skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or convert offices to housing. That would actually increase local service businesses. Companies could then have a smaller office for meetings and their team could be closer to the office. Give current office owners an incentive to do it in a staggered set of waves, let them retain some units as rentals but incentivize them to flood the market to bring prices down and watch the city benefit.
You're absolutely right, and I'm disappointed that you've been voted down to negative. At the very least this is a well worded argument worth looking at.

Politics, as much as we all hate it, is engaged with everywhere in business.

Choosing to be apolitical is effectively a form of political engagement, usually resulting in a vote for the status quo and/or the pursuit of money eschewing engagement in difficult questions in society.

This can be argued about whether it is moral or not, or even if a company has much of a choice in the matter (There are many entrenched companies that do "immoral" political things that are near impossible not to engage with as a business), and this is not unique to coinbase, but it's not somehow withdrawing from judgement on morality when you say you are "apolitical", and you still should be judged on your politics and lack of engagement in society.

Let's not be naive here, any larger company, even the most "apolitical" company still has large influence, uses services, and makes decisions that are politically charged.

That said, it's not all one direction where all political activism within a company is great, but eschewing all politics is not doing so at all.
Show HN: Adversarial AI and Clearview AI [Beta Privacy App]
A good friend of mine and I are building a consumer-facing photo editing app that uses adversarial AI to manipulate your photos in such a way that companies like Clearview AI can't train facial recognition algorithms off your data. You can download the Android or iOS version at trix.co - we're in beta right now.

Would love to get anyone's feedback!
Haha weeks — Delta told me two weeks ago they _just_ finished processing refunds for June. Our refund will probably not be refunded for another 6 months, minimum, according to their customer service people.
I've tried LitElement (still using it in a small project), and wanted to like it; but the whole experience was so cumbersome compared to something like React.

1) Classes for writing components. Yuck. React's function component feels much more elegant.

2) @property decorator. Double yuck! I want a reactive way of updating my component's state without having to declare this piece of state as a property accessible by the outside world.

3) this.requestUpdate(). Triple yuck compared to something like React's setState or useState hook.

4) In order to create children components, I need to create more customElement-decorated classes? Yuck again!
It's not so fun but it looks like great for daily use.

* lightweight 151g even though it support 5G and battery is increased.

* 8GB of RAM (Pixel 4 was fewer 6GB even high-end)

* Fingerprint auth again!

Currently I don't want 5G because it increases weight by adding antennas and battery capacity but not much value compared to faster 4G. Anyway, 4G high-end devices are no longer released so this is an acceptable device with 5G.
Agreed. Own your domain and store your email content locally (or at least have backups locally if you love the provider's web interface).
Charter school outperform public schools in poor areas by orders of magnitude.

Read Sowel’s Charter School and their enemies, it makes a very a strong argument about the situation https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50623786-charter-schools...
One of my favorite features of Kitty is its support for printing images in the terminal through its graphics protocol, meant to be a replacement for libsixel. The spec's worth a read - there's few projects linked there that implement it.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol.html
Just another example of how nuclear corrupts our society.

For those HN nuclear apologists who keep saying, "The problem is the people." - well, duh.
Bucky Fuller was talking about this more than 4 decades ago.
This is not the only database product that is poorly configured for peak performance on Azure. Even their managed offering for their own Analysis Services OLAP database, Azure Analysis Services, is handily beaten by an IaaS instance with a better CPU, running SQL Server Analysis Services (the same database as part of SQL Server licensing). The database engine loves high clock speeds, but in testing, the top tier managed offering runs similar to what I've seen on mid-2GHz server CPUs.
> Our public school system spends a ton and seems to not get a good value for that spending.

Our public school systems spends a ton to support low income students and special ed. I don't blame them for being broke but I suppose at some point my egalitarian principles aren't enough and I should do what's best for my kids rather than what's best for our city.
It's a really good book, you should read it.
Wow, such an apple to oranges comparison. I scanned the page but didn't see anything better, so we should assume that 84.07% of all pull requests submitted during Hacktoberfest are to repositories excluded for not following the shared values. That implies that of the 483,127 PRs, 76,962 are to qualifying repositories, and in fact that 15.93% of ALL valid PRs are spam.
Did you consider the Sense power monitor?

https://sense.com
I’d be interested in checking out your site. I normally only have a 2G connection on my phone, I’d love to be able to read something that’s NOT HN. This site is the only site I know that takes less than 5-10 mins to load, if it loads at all.
Don't forget the original knowledge base product - Bloomberg. They still bring in a lot of cash each year, but as a private company we can't get exact amounts.
Google might fingerprint Duplex voice so it could detect each other, maybe if two Duplex realized that both of them are Duplex, they will use dial-up like sound to exchange data.
is the crankiness and frustration that obvious? perhaps if i were sapping thousands from your bank account you might be cranky too. i digress never meant to full on rant at hn, just wanted to post a PSA. good day to you good sir.
Surely not - Google create a problem and then solve it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579785
Sometimes I wonder how critical it is for an early-stage startup to have a great .com domain name.

