skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember trying out Getting Things Done, really liking the idea, and then finding out I had only crappy ways to reference an email from my "todo list". Enough of my "work" is "respond to this email" that I've never been able to escape my inbox as one of my todo lists.

Any ideas on how to build task planning that lets me include link directly to an email?
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> This is a chilling and dangerous responsibility to burden protestors with:

No it’s not. It’s simply a reality. The way the chose to protest facilitated the looting. When the looting started they could have ended the protest and summoned the police.

You seem to be conflating legal liability with responsibility. I’m not saying they should be prosecuted.

I’m saying that it’s just a mental fantasy to pretend they don’t bear responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

> are we to argue that every single person who protested peacefully outside of the Capitol on J6 is responsible for the rioters and insurrectionists who stormed in?

Sure - once it became a riot, if people stuck around and got in the way of the police, they certainly bear responsibility.

> They did, after all, interfere with the police response and

Yes, and they are responsible for thst.

> provide moral support for the single greatest outrage against our government in nearly two centuries.

Moral support is a different matter.

> Our cultural and legal standards of free speech enshrine protest, and ensure that protestors are not vilified for actions that are not theirs.

Preventing police from doing the job of protecting business from being looted is their action.

> I do not think we should undermine that.

Blocking police from doing their jobs is not speech.

Nobody is talking about limiting free speech or protests. That’s a red-herring.
> I ended up linking to my Google account, but I spent a long while trying to "sign up" with my email only to be given an message about failing to meet the password requirements (no mention of character limit and no special characters allowed).

This is strange; I don't really have any special password requirements. What's the exact error message you were getting? The only requirements are that it's at least 6 characters long and different than your username, and in each case it should tell you exactly what's wrong.
Cookie banners or GDPR consent banners are the embodiment of malicious compliance.
Instagram launches early test of creator subscriptions in the U.S.
I used your app constantly before I picked up Sonos speakers and had to restort to Spotify playlists!
Not the people whose jobs likely went away as a result, however.
You might be surprised the limited extent to which this is true. In many places in the US starting residence requires 3x rent (first, last, deposit) and vacancy rates are low. Getting the deposit back from the previous landlord routinely takes months and while legal assistance can usually expedite this it's hard to find (the public law clinic and the law school clinic are running on waitlists), so deposit return doesn't help like you might think. Public assistance in this area is quite limited and may adversely impact the ability to find housing on its own. And the impact of vacancy rates can't be underestimated... in this city it's currently hard to find anything on the low end with a move-in date within weeks, which often requires a very costly bridge stay in a hotel.

As a volunteer I work with a lot of people who have lost housing due to non-financial circumstances (typically fire) and are unable to afford to obtain housing at the same rent due to the up-front expenses involved. The Catholic Charities or city housing authority are sometimes able to front them last and deposit, but both have a limited budget so it runs on a lottery with a low % chance and landlords often find out the source of these funds and then refuse housing (discrimination based on source of funds is illegal in some states but not this one). Charities can cover hotel stay for usually 4-5 days but not much past that point which is not sufficient to cover the gap until a vacancy much of the time. Our case workers routinely watch people go from losing housing due to circumstances beyond their control to homelessness over the course of 2-3 months as they exhaust both assistance and their own funds covering a hotel while trying to find anything they can move into.

When it comes to move-ins, it's certainly not going to be Jeff Bezos but rent is going up significantly right now and so the landlord almost certainly will replace the tenant with someone who is paying more - often significantly more, I've seen 20% jumps from tenant to tenant. Much like switching jobs in the software industry greatly accelerates your pay raises, switching tenants greatly accelerates the rent raises for landlords in tight markets. Most of the US is a tight market right now.
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> The 19th century saw no large scale world wars

You forgot the Napoleonic wars involving most of continental Europe (~6 million dead).

Instead of world wars, the 19th century was full of significant regional ones, e.g.:
- Taiping Rebellion (20-50 million dead)
- Crimean War
- Russo-Turkish War(s)
- US Civil War
- Franco-Prussian War
- First & Second Boer Wars
- Multiple bloody revolts/rebellions in British India

It was not a "peaceful" century by any stretch of the imagination, and the powers involved in these conflicts were by no means "disarmed".
It's definitely not for everyone. I actually get motivation from having the deadline coming up to buckle down and try to finish the thing I am doing in the time allotted. So for me it helps with flow, but I understand that isn't universal for.
They can have a nice video of me giving them the middle finger for subjecting citizens to such a user-painful and elderly-discriminatory system.

