jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
But as i wrote if there are no alternatives then it means there is a larger pool of people to band together. And you can start by making noise towards the company as one voice not with the government. Honestly this sounds like you've given up without trying and then blaming the sites for not trying to work around your ISP being shitty. Here the blame lies with your ISP, not the sites.
Not the same guy, but Chase and Fidelity apps work on my LOS devices.

No idea about Google Pay, it's never even occurred to me to try it.
Would you say that the places are close in overall monthly expenses then? I would surprised to read how that those utilities are that much more expensive. I've been to Lisbon in December and remember it being quite mild and warm. Does the damp cold set in later then? I would love to hear what the other benefits you enjoy about living there.
I would be curious to hear what type of housing you can find in 400€ range. Do you live in Lisbon proper?
Interesting article, it would have been a good read if it was about 1/20th the length.
"The way to test these things is by starting with an alergy test, a dose low enough that it definitely won't have any effect, and also definitely will not kill you. If you feel fine, you wait several days and try a bigger dose, then see if you feel any effects. Stop when it becomes unpleasant or unwise."

If you absolutely must experiment, this method is a good for hopefully avoiding short-term adverse effects, but not long-term ones.

Much safer is to stick to substances that have a long history of safe human use.
> That's two sides of the same coin. When authorities invoke their expertise or science for a position, but are really making a values-based argument, then people will feel misled.

Yeah, but it's important to emphasize the values aspect, because I think that's where the emotional energy comes from. IMHO, that energy is fuzzy, resentment against one authority in one area transfers to a different authority in a different area, just as long as they're perceived being alike in some vague way. For instance, I don't think there'd be so much distrust over COVID response if there hadn't already been a bitter culture war where medical authorities sometimes take sides.
does HN use a heavy cache layer?

I assume not because every comment made would not be visible until cache expired. Unless they have a way to expire the cache (which is not dependable on most CDNs?)
This doesn’t really make any sense. Bitcoins wild fluctuations make it terrible for a currency and its fluctuations have only gotten worse over time. It’s just a speculators game. If it became a universal currency, you would just convert whatever you have to it. There’s really no path for bitcoin to become a universal currency, because that would require stability. And there’s no path to stability with the current speculation interest. If the speculation interest dries up it would plummet, but that would just continue the cycle. It won’t ever stabilize unless it crashes and people stop caring about it.
> pay for events

What events? If it's to discuss a certain issue, that can be virtual and almost free. If it's a social event, meh, there are enough of those already and people can self-organize them. Hell for $500/month I could organize social events where everyone goes to Michelin 3-star restaurants every month and rants over gourmet dinners about their bosses.

> pay for mailers and other communications infrastructure

Use e-mail. I don't even check my snail mail box anyway unless someone tells me to expect something by e-mail, and even then when my snail mail box gets too full I usually just dump it all in the recycle bin, so it's not an effective way for a union to communicate with me.

> and of course pay for professionals like labor lawyers.

What if they just split the lawyer fees evenly?

Assuming an experienced lawyer charges $1000/hr and spends 100 hours on a case, and there are 1 million people in the union, that amounts to about $0.10/person/case, a far cry from the $500/month they seem to be charging. Even if my numbers are off by a factor of 100 it would be only $10/person/case, and if the union won the case Amazon would probably have to pay the legal fees anyway.

Although this may sound a bit naive I feel like $500/person/month sounds like there is some massive inefficiency in use of resources.
Not quite. This isn't a poll: they'll probably tally up the overall sentiment but that's just one data point among many.

I think they're looking for arguments. They want to get the folks who've been in Bitcoin for the last 5-6 years to come out and say "Here's where you're wrong. Bitcoin can do X, Y, and Z and here are the projects that demonstrate that. People are using it for A, B, and C in countries Alpha, Beta, and Gamma and that shows exactly why Bitcoin is going to take over the world." Then Bridgewater's going to research projects X, Y, and Z and countries Alpha, Beta, and Gamma, and determine if those arguments are actually relevant.

It's intelli-trolling, basically. They're crowdsourcing their research by writing a provocative piece, targeting it at people who might know better than them, widely disseminating it on the Internet, and then seeing who responds.
And the IRS should treat transactions like they do gift cards or pre-funded debit cards.

While the IRS treats bitcoin transactions like security transactions - they are taxed on gain/loss of the bitcoins involved.
So if a SaaS offered a prepaid consumption plan alongside a monthly subscription you'd be more likely to buy?

Like $19/month unlimited use or $50 for x amount of usage (api calls, transactions, assets, etc.)? Then you decide if you want to reup when you've used up your credits?
This is just crazy.

> Want a hyper-responsive datalist typeahead that is perfectly synced with the database? On every keystroke, send a query down the WebSocket and get back precisely the changed set of option tags, nothing more, nothing less.

> How about client-side validations? Easy. On every input change, round up the form values and send ’em down the WebSocket. Let your server framework validate and send back changes to the HTML of the form, including any errors that need to be rendered. No need for JSON or complicated error objects.

If you're not Google-scale this is just a good way to DDOS yourself, no?
So, let me get this straight...

Jewelry has been — for the past 10,000 years — gender neutral?

