skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from my own opinions about helping, I find it slots into the same brain receptor as playing Zachtronics games: it's solving puzzles, which feels like "work," but that one can do in 15 minute(?) chunks without having to deal with a lot of the extraneous stuff

Unlike the games, however, hopefully both me and the asker learn something every now and then, since for any modern technology there are countless weird interactions or unexplored documentation pages

I am cognizant of the "free labor" bug mentioned in the other comments, but since I am somewhere between mildly addicted and actually enjoying the problem solving, I don't feel exploited, or at least can quit when I think it becomes a problem

Separately, I also participate in moderation activities, and I have violentmonkey scripts to ease the repetitive "you no read, huh?" silliness inevitably brought by new users, but that's the part I hate the most. I would pay real money if SO adopted the downvote (or even close) reason taxonomy from https://idownvotedbecau.se and if SO was open source I'd open a PR to add it
Apple products are not at the level of necessity as water...

A smartphone might be (big stretch)... of which there are plenty of choices.

This is like saying Dasani (Apple) is the absolutely ONLY water brand out there, when you can get Aquafina (Android) and get nearly the same product. Yes, Dasani is only bottled at certain places (exclusive features like iMessage, FaceTime), but Aquafina has minerality (rooting your phone, deep integration with Google services) as well that make it unique.
What are you talking about? In my understanding you're saying everyone that been offered sexual transaction from a superstar is dying for a piece of bread? I think that statement is very detached from reality
Zeynep is female name (Turkish spelled) of Arabic origin.
I don't understand this analogy at all, can you explain?
I checked and you are right, it's 0.3% for CC, 0.2 for debit.

But yes, the regulation came into effect partially in 2015 and fully in 2016.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:...

It's quite noticeable: all the CC related reward programs have disappeared.
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So wait, what're these non-US-made, deep, family-friendly films of which you speak?
(2018)

and here's some more discussion about Soviet space cannon from years back

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10575450
You seem to really know a lot about EU laws and regulations, where did you get your law degree?
Launch HN: Worksphere (YC W21) – Manage flexible in-office or remote workspaces
Hey HN,

Aakhil, Theresa & Mark here at Worksphere (https://worksphere.com). Our software helps companies manage a safe workplace where employees can work flexibly in-office or remote. Worksphere automates desk reservations, safe entry, and gives companies office usage data to right-size their workplaces.

We previously worked together at Lish, a corporate catering marketplace startup catering (pun intended) to tech companies. Last March our revenue went off a cliff. No people in office = no lunch orders. We love our clients and our team, so we got to work on solving a new problem for our primary users - HR, Office, and Facilities Managers.

At the start of the pandemic, our users were struggling with how to return to their offices safely. New problems like enforcing social distancing, screening for COVID-19 symptoms, and contact tracing could not be solved at scale with existing tools. New coronavirus workplace regulations have cropped up, which are a pain and come with big financial risk if companies don’t comply (we’re looking at you CA businesses dealing with SB 1159 & AB 685 - learn more at https://www.worksphere.com/blog/covid-19/guide-to-ab-685-and...).

As the pandemic has continued (and continued, and continued) businesses are facing a new challenge. 75% of office employees report that they want a hybrid in-office and remote schedule. No one misses their 5-day-a-week commute. At the same time, collaboration and culture are hard to foster on Zoom and Slack alone. Employees still want access to an office when needed, but don’t want to come to work in an empty space. Businesses want the upsides of flexibility, but don’t want to pay for empty or only occasionally used desks — office space costs $10-12k per employee annually in major US cities. We believe that a hybrid workweek is a better workweek, and that an active approach is needed to make it a win-win for employees and businesses.

Our features help businesses reopen safely and realize the full potential of a flexible workplace. We automate the wellness surveys, contact tracing, and capacity limits needed to enforce internal safety guidelines and regional regulations. This alleviates a ton of manual work for Office and HR managers. Employees can create in-office schedules and see who else is in the office to increase collaboration. We track office utilization data so companies can make smart decisions about their office space and lease.

Worksphere is $6 per active employee/month, and our clients only pay for employees that come to the office.

If you’re one of the 3 of 4 people who wants to work flexibly post-pandemic, or if you manage a workplace, we’d love to hear from you. How frequently do you think you’ll need office space? What problems are you facing in this changing work environment? We’ll reply in the comments or you can email us at info@worksphere.com. Thanks so much for your feedback!
You're conflating having a single app store with having a consistent user experience. Mac OS didn't have an app store for most of its existence and it's doing fine.
Android is particularly bad in that regard, not just because of the ability to side-load alternative apps and app stores. The main issue is that OEMs heavily modify the OS for their devices, something that isn't an issue with Apple's business model.
I've actually had the opposite experience working as summer labor for facilities maintenance.