There are saner, more humane ways to prevent fraud.
I've been trying pijul fully solo. In my opinion, yes!, there are benefits.

I'll try to give an example. It's been a while so I'm not 100% clear on how exactly I did it, but I had a central nix configuration Pijul repo, and the "personalized" config files for a particular machine under pijul as well – in another repo iirc? I cloned the nixos configuration files from the main repo into /etc/nixos. Then I added "personal" things like MAC addresses and an SSH key to the config file. Personal to that machine. Things that shouldn't go into the main repo. Recorded those changes into the "live machine" repo. What I ended up with was a very nice mechanism that knew about the customization entries and didn't get confused about them. I could write general changes to the machine-specific repo and easily pull them into the main repo without the version control system always getting confused about them. And vice versa.

This might be possible with git. Personally I wouldn't bother and I will claim that it's not due to inexperience with git; Quite the opposite. I can certainly attest that it was very very easy and nice to do this with pijul.
It's a bit of a false equivalence, no? People who treat their pets well aren't necessarily the same people who treat others badly. These two things aren't mutually exclusive.
> It seems to me that the unique characteristic of the technological society is that, through mass surveillance, tactical applications of violence, propaganda and “social death,” traditional fixtures of totalitarianism like prison camps and beatings are unnecessary to enforce unprecedented political control.

This is definitely true, for a less-charged example:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/17/world/europe/serbia-media...:

> BELGRADE, Serbia — When Covid-19 reached Eastern Europe in the spring of 2020, a Serbian journalist reported a severe shortage of masks and other protective equipment. She was swiftly arrested, thrown in a windowless cell and charged with inciting panic.

> The journalist, Ana Lalic, was quickly released and even got a public apology from the government in what seemed like a small victory against old-style repression by Serbia’s authoritarian president, Aleksandar Vucic.

> But Ms. Lalic was then vilified for weeks as a traitor by much of the country’s news media, which has come increasingly under the control of Mr. Vucic and his allies as Serbia adopts tactics favored by Hungary and other states now in retreat from democracy across Europe’s formerly communist eastern fringe.

> “For the whole nation, I became a public enemy,” she recalled.

> Serbia no longer jails or kills critical journalists, as happened under the rule of Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s. It now seeks to destroy their credibility and ensure few people see their reports.
I think people can see that this is targeting businesses, but they're not happy about that because they're non-business customers.

It doesn't bode well for the future direction of what has up to now been a good consumer-focused product.

Like how Dropbox has gone from "a folder that synchronizes your files" to "an electron app for having discussion threads about files" because that's what business customers want.
There were a few good ones here and there, like Mind Field or Retro Tech, but they all were basically timed exclusives. I actually liked the idea of funding more niche Creator-driven content like that, aka giving money and production backing to creators who had an idea for a bigger project.
I really want to know where I can find quality programming memes like these. Not just the generic "haha language ___ is bad, nerd" memes.
Same here. I tried, and later paid for YouTube Premium for three months, mostly to get rid of ads their way. The experience was like regular YouTube, the YouTube Music service was very underwhelming, and the ad-free experience was not enough by itself to justify the service.
White House to make 400M N95 masks available for free, distributed at pharmacies
> Repairs, insurance, inspections, et cetera

rents in the city where I live are up 11% in the past year. did the cost of repairs and inspections increase by that much?

> Also staging, advertising, pursuing delinquencies

ah, so I'm paying for my landlord to increase their rate of return and put my fellow tenants on the street. got it.
I switched to Migadu a few years ago, as I realized that having a personal account with Google Workspace was a bad idea.
All Google features kept getting delayed for Workspace users. Google removed the free tier (huge red flag on its future). Fortunately I just had to migrate email and calendar. You're in a bigger mess.

Yep. Get out. Stop relying on Google for anything important.
Then call it "adaptive cruise control" and be done with it.

There's only one reason they pick the term "autopilot" -- and that is to give people the impression that these cars have magical powers that they do not, in fact have. And until proven otherwise, most likely will never have.
All this boils down to: in India there's a national ID database you can use, which makes this a lot simpler.

The US does not have a national ID database, and there is a lot of resistance against making one. Each state could probably use the driver's license, but that locks out people who don't drive -- a small but disproportionately marginalized group.

