skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite true. I mentioned that. My friend wanted it to be pristine. It was more than 2 decades ago.
I don't understand why so many people get so angry about something so inconsequential.
Tornado Myths
How Does Bluetooth Work?
> Under GDPR, a website doesn't need to ask for permission to have necessary cookies which enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility.

I am not convinced this is true. See: https://law.stackexchange.com/a/32157

Also note that HN is likely in violation of this since there is no "Remember Me" checkbox when logging in. There is no indication that logins will be persistent.
Time is easy to measure. It could well be line of code or Completion of work, but that will quickly become highly subjective. If someone finds a better way to measure and pay for the software engineers, it could open plethora of possibilities.
RES like features for the mobile apps

One feed that isn't algorithmic but simply chronological and/or based on no. of upvotes.

A better search engine from reddit itself
SF is antithetical to neoliberalism. It’s a NIMBY central.

Neoliberals want unrestricted zoning, land value tax, and freedom of enterprise. SF is all about blocking new housing and punishing corporations.
I don’t get it, is that anecdotal experience supposed to provide guidance for all children?

I’ve been jumped several times in my life. And yes, I’d much prefer my child walks outside alone just like I still enjoy walking outside unsurveiled. The world sucks, I’ve yet to find the place were continuous surveillance makes that better.

YMMV, people have different views, I was never harmed beyond a two week long headache in any of my incidents, otherwise I just lost personal belongings like phones and wallets.
Some thoughts make someone wirelessly attest to their identity via their phone if they want to be allowed to come into your location. If someone while inside your establishment walks out with the merchandise then suddenly every store in town auto locks their door when they approach or wont unlock if they approach without their phone.

Make it appealable in case of issue but if they have you on video you pretty much aren't winning.

If more people than phones approach the door just don't open and play a verbal warning preventing tailgating.
It can be but this person was searching for cans not identity theft or stalker stuff. Also: if they were sniffing around for that stuff, killing them on public property when they pose no immediate threat to you or anyone else isn’t the answer.
A common hack, and that's where the "potentially reduce readability" caveat comes in.
As someone straddling the line between gen x and millennials, the concept of partnering with your corporate bosses to advocate for political causes far astray from your company's products, particularly without regard for the ability of capitalism to co-opt that energy in a cynical pursuit of profit, is basically insane to me.

It seems like people have become so desperate to fill the widening void of meaning and purpose that they are willing to graft it even onto their at-will employment contract.

And as someone who watched the internet exponentiate the number of niche subjects and communities it shocks me how much homogeneity there seems to be in how people think and speak today.
Such as? BPA-free plastics are common.

I mean, we implant plastic medical devices in humans.
It is important to point out that this simplicity was by design. There was a ton of complex UI frameworks in the 90s, but Tim Berners Lee decided to get away with that complexity. Of course, developers being who they are, decided that simple is not what they wanted, and created probably one of the most complicated development stacks the world has ever seen on the top of the web browser.
Natural immunity is more robust than vaccine immunity. Not at all surprising. Why aren't we testing people for covid antibodies before injecting them with experimental medicine from corporations with a history of ethical abuses which were granted immunity from any liability their gene therapy may cause?
I don't want a work "family". I don't want to be on camera or see coworkers on camera. It is a trope now but http://www.phrack.org/issues/7/3.html
This is one of the main reasons I won't be able to go to Mars. Unless they can bring coffee on regular resupply missions, I'm stuck on this planet forever.
This naive take seems to imply that companies, in America today, do not have political influence. Or, companies do have political influence, but its workers deserve no say despite spending 40 hours of every week devoted to serving its interests.
The number 1 assumption is that all text will meet the format you're expecting it in. Be that an encoding (everyone in the US speaks English, but utf-8 is dangerously compatible with ASCII), or a character range (do we block input of certain characters?)

Presentatuon is huge too, How do we render a pasted newline into a single line block? Where do you put the cursor if someone pastes a block of Arabic text into your multiline input? What do you display if your font doesn't have the character they've copied and pasted from another source?

There's also just the basic stuff of "every keypress/chord equals a new character" - I have an app that I use every day that renders Ctrl + backspace rather than deleting the word?

Then there's input considerations; Macos uses alt for per-word navigation, windows uses Ctrl. Do you support the OS input type, or do you support a popular editor bindings (emacs) and how do you differentiate between an input to display and an input to take a navigation from? What about mobile? Most boards support input gestures, and autocomplete suggestions. How do you know to modify your current context over appending it to your input?

