skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What came is what was always coming. From about 2003 (post-dot-com bubble) until about 2013, it was an era of ‘do no evil’. Make the world a better place. An era of ‘we’re better than the previous generation’ and the democratizing effects of the internet and social media. It was given to us for ‘free’ with the mantra of ‘don’t worry about it, we’ll monetize later. Trust us.’ We bought into it and created massive platform monopolies.

What came was next was a bait and switch that resulted in cesspools of advertising, tracking, and a mess of curated content that promotes outrage and polarization because it keeps people on the page and clicking links. Content and journalism has been diluted and pushed to the gutter — quantity over quality. The noise is deafening.
> > The glaring white background is absolutely horrendous.

For me it's not that glaring.

> What is it that brings people to dark background themes?

On darker ambience dark colour schemes go easier on the eyes. I was a light-mode person until the office grew darker (because of some remodelations) and now I need dark mode to not feel the light attacking my eyes.

Also dark mode probably looks "cooler", less of an office job and more "hacking" vibes.
I’d agree that Jeff there is a man with only a hammer walking around telling us that Climate Change is a nail. Engineers can’t fix everything.

Of course the engineering is important, but politics is 1000% the road block on climate action and that is where efforts should be focused,
I wonder if they preferred it less if they had a way to find out how much the hospital costs before treatment.
Some of the books I plan to read are:

* The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

* Complications by Atul Gawande

* The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century by Fernand Braudel
I've found ItsyCal to be wonderful: https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/

It can run alongside the system's menu bar clock. I've replaced the stock menu bar clock with "E yyyyMMdd-HHmm z" (so, for example, "Mon 20191216-1244 UTC"). And clicking it brings up a simple calendar. Simple and fast and works the way I think -- almost everything I want in a tool (wish it was open source).
> I am becoming more and more convinced that keeping my data and programs on other peoples computers is not a good idea. They can not seem to resist the idea of 'harvesting' information from me to 'monetize' me for a small monthly fee.

This has more to do with “free” services than hosting your data elsewhere.
Startup plans to allow consumers to purchase homes without a mortgage
NGINX is valued more than Rambler, what kind of company's size are you talking about?
Lowe's, Duke Energy... I'd probably have expected Wake County in that general area but that's something of a bias because of tech--and because it's the capital.

As the article notes, this isn't purely explained by population--but a lot of it is. It's maybe also worth noting that, for a lot of those metros, a decent chunk of the working population lives far enough outside of the metro area to be in another county. (Some businesses are too of course but probably less than the number of people.)
Because Capital seeking ever greater returns knows no geographic boundaries nor is it especially considerate of the local viability of its arrangements. Just look at what Buffet-owned Clayton Homes is doing with trailer park mortgages in rural areas:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/the-mobile...

Or how private equity has been buying up real estate in the rust belt.
Honorable mention: "The Hacker's diet (how to loose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition" ( https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ )

Written by one Autodesk cofounders. Good read, btw.
this sounds like a good candidate for issue report. Would you mind collecting performance snapshot and sending it to JetBrains?
I feel that as a technologist we need to better think out the long term ramifications of what we create. Be less apt to bring things to the public. Technology is great when used in a manner that helps everyone in society, however it can be Pandora and hard to shove in a box once it is out there. Sometimes things can damage a society with good intentions at heart only to backfire miserably.

Especially considering the loss of the "do no evil" mentality. Everything moved heavily over to IPO's where you have people buying chunks of tech companies who have no clue how any of this works, but they demand a return so we push things out without much thought about if it will have negative consequences. Witnessing the lack of moral ideals and the blatant grab for money entrench the tech community. I saw in the last decade a major rise in "Tech Bros" in the workforce. Honestly, I am looking at going back to school next year for Geography to work on maps. I am a bit burnt out by "tech" after this decade. (That or I am just getting a case of the "old." I still love tech, but don't want to work in the field anymore.)

Einstein on the atomic bomb,

“The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)” Albert Einstein
Tech products starts this way but eventually they need to make profit and then ads take over the product. The only way this works is for paid products.
> Sleep Cycle is a mobile application that monitors your sleep and allows you to track times of deep sleep...

oh come on. the examples were good so far...

why would i need an app to monitor my sleep if i don't have any sleep disorder or similar? i am putting such app in the "need for attention" category.
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>People can't make educated judgements about stuff like Mercury Thiomersal because [...] //

Removing Thiomersal from vaccines didn't reduce ASD diagnoses. That seemed to be sufficient for me to form a judgement on it. But, AIUI it's not used in vaccines in the UK now anyway.
Here is the blog post regarding factual errors in "Why we sleep" in case anyone is interested: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

I was about to read the book based on a colleague's recommendation, but the blog post and a separate article in my local newspaper debunking few of the claims made me decide against it.
> I don't think Google should add permissions or warnings for this either

When I buy a phone, it's my phone. Not Google's, not Apple's, not anyone else's: it's mine. And I have a fundamental human right to run any software on my property that I wish.

