skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I disagree, so I don’t think it’s objective. Another goodie is when installing an update, macOS only shows that you can cancel the update if you hover over the progress bar or where the cancel X would be. If you just look at the window, you think there’s no way to cancel and that you need to ride it out. You just have to happen to hover over the right element. There’s no reason for this. macOS is absolutely full of little things like this that are hidden in the OS. iOS does this as well. Going to the settings screen, you gotta pull down to see that there’s a search bar. Again no reason for that. Both macOS and iOS are very inconsistent and hide all sorts of settings, behaviors, etc. Another example is that I can’t even adjust my external monitor’s volume and brightness from the OS because Apple wants you to buy their monitors. And all that’s ignoring the portion of usability from things in the OS just not working or that break.
I long for a modern Corless Optical Trackman. Last I checked the few you could find on ebay went for hundreds.
Putin lambasts the West and declares the end of 'the era of the unipolar world'
You do for the way shopping carts are usually implemented. Say you put something in your cart, close the browser, and reopen it the next day. On basically all sites, the item is still in your cart, but that requires cookie consent because it isn't "strictly necessary in order to provide an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user".

See this earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29530890
I love the simplicity of the site but a meta "light dark" color-scheme tag would go a long way.
> YT algorithm fill the vacuum with the next closest thing.

good insight. I def think this is a huge factor.
Why isn't telling someone to shut up protected free speech? There is no requirement to comply. He could have just as easily responded: "No" and continued to tweet as he wanted.
X is fantastic and amazing, not just for the time, even now. Not switching.
Needing to urinate while on shift also makes you a poor worker.

I see bottles of sun tea piled up in various places around town where delivery trucks pause for red lights.

Those are good workers, committed to the job.
Exactly!

The infrastructure worked. The concept did exactly what it was supposed to. 100% successful.

.. and yet lending to unreliable borrowers that no-one else wanted was still a stupid idea.
Do people actually want news summarized? It's entertainment, parading as something intellectual. I don't want my Netflix summarized, for example.
If it makes you feel any better, ziploc bags don’t contain phthalates. They’re used in different types of plastic.
Inside the Tumult at the Washington Post
>The letter asked SpaceX management to publicly separate the company from Mr. Musk’s personal brand.

This is not realistic. It will not happen. Elon Musk is the founder, chairman, CEO and CTO. He owns 47% of the company and 78% of voting control.

A company you work for is not a democracy. You are not an owner. You don't get to call out, to make governance decisions, to create pressure campaigns, etc. This is doubly true for privately held companies. It would be truly bizarre if these employees weren't fired for this wannabe activism routine.

In short, go launch your own damn satellites.
You’re being sarcastic but actually libraries being the public alternative to ISPs is a great fit; they are the providers of free knowledge and information after all. I don’t see why using a local library would mean you could no longer communicate with the larger internet any more than using your ISP’s local gateway would. Local networks communicating with other networks is literally what the internet means.
Elon is becoming a joke. For a person who had such a big vision, he surely appears to spend too much time voicing himself on Twitter, thus exposing his less good thoughts (which we all have).
I use SVB and agree- the UX is clunky. We added Teampay into the mix as the UX that our employees use. They love it and I love it too as the admin.
Some Twitter workers have "Musk Derangement Syndrome," employee says
The NLRB only has jurisdiction when the matter concerns labor organizing. This has a specific definition and does not automatically cover any collective action by employees like open letters or petitions.

Many employment laws just create causes of action for civil litigation. I.e. they define types of harm for which the employee can seek compensation in the courts.
A city has a government, a city is also the collection of people, organizations, etc that are interested in the success of the city.

The point being argued was that someone is disappointed by comments in these threads and somehow their upset is inappropriate. Looking at the comments many of them back this management being disappointed that performers and their union destroyed this public good by not negotiating when offered lower compensation.

The city as a whole is saying it can't afford a professional symphony and that's fine. That isn't the performers fault and they were protected from a downward spiral by having a union that didn't let them go into poverty either working for free to their no longer compensated standards or losing more and more funding through poorer quality while they worked other jobs.

No one would accept the argument that IT workers are in the wrong if they refuse ever increasing pay cuts to stay in an environment that is no longer able to support them.
There should be a special version of a Turing award for fun computing projects like this!
And the FDA has credibility why?
P2P lending.