Finally, what about non-renderable input? If you're modifying a rich text string, how do you escape from a block, or how do insert between two separate blocks?
> I’d be more convinced of an analysis of child rearing in a “gender neutral environment” created by those who do not have the gender they were assigned at birth

I agree with you about some stuff, but you're wrong about this. Transgender people aren't magically free of gendered societal influences. Some are shitty sexists who prefer strict gender roles. Speaking as a transgender person.
To be honest, I have a hard time believing that the change in laws is what's actually driving more theft. Is the average shoplifter really doing cost-benefit analysis by planning out the value of their theft and then googling what punishment they're likely to receive before going into Walgreens and taking stuff?
This approach is remarkable, and exciting. I look forward to the day I can reasonably "jump into" something like Chromium development without dreading extremely long compile times...
Fully agree. It seems so stupid. Why do people care about what color the emoji is? Don't they have real problems?
If you want more of that type of news, make sure you install these apps:

* Ring

* Nextdoor
--Protected-- These groups in USA have some subtle, hard to prove discrimination. If you're not in the group it's hard to even perceive and/or understand (it's why the issue is so hot-button).

Like all those prospect-hires who never got a call back - as they weren't "a cultural fit for our company" on record. But maybe (and heres the nearly impossible part to prove) the hiring manager didn't like them cause they /sounded gay/ or /was a bitch/.

Edit: you downvote cause you don't think it happens or because you don't like reading about how it happens?
Feynman's examples is of people being more critical about certain issues. A better example is the case of "radiation" that could only be seen in a dark room in the corner of your eye, which turned out to be a human visual artifact and wishful thinking.
Yes, water usage is likely a concern (though not the one the original comment had raised/I responded to). That section of the Wikipedia article is very poorly cited, linking to a single EBI source [1] which doesn't cite a primary source. I'd be unsurprised if coffee (particular wet-processed coffee) used a fair bit of water, but other agricultural products also use more water than people expect - a 500g loaf of bread would need 250 to 2000L of water, according to this one random source [2]. Daily household water usage in North America is in the ~400 litre [3] range (~150000L/yr per person).

[1] https://www.eib.org/en/essays/on-water

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jan/10/how-mu...

[3] https://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/domestic_water_use_pe...
I honestly don't think this would be a problem if people spent their time advocating on internet message boards vs internal corporate message boards - even on the clock. This isn't about selling time, it's about what's the appropriate place and audience for certain types of discussion.

In practically every job I've ever had, some of the conversations that folks are advocating to continue would have gotten me first warned and then fired. But I've never worked for a 'tech' company per se, just in technology. I guess it could be different in SV but then that's probably the issue. Most of the country just doesn't operate this way and finds this kinda weird.
>I am, however, against the idea of companies being forced to design products around being easily repairable

I haven't heard anyone actually push for this. I've just heard people ask for access to information and the ability to buy parts.
Taking a pickup for a grocery run is like using a jackhammer to push in a thumbtack.
It’s a sum
But did the klansman or the nazi have any political discussion? They're just wearing their funny outfits and walking around saying hello to their friends. If anything, someone complaining about their behavior is having political discussion.
Startups, Banking, Secure?

Wirecard and Theranos called, they want their fraud back.
Looks like the fix didn't make it in 2.2 :(

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/32170#issuecomment...

Comment here links to before and after videos: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/79298#issuecomment...
Was this coffee that was roasted and then aged for that long? That doesn't sound good.

I have gotten some nice aged coffees, an aged Sumatra and a monsooned Malabar (they age it in a warehouse open to the monsoon wind and moisture).

But these were aged while green and I roasted them fresh.

I wonder if what you got was something more like that, aged green and then roasted after aging?
Apple is also getting away with the exact same behavior that caused the Microsoft v. United States antitrust case 20 years ago, by bundling WebKit with iOS and refusing to allow the installation of other browser engines.

But there are effectively no functioning regulatory institutions in the United States today, so who's going to stop them? Apparently companies like Epic have more judicial clout than the federal government these days...
Partly. It's also a lack of demand for decent food. It's not like Krogers (etc) is part of some conspiracy to not sell produce to poor people. That's what the media seems to think, but I don't think so.
The beauty of the free market is that by pursuing selfish interests, people wind up benefiting others as well.