Government services are tricky because they need to serve everyone. That means that you have to handle a lot of special cases and struggle to categorically ban bad actors. Google can say "you've used your gmail account to send spam emails, so we're banning it". The IRS can't do that (I think even if they put you in prison for tax fraud).
I'd guess (A) Voter ID laws are transparently intentionally designed to inconvenience as many liberal voters and as few conservative voters as possible, and (B) there is no other way to vote if you can't get a voter ID, but there is another way to pay your taxes without this online access. Not defending this decision though; this is a bizarre requirement. Is this more regulatory capture by Intuit / TurboTax?
You probably also get 65GB of storage for free, but you may not be using it.
I've actually heard this the case for most immigrants, regardless of race. Would you say it's the case in the entire country, or more so the rural areas?
Cool solution. Sadly not for ne stuck in corporate firewalled MS Outlook.

But I love to see when somebody builds stuff to solve a problem. And I believe that at least I can cheer them on and wish the best for them.

Congrats.
Poll: Do you prefer Twitter threads or unrolled versions?
There are sometimes excellent articles written as Twitter threads like this [1] recently. I see debates frequently happening with some people preferring unrolled versions like [2] and some people preferring the original. Hence this poll. Which do you prefer and why?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29977041

[2] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1482811504424542211.html
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The 42 hours work week may come as a surprise to some. In many ways working in Zürich is more like working in Boston than in Paris, Madrid, Rome. (From experience end friends' recollections)
There have absolutely been rental relief options available to landlords, I don’t know if your situation qualifies.

You are also entitled to sue your tenants in arrears for every penny of unpaid rent plus the costs of collecting. Even with a judgement you may not be able to collect if they have become destitute, that’s the nature of the business you are in.

I sincerely hope you get a chance to retire, society would be a lot better if everyone is able to. Hopefully we don’t all need a 12 unit building to do so!
I was doing something bold and unusual that neither my grandmother nor my mother did: breastfeeding.

To further complicate matters, my son wasn’t waking up on his own to feed often enough. When I just let him set the pace, he slowly lost weight when he should have been gaining. Additional complication: Covid causing us to be completely on our own those first few months.

Tracking feeding times and weights made the problem more visible, and diapers calmed me down (he wasn’t dehydrated!), and drove me to supplement with formula and to seek out a lactation consultant, who got me to start pumping. Tracking that output let me slowly switch him out of formula back to my milk. My grandmother gave up nursing after a week when her first child was never satisfied, and my mother never attempted it (80s in Texas).

Now that he’s a robust toddler who eats pretty much anything in reach, I no longer bother with food and diaper tracking, but still track temperatures when he’s got a cold because our daycare has strict rules about time since last temperature over 38 before being allowed to return.

So yes, I needed a way to see how often he was feeding and how long, along with matching that up to weight changes. Could I have done it on paper? Sure. Was it easier with the web app? Yes.
Why stop there, make various parts of manufacturing compete against each other. Get this thing going Sears-style, it'll be lots of fun for those of us on the outside.
It also sounds like a case of rose-tinted glasses - I watched many of those 90s sitcoms as they came out, and most of them are definitely mediocre!

And this fact was noticed contemporaneously - remember all of the very serious thinkpieces opining that people were rotting their brains in front of the TV watching content so brain-dead that you need a laughtrack to tell the audience when to laugh.

Personally I think that was just snobbery - the mediocre sitcoms were fine and perfectly ok entertainment and there was no need for any kind of moral panic - but let's not pretend that that was some kind of golden age of sophisticated content.
We removed pricing, one reseller wanted that out. But good point, I think we should add it again and be transparent since his business is good but not good enough to do so.

What happened when you git Sign up?

Thanks a bunch for the feedback!
I understand the situation. I take real issue with them poster taking it upon themselves to make the decision it's win win, you don't, that's fine. :)

I don't not see your perspective, I do, I just don't agree they can say it's win win given the facts. Had they posted the whole thing and ended with "so I told the company and they laughed and now I get paid to do nothing, win win" I'd never have commented. I see why they can say it's a win all around, I just don't agree it truly is, in my opinion further negotiation should happen to test it, however for the reasons discussed exhaustively, that isn't advantageous so won't happen, so I don't think we can truly say it's a win-win, they are working on asymmetric information! :)

re: give up and become a paralegal, no: there may very well be other scripts to be written.

