skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with California's proposition system is that any modification to a proposition requires another direct-democracy vote to modify it in any way.

Pretty much the only way to get a proposition onto the ballot is through concerted and expensive political activity by special interests.

So the proposition that we vote on, which gets passed by 50% + 1 vote, is often extremely confusing and there is no room for debate on whether it was well crafted law, and no easy way to modify when bugs in the law are discovered.
Cigarettes create carcinogens through the act of burning them to consume it. Your point?
I'm sure taxonomists would agree that a turtle on land is an animal whereas a turtle in the sea with fin type legs is a fish.
We'd like to merge it as well, but it's still very much a work in progress, and there's some major hurdles with both Wayland itself and Qt that need to be addressed first.
I think the cancer-causing substances should be right on the warning label.
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Interesting, also UK here, never really noticed problems with our toilets on the scale you are describing. There are some that annoy me because you need to push the flush a couple times (pump action), but fairly rare.

Whereas with US toilets, I just don’t get them. The low flat bowl is weird, discourages peeing standing up, and then the design of most public and business toilets with those massive gaps on the doors, giving you no privacy... what’s with that?
What pro productions use for wireless microphones and audio is actually pretty decent with low or almost no latency. They present as a wired microphone to whatever sound source you plug them into.

Ex: http://www.rode.com/wireless/wirelessgo

Also old school wireless phones don't have the latency & low bit rate issues of bluetooth either and they allowed you to plug in a headset too.

It really comes down to the design of the system. I don't know how practical it would be although in a dense city or apartment building.
The problem with resource efficiency is diminishing returns and serviceability. We’ve reached a point now where the life expectancy of every appliance is now lower, but we say it’s a good thing because people upgrade to more efficient appliances. I refuse to believe throwing hundreds of pounds of metal in the scrap heap (not to mention the production and shipping costs) is better than being a few percent less efficient.

We need laws around serviceability and warranty just as much as resource usage. How about every device should work for 10 years, no exceptions.

I refuse to believe we can make cars with 10 year, 100k warranties but not toilets or refrigerators. Ever try to get an appliance fixed? You’re basically paying a guy to come out and tell you a circuit board needs replaced for 300 dollars or to just buy a new device, btw that estimate costs 100 dollars.

It’s ridiculous, especially since it hurts regular people way more than the profits help anyone.
I am in a similar boat and it is exhausting. It is very hard to manage people effectively and do individual contributor level work at the same time. Many people I know after a short stint in management returned to IC work and that is fine and respectable choice.

If you do stay in management, get your priorities straight. You do need to be the jack of many trades but these are probably not the trades you are thinking of.

Your first and foremost priority is building the right team. Hiring right people, giving autonomy and sense of purpose to the team members. You want people that are smart but even more importantly you want people that get things done with little or no supervision.

Having said that your second most important priority is to get people unstuck. Be it your gravitas in organization, making the right introduction, or sharing a critical piece of knowledge - check in with your team regularly and actively ask if there are stumbling blocks or blockers. Many people are good in asking for help but there are many for whom it is hard.

I could go on but the point is that the trades you want to master in management are more like: communication, courage to delegate, empathy, accountability, being able to make decisions on imperfect information and deal with whatever consequences come up, etc.

EDIT: if you are leaning more towards individual contributor role, you will probably either find startups more interesting OR - if you looking for seniority - find an organization that has parallel ladders for management and individual contributors. Those companies will have positions that are worded “staff engineer” or “principal engineer” and tend to be on a larger side.
Will not be surprised if that new fake deli meat company called Plant Provisions (the impossible burger of deli meat) has something to do with this..
Consider consulting. I like the variety of roles, and changing clients periodically keeps things fresh and exposes me to a lot of technology. I prefer working for a company so I don't have to find my own clients, and get benefits and a steady paycheck. If you can manage your own network, you can potentially earn more, but it's a lot of work finding a steady stream of clients on your own.
I think it's pretty reasonable to say that unprocessed meat is just an animal cut up into pieces, while processed meat is everything else (e.g. almost everything in a supermarket).

Describing food via chemicals only isn't especially useful or easy to parse.
I am a longtime zsh user and tried fish earnestly for a month or so, but gave up because I could not figure out how to ignore certain patterns while auto-completing filenames. For example, I typically edit tex files and I don't want any of the temp files to be suggested as autocomplete suggestions. In zsh, I can write

zstyle ':completion:::(vim|nvim)::files' ignored-patterns '*.(aux|dvi|log|thm|idx|pdf|rel|out|tuo|tui|tuc|tmp|mpo|mpb|mpd|1|keep|pgf|fls|gz|fdb_latexmk)'

(yes, tex generates so many temp files!) I couldn't figure out how to do something similar in fish
Court orders have been mentioned in the article. So, if a Sessions Court orders blocking of a website, will the site be blocked across the country?
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So the whole does this negate coffee's touted "antioxidant" benefits?
The reason for that problem is that no one really cares and it isn't as big of an issue as it seems. Toilet is running? Jiggling the handle is likely to free up the debris that is blocking the valve, since the debris obstructing the valve is the chain itself that controls the valve flap. Once in a blue moon the chain may slip off the handle, but that only requires fishing your hand in and reattaching the chain. No one is going to bother reinventing the wheel and finding 100 more problems in the process in order to fix what is probably 5 seconds of effort a few times a year.
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I've seen some where there were two buttons, but it was a circle where one was a crescent moon shape and the smaller button was just the remainder.