It was extremely 9-to-5; well, technically, 7-to-3:30. Most people worked most of the time, because it was hourly, but if you needed to arrange to not, it wasn't a big deal, because you were hourly, and moreover, not customer-focused. If (nearly) everyone took the same day off, you just needed a skeleton crew for emergencies and the maintenance just got done a day later.

I don't think the distinction is really "tech versus non-tech" or even "white-color versus blue". I think the real distinction is jobs that have deadlines for one-off projects versus jobs that ... don't, where you just do the same tasks over and over because they keep needing to be done. Building maintenance is a lot like building construction, it uses the same skills to do the same things, but one uses a small number of people to do the work over fifty years that the other does with a large number in one.

The two types of work require different mindsets and different lifestyles. When you have a deadline, one big thing to accomplish before you rest, it makes sense to work long hours and monomaniacally to meet those deadlines. When you are in it for the long haul, you need to pace yourself.
> XML was inspired by HTML

No. HTML used to be "an application" of SGML. Meaning HTML brings a profile for SGML features (formerly, an SGML declaration determining things such as allowing tag inference and other minimization) plus a DTD grammar. Though HTML has also quirks for script/style elements, and URLs.

OTOH, XML, like SGML, is a markup meta-language and a proper subset of SGML (also with a fixed SGML declaration disallowing tag inference and almost all other minimization features). XML was introduced by W3C (the SGML "extended review board") as the markup meta-language for new vocabularies on the web going forward around 1997 to eventually replace HTML. While that hasn't happened, SVG and MathML have been specified using XML.

Details on (my pages) below.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/blog/blog1701.html (the "TALK" slides)

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-b4jeJSas
The sucker who's working at 11pm?

More seriously, if this is you, find an employer/manager who's not gratuitously invading your non work time.
I love ikea. In the 90s and naughts it was a symbol of progress and its products complemented the sheik style that was so popular at the time. And it was commonly said to be cheap, and contributed to a new style of ephemeral living that was the precursor to modern tech nomadism and living by wire so to speak. Fresh euro-style industrialized in American fashion. But recently IKEA hasn’t seemed very cheap to me. And the throwing away of the olde ways has now progressed to a point where AGI can no longer be written off completely and with that comes the feeling that we may soon have thrown away too much.
> In truth, virtually all forms of power generation in Texas suffered outages during the cold snap, with early reports showing gas plants sustaining the most failures, Webber said. Early Monday morning, ERCOT issued a news release saying generation “across fuel types” had gone offline, amid reports of wind turbines covered in ice and natural gas wellheads freezing up.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Tex...

This is just the first source I found on google to quote, but if houstonchronicle isn't a trustworthy news source let me know. It seems like all forms of energy suffered from a lack of winterization. To me, it seems the issue is not that renewable energy was depended upon, but rather that the whole system was unprepared for a cold snap like this.

> But the vast majority of energy the state generates is through natural gas. In October 2020, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that renewables generated 22% of the state's energy, while gas generated 51.8%.19 hours ago

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/are-frozen-wind-turbines-to-...
I can hardly wait to use Amazon App Store to install Amazon and then open up the Epic Game Store to install random game and then open up EA Game Store to install random game and then open up Facebook App Store to install Facebook and then open up the Apple App Store to install the Blizzard App Store to install Hearthstone and then go back to the Apple App Store and update the Blizzard App Store so I can get the latest Hearthstone updates.

Going to be super fun!

My gaming computer is already filled with like 8 different app stores each completely different then the other and a variety of privacy/security issues on each. All of them need their App Store running in order to play their games, so half the time my computer has 4-5 App Stores running in the background so I can play a single game. And they are all electron/qt webkit apps cause nobody builds apps anymore so each one consumes about 500mb of ram.

And each App Store also has their own chat system along with the others like discord.

I don't agree that Apple should have a complete monopoly, but the alternative is not better. And while Android does have the main Google Play Store, and there isn't to many "alternative" App Stores at the moment. Just give it time, the same thing that is happening to TV Streaming/Game App Stores will happen on Android.
>Epic demands Apple do a thing = bad for Apple, bad for customers (good for Epic)

not bad for all customers. I would like to side-load third party apps on my Iphone. Remember when app store banned a hn reader app because it showed Covid-related submissions[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24410652
This is a problem with any store, though, except for some very specific situations. You won’t solve that problem by having more isolated islands. I agree that this should be improved, I have no illusion that Facebook and Epic have any intention of doing that.
Note that I am not asserting that Apple has more than anyone else, that would require more research than this. What I have found in recent history is one major case from France:

Apple fined 1.23 Billion for Price-Fixing in France https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/16/apple-fined-record-1-23-b...

