skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Benefit of the dobut Reasoning: Engineering determined that the cost of supporting a mobile site outweighs the benefit given they have a great mobile app. Then, someone decided to disable mobile access, because it better communicates that they don't support mobile web; cusutomers may still use the broken, unsupported experience, and then they'll complain about it to their support. Thus, raising the cost of maintenance while lowering customer experience.

Keeping mobile web but adding a banner that the experience isn't supported: Doesn't Work. Most people are total idiots when it comes to tech; this is 250% more true in the B2B space; this is a further 250% more true in a bottom-up corporate sales model like what Slack deploys. Unsurprisingly, but likely; many of their workspaces are shadow-IT operations created by some do-gooder who knows Excel and thus he's a "tech expert", on an isolated team within a large company who's IT department really wishes everyone would just use Teams and Sharepoint. This person is going to dodge the company's frontline IT support with any issues they run into. This person probably has a company-issued phone and thus doesn't want to, or can't, install the app.
Svelte has very few dependencies, and zero of them at runtime. Hot reload is instant. A real breath of fresh air when coming from other frameworks.
A Spanish company were hired to spy on Assange's meetings - going so far as to install streaming cameras in the ladies room.

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/09/25/inenglish/1569384196_65...

> After the installation of new video cameras at the beginning of December 2017, Morales requested that his technicians install an external streaming access point in the same area so that all of the recordings could be accessed instantly by the United States. To do this, he requested three channels for access: “one for Ecuador, another for us and another for X,” according to mails sent at the time to his colleagues. When one of the technicians asked to contact “the Americans” to explain the way that they should access some of the spying systems installed in the embassy, Morales would always be evasive with his answers.

> Morales ordered his workers to install microphones in the embassy’s fire extinguishers and also in the women’s bathroom, where Assange’s lawyers, including the Spaniard Aitor Martínez and his closest collaborators, would meet for fear of being spied on.
I think you are confusing "anti-work ethic" with the potential consequences of identity enmeshment with occupation, as this article describes. Western societies distribute social status, (read success) by occupation or by some community/world changing contribution. This puts pressure on individuals to sacrifice their psychological wellbeing in order to feel valued. But the choice to strive for social status and success is an individual one. Albeit not always conscious. You are free to work your ass off, but psychological health as a skill is neglected in our society. If people are to make world changing contributions, they should be aware of the consequences.
Ryle's regress
> systemd is written in a language that is easier than shell to get right

You might regard C as easier than shell to get right (that's debateable), but systemd has many many more lines of source code than sysvinit. Good luck debugging it at source code level on a remote system if that "very rare" event occurs.
Student Loan Debt Statistics for 2020
I have lived in LA, Austin, Honolulu, Cleveland, DC and now Portland, all with homeless of varying degrees. The more permissive we are for allowing the homeless to use what should be shared communal spaces for their personal use, the more they will. The people of Portland (were I live now) have a greater concern for the environment than any other city I have lived in, and yet there is trash everywhere, from the homeless. Recently here they have been building "boulders" near freeway off ramps, which is just a slightly more aesthetic variation of spikes. Frankly, when I see either I think, "good". I know this probably is not a popular opinion but we should not be going out of our way to make it comfortable to be homeless. Not if we care about these individuals and their future. Seattle is spending nearly $100 per homeless person. (This Thanksgiving I was in Seattle and the scenes I was seeing looked like Mad Max, but with more meth.) The resources are there. But for most it is frankly easier to be homeless than to tackle the difficult task of reestablishing a foothold in society. So please, by all means, install spike and boulders, take away stolen carts, and tear down encampments. Some times tough love is the only love.
I find it kind of weird how most of the discussion is about whether assange was good/bad/a "russian spy" etc - all of these have been discussed to death already. Shouldn't we be more concerned about the inhumane treatment of assange in jail regardless if you agree or disagree with what he published?

My 2c
That's Safari for Windows. Safari for Windows was discontinued in 2012, almost 8 years ago.
For what it's worth, the cartoonist, Heng Kim Song, is Singaporean.

American coverage of India's space program has been very positive from what I have seen. If often includes praises of how cost effective it has been, and how wasteful the recent American efforts have been.
8tracks was amazing. Unfortunately, after they attempted the paid subscription model I moved to a paid subscription service that also included play on demand of songs and albums.

I had always hoped that 8tracks could have been purchased by a larger player(Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music) and then be allowed to continue its content model under one of those subscription plans. Unfortunately, that never happened.

Thanks 8tracks for, by far, the best playlist based streaming service. Good luck in the future to you all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17523149 I like that outlook

>> “Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life” is another college-counseling standby of unknown provenance.