Or “De-Fi” as the children call it.
Idk, I don’t think the West can coexist with high end handheld gaming devices.
This may be in rather easy reach in some cases, at least in terms of power usage. Residential utilities like kitchen appliances, lights, and pool pumps have all been getting more efficient and are often run from batteries charged by solar during the day. Pervasive small scale green energy, more efficient systems, and distributed computer networks for sensors and controls can bring energy use way down while actually improving quality of life. Electrification of kitchens and heating is expected to reduce exposure to fuel burning byproducts.
A CEO having an affair is probably different than a CEO with a sizable control of votimg shares, appearing to be pretty impulsive in general in public.

The CEO with the affair could presumably be replaced if romantic fidelity is important to the company or if the relationship violated company policies, but if it doesn't affect their business choices, maybe it's not needed.

A CEO with strong control is a lot harder to replace, and fighting over replacing such a CEO is likely to happen in public and be a negative for the company. General impulsiveness is, IMHO, more likely to show up in business choices than romantic impulsiveness (if that's what was the basis for the affair), and business choices made for impulsive reasons at the very least increases volitility and may likely reduce expected value. If I'm investing in an established company, I think I want stability and rational choices, not volatility and impulsive choices. But then, I don't invest in individual companies, apart from stock based compensation.
> For a maximal hypercapitalist corporation? Well, yeah.

I don't think worker attrition is cost effective. It is just less work and lower skill requirement for the managers to rule by fear and overwork.

Isn't Amazon paying abit higher wages than the competition? They need to pay the bullshit fee to the workers.
Wow - that's awesome to learn about the 10NES, thank you for that!

>> Though I am entirely curious how the games would play given that there'd be timing and other small differences between the consoles.

It's been too long for to remember any differences, plus I was quite young, but I am now going to blame the fact that I was never any good on this timing tidbit...
I would expect the sorts of employees that would write a letter like that are more of the "free speech for me, not for thee" types.
Is this funded by Jeff Bezos or is half the news actually negative articles about Elon Musk currently?
Why Realtime ML is here to Stay
I was watching a video from the 1970s, and the speaker said "In these uncertain times..."

It seems everyone thinks they are living in uniquely scary times.

Like other people have said: OP needs to try therapy
> * The brain is too complex to appear all at once, it had to come about by a series of steps (evolution).

> * There is no cause and effect in the universe, everything happens as part of 1 action.

I don't see the contradiction, mainly because I don't support the second sentence as is. The steps that take place during evolution may happen without anyone there to observe them, so they would exist even without a complex brain to observe them. I don't see the existence of these steps as a flaw in my argument that the universe is self-generating and self-sustaining.

Also, causes and effects being two sides of the same substrate is not the same as everything being a single action; a universe that transforms itself will have states (or configurations, or patterns, if you prefer) that are a direct consequence of its previous states, without those consequences being created by something different and external to that same universe; only by its current reality and its eternal state of change.

I often find that both religious people and scientific rationalists are unable to differentiate sufficiently between the behaviour of reality and the knowledge we have of the behaviour of reality, equating them as if they were one and the same thing. For me, the concepts of "cause" and "effect" sit squarely in the "knowledge about reality" part, so none of the features we intuit about them can contradict whatever is actually happening in the observable world. My view of these two concepts is compatible with "the previous" universe being cause of "the next" universe, without the need of any external influence nor any specific "starting point".

I'm enjoying this conversation a lot, but I don't know for how long we'll be able to keep posting on this thread, and I'm not sure I have much more to say. I have not tried to convince you of my point of view, as I'm pretty sure these are not beliefs that can be swayed by rational arguments, but are based on emotions linked to learned concepts. I have merely tried to present my understanding of the cosmos in a coherent discourse that does not coincide with the classical concepts of the origins of reality, in the hope that your view of them will provide me with new angles, which it has done.

I'll be watching the thread to see if you say anything else, but for my part I don't think I have much more to contribute, just going in circles around more and more detail about the same ideas.
Twitter is rolling out Agile with external consultants
The Catholic Church in a number of European countries stopped processing requests to formally deregister people, due to mass departures after the sexual abuse revelations, which may be what they're referring to.

For instance, https://www.notme.ie
You'd need some way to inform the window manager that "windows from this process should be considered modals over this window of mine" - probably something that's in the realm of the possible to hack together?
I have worked at companies where I was entirely in disagreement with the senior staff's political views. I never sent any letters or complained about it.
We had a great relationship. My job was to provide value to the company while their job was to pay me for my job.
If I felt it was too much for me to listen to their political views I always had the choice to leave.
It's the SSA's actuarial table, there are enormously important factors outside of that to think about.

I mostly wanted a reference point and a countdown timer with an impossibly large number, but to be able to see it steadily decreasing. That's been somewhat psychologically impactful for myself, but YMMV.