The failure of collective markets stems from nobody has figured out how to get people to stop acting selfishly.
Not sure you heard but MLK is now an alt-right extremist.
No one is angry. That's the point. The point is that no one should care about race, but everyone all of the sudden is.
Start up idea - run hundreds of “preliminary studies” with small sample sizes, then sell any of the p-hacked results to marketing or news groups. Want a story about how milk boosts intelligence? Want a story for how a standing desk leads to promotions? We have it all
Microsoft should absolutely be able to do that if they wanted and in fact do that when you buy something from their Windows store. But not allowing side loading of apps would be bad for business. Linux would see a huge gain in marketshare.
Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen
Everything could be sold again in glass containers with scratches for labels.
If a paper claim 1 + 1 = 3, one gotta introduce 2 to claim that the equation is wrong. Plus, you must not change your view based on single paper, because papers are not always 100% correct. There are always papers that contradict each other.
# accidental drug overdose deaths in SF:

2020: 697
2019: 441
2018: 259
Woman learns her life was a lie after finding out she was 'kidnapped' as a baby
So someone like Henry Ford who helped popularize cars gets no glory, but someone who dedicates their life to running an orphanage for free does?

Sure the latter is important, and we should talk about them too. But civilization progresses due to risk-takers like Ford who spot an opportunity and dogmatically pursue it.
In Scandinavia and New Zealand people are different.
> Drug cartels are on the decline.

Are you just saying that because weed is being legalized?

Economic inequality sure isn't in decline, and there are a lot of 18-24 year old uneducated men out there with nothing to lose. The turmoil in places like Venezuela and Colombia leaves power voids that cartels step in to fill.

Look at the southern border.
Best coffee I had was local coffee in Hawaii, which is like 27 degree celsius everyday, and low of 16. So a very small temperature swings.
They are not changing the rules, they are changing the status quo by ruling that a currently widespread practice is breaking the law.
A Bitcoin node simply doesn't consider BSV blocks to be valid, they break Bitcoin's rules, that's what makes them hard-forks and is not related to this discussion.

When there are multiple competing valid chains, with PoW the main chain is whichever one has the largest amount of work done. Eventually everyone converges to the same chain automatically.

With PoS, how do you objectively chose between two competing chains?
This is happening because these large tech companies- not just tier-1 unicorns but FAANGs themselves, have been presenting themselves as paternalistic employers for the past decade. You provide employees with all the free food, on-campus gyms, and massages by appointment as they want, then present them with supposedly open cultures of free inquiry, your employees are going to use it. You satiate someone's lower levels of Maslow's hierarchy, and they're going to want to self-actualize. So the freethinkers and activists motivated to join these companies are going to try to engage in activities beyond, well, work.

So the companies reaped what they sowed. They wanted to have their employees stay at work and did so by making the office a desirable place to not only work but live at, and their employees start wanting to bring their lives into work.

This totalistic capture of big tech over employee lifestyles mirrors what these companies are also seeking to do at the marketplace. When a company manages not only the technological needs of their customers, but everything from entertainment, to healthcare, to home security, to shopping, logistics, and everything else, then they set themselves up to be veritable empires. That's why big tech companies are now dealing with every issue including free speech, environmentalism, worker's rights, what activities should be eligible for payment services. That's just the price of being a business that wants to be involved in all facets of human society. It includes politics. You can't be an empire and still pretend to be above it all. Both your customers and your employees are going to treat you as one.
I think one thing that killed the RAD market was it became viable to stick together a web application, especially since for a while no one cared if you included a barebones web server in your delivery
Coinbase alone lost 60 employees. [1] Doesn't seem like a sum. Also not phrased right. Should have been "together" not "each".

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/10/08/60-emp...
People have been brainwashed by this type of attitude for years.

I think people bringing their politics into the workplace are more interested in attracting attention than anything else. But the obsequious worship of the boss is just gross.
I feel like this is true, especially of younger generations, in many rich countries.

I think maybe because it takes challenge and pain to grow and things have been quite comfortable for a long time for many.

It could just be my perception. But I've never seen so much anxiety, such reluctance to do hard things, and such inability to focus. Social media may be largely to blame.
>I don't think the answer is a return to 20th century "no politics at work"

Why not?
Something that I think the physical sciences benefit from is the ability to look at a problem from more than one angle. For instance, the stuff that we think is the most important, such as the most general laws, is supported by many different kinds of measurements, plus the parallel investigations of theoreticians. A few scattered experiments could bite the dust, like unplugging one node in a mesh network, and it could either be ignored or repaired.

The social sciences face the problem of not having so many different possible angles, such as quantitative theories or even a clear idea of what is being tested. Much of the research is engaged in the collection of isolated factoids. Hopefully something like a quantitative theory will emerge, that allows these results to be connected together like a mesh network, but no new science gets there right away.

The other thing is, to be fair, social sciences have to deal with noisy data, and with ethics. There were things I could do to atoms in my experiments, such as deprive them of air and smash them to bits, that would not pass ethical review if performed on humans. ;-)
I think you'd mostly consider it bad design for the lack of contrast. But, yes?

