skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see you're greyed, but I think you're getting at a deeper point.

There are only so many homes, and it's often illegal to build new ones. Now your colleagues and friends are your competitors for the same homes.

There are only so many places in good schools, whether it be good public districts or private (fee-paying) schools. You now have to compete with your friends for places there.

The introduction of fake scarcities was needed when we discovered how to produce more wealth than we could possibly actually need (about 280k per person in the US, per recent NYtimes article). This way you still work to enrich capital owners instead of enjoying the fruits of your labour.
Through the whole history we don't know and will never know what's really happened/happening. Have you got an idea of how badly native population of America have been dealt with back then? DO you know what's happening in Kashmiri, Yemen, Africa, etc?
That was clumsily worded. I mean someone who a judge has decided there is probable cause that they committed a crime.
Then what do you propose be done? If you accuse someone of having an extremely racist AI you need a way to prove they set out to make it that way. You don’t just get to say “It’s racist” and shut it down.
Personally, I yearn for a command line image editor. ImageMagick is nice, but it can't do everything. Once you've gone cli, it's hard to go back to gui applications, since they're so inefficient.
Same here. Those idiots have never come up with anything new or revolutionary, only stupid run of the mill stuff like nuclear submarines and carriers, planet spanning underwater listening systems, spy subs that can sit on the ocean floor, drones that can land on carriers, electromagnetic railguns that fire projectiles at mach 6+, and other worthless crap.
everybody is freaking out about Hong Kong, and not without reason, but there are much larger movements going on elsewhere (Ecuador, Kurdistan, Yemen, ...)

Edit: if you think all these places are too far from the "western world", well, think about Catalonia. We have a lot of arrested political prisoners without trial.
So... Twitter and Facebook. Would there even be a way to block Facebook but not Instagram and Whatsapp?
Likely it's simply because that's one of the few occasions in modern life when we're not being bombarded with external stimuli. A few minutes of silence and your brain goes: "Right, now's a good time to present this thing I've been working on." Same thing with showers.
> Clean unpolluted ground water is probably the most precious resource there is.

Apparently not given that it costs peanuts.
That’s exactly what you think going in...that’s the point I’m making.

No one is hand rolling drag and drop these days.

There’s a lot of complexity implementing drag and drop both visually and binding stuff to events. It’s messy and finicky. Unless your usecase is very simple.
SAP sucks companies dry.
The idea that "new immigrants coming into the US rarely have the luxury of arriving in a group of people similar to them" is wrong both currently and historically.

This is making excuses for a cultural choice.
This makes sense. Given my experience in tech startup land, im going to take a stab at how this happens from inside the company.

Lets say you are starting sn enterprise saas company, woohoo! You have your initial product and customers love it, yes! Things are starting to hum along nicely.

Now your sales people are identiying new markets and saying “hey if we add feature x and y, we can make $x million more per year from x y and z clients”.

At this critical juncture, managwment most likely approves and has UX involved, but adding the features will be the priority regardless. Theres no overrulin g UX voice that can say “no, dont build that feature because theres no way to maintain the delightful user experience” because MONEY IS ON THE TABLE! Execs got revenue goals to hit, sales people have revenue goals to hit, and this seems like a match made in heaven. Additionally, its important to point out that pioneering companies dont know all the end state user flows at the beginning so they are hacking along, reacting as they learn more about end customers.

Now fast forward a decade. The software is bloated but has grown a lot. Users hate it. New startups look at your product, your end customers, and say “hey! We can do this more simply and steal their customers”. And they can, because they have the advantage of starting from the ground up, KNOWING THE CUSTOMERS and their workflows. So of course they can build a more efficient product because they have the clear end vision - your product, but with the bloat cut out.

Your team has already done the hard work of identifying the best and largest customer use cases.

So what’s the solution? Acquire these upstarts or make your company a platform. I dont what blackboard has done here but salesforce is still by far the largest game in town despite universal hate. Why? In large part due to the vast network of 3rd party developers who can configure salesforce to a customer’s complicated workflows. They’ve actually taken this problem (it’s complicated to use) and turned it into a retention feature. No wonder they have a giant skyscraper in san francisco.
> Interesting tidbit: after the second crash, the Ethiopian authorities decided to send the black box to Europe for analysis, apparently not trusting US investigators with the data.

William Langeweische [0] describes lack of airmanship as contributing to the 737 Max crashes and cites another reason for distrust:

"In the case of the Ethiopian investigation, we have an airline and an investigative body that historically have not been able to isolate themselves from the country’s dysfunctional political life."

