skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in my experience it is not uncommon for product development to involve assertions that “some of the users are not the most tech savvy”. i’ve seen this as justification for cutting scope, which i can agree with in many situations even if i disagree with the reasoning. over all, cutting scope had been the right move.

that said, i take exception with these claims that the user is “an idiot”. it comes off as arrogant to me.
It is hard to deny all of that. It was just a response to a "just let them vent it out, folks" :)
I would like to see your credible source that supports this statement. Can you reference?
I agree with the first part, but being consumption aware brings you only so far.

As an example I'll be moving into an A++++ isolated, triple glass, gass-less home using an efficient heat pump to convert 1x electrical energy into 5x heat energy using earth heat. Even then, we'll probably be at your consumption level (ballpark), for heating and ventilation alone. Many places on earth just won't work without heating (or AC), no matter how 'consumption aware' you are.

Curious as well to how you came to your last remark.
> I just want some damn state for my lambdas without spinning up Firebase...again.

So true, we have 2 firebase servers (dev & prod) and it took ages to setup them up even with scripts. Some of it; like backing up and restoring users isn't even possible to script!

Fast creation of database instances is a huge benefit in testing
The problem with this is that you suddenly find that all the people who you thought were arguing in good faith about not liking government intervention, were actually only doing that as a tactic to stall specific things they didn't like, not as a general principle.

They'll have a completely new set of disingenuous talking points (unsubsidized fuel would hit the poorest hardest!) ready to confuse people and to stall that action as well.
Ask HN: Finding local events without FB
I’ve recently deleted my Facebook and have found alternatives for a lot of things, but the one thing I miss is learning about events in my city. I have yet to find a solid way to discover what is happening where I live. I was wondering what other ways there are to keep me engaged with my community while not being on Facebook.
Obviously it's for the data stream, not your safety.

I do not look forward to the future of driverless cars as automated surveillance capsules with obnoxious advertisements assaulting all of your senses.
5-10 years is too little considering the fact that they spent first 2-3 years gaining momentum. Even worse for Angular because it was completely changed along the way. JavaScript knowledge is still relevant even after 24 years. Whatever is on those libraries and frameworks will one day make its way into JavaScript and that will be theur end. Frameworks will come and go. Even the most successfull JavaScript library ever, jQuery, is on the decline because of newer frameworks and features like querySelector.
"Good".
As others have mentioned, at first sight, this seems like a crazy valuation at $235.29 per monthly active user. But customer acquisition costs for financial products can be a lot higher than that. Honey is close to the payment process, this must be very valuable to PayPal, maybe because it gives them a clear advantage over other PSPs or because they can offer merchants another way to increase revenues and customer satisfaction. The tech might also provide an easier way to enter new markets since it would distinguish PayPal from other payment providers, i.e., entering a new market as the payment provider that's secure and lets you save money.
>Where is this mentality that even the backside of a cabinet should be build well?

Pride in quality of work? Why does the backside have to be be NOT built well? I hate crappy pressed wood furniture, but the same piece of furniture built by real craftsman using real materials raises the price from ~$250 to over $1200. Admittedly, apples and oranges, but the point is valid.
Aren't they already doing this?
An Uber driver explained to me a situation where he drove a drug dealer (didn't know it at the time) who refused to pay him and ran away. After contacting Uber support they said to him that they reviewed the audio recording of their conversations in the car and established that the driver was telling the truth and paid him part of the fare.
Note that PhotoStructure on Windows IIRC Windows 10 only.
> Why the fuck did they let this happen in the first place?

Blame the annual expected release of a new iPhone that Apple trained us on and that markets and consumers now expect. For those phones to be ready to ship on the date that Apple promises, they have to be produced and boxed up. The phones require a new version of iOS for hardware support (which makes sense) meaning there's a certain time before the phone release date that a GM of the newest version of iOS has to be released to manufacturing.
I think it can do screen sharing in calls, whereas the browser app can only do voice calls (and maybe video, I can't recall).
Does Insect/Arthropod Biodiversity Extend Beyond Earth?
> I really don't understand why a company the size of Slack invests all their development effort into such a subpar platform as Electron, when a native solution is clearly doable with very limited resources.

A lot of reasons... a solution 1) grows to match the size of its budget constraints 2) becomes more complicated the more people with long titles have a say in it 3) becomes more difficult to implement the more people that are working on it 4) becomes less useful the more people there are that can dictate what it does and how 5) fulfills more of the letter than the spirit of its requirements as more hierarchies of people manage it 6) becomes less user friendly as fewer typical users are involved with its development

Though the actual answer is "somebody with power just wanted electron for personal reasons and nobody had the power to turn the ship once it started on its course"
As of today i've switched my whole company back to AIM group chat
> many different components of different structures

> yup, he is building a brain

The limbic system of the brain is made of many different structures. It handles much of the ancient fixed function instinctive operation of the brain -- heavily involved in sleep, reflexes, appetite, and motivation, for example.

