skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lost my wallet multiple times in my life. Always got it back, intact (ie. nothing missing). Why? Because most people (99%) are good, and people are empathic to such circumstances. They'll help you out. I've done the same (in The Netherlands, the police will forward it to the city council).

Last time was a year ago. I lost my wallet out of my back pocket at a tunnel, on the road. I did not even know I was missing it, when someone was on the door. His son found it. I gave him a bottle of wine as a gesture (couldn't come up with something different, it all went fast).
Crypto is (almost) all grown up: reflections on DevCon5 and an evolving industry
I added one more - Expose state of the system to user. Examples include:

- Vintage radios with sliding marker that shows what the current station freq is
- 3 state sliders that show whether something is state A/B/C by simply looking at it. When performing action on such a slider, user immediately knows by the means of performing the action, what the state of the system is!
- Volume knobs, shows the current state.
- Big bright ON light when a Keithley power supply is supplying power
- Lots of Braun products, too many to list.

May be these are obvious but it just reminds me that things we take granted are really important in UX/UI.
If any rule/law = "authoritarian regime" to you I think we can't stop the discussion now and save us both some time.

> And what does having to follow the law have to do with any of this

Google is free to handle its playstore as it please as long as it follow the law, I doubt google will pull a genocide anytime soon. Setting boundaries/rules doesn't make you an authoritarian regime. If you want to pull the "this reminds me of the darkest hours of our history" card you better find something more important than an app removal from a mobile phone app store if you want to be taken seriously. But I guess it's fashionable these days to compare everything to nazi germany/fascism/_insert_bad_people_, no matter how convoluted the comparison is.
> The hard part is finding remote jobs.

I negotiated a full-time work-from-home arrangement with my employer, then moved out of state to a place with no local tech industry. I think that fear of being helpless if I lost my job ultimately helped me to excel. I used time in the morning before work to start a freelance business where I would expand upon my skillset in a way my job didn't offer. Successes in that led me to pitch new technology to my employer. Over time I was promoted several times and am now lead architect.

I've since moved back to the home office where I work on-site 3 days per week (at a slight detriment to my productivity mostly due to our open office plan), but those 10 years of being home 100% of the time were huge for my career. While remote work has gotten more popular, I still think it's the best kept secret in boosting developer productivity.

An interesting aside: Our lease is up in about a year and there's talk that we'll just scatter at that point and all work from home without any home base.
Im confused. Does this mean Yahoo Groups is shutting down?
I might start sweating if it takes that much energy just to move to the next track.

Edit: Not sure why this got voted down? Hold your arm in an upright position, swat to the side a few hundred times, you would feel at the very least, muscle fatigue.

For repetitive tasks, you want efficiency of movement, not dramatic movement.
Actually, it's about deprogramming. Cigarettes are a habit. Realizing that you don't need cigarettes to enjoy life is the removal of a habit. Nobody is forcing you to realize this; it's the natural result of a renewed joy for life. It's kind of the opposite of scary.
Egypt archaeologists find 20 ancient coffins near Luxor
It's amazing to believe at one point, this used to be the de facto source of a lot of the information I would search for on the net. Oh how the times have changed.

RIP Yahoo Groups
"This is, obviously, a major and important dark web bust, but the indictment raises the question of why the DOJ allowed the site to operate for so long."

FBI investigations typically take a long time because they want to make sure they can convict with a solid case. With so many suspects (53 beyond the site admin) I am not surprised they took this long.
Looks like a neapolitan style, which is maybe the third wave of pizza in the US. Lots of neapolitan style places have opened in in the last 15 years. I like that style, but I wouldn't say its my favorite.

I would probably put a well done Regina's pizza (Boston) or a Prince Street (NYC) spicy pepperoni square slice ahead of any neapolitan pizza, and I say that as someone who owns a pizza oven and makes a lot of neapolitan style pizza.
> And just like that, a micro-optimisation has introduced a bug.