"After the cockpit voice recorder was dug out of the wreckage, it was shielded from the N.T.S.B. and whisked to Paris. There, for reasons unknown, French accident investigators agreed to download its contents in private onto a drive for an immediate return to Addis Ababa, where the information remains mostly locked away today and has been withheld in full form from any outside observers."

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/magazine/boeing-737-max-c...
The poster was doing a military contract, not working for his own company. His companies money - and thus his bonus - is in putting in hours to do what is requested. Saving money means they get paid less hours now the project is smaller and so the bonus is less because they are paid less.

In private industry it can (but often does not) mean that you can get more profit and thus a larger bonus by saving your company money long term. However in the world of contractors saving the client money this is not rewarded.
You are making an unwarranted conclusion from this comment. Is it merely that the parents are there or not there? Could the parents be there in a more helpful capacity? Clearly just “the parents” is not a reason for anything.
> Any PhD student should be well aware of the career difficulty that follows

There's an important disconnect about the job market.
Most PhD students know general facts about the job market: one in ten PhD holders becomes a professor. Very few people have a good idea about that applies, specifically, to their own career prospects.

As for postdocs, treating it as "a holding pattern" is, IMHO, the root of the problem. There's been a massive push, especially from the NIH, to speed up the "pathway to independence", but that's only really a goal because postdocs' job conditions aren't great (low salary, massive job insecurity). Research is hard and it's absolutely bizarre that we want to transition people away from doing it as soon as they are trained, and towards supervising it, a role for which they get virtually no training or mentoring. If I were King of Science, I'd move towards a model with a more gradual career path and less trainee mania.
I would say that its because people understand how to use it.

Excel is frequently used as a database, not because it makes a good database but because people don't understand how to use Access (or any other relational database) but Excel is easy enough that they can get something usable.
It's not like you can't work fewer hours and have all the things greater productivity offered. But it's also created even more things you can get by continuing to work more, and most people do not feel satisfied living without them
Honestly, I think it's the "schedule" of constantly checking your phone every few minutes. _Kids these days_ aren't really interested in learning to drive... because they're on social media crack apps. I'm not saying that the technology (both economic drive and effect) are all that different from the TV culture of the 70s and 80s or even the rise of the internet in 90s and 2ks. However, the effectiveness of the skinner box improves with targeting ease and continuous availability. Hopefully, the youngsters will develop some herd immunity to this disease as well, I don't give the rest of us so much hope.
Does this have any connection to the "Spygate"[0] story in the US?

[0] http://archive.is/PxYXO

* The facts of this story are still widely disputed beyond what the Wikipedia article shows.
See also the unfolding Internet of Shit saga. While everybody is afraid of artificial intelligence, I am currently more afraid of Artificial Stupidity...
This Aleppo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH6xRh6K7-4

(And yes the video is from RT but if you can find a more reputable source debunking it I'd like to see it.)
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There's been debates about how to handle over-tourism, one thing that can be done is to increase the price of tickets, but that seems to advantage the privileged. In Italy there are many objects where there are only limited tickets, e.g. Leonardo's Last Supper.

Maybe have a 2-tier model. The "Queue, take a selfie and go" model during the day, and the "5 minutes uninterrupted" model after regular operating hours, where you can reserve or win by lottery.

Interestingly the security guards of that area of the museum get to have the best access.
This would be an argument in favour of the oft-maligned rules about opening hours in the UK, France, etc. (it can be a challenge to buy DIY goods in France on a Sunday, for instance).

If you have the same time off as people without a 9-5 M-F job it might be easier to befriend a few of them and aid interclass social cohesion.
On Android, Billion Dollar MistakeS, and the Virtue of Admitting Them
It's not clear to me from your post or essay whether you are saying the current state of AI is absurdly overhyped and is not even remotely close to producing actual intelligence (I agree strongly); or if you are claiming it's not possible with computers even in principle because "numbers", in which case I don't understand the justification at all, as it implies a mystical quality to human intelligence you rightly dismiss in the current hype.
That's one dishonest headline. Air pollution areas are commonly associated with big cities, where the crime rate tends to be higher. The website clearly turned this into something else for no reason at all other than clicks.
Guess you haven't heard what hot dogs are made from

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you were lucky to hit that point in middle school. i am in high school currently and am struggling due to not ever learning proper study skills. everything before was too easy for me which ended up hurting me in the long run.
Filesystems that abstract away things like directories aren’t new, they just haven’t been commercially successful (I believe Vista was going to include WinFS, which was a database-like filesystem, but it was scrapped). It’s not that systems research has suddenly stopped, it’s that it’s really really hard to not only introduce radical ideas to the public, it’s also hard to make sure you don’t break existing billion-dollar systems at the same time. And as anyone who’s had the misfortune of using a network share over a flaky connection can tell you, abstracting files away over networks is tricky business, and when your connection fails (which it will), that abstraction breaks.
Your complaint is about a Web Extension Experiment that they're currently testing and not a feature they have shipped in the browser. It seems like this isn't shady at all, but rather they're testing something and soliciting feedback. You provided some and they responded that they plan to write a blog post about it.