Live long and prosper :)
Show HN: Root Cause as a Service – Never dig through logs again
Hey Folks – Larry, Ajay and Rod here!

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Obviously, everyone is skeptical when they hear about RCaaS. We encourage you try it yourself, but we also have a really strong validation point. One of our customers performed a study using 192 actual customer incidents from 4 different products and found that Zebrium correctly identified the root cause indicators in the logs in over 95% of the incidents – see https://www.zebrium.com/cisco-validation.

For those that are interested, this is actually our second SHOW HN post, our first was last June - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23490609. The link in that post points to our current home page but our initial comment was, "We're excited to share Zebrium's autonomous incident detection software". At the time, our focus was on a tool that used unsupervised ML to automatically detect any kind of new or unknown software incident. We had done a lot of customer testing and were achieving > 90% detection accuracy in catching almost any kind of problem. But what we underestimated is just how high the bar is for incident detection. If someone is going to hook you up to a pager, then even an occasional false positive is enough for a user to start cursing your product! And users quickly forget about the times when your product saved their bacon by catching problems that they would otherwise have missed.

But late last year we had a huge aha moment! Most customers already have monitoring tools in place that are really good at detecting problems, but what they don't have is an automated way to find the root cause. So, we built some really elegant integrations for Datadog, New Relic, Elastic, Grafana, Dynatrace, AppDynamics and ScienceLogic (and more to come via our open APIs) so that when there's a problem, you see details of the root cause directly on your monitoring dashboard. Here's a 2 minute demo of what it looks like: https://youtu.be/t83Egs5l8ok.

You're welcome to sign-up for a free trial at https://www.zebrium.com and we'd love to hear your questions and feedback.
At some point we overcorrected when trying to simplify things and now folks are being forced against their will to cede privacy to big corps in exchange for security and availability of their data instead of having to learn and understand how to do that themselves. At which point everything becomes a constant treadmill of walled gardens further insulating them in an attempt to not have them go learn something new.
It makes sense to me. Developers work on a project (and most definitely open source developers) because they feel some friction with a system. Maybe it’s a task they want to automate, or a bug in some software they need to use. But either way — there must be some pain point that is causing them friction. This is what causes some program/feature to be written or updated or fixed.

If those developers have a perfectly good work around, then there is no pain point for them. It doesn’t matter if it is a pain point for their GUI-exclusive users. If they don’t feel the pain, it won’t be prioritized.[*]

This isn’t a criticism of Gnome per se, but rather a reality of time management. There is only so much time to go around, which means features and bugs get triaged. If none of the developers feel like this is enough of a pain to get into the quagmire that is the GtkFileChooser (?) widget, then it will not be touched.

[*] That is, of course unless they are being paid to do the work. If you are volunteering, then you get to choose what work to do. If you’re getting paid, the suddenly not working on the file chooser could become a pain point for the developer (as they might not get paid). Which is the major advantage commercial OSes have over their open source competition.
Mobile ruined the internet
> Victimhood of feelings sums it up.

Like firing people for being critical of one's Lord and Savior?
Having dirty sex with happy people is how our species has done this since the Dawn of man.
This is so silly.

British Columbia takes in half a billion in taxes a year from their own oil exploitation. Canada as a whole takes in about 80 billion in tax revenue from oil and gas extraction. This isn't just a money maker for oil companies, it's a money maker for the Canadian government.

The petition here is for the government to set aside citizen's money so that the government can sue oil companies? The same government that gives the oil companies their leases to extract oil and is a huge benefactor of taxes from said industry?

Even if you believed this was not just a special interest group asking for a government to set aside money for special interest groups - Canada only has 38 million people. $1 per person is only $38 million. There are already plenty of climate activist organizations that have way more than this. If that's all it would take to successfully sue oil companies, it can already be done.
It's fascinating to me how many comments seem to be defending the workplace culture at SpaceX, and outright dismissing the letter in a hostile manner.
Maybe the current “thing” is to recognize what happens after getting fired and learn to exploit it: outrage PR, podcast and media spots, outreach by like minded people with other opportunities, etc

It’s a different time.
This sounds like a very useful feature for a personal RSS reader, like the text-equivalent of a thumbnail, so you can decide if the article is worth reading.
Don't underestimate the devs. It's a huge market with less competition (that's why suggested npm too). One of my sites makes very good money for doing something very trivial, something that almost every dev can do if they spent like 5 days on it, yet I have people paying $47 / mo for over 3 years just because I give them a super easy way to do it with an API.

