skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gig economy apps to help start a side hustle
This is what I fear will happen some day to Stack Overflow (and other members of the Stack Exchange network), with HN, and with Reddit.

There's too much great content in private hands.
The implication here being that any perterbation or social disagreement should not be allowed on the site. How is that a good thing?
It was supposedly Canadian money so I think that's less suspicious, than if they accidentally wandered into America with US dollars.
Yes, it does actually. Article 22 of the GDPR covers this.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/
Analyzing how AWS builds their own serverless apps
I'm much happier not interacting with people like tellers, clerks, cashiers, and the like, because I have a speech impediment and I'd much rather not have to devote the mental and physical effort to talking. I also live in an area where travel can become treacherous and I don't own a car. Do those things apply to everyone? No. But they apply to me. I actively dislike people who think "the study says it's a good thing so I'm going to force it on you... you're welcome" is a valid mindset.

Similarly, I've noticed that being open to being disturbed means being open to having random tasks dumped on you outside the ticketing system, which takes time away from what they're actually tracking your time on. Email and Slack can do the same thing, but seeing someone right there sitting all alone and lonely without my task to keep them occupied seems to be a powerful incentive for some people to air-drop random work.
i would love to see one of those in the shape of the Kensington Expert Mouse, the square mouse with the ball in the middle, with the scroll wheel as a ring around the ball.

it's the best mouse I've ever used...
That wasn't a great leap from Windows 3.0, either (https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/interface/dialogs/colo...)
No one said it would be easy.

Yes, it will require urban planning. Personally, I’d prefer trains/subways to buses.

The future of mass transit should arrive within a decade or so as China finishes developing low-speed maglevs that travel around 100 mph. Oakland out 50 miles should become commutable.

For now, what’s the subway situation from Oakland to downtown San Francisco? Getting people to commute in that direction would be a good start. As well as getting companies to build in Oakland.
Sorry for the late reply. It actually needed little development, 1 person would be just fine. But it was also scaling, and bugs crop up. Unfortunately bugs crop up some days at 9pm on Friday, or 2am on Sunday. Since it's business critical this need attention immediately, stop/restart isn't always good enough. So this means you need someone who can supply emergency patches on call all the time. (trust me turn if off, and turn it on again doesn't always work, yay persistence, yay retries)

This can't be 1 person anymore, what if they person takes a vacation. So that's 2 people. Perhaps the 2nd person can be much less capable that the first, they just need to hold the system together for how ever long it takes the lead dev to come back from his 2 week hiking trip in the amazon....yeah not good enough. So then you end up saying we actually need proper on call, so now you're hiring a team.

What if it was another language? Let's assume it's a core language of the organization. Then you don't need a team, but capable Sr/Staff Engineers who can jump in during emergencies. Might not be the perfect fix, but then you have a series of people who can duck tape it together until the person responsible is available.

Using Erlang tied our hands, and made a decision to throw a project business requirement.
Youtube said that ten years ago, and they still haven't made a dime.

Cheaper bandwidth and storage for the host doesn't help because it's getting cheaper for users too, meaning that they are going to create higher-quality content. Ten years ago, everything being uploaded to youtube was 480i resolution. Now most things being uploaded are 1080p60fps, with some channels starting to upload 4k.
Here's an important thing from the article:

>it's most likely to occur in mildly depressed people—those suffering from major depression, by contrast, are more likely to suffer from larger distortions in their thinking.

I wonder if we have overly-pathologized the regular melancholy that comes with every day life? If mildly depressed people actually see the world realistically, maybe nothing is actually wrong with them? Should we call them depressed or should we just call them human?

I think we need to recognize the constant striving for happiness, and the inevitable disappointment when we don't reach it, as the unhealthy behavior that it is. It's okay, normal, even necessary to feel sad and pissed off at the world sometimes. It doesn't automatically mean something is wrong with you.

Of course, it would be absolutely unacceptable for the makers of Prozac to lose half of their customers, so it is a major thoughtcrime in many circles to even suggest the possibility.

If people have "mild depression", maybe sometimes it's okay to tell them to toughen up, put their head down and keep grinding because that's what life consists of. If you are not mildly depressed then you are an idiot - it shouldn't be called mild depression, it should just be called "existing as a human being". You grind and suffer and struggle through life, because you were born into a broken world and have no other choice. Sometimes all the struggle gets you good things to be proud of and appreciate. And sometimes all the suffering doesn't amount to anything of worth at all. That's life, not a pathology. It's amazingly beautiful if you can learn to come at it from the right angle, but that doesn't mean it will ever hurt any less.
Popular blockchain influencer gets caught plagiarizing academic paper
Much better than the ill-advised military strike that so many foreign policy demons were lusting for.