So what's shady here? That the process is working?
give them a call
> do away with "applications". opting instead for a smaller unit of executable

This sounds a lot like Android's "activities" concept which doesn't get enough love, in my opinion.
"I might finally settle down when and if I find a job I can enjoy somewhat" - I share this sentiment but often wonder if it will be the same then as it would be now. I know that time passes more quickly when you are older. That and memories and events become less significant. Perhaps the wise move would be to make as many good memories as possible now while I am younger.
Wait - America is almost entirely peopled with folks from other countries. What magical transformation occurred when they moved to a different continent, that made Americans suddenly different? Our solutions are not somehow incompatible with European people, since many of us are, originally, from there.

And forget the anecdotal data. The bulk of Americans interact with folks from all around the world, daily, with little issue. America's a big place, and its easy to cherry-pick news reports to get any impression you like.

Here's some data: racism by demonstrated tolerance. America is at the bottom of the list:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15...
The text of the article mentions that the new study uses a different (improved) methodology from the 2009 study and discourages direct comparisons between the two sets of results.
If I can retire one my savings after the job is done I don't care about future prospects. I'd rather work on [insert any hobby with no commercial value] at home than go to work.
> Then try to make them 'better'.

this. I like this too. but then, in practice, I very rarely get a green flag to actully make it better. Not until is do or die. And by that point necessity forces a rush job, so it's not actually made better, just patched up to live another 'day'
I'm not a biologist or any sort of doctor so this is just sort of a hot take stab in the dark. But here's my go.

It's all about oxygen.

If it's harder to breathe, less oxygen is getting to your brain, and that's never good. While it may not be life-threatening or anything, it might make you more irritable. Just constantly slightly fatigued and cranky. It takes less to set you off.
ImageMagick is great, I use it all the time. Photoshop is superb for interactive image editing, but if you need to crop a thousand images, change brightness, add some text on top, and merge them one next to the other, for example, and you need to do this every day, a sciptable tool is essential, and I really appreciate having all the power of Unix instead of a limited environment that requires a huge platform.
While nowhere near the majority of "shit software", there is definitely a subgenre of "shit software" that sources from taking a paradigm from a language you are not currently programming in, and jamming it into the one you are currently working in. If you force currying into Go, you're going to end up with that. This does not clean up your code or make it more concise... in Go.

By contrast, if you're programming in Haskell and you're not taking advantage of the currying, you're missing something. But in that language, you don't manually define a ton of closures, and break the normal convention for calling functions in the language, and break the reflection support, and make the godoc look terrible and confusing, etc. etc., you're using the language as designed. Closure handling is built in and automatic, you're not shoveling out a ton of syntax because it's the default behavior anyhow, it's the only convention in the language, the documentation is designed to handle it, etc.
I had the same reaction. I was wondering, "Since when are Word, Excel, and Photoshop enterprise software?" I've been using these as consumer desktop software for decades.

That said, I do agree with GP that enterprise software is complex because it's designed to be adaptable to existing processes, whereas simpler software seeks to adapt the user to its prescribed process. And even without being an enterprise, I often find myself drawn to software that adapts to my needs and preferences rather than the other way around.

Just because the advent of mobile-focused product sensibility has seen a (regrettable, in my opinion) general drift toward significantly reduced feature sets in software does not mean that existing software with broad feature sets is now "enterprise."

Anecdotally, 20 years ago, scores of programs allowed the user to easily and broadly customize the colors of their user interface. That sort of flexibility was among the first features on the mobile simplification chopping block. As a result, most software created within the past few years has a single "true and good" color scheme dictated by the designer. Today we see that evolving slightly with the popularity of "dark" schemes, giving the user a choice between two, but only two, designer-crafted themes.
I meant using the supplied jsfiddle in the ticket...
Yes, Excel really is a good product. But there are a few things people do consistently complain about with it in my experience:

- lack of forwards compatibility. When someone sends you an Excel 2016 file and you’re stuck on Excel 2013 because your corporate hasn’t upgraded yet, it’s a total PITA.