If only the function had a unit test to catch such bugs
Just wanted to drop in here and say that I am glad they have worked for you, and I wish you continued success.

For those that have not responded to SSRI's there is other options, one that is showing significant success rates is Ketamine Therapy: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/ketamine-for-major-depre...

The numbers are better than ECT which was alway considered to be the baseline as it is very effective but used as a last line due to some of the negative effects of treatment.

As for me, SSRI's did not work, I have co-morbid ADD as well. So the ADD meds do a really good job of papering over the really bad parts of depression and keeping me functioning until I come out of a down spell. That being said, I plan to try ketamine therapy now that it has been approved.
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Besides this being completely irrelevant to the present-era UK, keep in mind that those societies warred a lot, which meant men died, skewing the gender balance. Provisions for polygamy worked as a rudimentary social safety net for widows.

(As a general point, in my perhaps limited knowledge, weird or appalling customs from the past tend to have economic underpinnings.)
It's really cool and innovative technology, but I also struggle to see the point for the common user. If this were a computer monitor or projector screen, sure. But my phone is pretty much always in my hand if it's being used in any way. If it's already in my hand, what do I gain from this?

I can see how it'd be very useful for people who mount their phones on some sort of distant stand. But I feel like that's pretty uncommon; though maybe I'm just ignorant of how common it actually is. It's probably much more common for tablets, like for watching videos/movies at a distance. I do that, and I could definitely see myself using this with a tablet. But for something small that's pretty much always either in my pocket or in my hand?
> Disallowing developers from using in-app billing for donations, while also barring them from linking to external donation platforms, puts open source projects in a difficult position, and appears to be overly hostile towards funding open source development.

Google Play has been very clear about this[1]:

> Fund solicitations

> Examples: Donation solicitations from parties without a valid 501(c)(3) tax exempt status clearly displayed to the public; solicitations from parties without valid proof of exempt tax status or proof of registration with the relevant country's regulatory bodies and authorities; and political organizations that have registered with the Federal Election Commission (FEC)

For instance, Wikipedia displays an external "Support Wikipedia" link in the main menu of its Android app[2] without violating Google Play's terms and conditions.

[1] https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/75724?hl=en

[2] https://i.imgur.com/MEut6yC.png
I'm sure many will argue, but I agree.

After 10,000 hours of doing something, I can't see anyone not having tried to improve themselves. I think it's basically impossible to do the same thing for that long without basic human nature taking effect and forcing that person to improve until they can't any more. At least, not organically. I'm sure you could put a gun to their head and force them to improve more, but that's not natural.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191009123018/https://www.natur...
I think it’s because we all[1] like to think there’s an easy shortcut to achieve a goal.

[1]Lots of people.
Not that it detracts from your point, but it’s a common myth that the gyroscopic effect from the wheels is the main reason bicycles are easy to balance. Take a look at https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/SUMMER11/ResearchSpotlight....
Your election isn't going to be threatened because you pay for a TV license and neither is your religious family going to disown you.

The TV license is also moronic but for different reasons and is probably why there is a growing movement to scrap it.
I don’t know much about Android, but is the Play store necessary? If it isn’t, then isn’t that independence from FAANG control?
Or a machine learning algorithm which recomputes everything on every iteration
Really? Spare me the outrage. Accessibility is a factor in deciding where to live. And unless you're either waiting for Uber or driving your own car on Market St (while also unable to reach any intersection), this policy doesn't affect you.
Haven't seen any, and I never expect to. (will it halt? == yes)
There's a block based editor for CLI programs in development: https://app.code-it-studio.de/project/303

We made it for educational purposes though, you can only run the programs inside the browser (yet).
This is amazing, finally the ideas pioneered in EPCOT are making it to the real world.
What about dual licensing? Pure GPL or commercial license?

Seems like fair trade
I feel like k8s networking is 10x more complex than it needs to be...

