skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go ahead and downvote me, but use logic instead of emotions. This is the difference between junior and senior engineer. "Working hard" can actually work against you.

Anyone notice how poor design/interface creates jobs? Once you learn the poor design, then you become one of them. Lawyers, accountants, mechanics, linux engineers, most professions are scams. Once you learn it, you're better off making money in the profession than actually simplifying it and letting the public know the profession is a sham. It's a racket, except no one can be blamed because someone else made the terrible rules/system. "Popular" technologies (on Indeed.com, resume driven development) are not popular because they are good, they are popular because they are bad. If you want to make money, beware of making things too simple... using awful and complex technologies (Kubernetes - this is way too complex, Jenkins - a GUI wrapper around the linux cli?, Docker - linux admins discover a way to stay employed, AWS - we converted some simple apps to a GUI and charge millions, Chef - creating an immutable image is too easy, Salesforce - let's lock you in and use our own language, Splunk - elasticsearch is too cheap let's charge millions, etc.) is a good business model.

It's like any industry... actually solving people's problems is a bad business model. Strippers make more money than prostitutes.
Apparently they have never heard of the Streisand effect?
Fukushima’s Lessons, Unlearned in America?
Building Voice Apps for Alexa/Google with Speed
They have no choice because it has political ramifications when they sneeze.
Yeah but this guy handled it respectfully. He's even releasing a final version. So people can fork it and do what they will. You can't really blame him. 10 years is a long time to maintain something anyway.
This article is really buried but fantastic. It makes a lot of sense that knowledge workers and wages are really driving the prices.
Fad Diets Why Are They Bad?
Trying to lose weight is not easy, you want to look slimmer and feel better, but the thought of slogging through a boring diet plan isn't very interesting, or motivating. Along comes the Fad Diet promising you super weight loss in the blink of an eye. All you have to do is drink lemonade or eat lots of cabbage soup, popcorn, apple cider vinegar, potato chips, tuna fish, etc.

Fad diets are popular because they capture attention and are perceived as quick weight loss solutions. On the surface these diets sound perfectly reasonable. I mean, eat lots of cabbage soup, sure, why not?Cabbage is a vegetable and vegetables are good for you, right?

True, cabbage is good for us - in moderation. Once you start the Cabbage Soup Diet you'll quickly realize that you're just not getting enough calories needed to maintain weight loss in a healthy way. You're more likely to get headaches and pass lots of gas. Doesn't' sound so great now, does it?

Okay that one's a dud, but surely one of the other ones will work. Like many people, maybe you've gone through your share of fad diets, only to eventually return back to your old eating habits and, unfortunately, your old weight issues.

The reason why these unhealthy fad diets let you down time and time again is because they are not meant to be a long-term solution. They do not show you how to choose healthy foods and incorporate them into your daily meals once you are no longer on the diet.

https://sleepingsupplements.com/tone-your-tummy-review/
FBA was borderline fraud from the beginning — it was a scheme to evade sales tax.

The inherent conflicts of interest are everywhere. It commingles inventory, competes with its partners and encourages an auction like atmosphere for constrained product. Retail Amazon and marketplace Amazon need to be segmented for consumers to understand who and how they are buying products.
The recaptcha has broken HACK, the iOS app, for me.
A couple of thoughts, in the spirit of this essay:

There's different levels of consumption. If it's a decent book, someone, usually a few someones, have revised and rewritten parts of a thought, in an attempt to refine the thought, boil it down, expand on it, etc. Your average Kanye tweet probably is, at best, a shot from the hip, blindfolded.

Creation doesn't have to be a linear process. I spend a lot of commute time thinking about my projects. Sometimes this ends up in furious sketches and overly verbose notes, but more often than not, it consists of me awkwardly staring at the floor and missing my stop. I put in earbuds w/o noise to drown out the din and discourage the scourge of public transportation, conversation with strangers.

Creative output does not need to be public. I'm sure there's the next great american novel locked up in a Microsoft word doc somewhere, and that's sad, but OK. Realistically, I only get to see what others put out, so if you want to be noticed, keep flinging shit at the wall like it's never going out of style. Even if it's a single blogpost on a personal site, someone will see it, and that makes it all totally worth it.
Her claim is much simpler. Project Veritas calls her a "powerful senior executive," and she says "I'm not any sort of executive and wouldn't know about any of this even if it were true."

I don't see any reason why a propaganda outfit led by a guy convicted of sneaking into government offices on false pretenses should be taken at their word that a random Google employee is a powerful executive when the employee in question says that they are not one. Seems like "they are an executive" would be pretty easy to establish.
Almost all chemicals we use are largely unstudied for their long term effects. So far we were relatively lucky.
I have a G-Shock which syncs with the atomic clock. It is the best watch for international travel -- you will always know the correct time anywhere without any tweaking. It is a Casio -- so it does not attract the wrong kind of attention.
Another vector of harm to consider —

Keep in mind that “vapor” is used to disguise that, in all cases whether nicotine or pot or etc, people are heating up a substance to its smoke point and inhaling that smoke. They use “vapor” because it sounds like “water vapor” - which is harmless - but it’s definitely not that.