It bothers me a lot that so many foreign policy experts can look at the unrelieved mess of things that they have made over the past generation, and think that this time, doing what has failed spectacularly so many times before is going to work out.

Time to invent some new wheels.
Nah, I used to, but then I realized that I DO have things in common with people. Just because I don't have everything in common doesn't mean I have to isolate myself from them. It just means that some parts of my life are more applicable to certain relationships then others. I'm not a social butterfly by any means and spend a lot of my time semi-alone, but I don't feel alone or isolated. Misunderstood? Sometimes. But I make a conscious effort to BE understood when I feel it's important.
The “30% cut” only applies to digital goods like apps, software or music. Physical goods like a book ordered from Amazon (or an Uber ride, for example) are exempt. Amazon-owned properties that sell digital goods are subject to the rule though. That’s for example why you can’t buy Audible audiobooks from within the app.
This "anonymous source" who is disclosing classified information should be punished. This is not good for anyone.
Because the huge majority of users don’t donate?
As noted, it's not illegal.

But, you could also move practice to the afternoon like most school sports. None of my high school's athletic programs were before class.
Does it support the same css selectors as chrome though? Or is it a bunch of new selectors, old microsoft style?
In the case, the name is utility and not an artifact. I would argue that having the same name is necessary to even having a workalike, at least for a system command and a symlink.

As long time Python user, my view of the PSF is that they could mature a little bit. Their ambivalent hostility towards PyPy and Jython, the lack of portable standard library, and now with how they are continuing to mismanage the 2to3 transition. None of this is how adults should behave.
tmate differences are covered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21264797

You’re right about the ID, we’ll add that in :-)
Fed Adds $75B in Liquidity to Markets via One-Day Repo Operation
Yes, the anti-SPAM efforts have made running your own Mailman (or other list service) instance an increasing pain. Many providers now silently drop list email, even if you have jumped through all the approrpiate hoops.
For reference, almost 10% of the Netherlands consists of polders (reclaimed land)
I really don't get the time picker design that basically works as two long comboboxes side by side. Especially the minute picker requires far too much scrolling/swiping for what it's worth.

I much prefer the Android dialog, with a clock face that allows me to select the right time with two clicks [1]. Am I alone in this, and is it hated by all and thus ignored in other OSes? Is it patented and thus unavailable for anyone but Google? I don't get it.

[1] https://en.proft.me/media/android/android_time_picker_dialog...
YC Emails sent? I did not get anything yet
I am wondering if anyone has received email from YC decision for W2020.
What’s wrong with the AGPL, that they cannot use it, as a software license?
Jacobian/notamazon: Turns out The Everything Store is kinda full of crap
Corporate Subservience to China Exposes the Hypocrisy of Woke Capitalism
This seems like a ridiculous oversimplification for finding good alternative forms of government.

A small community of people could come up with the greatest governmental system we could ever dream of, but if the leaders of the current system believe it to be a threat they could wipe out its adherents before it is ever properly understood by the wider population. Or spread misinformation about it to dissuade people from finding out more about it for themselves.
Could you please explain in some more detail how that would work, and especially how (logical) timestamp of insertion would help at all?
Given a finite data set, an infinite number of functions/curves can explain it. This is curve-fitting 101 stuff.

All explanatory models are either an over-fit or an under-fit to the data. With the fine print being "acceptable error rate". "The Earth is flat" may be wrong, but it could be acceptably wrong to me.

This is tackled by model-dependent realism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-dependent_realism ) and by this paper "To explain or to predict" ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.0891.pdf )
> -In the past people found it "morally upsetting" that no matter how smart you are or no matter how hard you work, that doesn't matter to the DNA you pass down to your kids.

That may not be true entirely true — in addition to passing on your DNA, you also pass on epigenetic "on" and "off" switches that determine gene expression. Most notably, this has been found to have three-generation effects following famine — an experience that "shouldn't" affect DNA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_i...
How to Read “Gilgamesh”
I hate to break it to you, but if the news is affecting your mental health you should realize that that is by design. The world may or may not be in a good state of affairs in an absolute sense, but it is better than it has ever been, and insofar as the news seems worse now than in the past, that has more to do with those in charge of the news media and their incentives and biases than actual changes in the state of the world getting worse.
I Asked Thousands of Biologists When Life Begins. The Answer Wasn’t Popular
The CIA tried this with MK ULTRA. It doesn't actually work and they abandoned it.
Having a donation link in your app that is completely voluntary and confers no benefit other than fuzzy warms (and yes, indirectly, if enough donations are acquired, continued development) should not carry fees.

