skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you doing everything you should when you welcome a new hire?
I have been using duckduckgo for over a year, and it works pretty well. One frustration is the mapping. Apple maps is really awful. I end up switching to osm/bing if I need to look something up on a map.
This is common construction in Germany as well, with a drainage pipe near the bottom of the gravel all around the house, which provides a low-restriction path for water to escape.
TIL too! The German wikipedia articles are quite detailed: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdrillmast https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdrillschema

I'd be interested to know if the twists have been removed from the lines. It might be the case that they've replaced the special twisting masts with other ways of twisting, eg taking the lines into a substation and re-orienting them on the way back out. If they've added a lot of substations as the land gets developed more, that may be the case.

Also, I'm sure twisted masts are a bit more expensive. So this might just be a gradual process of saving money as equipment gets replaced rather than any specific engineering goal. There's many other things that unbalance lines, and twisting masts may not make enough of a difference compared to other issues.
Their hardware, in the case of gaming mice/keyboards at least, runs absolutely fine with generic drivers. The issue here is them pushing an extra "control center" type app through ads that pop up on the desktop without any consent or interaction from the user.
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That's how Teams works and if I remember rightly even Skype for business/Lync had this way back.
5 minute exercise to try -

Download Tor https://www.torproject.org/download/

Go to your site, and see if you think it works - https://fingerprintjs.com/demo

(Also notice how Tor changes the screen size everytime you open it)
"Having a window relaxes your eyes during this era of stay-at-home pandemic and 10+ hours of screen time." I view screens all day for both work and recreation. This much more than when I was in an employers office where I could move about periodically. Opening a window with a distant view really improved my eye hygiene. Gazing out a window every minute or two, focusing the eyes at 20 or 100 feet really helps relax them. I could image a whole new generation of coke-bottle-eyeglass kids who spent two much screen time at home school, then video games afterwards.
Can you update the FAQ to stipulate that you aren't collecting face data too?

Because right now you say you're not doing anything with the images, that doesn't rule out collecting face data and storing that instead.
I'd recommend you don't upgrade to Catalina. It's really awful. Go straight to Big Sur.
In case of mouse their software is required to disable the annoying blinking leds.
Companies don’t just spend money because they “have the budget”.
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Ah, a disabled alarm. Classic. Let me tell you about my Samsung Galaxy Note 8 tablet.

I always used a flip cover with a magnet which automatically puts the device in standby when it's closed. The tablet was always closed next to my bed as an alarm clock. After some time I noticed, that my alarm apparently didn't work.

Turns out, that an update introduced a new feature: Closing the flip cover will automatically snooze the alarm. Problem is, that it also prevents an alarm from even starting, when the cover is already closed.

Later they realized that it's a bug and disabled it again.
Now I wish there was a prank app generating those kind of notifications when someone shares a screen. Would be great to install on any friend/coworker who forgets to lock his laptop before stepping out.
Wikipedia also says that creosote is literally meat preservative and that it used to be used to save meat from spoiling.
> PG&E does ultimately have some responsibility […]

Don't stop there; remember they're regulated:

> California’s public utilities commission prioritized rates, green power; wildfires exposed shortcomings

* https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-caused-over-400-fires-in-2...

* https://archive.is/czAB3 (paywall)

> A state lawmaker on Wednesday demanded an extensive review of the California Public Utilities Commission to determine whether regulators’ lax oversight enabled neglect at Pacific Gas & Electric that triggered catastrophic wildfires, a messy bankruptcy and exasperating blackouts.

* https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/16/california-lawmaker-d...
> increasingly frustrated messages from him on Slack

I always say to people "if it's urgent then phone me".

Software has too many ways to fail to notify you. I miss text messages because my phone is charging in the other room, I miss Slack notifications because I reinstalled Windows on one machine and relied on the Slack web UI rather than the desktop app. There's so may ways to misconfigure notification services. My phone ringing is hard to ignore.

Also - I forget to act on SMS and WhatApp messages all the time because they conflate "read" with "done". I have a second rule - "if you want me to remember it then email me."
They had to give them some work
I simply stopped using the wake-up alarm function due to this. Never figured out how to make it work again.
Yea my android misses alarms all the damn time.

Well, that's what my boss thinks anyway.
iOS has had alarm issues for years. Sometimes my alarm will go off silently for no obvious reason (e.g., does not depend on whether phone is on silent or not - alarm should sound anyway). It happens so intermittently that I've never managed to figure out reproduction steps.

Nevertheless, it's caused me problems enough times (missed trains to London, for example) that nowadays if it's really important for me to get up I'll always set a backup alarm on a different device (even a good old alarm clock).