If Golden had a harder-to-type domain name, would they get the same level of momentum and SEO juice?
Yeah, it's not. That was the whole point. We did an "early and hard" lockdown so that we could be done with it. Which we largely are.

Yes, it sucks for the travel sector and it sucks for people who need to travel internationally (my family are in Ireland so it directly affects me).

But it sucks everywhere for everyone, and in both economic and health outcomes, we are way ahead of the curve.
WebOS was always solid and works well. I enjoyed it on my palm pre 10 years ago and I enjoy it on my LG TV today.
Pixel 4a (4G) must be for you. If you need much cheeper, it's Xiaomi's chance.
This.

I still can not understand how US citizens see home schooling as a good thing.
A lot of people have mentioned answering questions. We like to answer what we can and aren't afraid to say "I don't know, let's look it up." Then we read Wikipedia or watch a YouTube or talk about it.

So the first thing is not to squash their curiosity. The second is to train them how to find answers. Right now, we find the answers with our 6 year old but soon he will be able to do it himself.

Something people haven't really mentioned, and is hard to do as a parent, is to get out of the way. Give them a problem or a tool and let them get bored. Boredom is the scarcest resource we have nowadays and it is critical to let kids be bored so their natural curiosity can take over and lead them to do things that they want to do, not what they are told.
> But given that most cryptocurrency adepts also have a problem with fiat money, and generally try to implement an intrinsically limited money supply, it ends up aligning more with right libertarian economic prescriptions.

Perhaps so.

But this isn't about cryptocurrency adepts in general. Is there other context that shows Coinbase and/or Brian Armstrong have a problem with fiat money, and/or that they advocate for a limited money supply, or even that they advocate to reduce or avoid taxation?

Seems to me the corporation's activity is literally integrating fiat systems with cryptocurrency, including tax reporting, so it's not clear if Coinbase's longer term direction is towards cryptocurrency being its own separate system of ordinary transactions in the end, or towards it being just another option alongside and integrated with fiat for more options in ordinary life. Regardless of what cryptocurrency adepts out in the world would like it to be.
I see where you're coming from but resizing the browser to your preferred text width would mean decreasing the space for elements like the tab bar or other "not-in-body" UI elements even though there's still screen space available. I'm not sure that's something most people would want.

Not to mention some sites have things like side bars, images or other UI elements that make them more comfortable to user with larger viewports so you'd resize your browser often when you switch tabs.

It would be useful if sites could specify a "body" element that could be resized and aligned however the user wishes without affecting other parts of the site or the browser UI.
> The desire to protect children may put their long-term well-being at stake.

It's a good article but this is a needlessly click-baity thesis. The content of the article itself doesn't agree with it. The "desire to protect children" isn't the cause of the problem, it is the lack of internet and home/food security among kids in so many of these communities, as the article describes very well. They were never well served by the public school system even before the pandemic.

Teachers unions were right to be wary of school reopening plans, especially since they are being driven by political needs and shouted out in rallies. Meanwhile the government is denying funding for PPE for teachers.

And something else the article frustratingly ignores is that safety of children is dependent on the safety of their caregivers, who are often elderly and have more underlying health conditions in disadvantaged communities.
So why can't we simply refuse to pay? We should be able to just cancel the payment and that should be the end of it. They'll cancel the service for us when they see we didn't pay for it. No user interaction necessary.
There’s more than two sides.
Thank you. Once you start using it, then you will experience the difference and honestly there is no going back. You should try it or schedule a demo for your product team. I would love to showcase Narrator answering questions live for you.
I Remember running it live from floppy
Yes that sounds good on paper but unfortunately real life does not work that way.

I am talking about a practical solution instead of focussing on 100 different things how about we focus on the main thing because right now the status quo isnt helping.
That's only if the maintainers new to even flag them as spam or invalid, and didn't just close them. I'd fully expect more of the latter than tagging.

Here you go, you're an open source maintainer already in an often thankless role, take some extra work, with a side dollop of extra work labelling the crap extra work you're getting.
I think if the company allows the client enter into contractual obligation by phone it should also be possible to invoke the cancellation part of the contract the same way. These days we get into so many contractual obligations (I can't even count the number of different subscription services I use) exactly because it is easy to make them and the law should protect users by preventing companies from making it hard to cancel it.

So, if a company allows the client to create a contract by phone or Internet, it should also be easy to cancel it the same way.
Postel's Law is now considered not just obsolete, but a major impediment to fixing security bugs.

