skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Q Can I discontinue my monitoring subscription at any time?

No, you'll quickly become addicted to the peace of mind and security you feel from using Meth Minder, finding it near impossible to give up. At this point our montly rate increases to $5K/month and you will do anything to ensure your monthly fix. We've secured $100M in VC on our incredibly low churn due to the addictive nature of our product.
I don't have a phone, not even landline. It's fine. People adjust to the fact that I'll reply to emails when I have time.
Four year old account, 3k karma, despite the name.
Executing spies isn't an act of war, it's an act of law enforcement.
It's still a probability between no deal and unfavorable deal. Any country would do the same when confronted with this situation.
Because there are a surprising number of employees and managers who don't produce customer-usable value, and are less important when all the value is being produced from "home" or elsewhere.
PayPal seems to arbitrarily block transactions on eBay too. Happened to my friend and he called support and they told him there is nothing they can do. In disbelief he called again and got the same response.
The most fascinating thing about this crisis is how it has laid bare the importance of flexible, forward thinking leadership at every level, in every form of organization. Entities that have/will successfully adapt to the new reality we live in are the ones who have given up on the notion of a "return to normal". There will never be a "normal" again. The COVID-19 outbreak was an epochal event. Whether you embrace that and seize the new opportunities it has opened up, or determinedly force your outmoded mindset onto a world that no longer exists will determine who are the winners and losers out of all of this.
I’d venture to say it’s filtered to knowing who influences culture. Then pinpointing what those accounts respond to. Then designing content to shift said culture through this channel.
Nothing you said Nix precludes.

If I were to make a Nixified BSD, there's no requirement that I have to split things into multiple repos. I can continue to use a monorepo for the core userland and kernel.

If I want to add a feature to a widely used package, I can still vendor the package like BSD, or I can bump the kernel and package srcs in one commit, adding the feature in both, like Nixpkgs today. In no way am I now at the mercy of coordinating upstream devs---Nix allows any user to integrate anything they want, unilaterally, whether a monorepo is used ot not.

The benefit of Nixpkgs is not to replace the core of BSD, but to replace ports. Nobody, least of all the BSDs, has the time to bespoke integrate every single package. There is always a long tail of stuff that is budgeted minimally----this isn't Linux distro ideology, put simple economics. Nixpkgs allows multiple disparate groups to better cooperate on that long tail.
Yeah, this seems strange. I’ve seen the black heart symbol before (not an actual emoji), but never a real emoji. Does it work for me too? 🧐
all become portals to the same social graph data...privacy

How will we have privacy when the graph is open?
Probably because lurkers have a topic they're finally passionate about. Also, doesn't this site have a rule about assuming the best intentions from posters?
Can't seem to run my React Native with Xcode 11.7 on my Mac
Sure, but the ideal framing here is that Apple is not going to assume that on your behalf. It is very welcome to have someone in the space who is willing to say that my phone isn't necessarily a platform built for advertisers.
Same here. I am remote, but, up until the shutdown, I worked out of a coworking space.

Some things have improved. For example, my office-based colleagues' videoconferencing etiquette has improved dramatically. Nowhere near as many people doing things like leaving their camera off and blatantly working on other things instead of paying attention to the meeting.

But my own sense of wellbeing has suffered, all the same. I find it much easier to maintain work-life boundaries when work happens somewhere else.
I’m not the parent poster, but I agree with their preference. It’s psychological. I focus better with a clear delineation of work in a work setting and personal life in a home setting. Even the physical transition of the commute helps me switch over. This is something that has eroded in the last six months even though I’ve tried to substitute it with practices like an “office” room.

Additionally, I am definitely a person who prefers in person meetings and conversations. It’s not that I can’t do remote conversations - I’ve even managed remote employees for years - but I value water cooler conversations as a place for spontaneous idea generation or just relationship building, which is just harder remotely. You have to go out of your way to send ideas into the ether, without the physical signs that someone might be receptive to random, possibly stupid musings, or non-sequiter stuff about personal life.

Count me among the people who are fine with others choosing to stay remote, but once it’s feasible and safe to go into the office I would want to do it.
The long term shakeout of this will be that everybody realizes that yes, we need offices. They are spaces literally built for working. The required footprint will be smaller, people won't need to be in the office for absolutely everything, the demand for square footage of commercial real estate will decrease a bit—good news for cities who don't build b/c they can convert excess commercial inventory to residential.

But we have also found a vast increase in productivity that we probably won't see in the numbers until we can separate it out from all the other crazy shit that's been happening. The efficiencies gained in every white collar business being forced to make remote work to some degree are significant, and I think as of yet underrated.

So no we're not all going to be sipping cocktails on the beach (though more of us might) but we will be better off. Big exogenous shocks tend to find hidden productivities, even if the shock part really sucks.
I don't think that chart is describing actual canopy coverage or timber supply.