Marijuana cartridges use marijuana oil or MCT oil as a base, for example. Nicotine uses glycol or other substances.

We have very little data on consuming glycol and/or MCT oil smoke. It’s possible that it clogs up the lungs in a way that takes hours to heal per inhalation, and so we’re simply seeing smoke inhalation deaths as we would from an oil factory burning for weeks or something.

(We have limited data on marijuana extract smoke - cold-processed oil is a new-ish innovation, compared to resin which is high in impurities and not easy to consume in significant quantities like marijuana oil apparently is.)
I'm guessing that if this really is associated with vaping then it's likely due to the limited regulation of the ingredients. Bad batch of VG/PG/nicotine? Some problematic flavouring?

I think the best article I've found is at the BMJ: https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5228 - sorry, paywall. Very much inconslusive at the moment completely in the public health triage stage.

Good idea to regulate it properly. I just stopped vaping after a 20 year intermittent tobacco problem + 5 years of vaping[1]. Stopping vaping is massively easier than giving up cigarettes in my experience.

[1] for almost that entire time I just went unflavoured. Less hassle and less potential for contaminants.
The actual title at the page is “NEW! Use these interactive tools to view and download real-time, full-resolution satellite imagery.”

Of course, this is for weather satellite pictures, not surveillance.
Agreements with gates. Usually short term.. iterate and improve.
It’s hard to get enthusiastic about something deadly and noxious just because it’s less noxious than something truly awful.

Walking behind someone who was vaping recently is one of the least pleasant experiences I’ve had for a while.
Is the processed data typed? Can you offer auto completion of data fields based on these types?

I also thought quite a couple of times about implementing a data centric, typed shell language. My primary goal was to have a shell where one could discover every feature by oneself through the magic of types.
I really enjoyed being indie developer but now I feel so sad about this sentence:

> Believe or not, the era of indie developers has passed.

It's getting obvious that Apple doesn't care much about indie developers. Although most of the unique, special apps are coming from indie.

I wish they not only provide tools but also fix their relationship with developers.
100% My dog cuddles me for 15 min before bed every night and I can feel the relaxation swell over me almost instantaneously. Must be kind of like oxytocin.
I know some of the answers but at what point does the cost of doing business in the Bay Area outweigh the benefits? Keep in mind when Silicon Valley began they were actually fabbing silicon. That doesn't happen in SV today (AFAIK). It's mostly software now, and software is much more portable than silicon.
Yep I have a couple of anonymous MIT softwares out there with decent documentation. that's all you get from me, along with quarterly or so updates. I do it for fun not to please everyone.
This is really a terrible and sad news. Apple should not treat such a pure and good independent developer at all, and does not give any representations and explanations.

I don't know if it is an Apple misunderstanding. But Apple should give developers at least one opportunity to request and communicate. These developers have been supporting your iOS platform for so long and should not be treated as rudely. It is a disaster for the weak independent individuals and our dreams.
Vulnerable Webmin hosts = the latest botnet trend
Uber really has no advantage to self-driving. A customer network doesn't mean much if you cannot finance actually building the cars. They also don't any training data to give them a tech advantage.

It'd make way more sense for an existing car company to build the features into the car and let the owner rent out the car when they don't need it. (Telsa, GM/Cruise).

Another option is to simply build the best technology and use ungodly piles of money to finance building the cars. Only Google or Apple could really do this.
The Solar System’s Loneliest Planets, Revisited
Exactly. so many people don't have a clue about GPL and LGPL. If you're the originator you have more rights than people who you make it available to.
My step count today is 16,400, and my dog's is either the same or else double that, depending on how you count it
Yes, some owners have their dog sterilized.
Oooh, and if you like that stuff.. my wife and I love a good Saturday night watching things like this: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23ScammerRevol...

I like ScammerRevolts a bit more than the others simply because he fucks up the scammers' computers... :)
It's the temperature, not the CO2. I have fresh water shrimp and some fish. If you raise the temperature over 30°C, less oxygen dissolves into the water and there's not enough for the critters to breathe. It's basically asphyxiation. Labyrinth fish are adapted, since they can breathe air as well, but they do it merely for survival, they too become stressed and die after a while. Also some types of algae grow faster when the water is warmer. More algae = more O2 uptake during daytime.
How AngelList makes its startup investments
Tako seems to handle background tasks better than xonsh. The link to the code isn't working though, so I am not sure why.
He wasn't being an ass, DanielK was. It's HIS original software, he can distribute as he pleases.
The cultural problem is with the investors that are willing to spend $100B to win a cut-throat $10M/year profit market.
Alot more is going to happen without us realizing it unless we take action fast...