> That is probably the biggest load of crap foisted on pop culture in a while. I love what I do, and I work every day. This morning's task is reviewing a help file for accuracy. Hol-ee shite, that's not why I got into programming computers when I was 12. But it needs to be done, and I'm one of the ones that can knowledgeably review it. I really should write that test plan, but I keep putting it off for obvious reasons. Oh, sure, I get to play Puzzle Solver by shuffling some bits around, and it's what I spend most of my days doing, but it ain't all fun and games.

> And that's just Working for The Man(tm). Gonna start a brewpub? Maybe an online SaaS business? Oh, my friend, your crap work has just begun; so much so, you might have to leave the fun stuff to your employees. You will work every day, and hard.

> Don't get the wrong idea, I look forward to going to work most days, and I've been doing this for a long while. But there's a reason they call it "work", and there's a reason they pay you. Enjoy the hell out of the enjoyable parts, and when the less enjoyable work comes, remember that you are (if of the average HN demographic) paid handsomely for it.
I am in favor of the notion but it seems like revoking Prop 13 and rezoning the area over the objections of NIMBYists is just as likely to occur and probably prudent whatever else happens.
No, the hype is over the vehicles themselves. EVs are the future. And, as William Gibson famously said, "The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed." Once you experience the quiet, convenience and power of an EV, it's hard to go back to an ICE car. We're already past the early-adopter phase. Improvements in price, range and charging infrastructure (already happening) will capture everyone else.
Schulze requires only a weak order of your votes: you can say that you like options B and C better than D, E, and F, but not prefer B over C or C over B. This is going to be an easier way to reflect your inner vote preference, because instability of votes is likely to be a result of choosing arbitrary orders for different tranches--and Schulze doesn't require you to pick that order.
Could you share a few examples of this common pattern of IT companies hiring thousands and then going under?
If we're talking anecdotal experience, I'm one of the people who you're talking about, and if I could go back in time, I'd a) not have done any internships and b) not have quit college. But let's not discuss anecdotes, because that's not how policy should be determined. Let's keep the focus on data.

What you're describing happens, but it's enough of an outlier that it doesn't tip the median outcomes to the positive. People with some college but no degree still have above-median unemployment and below-median earnings. In fact an associates degree only gets you below-median unemployment: it still doesn't allow you to reach median earnings.
It is probably a placed piece but it doesnt make the contents untrue.

Simultaneously, being enmeshed in your career is not the same as working hard, so why give people a hard time who are reevaluating their life?
"They just want someone who they can sue if things go wrong." is true, but phrased in a rather hostile/negative way. The more positive way to say the same thing is, that because the company building the software knows they can be sued, and is not some fly-by-night operation that will vanish at the first sign of trouble, they have a strong incentive to make sure their software is high-quality and free of critical bugs. That incentive has proved to work well in the commercial world.

Much better than, well this open source software has a critical bug, I sure hope somebody feels like opening a PR to fix it before our deadline. Or we could spend a few million bucks to spin up an in-house software development department to fix it ourselves, when that isn't our primary line of business. Or we could just spend a few thousand a seat to buy something proven, that somebody we can trust, and who is liable to be sued and has something to lose, is standing behind. Dirt cheap compared to the other options.
Building spikes does nothing to help homeless people, it just makes it hard for them to live. “Tough love” isn’t going to make them not be homeless.
To play devil's advocate, what is to come of deliberating on existential meaning at great length?

Do you think you'll find an answer, rationally speaking (that is, using the tools of reason and logic)? Notably, Godel's incompleteness theorems suggest these tools may be insufficient. More specifically, if you try to rationally "justify" what you ought to be doing, you will always be able to - legitimately! - impugn its logical foundation.

This suggests that consciously reasoning about what someone's fundamental purpose is may not be the best way to go about things. Rather, just as how we make most decisions, an intuitive and heuristical approach may be better. In other words, "do what feels right."

What feels right may materialize as a family, as charity, as building a business, or even building a career. My point is that all of these can be challenged as "deferring existential questions" - again legitimately - because they cannot be justified rationally. (All of these, equally, can be criticized in hindsight as being "wrong": wrong marriage decision, wrong way to raise children, wrong work-life balance, wrong charitable/activist cause.)

As a result, I don't think the criticism that a career - even an all-consuming one (as a family may be) - is somehow less justified. This is not to invite pure relativism: some things do seem to be more meaningful than others.

But! It is precisely that this "seems to be" is intuitive, and not rational, which constitutes the foundation of our belief. And so if a career-focus seems "intuitive", then I think it's meaningful enough.

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EDIT: One other thing to note is that people who are fairly content with their lives don't often ponder _why_ their life is meaningful. They've specified a priori assumptions for what makes it meaningful (e.g. charitable giving, helping others), or intuitively feel what is meaningful (e.g. family, friends, happiness), and that is that. It's precisely the people who end up endlessly questioning these assumptions - facing the meaning of their life head on - that seem to be most depressed. This is because it's an intellectual deadend - it cannot be deduced rationally. One way, then, to answer this existential question is to simply defer: don't question, do what feels right, and avoid what doesn't.
Most homeless people don’t really want to address their root issues.
Slack is absolutely _unusable_ on a slow connection. It's not even just a matter of being patient, it flat out breaks with everything timing out.

