skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but then we're talking different types of people. Some people are just fundamentally happier than others, it seems.

On average people making $80k are happier than those making $20k, to a greater degree than when comparing $10M to $1M.
> building the dystopia my children will have to deal with

So you want other people to fight your ideological battles. If this would be 4chan I'd tell you that those programmers are "not your personal army". But have you considered that those people are actually happy to be building this dystopia and they think building it will advance their own children? And what you might construe as "evil" they would see as "advancing the future" and making the world a better place?

Kidding aside, don't you think a bit presumptuous on your side to go and simply ask people to stop working where you don't like them to work, as they might be owning you something?

A more fair course of action would be you to go out and build a better working place, one that doesn't build said dystopia, one with better perks and reputation and pay, and those programmers working at FB / Google would actually WANT to quit said companies and come work at this better place?
Isn't he a proponent of 996?
Get a book on raising a newborn. See how much content there is on breastfeeding. It should be about 10% of the book. The content on formula? Add water, shake, that's it.

If you think formula does not solve any problems for a very large part of the population then you have no clue what you are talking about.
Agree. There is evidence that such a law will be used for political purposes.

See the case of the Huawei CFO Meng Hongwei that was about sanction violations. She was arrested in Canada and is about to be extradited to USA. The extradition bill extends this power (to retaliate) for the CCP to Hong Kong, an economical hub in Asia.

As anecdotal evidence, see the case of Cathay Pacific, an airline company based in Hong Kong that makes business in China: There were anti-extradition demonstrations at the airport, and some employees of Cathay participated. The CCP demanded their names and their immediate layoff. Instead, the CEO only named himself on the list, and was promptly removed.

However, this sends a strong signal: If you occupy a leading position in a company that may be "on the list" (e.g., listing Taiwan as a country, company based in Canada/USA, employees participated in demonstrations, or "hurting the feelings of the Chinese people" in any way), don't go to Hong Kong anymore.
I've never understood how people can design and build anything (software, hardware, whatever) without understanding how it's used. Dogfooding is great (and so many places don't even do that!) but you don't really know what you need to build until you sit down with your users and actually watch them work.
Faraday cage?
Well of course, but the article was specifically talking about the madness that is the fact that all UK fuel stations sell fuel in litres, but all cars have their fuel consumption advertised in miles per gallon, even though gallons aren't used anywhere in the UK for anything except for this, and your average < 40 years old person will have no intuitive understanding of how much a gallon actually is.

But UK is full of nonsense like this, kilograms are commonly used for everything, but human weight is given in stones(wtf is a stone), metres are again a common unit, but somehow kilometres for distances aren't. Your own height is given in feet and inches, and my satnav when set to miles gives me turn directions in.....yards(wtf is a yard). I have never heard anyone use yards for literally anything ever in the UK. With furniture/room sizes all dimensions are given in milimetres and centimetres but you'd commonly say you cracked the window open by an inch. Cars use miles per hour for the speedos, but trains use kilometres per hour.

I think I could keep going on and on and on about this.
Indians use 7GB+ cellular data per month on average – 29x increase in 4 years
How so? Honest question as I'm curious where the hidden costs might be.
The email they send when you're terminated claims they refund the advertisers
If people of India wants a authoritarian government they have one.

Like Trump uses China to gather support from population and disregard the economic reality, current Indian govt uses Pakistan. These are just political moves. It results in loss of average citizens freedom and affect economics, but help the incumbents as history shows.
Not sure about numbers, but there's the Klingon Language Institute[1], which recently had a conference[2]. I mainly remember it being said that there were more conversational Klingon speakers than Esparanto around a decade ago.

[1] https://www.kli.org/
[2] https://www.kli.org/activities/qepmey/qepa-chamah-javdich/
Yep, 100%. Saying it's not use to the "company" says everything; you never really cared.
It's on GitHub in case you'd like to answer that question by source inspection. I'm not familiar with Android so I can't do so for you, sorry:

https://mtransitapps.github.io/
Regardless of whether they feel the need to or not, it makes for a bad user-experience. Not everyone is using broadband. Running the image through a basic compression tool reduces the size by nearly 350kb.
Source with technical details: https://decoded.avast.io/janvojtesek/putting-an-end-to-retad...

Saved you a click
well I guess it's a bit less mystical with trust and honor.

Probably you are not trusted with huge transactions at first and there are sanctions against you and your familie und the loss of this job when you break the "contract".
The one mistake I made as a developer I wished I learned sooner
ESP32 SDK is written in C, but can be compiled with C++. All the libraries for the WiFi, BT, FreeRTOS,... are written in C. Are you one of those people who think everything before their time was bad and only what they do is worth something. I don't know why would you have such demeaning attitude towards people who laid the foundations on which we can build on. Is somebody forcing you to use C?
I've met plenty of people who've married a woman (or man) that they don't truely love. It's a lot more common than you might think.