I think it's because they still want to use the socket API, but to "pretend" you can open a socket to a pod, or to a service, etc.

Instead, they should have defined a new API, like "connect('k8s:service:foobar?selectionstrategy=leastloaded')"

Then they could have made simple LD_PRELOAD shims to get their magic API to work with existing software without modification.

There would be no need for millions of IPtables rules, virtual IP addresses, port remapping, proxy processes, etc.
While I personally agree with your preference, I think it's dangerous to assume that a new generation of users will have the same preferences we do despite being raised with so many new user interface paradigms.

Users tend to gravitate towards what feels "native" to them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/24-immigrants-h...
On Amazon UK the book has three ratings, a four star, a three star and a one star. Which are labelled 28%, 45% and 27% respectively. Wtf?
I am going to start using this immediately, thank you.

I have long wondered why precisely this isn't built into all the major OS's.

Edit: Although, reading more, I'm not sure I love how the logic works. For instance, it ignores all Apple apps. I understand the logic behind that, but there should be different thresholds: If any process on my machine, Apple or not, rewrites 10GB or more (to choose a somewhat arbitrary amount), I want to know about it ASAP. Otherwise, what if the ransomware finds a way to leverage Apple processes?
Yeah, I'm noticing that more and more. I'd even say we're going backward in many ways : jack 3.5 removal, everything glued/soldered, form over function, complete lack of reparability (while advocating for mobilisation against climate change and recycling at the same time)
What was modal about the remote? Switching between TV/display/audio while the main set stays the same?
To save you a click, the "City in Idaho", which is clearly written to make it sound like a village of like 10 people in the middle of nowhere, is Boise.
Too be honest, as a (probably still) dumb boy, I'm not sure NOT watching said content sets us up with any better expectations. The vast majority of people just have no freaking idea when it comes to sex; porn, erotica, wikihow articles or not
Find publicly known security vulnerabilities in website's JavaScript libs
I'd rather burn the money than buy a tv license
https://web.archive.org/web/20191015123642/https://www.latim...
The difference between primary interfaces and secondary interactions...
Be really careful with the poison analogy.

As another depressive person, I have lost most of my social circle because I consider my thoughts dangerous for others, don't lose touch with people around you because you try to hard to insulate them from your thoughts that might damage them.

If you work hard to make your gallows humor actually funny, you can turn things around. No one really knows the person who is too quiet, no one really likes the bitter person who always complains about everything, but the depressed dark humor guy can be the life of the party.

Robbin Williams, Ricky Gervais, and Jim Carrey, and Allan Watts all operate in the "realist" branch of thought. But the way you share those thoughts really matters.
> Why do you find this story scary?

For several reasons.

Over these past years the rise of the AfD, the alt-right in general, has been heavily credited to Russian interference.

But to this day there's no actual solid evidence for anything like that, and these accusations of "You are just a Russian bot!" have been a major factor for driving protest voters to the AfD.

When in reality it seems to have been a US American PR firm facilitating most of it, one that has managed to make political attack ads an actual thing in Germany. While I was wondering why and how the political discourse suddenly became so unbelievably hostile in Germany.

But all the German mainstream gets to read and hear about is the Russians attacking "democratic institutions in Germany" [0] and supposedly propping up the alt-right, which keeps on driving voters to the AfD for feeling marginalized with their "Russian opinions".

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/hackers-target-democratic-institutions...
5G isn't just about bandwidth, though.

There's quite a useful diagram at the bottom of https://techblog.comsoc.org/2017/03/02/itu-r-agrees-on-key-p... showing the three key use cases.

As well as "Enhanced Mobile Broadband" (which does focus on increased bandwidth), there's also

* "Massive IoT", which focuses on reducing power requirements and increasing the number of devices that can be served in a single cell (assuming they all transmit very little data)

* "Low Latency", which focuses on better scheduling and quality of service.
John Pilger's 2010 Documentary The War You Don't See (https://vimeo.com/67739294) is also great; it references Bernays too.