However, our general intelligence and learning capability is mostly due to our neocortex, which has a highly regular structure. The neocortex also subsumes the roles of much of the limbic system as development progresses, overriding the specific structures.

This suggests to me that intelligence / learning doesn't benefit from specific structures, but from general structures, capable of encoding behaviour as data (by long-term potentiation of synaptic weights in the brain's case).
No, my point was that since apple controls the software side, it is able to limit the features of other headphones, especially when it comes to seamless pairing and integration into the apple ecosystem. When the competition was EarPods vs. thousands of different 3.5mm connected headphones, apple had less power to throttle competition when the experience was almost indistinguishable.
I am honestly surprised they weren’t already, I don’t really understand the opposition to this. I would love there to be a record of my rides such that if it comes to it, it’s not the drivers word vs mine. Honestly, start recording the video.
This is a hard problem (in the CS sense). How do you filter a customer that reviews a product paid for w/ their own money, who then later gets reimbursed via PayPal?

For the reviewer in the article, how can Amazon know these reviews are purchased? Yes, she buys a lot of stuff, but from Amazon's point of view she may just be a loyal customer- especially given the fact that she mixes personal purchases in.

Amazon does a bad job curating reviews, but this is a difficult problem. I'm not sure how anyone could police the type of review fraud discussed in the article effectively.
Personal choice is only about 5% of the change needed to mitigate climate change. Individuals can not choose most things, such as steel and cement and plastic production, they can't enact a carbon tax, they can't close down coal plants or raise capital for nuclear or renewables. Can individuals educate millions of women in the third world or change how refrigerants are managed? Look at drawdown.org, you will see the majority of reductions will be on elected officials and corporations.

The most developed world individuals can do, as you say, is reduce their own footprint in minimal ways and VOTE!!
A much larger entity actively doing nothing can have much bigger consequences than many small actors operating in bad faith. It's one thing to try and improve your system, it's another to ensure a proper system is there to begin with.
That's not really necessary, and I avoided that turn of phrase for this exact reason. Let's not make it about that.
Ah, good point!

What I mean is that these problems make people more open to giving another company a try. It lowers the loyalty someone has to Amazon.

One of the hardest parts of starting a new company is having customers even consider buying something from you.

With all the problems Amazon is having, convincing someone to try an alternative company isn't as difficult.

In fact, some are actively looking for alternatives.

That goes for buys and sellers.
Bloomberg seems to be fine with it
protests do not "combat it". actual action to cut co2 emissions "combat it"
When everyone uses a different editor then no one gets support.
You see the same thing with 'free speech'
"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And so they should. They are both standard ASCII codes.
> for almost all purposes it’s used for

So we should kill a format because it is used for something it was never intended for?

How is the lack of a widely compatible, self-contained markup-plus-resources format PDFs fault?
Huh? Why not? It seems completely relevant.
I mean yeah, s4b is getting EOL'd in 2021 in favor of Teams
>But I would think the experience of falling into a coma after a hypoxic event would convey all the same conscious experiences of death.

I'd say so.
they will come to an abrupt rest to be sure. hence why individuals need to prep for the collapse
> are those "freedoms", where is that proof, and what is the motivation of these "intelligences"?

The freedom of the people to chose their own representatives and leaders, something U.S. agency CIA has tempered with many times, especially in South America.

> I assume they do it because they hate American freedom.

Or is the CIA that hates other countries freedom to not agree with them?

Maybe other countries created their agencies to defend them from CIA.

There are always two sides in a story.
Donald Trump says he asked Tim Cook to help build out 5G in the US
> Warren who openly proposes policies to dismantle Apple

I don't think this is true. Can you provide a source or quote from her?
Really? Price? Don't get me wrong, I appreciate a competitive price, but Amazon's real value is being able to get things that are freaking hard to find unless you go to 2 dozen different specialty online stores, which means having to trust 2 dozen different sites with your credit card information.
This is why we need to be very careful in shouting down other people's thinking. It may feel good to see a group blocked on YouTube ... that is until they come for you.
Create a roadmap for low-level/systems developer (ex: create database, search-engine, storage engine, replication, sharding, low level performance etc)
It’s not great, for sure, but unless any of these products impact health or safety in a significant and obvious way ... I hesitate to really call it amoral. Its really just a paid sponsorship, or paid word of mouth marketing, or something like that. Like it or not, it’s really just capitalism and the advertising industry at work.
Show HN: Expose local server. Support both TCP/UDP, of course support HTTP
I Do Not See Myself Represented in Essays on Dating
> I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that

You just missed taking pictures. You were still there to live them :)
This. I want this. It happens to me quite often that I feel demotivated or uneasy about using some software because I know I'm producing valuable data specific to me that I could use in the future, but the product stipulates that I don't get to keep the data. iOS apps are often the worst at this. There's no filesystem, so all data has to be kept with an app. I loaded all of the books I wanted to read into iBooks, and then it turned out that the iOS backup skips books that you didn't buy from Apple. Bye bye book collection T_T.

