skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are the kinds of things I want to tell the ISP repair guy when he comes to fix our internet. Dude it’s 2019, when the internet goes down, EVERYTHING goes down.
Too late to explore the Earth, too early to explore the stars, just in time to buy psychedelics off the internet due to legal loopholes... wait, that was 10 years ago.
NASA selects Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, and Orbit Beyond for Moon Missions
This is driving me mad. This operation is called groupBy and it is a solved problem. How on earth is HN oblivious to such a fundamental operation?
It is too bad that it has come to this. To me, a door that cannot be unlocked if it loses internet access or that I cannot change my heating or AC, is unacceptable.

I have some privacy concerns when it comes to Nest and similar services. But in the end, this is more important. This shows that if Google decides to pull the plug on Nest, or decrease functionality (as they already did), I cannot use (a part of) the device I bought.
https://support.stripe.com/questions/microtransaction-suppor...
I'm actually very negative on blockchain - as it is clearly a interesting technology but one that is desperately looking for a problem to solve.
I do have the occasional customer claim to have "cancelled 3 months ago" via email. We keep good records of such things, so we know him to be mistaken but I always make a point of apologizing and issuing an immediate refund.

I word my "Why did you open a chargeback" mails the same way, and offer to handle things via a refund (and to please close the dispute because it affects our business). But the people who use their credit card company instead of email or the prominent Cancel button on the website don't tend to ever respond to those mails.

It's frustrating, because so many people have had to deal with health clubs and Comcast that they just assume every business will fight against them if they want to cancel.
First line of the abstract:

>Amazon is the titan of twenty-first century commerce. In addition to being a retailer, it is now a marketing platform, a delivery and logistics network, a payment service, a credit lender, an auction house, a major book publisher, a producer of television and films, a fashion designer, a hardware manufacturer, and a leading host of cloud server space.

I haven't read it all, but think it's the basically the same paper than I saw earlier last year, and it was very good. It's a deep discussion of why the way we think today about monopoly and antirust laws has been abused, and aren't functioning anymore in this day and age. "There's other companies" is not nearly enough.

I really recommend it, it's long but a worthwhile read.
> this should just allow one to use yum/apt/etc instead of manually downloading from yet another 3rd party

That wouldn't work on its own. You also need something like pkg-config so you know how to build against the packages. You need to know about indirect dependencies and include search paths for instance.
They do. You can turn them. Turns out this individual decided to mount his TV over his Nest[0]. So changing the temperature without the app requires removing the TV.

[0] https://twitter.com/jDantastic/status/1135313567346036741
Take the way the US is run and make it global.

Alternatively, take the way North Korea is run and make it global. This is the only way it could work.

As a third alternative, take the way the EU is run, and make it global.

What are the problems? There is way too much diversity for a single entity to handle the various aspects.
The shell has auto complete as well and most of the commonly used cmdlets have aliases for shell usage if you don't want to rely on auto complete. You can also create aliases if you so desire.

Edit: The side benefit of the verbosity is the discoverability of less used commands. Is it groupadd or addgroup? No question in Powershell, it would be Add-Group because of the Verb-Noun standard. Bash has all sorts of inconsistencies that require look-up if you don't use those commands often.
Trust, but Verify
That’s true, but at that point you don’t have a thousand people any more. You have 20.

The OP is talking about a situation where there are a thousand people in a room all talking at the same time.

I don’t see an easy way to split interaction on a forum like Reddit in the same way as a thousand people in a house.
Why can't apps properly separate interface from implementation and let people make the app look however they want? Maybe I don't want dark mode or light mode. Maybe I want the background bright orange and the text florescent green. I'm the one using your app on my device, it should look the way I want.

Seriously, why isn't choosing the text and background color of apps and websites a standard, simple thing?
My thought as well....and I'd assume the door locks still have keys? Power outages are a thing.

Regardless, I'm sure such physical access points will soon be removed in new versions and it will be hailed as "brave".
In the old Jewish tradition, religious studies gave people high status, but also, because of the culture, were considered very valuable.

This meant that those who we're good religious students(a life long pursuit, and not financially rewarding) married the most desired women.

And that's just on culture.

So maybe there are ways to cretae a motivating culture .
Yeah, they can be controlled at the thermostat. I was able to adjust mine locally but not via the app (or API in home assistant)
I think many people have been conditioned to assume that replying to automated messages goes straight to /dev/null. Have you considered putting a link to a page that provides a quick cancellation workflow?
The tweet is misleading. He mounted his TV on top of his thermostat[0]; and I'm sure he knew full-well that it meant he wouldn't be able to change the temperature without the app.

[0] https://twitter.com/jDantastic/status/1135313567346036741
But those gods are morally ambiguous: they're not everything-I-do-is-right like the God of Abraham (in any of the religions that worship him). It's an accurate part of the news and implying that Loki is a paragon of virtue would be misleading people about the subject.