I assumed that you were supposed to push both buttons down if you wanted more water.

I don't really understand them though, so who knows.
Interesting work! AI-enhanced/powered UIs could have a lot of potential. I recently posted polygrid.com and zoomstock.com which are similar in some respects and very different in others, and also got basically crickets in response, so I wanted to give you some feedback that I hope will be useful:

1. I clicked your "Headline News" test drive link and it was all US presidential debate related content. I did see the timeline in the lower right corner, and when I tried a different random search the timeline changed substantially (from covering ~1h to several months). This made me believe that you fetch a small-ish number of items and show those and they cover whatever timespan they're from. Great. But with that few items, is there a point to having this wiz-bang interface? I can scan ~10-100 items in a list reasonably quickly. Seems like a more advanced interface like yours would be more useful with a lot more content being shown? I don't know if you could create group-bubbles (or if that would be useful), but maybe?

2. The bubble-to-bubble relationships are unclear. As a developer I get the BERT embeddings & force directed graph, but as a user all I see is a bunch of randomly distributed bubbles - understanding their relationships requires parsing them in detail, which is at odds with the presentation (= picture + text summarization).

3. I tried the "iran AND rockets" link, get 505 initial results, but clearly many fewer bubbles are shown. I'm extremely comfortable with zooming interfaces, and zoom around in yours a lot, but I don't see any more bubbles - where are the other items?

4. Bubbles work well with force-directed graphs, but not with text content. Yes, I can click to get the rounded rect, but I can move my eyes a lot faster than my mouse.

5. News is, for better or most likely worse, generally consumed in a "lean back" context (= mindless scrolling on various news feeds). Your interface is very much a "lean forward" experience - it is fundamentally premised on an active viewer taking charge. Boy do I wish we consumed news that way.

6. The videos don't really play when I click on the story. I have to then click on the little play button in the youtube player. When zoomed out the video is a little partially obscured thumbnail??

You're trying to do something very challenging. I love the creativity of your solution. Best of luck!
Then there are efficiency ratings for electric heaters.

Unless it's a radiant heater by the window, it gives exactly as much energy as it consumes. An "energy efficient" heater is a useless one.
I’m a bit of the opposite. I find it slightly offensive that people are not investing in their video conference abilities during times like these.

The most notable has been a healthcare provider I’ve been working with. For a multitude of reasons not related to COVID we’ve been relying on telehealth. The sessions are predominately about the conversation and it’s downright frustrating that the provider can’t even be bothered to use the earbuds with mic that come with an iPhone. Our audio is constantly stepping over each other. I’m also looking up the provider’s shadowed nose the entire time too.

The answer is somewhere in the middle. I don’t expect the provider to spend nearly a grand as this persons blog post advocates. However, some super basic training about audio, camera positioning, and lighting would make a world of difference.
One suggestion I didn’t see in here was video games! I switch my Switch to a second language to play Animal Crossing. I’ve found it to be a fun and intuitive way to pick up a little more colloquial language and vocabulary. I’ve had similar good luck with other text-heavy games like the Sims.

Plus, the short format makes it relatively painless, even when your reading comprehension is a little slow. Novels and news were always a slog to me, but a few lines of text feels more manageable. (And less daunting if you have to grab the dictionary.)
And who's gathering this info?

Ahh, isralites! @lways has been
There is the small matter of "equal to 5"
Well, even if you think it's all self-delusion, the ceremony around it is real and that's an important difference.
Microsoft teams lets you raise your hand.

teams and webex have indicators when someone is speaking

screw muting interfaces though. that shouldn't be something that fades out of the screen.
Exact opposite experience for me. The traditional toilets in my childhood home (mid-90s) were (still are) slow, took several flushes for solids, and clogged constantly. The modern low-flow toilet in my current home flushes quickly, never needs more than one flush and never clogs.

Anecdata is anecdata. It's most likely that some toilets are just bad and some are good, regardless of flow amount.
“No technical expertise required”

Nice. Would love these things to be as easy to set up as a new Apple device. Feel like that’s the 20 part of the 80-20 that these projects tend to leave out.
If I'm not mistaken Pure H20 is dangerous to drink?
It's legally possible to sue anyone you want for any reason. So yes, it's very possible.
To me it means, phone-as-ear-tag.
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Well this is the evidence we have.