I really wish Apple would fix it.
I messed up. Upon referring to http://martin-gardner.org/MGSAindex.html , I've learned it was a Hofstadter column: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/metamagical-thema... (paywalled)

Does http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Martin.Schoenert/Cube-Lovers... provide enough information? (At least it gives you some better search terms.)

> "indeed it is not visually obvious that any progress at all is being made until the cube is almost solved."
I mean, I can see a case for copyrighting such a setup as an art-piece. Although it's still silly if used for anything other than discouraging others from making money off it (e.g. selling photos).
At logon, via HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.

You can switch it off with SysInternal's Autoruns [1] ... along with all other stuff that Autoruns will dig up.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/auto...
Two completely disconnected yet valid, and even useful, interpretations of the question. This is good fun!
I think they are arguing that this is changing now. When I first started software engineering ~15 years ago, it was pretty common for enterprises to exert quite a lot of control over what tech could be used. You had to use some solution from the "approved" list of languages/frameworks/versions (that was always hilariously out of date). Then that swung in the opposite direction (mostly concurrently with cloud adoption where dev teams were in charge of their own infrastructure) where individual teams had complete free reign to choose their own tech. The author is arguing that things are now swinging back in the other direction and it's largely driven by security considerations. So its not "you have to use something on the approved list of tech maintained by the Enterprise Architecture gods" but rather "you have to use something that is supported by our enterprise SAST solution." It will still likely be more lax than it was back in the old days because it is harder to enforce those restrictions in a world where the dev team manages their own cloud infrastructure, but still.
I am not surprised. I may be speaking from ignorance but this seems to be at the center of a lot of spiritual experience. In south India, during village festivals (which are closer to folk religion rather than mainstream Hinduism) there is an event where devotees play music to encourage Goddess descend on an individual and the person eventually acts as if that Goddess has descended and he or she is possessed by the spirits. Sometimes more than one person would act in this way. I never believed this to be real, I thought that the individuals were obviously faking it.

Once I got a chance to visit an interior south Indian village and experience this firsthand. Having been there, I don't think all of it is intentional faking. The whole atmosphere, the music with its drum rhythms (Udukkai) and a raising crescendo are all designed to put a person into a sort of reverential trance. Even for me, it was a feeling unlike anything I experienced before. It is quite possible that brought up on that folklore and more sensitive to such triggers would experience an extra-corporeal sensation (like the one described in the article) and attribute it to divine presence. And at the culmination of event, when goddess is said to leave the body, the possessed person often faints after an epileptic fit. This was also mentioned in the report. To me, this is neurological programming perfected over generations... but to what avail I don't know.
One of my favourite things about the old blackberrys was that the alarm went off... even when the phone had 'run out' of battery! seriously awesome feature.
Still, there isn't a single picture from inside the house. A video showing how is it to live inside a hill etc..
The whole site is an amusing and satisfying read, mostly because it's reassuring to know I'm not the only person who is really bothered by these kind of little UI niggles.

I particularly love the one where a German insurance provider insists on ignoring the point of the 'I' in 'IBAN':
https://annoying.technology/posts/8b0e0f1083d21073/

[For non-europeans: the first two characters of an International Bank Account Number are the ones that identify the country; if they really wanted to insist that only Germany-registered bank accounts are allowed, there are more intuitive ways to validate that.]
True. Then going by Steam's VR statistics from August (https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey):

46% for all Oculus types
36% for Vive+Index

Well, Oculus does seem to be more popular and perhaps that is what the parent meant by Facebook "winning" VR segment. To me "winning" sounds more like total domination, where any competition is near a statistical error. This doesn't seem to be the case here (though I admit Steam statistics may be skewed towards Vive/Index).
I think Zoom is doing its job there. It can't know about other stuff you have planned, and suppressing alerts when screen sharing is a good idea.

Let's not blame too much on tech
Apple knows better than you when your alarm should be activated.

You were “holding the phone wrong”.
I've tried every single option for in-ears except for custom-moulded parts. None of them fit.

I've tried cheap ones, I've tried expensive ones, I've tried swappable tips. Nope.

I also hate the Darth Vader soundtrack I get when I shove in-ear plugs in my head. I can hear every single breath I take.

Regular old AirPods though? They stick to my ears like glue.

People have different shaped ears, no one model can fit everyone. Even over the ear headphones differ on how they fit people with glasses. PortaPros are a complete no-no for me for example. Great headphones, absolute nope with glasses.
> Are you able to accept that this is my experience/opinion?

I can readily accept your opinion.

But when I say 'I'm happy with the tradeoffs and the book world is far better with Audible without and it's a fine consensual business relationship' then everyone tries to remove my agency and that I could only say such a thing under abuse.