And "Heathenry" is a term used by practitioners of this faith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathenry_(new_religious_movem... If it's got a negative connotation, well, that's the limits of working in a colonizer language.
I don't think them lacking knowledge of that fact changes the situation any, though pedantically I'll admit that it would change their perspective of it.
"Hacking at the ideas of others (whether rightly or wrongly) without presenting any superior alternatives seems shallow to me."

This sounds like the idea some manager have of "don't bring me a problem unless you have a solution", which is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad way of managing.
Writing code in a dark mode for as long as I can remember, I thought that I'd always prefer light text on dark background when reading text on a screen, but eventually I realized that I prefer dark text on light background for almost everything, except reading code. I like using syntax highlighting and for me colorful text on a light background, no matter the quality of the color theme, is harder to read than the inverse.
I find this journalism suspect. These devices all have local control. You don't need the cloud to turn on the AC unless you want to do it remotely. Ditto for door locks.
Tesla's Navigate on Autopilot Is Dangerous in the UK [video]
Fortunately, you do not have to be a white supremacist to be a heathen. Asatru is not a proselytizing religion and doesn't require that you "fellowship" with other worshipers.

It it attractive because it is a sleeper religion with many facets and traditions of modern life tracing their roots back to that Scandinavian heritage.
I don't know a huge amount about hikikomori other than what I've read here and in other media pieces about the topic. Plenty of those have pointed out that the phenomenon has been seen, and is becoming more common throughout the Western world. Just not attracting quite the same attention or a catchy name.

So I don't see it as Japan bashing just that it's more widely known and talked about in Japan. Not much different to early discussions of ADHD coming from the US. The Western cliche of an uber-nerd stuck in their parent's basement or their bedroom, but surrounded by technology seems to me the more offensive description of a similar result - yet not seen as US or UK bashing.

As for a specific HN angle, it seems reasonable to suppose that a phenomenon that has grown alongside technological growth, in a nation that for many years was at the forefront of that growth may be connected. In the same way my kids and friends are incredibly wary of making a simple phone call - almost taking any and every option in preference. Perhaps this is part of the "cost" of technology.
Hedge funds stole money from my dad
Donuts are very unhealthy for humans
you should look into chargehound[chargehound.com], i think they would work for you.
You’re assuming there is an invoice; many times there is not which is why the chargeback is auto-approved.

For better or worse, the chargeback is the only weapon end-users have anymore.
> real architects have regulations to follow

True, and the same goes for engineers. I suppose the latter is another metaphor for the software development process/person: "..people who invent, design, analyse, build, and test machines, systems, structures and materials".

> need to keep up with evolving trends

This sounds like it could apply to much of software field, esp. web frontend.

> Maybe a journalism metaphor would be better

Good one! Software is definitely an art/science of writing, and about media, publishing too.

I also agree about the need for many "drafts", writing and rewriting. The metaphor might help stakeholders understand the process better, compared to architecture which gets built only once (usually).

I like how you chose journalism, and not just writing or literature. Journalism is associated with marketing/advertising, in which software is definitely involved. There's also the parallel of research and investigation being necessary preparation.

For the fun of it, I thought of flipping the direction of metaphor.

An architect is like a software developer, except their code is physical material and their runtime is space.

A journalist is like a software developer, except their code is human language and their runtime is the public mind..?
There are two types of avocado that I see. One has a large pig, close to ping pong ball sizes. Then there's another with a much smaller, marble-sized pit.
Indeed, this was bad. I assume they were trying to extend SSD lifetime by reducing writes.

It's fair to note that scrubbing is now the default behavior when a droplet is destroyed, so they did listen to the feedback.

https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas/DO-I-1947
I would if my local library uploaded torrents to Pirate Bay.

But instead they check out the copies they’ve paid for OR are in some kind of paid arrangement with a streaming service.
I am a good dancer, well only Lindy and East coast swing. Not much weight for me to lose. I have a black belt in Kenpo. But I am also a systems administrator, enjoy my Switch, and generally spend at least a few hours looking at a screen each day, more than 12 hours on a work day. So I fail to see the correlation...

Seems like less about tech minimalism being the key and more, learning how to have self control. I am not knocking that, I believe that if you do not have the self control to manage a habit than you should remove that habit if it is a detriment. Nonetheless, the article, IMHO, is off the mark.
1. We have a lot more data now
2. We have a lot more publications now, that publish continuously, and those writers have to write about something.
You have confused the order of my statement. Innovation leads to growth.
No, it's not like that at all, because an oil rig counts as a vessel, whereas an island is land.
This is an article about three tweets.

I looked at just the first tweet by "Danny" who shortly after tweeted it was a joke. The third one by zeynep tufekci is a retweet of the "Danny" joke (with the context removed by the article).