It's one thing for Google to impose limitations on what apps available from the Play Store may do: I may always sideload anything I wish. But to impose limitations on what sideloaded apps may do is unconscionable.

Freedom matters.
I think folks should not bother trying to justify their keyboard preferences. You're right that it usually makes little difference in terms of productivity.

On the other hand it can be very rewarding to choose something relatively unique for one's keyboard, or even make their own. The keyboard is kind of "intimate". It makes sense to make it yours. Not everything has to be utilitarian.
Yeah, blood minerals from Africa are a very common problem.

Cobalt, coltan, tantalum - you name it. We all use them daily.

They have been fueling the war in Congo for over a decade.

You most likely own technology build on child or slave labor minerals.

Thus initiatives like the Fairphone have been born.
U.S. FDA approves Tandem's predictive insulin pump software
Tim Shipman will be writing his 3rd book about Brexit - the other two being great pieces of journalism so I'm really looking forward to the next, and presumably final, instalment.
Is refill the pot of coffee if you empty it another casualty of technology? I don't think I've worked anywhere in more than a decade that did not have big automate coffee maker that allowed you to choose between a dozen passable options.

In that situation you never refill the pot if you empty it, you empty the grinds or pour in more beans if the the machine asks.
Creating a deepfake took two weeks and cost $552
You are correct about delivery. Boeing has parking lots full of new Max that are ready for delivery.[1]

The OP is referring to several Max that had their paint changed to remove "737 MAX" and replace it with "737 8200" (see link to RyanAir example in sibling).[2]

1 - https://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20190709&t=2...

2 - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/15/boeing-737-...
From the Wikipedia article you linked: "The 737 MAX's larger CFM LEAP-1B engines are fitted further forward and higher up than in previous models. The aerodynamic effect of its nacelles contributes to the aircraft's tendency to pitch up at high angles of attack (AOA). The MCAS is intended to compensate in such cases, modeling the pitching behavior of previous models, and meet a certain certification requirement"

Note that last piece: "intended to [...] meet a certain certification requirement". So yes, part of the intention of MCAS is to meet the certification requirements. It's a bit downplayed in the text, but is very important nevertheless: the certification requirements MUST be met (MUST in the sense of the Internet RFCs). Modelling the behavior of previous models is a sufficient condition for that, and is what Boeing was trying to do anyways, but is not critical. Complying to the certification requirements is critical.
If you find stuff in your land, I assume it’s yours. But we don’t have 300 year old stockpiles of gold, not what native Americans did.

Finding stuff on public land is I assume more complicated. Maybe the police sort it?
Plus Craigslist.

Reuters and the WSJ are old proofs that people ARE willing to just pay for quality news.

Note also that national news is fine; it's local news that's in trouble.
I am not sure if you're following the github spec repos, but at least check them out. I really don't think these people are reinventing the wheel badly. The last 3 years have been full of discussion about every single detail, including behavior of various different prior art, host platforms, hosted platforms, etc. These discussions are public, why don't you join if you can help? Even a short list of "look here" would be a great help.
Going to plug my project Fraidycat here. Feels like it satisfies many of these. http://fraidyc.at/

It compiles RSS feeds and YouTube, Twitter, etc into a dashboard-like view rather than a crowded timeline. No notifications, no algorithm. Just a tool for a human. Easy to “move into the periphery”. Very calm, even when I’m following 100s of people.
I think "authenticity" with regards to the society of the spectacle is also a kind of image, but I know what you mean.

I have in mind the modern trendy value on authentic things. For example bespoke craft foods. The striving for authenticity in these things are itself a type of spectacle.

Generally I struggle with Debord but with the Society of the Spectacle I think I've got it down to something like:

1) Where once Bob could be cool in himself and people wanted to be like Bob. Being.

2) Then people saw the cool clothes that Bob wore and got them. Having.

3) Now people just get the things that look like the clothes that the people who look like Bob have. Image.

For "authentic" foods, same thing. People made good quality foods. Then people got the same thing that these people had or bought their products. Then people bought things that looked like it was the same thing. Or people valued the look of having these things. Image.

I think it's basically consumerism. But I suspect it's something deeper and applies to non products also. For example the image of being a good person, or a useful employee.

