skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about hiding user comments behind a click so that you can’t read multiple comments at once? How about requiring unnecessary PII to solicit feedback? How about presenting a redundant set of vague and unnecessary elements like a “Comment ID” AND a “Tracking Number”?

Leave it to the federal government to utilize three dark patterns on a website soliciting feedback on the very subject.

sigh
I was introduced to the Brownian motion paper in grad school. It was remarkably elegant in how short, understandable, and to the point it was with a fairly minimal amount of citations.
Seems legit.

If it mentioned Nodepad++ or Nano, that would be messed up.
I worked in a startup in the B2B space a while back, and it's amazing how much big customers can push you around and demand features. The salesguys would promise something and then a week later we'd have the feature in a special patch build for them. I heard Cisco did the same thing, and by the time they got big they had hundreds of special branches for different groups of customers. It was a mess.

Then I worked for a couple of big B2B companies (currently work for one) and it's basically the same thing except that two weeks becomes 6 months. But given how small the market is, you are still doing customization to drive deals. I think a big part of the appeal of developing these frameworks is so your own support staff can add the feature in without changing the core code. I'd imagine this would be the case for all the big B2B players. No way do any of these companies survive just selling off the shelf, and I have some admiration for the support guys that parachute into Penn State or the Foo Department of Bar or Nestle and help manage a whole massive deployment or roll out some brand new feature. They are working nights and weekends and I'm sure there's a lot of good war stories there.
Why would Apple go through the effort of adding support for booting alternative OS's on M1 Macs and then stand in the way of implementing drivers for the hardware? That doesn't make a lot of sense, IMHO. Especially considering Apple could have gone the exact same path as iOS devices, which is a heavily locked-down platform that shares a lot in common.
YouTube has what you want and it sucks. You end up in an echo chamber of your own preferences. I know what you mean but sometimes your wrong about the world and knowledge so it makes sense to make your preference compete with others
This made me curious if there is a list similar to 'ratemyprofessor' for coworkers, or perhaps for managers?
I agree with you about alfalfa, rice, and cotton, but the central valley has the best conditions in the world for growing almonds. About 50% of the worlds production comes from there.
but that only makes sense if the only thing you did with shovel was dig for gold...
Sheesh, lightening and lightning? Not to mention, "instants" when "instance" is also a valid word.

Try distinguishing between

https://what3words.com/instants.lightening.precedents

https://what3words.com/instants.lightning.precedents

https://what3words.com/instance.lightening.precedents

https://what3words.com/instance.lightning.precedents

Three of them are in Australia, two in South Australia. Imagine being stranded in the Outback trying to communicate your location...
Does documentation necessarily create such an obligation? That would jeopardize most open-source projects, most of which explicitly promise no warranty.
This is the setting for a sci-fi novel by Frederik Pool called The World at the End of Time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_the_End_of_Time
Color me convinced :)
Cue Randall Munroe
I say this honestly without snark.

Visit a library if you can and "waste days" reading books instead. You don't have to borrow the book, just take it off the shelf, read some, and put it back.

I only reacquainted myself with my local library recently, and it is amazing to find a space that provides you with free utility, without any ads and without any attempts to pry money from you.

I have to consciously lower my "cynic/suspicion" filter whenever I get there.
Reading documentation? Where's the fun in that?

Or to put it less insolently: I've learned my craft by reverse engineering; as a auto-didactic tool it's a primary learning tool, definitely beats reading the manual.
This is how competently-designed word list systems (like the PGP word list) work. The problem is that W3W appears to be a sloppy first approximation of a solution.
I had the same experience with Ubuntu server a couple of weeks ago. It's true servers don't often come with wireless as the sole connection, but I still found it surprising. I had to download the packages manually on another machine and use a flash drive to walk them over to the computer with Ubuntu Server. With virtually everything distributed via the Internet these days, connectivity is of foremost importance. Everything else can follow from being connected.

WPA supplicant and the other required package was a couple of megabytes, and I couldn't find it on the partially full 4.7GB DVD I used for installation either. This isn't some exotic technology that isn't usually found in homes and businesses, it's everywhere.
Reddit shows you your removed comments as if they're not removed, and you get no notification. I made a site that shows this [1]. Try it here [2].

[1] https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky
> "Standard home outlets generally put out about 120 volts of power at what electric vehicle aficionados call "Level 1" charging, while the high-powered specialty connections offer 240 volts of power and are known as "Level 2."

'volts of power' is a new one. Sigh.
You seem to be all about straw man situations affecting other people - I'm (perhaps selfishly) only interested in the quality of my own search results, and how much better they could be if I could give feedback to the search engine.