There's a whole variety of reasons why that might happen. Societal expectations, economic reasons, insecurity, etc.
Which actually doesn't work when buying a car, because some premium car brands are notoriously unreliable, prone to basic manufacturing defects, expensive to run, and inefficient.

Their only selling point is a certain mid-market bling. No one making a rational decision would ever buy one.

But this is basic US MBA strategy. Cut corners on tangibles, replace them with hype and marketing bullshit targeted at a specific demographic, then leverage The Brand™ to charge the highest possible prices.

Use both formal traditional advertising and informal online astroturfing to maintain the illusion of value.

It's called marketing, but in reality it's industrial-scale behaviour modification.
You can replace the battery on older macbooks fairly easily. Unfortunately now they glue them down so hard it's easier to just throw out the laptop.
Hi, definitely interested in this product!

Keen to use the CLI version.

do you have a sign up form?
Don't generalize all of Europe (or the European Economic Area) unless you are confident that you are correct.

The UK and Denmark don't have identity cards. At least in those countries, there is occasional fraud. The banks will fix it (at least in the case you describe), but it can happen.
High-frequency emissions love long thin gaps. Just grounding the parts against each other is not enough, you have to close the longer gaps, eg with copper tape with conductive glue (sold in electronics shops) and the surface below must be blank too. If you do not do this the gaps might even function as an antenna and amplify the signal.

Also, cables coming outside of your box must be shielded too.
you can change your battery, of course. Also, it is sometimes possible to buy refurbished 2015 models directly from Apple, which is what I intend to do if September models aren't a serious improvement over current offerings.

Because, even with all current Apple semi-hate, nothing beats usability of OS X. And 2015 MBPs were (are) great.
I wish I could say that was my experience. I had a daily scrum meeting for about a year that had at least 15 people, and everyone would take their turn to talk about each post-it note on the board. After standing for about half an hour, it gets really old. Nobody cared what anyone else was saying other than the one manager. When we tried to break it up, the manager said it was more efficient if we were all there at the same time. It might have even been true - for him.
Not this again. (pardon my sarcasm, no intent to offend.)

There was a point in time when Microsoft was deeply embedding its really shitty and uber insecure Internet Explorer into Windows and causing all sorts of very severe problems problems. If that had continued, the world would have switched to free software. It was inevitable.

But the government stepped in and forced Microsoft to make a just marginally better product, and thus free software never really had its day.

If you want to have an open app store, just wait until Google and Apple become unbearable and people naturally start switching to a more open/free alternative. If you get the government to force Google and Apple to make better software, they will still have a duopoly in 10 or 20 years.

Software companies making shitty stuff, left alone, will die naturally. Capitalism is creative destruction, and all that.
RIP Test Driven Development
That's incredibly sad. I suppose she knew it was a possibility but that likely takes nothing away from how tragic it must be for her friends and family. I believe the title should contain 'Jessi', not 'Jesse'.

I noticed in a past news post on her website that she mentions almost dying in a previous record attempt, and facing the reality of her mortality before setting a new record immediately after her friend and mentor died from cancer. So evidently she was very aware that this was a possible end game for her. I admire that she had such an intense passion.

https://www.jessicombs.com/single-post/2018/10/04/New-Top-Sp...
I'm surprised nobody else has said this as well. If you want to get paid for your time or your projects then stop giving them away for free? Nobody is under any obligation to work on open source so it's peculiar that someone who chooses to do so would then complain afterwards...just stop working on it...
Sure, but using it incorrectly - or even unusually - is going to be grounds to revoke that trust, obviously.

You must be aware that some non-zero number of developers have moved away from your code precisely because they no longer trust you, right? (Not saying that's right, just that it's a thing at least a few devs will have done.)
I'm using a datastructure like that in my sideproject (a new "software" editor aka a list editor) - you got a data point that exists in multiple dimensions - it has representations in backend, frontend, graphql schema, UI, db, mobile client) and different relationships in each of those dimensions. And it can have subdimensions and they can have their subdimensions etc. So when you update the core representation, all get the update in the dimension they care about.

It's a pretty great datastructure for writing code, you get automatic refactor everywhere.

If you're interested to take a look ping me, would love fresh eyes
Ironically you are giving Google to much credit. There is no real way to improve enforcement. At this insane scale, and with the extreme level of sophistication from scammers, and the privacy expectation from users it‘s almost impossible to do more than they are. Someone else said it further up. They can‘t just let employees snoop around in personably identifying data. Nor would you want that, right?