Since 1630, about 256 million acres of forest land have been converted to other uses—mainly agricultural. Nearly two-thirds of the net conversion
to other uses...

It's a land area/land use statement. Clearcut scars in Forest Service land are, more than likely, still considered forest land.

The general fight I remember from the 80's-90's timeframe was over clearcutting old growth, mainly in the Pacific Northwest.
I detect a hint of worry: if the company does just fine with minimal input from the CEO, how do they justify their outsized salary and benefits?
Of course. It is CCP, they are scanning QR code to determine if someone can go some where. It is like a video game in real life over there.
Clean coal, clean diesel, now clean incinerated plastic: I don't doubt that it's manageable or maybe even fully solved, I just don't have much faith in it being employed. The track record of such things is not great.
Never going to happen. Ever. Decentralized means it's inevitably more cumbersome to use. If you make it easier you're taking shortcuts somewhere, especially if you want a platform that's resistant to censorship and is supposed to provide anonymity. And if you actually do succeed in this you'll inevitably end up with a platform where highly immoral content is just a wrong click away.

It'll be this cycle of a new platform being fresh and trendy, then they become bigger, care about being taken seriously by traditional media, for getting ad deals with the big players, then a new platform pops up, cycle repeats.
Would you have bought these items otherwise?
If the answer is no, then you were "sucked in".

Google AdWords was great, you search for product X you definitely wanted to buy X, that's reasonable personalization.

Now they want to know who you are, so they can
optimize manipulatating you to want X even if you didn't before you saw their ad.

There's a big difference between the two type of advertising, although they're both personalized. One is aligning stake holders interest, the other forms an adversarial dynamics.

Of course, in reality, these are the two ends of a spectrum, I dichotomized it to make my point clearer.
I’m all for choice. I would probably do part time in the office but I’ve been living my best life remotely working. My productivity is way up. No driving 2-3 hours a day. Helping my kids with school cooking. Been great.
the submitter posted this on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ir8ic6/youtube...
Watch “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix, see how far off the rails the industry has gone, then come back and tell me that Apple is the bad guy here. Someone needs to start standing up for what’s right, and Apple is probably the only one with the size and cash reserves to be able to do it.

For all the free market cheerleaders, remember this: we already have laws in place preventing or regulating businesses from engaging in certain activities, like exploitation, gambling, addictive drugs, etc. And these companies fighting Apple want to do exactly that: Epic wants to sell digital gambling (loot) boxes to children. Facebook and Instagram want to track everything you do every second of the day, for the dubious goal of making advertising “more relevant to you” (and just happens to have the small side effect of being a tool currently in use to topple democracies around the world). Social networks are hooking into addiction centers of the brain to keep people hooked on misinformation that is actually killing people.

Is Apple perfect? No. Is this one thing going to stop all that I mentioned? No. But you have to start somewhere.
Agree on the latter, but VSCode Live Share has made it passable!
Is Elixir really the general purpose productivity tool that comments here (and on other HN posts) make it out to be?

I've loved playing with Erlang and Elixir. The concurrency model and approach to failure are fascinating and clearly powerful for certain problems. Elixir's Pheonix feels as productive as Rails. I've read most of Joe Armstrong's books and watched most of his talks.

However, I feel like I can throw my daily driver programming languages including Go, Ruby, Rust... even Haskell at any problem and give or take performance, come out the other end with high quality software at scale.

When I last wrote Elixir, it felt great when I was doing basic Rails shaped work or lower level concurrency heavy networking (I was playing with TUN/TAP interfaces), but I really can't imagine it as a general purpose programming language.

For example I can't imagine scripting in Elixir, but I can and do in the other languages mentioned above. Also I remember trying to write a parser library and it felt way more verbose and unmaintainable than the equivalent Haskell or Rust.

This is hand wavy, but does anyone feel what I'm getting at? Any thoughts?
The expectation from the fortune 500 company I work at is we will eventually go back to normal. Though we are slowly starting to come around to COVID as being potentially a multi-year situation. We’ve got a small number of people in management roles that will return a few days a week in office soon. I’m personally a bit worried this will create an expectation or disadvantage for others not in office. In my observation there is a political commonality to the management returning to office in our company that may be a driver for them.
> what good does banning an app do to a country

Given the context of recent India-China issues, it is fair that India will take punitive steps. But it will not make China to correct her behaviour. I look at the banning of the apps this way:

1. Sends a message to China that India can take further steps and will stand-up to the bullying of China

2. I really doubt that banning apps is the ultimate card with India. It is a just one of the cards and reserving others when things escalate

3. If banning 100+ apps results into even growth of 10 apps India-made apps, it is a good side effect.

4. Any little trust India policymakers had towards China is gone. See [1]

[1] https://theprint.in/defence/china-wanted-no-escalation-on-ho...