The only real tweet seems to be Chris Weix complaining about using Nest cameras as a baby monitor (which is always remote/app).
Card issuers are often able to detect that a transaction is fraudulent before it is disputed, and when this happens, they will send us a notification. These notifications are commonly called TC40s (Visa) or SAFE reports (MasterCard). On average ~60% of early fraud warnings end up being disputed, and most disputes have an early fraud warning (though there’s a wide range depending on your business). If you refund these charges before they become disputes, you can avoid the dispute entirely. It doesn't solve all dispute problems but it can be pretty effective. I’m happy to take a look at your account to calculate what percent of disputes have an early fraud warning.
Dark mode isn't popular because it's hip, but because it's used. Apple follows tredns here, not set them. The reverse assumption in the article makes me doubt the rest.

I don't trust results that say black on white put less strain on their eyesight and general congnitive stress, because I've personally consistently felt different. At best it depends on surrounding both backgrounds and light sources.
> Cable costs ~$60 per month. If the majority of people switch from cable to streaming, we can expect it to reach a similar price (because people have demonstrated that they are willing to pay that much and because existing hierarchies are set up to consume that much money).

People also need to have internet and a lot of people have the two bundled. If people switch to all streaming services, the cable cartel will raise internet prices and finagle with their caps to gouge even more.
Also in color:

docker run --rm -it msoap/ascii-art sh -c 'ls /usr/local/share/endoh1/'
docker run --rm -it msoap/ascii-art sh -c 'endoh1_color < /usr/local/share/endoh1/tanada.txt'
docker run --rm -it msoap/ascii-art sh -c 'endoh1_color < /usr/local/share/endoh1/column.txt'
It's debatable whether the article falls flat because of the light source or because of its limited assessment of humans:

> Humans evolved outside, and we are generally active during the daytime and asleep when it’s dark.

The article is probably mostly right for some people.
The first post from jDantastic https://twitter.com/jDantastic/status/1135282856085852160 was a lie (or at best a half-truth): you can just walk up to the Nest and turn the knob, and that works fine without a network connection. In the replies, Kelly Ellis (of Ellis v. Google fame) calls him out on this, and he says a) his Nest is behind a TV where he can't reach it, so he has to use the app, and b) the post was intended for his followers only, who would have understood this.
You hit the nail on the head! See my second paragraph in a sibling comment[0]. I will just expand on the point here. Investing in Africa is not for the faint of heart and your stand a good chance of losing your money. You also have to be prepared to pay some bribes to ensure that you can do business. This makes mining and oil about the only places external investors will invest in Africa. This is what has left a gap for the small farmer. We are small farmers because getting a loan isn't easy so we self fund.

South Africa on the other hand, the country I work in is very different from other parts of Africa. There are large commercial farms which produce most of the food for the country. Suppliers are not interested in small scale farmers. Animal medicines only sold through vets or in quantities of 10 000. Suppliers of shade cloth and other farming materials largely ignore you when you want to buy a handful of stock. It is very different to my home country where everyone has a few animals and you can buy whatever you want in small quantities. South Africa represents what Africa will be in the next generation or two. I full agree with your comment and I would like to enjoy the small scale farming while it is possible.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20080828
You know that bullshit "no-reply@lazy-company-with-garbage-customer-service.com" email that many companies use as the sender for communications? Too many don't even bother to name the no-reply account as that but essentially send from a no-reply address.

So, does your reply reach them? Who knows. Now you have to set yourself a reminder to follow up and make sure the request got through.

Alternatively, you hunt down their support email but you still need to follow up.

Then there are the rare times a company fights you on it. Then you have a whole back and forth before they finally capitulate.

I personally go through the hassle but I can understand why OP wouldn't want to.
> To make the point, all nuance needs to be stripped; ambiguity calcified into surety; counterpoints strawmanned for easier demolition.

This isn't really true, though. Rather, I think there are tradeoffs. You can be really, really sure about a quite complex and nuanced statement, or make helpful simplifications but then have to admit to some uncertainty, if only because your statement might be misinterpreted. More than anything, you can provide clear, unambiguous, broadly available references to enable anyone who's actually relying on your claims to fact-check them.

Seeming more confident than you actually are is a common rhetorical trick, but one that we should be training the general public not to fall for so easily. Because a bad actor can seem so much more confident, no matter how fringe their claims might be - it's a loser move! One can take pride in sticking to the minimally-necessary amounts of ambiguity and/or nuance, whatever those might be in any given context.
I think it is humorous that broken escalators is the go-to example of graceful degradation, when in real life I've observed multiple times that when an escalator is broken, they rope it off (this is not uncommon on London's tube).