Apple also has 4 open Antitrust investigations (all opened on the same date and likely interrelated) going on in the EU (irrespective of actions that members may be taking):

https://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/case_details.c...

https://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/case_details.c...

https://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/case_details.c...

https://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/case_details.c...
I couldn’t disagree more. I am thinking about hard problems in the back of my mind pretty much all the time, or am not making progress on them. Software engineering can be like pipe fitting, where there is a blueprint; but it can also be a much more creative search for solutions like looking for a math proof, writing a screenplay, or trying to phrase a legal argument that churns up your background cycles.

Without those periods I would never be able to do the best work I’ve done. There is a lot of pipe fitting in the business - and it’s fine to do only that. But it’s not some personality defect to have work thoughts kicking around in the back of your head, it’s a necessary trait in my experience for the more difficult software jobs.
> nobody is forcing you to use the third party app store if it does exist. If you continued to use apple's curated store, you will continue to get the existing benefits. Adding an extra option can't possibly hurt you

People need to stop saying this - it’s obvious completely false.

As soon as other app stores are involved, there will be paid exclusives. Equivalent to Joe Rogan on Spotify, or any of the streaming video services who commission studios to make content just for their platform.

It will definitely be impossible to avoid using multiple stores if you want access to the popular apps.
Around the time of Wall-E and The Incredibles, I was very much a fan of their work and felt like they could do no wrong. Now I’m not so sure- I did love Coco but they have been absorbed by Disney at this point and are satisfying investors. Also, I find the low key arrogance about having mastered storytelling more than a little obnoxious. You can see a bit of this in Andrew Stanton’s Ted talk.

Before they sold to Disney, they were going to start making more mature films alongside their children’s entertainment. I was very curious about Ray Gunn. I think if Disney wanted it then Pixar could definitely make an incredibly compelling animated movie with mature themes. I mostly find myself disappointed with them these days.

(I find whenever I bring this up online quite a few people come at me with this idea that they are making mature films, and that the line between children’s entertainment and adult is imaginary, as though most kids could sit through something like The Rules of the Game or Tokyo Story.)

But to be clear, I’m still mostly a fan of their work but mostly for their technical mastery.
I'm on an oncall rotation. I get paid 1/3rd my normal salaried rate for all the time outside of normal working hours that I'm expected to be available to respond to critical issues. Note that I get paid this regardless of whether there actually are critical issues.

Do you have this kind of system set up? If not, do you make it clear when you're hiring people that you're expecting them to occasionally do what is effectively uncompensated oncall on nights/weekends? That's the kind of thing you have to know going in in order to be able to compare like-for-like in competing offers.
Not true. MCI predates the break-up of ma bell.
Maybe the show tries to say that winning leads to slacking off?
That makes sense, I remembered that it adjusted every 2 weeks, but I forgot that the 2 weeks was actually measured in blocks, not wall time.
There’s also vastly faster ways of sorting lists of bounded numbers (or tuples), the most linear being: cut straws of the exact right length labelled with an Id, bang them on a table so the ends without the ids all line up, read the ids back in order.

I only said it took linear time, I didn’t say it was fast...
I'm starting to think the reason why tech companies are so well-valued is purely due to regulatory evasion skills and a dash of political engineering. Effectively, every tech company has been given a pass on something. Facebook doesn't have to worry about defamation lawsuits. Google doesn't have to worry (as much) about copyright. Amazon built it's business on evading sales tax. Uber broke the back of your local city's taxi medallion scheme. And so on and so forth. All of those are things their legacy competitors have had to spend millions of dollars on compliance for, but tech companies don't.

Here's the thing: the market really does not give two shits about "smarts". You can engineer the best mousetrap in the world and get it into everyone's homes, but the market won't care about the company that makes them... as much as they will care about a company that's found a way to break the rules. That's what they really want. People in tech are being paid massively not because they're postdocs with good credentials and amazing skills, but because they know how to bend governments to their will.
I've tinkered with this in side projects and it's really a joy to work with. The setup for a basic CRUD app w/ GraphQL and Auth/plugins/CSS frameworks takes ~1minute, and the generated code is pretty extensible.
Threading is nice until you learn about the global interpreter lock. Then you go multiprocessing for everything.
Hide Your Secrets with LUKS
They should be careful not to cross into Icarus territory.
> The article you posted even mentions that Canal+ and other video services were already using this