With regards to social media, clicking "Like" could be an authentic emotional response to an image. "I want to be like this"?
I use this exact phrasing when conducting interviews, since most of the time it is me asking the candidate questions. It's an opportunity to hand control over to the interviewee. "Any questions?" seems very abrupt and I feel would put the interviewee on edge. Not wanting to make a mistake - they'd likely respond with "No" or at best "What are next steps?"
Ah. Once I started taking in the whole picture that made more sense. Thank you for the help. :)
If Obama believed this, why did he run against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination in 2008? I have noticed that male CEOs who preach the importance of diversity at the top never set an example by voluntarily resigning.
What?

The obvious conclusion is that they would have only 1 day off.
I long ago created a special script (in Macos it's via something called Hammerspoon, I used to have a Windows version).

It basically gives vim-like keys anywhere you want, when holding down the caps lock key. So e.g. caps+h/j/k/l are movement keys.

It goes a lot farther than that: I have a key to delete a line, a key to select a word, a key to go up/down by 4 lines, a key to delete the last word, etc. I even mapped caps+f to jump forward 20 characters (to badly simulate using 'f [letter]' in vim).

This makes so it I never have to leave home position on the keyboard, because while holding caps I have all the movement keys I want at my disposal. It's a total lifesaver, and the only way I can effectively use a keyboard outside of vim :)
That doesn't work for people who are on commission.
If you are working for a company that is large enough to have a legal team you can ask them about it.

I asked a software company this about 2 years ago in the bay area and they gave me a form to sign stating it doesnt compete with the company's products and i explained what i was doing.

If they say otherwise you can take it from there!
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I usually let these types of comments enable interesting discussion, but given the response and the worry that it validates someone else’s lifestyle, I must say that it was tongue-in-cheek. My perfect day does not imply my everyday. Please don’t drink alcohol for 4 hours every dear reader!
The problem is it's not quite enough of a new aircraft. If they'd fitted longer landing gear (along with all the changes that imples), they could have put the new larger engines under the wing, where they should have been in the first place, rather than stuck out in front of it, and then they wouldn't have needed MCAS.
I work for an office in the RDU aka the Research Triangle.
We're mostly or entirely remote. Lots of long commutes for the people who are obligated to come in.

Big names and decent salaries for the COL, though.
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The app is not a tool to serve you, instead the app turns you into the tool to serve itself.
The majority of people don't live in the U.S. Why should the U.S. government hold such control? If the argument is that they invented the internet, (hardly entirely accurate), they certainly didn't invent the World Wide Web.

I don't even agree with them having .gov, them regaining .org would be a disaster.

If anything, some sort of multi-national, strictly non-profit charity should be setup for this, or if not, the U.N. as a last resort.
If it was simply a population problem, then why do long-time residents tell me that it wasn't always this way?

Specific reforms intentionally undertaken to solve known problems with the system, made the system work better.

As a life-long New York resident until about 4 years ago, I can also tell you that I probably wouldn't disagree if you told me you thought this was "not possible in New York."

(And intuitively I'd say, it's not because of population numbers, but I can't put my finger on exactly what it is. There is a different mindset, whatever causes it I can't say, but I noticed immediately when I moved here, I still tell folks this place really just isn't like New York.)

To elaborate a bit more, I felt like part of the New York mindset was basically psychologically planning oneself around not getting robbed. There were plenty of ways to get robbed that people just don't worry about around here (and some of this can surely be attributed to population issues.) I'm not just talking about general common-sense things like making sure that valuables are not left visible in your unlocked, parked car. I mean up to and everything including neighborhoods which don't have enough driveway space for everyone in large duplex houses to park their cars, where the streets are marked for opposite-side alternate day parking.

So I don't have a private place to park my car at my rented house, and I have to park on the street, but I can't park my car on the street and leave it for 48 hours time without getting a ticket. This makes sense in Upstate New York as a condition required for Winter road maintenance, so that plows can get in and clear the snow off of the road. Only it's not just a condition required at Winter time, and when you point this out, people just accept it and say something like "yeah, well, they gotta make their money somehow..."
Other research along these lines are "plotting" visual signals onto tongues. Here's an interesting article from 2009 talking about it:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/device-lets-blind...

"From the CPU, the signals are sent to the tongue via a "lollipop," an electrode array about nine square centimeters that sits directly on the tongue. Each electrode corresponds to a set of pixels. White pixels yield a strong electrical pulse, whereas black pixels translate into no signal. Densely packed nerves at the tongue surface receive the incoming electrical signals, which feel a little like Pop Rocks or champagne bubbles to the user."

It's been available in Europe since 2013, and the US FDA apparently approved the device in 2015:

https://www.medicaldaily.com/fda-approve-brainport-device-wh...
You can discuss what ought to be counted, but the equation above is what is counted.
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I'm not a medical expert and neither are you. You're trying to apply broad logic to a situation that is illogical and nuanced.
Up until now the pop-line was to not attend to a child everytime they cry.
I'm 35 and work with a church group which visits/helps the poor around our neighboorhood, and my colleagues there are between 55 and 80 year old.