Most devs generally have good budget or power to make purchases under $50 / mo without consulting their manager and also you're mostly dealing with very nice people.

The only issue I've ever faced when dealing with devs (and it could be just my own myopia) is that they are most often perfectionist. So whatever service you provide, better make sure it's the absolute best of the best - which it should be anyways.
you're not really following the hn guide on commenting etiquette, and if you continue I won't reply any further.

>That's a false dichotomy

right now the options are Boris or a Cameronesque Tory. Sure in 2 years better options will be available, but that's in 2 years time. it is not a false dichotomy. besides, the longer Boris stays in power, the more he damages the Tories as a whole

>If the uproar comes from the "wrong" sector of the electorate, the Tories will just double down on it

this is an exaggeration, especially under the populism of Boris. yes they largely listen to their base, but they don't seek to actively antagonise others. they're a centre-right party that seeks a wide base without a high degree of polarisation. they're not the GOP or UKIP. given your comment, I suspect you may assert that they are more like the GOP or UKIP than I think. if so, I will agree to disagree on that

it seems like you have a lot of emotion and anger about this, and that's fine, but I don't think it's helping your objectivity about actual outcomes and intentions. I also don't like him or his party, but in the short-term he's better than a right-wing ideologue that doesn't care what you think
File picker horror? Use the built-in file picker of Javas own Swing-Toolkit.

Integrating a GUI into a programming language library is inherently wrong. And while Sun was on the wrong path they doubled down and spread it across multiple platforms because they assumed their GUI was a solution. It wasn't and luckily Java based applications disappeared - with the exception of Java based developer tools.
That’s nothing. I’ve never programmed a computer, just recently learned how to use an abacus, and been in a coma for three years—yet 43 Amazon recruiters email and call me seven times a day for a software senior management job.
So yes, I suppose my error was to assume that regardless of what definition you use for the category "Human", the mother of the first human must have been an ape.

As I wrote in the other subthread, is that I should not have made the assumption that it doesn't make sense to make ANY defintion of "Human" sharp enough that a child belongs to the category and not the mother.

In other words, the category "Human" has no sensible definition, and any attempt to make up an arbitrary one leads to such absurdities.

Transferred to the chicken-and-egg problem. I've always held that it is clear that the egg came first, as regardless of your definition of "chicken" it came from an egg. But since I now belive that there cannot be a sensible definition of "chicken", the question turns from having an obvious answer to a question based on an absurd premise.

Thx for pointing this out to me.
This doesn’t really mean anything. Look at what $700k (not list price, sale price) gets you in Seattle, Portland, The Bay, LA, or Denver. It’s not much.
There are no indications at all of incompetence (I assume that is what you meant) or laziness in this at all. All indications are that this is an group of employees who came together to complain internally, the complaint was leaked (no indication that it was them), and they were fired.
Email service provider recommendations (2020)
Most team don't really concern about the security side of things when using pickle for model deployment, more about performance and resource utilization. It works ok for very light weight models, but doesn't scale.
People don't make PRs because they've seen how difficult it is to get anything done with the GNOME project. So often is there a fix pr or patch that satisfies the code style and standards, but gets rejected despite user demand because, well, the maintainers don't want that thing fixed or changed. Or they do, but they want to make some sort of point by rejecting a change at that time.

GNOME is one of the weirder and more difficult projects for a stranger to contribute to if your change does not fit into a very narrow and specific set of current priorities (unknown to the outside contributor, so good luck!). It is another world-of-wontfix poster child projects and I don't begrudge anyone who doesn't want to go through the hassle compared to most other open source projects they can spend their time on.

Eventually, you're left with just pointing out how ridiculous something is with GNOME and moving on. You're just not going to be able to get a fix merged regardless of merit, quality or tact. It isn't worth the pain.
Lol @ "Using company email/internal message boards" == "Hijacking internal systems."

Definitely not biased at all.
This appears to have been hugged to death. Anybody got a link for an archived version?
> What does the customizable firmware get me? I've never considered "layers" on a pointing device, like a keyboard.

I could see it as useful; although maybe not with these trackball designs.

I'm not sure what form factor you'd want for layers.

But, I could see stuff like "go desktop left/right", "prev/next tab", "skip video forward/back", "volume up/down" as things which it'd be neat to while casually using a computer, without needing hand on the keyboard.
I'm not sure why it's so hard for some people to understand. He has great guests and asks really interesting questions for the most part.

Sure, he can get a bit philosophical, but to be honest the podcast wouldn't have grown to where it is now just on the guests alone.