Epic said they would lose Sign In with Apple.

We have no proof that Apple ever communicated that to Epic.

Epic did not lose access.

So where does that leave us?

As far as Gruber never criticizing Apple.

The keyboard:

https://daringfireball.net/2020/02/my_2019_apple_report_card

And the most famous one. Gruber’s comments on “great web apps” for the original iPhone - calling it a “shit sandwich”

https://daringfireball.net/2007/06/wwdc_2007_keynote

More recently, the complaint about the App Store. He criticizes App review all the time.

https://daringfireball.net/2020/09/widgetsmith_bunco_squad
Steve Mould recently published a video[1] that actually shows a cross-section of one of these siphon mechanisms. I hadn't seen it before either but apparently it's quite common.

1: https://youtu.be/Cg8KQfaT9xY?t=333
Of course the methods listed should be effective regardless of the language as they simulate immersion, but it will not be so "painless" the further away you move from the European language families which share many similarities.
Needs taking down for good, along with any other company bigger than 100 employees!

Clean out the trash and corruption, create real compition, not bullshit false ones between manopolys ran by you know who!
They explicitly disobeyed Apple’s legal rules; got removed just like any other developer who does, and sued them in response. It doesn’t require the judge to have a lot of tech knowledge to roll their eyes at this obvious trolling.

If you walk into a store, and refuse to pay tax on something, it’s not going to go well for you. It doesn’t matter if you think tax is unfair. That’s part of what you agree to when you enter that store and purchase a product from them. Everyone who enters that store knows they have to pay tax. We all agree to. Sometimes we agree to change those taxes when we as a society democratically agree those taxes are not fair. But not my straight up not paying them. This is called fraud, and Epic skipping out on the 30% with its back door switch could potentially be seen as such legally if a significant enough profit was made.

While people do it all the time; a sensible person is not just going to skip out on paying taxes because they feel a particular tax is not fair. They can help fight to change those taxes, or the laws surrounding them; to create a more better/more balanced solution, but if a business suddenly flipped a switch that stopped them from paying taxes the IRS is going to be pounding down their doors extremely quickly.

Apple is only even a monopoly within the Apple ecosystem and it is what partly defines their ecosystem. If you don’t like it, there’s a fantastic, open-source alternative! (Android) Which even has F-Droid, etc; if you feel you also really need your choice of app stores on your choice of platform.

I am positive this is the logical justification the judge could easily give to rule in Apple’s favour.

I’m not even sure why they are wasting the legal fees on this, when the way they went about it assured it could never succeed, legally.

I highly doubt they could not make more money from outright selling the game for months? It’s not super logical to me.

Sure, create a lobby with some other companies to go all in together to legally fight something like this, or something. Don’t just try to sneak around not paying fees and then sue them when they find out. Come on.
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Does anyone else feel like the press button design on these modern dual flush toilets has to be wildly unsanitary?

Your hands are at their dirtiest when you go to flush the toilet. The button design seems very difficult to clean, particularly the wall of the button hole.

In most public restrooms, I kick the lever with my foot to flush the toilet. Not possible with the recessed button design.
If you want people to go to university or other higher education for instance, then any UBI pilot would really need to be a minimum of 4-5 years to give people assurance they will be supported through the entire period of unemployment.
Apparently my factual comment above deserved downvotes. Here is evidence of how Trump was able to legally reduce his taxes below AMT (carry forward):
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/us/trump-750-taxes.html
On keyboard handling, https://github.com/linebender/druid/issues/1040 is the main tracking issue. That references a number of PR's, of which 1049 is the core of the platform keyboard handling. I'd be very pleased for other people doing this (including winit) to use this as a model, as a fair amount of study went into getting it right, especially on Windows.

Regarding IME, we haven't done it yet (we're trying to be fairly conservative in our roadmapping), but we plan to wire up actual composition regions and so on, and hope to plumb IME to it using a cross-platform abstraction. My understanding of the winit code is that it varies a lot from platform to platform, but seems to mostly be synthesizing keyboard events (ReceivedCharacter) when an IME request such as "insertText" happens.
I knew this would be an entrepreneur blog. I'm so sick of these paranoid scheme financial guys teaching at an abstract level. Sure I get the guy selling a shovel during the gold rush makes the money, but these bloggers aren't selling shovels they are selling shovel porn.
(Assuming you are talking about a corded desk phone.)

This is not the reason for the weights. Remove them from the base, and the phone ceases to stay put when you pick up the receiver (which is attached by a springy cord). Remove them from the receiver, and it is not heavy enough to keep the buttons on the hook depressed when hung up.