The fact is, as bad as Google is sometimes about user privacy and „borg behavior“. Their adversaries (malvertising, spammers, clickfarms, bot-armies, state actors) are so committed to manipulating humans for money and/or influence, that they must be hindered wherever possible. It‘s the war for attention. And it‘s only going to get more intense.
> but they are thriving, simply because the store feels like a proper high quality shoe store.

Shopping isn't just about the products themselves. It's also about the experience of shopping, wouldn't you say? If I had to choose between cheap + bad shopping experience and cheap + nice shopping experience, the latter would be a no-brainer!
The ability to modify literally anything you can interact with is amazing on linux.

However.... it's also very time consuming, so I basically never do that.

Linux out of the box without tweaking it will have a lot of behavior you may or may not agree with. I found it to be very difficult to adjust away from the cohesive interfaces found on the mac—you can use readline keybindings on all forms, which only very rarely conflict with application keybindings—and you have the same copy/paste keybindings everywhere you can copy/paste. The system keybindings have been consistent for about as long as I've been alive, I think. The built-in terminal is more than good enough for all my needs, and has excellent keybindings too! I can copy/paste/save/whatever with the same keybindings I use in all my other apps.

In other words, I find the interface to stay out of my way and I can work extremely productively with many windows and processes in flight. It may not be perfect, but dammit, it's about the best level of productivity I can manage, by a large margin.

In GNU/Linux, I'm constantly fighting the interface, so there's an implicit understanding of all sorts of behavior I find very difficult to adjust to. What are those lines under characters in the menu item? Why is my mouse frozen so I can't kill the application that's likely swapping memory? Why does every desktop environment have their own system settings and none of them have a decent gui for configuring trackpad behavior? Why are there two, maybe three different GUI frameworks, and several service layers, so you basically need to install the cores of both major desktop environments to use all the applications? I constantly ran into issues where, for instance, I could configure an app to work with the gnome keyring, but not the kde keyring. It's anarchy in the best and worst way. And don't even get me started on printers, graphics, and wifi drivers. All solvable—eventually. Unfortunately, I only had time for the worst experiences on the clock, and the last thing I wanted to do off the clock was fight the system further. So after two years on linux, after attempting to fight the transition to the touch strip, I switched back.

I did really, really love the paid (pay optional?) app system that was popping up, I found the apps high quality and I contributed to several I "bought", which was an experience that absolutely floored me, and there was some excellent curation involved there on behalf of the folks running the service. Still, the community is still very small.
I'm running https://mentionme.app (I guess we're somewhat competing) and when talking with users I learned that there is a common misconception with Google Alerts. I don't think it works how people think it works. It will miss mentions on social news sites, it seems it's more of a trend measuring tool than an alerting tool. Just monitor and post a random string to reddit.com/r/test to see yourself.
You can do that in Python as well though.

from typing import Union

class Dog:
dogtag: str
name: str

class Cat:
name: str
allowedOutside: bool

Animal = Union[Cat, Dog]

def do(a: Animal):
print(a.name) # Always allowed
print(a.dogtag) # MYPY error
if isinstance(a, Dog):
print(a.dogtag) # MYPY allows
You mean it's not a good idea to remove said government and bring (a naive attempt at) democracy? Yeah.
old bread dried and lasted much longer without any preservative. The difference is in the shift in production from manual to industrial. Less flour and more water and air means keeping the weight with less raw sources, more earnings for the producer, and more mold.
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In the UK, larger companies usually allowed a choice of the date the payment went out. (After all, they'd rather not deal with failed payments.)

I keep enough money in my accounts (partly because of this) that I don't really care about it, but I'd be surprised if they don't use the preferred date.
On Android, you do have the freedom to install whatever app you want without having to root. You can also install alternative app stores.
Hawking radiation shrinks the black holes the faster the smaller they are.

For microscopic black holes they evaporate in fractions of second, but a black hole the mass of our sun would evaporate in 10^67 years which is significantly more than the age of universe.

So I think the chance to detect a big black hole that evaporated significant percent of its mass is zero.
So I've been reading HN for almost 10 years now and nothing frustrated me this much to post a comment. 2017 MB Pro keyboard is a damn nightmare.

By introducing Apple keyboard service program for MBPro2017 they acknowledged the keyboard is broken by design.
I happened to spill a little bit of coffee on it, but MB did no care, it was working fine, up until the point I started losing keys because of the weak micro hinges they have on the keys and flawed design.