Note: theprint.in is not a right-wing media outlet. I could have cited a more pro-govt sources but theprint is a centrist ones.
By contrast I'd rather not go back to meticulously decorating source files to add types where they aren't needed, so Elixir seems like the perfect language to me.
If you mean "loud minority pretending to be radical leftists but rather just signalling virtue in a competition of who is more woke", then yes :)
But why try to support that, instead of allow the economy to adapt?

I spent £180 per week on transport before this, and another £50+ on coffee and meals.

At the end of the year I will have saved enough to get my bathroom refitted, benefitting local tradespeople. I also go out and buy coffee and food locally more often.

The spending won't be lost, it'll change. And if we're lucky it'll change in a way that spreads the money out beyond London.

The real sector that's f*cked is commercial property.
can't you heat your apartment with the residual from cooking meth?
You sound like a third year maths student who has just been taught the Lebesgue integral and has decided that it is the _real_ definition of definite integration. Quite frankly I don't have the energy or inclination to have adversarial arguments with people who don't understand what I'm saying. Maybe talk to your professors about the generalizations of integration and why none of them are the 'real' way to integrate a function.

Also the integral procedure defined at the top isn't a function, it's an operator. It returns functions as results, not values.
> how do you propose thermostats in each unit with that setup?

Thermostatic or electronically controlled radiator valves (possibly z-waved to the per-unit thermostat for the electronically controlled one). Don't see why per-unit thermostat would be an issue.

And add submetering (using heat cost allocators or heat meters) to provide by-use billing.
Yes, but how do we know that this is a good strategy? Is it working? How do we be certain that this is a good fight back mechanism?
It is the experience you have once you get over the hump. It is not the experience you have at the start. This gap causes a lot of arguing on the internet.
Data point: Most of my single co-workers, most of whom have roommates, would like to return to working in an office. They miss the social aspect of work, and for some of them it’s hard to work from home.
>Apple is a gatekeeper for them, not the other way around.

Given that Android has a 75% share[0] of the mobile OS market, that isn't really true. Apple is a gatekeeper for the 23% or so of mobile devices.

I think that giving end users control over what data about them is exfiltrated from their devices is a good thing. And assuming that applies to Apple apps as well, it sounds like a win for IOS users.

N.B.: I do not currently, nor have I ever owned an Apple device. Even the Apple ][ I built from a kit in high school was a clone and not Apple hardware.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-sha...
Germany and Austria, Visits to Radon Health Spas Are Covered by Health Insurance
> However, hasn't this happened just because they themselves wanted to be mobile first

Not just "mobile first", but they were iPhone-only for the first eighteen months:

* https://techland.time.com/2012/04/03/no-joke-instagram-is-fi...

* https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/03/tech/mobile/instagram-android...
I miss the ad-hoc conversations with coworkers that lead to cool product innovation. I also miss being able to mentor junior engineers in person, and receiving in-person mentorship from my seniors.

I personally believe that we're all running on the trajectory and direction we scoped before the shut-down, and as we move into H1 planning next year, things are going to get much slower and more complicated.
USA is certainly no saint, eg Banana Republics, not to mention war crimes in the middle-east.

But IMHO a world 'under' USA's insistence on openness, human-rights, democracy, (and free-flowing oil, etc, of course), is preferable to China's opaque mercantilism and spiteful sensitivity.

My point is that USA is aping those attributes.

We need to stop being dragged into a less-free world.
CVE-2019-20916 pip before 19.2 for Python allows Directory Traversal
Yep, and the cell furthest down in any column contains the loop that makes the sound repeat.
A Stinging Office Memo Boomerangs; Chief Executive Is Criticized (2001)
Easter egg in Microsoft Edge browser
Interesting. For whatever reason my team keeps video on for all meeting unless there are bandwidth issues. But I agree now that it would be far worse if folks didn’t show their face regularly.
people should all just bit bitorrent over i2p for all internet access. So everyone is anonymous at all time. No body should be known who they are unless they want to you.
Everyone is not fine with heroin being illegal. Heroin being illegal is wildly irresponsible and immoral because while heroin is a dangerous drug, far more danger is created by an unclean and unpredictable supply and by pushing addicts into crime to finance it.

The big difference is that speeding puts others lives at risk. Someones heroin addiction for the most part will themselves at risk (except where keeping it illegal pushes people into crime to finance their addiction, which is another reason to provide legal access)
The people on the phone are effectively only a few centimetres away, nevermind feet. So shouldn't it be even more rude to ignore internet messages?