I don't believe that the app stores would cease to function or even suffer appreciably decreased profit by doing so. In-app purchases result in new features or items or something being unlocked.

Donations do not. They are gifts.

I disagree with the concept of fees for the Google and Apple play stores because they are monopolies within the platform entirely, but if they must exist, attempting to charge fees for donations is just bad form.
I find it beyond fascinating that Chomsky is effectively barred from appearing on any news network. His perspective is that dangerous to the status quo and, amusingly, supports his points about media control.
The PSF actively discouraged folks from writing packages that were compatible with both. They wanted a hard schism and even tacit support for 2 was to reject the wishes of the church.
One never hears a word from Apple. But I can not imagine moral is very high in Cupertino considering Apples capitulation
”Making more land” requires destruction of relatively rare marine habitats. Sure, there’s a lot of ocean out there, but many species thrive where the land naturally meets the sea. Bays and estuaries are treasures, not just bits of water waiting to be paved.
Code can be a compact way of expressing non-random data. All positive integers:

i=0
while true:
i = i + 1
print i

Most data is non-random. Random data is hard to distinguish from noise.
> professional, formal education, experience and insight

As somebody with formal education and experience, I _want_ that to be true, because I want to be hard to find, hard to replace, and really expensive… but just me wanting something to be true unfortunately doesn’t always make it true.
I had the wonderful privilege of, by pure coincidence, having no cars pass through the road that I walk on my way to work, for about 4 or 5 minutes. I was stunned at the sheer peaceful silence of it. No "broooom" noise, no metallic screeching of brakes, no gasoline smell, no burnt clutch smell, no "dirty auto shop" smell in general. Just the trees rustling softly, faint chatter from the primary school kids some 100m away. I believe we are so used to it that we don't even realise what it is to be in relative silence in the middle of the city. I walk that street every day and I was just stunned to be in that place with no noise. My brain probably associated that walk with that constant background noise, and was freaked out when it wasn't there x)

Electric cars cannot come soon enough.
As far as I understand cleaning is all about solvents.

If you use the right solvent something that would be impossible to clean with the wrong material will become trivial with the right one.

There are also acid solutions that work in a different but similar way. When used appropriately they will dissolve and transform material X into material Y that can then be easily cleaned because it won’t bind to the “surface” anymore.

Applied sciences channel on YouTube has a couple videos about cleaning and solvents. It’s worth checking him out.
If there is an answer, it is that you get to define your own meaning.
Uh, what are you talking about? Phoning home with your data (mainly phonebook and location data) is exactly what a lot of apps are doing.

Sure, they wont do crypto mining, but that's because it would drain your battery quickly, and people would notice and uninstall.
> These companies main priority is not efficiency and productivity.

Still with you here...

> They have a political and social role: hire as many people as possible.

You lose me here.

Most companies are out to make as much money as possible now or in the near future. I spent the first three years of my career in QA at a total BS Jobs company (120k+ employees, lots of government contract and enterprise software work). So many people coasted, nothing ever really got done, etc. Even in a totally dysfunctional organization like that, hiring was either about backfilling attrition losses or hiring people that were expected to directly or indirectly contribute to revenue growth.

Never attribute to a vast socio-political conspiracy that which can be explained by the emergent incompetence of a large organization.
I have DDG as my default search engine, so I just type "!wu 01234" in my address bar. This basically skips the DDG navigation and UI entirely. I like this type of shortcut for Wikipedia and IMDB too.

Anyway this is just a workaround for when the weather infobox doesn't automatically show up in the DDG UI, which it normally does.
> "It's sad but I feel that AWS in 2019 has completely killed a business model."

AWS didn't "kill" anything since everything they did is allowed by the terms of FOSS licenses and was known to be possible for many years. It would be more accurate to say that there was never a valid business model in the first place. People originally wrote FOSS to "scratch an itch", not make money.
Well they did the same thing with venezuela if you weren't paying attention. They were taking out whole electric power grids. So it's not exactly a secret.
Officers separate kids from adults committing a crime. i.e. if someone was stealing a car and had a child beside them - the child would be separated after the arrest. In the same way when someone comes to the country illegally they are committing a crime and kids are separated to ensure their safety. It has nothing to do with "being Mexican".
Why can’t they use AGPL?
To me it sounded like the other 10%. While the 90% will be there and not all will necessarily interrupt on purpose (they can be guided to increase the 10%), you focus your most productive interactions with the 10%. From time to time you work with the other 90%, and that helps everybody up the game.

