skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to blame founders and VC (and they certainly deserve a great share of the blame), but few of them could do anything without an army of supporters in the form of employees, and the sorry fact is that most of them have little trouble finding them.

Look at companies like Facebook and Google. They thrive on advertising, and despite that and having a myriad of other ethical issues, plenty of people consider these companies to be some of the most desirable to work for in the world.

How many Facebook and Google employees read threads like these and feel even the smallest pang of guilt? What percentage of those will actually take action based on what they know is right, quit, and go work for more ethical companies?

There's a reason the internet is a cesspool of advertising. Most people would rather have a big fat paycheck than do what they feel is right, if they even feel that what they do is wrong.. which I bet most people who work for these companies don't.
I've had the OG Airpods since release, and haven't had to replace battery. Not sure how often you use yours, but I'm on maybe 1-2 hrs a day and still can go almost a week between needing to charge.
This, it is really easy to embed the tcl interpreter. Far easier than perl and python, even easier than lua.
Do the dealerships sell the rented cars as new or used? Do they disclose that a car has been used as a short term rental?
Nature of the industry I'd say.. Cost for eg is a big factor; Hardware inherently requires money to build (materials etc), while software is just an investment of time.

I suppose it's a direct mapping of human nature, where we inherently prioritize return on an investment of money rather than time, which makes sense too
The disconnect between "Scrabble the word game" and "Scrabble the area game with a semi-arbitrary set of rules for tile placement that is somewhat related to words" has been discussed here before.

But honestly, it isn't that exceptional a disconnect. Most board games have a "theme" that increases our enjoyment. But many of them are actually math games that could be played without thinking about the theme at all.

Chess is like that. Our knowledge of horses and bishops won't help us play chess. Same with Acquire. Hotel chains don't behave anything like contiguous tiles on a grid.

I'm about to order a copy of "Thunderbirds." The review I read said that it's quite enjoyable, but if you aren't a fan of the show, the theme actually gets in the way of enjoying the underlying game.

I feel like it may be more obvious when a Scrabble player wins a world championship despite not speaking the language, but the disconnect between a game as an abstract contest and a game's theme is very common.
Count VAT, tax, and other costs 170(?) per month. At this scale it is better to deliver pizzas. As I wrote on another comment I sincerely wish that it grows to 4000, so it becomes a proper income.
> In many places, it's not that difficult to get into local politics and start making a difference.

I've recently discovered this. You are are absolutely correct. I'm helping make my "small" City more walk and bike able.
The Scade Advantage
Ah. Alas the only thing that I needed to clean off the iron is solder that doesn't ever want to leave the tip and go on the contacts.
Road right of ways in most places are way more than sufficient to provide adequate space for sidewalks, so eminent domain isn't really a big part of the equation.

It's really a question of political will to stop making everything all about cars all the time.
There are some extensions that help, e.g. https://github.com/aaronraimist/DontFuckWithPaste. It just allows you to paste, IIRC, not copy, but if someone was really annoyed I guess they could make one for copying. And NoScript had some clickjacking protection, but it hasn't been ported to the WebExtension yet.

Typically though these are done with third-party scripts and just blocking the script is sufficient.

In this case it isn't so uBlock has a rule:
https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/7l54xr/metro_...
>...interest free 24 month loan

Getting a loan to buy a friggin phone? It does look like a status symbol to me.
That is an admission, that one should not read Medium, as they show spam instead of relevant information.
Announcing Operon: Extreme Performance for Ansible
The copywriting is so mediocre in its attempts to be funny or witty in every heading.
A binary tree is plausibly something a candidate would know, or could figure out without communicating at all. Apple picked possibly the worst problem if what you are describing was their goal, the ideal problem would be something that is unlikely to be known by any candidate. If their goal was to determine if the candidate could actually code, a binary tree probably asks too much (the ideal real-world solution is likely to just import a package).

Common data structures have no place in any type of interview.
So far, the world is telling you we tried it before and it didn't work, with EVERYTHING!