The internet isn't some kind of fake virtual reality... it is just a communication tool. The draw to use it is created by real people sharing real ideas. I think this idea that people who are physically closer to you deserve more of your attention is misguided.
It's about control. Many managers like to micromanage everything and everybody very much, but that does not work very well remotely. They want to make sure, or at least to be able to make sure, that their workers, well, work. Many are afraid to loose that kind of control, because that's the only thing they can do best.
I'm the opposite. Without having to hear the two women sitting two rows back talking loudly about whatever the hell it is, or be interrupted 8 times a day by people in unrelated areas asking inane questions that are already documented on confluence...

Working from home has been amazing for my concentration levels.
By offering knowledge to their clients?
I wouldn't call it abuse, I would call it a service.
"experiences" is a word that nowadays fills me with repellence
GuiLite – The smallest header-only GUI library (5 KLOC) for all platforms
The truth is that 50km/h is already way to fast in a city. A good driver who actually takes into account everything that can happen in a city would never drive at 50 km/h as it is already way to fast to keep pedestrian safe, at least in most European cities.
Nobody needs to drive at higher speed than the limits. If you can't wait behind a slow vehicle, unless you have a dying person on your side, maybe you should not drive in the first place...
Twenty-Two+Effective+Home+Remedies+For+Earache+-+Health+Lines
they are simply normie trash. just program the code and call it a day or night.
The best answer I've heard of is a company opening up the offices but mandating that all meetings are over videoconference anyway. Need to get out of the house? There's an office for you. But you don't have an inherent in-person advantage in a meeting.
It's maybe doable, but just about every fresh food/ingredient ist wrapped in plastic.

I can get lentils, rice, bread, maybe milk etc without packaging (Unverpackt-Läden in Germany) but not butter, eggs, cheese, spices and so on.
nice. They kind of hide this from the main download link.
First, you’re talking about advertising, not marketing. Also this all might have been true 15 years ago. But these days you aren’t likely to see a startup with under $50million in funding (so, 99% of startups) do TV ads and OOH and event sponsorships.

Those are “brand” advertising techniques still popular among legacy CPG brands who are stuck in the old world. Those are the campaigns with no exact way to measure returns other than educated guesses.

Any properly run startup today is focusing the majority of ad spend on “direct response,” or direct sales ie. Facebook ads, google AdWords, etc. or actual human sales teams.

This spending is 100% measurable so any company paying more to acquire customers than the customer’s exact LTV is simply dumb or trying some nefarious loss leader strategy.

Facebook and Google sit at the top of S&P 500 right now because their ad networks are so measurable and perfectly targeted.

There is no problem with a lack of visible returns on Facebook or google ad spend.
It completely depends on your home situation. If you have a quiet home office with fast broadband then why not work from home.

If however you and your partner are squeezed round a small table in a studio flat with no air con fighting over crappy WiFi the office makes a lot of sense.

The author finally comes to this point at the end of the article. It’s not all back to the office or the death of the office, it’s somewhere in between. Unfortunately that’s not a good headline.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iwqN3Ur-wP0
Totally! Security by obscurity is awsome!!!! Had a software running for over 10 years for many users. Never a hack because the backend is some very obscure framework on jvm. Just upgrade the JDK and everything still runs fine after over 10 years.
> Cynically I might suggest the real subtext here is about propping up commercial property investment portfolios.

Great article. I recommend taking out the word "cynically". That is what this is about.
That, and the fact that many politicians, media barons and other wealthy individuals stand to lose a lot of money on their commercial property investments, and so have their flying monkeys working overtime to persuade the rest of us to risk life and health for no good reason.
At 5.30 I reboot my workstation from linux into windows. Separation complete :)
If you squint sideways pattern matching on structs plus guards is sort of like type checking (but not really). The map checking mentioned in the changelog will be a nice addition.

I've been doing both a lot of TypeScript (for work) and Elixir (for personal projects) for the last few years and I do get a stronger sense of safety from TypeScript (especially during refactoring) but Elixir feels much more concise and fun to work in and the Phoenix event ticketing app I've been running for the last 3 years has been rock solid.

btw I've been programming for 30+ years with all sorts of untyped, dynamically typed and statically typed languages. I still haven't found "the one true language". Something like strongly typed CoffeeScript that runs on BEAM would be close (I've been watching Gleam for a while and I plan to play with it after it matures a bit more).
I often don’t feel strong enough, but I still have work to get done, kids to raise, a wife to support. Sometimes (most times for most people) we have to do things that don’t make us happy. Chores, bills, work, difficult conversations, break ups, supporting others who need it.
What about entire /56s ? (Home user on IPv6.)
Why not try it yourself? It’s pretty easy to clone the repo :)
The ones that ask for cash are probably trying to avoid some taxes... I didn't pay cash for my rent in the USA.