So why isn't Youtube allowed to use this for their video rentals, if the user has a credit card on file in their Google account? Why did Apple only offer it to a tiny number of companies, and only one major player?
This mention of "yoga at 11am" seems to be rubbing some folks the wrong way, but what if it was "lunch for an hour at 11am"? In all the jobs I've held (including now) where working hours are not dictated by external forces, such as customer service expectations, our teams make sure we get in our hours and are more or less available during a reasonable window, say 8am-5/6pm. It is pretty much understood that there will be 45-60 minutes of (unpaid/unbillable) downtime, which most people will use for lunch, but others will use for a workout, then eat lunch at their desk. I've never seen anyone actually work less hours because they went to yoga or for a run, they just use the time they would ordinarily be using for lunch and still hit their full workday, while gaining the benefit of de-stressing mid-day.
World’s fastest supercomputer and AI to deliver real-time tsunami prediction
Have you read this? Gets to your point about Clubhouse being the digital night club - https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2021/01/21/nostalgia-for-network-...
It's probably not the only removable part, the icon can be 414 bytes: https://github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons#how-small
This article focuses on Amazon, but the Indian native company Flipkart is facing the same challenges. As the article hints at, these regulations are set up specifically to prevent internal competition; the Indian government wants to protect traditional retail networks against competition from online stores.
> Nobody is going to not put their app on the apple app store.

Certainly false - just like with streaming video, platforms will pay for exclusives from popular developers to force users to visit their stores.
We recently wrote a piece about space warfare for Orbital Index: https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-12-02-Issue-93/#space-...

One of the resources we linked to was this recent PDF (https://aerospace.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/Reesman_Ph...) called "The physics of space war: how orbital dynamics constrain space-to-space engagements" from Aerospace Corp. which talks about how the limited ∆v budgets of space vehicles limits warfare and makes planning and timing essential to an attack. The PDF, oddly, has the following invisible text on the first page if you click and drag to highlight it: "THIS MATERIAL IS BEING PROVIDED PRE-RELEASE SOLELY FOR THE USE OF GEN. JAMES DICKINSON, AND IS NOT APPROVED FOR RELEASE."
It’s so hard for me to believe I was in YC over 13 years ago. I thought I was old at the time because I was 27 and most of the people there were a few years younger. I had also already had an entire career in a current field behind me at that point so while not rich, I was not living on ramen.

The part about the air conditioners was nostalgic. We were the second summer in Cambridge (07) and it was also hot. We tracked down this behemoth on Craigslist that took two of us to move. It was old. Like probably from the 80’s old. But man did that bad boy put out some cold air. We left it behind as a gift for the college kids who were renting us the apartment.

We worked so hard that at one point I (normally a very light sleeper) slept right through a fire alarm and firefighters banging on my door. I was lucky it was a false alarm.

I remember a double date dinner with Paul and Jessica and my then fiancée at a restaurant that had murals (I think of the movie Casablanca or gone with the wind). I think it was a not-well-kept secret at the time that they were dating so I didn’t tell anyone.

What a fun, interesting time that summer was. I miss all of that.
Cool, I did not know that. Are there any other thinkable use cases of keeping messages in a hold queue for a longer period of time, for this option to exist?
Ask HN: What would you do if you could choose a new career path and why?
That does not even remotely represent the Twitter logo, though. Shape and color are completely lost information, which are essentially the key properties that make the Twitter logo the Twitter logo.
OK so the British HNers commenting seem to be unimpressed. :)

Leaving this specific agency/project aside, what would be the right way to do this? How do we do public investment in high risk projects well?
They've been doing it to councils since the 80s. There isn't much of local government left
None of those are FaceTime, which is what OP's mother uses.
> But let's hit the random button on wikipedia and pick a sentence, see if you can draw a picture to convey it, mm?

To be needlessly pedantic, my computer drew the image that conveyed this to me.

Less pedantically text is a medium of exchange for language, and a lossy one just like spoken word. I think there's a lot of power in its flexibility due to that lossiness. It's also one of its subtle weaknesses - we can read text from 5,000 years ago, but there's going to be much debate over understanding the text because of how much context has been lost to time.
This isn't text, you're using ASCII symbols as pixels in a grid to represent a raster image. This is literally just a raster image on an unconventional canvas.

If you treat a uniwidth character grid of characters as pixels, you have not converted an image into text, you have encoded text into an image. It's no different than using extended characters and font colors in a fixed width terminal window to make terminal art.

The fact that you use UTF-8 to encode something does not mean it will magically work in a screen reader, or that it will retain any of the advantages of pure text. I can encode any image or video file in a UTF-8 format and send it to you. Down this path lies calling everything text.

But if your "text" stops being readable if I disable monospace, or it stops working if I change the font, or it stops working if I change line wrapping, or it stops being communicable as soon as I try to read it out loud -- then it's not pure text. Using a UTF-8 character as a pixel does not change the fact that you're drawing an image out of pixels.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16134975/how-can-i-reduc...

I think it's just inefficiently implemented. `git subtree` is just a shell script using other git commands. Take a look at the `--rejoin` flag.
I mean darpa worked out pretty well.

However the tory gov is currently busy handing out questionable contracts to friends like a pez dispenser so not super excited about the no FOI part.