If my neighbour burns down the cell tower, if another neighbour has trapped themselves in an antivax chamber on Facebook - well, those are some hypotheticals that have literally nothing with my point, which is simply that I want better search results, driven my my own selections.
I recall experiencing at least one application that would crash if you declined to rate it in the app store. I'm sure it was just shoddy implementation, not handling some condition correctly, but it was hard not to feel like it was intentional.
I think your "rule" makes a good 80/20 rule. I'm only mid-career but at this point I have worked with people that I will never work with again. I would accept code from them but as a team member I would insure that there was an impenetrable wall of management between us.
Yes. Sorry, I was a bit sloppy in my expression.

It started out as vanilla, then hacked up, and then the re-write.

I think Facebook's mercurial was/is also a special edition? Or is everything they do upstreamed?
I use LinkedIn to search for background of people and companies, and follow companies that seem to be engaged in something I may be interested in the future. In the past, I also joined groups that interested me but I found majority of them devoid of anything of value.

I typically don't follow people not connected to me, actively remove attention whores from my connections and feed, and people who don't respond when contacted or respond rudely. This keeps my feed and connections pretty clean.

Only few times, I have been approached by recruiters for potential jobs and those leads have never panned out. I find recruiters to be good if you are looking at same type of work as in the past but rarely anything different or interesting. And, such direction changes are frequent in my profile so recruiters tend to stay away.
I'm not sure if it's just your style or you perceive my comment as an extension of workplace sexism, but in case it's the latter - if I saw a male engineer ranting about (ex-)coworkers publicly like that, I'd still have thought "Wow this guy sounds like a rockstar."
I don't understand. Even in an ETF, don't you have to sell (and incur capital gains) when you actually need the money?
> When Bitcoin started, however, profiting off Bitcoin was not the primary goal. Everyone in the crypto world believed that this virtual coin would one day change how we use money. It will free us from governments and banks’ control over our financial system. But that goal no longer exists in the crypto world.

stopped reading here. People have hoped to profit from bitcoin since the beginning.

And while there probably aren't a lot of crypto people thinking that BTC will become the medium of (common) exchange, ending government fiat control of currencies is certainly a primary concern among people in the space, and many are building "layer 2" solutions (such as Lightning) with the goal of facilitating smaller and faster transactions and using bitcoin (or other) as the settlement layer.
This is a slippery slope fallacy. Your government has enough power to detain and execute you. Does that mean, that you should give them even more power?

Even if one OS component (Google Services) is centrally controlled and can be used to attack you, this does not mean, that you should make other parts less secure. Real-world attacks are complex and backdoors are fragile and prone to being detected. Embedding a backdoor in proprietary code of Google Services is easier than embedding it into AOSP. Hijacking a specific application is easier yet.
We can mandate EV chargers anywhere we want them. Workplaces, apartments, wherever. We already do this with handicap parking spots, and the US government can and does subsidize commercial EV installs using tax code.

If you run out of charge, you get a tow to a fast DC charger or home. AAA piloted an EV charger truck for dead EVs, and deprecated it because no one was using it.

We can fly a helicopter on Mars, but we’re wringing our hands over the equivalent of dryer outlets and where they’re installed. It’s comical. Europe mandated all fast DC chargers inter operate, and everyone swapped their cables to CCS and supported frictionless payments because it was the law (even Tesla at their Superchargers) [1].

It’s a climate emergency [2], not a climate inconvenience, and we should start acting like it collectively.

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2019/02/16/standardization-of-ev-c...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-are-living-in-...
jwz once put it when talking about netscape: people who want to go to work for a successful company instead of people who want to go to work for a company and make it successful.
I must highlight a false assumption in your story:

> With a male dev it would not be possible, but when a woman accuses a man of harassment or bullying at work the man is considered guilty by default

I guarantee you that it is absolutely possible for men to be emotionally manipulative to cover for professional lapses in an employment setting. Typically they go for "dude, we're bros, why can't you let it slide" rather than "dude, why are you being mean to me", but at the end of the day, the reaction is exactly the same. You report the claim of harassment or bullying to HR, you recuse yourself from its handling, and you openly participate in the process and present your case that you believe manipulation is occurring.

So, since I've seen male devs do this and I've seen male devs get fired for doing this, how would I handle this if she were a he, behaving in this same manner?

I would, presumably, by the guidance of my HR department and manager training, have already been collecting written proof of failure to deliver, with independent assessments by others affirming the failure to deliver. I would have sought review and affirmation that the instructions were clear and that they agreed and affirmed to those instructions, and that they then failed to deliver what was promised.