I'm not sure what you're getting at.
> why the rapid application development tools of the middle 1990s became extinct

RAD tools were focused on Desktop application development and web suddenly took over everything.
There are definitely many people who will anywhere from dissuade to scold a child for playing with toys that don't fit that person's idea of a "gender appropriate" toy.
Sure and I’d rather society glorify those who decide to start things - mom & pop shops, new products, services, etc. than someone who takes photos of themselves to create an online persona that they go on to monetize.
I will assume best intentions that this is a sarcastic suggestion, because it is pretty evil and socially irresponsible otherwise :)
Please price in externalities. Add in noise, total area it takes up, weight, and pollution.
But why use your company when they could just... make it up? :P
If it were for people like you we'd still be working 18 hour days from the age of 7 until death
I think I got lucky, but I think luck is required to be successful at anything (including coding). I actually haven't had any bad luck yet, the only stocks I've lost money on so far have been some of my value stocks. I fully expect some of my risky investments to go south.

The best advice I can give is pretty generic - follow the data. First of all actually find the data. Don't trust some finance news rag to tell you anything meaningful, some of them actually have a direct incentive to lie to you. Now that you have the data, what does it say? This sounds simple, but everyone told me I was an idiot to invest in GME in January. They said the same thing in March. So far my investment in GME has more than a 10x ROI. I'm just using GME as an example because it's topical - people tell me I'm in a cult while I'm actively making money betting against them.

"Buy the rumor, sell the news" is pretty easy to understand, just find a stock you know well (I would guess something in tech, like Alphabet or Amazon but whatever) and look at dates for stock movements, rumors, and announcements. You can do this retroactively to find a pattern then try to apply it moving forward. "Never invest in something you don't understand" is general advice outside of stocks, but just an extension of what I said initially - do your own research until it makes sense to you.

I think a huge amount of inertia is just people afraid to try it because they've been conditioned their entire lives to believe they can't make money doing it. I'm quickly realizing how much of this is bullshit (I realize I'm lucky and I understand I'm likely in a local maxima, but I am still extremely confident a lot of the things I've been told are just wrong). So take a small amount of money and invest it and see how it goes. Learn. Iterate. Improve. The goal is to start making money before you lose it. I actually started with just $10k and once I started to figure it out put in more money as I wanted to increase my profit.

At the end of the day it's your money and you should do what you want with it. So long as you understand you will definitely lose money sometimes and are willing to learn from it, give it a go with whatever money you're willing to lose.
The PM is totally capable of handling 2 issues in the same week.
> what powers and advances have poor research systems denied us

Alternatively, it may be that all the low hanging fruit in the known orchards are picked. But there are still workers reaching for the remaining higher, rarer fruit. Only a few are needed for what fruit remains. But there is instead a glut of workers. A few are up to the task. The rest pick up leaves and make convoluted arguments about their potential value. "These leaves are edible!"

Maybe we need can find new orchards. Or maybe the unpicked orchards are too far away to ever reach. Or maybe they don't exist at all.
>A feature of US work culture is that you invest your “whole self” into work. As in work isn’t just a thing you do for money, but a calling...

and it is utter bullshit. I have watched my father and grandfather been chewed up and spit out by their respective employers and that work culture. Work isn't your life its what you do to pay for your life. any time a employer tells you that they are a family or any such BS run the other way.

I am exchanging x number of hours of my time skills and effort for their cash period.
Ask HN: What's the tech scene in London like?
I relocated to London a few months back, in the middle of the lockdown. I've spent the last decade or so in India, mainly Bangalore, which ofcourse has an incredible tech scene. Was hoping to learn from the UK community here what to expect in London.

From the little that I saw, there's not a lot of big tech as such (as far as engg / product) is concerned, did see quite a bit of SaaS/consumer and fintech.

Would love to learn more about the tech scene/community here. Places to go to, forums to check out, stuff like that.
You still totally can! You can just not buy those things! The rest of us get to choose! Delightful.
The main takeaway from this is that the future of our species is secure once again
>Lots of science is completely inaccessible for non-experts as a result of this sort of politics

As a non-expert, this is not the type of inaccessibility that is relevant to my interests.

"Unfortunately, alumni do not have access to our online journal subscriptions and databases because of licensing restrictions. We usually advise alumni to request items through interlibrary loan at their home institution/public library. In addition, under normal circumstances, you would be able to come in to the library and access the article."

This may not be technically completely inaccessible. But it is a significant "chilling effect" for someone who wants to read on a subject.