I used to use the IRC gateway to maintain contact with some friends, and basically lost access to that social group when they closed down the IRC gateway.

IRC is far more inclusive, plus it's open and federated if you're into that.
I apologize for being dense. Are you saying that informed people will advise against health? I think you meant something different but I’m too dense to understand.
Last gasps of an enormous neocolonial empire on the verge of collapse include:

- omnicidal/suicidal acts like mass shootings

- ineffective journalism

- standard / inverted totalitarianism

- corrupt, stagnant leadership only doing the bidding of the very rich

- cruel, unreasonable treatment of average people

- atomizing and dissolution of communities

- celebrity chefs
I am in exactly the same boat. Could not have said it better myself.
Not really - we don’t have to accept a false framing.

If they mean no retractions, they can just say no retractions.

‘Faultless record’ is a deliberate overgeneralization to make it sound like WikiLeaks is more reputable than it actually is.

Consider that Donald Trump has an equally ‘faultless record’ based on this criterion , and yet many people consider this to be sociopathic behavior,

‘No retractions’ is not a measure of journalistic quality or integrity, and certainly not an indicator of faultlessness. Indeed willingness to retract is usually considered a good thing.
FDA approves new treatment for adults with migraine
I find this quite interesting. Anti homeless spikes are a problem, but no-one can actually agree on the origin of the image.

Spikes are definitely hostile to users of space, but pretending we can just give them housing shows nothing but ignorance.

The Twitter user who posted this tweet, refuses to believe the origin (Daily mail) claiming the papers xenophobia is enough to discredit the possibility that this is in China, and not somewhere in the West.

It is this attitude that is most alarming, perhaps not unusual on twitter. Pro communist beliefs, splattered with justifications for the so called concentration camps purportedly in China is much more troubling than hostile architecture.
I’ve volunteered at the encampments in West Oakland and it’s painfully sad to see. A lot of the homeless I met were 50+ years old and had lived in Oakland all their life. It was a stark contrast to the homeless in SF.
The "to" missing at the end totally breaks it for me, I read it as "Categories of Deep Recommendation Systems: Researchers Should Pay Attention"
Change your perspective if you want to help. Those aren't tents. Those are sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers with nowhere else to go, with drug and /or emotional problems. Those are soldiers who fought our oil wars and came home broken and abandoned.

Those aren't "tents", they're you if you made the wrong choice or had the wrong thing happen to you.
Currying in Scala: A Useful Example
Maybe we should just ddos these endpoints, they don't deserve anything better.
It's for $0 via Gum. Self publisher, funding/lead-gen for a WIP. It's not that offensive IMO
Disregarding the fact that Snopes is a very disreputable organization (e.g. there's a reason Facebook fired them as fact-checkers), your reference doesn't even back up what you say. Is it possible you're the one engaging in conspiracy theories?
How is Starship related to Brilliant Pebbles? It's Starlink that seems to prove that you can put a constellation of satellites in the tens of thousands affordably. That's the type of coverage that Brilliant Pebbles needs to succeed, right?
Go tell the homeless Mexican guys outside Home Depot in West Oakland looking for work they are not trying hard enough.
I would guess each motor has more than enough torque to spin the wheel so probably, but it would be way faster and a rough ride unless they were exquisitely balanced.
The global hasher var makes this code unsafe for concurrent use by multiple goroutines.
Skid steers turn just fine on asphalt.

As long as the rest of the components can take it it will work fine (or as fine as it can given the wheelbase and track width of the vehicle doing it). I wouldn't bet on a typical consumer vehicle that makes it to production being able to take it long term. Adding enough extra beef to the drive-line to do that almost certainly fails the cost/benefit analysis.
Unintuitive JSON Parsing
Can there be a balance? I'd love to remotely control and view the status of my appliances without sending the telemetry to the OEM. Physically disabling all the radios would prohibit this functionality.
any personal finance top tips?
Like Zune's DRM (luckily before Zune died they let purchasers download MP3s). I wonder what funny failure scenarios we'll see in the future.

On the topic of Samsung, their "smart" Fridge had issues when Google changed its API: https://support.google.com/calendar/forum/AAAAd3GaXpEWgy9gKk... , but at least that's some stupid feature and not a fridge's main feature...
Yes, IRC is much better, and is something I use. (IRC even works without specialized software, although it works better if you do have it (which isn't too complicated to write).)
Just get a regular 'dumb' one.
I don't personally like OpenRC, but it's acceptable, too!
Someone clearly did not pay much attention in 1999 to the incessant pedantry that the new millennium didn't really start until 2001.
> The reason is simple: those languages don't support normal industry development practices, where you don't have time to spend 10x the time on verification as you do on development.