So, then, you need to: Compile concrete (written, recorded, anything but verbal-off-the-record) evidence demonstrating failure to perform to the stated expectations. Have the expectations vetted to ensure that they're reasonable and appropriate. Have the work output vetted to ensure that it's deficient and lacking. Validate the evidence you've collected as sufficient with your manager and HR team. Then, fire them.

ps. It seems like you're assuming that a male dev would not claim harassment by a male manager, but that's actually a much more effective inflammatory technique for someone who's trying to manipulate their way out of failure to deliver, especially in conservative regions where being accused of being gay can be a career-ending experience. I encourage you to reconsider this potential blind spot in your expectations before someone takes advantage of it someday.
> In my experience immigration status alone is not enough to put into a group that has increased risk of being discriminated against.

This logic is kind of bizarre. You don't want to generalize, but only when it comes to putting people from one group into a different group for which you make generalizations.
In terms of the actual soud you hear, pickups, pedals and amps are going to make the most difference.

In terms of whether you want to listen to it, technique reigns.

The best gear in the world won't make you a good player and a good player can make even crap gear sound ok, but I'm not sure I agree with technique being most important to tone.

Not saying that technique isn't important
(obviously it is), but the same player with the same technique is going to sound completely different on a single coil going into a vintage combe versus an active humbucker going into a hi gain stack.
And that is totally valid, but I’m guessing there were some architectural decisions behind splitting it into its own object in order to give it support from other customizations and processes. But in this case it would be impossible to make everyone happy =/
I guess Salesforce was pure software while Bloomberg was hardware plus software.
Do you have any sources regarding the effect of pulses, e.g. in animal studies? Most materials I have found are dealing with average/CW power. (I work with weather radars, so I was doing some research recently to find out what I should do to not die)
If you can no longer innovate, litigate!
"Many" in my post was not meant to imply "most". I have no idea how many doctors are more focused on the money vs saving lives, but it's >0%. I will say my experience as a patient has reflected what you're describing, and that it would likely be that "doing what is best for my patient" often involves doing what's best for their bank account.

I just know I worked in pharma advertising, and we def identified who helped push product. There's a reason the industry is so heavily regulated, well actually many reasons, but one of them is def because drug companies exploit US insurance practices using copay and other programs which allow. And people doctors definitely have different attitudes when speaking with "Dude with platinum level insurance" and "Dude who has no insurance and works as a waiter".
Yeah this is why I usually get better results a 70% or so setting rather than 100% as it gives the heat a chance to spread a bit better than nuking at full power.
This is almost certainly wrong but is worth a mention given that the author can't figure it out. In Southern India, there is a language known as Kannada. It has 43 million speakers, which, fun trivia, is more than the population of Canada (38 million). While "Kannada" and "Canada" are pronounced differently, I wonder whether there could be some clicks from Kannada speakers who think they are selecting the local English dialect. The English 'k' and 'c' sounds are so close together that perhaps Kannada speakers with weak English are trying to sound it out? Would be curious to hear someone from India chime in.
When I traveled with a Canadian colleague to Hyderabad, someone described how few catholics there were in India. He was startled, replying that this was the population of Canada.

I was on Lariam as an anti-malarial. He and others could clearly tell which day of the week I took my dose. It was since taken off the market for provoking psychosis. Asked if Lariam made me crazy, he famously replied "Not sure, but it certainly made him more Dave!"
I can't see the US government getting excited about regulating away a pattern which makes TOR harder to use, though.
Interstellar medium has a huge range of densities from approximately 10^6 per cubic cm down to 10^-4. However, the intergalactic medium is between 10^-5 and 10^-6 in high density filaments and gets much less dense in the voids.

As such in a cosmic void planets around such stars would be fine. Though it seems extremely unlike for such planets to exist.
Do you have an electric car and live in an apartment? Please try to use level 1 charging for a month and let us know if you want to continue doing so rather than just switch back to an ICE.

I used to live in an apartment and was able to charge my EV at work. There was no where for me to actually plug in my EV outside. I lived on the 2nd floor and could have just hung a cable out of apartment window to charge, but I wasn't interested in leaving my window open all day every day. During the first several months of the pandemic, I hardly used my EV, preferring my wife's ICE lest I have to take it to a charger near by and wait around for 30+ minutes to charge it.

