skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How something is said is at least as important as the intention. Isn't that tone policing core to the hn ethos?

Dressing up thoughts in symbols may seem like a marketability approach, or maybe an attack vector in the best traditions of fiction (the best sci-fi is, after all, merely a glass darkly by which to critique contemporary social ills), yet as Blair reminds us:

>"In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to them. When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualizing you probably hunt about until you find the exact words that seem to fit it. When you think of something abstract you are more inclined to use words from the start, and unless you make a conscious effort to prevent it, the existing dialect will come rushing in and do the job for you, at the expense of blurring or even changing your meaning. Probably it is better to put off using words as long as possible and get one's meaning as clear as one can through pictures and sensations."

So, jumping on pop-culture loaded symbols & jargon is a quick way to hijack sentiment or thought along well-dug rut of loaded connotation. Entirely valid critique.
Can Be != Should Be
I had a couple of minor bills like this with companies I barely ever deal with, and at one point I bothered to look at my credit rating. The material impact of a few unpaid items was to drop the bullshit FICO rating from 840 to 810.

As in not worth my time at all to fix some company's internal fuckups versus wait a few years for nobody else to care either.
I would change the title to "Approximately 37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home"
I've lived here 20 years and never met anyone who works at a data center.
Educating children is just part of the social contract, the cost of living in a stable society, like roads, water, prison, army, hospitals. Imagine saying "I've never committed a crime. I should not have to pay for the police." Same energy.
If they're not distributing the patched application, I don't see why this is any worse than using an unauthorized YouTube client.
I never connect my TVs to the internet because you can't trust the manufacturers to keep them up to date and secure. And they might install more ads as part of a system "update".
Every time this discussion comes up on HN I get downvoted for being completely against adblock. It's crazy how far people will go to justify taking food off other people's plate. Usually the argument about tracking comes up. As if it's used for anything other than attempt to sell you products and services. Completely screw over small businesses and screw the content creators. On a venture capitalist forum. The hypocrisy is unreal.
Read the actual proposal — it'll never affect Signal in any bad way. Summary of the summary: Very big messengers have to interoperate with smaller ones if the smaller ones want to do that.

Signal is a smaller one and will always be below the threshold, so it'll have the choice: Allow whatsapp interop like it allows SMS now, or don't. Signal's choice.
I think most XMPP clients for mobile devices have supported this (and other protocol extensions like push notifications) for quite a while now. Conversations, the most popular one, certainly does.
It’s a dog whistle for stuff like mens rights activism, all lives matter nonsense
Ah, dude's not a dj then (as far as this is concerned)
> Arguably, you have been 'taught' or you have inferred yourself that you should expect a sleeping system to immediately accept your keypresses as a password, which although reasonable is not necessarily a good practice.

I fail to see why that wouldn't be a "good practice". Last weekend I read some articles on Canon Cat[1], and Jef Raskin referred[2] to the feature as something desirable:

> In many ways it was, for 1987, far ahead. [...] instant on with any keystroke (and you didn't even lose the keystroke)

He goes on to explain why it's a good idea to do so in the article, it's a good read.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat

[2] https://www.apple-history.com/gui_raskin2
Hey there, this is actually feedback on your domain name. It probably wasn't cheap, but it doesn't pass my '10 year old' test.

"The 10 year old test" is an imaginary test where I inhabit the mind of a 10 year old for a little bit trying to find inappropriate or gross jokes to make about the name. In your case "Throw App" and "Throw Up" are extremely similar. Even more so if you have certain non-native accents.

I think the name 'Throw' is totally fine, I'd just avoid using it next to 'app' if I were you.
Data centers actually are a huge bonus to the county's taxes. It's a huge (to the point of being a risk) portion of the County's revenue.
Value chains: method for creating and balancing faucet-and-drain game economies
No. If your business model is ads, I won't support you. I'll find a way to block your ads and I'll tell everyone who will listen how to do the same. I don't appreciate being brainwashed just so creators can get paid.
It's pretty nice! I'd love to see the compiled output of the examples though!
Maybe you didn't know this, but Google is stingy as fuck in terms of the portion of ad revenue they share with content creators. Most content creators just see youtube as a way to get exposure, then they turn around and monetize other ways like sponsors, patreon, product sales, etc.
This is how a website should look. It provides information. As others have said, it has a clean, customizable look, and (imo) content that you won’t find anywhere else.

The brilliance is the simplicity. You don’t get ads every other article. You get information.

Look at a ‘man’ page. It delivers information in an easy to read, text format.

We have had so much CSS, JS, pop-ups, pop-unders, and invasive click-tracking shoved down our collective throats that “surfing” the web is not an enjoyable experience anymore. It’s a damn chore.