Plenty of rich and industries people, in the graveyard. The world will guide you if you listen. A lot of knowledge is kept under wraps due to security clearance, as in, they already have the answers, but just can't tell you because it's either really dangerous or really horrifying.

It's best to follow where you are lead, and if you mess up, just think it's for a reason. The world doesn't want you to do that. Maybe later. Maybe not ever. Start listening more and adjust.
What about tkinter for Python?
And The Elements of Programming Style.
Nothing more American than taking a politically expedient position and then kicking the can down the road for future generations to deal with.
> University of Washington brain damage

This phrase made me laugh, because UW imapd was largely written by Mark Crispin, who invented the IMAP protocol!

It seems that in about 2007, Crispin forked UW IMAP to create his own IMAP server, "Panda IMAP" [1], which at least one website claims to be "fully compliant" with the IMAP RFCs while UW IMAP is not. [2]

[1] https://github.com/jonabbey/panda-imap

[2] https://imapwiki.org/ImapTest/ServerStatus
Cyclists don't belong on usual car roads, not the usual roads that aren't wide enough so car can pass the bike safely without crossing the center line. The problem is, to all other motorized traffic, bikes are not part of the traffic but an obstacle that has to be avoided, usually in very limited space with a lot of things happening all around you. Many cyclists unfortunately don't ride with that in mind (changing lanes without looking back, 2 cyclists riding next to each other etc.).

It doesn't matter if you are a pedestrian walking 5kmh or biker going 30kmh, when cars drive 50/60 kmh. Not even going into topic of roads outside of cities, those fools riding in 90kmh traffic when there is 0 extra space on the side of the roads are basically asking to be killed by somebody not momentarily paying enough attention to the road. Even if 99.9% of the drivers do drive carefully, that 1 out of thousands drivers can become a real event pretty quickly on popular roads. Emergencies and morgues have visitors because of these.

Now how to achieve a good situation for everybody in Dutch/Danish style is a great question, especially in congested centers of the towns that are already designed and there is often no extra room for dedicated bike lanes. I don't claim I know the proper answer that would be OK with majority of the population of average western country.

Even a narrow yellow bike lane on the side of the road would be great but I don't see them as often as I should, meaning there are not enough continuous bike paths that take you to most part of the cities. At least not around the place I live.
Let me introduce you to the best pair of headphones for travel that I own:

Bose QuietComfort 20 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones, Apple Devices, Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X9KV0HU

They are $250, wired and have a small battery brick that is not replaceable that is charged by micro usb.

The newer one by Bose is one of those neck things and is $300.
I love AirPods. I wear then 10+hrs a day (cycling between two due to charge). It isnt fair to judge before I've tried this, but I've never quite felt comfortable with the rubber seals

1. It feels like you are underwater

2. I want ambient sound coming thru, esp when i'm walking outside/etc.
People are already spending that much on the power beats pro, sennheiser momentum true wireless, and sony wf-1000xm3. It's only $50 more than the AirPods with wireless charging case.

These would be a day one purchase for me if I didn't already have the over-the-ear Sony WH-1000xm3 headphones for 90% of my listening and a recently purchased set of AirPods for the other 10%.
So any system programming language with extensions for hardware access were essentially C? Even those 10 years older than C?
I am totally with you regarding React: I've been distracted from my current SwiftUI project writing a React "teaser" version because it's so much easier to make progress in React, in large part thanks to the strong documentation.

But even there, there are nontrivial problems. Look at the front page of reactjs.org: all of the examples use component classes. The tutorial introduces component classes without mentioning that they're a huge PITA compared to function components using hooks and that they need/should only be used in a few legacy corner cases.