Would check this one.
Whoa, I've had this idea kicking around in my mind for a looong time (specifically something for dynamically generating Go code). Was wondering if anyone actually built this out, but could never find anything. Thanks for sharing!
https://avaloniaui.net/
Cross platform UI OSS toolkit.

I contributing designer would be great!
This looks interesting as well: https://nbsoftsolutions.com/blog/replacing-elasticsearch-wit...
The Seastead Institute promotes that newly created flotillas in the open ocean create habitat that was previously non-existent.
Imagine owning a sandwich shop. Do you sell to anyone who comes inside your establishment? Should you do a background check on them? Should software companies be different? If so, how?
I think the problem is many mistake mainstream political opinion for the prevailing scientific opinion. Most economists do not agree with the way our economy is being managed right now. The current political prevailing wind is definitely neoliberal.

Of-course most people do not read economics papers.
Hypothetical scenario:

User pays the initial cost of engagement - Atleast 2 seconds to unlock the phone. After that, all actions user performs are in the "Engaged State".

Imagine if you have to press a button every 3 mins but you have to pay the 2 second cost of unlocking the phone, searching for the button(which can be memorized) and then getting visual/sound feedback.

Compare this with a Remote Control that is sitting on the table. Pressing a button on it every 3 mins has lower impedance.

The examples you're citing have a fixed 2 second "initialization" cost and then phones are fine as long as you're engaged in a session. All feedback is visual (and sometimes audible). Soli is far inferior to a phone in UX because it literally has no feedback besides "hoping" your gesture would get recognized. Moving hands in air has substantially higher ambiguity than touching your phone in "engaged session" mode.
Apparently Yahoo is still big in some parts of Asia, like in Japan for example.

As for the rest of the world, I don't see the point of Yahoo anymore.
Glaswegian here.

I would love to support the merry picture this article is painting but most of the examples are happy accidents.

The diet aspect is cultural and will be around for many generations. You can try and "chip" away at it by education and social mobility but it will still be around. In fact I could murder a fish and chip supper right now.

In terms of open spaces and such, Glasgow council is selling land like its going out of fashion to developers. The joke being "oh theres more student accomodation being built". Plus the city's infrastructure is under strain as Glasgow approaches the 1 million mark.

The weather will always be crap.
I'm not sure why "10,000 hours to mastery" pisses off so many people. Sane people don't believe it's a hard number. They know it's a point of view that should help them focus on their goal, instead of some magic fact.

It tells newbies that they'll need to spend time and work hard to master the skill. It tells experienced people that they probably aren't the best they can be yet. And it tells masters to stop expecting newbies to be great and to let them have time to learn.
This gives words to a frustration that I've had with many roguelikes. I don't want to /drink/ -> /ladder/, I want to do ladder things with the ladder, which should be a very short list. Freedom does not great game design make (by default).
Salaries are one variable.
Yet Gladwell goes on to apply the 10K hour observation to Bill Gates, the Beatles, etc. demonstrating that each of these did indeed have 10,000 hours of experience before they hit it big.
Fake App Store reviews cost $0.50-2.00 each, roughly.

And they are very difficult to hide at that scale.
Here's the biggest objection, that would hold true for many expensive areas of the Western world, and any policy that will dramatically increase the supply of real estate:

"I own property here, and if we do this, the value of my property will fall. Therefore, we shouldn't do it".