- weird bugs. Sometimes spreadsheets can get corrupted in weird ways so that they crash Excel and there’s nothing you can do about it and no way to fix it. Sometimes these bugs only appear on certain versions of Excel

- lack of decent built in formula tracing (ie something which brings up a dialogue and you can click through each reference in a formula browsing back and forth and going up and down the dependency tree). There are a few third party add one that do this but it really should be built in.

- lack of a decent way to see what’s changed between two versions of a spreadsheet

I’d also say there’s an inordinate amount of abusing Excel to do database tasks out there. People have spreadsheets which take minutes to recalculate which could be done in less than a second even using Access, let alone a ‘proper’ DB.
>No, AI is a series of numbers.

Roughly as much as human reasoning is a series of numbers, yes.
You can only say this if you have a very limited imagination of what "image editor" is.

Please explain to me how you imagine creating a mask around a human so that you can "extract" him from the background in the command line.
Yes, some job application portals are extremely clunky, however, the most common job application portal I've seen as a job seeker is iCIMS which I actually don't actually have any major complaints about. That's also what my current and former employeer uses. The name is certainly clunky though!
Using online choice experiments to measure changes in well-being [pdf]
But then the question becomes what generation +1 wants?

This is probably going to be nearly as big a problem as the engineering one.
Thing is, enterprises have multiple incompatible workflows but still need to make it work. I.e. due to mergers and acquisitions different parts of the company have 3 different, incompatible IT workflows for part procurement.

Of course that's bad and a single system is highly desired - so the company is working on it, and within a year these three workflows are going to be combined in a single system. Naturally, that system isn't simple as it needs to combine the peculiarities of these three workflows.

Of course that's bad, and a single simpler workflow is highly desired - so the company is working on it, and within 2-3 years the processes are going to be adjusted and unified so that there's a reasonable single process.

However, there's another acquisition that's going to be finalized soon, and during these 2-3 years at least one more is going to happen, so by the time these workflows are unified and simplified, they will be joined by new parts of the company using different workflows, and the enterprise will be back to square one with 3 separate systems with incompatible workflows for doing the same thing.
I think a lot of the shady shit y'all are all complaining about are annoying, but not anything CLOSE to the kind of red flags that should call for the end of a product.

Bad decisions does not imply evil decisions, nor does it imply death. Pocket? A convenience people may want that might have provided money, hat didn't invade privacy. DNS over HTTPS? The horror! They are trying to enhance privacy on the Internet but haven't done it perfectly!
>Should now just be a research only facility and fully give the mechanics of space exploration to private facilities such as Space X, rockets and Bigelow for the habitats for example.

That's exactly what NASA is and always has been. NASA does the research and development that is worthwhile but not sufficiently obvious/commercially viable for private industry to do themselves. Space was at one time categorically that. Now, LEO is largely a solved problem as far as launches go, which is precisely why SLS is focused on missions beyond Earth orbit. With the progress SpaceX is making, it's likely that SLS will be the last NASA rocket program.

> Just leave them alone and let them to their glorious work.

Believe it or not, this does largely happen on the micro scale.
>> We want to do the movie for the 35- to 40-year-olds who remember watching it.

C'mon. Not this again, please. I'm tired of revisiting the 80's and 90's. Enough superhero movies. I want new things, I want a Rendezvous with Rama movie, or The Mote in God's Eye, or the Terramar saga.

Please stop it. In 20 years, there will be no possibility of revisiting the 2000/2010, since it will be the same as revisiting the 80/90.
“We find that WhatsApp, Facebook, and digital maps on phones are highly valued by our subjects with median compensations for losing 1 mo of access of €536, €97, and €59, respectively. Other applications such as Insta- gram (€6.79), Snapchat (€2.17), and LinkedIn (€1.52) are valued an order of magnitude lower and Skype (€0.18) and Twitter (€0.00) have very low median valuations. (Average valu- ations or valuations for any given consumer will typically differ from median valuations.) In follow-up interviews, respondents reported that the strikingly high values for WhatsApp reflected its tight integration into their daily lives for coordination with family, friends, colleagues, schoolmates, and others and the high compensation needed for being digitally separated from this network.”
Indeed. Oxford, Nova Scotia, happens to be the (self-proclaimed?) Wild Blueberry Capital of Canada.

https://town.oxford.ns.ca/