React 16.8.0, the first stable release featuring hooks, came out in February of '19. May I suggest that it's not finished until the home page and tutorial are updated?
I visited Scottsdale, and at first I was wondering why so few people were walking despite the weather being so nice. Then I tried to walk somewhere and it felt more like Frogger than walking.
The embodiment of Machine Learning.
It may be that those deployments were replacing existing satellites. I'm sure other nations know when the vast majority of satellites were originally deployed, which gives them a rough estimate of what technology they might have. Being able to subvert this assumed knowledge by changing what the satellite is is quite possible more useful than launching a new one and having them both up. Even if what the space plane did was tracked so there's not likely to be any surprises, in-place upgrades might have their own uses.

If that's the case, and it's just replacing existing satellites, they're still tracked accurately under that convention. Not that the USAF would say either way unless pressed by national powers, as the ambiguity helps their mission. It also helps internet blow-hards that like to take relatively small amounts of information and construct narratives they can lambast. It's entirely possible the USAF deployed new satellites, or replaced some satellites, or did nothing like that and the messaging is posturing or disinformation.

If it was doing stuff with satellites, I'm actually more interested in how it got inventory to do so over a two year time span. Did it drop to lower altitudes to refuel and get more satellites to deploy/replace/upgrade?
what convenience? I do not understand the appeal of air pods over any other wireless earplug.
Why can’t I just give people money in exchange for their goods/services, rather than give the bank money, which then gives people money, that they then pay off by providing goods/services. What macroeconomic value does the bank provide serving as a middleman?
You get both native and custom GUI elements with modern Tk.

And yes, there are plural "layout controllers" (Tk calls them "geometry managers").
Efficiency Is Ruining Hedge Funds
Which Bose headphones do you use that don't give you trouble? It looks like the most similar pair would be the SoundSport Free?
Well, at least the author showcases their bias in the first sentences.
San Antonio's River Walk is cheating
“Hey, I have an opinion differing from what is popular.”

[DOWNVOTE DOWNVOTE DOWNVOTE]
I'd buy them if they did a buyback program on the previous generation AirPods like they do for iPhones.
I tried the site on macbook touchpad and iPhone X, works _very_ well. Maybe the directly targeted audience use one of these?

I have no interest in AirPods but I think the page is super nicely done. Not something I'd like for every product I look at ever, but as a sort of unveiling I think is is nicer than a spec sheet.
With an insurer, you at least have a backstop of changing insurers.

If the government makes this decision, your backstop becomes "move to a new polity."

This is the core of the argument, that the government should not have this power. Say what you will of the sad state of the US health situation, there are potential solutions not involving this level of "We choose who can have what."

I'm not one with exotic health problems, the kind that involve going to a hospital for a week for a batter of tests and analysis, but I know people for whom this is the case. I suppose those people are the ones this is writing off.
Tcl is an alien technology I wish I embraced when I was first exposed to it. I didn't quite get it, I was confused, so I gravitated towards Perl because it reminded me of C somewhat. I wasn't aware of my cognitive blind spots. In many ways Tcl is more powerful than most implementations of Lisp. Like a Lisp crossed with a Forth with the ability to turn spheres inside out with no tearing during execution. Magic.
AFRINIC has a number of available IPv4 free, across multiple /8s: https://www.afrinic.net/stats/ipv4-pool

APNIC has "0.32" of a /8 left: https://www.apnic.net/community/ipv4-exhaustion/graphical-in...

ARIN reached zero on Sept 24, 2015: https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv4/
PG&E and all utilities are heavily regulated.
I have a pair of the older ones. Say what you will, but if you have an iphone, they are incredible. Using one is great for podcasts and phone conversations. I hated on them for a while, but after trying, I'm a believer.

For me, the value of upgrading to this 'pro' model will be the quality of the noise cancelling. If as good as the recent releases from Sony and/or Bose, I will definitely get a pair.
Bioprinting: Living Cells in a 3D Printer
Do we know how it compares to regular AirPods in term of battery life?

Would had loved a way to swipe up and down to control volume instead of the force touch for noise cancellation. Next generation I suppose.
I got about 18 months out of my first pair of AirPods before I lost them and while battery life wasn't great at the end, it was mostly tolerable. Seems like 18 months - 2 years is the typical lifespan of headphones for me. They they get lost, batteries die, the earbuds wear out, cables get broken, take a bath, etc.