I'm going for a bike ride now.
Yep, most latest Originals were just timed exclusives I believe. Came to Premium members ad-free, then some time later became available widely with ads.
Oh boy. I sure hope you guys aren’t using your ISP’s email address.
How are you calculating $70 per family member?
And it's a good thing, and personally I would love it if we could stop having even SSNs.
i <3 forwardemail. thank you for building this!
Oof, this sucks. I'd forgotten about losing all Android purchases. That totally sucks. You still need to get out though, as it will only get worse.
I personally migrated by downloading and uploading over imap.
Also VSauce's Mind Field.
I would have agreed with you a couple months ago, and we didn't ever plan to build this feature. But a lot of users requested it, and I started doing it myself, and it does actually work really well for me to timebox specific tasks rather than timeblock chunks of my day. I never followed the latter when I tried it, but when I have timeboxed specific tasks in my calendar it works for me and for a lot of our users as well.
You do remember correctly. I was in Google Patent Litigation then.

The patents were never asserted against anyone. Were they useful as leverage in cross-licensing deals? No, not particularly.

Since patent infringement suits are generally brought against the final manufacturer of the hardware, what this did is make Google the defendant in a lot of lawsuits against Motorola.

I personally looked over all 20K+ Google patents (mostly via our summary tools, not reading every word). Most of the Motorola ones were utterly worthless.
There is a great video on why many of the streaming providers have started airing "trash tv"/reality tv shows. It's in German, but you can auto translate subtitles on PC

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nD5YLLPpWMg
Built Shopping Saga:

Real-time Online Shopping Deals by Product Category | Thoughtful Gifts for Every Occasion, Recipient, Category

Gifts:

1. Daily-updated gift products catalog
2. Direct Amazon and Etsy product links for gifts and deals
3. Browse and filter by price, category, recipient, occasion, popularity

Shopping Deals:

1. Grab online shopping deals as soon as they are available
2. Category-wise segregation of deals
3. Deals updated half-hourly

Initially, it was only web and android, but now I have released iOS app as well.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mysticpeak...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1604578567#?platform=iphone

The web version was pretty basic, so I've taken it down currently. Learning Vue JS to enhance the frontend/UI.

The apps have pretty clean UI.
Do you provide a way to export data in case the site closes down? I don't use any app/site to track what books I read, but I see that it could be interesting.
It might be true, or not.

I worked as an overnight computer operator years ago, and could easily have replaced myself with a batch script, except for a couple manual tasks that I could have done either at the beginning or end of my shift. I didn't do that, because I enjoyed going to work and being able to work on my hobbies while being paid. The company didn't do it largely out of ineptitude. They'd say they wanted a warm body there in case something went wrong, but one of us was always on-call anyway, even with another of us actually there; no reason the system couldn't just alert the on-call person.

One of our overnight operators worked a second job during his shift. He'd fire up a batch of jobs, go work elsewhere, come back on his lunch break and fire up another batch of jobs, go finish his shift elsewhere, then come back and fire off the last batch of jobs and be there when people started coming for work in the morning. He got caught because he was the only one of us who was always a little behind in his work; so they watched the cameras. When confronted, he admitted it. If he'd have automated the stuff, he'd have gotten away with it for a lot longer.
Well, it depends.
I've had my Google Voice number rejected at a lot of places that want an cell number for SMS -- I assume it's flagged as a VOIP number rather than a cell carrier number.

I recently ported that same number to GoogleFi and now it works everywhere.

Whatever the database is that they use, it's updated quickly, I tried using my new GoogleFi number at my bank the day after I ported it to Fi and it worked, while they still refuse to send an SMS code to my Google Voice numbers.
I have a lot of issues with dysmorphia and frankly kind of loathe seeing myself through the shitty front facing camera lens of most smartphones. I hope this type of auth doesn't catch on.
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> until the end of the day, where I have some time set aside to chopping up the information into the appropriate pages

Your way of working sounds wonderful, but I find that I would probably struggle with this part. How are you able to define the end of your day and ensure you have such time marked off? I have tried this but always end up getting sucked into endless other issues/problems/etc and basically passing out at some point, only to wake up the next day to dive right in -- no time to be able to do that sort of retrospective note-munging...

(this is not exclusive to trying to find retrospective time; it applies to things like finding time for food/dinner, blocking out vacation time, or other things, too. work never ends!!)
While we're playing the what if game, if any and every untrustworthy character were given custody of 700k house, home owner insurance would also become far pricier.
> I bet you woldn't have commented if they showed a white kid. So why does it matter to you if they show a black or a white kid? Why does it make a difference to you?

That's an easy answer - majority vs minority.

If you show an image of a person from the majority then obviously it makes no difference. However, if you single out a minority, any minority, it seems like an obvious statement.
json is used only for manifests; actual layers are .tar.gz.
If one has an EU passport, do you even need a work visa?
lack of understanding of new technologies and internet in general from governments is scary

where do they seek help to think about developing such useless systems?