It wasn't until I finally moved into a house a few months ago that I started using my EV again.
Is this a dark pattern? I'm ok with shadow bans if they're reserved for those egregiously abusive users who ruin the community for everyone else. Let them shout into the void.
Half expected it to be a hilarious mix-up with the 'Kannada' localization mapping...
The important bit is that an individual rabbi cannot overturn anything; the power comes from a legislative entity called "The Sanhedrin". However, in order to be part of the sanhedrin you need to be ordained by another member of the sanhedrin and at some point (unknown exactly when, possibly around the year 400) this lineage was lost. The idea of overturning a prophet doesn't really matter though, because as far as I know we don't get laws from the prophets (except Moses obviously).
The New Yorker should drop the "the". It's cleaner.

Normalizing the amplified prejudiced attacks of perceived deviance is not the same as normalizing deviance.
Also SQLite store data in pages and the page size can be tweaked. Combined with range requests any part of the database can be requested.
And what happens if you can't pay back this loan? And what happens if thousands or even millions of people can't pay back their loans?

The current systems may not be perfect, but they do exist for a reason. Chesterton's Fence and all.
Does anyone here know someone (in California) who purchased an EV between 2012 and 2018 and then went back to a gas car? The results of this study do not jive with my anecdotal experience.
I just called my credit-card company to block a company playing similar shenanigans yesterday. The credit-card representative seemed to think it would work.
Hello, kindred spirit. I grew up in San Diego but have lived in the Bay for almost 30 years. I still can't enjoy a Mission-style burrito. You've articulated the key reasons why.

The answer to your question is, you can't get what you're looking for in SF, but if you're willing to drive for nearly an hour, you will find the burrito of your dreams at Adalberto's in Fairfield.
Edit:

After rereading the article, I now understand that you were referring to this quote in the article : "The circulation number is not enough".

You are right, the fact that it's divisible render this point moot. I thought you were saying that dividing coins somehow decreased scarcity (Yes, I've seen many people argue that, believe it or not).

Original comment below :

I find it really mind boggling that some people don't understand that dividing a pizza into 100M pieces does not give you more pizza.
I use a physical pager when I’m on-call for our team. I get peace of mind knowing that I don’t need to worry about my phone being charged or being set to silent. I also prefer not having to install any work apps on my personal cellphone.

When it beeps, I hop on the computer and ack via web interface, alternatively I can ack back via sms. The whole point is that I need to be able to look at a system immediately so internet access is a requirement during oncall rotation.

It’s a single purpose device and it works great, I highly recommend it!
Thanks for the really interesting article. I have a (volunteer rescue) pager provided and look after a fleet of 40 for my unit. Found them far superior in actually getting the message out compared to an app, and also getting sleeping bodies mobile. AMA.
From TFA: “This is not a battle worth fighting,” he said in a tweet. Toponce told TechCrunch that he has complied with the demands, fearing legal repercussions if he didn’t.

Okay, but let's see what they wanted: "The letter also demands that he disclose to the law firm the identity of the person or people with whom he had shared a copy of the software, agree that he would not make any further copies of the software and to delete any copies of the software he had in his possession."

Umm, F-THAT!! I will not send you personal contact info of anyone for anything without a warrant/suponea for any of my clients/customers/users/friends. Anyone that would be willing to do that should have that tattooed across their foreheads so anyone in the future will know.
Archive link: https://archive.is/hnBQa
I _almost_ sold my brand new EV a few months into the pandemic, because work was the only place that I was at long enough to properly charge it. It wasn't until I moved out of an apartment and bought a house that I started driving it again. My wife has an ICE, and we did all of our pandemic shopping with it.
> For the families that truly need help (which is the minority)

20% of the US population recieves wellfare payments - and a good proportion of those above this lowest quintile are precarious at best. I would go so far as to say that more than half of people absolubtely cannot afford a 50% price increase on food. Not to mention the additional labour and complexity involved in cooking food from raw & healthy ingredients. It cannot be overstated just how much "brain fog" one experiences growing up and living the life of those less fortuntate - it really is incredibly difficult for someone like this to just decide one day to not have their usual frozen pre-cooked microwave meal and instead learn how to make a vegetarian lentil curry, and a big part of that is the percieved difficulty of cooking and the psychological barrier of learning something new - it really is hard for a lot of people to feel the agency in their lives such that they can simply "decide" to learn something new like that.

Now I'm not saying this to simply be contrarian, or to say that we can't do anything about this at all, but rather we need to approach the issue with large quantities of empathy and human understanding. Government funded cooking programmes pointed towards those with little time and money and that helps teach basic skills without talking down to people would be a good start, but realistically something like that would only work if they became popular - it would require a very talented face/crew that have passion for their mission.
Sounds like audio-only TED talks as a service, with all that entails.
I wish all the major trading networks would switch to satoshis right now. The psychology of it, not to mention the ease of just talking about how much you have, would be much easier and would encourage people to try to spend it instead of just invest with it.