Audiobooks used to be astronomically expensive, hard to buy, hard to use. Thanks to Audible I'm reading more than ever. There's a minor trade-off of DRM which isn't really even a theoretical problem for me or I think the vast vast majority of people, but people forget all that and call them 'abusive'. I think it's nasty and unreasonable.
If you're lucky the EU might have a go.

Thank God for brexit, couldn't be having any of that free trade and consumer protections
and you took the time to write a post about this. wow
Was a member of the eugenics society of America and was on the board of planned parenthood. Used his power and connections to pull strings for Microsoft and help it become a behemoth that threatens the fair market of desktop operating systems and open source software. The Gates family is a criminal organization hell bent on control.
Tried it out a few minutes. While I like the polish, this cannot (yet) compete with Sublime Text for me (and remote editting is one of the major weaknesses of Sublime currently, even with available extensions, while it looks as if it might be one of the strengths of Nova).

It already starts with the editor itself, which has only one word wrapping mode (the other mode is horizontal scrolling), where it will wrap the lines at pretty arbitrary locations due to its desire to implement "word" wrapping, instead of also offering a simple mode which simply breaks the current work :-(

If basic editting does not fit my style, it is a no go no matter what other niceties it might have, once the extension stuff starts going for real.
I buy Apple products because they are supposedly held to a higher standard. They do not get a pass just because iOS 14 is not as awful as their previous attempt.
For Office 365 I use DavMail [0] for calendar, and Office 365's own SMTP/IMAP servers for mail.

Both seem to work well. It would be nice to have DavMail built in to Thunderbird, but it happily lives in a Screen session with no issues.

[0] http://davmail.sourceforge.net/
No words can describe the nightmare this just created out of my pictures. Hahahah wtf.
Isn't it a bad idea to use gas heating if you are worried about humidity?
The article author didn't build the house, they bought it.

Somebody built that house because it was their dream project, and then sold it because it turned into a nightmare.

If you want a thick stone house, you will need to acquire and move the stone. The usual construction in the US is wood stick framing. It's so ubiquitous that even finding a contractor who will work with steel framing instead of wood is difficult. The material cost isn't awfully different, but the techniques are.

Finding a contractor to handle stone would require a much, much larger budget.
> This feels like PG&E was betting it wouldn't happen to them.

PG&E is regulated, like most utilities are.

Where are/were the regulators?
The French and wider EU rules around this (often referred to as "freedom of panorama", discussed here [1]) are actually quite complex. From my time contributing to Wikipedia, I've seen a number of cases of photos on articles being removed due to it.

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama
I've been using start page for the past few years as a default, but find myself typing in google.com->tab to search a lot of my day. The difference between pasting in a random golang compiler error into startpage vs google trained me to google all of my software issues.
The biggest non-technical hurdle at this point is google maps. The ability to type in an address and get a map with directions and nearby businesses has been pounded into my brain and when I use DDG or startpage with an address I generally end up sighing and pasting it into google.
This was a persistent problem in iOS 6 and made me late for work at least 5 times. Eventually I learned never to rely on iOS alarms.
> During landing, for example, it is typical to have a healthy descent rate with the nose slightly up from level.

And of course the landing itself (for airliners at least, that is) will be with the main gear first and only then does the nose wheel come down as well.

Once you've internalised that, you can't help but notice that one style of pictograms typically used to designate the "Arrivals" section of an airport (e.g. https://www.alamy.com/airport-signs-departure-and-arrivals-a...) alarmingly looks rather like a crash landing than a regular landing :-)
That's incorrect. Telegram shows what the user has sent, only that. The autocompletion depends on whether the mentioned user has chosen a username, and other factors.
There's a values conflict between the Health and Clock apps here. Clock wants you to wake up on time. Health wants you to sleep in!
A wildfire that regularly clears out only the underbush is what was the place historically (and the ecosystems have adapted to this), human prevention of these fires plus climate change has led to fires consuming way more material than they should.
The listed pros of living in the underground house:

Protection from tornados, Lots of natural light, Great views, No noise from the street or neighbors, Pets seem to love it, Being closer to nature

I think only the tornado protection might be an argument. Otherwise the house does not have to be underground? I expected arguments like 'natural insulation' and 'less disturbing to the landscape'
Blaming the spark is antithetical to solving this problem.

There will always be sparks.

Blaming the spark is like blaming the welders for the Beirut bombing.
It will ask again. At least it did for me.
I made quite a number of changes to my platform.

- Markdown is now supported. Moreso, you can switch between Markdown and the fancy WYSIWYG editor

- RSS Feed

- You are now able to schedule posts to be published at a date-time of your choosing

- UI Improvements.