There is an undercurrent of simplicity in the design of web-pages that I personally am starting to more often. If you look at links posted here by highly technical people or *nix power users, it’s a bare-bones blog or site.

For example:
https://plaintextproject.online/index.html
That is the most click-bait headline I have ever read that actually delivers content both relevant to the headline and interesting!
Reproducible Linux Environments with Vagrant and Terraform
Exactly — yet so many people can’t accept that ANYONE might want to work from an office.

My assumption is that people who love WFH are generally suburbanites who can’t fathom getting to work involves anything other than sitting in traffic for two hours.
I contributed without being MDN staff (which pretty much didn't even exist at the time)—that's sort of the whole point of my comment:

1. Mozilla sets up a wiki.

2. Contributors from the community work the content.

3. Paid Mozilla staff handle the infrastructure and, for better or worse, issue fatwas about high-level project direction—and, to be fair, write and edit some content, too (also for better or worse).

4. Years later, Mozilla starts a subscription service.

5. People not otherwise in-the-know show up and make weird proclamations about promises they want to be made about how/where money gets spent—with nary an indication that they understand how the content that they value actually came to exist.**

If you think my characterization of people from #5 as "outsiders" is off—(to the point of making low-effort, sanctimonious quips in defense of the fanclub's honor*)—then I don't know what to tell you except that we clearly have a different set of ideals. Whatever the case, addressing me as "someone who worked their" indicates not just that you missed the point entirely, but that you're very confused about the basic facts that form the premise of the discussion.

* this is in the middle of a discussion about a failure to acknowledge the existence of people who are actually responsible for the thing that they're fans of, no less

** see also "Who Writes Wikipedia?" (2006) <http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia>
The several times I have seen this tried, it usually devolves down to a bunch school students asking sex questions and other students posting outrageous (and often incorrect and harmful) answers. Best of luck, though.
If poor little Google can't adapt to a changing landscape, it should die. That will not plunge the world into the dark ages.
Yeah, I agree. If you're willing to use a garbage collection library [0], you can even have a pleasant syntax for ObjectiveC style OOP in C:

var result = call(foo, "bar: %s boo: %f", baz, hoo);

The garbage collector will pick up the stray memory and release other resources (files) as needed, and all the standard compilers will check the varargs format string for you.

Dynamic typing, arbitrary messages, and no memory leaks. Just like Lisp. It's not perfect (string message could have typos, and might use %p for objects), but it's not too bad.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boehm_garbage_collector
The problem isn't competition. Dr Disrespect is on Youtube and doing fine. He's maybe not pulling down hundreds of thousands a month, but he's perfectly accessible, and I'm sure he's making a healthy income. The real core of the problem is that moderation is a difficult problem, these companies only work economically because they don't responsibly moderate their content, and when you're under-investing in something it's easier to just not answer questions about it than it is to actually go into details about your continual screw ups.
Image Shows Stars Aligned for the James Webb Space Telescope
It’s hard to believe it used to be worse right?
In a similar vein to this idea, I have also been wanting to start some sort of cooking blog. The main intention is to write down family recipes and have some sort of reference later on how to cook them. I have so far a single recipe, in a format which I would like to see more recipes in. Intersted in what other people think of it.

The recipe: https://cfx.lu/recipes/fondue

In particular, it was important for me to focus on the liquid densities, as a person that wants to attempt this recipe for the first time probably has no reference on what the ideal density of e.g. a cheese fondue is, so I wanted to add videos and pictures to showcase it.
It's still important to note that black holes at the atomic level, and gravitational effects of any kind at that level in fact, are entirely speculative science. QM doesn't allow for any kind of gravitational attraction, and GR doesn't account for any of the effects observed at atomic level, so we are left with only speculation.

Microscopic black holes are an entire extra level of speculation over any other gravitational effects. Even in GR, black holes are not exactly consistent with the theory - they are singularities, indicating that (even if we knew nothing of QM) GR can't be a complete theory of nature.

So, discussing what microscopic black holes can or can't do is not much more than discussing what effect photon torpedoes would have on a Holtzman shield (Star Trek x Dune fanfic).
Doing that by email is a real dick move. They should send a letter with the last bill. And do it opt in of course.

Old people are exactly the type of people that would carefully study letters that come in the post. Unlike people my age that would bin anything that comes with the bill thinking it's probably just commercial crap.

But of course this is precisely the reason they do it by email. Dark pattern..
I think it is hilarious that it says you ask questions anonymously and then front and center, they want your email address to join their waitlist. No thanks, clearly not meant to be anonymous after all. Besides, wouldn't it be better to showcase something once it is ready than asking for an email to join a waitlist? Reminds me of truth.social.
I think the FAQ is missing a bit of info. Nothing deal-breaker-y, but the biggest questions don't actually get answered!