And, women have NOT been responsible for cleaning and caring for their own jewelry?

Do you ever step outside and interact with people? Have you had so little contact with women that you know nothing of jewelry?

Women wear more jewelry than men in nearly every culture on Earth. Marketing jewelry to women is a multi-billion dollar industry world-wide.

Does that offend you?

If you had any direct contact with women, you would know that —- even to this day —- polishing, storing, and organizing jewelry is something far more women do than men.

If that’s ‘gross’ to you, you have issues.
https://brainblogger.com/2016/09/08/can-you-improve-physical....
I agree that many of these being people hustling for a buck and not starting a business.

The other thing is, shouldn't we wait to see if these businesses are successful before we start saying it is a good thing for the economy?
It certainly wasn't built on defense spending alone. But after a phrase like "I’ve always believed that government tends to screw up whatever it touches", he comes across as a bit silly.
I could always make designs for 'hypothetical companies' but I felt that it'd be more worthwhile if some startup could benefit from my designs at the same time.

Plus it gives me the experience of working with clients, as well as some exposure.
From the (better) BBC story[1], Lamo's quoted saying:

"I hope that Manning gets the same chance as I did - the same chance to take his punishment as I did and start a new life as I did."

"I like to think I prevented him from getting into more serious trouble."

I'm not a fan of Lamo or anything, but this seems dead on.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10255887.stm
That dead link has been removed now.
Water main breaks, basement fills with mud and "Oil". Only in Texas. Since we relocated from Las Vegas to Austin I tend to forget about the other big industry here--Oil. People in Las Vegas never had oil problems.
The economist has always had a good eye for titles and frontpages. Some of them are just amazing.
Unfortunately, in 15+ years of application security, I've never been called on to bust out multi-variable calculus.
I have this exact setup: a Cubox-i4 Pro in the front room and RPi in a bedroom) connected to my QNAP NAS which runs a shared (MySQL) library; it's fantastic. Can't recommend it highly enough.
>...one C++ implementation manages to outperform all the others ... by more than one order of magnitude

As does the cached Javascript version. All of the implementations in the path benchmarking by fiat use a naiive algorithm (recompute the cost for each recursive traversal). The C++ and Javascript cached versions are supposed to show that algorithm choice is much more important than language choice (and do some memoization of the cost calculation).

https://github.com/logicchains/LPATHBench/blob/master/jscach...
One of the things that kills some of these "completely unknown" languages is that it isn't obvious they are still being developed. The last known release is years ago, or they still only support one platform, etc.
Chinese government once blocked the download page of the python website (python.org), when they released python version 2.6.4. It is widely believed that it's because the version number triggered that[1].

Python website has since added another download link written in Chinese on their website.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_19... , called 六四事件 in Chinese, literally means six-four incident since it happened on 4th of June
OCaml also has both, and its object system is probably more powerful.
I wouldn't make it past the first game if I had to drink a glass of tequila.
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Wondering about GPU and ML hardware acceleration with this? Like TensorFlow or PyTorch, or OpenGL/Vulkan using the ML/graphics chips?
This seems like an over-engineered, half-assed solution like putting tape on a check engine light.

There is no reason why properly working equipment should need a periodic restart. Either his modem is bad and needs to be replaced or the other end (the DSLAM) is bad and bouncing the link temporarily fixes the problem as a side-effect.
I work for an oil and gas company and I’m working on a project to turn our pumps on and off based on spot price, since we pay wholesale 15-minute price for electricity. There’s a huge untapped benefit to aligning incentives between electricity consumers and producers.
Weird! It’s “How It’s Made” about peanut butter. Many of the episodes have British narration, and I watch them in the US.
How does this work? Where I'm at (Iowa) your electric provider is determined by where you live. As far as I know, you have one company that provides electric to your home. You don't have the option of picking someone else.

Based on the website it looks like Griddy is something you can just sign up for and then your bill will be routed through them somehow? How does that work? Who maintains the infrastructure?
> Almost all of the Apps I have on my Android phone are installed from F-Droid ... I see that, at least for now, it's optional and you can un-enroll, which is good.

I can't see it going away. Google uses it to fend off monopoly accusations, viz you aren't locked in, you can always use another app store. Apple doesn't, and they are in a much more threatening territory when it comes to anti-trust law suites against their app store because of it. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/06/house-antitrust-subcommittee...

Google has far worse anti-trust problems than Apple in general because they own 80% of some markets, and is being reminded of it repeatedly by ongoing law suites being brought in various countries. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/12/16/22179085/google-antitr... But for Google Play they have a free pass, and I don't think they aren't likely to give it up any time soon.
> email is still mostly sent as plain text over the internet, that's certainly a downside.

Opportunistic TLS for SMTP seems to have been dominant on the US portion of the internet for nearly a decade. Especially as email is concentrated in a few huge providers who have been using STARTTLS for many years.

I say this based on the systems and logs I have monitored in that same timeframe. In fact, many email systems (mostly corporate MS Exchange) appear to be configured to reject or spam-bucket email connections that don’t support STARTTLS with a public CA certificate. (This observation may be biased by covering the financial services industry more than others.)
Yes, absolutely.