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/5/1/316
That requires some different permissions to the webRequest permission in question.

But yeah, a bad actor would probably just switch away from webRequest to <all_urls> + webNavigation permissions and siphon off data with content scripts. So google's argument that is is a privacy issue and thus they just HAVE TO cripple their webRequest APIs doesn't get any better.
He wanted to let the users of his software know why he was quitting. Not everything has to be honey soaked drivel. He gave his opinion. It had a little bit of well deserved ranting in there but it did let everyone know that the library is deprecated and you're now on your own with it.
looked thru your site, seems pretty neat. I think accumulating and designing tools is one of the hardest parts to creating physically, as opposed to cranking out thoughts.

Flutter seems like a cool platform!
Xonsh cant handle backgrounding commands. For example `sleep 10` followed by a ctrl-z just hangs the shell. It has been this way for a long while.
shame on Apple.
Also interesting what he suggests as the alternative - blockchain incorporation, configurable nation states, and fully-remote teams.
That's not at all what this is about. He didn't want money, he just didn't want to be treated like crap.
Almost certainly don't—I kinda assumed something that trivial would get handled by full-auto bots by now, but maybe not.
Nice first post for a new blog. I like the blog theme as well.

How can I create my own blog with such a clean and minimal theme?
Are you DanielK?
also the value chain of driver->dispatcher->rider just doesn't have a lot of extra margin to squeeze out of the ride-hailing business to make it really profitable (this should have been obvious from the beginning to VCs).

once uber/lyft cut out the dispatcher, reduce no-shows a tiny bit, increase utilization a bit, off-loaded cap ex/risk to drivers, where do the killer profits come from?

when you do a five forces analysis, the only place they have some leverage is on the drivers (supplier-side), whom they've already squeezed down to below minimum wage (on average).

walmart can eek out huge profits from a low-margin business because they provide essentials that are hard to subsitute at their price point. ride-hailing is not nearly as essential and has a number of substitutes available in most places.
Facebook bans ads from The Epoch Times after pro-Trump buy
Learned my lesson. If I release something now I put it under MIT license and add some decent documentation and hopefully the code is well written and commented enough that any half way decent programmer can make use of it. No contact mail, no grief.
> During the decade between 1921 and 1931, the ports in Oakland and San Francisco both experienced explosive growth in commercial shipping, although the pace of growth favored Oakland. Prior to 1927 (when the Port of Oakland was formally organized), shipping tonnage in San Francisco more than doubled that in Oakland. By 1921 [sic] the gap had narrowed: Oakland handled about three-quarters the tonnage of San Francisco. Oakland's port would continue to outgrow San Francisco's through World War II before overwhelming it during the 1950s and 1960s.

Source: A Tale of Two Bridges, p. 20, https://books.google.com/books?id=XiyVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT20
> uber is making money from almost all of the rides and they keep around 35% to themselves

Is this documented anywhere?
A whole lot of society and social policy is about lesser of evils. It's about being realistic and practical. Which is something far more policy should be conscious of, instead of some idealistic perfect world you wish to impose on other people.

Not to mention people could just as quickly harm themselves going to a 7/11 every day to eat carbs or driving a motorcycle or drinking alcohol or engaging in 'extreme' sports. But we people do those things anyway even though there's plenty of science to show it's dumb.

Especially if those 'evils' are a) entirely non-violent and voluntary only affecting the individual and b) are not going away ala drugs and the giant shift towards harm reduction.

People seem to be mixing up the growing pains of a extremely fast-growing new industry and the long-term realities once the legal, health, business, and administrative systems mature and adapt. The rush to immediately ban everything, well before we fully understand it and/or have experimented with less freedom/fun-destroying strategies, while also accurate measures of usage and risk, doesn't help anyone.

I will admit though, the 'think of the kids' people are making quite an effective stir.
Apple has done a pretty bad job at connecting with developers especially indies. Though at WWDC every year, the're demonstrating how they treat well to developers, how much developers have earned, it's has never been a time when Apple and developers are at a same table. If you're an Apple developer, ask yourself the question how you can communicate with Apple and how soon you can guarantee they would respond.

This hurts, not only Ying, but also indie developers like me.
My Tech Career Income
An overwhelming amount
WhatsApp to launch mobile payments in Indonesia
Pi-Hole at the Home Router.