The ones about how much each answer pays and the minimum threshold, the answers essentially say "you get paid an amount per answer" and "you can pay out above a threshold" without actually saying what the numbers are. It's a little recursive :P

I guess my main question is: Ballpark figures of course, not holding you to a quote, how much per answer? We talking pennies or dollars?

Threshold then comes in to play as (for example) if it's pennies per answer and the payout threshold is $100 it will probably not pay out for anyone but those that figure out how to game the system or get reeeally involved and treat it as a job ala Mechanical Turk

I'm also getting a vague reminder of Aardvark[1] (RIP, cheers Google) if it'd help to see how something similar worked :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark_(search_engine)
In my experience, whether or not someone enjoys something is largely irrelevant when it comes to work.
i know it seems unlikely now but i think we will return to the office. not 100% of the time. not everyone was doing 100% before either.

but a lot of people have switched jobs in the remote only era. we have experienced / are experiencing how little we know these new people. how little we feel connected to them. how strange it is to not make new friends at a new job that go beyond the work-friend level. i think most people will pay the cost of going in (again, not every day) for the gain of seeing people. this will be gradual but i think it is a common sentiment that we want to work with people we can see in person
English is not my first language.

I didn't know what gimp meant, or that it even meant something. Never gave a thought about it before.

TIL what it means. Expanded my vocabulary. Thanks buddy!

I can now never not think about it whenever I hear gimp.
> he has worked as an executive at multiple companies in the past decades (CEO, CCO, CFO). As he grows older, he has noticed it becomes increasingly difficult to find work, even though he would love to continue working for the years to come.

Finding a business position that's a good fit for him would be a much easier way to stay employed until retirement than switching to programming.
Unfortunately, the best remote setups are in low-density places with large homes.

People moving from NYC and SF to Wyoming and Austin are going to be living in sprawl.

There vehicle miles traveled (VMT) are going to increase: after all it’s not going to be a lockdown where white collar workers stay inside 24/7.
Just last week a friend who worked for a bank like that said, "If you don't like it, just buy the stock." His rationale was if they can get away with crap service and high service charges, along with being defacto permanent government oligopolies, any savings of yours that you can convert into bank stock will pay out multiples on what you pay in fees and irritation.

It just encourages them, but that's Canada, market economics don't apply here.
You might be right. The few people that do try to align with that tend to call themselves "reactionaries", or even "neo-reactionaries". Their broad ideological stance makes for an interesting Western counterpart to Neo-Confucianism on the Chinese internet.
> I also want to be clear: I'm not mocking anyone for lack of knowledge here.

One of the persons in my sample is my father. He had an introduction to what must have been OS/2 Warp and even had a computer in the office, but never used it (there was still a secretary). In his retirement, he bought a book binder course on how to use an early version of Windows, but hadn't a computer to try it on his own, so this was yet again theoretical and mostly forgotten. At around 80, he finally acquired a laptop, but 10 years later he's essentially at the level described above. (Windows nowadays changing some of its metaphors on a regular basis, doesn't help.) On the other hand, at the age of 90, he's still able to adopt to the interface of a new camera. Partly, because camera UIs tend to be designed more on the principle of providing the least of an interference and mental load as possible, but also because he loves photography.

It is important to note that computing isn't a prime occupation for this generation: Yes, it's something they could do, yes, there may be interesting things, they try to participate, but overall, they can do without it and discovery is difficult, therefor, there's never an ultimate urge to adopt. Conversely, they are reduced to the most basic skill level, which doesn't especially promote interest, which in turn hinders progress. You could say, computers are inverse gamification devices for them. This is something to keep in mind, when designing accessible operations.

Edit: Adding alleged ease-of-access layers doesn't help. E.g., as may be inferred from the above, archiving and reviewing photos is a favorite occupation on the computer. Transferring and navigating stored photos is complex in its own and eventually mastered to a certain degree. (Still, I keep fixing the same míshaps.) However, adding layers like camera roll, moments or automatic links in the favorites bar, which eventually obscure the custom links placed for ease of access, doesn't help at all. On the contrary, it's just an opaque distraction and obstruction, which will be ignored at best, but will add to the confusion at least, because of their inherent time-based instability in what is supposed to be a stable layer of access. (Also, the "magical" appearance and disappearance of these items doesn't help the ability to form a stable mental model.) Don't do this, provide functionality like this as an option only. (Or, at least, have options to disable this.)
and a commercial real estate crash would be bad for the company's bottom line
Sure. If it's important to you that the colors come out like the original you are going to need that expert.

That expert might very well tell you that the problem is well-determined in some cases (I don't think you'll ever see that rug pattern with different colors) and in other cases isn't (right now I am wearing a hoodie I bought at Target that comes in I think 7 different colors, so all an expert can tell you is that it could be one of many colors.)