I prefer to work/live alone, but to deny the benefits of camaraderie and relationships with a high-performing team? Absurd.
My favourite scheduler is still "Son of Grid Engine", the open source continuation of the "Sun Grid Engine". I never had much trouble setting it up, but it is not really maintained at this point. PBS as suggested by others never worked well for me. But Slurm didn't give me much trouble, certainly not 2 days worth.
Please add Milan, Italy. Thanks.
If that's per adult they're below the limit.
I totally agree. This is yet another Capitalists Play to sell a shit load of dangerous crap under the guise of healthcare. Yet another opioid-like crisis in its infancy. Just wait until this is available like pot and watch thousands of people who can't handle bare reality melt down and become burdens. (FWIW, I am experienced.)
Not even as an .apk ?
For the people commenting about leakers and things being secret in the past, I’ll bet money the government leaked this themselves.
I believe that was the joke.
> Why do you find this story scary? It seems like a sensible way for a political party to get votes: profile your current supporters, find other people who fit that profile, convince those people to vote for you too.

I'm going to take the bold stance that: yes, fascists renting time on sophisticated ad networks to spread pro-fascist propaganda is in fact scary.

This is not a case of a simply political party pushing a policy agenda. This is a dangerous, militant and xenophobic group attempting to target individuals with materials designed to stoke fear and subtly misinform the public.

So yeah, it is scary. It's also scary that they had help from American interests. It speaks to how far right American politics are sliding.
Eh, I work in Norway and while I can work remotely on request, my inquiry about doing so regularly one day a week was met with “what if shit hits the fan and we need you here urgently” from my manager (my house is a ten minute walk from the office) and “if we allow one person to work remotely, everyone will want to” from HR.
Why does the button look "pushed in"?

That doesn't make sense to me as far as a button goes. Flatter fine but it looks pushed in to me.
Far easier to raise existing dikes 20m than to build new seawalls to protect all other coastline.
I remember reading a long-form article about the decline of Sears and Lampert's meddling and so forth that was really interesting, I believe this is it:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-sears-lost-the-american-sho...

Outline here because I think it's semi-paywalled. The first time I got to it, it was fine (maybe because I googled it): https://outline.com/84tyGU
Nudging non-technical users to a trustworthy default store without actually restricting alternative sources is a pretty good solution for protecting non-technical users without limiting users' freedom. But it still gives the store operator an extremely strong market position, making meaningful competition very unlikely. In fact, for non-technical users it's a monopoly because they aren't in the market for apps but for apps they can trust aren't malware.

So this is no excuse for Google banning apps to protect their profits at their users' expense.
Funny how this is cutting both ways. If you want it gone, expect to be disappointed... and if you want it preserved, expect to be disappointed.
The Cadillac "High Tech" V8 used in the early 80's was even worse for that...
Microsoft seriously needs to hire designers. Say what you will about Apple, but that’s something they understand. Windows has gotten a little better but everything look developer designed.
Well before the end of this tunnel's lifetime most cars will be electric.
Can you think of any case _at all_ in which purposefully misgendering someone is anything other than outright harassment against a minority who already has it pretty fucking tough?
Right about here it looks like you could drive across a ditch and into America, no apparent fence.

245-255 E Boundary Rd

https://goo.gl/maps/a3fvQ5Xd7J71mkx7A
It isn't always that simple. The government sometimes discloses such information intentionally with an agreement that the briefer's name is not disclosed.
Yeah makes sense. I guess there is some kind of Tree of Weakness that keeps evolving and needs constant pruning.
Am I wrong in feeling like comparing Portugal to the US is a bit different because Portugal doesn't have many South American drug cartels looking to make money/do business at such scale knocking at their borders?
Most people rely on some amount of self-delusion to cope with tough things. I've witnessed this tendency, and in reaction I sometimes swing too far in the opposite direction and end up with my own cynical delusions.

When I get things right, and achieve somewhat of a stoic realism, I find there is a lot of benefit in accepting the world as it is, but it is lonely.

On a more personal note, I probably can't say anything to ease the loss of your cat, but forgive me for making an attempt: Your love for your cat and the memories you have are real, as real as anything else in this world. Even if there's no grand story that this is all a part of, the feeling of loss you have now is evidence that you found a source of joy and meaning on a personal level. Loss will always hurt, but the fact that something is finite does not prevent it from being good.
Tesla solar panels have become a nightmare for some homeowners
US green economy’s growth dwarfs the fossil fuel industry’s