Some of this could also be alleviated by Tim Berners-Lee's pod idea: https://solid.inrupt.com/. But local-first is better. I just want files on my machine.
They already know this.

Jessica and the rest understand it's immoral to do this. She even says so in the article.
Being conscious of what you use is of course important, but it's not a path to carbon neutrality, so in the long run it's not enough. It is also a surefire way to prevent any change if you wait for every single person to change their personal lifestyle instead of government action that provides alternatives which don't require becoming a hermit hunter gatherer to reach carbon neutrality.
If someone consistently leaves five-star reviews, then they should be removed. Even if genuine, as in not paid for, they are still noise as this person is indiscriminate in their praise.
Exceptions to that rule are as follows:

- Terminator 2: Judgement Day

- Aliens

- Back to the Future Part 2
This is an example of an important piece of knowledge that typically only programmers with a formal education in computer science are taught.

This is the 21st Century. Why aren't we teaching stuff like this in Middle School? It wouldn't require an entire course. Just cover FSM and stack machines, then letting people know that there's stuff beyond that. This would get people a basic level of the "mental furnishings" to deal with notions of computational complexity, beyond the level of total fuzzy "woo." In 2019, ordinary people need to know something about this stuff to make decisions at work and to vote!

Yes, just the most basic, minimally concrete idea of how this stuff works would be valuable for society. When Ford automobiles were new, some new car owners would try to "fix" their cars by hanging bulbs of garlic under the hood. Today, we find this quaint, magical thinking, because everyone has the barest, minimally concrete, idea of how a car engine works. Are you annoyed at the general ignorance of politicians around technical issues? Well, it's just analogous to politicians with the above level of automotive ignorance passing motor vehicle laws.
We seem to be tracking for 4C of warming.

4C of warming would probably cause a collapse in the ability to feed the populace, and render large chunks of the world uninhabitable without active cooling, or because they'll be underwater.

It's hard to imagine how civilization survives this, without those regions that do continue to have arable land putting up walls and turrets and mowing down the streams of starving migrants.

At what point do you look at preppers and think "honestly they might be on to something?"

(edit: additions below)
Sources abound but https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/18/climate-...

"Indeed, the consequences of a 4C warmer world are so terrifying that most scientists would rather not contemplate them, let alone work out a survival strategy.

Rockström doesn’t like our chances. “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate a billion people or even half of that,” he says. “There will be a rich minority of people who survive with modern lifestyles, no doubt, but it will be a turbulent, conflict-ridden world.” "

"Since 2005, total global greenhouse-gas emissions have most closely tracked the RCP 8.5 scenario, "

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/rcp-85-t...
They are claiming the rules will be somehow similar:

> Whether you’re running for office or selling office furniture, we apply the same ads policies to everyone; there are no carve-outs. It’s against our policies for any advertiser to make a false claim—whether it's a claim about the price of a chair or a claim that you can vote by text message, that election day is postponed, or that a candidate has died. To make this more explicit, we’re clarifying our ads policies and adding examples to show how our policies prohibit things like “deep fakes” (doctored and manipulated media), misleading claims about the census process, and ads or destinations making demonstrably false claims that could significantly undermine participation or trust in an electoral or democratic process.

https://blog.google/technology/ads/update-our-political-ads-...
This comment literally illustrates the pathology described by its parent. Not all organizations are cults run by cliche fascists who crush subordinates who make that kind of criticism.
Living in the most desirable spot while supporting a spouse who doesn't work and also children is more than almost everyone else can afford, not ordinary. Ask your local kitchen staff how much they make and where they live.
Why Get over It Isn't Enough for Victims of Clerical Sexual Abuse
I actually support this, despite being a strong advocate for privacy.

Statistically, assault by Uber drivers is really rare, but enough people take enough rides that I know multiple people who have had these experiences. Uber needs to have super-strict privacy controls and auditing on this, but it'll make a lot of people, especially women, feel more comfortable with taking Ubers.
I'm not sure America is as different from China as you seem to imply here. You don't manage to incarcerate more individuals than "an authoritarian communist dictatorship" four times your size without massively scaling the state's ability to monitor citizens.