That's an unappreciated point in machine learning. In some cases we can classify something accurately, in some cases the answer is always going to be ambiguous. From a practical aspect some answers are critical to the success of the application, in other cases it makes no difference if item X is classified in class A or class B.

Developing a training set you can drive yourself batty accurately classifying things that don't matter and still have a training set that's worthless because the important things aren't determined.
Wow, I envy you.
> I'm not sure how I'd use something like this.

It seems that you could use this to program embedded systems that have a shell, yet which don't support any other usable language (due to flash space concerns, product management approval or whatever).
>As an aside, I find it amusing that more latency is introduced by a USB keyboard than existed in an entire 80's computer

Uh what?
> She either did not understand the implications of this or missed the email, and is of the age where she would not remember when exactly she had last paid which bill. So without a paper bill to remind her, and her payment method being via the post office rather than the utility provider having billing details on record, she ended up not paying 3 months of bills and being cut off.

That's so horribly absurd - have just left a utility company, we would send you paper notices leading up to shut-off regardless of paperless opt-in status. Having a customer without water was considered far worse than wasting a little extra litter in the grand-scheme.
Kodak comes up as the assignee name in ~22000 patents in the USPTO (search at [0]), only counting since 1976, so certainly incomplete. Of those, some have been superseded, some are worthless false paths, and some are incredibly valuable. The patents may be public, but nobody is going to give out the other information for free.

[0] https://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html

Edit: I forgot that patents are only valid for 20 years, but at any given moment there were still likely to be thousands of valid patents.
How Podman runs on Macs and other container FAQs
The Vegan Paradox
The Digital Markets Act promises to free people from digital walled gardens
> Same reason most of us use QWERTY keyboards instead of one the many better layouts available.

Many people here are coders, not writers, and the layout for generating human language is irrelevant. With QMK firmware tap-hold, and one finger each hand chording, one opens up a quadratic expansion of expressibility, all near home row. Now one can automate all frequent actions (VSCode commands, application launches, windowing scripts) as paired keystrokes.

Keyboard layouts should be the poster child for "Don't get sucked into taking the problem statement as given, THAT's usually what needs questioning."
I think you missed the point, which was I don't care if Apple left the EU market over this, because I live in America where (at least for now) things will be how I prefer them. So saying "good, leave the EU" or similar doesn't really bother me...

You're right that there are other bills in the pipeline. I think the user experience will be worse off because of them and we'll lose lots of ground on privacy and convenience, but it's inevitable because small, vocal minorities usually win even when they make everything worse for everyone else.

It'll be interesting to see the fallout though. It won't take long for others to connect the dots and start filing lawsuits for any store or platform with any sort of standards. Obvious first targets are companies like Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft for consoles. But other non-obvious targets will start being platforms. Take Chrome - why can I only use (and maybe I can't and I don't know) Google's Chrome Store to install third-party software? Or rather, why can't I install another "App Store" on Chrome and replace Google's? Maybe you can (and I'd argue it has to be identical in terms of convenience and ease of use to qualify) but there will definitely be other, similar targets for lawsuits.
>What does speaking to a human accomplish? Your ticket was probably reviewed by a real person.

It's hard for my not to wish you to have the kind of horrible automated ticket/service experience that makes everybody who had gone through it immediately understand the value of speaking to a human.
> the highest quality restaurant in the world is MacDonald's.

Isn't it so? The meal is enough healthy (for hard-workers only, not for calories-gathers), calorage as I have mentioned is excellent, waiting is minimum, non-meal payings (keeping the restaurant attractive) are the lowest possible, the most important thing is that in poor countries (my is in the bottom of bigmac index) the prices are lower than anything else available in big cities.
At the moment, there will always be damage.

There’s also risks associated with the surgery (that’ll be much higher than 1/15,000; you’re probably talking at least 1/1000 just for risk of initial surgery).

Further, no implants last forever. They develop scar tissue around the implant. So you’ll have multiple surgeries if you survive years.

Technology can mitigate much of that risk, but we are pretty far away from removing risk. We also will need multiple major independent breakthroughs.
It's as if the EU enjoys spending time with Max Schrems in court. It's going to fail, again, and businesses are going to pretend they couldn't possibly have seen it coming, again, and nobody is going to care, again.
I expect that over time our use of space will adapt to this new reality but it will probably take a decade.

I definitely see older or taller office buildings renovating and rezoning to become mixed co-working and/or living spaces suited to remote work.

Not just that but also I could see commercial space be divided up into premium one-person office spaces wired with fast internet and set up for video conferencing.
Rust superpowered DHCP CLI with rhai scripts