Do not wire Postel's Law into anything new.
That Wikipedia article has a measure for every 10 years from the Census starting with 1990:

1900 0.70%

1910 0.90%

1920 1.10%

1930 1.40%

1940 1.80%

1950 4.40%

1960 5.60%

1970 7.00%

1980 7.70%

and then you can fill in the rest with Census / ACS data

1990 7.40%

2000 6.40%

2010 6.20%

So, overall, it looks like it's about right. Black people were mostly in America through the slave trade and spread to areas adjacent to the South. The West saw very little increase.

Anyway, thank you for sharing that. It was enlightening. I do have to leave this discussion, though. I promised not to participate in non-tech here.
At some point, the AI may decide that destroying the company is a more direct method to get a customer's account cancelled.
I'm using a custom domain and a paid email provider.

My rational is to align my interests with the company running the infrastructure for a fundamental component of my digital life.

Free email is fine most of the time. Until it's not. I want to limit my "until it's not" exposure.
Awesome. Given that they vendor is Google, I'm assuming it will be discontinued in a year or two?
There is a better alternative already: WhatsApp is probably the #1 way of ordering food in lot of 3rd world countries and also in part of Europe.
Do you not make a big mess of commits, then selectively squash before submitting a PR?
Thanks for the great clarity between the 2 tools. Do you have any thoughts on Dremio/AtScale and whether they complement or replace Snowflake?
> So why can't we simply refuse to pay?

Because legal consumer protections in the US are not very strong, and if you are wronged, you are instead supposed to go to arbitration, or file a lawsuit.
District lines are funny things. Our neighborhood could certainly be called 'affluent' and our schools are probably the best in the district. What I'm realizing is how little that counts for.

We could have chosen a cheaper neighborhood in a 'nicer' district but 9 years ago it didn't seem like such a big deal.
Its a common answer because its practical. Saying we should work on the 5% sounds good on paper but it does not work in real life. So instead be practical and focus on the main thing (whatever that is) and go from there.
Other seemingly more minor (but which will possibly be more widely used eventually) features are different forms of underline, selectable through sub-parameters to SGR 4. I've already put this into my terminal emulator, although that version is not released yet; it exists in LibVTE and several other terminal emulators; and the Windows Terminal people also have a backlog item for it.

* https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/7228
The severance appears respectable to me given the circumstances. It’s on par with many layoff packages and more generous than the ongoing “pay to quit” program from Zappos and Amazon. [1]

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/21/why-amazon-pays-employees-50...

The extended window for exercising options is something I haven’t encountered before. I’d be curious to hear if others have seen it offered elsewhere.
Huh. From the referenced memo:

> The complete list of depots follows [...]

> Admin, Base, COM, Drivers, DS, EndUser, InetCore, InetSrv, MultiMedia, Net, PrintScan, Root, SdkTools, Shell, TermSrv, Windows

...which bears a striking resemblance — both back then and to this day — with the root-level categories that divide up the features in the "Add or Remove Windows Features" chooser in the Control Panel.

I guess those root-level categories in the chooser (which were always pretty meaningless) turn out to represent which particular Microsoft source repo the component's code can be found in.

As a wild guess, the "Add or Remove Windows Features" chooser is the way it is, because it's the runtime representation of what's actually mostly a build-time feature selection system; where disabling a component at build time speeds up your build, at the cost of that component being forcibly greyed out in the "Add or Remove Windows Features" chooser for that build. Basically the same as disabling the building of a kernel module in a Linux modular build.

As Raymond Chen would say, "it makes sense with kernel-tinted glasses."
So are they being tackled simultaneously right now?
I purchased Android TV devices for my family and I when Android TV was first released because Google claimed it was going to be the next big thing. The software development and app store seemed to basically be abandoned by Google shortly after. Even the apps for Googles own services (youtube) seemed to be thrown together and worked very poorly. I don't think I would ever consider Google for a service/device like this again...
> Downloading 500kb of js and processing this is just a nogo.

React + react-dom is under 40kb minified gzipped. The other 460kb are your responsibility.
After Google bricked my previous version of Google TV, and the one I gave to my dad as a gift, it's gonna be a big, fat NO THANKS from me, dawg.
Sears solved this problem more than 100 years ago: http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/1908-1914.htm. I guess it just didn't catch on.
That makes a lot of sense: allow the market to do its thing and efficiently allocate scarce resources.

But it raises the question: why doesn't Uber operate like a normal marketplace where buyers/sellers submit bids/offers at prices of their own choosing?

By preventing buyers/sellers from participating in price discovery, Uber makes itself look a lot more like a classic employer/vendor than an online marketplace.
> It's odd that Buffet is in

More like Todd Combs and Ted Weschler...
And, in particular, it doesn't put the bug tickets in the repository. I was disappointed to learn that.
A quick poll of my friends and I in the room right now would suggest a resounding 'no'. Is it translated? I don't know Spanish.
> That sounds quite customer hostile.