20% of the world's prisoners are in America. Is spying a consistent Orwellian feature of American capitalism?
their total refusal to integrate ads into iOS Maps meant that Google was destined to bleed vast sums of money on mobile maps forever, and the more popular the iPhone became, the more money they'd bleed.

Google wasn’t giving Apple access to the Maps data for free. They were paying for it.

If Apple hadn't blocked Google from upgrading its services, it's very plausible Android would have pivoted more strongly into the budget/low end space Apple didn't care about anyway.

Android is in the budget/low end space. The average selling price of an Android phone is about 1/3 of an iPhone and Apple makes about 80% of the profit in mobile.

but that was what triggered Google to write their own frontend app which then got banned.

Google’s app was never “banned”. There were plenty of third party map apps when iOS 6 was introduced. iOS 6 was introduced in September 2012. Google Maps for iOS was released in December of 2012. Are you saying that Google wanted to release a separate maps app when Apple was still using Google maps before iOS 6?
Gaming Amazon:
Her Amazon Purchases Are Real. The Reviews Are Fake.

Fat Lady Living in Trailer made $15,000 so far this year and get's to keep the products. Stick that in your orifice, Bezos.
Insufficient, will never be met, and who cares. Humans don't affect climate anyway.
Is it satirical? I dont think it is? If so, should have an /s tag...

Yeah I stayed in a 7 x 9 room in Brooklyn for a few months WITH my GF. That shit was carbon efficient, but damn it was depressing.
You are joking, but current organization of humans is very wasteful and limiting to development. Apart from the resource burning consumerism, growing complexity of knowledge and technology would probably end up requiring segregation and specialization either way, so that some people would raise children and other people would devote their lifetimes to complex fields of knowledge, which of course implies an authority would have to provide for people. None of this have to be more limiting to almost everyone's personal freedoms than they are already limited today though.
I think it's possible to interpret the comment as asking "where has the mentality gone" rather than "where is this mentality coming from".
I agree. Ramsey's method motivates people. People who aren't motivated will likely take forever to pay their debts, or fail at it. Ramsey's method promotes some sacrifice now, and reaping benefits later. Delayed gratification...
Jokes being discustingly offensive is the point. Its a joke ffs. Taboo or inapproprite subects or viewpoints is one of the hallmarks of comedy. Unless the joke teller does so specifically to disparage people, Lighten up.
Never had any issue in France or in the UK either. I got a fake SD card from Priceminister in France, but never from Amazon as far as I can tell.
> Perfectly valid code that used to work up till Xcode 11.1 throws errors in the Swift runtime on Xcode 11.2 (and 11.2.1)

Can you link to some examples? I write Swift full time and haven't noticed anything like this.
I’m a newer Mac user and was impressed with the multi monitor support and how, as you say, apps are “pinned” to specific areas and the os remembers when you plug in the other monitors. I’ve not noticed an issue with this yet, though, and I’ve been on Mojave and Catalina for my whole Mac career.
The luxury items are what she buys with the money she's paid for the fake reviews.

As opposed to buying food with the money which OP is implying by saying her stomach is empty.
> Time machine's performance has slowly gotten worse and worse, leaving me having to cancel backups just so I can go home.

I'm administrating TimeMachine for my employer. It sucks so incredibly hard on a lot of points:

1) it requires the aged AFP protocol instead of Samba

2) No user-/machine-defineable quota, only one across the whole server

3) Extremely poor behavior in higher-than-10ms-latency scenarios

4) no way of scripting the configuration if one wants encryption of the backup image

5) Audits/reporting? Forget about it.

6) All backup images end up in one directory on the server, no way to specify e.g. the user's home directory

7) Restore takes ages
I explained why I did it, I think you’re overly concerned about a small warning.

People seeing disturbing things won’t just stop climate change.

Ignorance and psychopathic behaviour has slowed progress, not empathy and concern.
One star is really harsh, don't you think? I guess this is just how people think though, everything is either 5 or 1 star right?

Makes one wonder why we even have 5 star systems. Habit I suppose.
The question was about investigative journalism, which is the kind of journalism where you actually expend resources to dig out facts that the public needs to know and otherwise wouldn't know about. What you describe sounds more like putting a "spin" on facts that are already in the media that's off-the-map. In this context off-the-map may mean a genius operating at a level far above us all. Or it may just mean crazy. The former is a possibility, but the latter is always more likely. And those are a dime a dozen, not a rare journalistic treasure.
That only admits that the product receive may not be the same if it came from third party instead of Amazon directly.
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I'm still using Windows 7 with the classic theme because its just such a good design.
You honestly don't understand the difference between somebody listening to your conversation and that conversation is being recorded, stored, analysed, added to your profile, sold to 3rd parties, stolen by hackers and given to law enforcment agencies?