle between completely open and closed-office for me.

Though I do agree I was significantly more productive at companies where I had my own office/shared with only one other person.
It'll be interesting to see if this works. If it does, it means that Reddit mods can gain full ownership of their communities and do something more than just run a volunteer subreddit. If you run a popular sub, I think it's reasonable to ask why you are spending countless unpaid hours tending to a community when someone else reaps all the profit. It's natural to say: "Okay, I have hundreds of thousands of users here on Reddit. That's gotta be worth something."

This does open the Pandora's box of monetizing a group of people that really dislike getting monetized. (Reddit users, that is.) And if it does work, maybe Reddit communities will start to be seen as a way to start community-based businesses/organizations.
I’m really sorry, that sucks. You should try using this site, https://www.thelaw.com/categories/immigration-law.86/
In those client things the amount of the code that can be moved into a cross-language shared library might be lower than expected. E.g. the wire protocol and socket handling might be an option - but it's often not that big.

The bigger part might be transformation of the programming languages types into something useful for the client (e.g. through serialization), which has be be redone anyway for each language. And after that the question comes up whether sharing the remaining things yields enough benefits to justify the hassle of having a dependency which is less portable, requires another build system, etc.

That's my general experience with those kinds of projects - I don't know enough about RavenDB in particular to tell if it's the same here.
I wonder if rss will allow for custom homepages... ever.

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss
And as an Indian American[1] friend said the power relation means they do whatever stupid thing they are told to do by management rather throwing shit back.

[1] My friend has complained that managers confuse him with the Indians on a H1B visas and get bent when he tells them their idea is stupid.
Okay it finally (30 seconds ago!) finished indexing.

The reason it ran out of disk space is that I included 3 columns to index on (in this case: name, path, filename) and it ballooned my 66GB db to 185GB!

However, every single query afterward was instantaneous. Literally milliseconds to pull 90K results from three full-text columns across 500 million rows. And the search words were anywhere in the column, not just the beginning. Incredible. I'm simply blown away.

All I did was this single command:
CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE fts USING fts5(hash UNINDEXED, title, path, filename);

and then wrote a normal INSERT statement to populate it like I would a regular table. It was so painless.

Just be aware that each column appears to drastically increase the size of the DB.

I'm so excited! I have so many other databases to try this out on!

EDIT: now I'm going to move it off the SSD to a mechanical drive and see if it still holds the same performance.
> should have been using source control and someone else should have at least had access.

I agree. Leaving aside the question of if anyone else understands the code and could safely make changes, it seems incredibly negligent not to use source control and for the company not to have backups in multiple locations that multiple people have access to. Not rocket science.
Downloading and reading the bash script isn't a solution either. Even if it isn't deliberately malicious, those things usually want to just puke files into some arbitrary corner of your system or homedir - really the author just made a "works fine on my system" crutch rather than doing the actual work of packaging. Then to double down, they'll often add some "clever" hooks to self-auto-update your local junkheap from their git nightly, because releasing deliberate versions doesn't "move fast and break enough things".

I either want to pull from the standard distribution repositories and rely on things updating automatically, compile from source tarballs with explicit version numbers, or at the very worst have a path-independent binary tarball that can be unpacked anywhere. If you can't manage any of these, then your project simply isn't ready for general availability.
What car do you recommend?
Are you suggesting that Capitalism as a philosophy is objective in some sense that say, monarchism or socialism are not?

Of course it is an articulation of an opinion about what should be. There are disagreeing opinions about "what should be."
Archives:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190406050632/https://www.reddi...

https://archive.fo/V3vsK
Too large sales team? Or community outreach ambassadors or whatever we call them these days.

The business model as I understand it is they pay for any missing roommates rent until the spot is filled? Maybe they had a fragmentation problem? 30 people move into 10 rooms, 10 people move out, negative 30% income.
Sexy stranger?
Reddit is transitioning to a Facebook model to suck up all the users that are hemorrhaging from over there. There's a new concentration on posting to personal profiles, integrating commercial entities (ie, u/washingtonpost) as "users" to blend in their ads seemlessly, and gentrifying to appease these new adertisers that don't want to be next to potentially controversial content.

These are all things that don't bother the new users at all and the loss of the founding population of redditors isn't causing any tears at corporate.

Of course they go after the scoundrels first in this quest but as the frog slowly boils more and more mainstream 'controversial' subreddits like changemyview will get pushed out.
looks good, but the licence is a strange pick for a template... as i understand the wording, you'll have to add the licence even if you make a PDF.

> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

> [...]

> Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
It's not a great solution, but I've found it beneficial to lean heavily on the Rust docs search bar when looking for specific behavior. It's very fast, and fuzzy enough that it finds what I'm looking for most of the time.
Doesn't Mastodon have a character limit? How can you even start changing someone's view with just 500 characters?
I don't like working from home.
Working from home feels lonely and dead-end to me.
I'd rather have a commute and sit in an open office plan, despite all the obvious drawbacks.

Also, I've recently realised what makes me productive as fuck:

Pressure.
I just want a better life, too.

Can I have your stuff? Why not?

"Illegal alien" is a precise legal term which is used to accurately define a legal status. It's like saying that "convicted murderer" is dehumanizing...
There are 138 million taxpayers in the U.S. [1] so the per-taxpayer loss would almost exactly a dime. Not that this matters. The net loss of allowing someone to steal $12.2 million is exactly $12.2 million. Quibbling over the details of how this loss is distributed is missing the point rather badly.

[1] https://www.reference.com/government-politics/many-u-s-taxpa...
To be blunt, I think it's the wrong kind of attitude toward school. You focused too much on the end result, getting the degree, rather than enjoying the journey, the learning and the obtaining of knowledge. It shouldn't matter whether it's 8 months or 14 months, as long as you learned during those time. As far as creating your own software company, it sounds like you are looking for the fantasy of entrepreneurship than building products. You don't need a company to build products. You could start building even in school. Really, forget creating company, wife, or getting rich, just focus on building a MVP. And enjoy it along the way. The rest will come.
This reminds me of, and has me nostalgic about, TinyApps[1].

[1] https://tinyapps.org/
I have been living in Alabama for 12 years and I still haven't seen any any anvil launches. I am beginning to wonder if the rumors about this state are false.