- Loading time improvements
Whether there should be or not. The question isn’t why doesn’t every website have a native app. The question is if PWAs are good enough for Android because of its great support and not good enough for iOS. You should see a lot of companies doing iOS + Web instead of iOS + Android + Web. But that’s not the case. Companies have spoken with their budgets. They decided that it was worth the money to have native Android apps.

Could it possibly be that HN posters are wrong and PWAs aren’t good enough on Android either?
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They are handled equally. Both prompts whenever they want to access your photos.
I am experiencing same thing with asus ROG mechanical keyboard. Windows automatically installed crapware along with couple services. Its uninstaller gives error, parts that uninstalled get re-installed again. I hate it.
One of the major selling points of the Editor posted here is that it isn't a cross platform app or built with web tech. Those already exist and it's great that we have choices but some developers like Panic have carved out a niche selling software thats very specific and tightly integrated into the platform. For those developers using the platform they're developing for makes a lot of sense.
Inflation adjusted housing cost per square foot has remained remarkably constant for decades. Thus, given higher interest rates over the same fixed timeframe, relative payments were higher.
Tried it, definetly can't concentrate with grindcore.
Wow that was prominent. Yeah they had to remove that or people would have had all kinds of reactions to it at the time.
Not Thunderbird but I use DavMail to access Office 365 mails and calendars from Kmail. It has been a really smooth experience for the 6 months I have been using it.

Not affiliated in any way, just a happy user.
That's it, I'm starting a twitter account for upvoted jokes on HN. That's quite an achievement.
I'm assuming it's not as a bad as it was at launch, right?

(For example the parallel universes like wibbly wobbly world, and the non-existent village of Basingstoke)
It being the case that drug legislation is already a pile of shit and demonstrably not in the advantage of actual people, why would we make other things legislated just as poorly?
I have been reading about what this means for California, and it’s a really tricky problem of managing to create lots of little fires that make lots of people annoyed.

I hope they realize they can still play a role in fighting climate change with controlled burns, especially if they time a majority of their controlled burns during peak summer. This would let the smoke act as a reflector of radiation over quite a large area.
Fair, sadly this is the best coverage we can get on one of the most important trials in recent history in regards to press freedom. The fact that there is neither wide spread protest/voicing of support in the media, or at least coverage is depressing beyond belief.
Nokia 3310 had the same feature: you could turn it off, but the alarm was still working for weeks.
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So if someone monkeys with the lighting fixtures at night, such that they weren't in their copyrighted configuration... I am clearly not a lawyer.
> Did you know that Apple can notify you that they have revoked your iOS license at any time, without cause, and, under a strict interpretation of copyright law, make it illegal for you to then use or power on the phone that you own?

Have you got a source / defence for that?

I thought that copyright only applies to reproduction and distribution, not use, hence the term ‘copy’ ‘right’. Once you have acquired something, you are free to use it as you now own it. I would also have thought promissory estoppel would also prevent a company from unilaterally revoking your right to use their product.
No, it means they did some math correctly in the past. They built great hardware and coupled it with a usable OS/UX. I have tried Android several times and found it generally more buggy. However, iOS has progressively gotten more complex and buggy (I still have rotation bugs across all my devices.)

At some point maybe I'll stop paying the Apple premium if all things are equally buggy.
I do not trust smartphones for my wake up alarm, been bitten too many times. A simple battery driven one is just so much more reliable.
Thanks for elaborating. It seems like the impact would be much more less than what I expected.
Life should not be as hard as it is. It is hard, and it is not painless, but it's harder and more painful than it must be. We have billionaires siphoning money from the masses (either directly, or indirectly via government action) that are already struggling. Redistributing even half of their net worth would be a life-changing amount for the average person, and could put wind in the sails of many charitable/educational/scientific/medical causes.

There is no reason why the current situation should be allowed to continue, and many reasons why it should not. Obviously it's a hard practical problem to crack (given that a naive approach to redistribution of this kind would be met with a great pushback and implode various systems that we depend on), but unless we do something effective, we'll keep ruining the planet while trampling the poor at the same time.
Take two minutes and reflect on why people wrote stories before the concept of copyright even existed.
While I am a huge supporter of free market and capitalism, due to the massive regulations on utilities it is no longer a free market, at least for power generation and delivery.

Thus the better model for utilities are Coop's, member / consumer owned businesses where the goal is delivering reliable, safe power at a reasonable rate.

Utilities by their nature lend themselves to Market Monopoly, regulations added to that almost assures it so for most people having that service provided by a member owner COOP instead of an Investor Owned corporation will result in a better safer, more reliable outcome
With this logic, one would blame welders for the Beirut bombing, because they weren’t wearing side shields on their safety glasses.
If its the official driver from the hardware manufacturer they'll "verify" it.

I don't really blame MS people just want to plug in and play.