Apparently when an escalator is broken the space between steps is uneven, and the escalator is metal and sharp, causing safety issues (although I've written other theories below in further comments).
If you want to distract yourself while not doing anything you will find a way to do it. Before smart phones there were computers and video games. Before that there was television. Before that there was printed fiction of many sorts, most of it of no personal or social value at all.

It is good to strive to do worthwhile things. The worthless things you do to fill your time are not preventing you from doing anything else. You do what you do...
Looks useful! Does it work with version 54 of the Sketch App?
Possibility of a thoughtful discussion depends more on education and human factor than technology. Realistically you're not going to have with general population, reducing the echo chamber effect is the best you can do.
> Modern planes come with stick shaker-pusher systems. That's what I was referring to.

Hmm? You were talking about systems that mimic the yoke feel of an aircraft with manual controls. A stick shaker is an emergency warning system that would never once activate on a normal flight. It has no effect on the feel of the controls.

>When did I say it has anything to do with it?

In the comment I replied to:

"To give pilots this feedback, Boeing simulates it mechanically by exerting force on the yoke. Normally this is fine and dandy, until the critical AoA sensor malfunctions and makes the computer think the plane is in a different attitude than it actually is in."
As soon as there were raster CRTs, there wasn't much of a technical reason for light on black. Continuing with this was probably more for tradition and aesthetical expectations ("the gloom of the monitor" and a certain kind of heroism, which goes with it).

Personally, I don't think there is an ideal solution to match all scenarios. There are some applications, where light on black may be superior, and others, where it's the other way round. Empirically, for content-heavy, lengthy text we had a few trends for light on black in the past (e.g. "cool web design" in the late 1990s) and reversed from this soon each time. For an example, I much prefer reading HN comments as-is as compared to a hypothetical dark mode UI.
Firebase Devops Series
I do too — probably because most of my early coding was done over telnet / ssh and those almost always have white on black text.

Agree that colored text contrasts better on a black background too.
The next step would be to abolish cash, only allowing digital transactions.
Cloud Function Log Aggregation with StackDriver
Came here to say this.

Asatru is 1 of 2 type of people:

- Racial purity hate group types

- Reconstructionist pagans (that often have only loose genealogical ties to the peoples they claim their religion is based on)
Now freelancers can get paid on-time and without the processing fees
It's not that hard. If you're interested then go ahead and sign up for a basic open water class. Most people can pass.
Dan Geer, in a recent keynote[1]:

>> The root source of risk is dependence, especially dependence on the expectation of stable system state. Dependence is not only individual but mutual, not only am I dependent or not but rather a continuous scale asking whether we are dependent or not; we are, and it is called interdependence. Interdependence is transitive, hence the risk that flows from interdependence is transitive, i.e., if you depend on the digital world and I depend on you, then I, too, am at risk from failures in the digital world. If individual dependencies were only static, they would be eventually evaluable, but we regularly and quickly expand our dependence on new things, and that added dependence matters because we each and severally add risk to our portfolio by way of dependence on things for which their very newness confounds risk estimation and thus risk management. Interdependence within society is today absolutely centered on the Internet beyond all other dependencies excepting climate, and the Internet has a time rate of change five orders of magnitude faster. Remember, something becomes "a critical infrastructure" as soon as it is widely enough adopted; adoption is the gateway drug to criticality.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDEbfijxNY (plaintext: http://www.bsidesdc.org/history/geer.html )
Doesn't matter where you're looking at, only the intensity matters (and you can control that).

Whether you're looking "at the lamp" or at a newspaper that reflects light, the end result is the same: photons hit your eyes.
10, probably more like 15 years ago, someone told me "if the .com is available, get the .com - always the .com. If it isn't available, get a different .com"
Here's one of those invoice mails in its entirety. Sent from (and reply-to) info@twiddla.com. See if you can figure out how to go about cancelling your subscription or getting a refund:

Your Twiddla Bill for April 4, 2019 to May 4, 2019

Hey, we wanted to let you know that on May 4, 2019 we charged your credit card $14.00 for your monthly Twiddla Pro subscription.

You can find additional information regarding your bill, individual charges, and your account history by logging into your your account at https://www.twiddla.com/ and navigating to your "My Account" page. You can also make changes to your subscription or cancel it altogether from that page.

If you have any questions regarding this charge, or would like to yell at us until we refund it, please contact us at info@twiddla.com.

Thanks for the business!

Jason Kester

info@twiddla.com

https://www.twiddla.com/
The light is very different in intensity and colour, though. Reading on a phone is more like reading a newspaper that's being held directly under a very bright light.
Not the gp, but in my experience emails like that are usually Do Not Reply.
He's a professor, though, and critcising the left is kind of his specialization.
"If there shall be no growth, there may be no innovation"
Err, both iOS/macOS have extended accessibility features, including high contrast mode and controls.