This is the real motivation, but bring up some environmental concerns, something about retaining the character of the area, something about ensuring that the area won't be mobbed by new inhabitants, just to make the argument plausible. Then vote.
I wish it would be based on the site's html lang attribute instead of an OS/browser locale. Also the user can't even just type something like "20190504" to get 2019-05-04, because for some reason it accepts six characters for the year part and it becomes 201905-04-
Announcing the Open Application Model (OAM)
All of these really motivates me to push for decentralized projects. If the future Is basically full of gate keepers choosing what apps can be used or not and we don’t have any platform allowing freedom then it would be a very sad future indeed
>there is absolutely nothing that replaces physical buttons, encoders, sliders and toggles

Even space, versatility, & cost aside, there are definitely tasks that a touch screen does better. Using a map with a touch screen is incredibly intuitive compared to a mouse. (I cannot imagine using sliders or other "physical" interfaces)

>A physical button guarantees that the action was performed by the means of feedback

So you've never experienced pressing on a TV remote and nothing happening? On touch screens I can see if the app responded to my interaction. On many button interfaces I cannot.

>taptic stuff still isn't as good as the click of a button

Not sure why you're so confident with this when most people I tell are surprised that their new Macbook touchpad is entirely haptic and not actually moving.

>Don't trust a company that sells ads at the same time as building hardware

So by this definition Apple is worse than Google for privacy?
What a Koala Virus Tells Us About the Human Genome
I used to prefer car.drive(), now I prefer drive(car).

I don't buy the auto-completion argument. Can my IDE really tell me all the ways I can use an Integer? I don't think so.

When it hit home for me was when Java 8 lacked Stream.takeWhile(predicate) and I decided to implement it for myself. I could implement takeWhile(predicate, stream), I could not implement stream.takeWhile(predicate).
Individual developers (sole proprietors) are covered under GDPR!
https://abc.xyz/investor/other/code-of-conduct/

"Do the right thing"
That would have been awesome to implement.

My son was always hyper social. (I have no idea where he got that from.) Would walk up to any one, everyone and start a convo.

While it's fantastic that my son was so open, trusting, there is still a risk. A little girl two grades ahead of him was abducted and then found dead on a beach. (Oak Harbor WA, should any one want to dox me.)
From what I see, Washington parents who care can be good at managing the charter/magnet school thing. On my block are two kids at each of two charter schools, one at a well-thought-of public middle school, one at a private school, and several I couldn't tell you about. Yes, I have seen people move across the park (to the more prosperous part of town) when the kid left Aidan Montessori or they got tired of the admissions stuff. But I suspect I know three families that stuck it out here for ever two that left.
Wikiquote: Max Planck
You can't unload a truck to a corner shop from inside the cab anyway.
The author had a pretty severe lack of understanding of other cultures it’d seem. Carnatic South Indian music is one of many cultures which had an “A->G” equivalent.
Right, especially when practically every major ever delta is populated by a large city due to historical ports.
In LA rail projects generally go to one contractor not because they are the cheapest (they aren’t), but because officials like that they worked on the previous project and have ‘experience.’ AKA nepotism and corruption.
According to other comments, various countries have banned the technology. So that's why it's not available everywhere.
I know you are joking, but I am pretty sure this was a patent Microsoft filed in conjunction with Kinect. I could be wrong about if it was Microsoft or not, but it was definitely about a camera noticing how many people were watching a digital product/ad.
Dapr: an open-source project to make it easier to build microservices
In the article, Boise is challenging a court ruling that cities cannot ticket or arrest the homeless if there are no shelter beds available. This begs the question how ticketing/arresting clears the streets? By shoving them elsewhere for another city to ticket? Or housing them in jail (at a much higher expense)?

Later in the article it does mention that LA (correction from Boise) is also voiding millions of citations on the homeless, and that those citations were keeping the homeless from accessing services, like housing. That brings even more questions about the usefulness of ticketing for homelessness.

Edit: correction it is LA not Boise voiding citations.
I'm guessing the damage numbers are higher because of a number of high-impact city-focused attacks. I live in Baltimore, where all of the city's systems were shut down for a few months over a ransomware attack asking for <100k. A similar attack occurred last year in Atlanta; wikipedia quotes a demand of 50k & Atlanta estimated around 10M in contractors for recovery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Atlanta_cyberattack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Baltimore_ransomware_atta...