In practice, these languages have good support for gradual development so no, you don't have to spend 10x your dev time on verification. You can focus your verification effort on the lowest-hanging fruit, such as properties that only depend on local reasoning, as opposed to non-trivial interactions involving the program as a whole.

(One potential issue for this is that dependently-typed languages are total languages, so any code that's 'natively' written in the languages must be proven to terminate. But partiality and Turing-completeness can be reintroduced in a fairly trivial way by resorting to a 'Delay' or 'Partial' monad.)
Threw myself head first into 80+ hour weeks of work, career climbing etc to avoid dealing with issues (incl. some trauma) I had since childhood. Told myself I'd be "married to my work", because while people leave you, money lasts longer. Gained some modest success, but woke up after 5+ years to the realisation that no matter how much I worked, none of the success, money or appreciation from peers would ever feel whatever void/emotional avoidance I had inside and was trying to mask by marrying myself to my work. By this time, I had a severe eating disorder and probably some sort of severe burnout.
What makes him a troll or his views propaganda?
If you could get the price down to a comparable point, you might be able to market against the price-vs-security crowd, but I think you'd find yourself up against another large percentage of consumers that care more about features than security, which seems a lot harder to compete with when you're pitting dumb devices against smart devices.
And where can we find these dumb TVs?
Can't believe it's gotten this far, that cities need to implement deterences like these.
Exactly. A judge not too long ago was observed on camera stealing a gold watch from an airport security checkpoint bin at Login Airport in Boston MA and was never charged with the crime.

A group of judges met behind closed doors to discuss the incident involving Judge Patricia Curtin and concluded that she "intended eventually to give it back."

This is apparently part of a much larger pattern of "unequal protection under the law" in Massachusetts:

https://apps.bostonglobe.com/spotlight/secret-courts/
There really aren't any drawbacks. There are a few distros that use it. If you want to play with it, I'd really highly recommend spinning up a Void VM.
That is not the Linux philosophy. According to a usenet post made by Linus Torvalds in 1996 [0], the Linux philosophy is "Do it yourself."

[0] https://groups.google.com/groups?&selm=Pine.LNX.3.91.9610161...
It's great when sanctimonious fools like Bork are hoist by their own petard.
Instead of being homeless, now they’re wet, cold, and homeless? Brilliant.

Forcing the poor and homeless out of sight doesn’t fix anything. Criminalizing poverty doesn’t fix anything. If you’re so offended by poverty, perhaps do something useful to address the root causes?
The amount of resources going towards the homeless are ridiculously large. The net result is that favorable weather and resource availability draws more people in from other places, and the problem is too large for any individual locality to solve.

e.g. The City of San Francisco is spending over $300M/year directly on services towards easing homelessness. This does not count state expenditures focused in the area, private expenditures, expenditures by surrounding areas, and the wealth of indirect expenses. Versus a homeless population of 10,000, this is $30,000 per year per homeless person in the City of SF-- just direct expenses by City of SF.

Clearly an overall change in approach is needed-- not just additional resources spent the same way.
I'm not surprised that most mainstream buyers don't know about this, but I'm surprised that this is still news to HN readers. In addition to past HN coverage (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21657930 and others), in the last year it's been in NYT, WaPo, Consumer Reports, and tons of other places.

That said, if anyone doesn't already at least skim the privacy policies of any networked devices they own… now is a good time.

Even retailers often sell your info. For example, Target "may share your personal information with other companies." Crate & Barrel may share "a record of any transactions you conduct on our Website or offline" with third parties. The defaults are worse than any reasonable person would expect.

(Have a few extra dollars? Consider spending it on a DIY public service campaign. I've been promoting https://twitter.com/simpleoptout/status/1191029269691957249 and other tweets to followers of Samsung's Twitter accounts.)
I'm actually not sure why this isn't working for a Surface running Windows. I would have assumed that it would emulate mousewheel events.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wintouch/wind...

I'm guessing this is what needs to be handled. I wonder if Qt is already interacting with this system, and I'm handling it improperly on Win32. Does scrolling with touch gestures work for you in other types of scrollable views, such as the sidebar, or the workspace files list?
I was in the Google-messup, too. Google Maps did not show I-5 closed. When it did it said it would be closed until March 2020. Absurd!

I took the coastal route south on Hwy 101. In Santa Barbra Google Maps directed 100s of cars off 101 to take a 30-minute shorter route around an accident. I was one of the fools who followed Google Maps. We were lead though a maze of windings street way up above Santa Barbra to a road that was closed (probably due to damage from last year’s mud slide). It took Apple Maps to gets us out of this hour+ mess.