I bought a second set of AirPods after losing my first and when these die/ get lost/ take a bath/ whatever I'll either buy another pair or maybe upgrade to the $250 ones... with the expectation that they will last 18-24 months. For me, the form factor is worth it.
Their motives are qabalistic.
Dappkit, Firebase for Web3.0, Will Go Live in December
Hasn't white kind of been their signature since the OG iPods?

When you see white earphones, people think iPhone/iPod, etc.

Thieves used to target people with white earphones because of this.
Charger Takes over Your Phone to Poison the Ad Data Amazon Wants
Wow, that website really is something. 1559 requests serving 65.6MB in total!
Ohio Creates National Guard Unit to Help Governments Deal with Ransomware
> These are mostly complaints, but I'm glad you're working on this project.

Wow. Thanks so so so much for taking the time to write this all out. This has been super useful.

I added all your feedbacks to our UX/UI/bug prioritisation board. Some of the things we had already on the radar (like improving the way annotating works) and will be improved very soon.
There used to be an expectation of longevity in the electronics we purchase. Even while Moore's law was in full effect, you could find good uses for a 6 year old computer. Today's computer hardware can easily remain fully usable for a decade. The notion of buying a laptop or phone, let alone headphones, every year is ludicrous and actively harmful to the environment.
This is an old wiki entry that dates from the pre-8.0 days of Tcl (The history is truncated). For the past 20 years everything has been representable as a string.
> and they could still be owned by Bezos as a separate company

But that's their whole 'competitive disadvantage'. WaPo and amazon are already separate. The fact that AWS would be separate on paper has very little gravity also.
Still shocked Apple gets such good PR about their environmental work when one of their most popular products is 3 batteries in plastic sarcophaguses that needs to be replaced every 18 months.

At the end of humanity there will still be corroded burst airpods and funko dolls washing up on beaches.
I maybe didn't burn out
Genius Idea! Not so catchy name "Carve" - got to be more "Uber"
Question on best programming language to learn in 2020
What is the best programming language to pick up in 2020?
I would guess that they are too big to reload while at sea, so 8 on each ship.
I have about 5 years of heavy experience with TCL, split in half by 15 years away from it. I got a lot done with it, and it is an interesting language, but I have never, ever said, "I wish I was using TCL" in any situation. It is a unique journey down an alternate path for computer languages, that really ends up nowhere compelling, but the path itself is not arduous, although the bugs can be.
The paths make sense. I.e. you got uninterrupted lines, surrounded by walls, so it is a real maze and not just a lookalike or partial maze. Oh, and it's a-maze-ing! :-)
They were called “contracts with free phones” before. Why wouldn’t you break them up into payments if you can interest free? They don’t even show up on your credit report as a loan.

They offer “loans” on $100 Android phones.
The state already does that through regular, economy-wide taxes. (Maybe this is why it's a bad idea to grant a monopoly to a for-profit company like PG&E that doesn't take into account the externalities of power outages... Then again, Texas' very deregulated but non-monopoly ERCOT seems to do pretty well. So either state-owned OR deregulated may be optimums compared to PG&E...)
Yet UNIX pipes are strings and amazingly popular. Its amazing how we don't see a movement to get typed streams so we can give up the reparse culture of UNIX. I guess PowerShell does typing.
For readers not familiar with "El-Reg" (based in the UK), they tend to have a somewhat irreverent attitude to reporting goings-on in the IT industry. It's their house style and has been since the beginning. It's a style that emulates, somewhat, British "Red Top" tabloids. You either love it or hate it (or maybe don't get it), personally I've been a fan and reader since they started back in the 90's.
Leading that page in Firefox reader mode seems harmless enough...
Not op, but in my experience the root cause is too many vehicles, which leads to horrible rush hour traffic. So know traffic management is overloaded, and so people push into a lane/run a red/etc. I don't know how much time it saves, or if it just gives people a feeling that they're getting there quicker. Meanwhile police are also overloaded, so don't issue traffic fines for minor infractions, which normalizes it. So then drivers get more brazen and pedestrians are likely to think twice about walking, and it's a bit of a self-fulfilling cycle at that point.
Yes. Those work by tying python to pieces written in a more performant language.
I'd be interested if you think there's anywhere I make a strong claim without appropriately strong evidence. There are a lot of strong claims, but I'm justifiably confident of them. Many of them are cited inline.
Sunbelt areas became attractive as the air conditioner became prevalent after WW2, and these places transformed from sleepy backwaters to growth engines. Miami metro had like 75k people 100 years ago!