Apple said they cannot fix it because of the coffee drops they found, even though it's flawed by design.
I paid 3000USD for a laptop with 2 USBC ports and a freakin useless keyboard.
That's the reason I didn't buy an iPhone now, and won't be buying any new Apple hardware no more - EVER.
One more out of the apple train.
Just longer
Not to put too fine a point on it, "Free software" was invented to level the playing field. Copyleft was an attempt on building an ecosystem with a level playing field. Nobody has more or less abilities with respect to the code. The receiver of the code has the same abilities as the copyright holder (with the exception of being able to change the license).

When you choose a more permissive license, it may still be free software, but it may not promote a level playing field. This suits a lot of companies, but it's not that good for programmers (unless you are in the employ of said companies). As an independent programmer, copyleft (or share-alike) is your friend. I find it strange that this is a controversial point.
Great link, thank you.
It's true that Google, Apple, and Facebook are now getting the treatment that Microsoft got a long time ago.

But I'm not sure I agree that everyone would go free software if it didn't happen. If anything, I think another company would just come along and build something slightly less crappy but no more open. These days you don't even own the software anymore, it's just a subscription or SaaS.

> Software companies making shitty stuff, left alone, will die naturally.

You could say the same of many industries, and I don't think it's any more correct for software than it is for cars, phone providers, banks, or any number of hated industries. People make shitty stuff all the time, and it sells.
I‘m not so sure about this. Is there any indication or prior example from business history for that claim?

The Apple App Store seems good enough for most normal people. They will even defend having no alternative means of installing software on their iPhones with „Security“.
The big transit apps these days have ‘partnerships’ with transit providers and municipalities.
Amazon warehouse workers also have the option not to work there. Amazon is not forcing them to be there and Amazon does not owe someone a job any more than any other business owes jobs to random people.
This seems like a pretty big oversight on Gmail's part.
Giving rings, frequently of precious metals, as a symbol of marriage is, once again, a cultural value and one that dates back thousands of years. De Beers simply increased the popularity of one rock. They didn't even invent the tradition of diamonds which again predates their founding by hundreds of years.

As for the Russia thing, do you think if our tech companies were so directed they could not find evidence of, for instance, Saudi Arabia, Israel, or any other countless other nations also funding various organizations, purchasing ads, etc in ways that they perceive likely to benefit their interests? In my opinion the only reason the Russia thing was given the light of day is because Hillary lost and threw an extremely well connected temper tantrum in an effort to undermine the presidency. And Russia makes a pretty good bogeyman due to the mixture of their 'outsider' status and competence of their agencies and individuals. In any case it's obviously not some meaningful cultural shift. At best they played a negligible role in appealing to preexisting divides within society.

Soft power I think is a much better argument. The Cold War era in particular would be much more meaningful than e.g. Voice of America et al as funded by the USAGM. But there too I'd question the notion of marketing. This [1] is a list of socialist states, past and present. These nations invariably end up resorting to force of arms, suppression of expression, and repressive secret intelligence organizations in order to sustain their power. Unsurprisingly, they don't last long. The USSR, lasting almost 70 years, had quite a long life relative to average. When people have no freedom and your economy collapses (at least relative to free market societies), a nation is already on its way out.

People longing for free markets, free expression, and so on are not doing so because of marketing from the freer nations. The desire for freedom is inherent. It was their governments holding them back. And while we certainly played a significant role in flaunting our successes, the USSR would have inevitably gone the way of all socialist nations. As an aside, no conversation on this topic is complete without this [2]. It's a great list of some Soviet Era jokes told within the USSR. You couldn't criticism the government in public, but private politicization and criticism was ubiquitous.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states

[2] - https://www.johndclare.net/Russ12_Jokes.htm
In countries that aren't the USA, that number is functionally close to zero.
Right, so I don't see any reason why I would ever want to use this tool when far superior alternatives (like postman) exist.
Costco.
I've been a huge fan of Apple hardware but I can't take it any longer. I've switched to Windows for a few months and it has really improved. WSL2 is pretty awesome!
What do you mean? I think they are like any other technology, we keep making improvements to them.
Surprisingly he never mentioned what the actual violation was, nor of him asking what it was.
Looking at this app, it's an absolute hidden gem of how amazing Android is as well.

The main app can have third party extensions provided just by installing more APKs. This is something I tried to explore quite a few years ago when I last had an Android phone, but seeing such a polished app which achieves it is nice.
Yes, as an example here's a major British energy company:

> Our bank details are:
> Bank account number - 99183129
> Sort code - 57-40-99

https://sse.co.uk/help/bills-and-paying/how-to-pay-your-ener...

This company is easily large enough that their bank details are already listed in online banking systems. You can choose "Pay a bill", then select "Southern Energy" rather than type in those account details.
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You do have to fight through some dark patterns that discourage side-loading. But at least you can do it on Android.

Also, it is getting harder to avoid using Google Play Services in your apps since they are putting more Android features behind that iron curtain as well.