(Source: I did exactly this in college, with exactly these results.)
I'm so glad this is being pursued. I'm aware of the context(I was around for early Mastodon, and have drifted away from the dev news but still have accounts I use), and the proposals sound "reasonably ambitious", in line with the idea I've daydreamed about for years that more of my online activity should go through personal AI agents, but with a sensitivity to making it work as a real distributed system. Driving things forward with demos is a good plan. The fairy cartoon aesthetic will filter out the people who don't "get" fedi, which is fine. It does fall a bit into the academic and AP-centric jargon.

Some phrases that come to mind as alternate ways of defining the issues being addressed:

"Quality of service"

"Personalized service"

"Features as services"

"Self-healing"

Or maybe go for the classic Unix reference and call them "daemons". Except that would have overlapping technical connotations.
Lol, the landing page is so dense only an IT guy can make heads or tails out of it
Trusting people to make smart decisions when provided with the right information is in fact the goal of Prop 65, because it simply require information to be immediately accessible at the point of sale.

A government that does not trust its citizens to make decisions removes decision making abilities. Like welding shut doors to keep people inside during COVID.
It could cool slightly beyond the set temperature, just like heating usually goes slightly hotter than thermostat setting.
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Unfortunately we don't have the expertise or bandwidth to make that :/
I feel like without some quotes from the dev team this feels very one-sided. It could be that the devs weren’t unhappy to do crunch if the trade offs are fair. I don’t think anyone in SV can say that they haven’t had to work crunch hours, usually with zero extra pay. I hope that there is extra bonus days off on top of the extra pay.
A thing I try to do in interviews is ask people to help me see their strengths... rather than trying to catch them out, I want to know which style of interview (there's so many....) will convince me of their strengths. Some styles of interview will face more of a an upward battle to be convincing to me, but I'm genuinely game to bend toward any format somebody wants.

e.g. Interviewing for a backend dev position but don't want to write any code/algos in the interview, and just talk past projects? OK, that's gonna be tougher sell, but I'm game if you think you can convince me of your strength down that road.

This makes me think about, in my case, if somebody were to offer the same interview freedom to me... As a strong senior generalist, how would I demonstrate that most definitively in 45 minutes? I haven't come up with an easy answer, so I still try to masquerade as the type of specialist-to-role expected in interviews (which I can do to some extent, the full line is "jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than the master of one") but I do think it under demonstrates the real value I bring to organizations.

I don't have an answer yet: under even friendly circumstances, how would a strong pragmatic generalist unquestionably demonstrate it?

In the smaller category of "generalist programmer" (which, like the OP is too restrictive to cover my usefulness) I have thought of games like "pick any domain from a past job of yours, and we'll work on code problems like that, even if I've never worked in that area before", i.e. suggest the true generalist nature by random sampling. But, its hokey, and it still only covers programming.

I'd love ideas, I must confess the frustration of the "useful-in-practice generalist in a world interviewing for specialists" mismatch has me staying at companies that are no longer ideal places to work longer than I think specialists do. Every time I switch jobs, I think the interviews undervalue me, and once I'm hired as a generalist-disguised-as-specialist, it takes time to migrate organizationally into the generalist role where I contribute the most value (even at small companies).
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Had mine 6 years. It doesn't "need" the jet dry, but it certainly helps.
> (~$100) Buy open-back headphones, which let you hear your own voice normally and are extremely comfortable.

I just use one AirPod at a time, so I hear normally through the other ear.
I wouldn’t normally find an article like this of interest for HN, but the original claims that Apple was terminating sign in with apple were repeated widely here and taken as true.

It seems there was, in fact, no evidence for these claims other than Epic saying so. Notably Epic did not publish any documents from Apple, and as Gruber points out it would be against Apple’s interests to cut off people who used Sign in with Apple.

On the internet false claims spread widely and the corrections rarely make it as far. So I think it’s worth considering this article, especially in light of the judicial hearings today where the judge in charge of the case treated many of Epic’s arguments as non credible or unsupported.
Someone I follow on Twitter has found a very good sweet spot for improving her second/nth language: she follows online courses in her field (art and design) in her target language.

In her case, the target language is Spanish, so she does courses from Domestika: https://www.domestika.org/
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It is vital to remember that CD Projekt Red received a ton of goodwill reporting when they announced they would not force crunch on employees. I personally joyfully bought my lovely wife a Switch and Animal Crossing when Nintendo announced they were pushing the game instead of committing to crunch for it. My point is announcing no crunch time is a positive PR move for a company that can bring in more sales.

CD Projekt Red should be pilloried in the gaming press for its callous backpedaling. My heart goes to all those developers who were lied to.
Average user less cares such bad things. They just use it like IE with Ask toolbar.
2. Like what? Name a good cross platform GUI C lib.

3. Remains to be seen.