A big part of the design ideal is to stay in the air conditioning, and urban areas were designed around the car and AC. The engineering priority is throughput.
> So with few exceptions, they are hedging their bets. They build on containers in a misplaced belief that will make quick migrations easier, they architect dubious “multi-cloud” workloads … the point is, they’re not using AWS the way it’s designed to be used, as a holistic, deeply integrated platform, and the looming shadow of Amazon is the reason why.

And why is this bad, exactly?

The fewer orgs use and depend exclusively on AWS, the better we'll all be as an industry.

The whole idea that we'd take years of FLOSS work and stuck it into the black-box cloud which we can't control, is pretty absurd if you think about it.

Here's a good article on the issues:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
for #2 - you generally want enough sound coming through to be safe, but I find the current ones often are unlistenable on the bus or walking down a street with traffic. Some isolation of constant noise would be fantastic.
The browser is precisely there in order to present the external world to you in the format of your choosing.

It is a user agent.

You are free not to "steal" (lol) the contents of a website if you consider it as such. I think that's totally absurd, but that doesn't stop you.
Are You a Moral Grandstander?
The wording on that page shows replacing the batteries mean they give you an entire new Airpod (or 2). They say "replacement airpod" instead of "repaired airpod".

Great for the environment...
Real texture for lab-grown meat
Depends on the traumatic memory, hence the idea that we've probably optimized for remembering everything rather than the events that have evolutionary advantage.

I.e Why should I remember a bad ex girlfriend if there was nothing to learn from it?
I dunno if you were going for irony or not with that!
Game developers are some of the lowest paid, most highly exploited developers out their.
You should remind Google's Chrome teams of that.
Let alone headphones? You could throw away a pair of AirPods every day and it would still constitute a tiny fraction of what (Americans) produce in waste on a yearly basis.
The Eisenhower Matrix of Prioritization
They will just replace your AirPods. Not actually replace the batteries. iFixIt[1] had to physically cut them open to get to the battery, there's no way Apple is actually replacing the battery as opposed to recycling what parts they can and tossing the rest when they come in for service.

[1]https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+Teardown/75578
From the article, which otherwise was good, this line "Both nations had spent so much money on their battle-fleets that they could never bring themselves to put them fully at risk" really doesn't capture the mindset of the antagonists. It was largely true that the Germans were determined to hold on to their fleet, which meant staying in Heligoland, and while the British were satisfied keeping the German fleet in port, they wanted the decisive battle. Despite the British fleet losing more ships in the first day at Jutland, the main reason the Germans fleet escaped was miscommunication in the British admiralty.
There are other means to achieve this though that do not hinder progress, such as covering such people with Medicaid.
even if they have to be replaced every year

These are undeniably really nice products for the target audience, but the direction we as a humanity are going with disposable products has been and still is problematic and products like this do not help, on the contrary. Everyone is free to ignore that, but I personally cannot justify it. Especially knowing that just adding a wire buys me a better sounding product which lasts way, way longer. But yes: the wire is not too convenient. Though after 20+ years of using it I also got accustomed so no deal breaker.
Did you do anything special to make the CPU happy/efficient with forth function calls? I heard a rumor that CPUs find it hard to predict branches with code that doesn't do C calling conventions.
Are you fucking serious? Fighting putting gay people in 'quarantine' camps is not tone policing. My god. You people even know this is fascist but you're advocating it anyway.