It kinda kills me but they work very well with their systems - paper agendas and folders - so I don't think I'll ever suggest turning their workflows into something digital, or even an Excel file...

The way I help them is by carrying heavy packages...
I would agree but also add that the implications of Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation are extremely relevant to the political sphere we inhabit today.
You may have confused cause and effect here.
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Ask HN: How do you keep track of your published Apps?
I recently launched my app on iOS and Android (https://fitloop.app/), and am finding there's a lot of places to check for downloads, reviews, beta feedback, etc, and I find that sometimes I accidentally miss some feedback.

What are the best solutions out there for consolidating all these into one place to check?
Even paid products or services are not immune.

I order a pizza, I have no choice but to provide details since they need them for delivery. Guess what happens next? Yeah, e-mail and SMS spam.

I pay hundreds of bucks for a complete Tado system (thermostat, radiator valves, etc). Guess what I get? E-mail spam about discounts for their "new" app which actually has less features than the current one.

I buy a PS4 and try to set it up. Even for a few hundred bucks for a new console, there is still bullshit telemetry and other crap I need to opt-out of, not to mention some half-assed attempt at a social network where I have to spend 15 minutes setting everything to "No one can see this" so I can regain some privacy because I have no desire to use the social features.

Heck, even some US government agencies (DMV I think) sell your data to scum and you can't even opt out.

I can go on and on. We need some actual ethics, and regulation as a fail-safe for cases where the former doesn't work.
These are fine sentiments, but wages have been stagnant for most low-paid workers for some time, and over half of the US falls into that category. They’re certainly not meaningfully rising in relation to the costs of housing and healthcare. The “lack of conveniences” you describe include things like access to grocery stores and medical care. The subsidies they receive from urban centers aren’t translating to material improvement for the vast majority of them, so you still have to square the circle of American geography, politics, and wealth concentration in its economy.
Ask HN: How to Get Work Experience in Rust+wasm?
Projects like wasmer and wasmtime that is going toward security and performance hardening while also pushing productivity forward excites me. Furthermore rust brought a new paradigm that matches where those projects are going. These are exciting stuffs to me.

I want to work in those area but I don't have much experience using both of them. I'm a frontend/full-stack dev doing TypeScript with half the time optimizing development experience by pioneering architecture and code style of multiple projects and also working on some semi-low-level stuffs.

How should I gain experience in rust+wasm and where should I begin?
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My favorite story is the lemon oil (limonene) test - they did an engine test with it because of political pressure and according to the author, the desert smelled like lemon for 2 months after that.
Ask HN: `Bind` to widget vs. `action:sender ` architecture – Tk vs. Cocoa
Hi all!
I'm using Tk for the first time and am comparing it with my experience using Apple's Cocoa.

Though I love how fast Tk is to get up and running—I'm sort of missing the flexibility provided by `sender:action`—not to mention that it brings up a lot of questions regarding app architecture.

Can you help clear out what the common nomenclature is between these 2 different architectures? What kind of problems should I expect as I develop between the 2?
> why would you favour naturally oily hands over clean hands?

At the end of the day, with your accelerated oil producing hands, that became that way because you are constantly stripping them of it, your hands are much more goopy than mine.

> you are sacrificing everybody's hygiene for your own comfort. what do you do around babies and the elderly?

I don't even think about it. Despite your implication of calamity, nothing happens. (Besides, babies are a lot dirtier than me, drooling and sticking everything in their mouths)

> despite your superior body chemistry, do you not wash your clothes in soap?

Clothes are another matter, they aren't living organisms with evolved mechanisms to survive in a natural environment full of all kinds of microorganisms that could kill you. You need to wash clothes just as you need to take care of any artificial tool.

Naturally, we don't need soap. This is a classic marketing technique, create a problem, “hygiene”, then push a solution, buy my soap. Only the soap creates more problems, but nevermind that. Oh if you're really suffering, buy my hand cream.

> would you refuse antiseptic treatment, or condone a team of surgeons with your unhygienic practice to save your life?

Would you take blood pressure medication when you didn't need it? How about put a cast on your arm for a week after lifting a heavy object just in case the bones are slightly weakened? Just because medicine can cure a problem doesn't mean you should use it all the time.

> there is a reason humans harness sanitation: it saves and prolongs lives

An enormous oversimplification. Obviously it saves lives, but if we lived in a world where we never came in contact with any microorganism that might kill us, our defense systems would be weakened to a point where if we were ever exposed to one, we'd all die.