1Bocker for Safari.

uBlock Origin for Chrome.
It lowers the complexity sufficiently that traditional car makers in Germany are huffing and puffing about tens of thousands of jobs that won't be needed anymore.
Self-driving truck startup PlusAI is raising funding at a $1B valuation
I think at tech conferences it's less welcome because it's a professional environment. There are many reasons why it's hard to mix relationships and work.
What breed ia the dog? Terrier?
Laying the Foundation for Secure Artificial Intelligence
Reports like this are useless without stats on how big of a difference it made.
Although I recommend WordPress to most people in my Technical Blogging book, I also discuss Hugo which is what OP used here. Technically you could get any blogging engine to produce a blog that looks like that, but if you're after the minimalistic look, Hugo is really not a bad way to go.
Facebook Said It Would Give Detailed Data to Academics. They’re Still Waiting
I rent one of the capsules in Nakagin Capsule Tower. I love it. Perfect size for focusing (10m2).
Wow! This looks awesome, promising.

Just, wishing I saw this before I settled on Pi-Hole.
It's taking WordPress 10 years to double a post's name length from 200 to 400
No, I’m just saying what I think; what rings true to me based on my experience and observations.

Pretty women get thousands of messages online. It’s overwhelming, and they always have men trying to date them in real life and social media.

No need to get online. Bars downtown with their girls is more than enough, if it even has to come down to that.

Friends of friends just means parties.
They just get out and run, get into fights with other dogs, harass cats etc. Dog stuff. It really depends on the dog's temperament. There are dog's that are too scared to get out of their yard. If you've got a hunting breed it will probably get out and run. When we throw a garden party, the dog becomes less interested in going for a stroll, it would rather join the party. It's a fox terrier mixed breed. Very smart dog. You can fool it once, but then you have to get creative.
I was also made to log in via a recaptcha today. The recaptcha widget appears just below the HN login form so pretty sure this is added by HN, not Cloudflare.

If people are complaining about it on this thread, I would also like to register my complaint with it. I think Recaptcha has two major problems:

- It's Google. I would want it to be technically impossible for someone in Google to link my HN profile with my Google profile.

- The Recaptcha widget is plain abusive to Firefox users. If I log in with Chrome, I can get past the Recaptcha hurdle in just one attempt. But if I am Firefox user, I am forced to submit like 5 Recaptchas, then be greeted with a "Please try again" message, then submit like 5 more, and only then be allowed to log in. No I don't want to do this amount of work for Google for free. I urge everyone to please stop supporting Recaptcha.
Similar but we always had at least 2 dogs. My dad would it's not right for them to not have a buddy to hang out with since they couldn't come in the house with us.
This did not work for me.

What did however was an analysis of 1) what I did yesterday and 2) what I want to today. I started with just typing my head off for about 30 mins every morning. At first it was thoughts all over the place. As I kept at it and pushed through, over a few weeks on I could see patterns emerge. I could read what going on yesterday, a week ago or a couple of sprints ago or a release ago and see how things have evolved. This helped separating the important stuff from the fluff. This was what I needed to focus on. I now log the important stuff. Takes about 10 minutes a day and gets me in the flow of things. Totally worth the effort in time and mental cycles spent.
1% of US smartphone buyers think headphone jack is top-three feature
You take the test which YC people fail to provide.

One that tests integrity along with diligence and capability.
When I was a kid, a typical day in the country for a dog could look something like this: 1) Go find something horrendous (e.g. dead animal, cow manure, or compost) and roll around on it awhile and then show off the new perfume to local dog friends, 2) Scare a squirrel or two, 3) Wait by the road a bit and chase any vehicles that dare turn into the drive, 4) Scout property boundaries, while liberally marking trees/fence posts/bushes and barking at any would-be trespassers, and then finally 7) Come home smelling truly repulsive, while expecting to be petted and fed.
Was it better in the old days?
Regardless of the legal situation, it would be very unusual to release something under a GPL-like license without the source, since then no one else could comply with the license since they would be unable to provide the modified source.

I think we can agree that it would not at all be weird to expect that GPL-licensed project would provide the source. Any project with multiple contributors may be legally compelled to do so. Simply asking for it is probably not being a complete ass, even if the author was wrong about the legal ramifications.

At most it could perhaps be "annoying" or a "slight ass". Being a "complete ass" would perhaps be insisting after an initial request was rebuffed or whatever.
Ask HN: How do you maintain good habits with a disruptive career and life style?
If you travel regularly or have work deadlines etc that disrupts any kind of healthy routine how do you maintain good habits like exercising, meditation, etcetera?
It certainly seems like the vape industry set back social progress on this front significantly. Cigarettes stopped being cool quite a while ago, and smoking is almost never allowed indoors anymore, but hey, look these e-cigarettes are safe and trendy and all the cool kids are doing them.
The next gen social media platform
www.nowandme.com is a platform which is safe, real, raw, authentic; allowing people to open up about their insecurities, failures, mental health issues. All this coupled with the option of anonymity, in a moderated fashion.
I use uBlock Origin and disable JavaScript by default, then instead of enabling those things when sites break, I choose to be more discerning about the websites I visit instead.
Apple hurts the heart of the entire Chinese indie developer community.