Depends who you consider to be "the customer".

I suspect for a huge number of call centres, "the customer" is the bank/telco/insurance company that's outsourced to them, and the key metrics and incentives of their relationship with that customer _totally_ make "expectation management" make sense. The call centre company has no incentive to make life better for account holder or phone users or people who's house just burnt down - beyond extrememly narrow interpretations of the responsibilities in the contract they have with their customer - which is presumably as poorly written and as easy to game as any software project requirements doc you get from those kinds of clients...
I wonder why the common pattern in europe isn't more common in the US - businesses on first floor, apartments/residences above.
Stick to apple who won't even have this feature.
Hold times really have more to do with queueing theory then sending people away (plenty of people wait).

The only way to make sure someone answers when you call would be to have 10 times as many agents as you need. Instead, they try to find a balance and make sure the agents are more often then not on the phones (much higher efficiency), which ends up meaning long wait times on average.

High turnover (45%) in the call centers also makes the problem much worse, this means in practice that the centers are constantly understaffed

[1] https://www.talkdesk.com/blog/understanding-call-center-turn...
There are these things called "windows" (not an MS trademark!), and you can have more than one.
I actually think this is an interesting problem we face currently. I really liked Mark Fisher's book "Capitalist Realism" in which he touches on how we can no longer imagine a society outside of our capitalist one. I agree though, it's a hard future to sketch out.
As a sample of 1 person from the US, I can say I have never heard of Mafalda.
Noting that you also didn't ask, but git-fiddle¹ is a nice addition that wraps rebase. You can directly edit commit metadata, such as date and message, from within the rebase template when using it.

[Just a happy user stealing an opportunity to pimp it.]

1. https://github.com/felixSchl/git-fiddle
they will prob'ly embed this antenna in Teslas and each Tesla will be a hot-spot. I'd worry about RF radiation to humans at such proximity, however.
i did this (gave control) with my rescued dog, who was 3 when i got her 2 years ago, and exhibited a variety of induced fears and anxieties which initially meant that she was constantly looking to me for permission, assurance, and validation, because her previous pack leader(s) were apparently capricious and menacing.

out in the world, she's a relative independent creature free to explore and make decisions (it's my job to be patient and supportive, but not overly so). of course i steer her away from sitatuions that are certain to overwhelm her, exposing her to them a little at a time so she eventually learns to handle them herself without otherwise damaging regression to her self-assurance. exposure to small risks, and overcoming them, allows her to build that confidence herself, with minimal intervention on my part.

she's had a few (minor) mishaps, but she's also grown quite a bit in her self-confidence and trust (especially at home, where the relative confinement manifested in near constant anxiety behaviors before). she's learned how to approach other dogs, and the social etiquette therein, able to disengage with (usually fearful) aggressors on her own without my intervention. she's learning that not every large human is a danger to her, but that cars (and roads) are. she knows squirrels and pigeons are fun to chase, but not cats (she lives with a feline sister who's friendly and kind, but still has claws).

it's how animals develop self-sufficiency in the wild, including us if we weren't so obscured by domestication.
Personally I hate Qi charging because it's bad for battery health due to heat and it increases weight by coil and surface material like glass.

I like to have Qi for ear buds, watch or something like smaller battery devices, but not for phones that has big batteries.
I think a large part of the problem is these middleman platforms treat both riders and drivers as consumers, they control both sides of the equation.
>>It's really odd of you saying that for Buddhism, life a "dance". This is really not what Buddhism is about.

Alan Watts--who had a thing or two to say about Buddhism--disagrees with you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4
Everyone has reasons - from "that's what the code I pasted from StackOverflow did" to "this is what the standards doc I wrote decided upon after months of rewriting"

Forcing you to examine your reasoning usually results in better understanding
I just looked and I was very disappointed to find Bill doesn't have a son named Robert. :/
Palantir Goes IPO
It's all good. The error was mine. Disqus was, indeed, a great product back then. I didn't realize they added all this stuff now.
The ones I hate are the ones that ask "have you tried doing it online?" to get you out of the queue. I wouldn't be calling you if you allowed me to do what I'm trying to do online.
Yes, and snap/flatpak's idea of software installation is a whole container per software.

You should choose one: Isolated environments or dependency hell. Each has its own pros and cons.
In most cases you can. If you've taken reasonable steps to cancel in good faith and the merchant is uncooperative then canceling the payment is the logical next step.

They can still send your account to collections or ding your credit record, but you can still refuse to pay; ultimately the only way they legally force you to pay is by going through the courts system but I expect that if you have documentation of your (unsuccessful) efforts to cancel the case should be in your favor (which is why this will never reach the courts in the first place).
Yea... What we need is communist style housing blocks. Standardized, modular, monotonous.