“Moderation” is a cope used by addicts.
The crazy thing I was hired because they allegedly wanted me to give opinions based on my experience. Like, they sense they're doing something wrong. But when I got here, it became obvious that no constructive criticism is really allowed. There are a couple of voices that dominate all conversation (team leaders) and they always win. I don't know what to do about it though.
Agree. Although “destroying” is maybe a little strong a word. I’d say we’re more just irritating them.
No no no this is bad journalism. Is not just blocking "access" to gmail, but one out of of five Gmail's MX servers are blocked

gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com (74.125.31.26, blocked)
alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com

to be specific, all traffic to address of 74.125.31.0/24, including gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com, got null routed after AS4134

This means China now risks becoming isolated in global email network, not just "access" to Gmail.

And no, your VPN/SSH/whatever_tunnel won't work if all of the MX servers are blocked.
Google is saying that the program she operated under previously is going away. She can get on the new program or she can leave.

Google isn't obligated to meet her on arbitrarily chosen terms, so I don't really see the problem here.
There is no guarantee that the BT MAC address is related to the WiFi MAC address for a given device. These addresses may be assigned by the product (phone) manufacturer, they may also be assigned by who makes the BT or WiFi module.
... so that every browser extract the same DOM tree from the same input

That is, every browser whose engine has been updated for HTML5 and which also implements the parser specification correctly and without bugs. Which is most, but not all, of them.

My personal preference is to include the optional closings, because XHTML has been around a lot longer and therefore a larger proportion of browsers have been coded to handle it properly and have had more time to work out bugs.

I do like that HTML5 browsers can work around invalid markup in a well-specified way, which is much better than XHTML browsers just showing an error. It's the best of both worlds, especially when the browser's Developer Tools give you warnings about the invalid markup too so you don't need to use an external validator to find them.
Jim was a great man and an awesome contributor to the Ruby community. He will be missed indeed. RIP.
Current estimates for a one-way Mars expedition: about $10 billion, with this interesting comment:

"Worden said he has discussed the potential price tag for one-way trips to Mars with Google co-founder Larry Page, telling him such a mission could be done for $10 billion."

He said said: ‘His response was, Can you get it down to $1 [billion] or $2billion? So now we're starting to get a little argument over the price.’"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1324192/Hundr...
True that. But I suppose the lure of the city has always been in place for a student with a debt of £1k or £10k.
A small shop, with a few custom web apps:

- We have several virtual servers for hosting. Most of them from the same hosting provider (close geographically), but also a small Slicehost server used mostly for backup and DNS.

- A cron script does mysqldump for each server, and targzips the applications themselves, including uploaded content (daily, at about 4 in the morning)

- An hour later another script makes copies of the backups to at least another server. In one instance, it encrypts the mysql dump before copying it.

- There's backup history for the sql dumps, but not for the application archives (too big). Backups older then 7 days are deleted.

- A script on my desktop computer (run on restart) downloads the last backups, and also synchronizes locally stuff to big to be copied (WinSCP)

- There's also at least one form of more "immediate" backup. In the application logic, most updates are stored in the database. More than once this has been useful, usually for finding and repairing user mistakes.
I didn't get it until the last bubble. I thought the son did the exploit and the mom was covering for him. I'm still unclear if that was actually the childs name or this was a one-off exploit by the mom.
The recently launched OSS project https://sourceforge.net/projects/themycubevault/ is looking for plugin developers to do exactly this kind of data export. I will try and port the JS extension to run there instead.
I'd say that depends completely on that existing country's willingness to give up part of its territory. As it is, pretty much all of them don't like that idea at all.
Seriously. The man has no fear of police, just connected people. That by itself just makes the country that it happens in look bad, even if there was no such thing as an internet.

This could have been a story about him gaming the Yellow Pages by getting 18 phone numbers and 18 business names in 18 sections, each name prefixed with 18 'a's.

All the internet assures is that his customers will get the product home before checking it for quality, and that the customers are less likely to be local - but that doesn't seem to intimidate him in the least.

Not that the story doesn't highlight a serious flaw in google's search, but that's the least of the story for me.
Aha - I am still sane after all. Yes, I'd like to know how it got updated too, is Arc that smart?!
Almost all people who turn down jobs at Facebook go on to not be billionaires.
It was most likely investors pulling out even more money from Russia and Russians buying foreign currency.
This is the only article I know that addresses the biggest stress in negotiation:

"Too much overt concern with compensation also implies that you don’t trust the system to reward your merit — which is tantamount to saying that you don’t trust your boss. And if I’m your boss and you signal to me that you don’t trust me, then yes, I start to wonder if I can trust you."
I think I have a radical idea: use a language which solves this problem by design from the beginning. Much simpler.
I35 going through Austin is a pain if you live there. The story has always been that the army built that segment and they didn’t care about stopping anywhere in in Austin so it more or less goes straight through town and has these horrible on ramps where you have about fifty feet to accelerate to freeway speed, merge into traffic, and try not to hit the containment wall or other vehicles. As an alternative they built a bridge over that section that bypasses the downtown altogether (best bet if your traveling through). When I lived there I would go miles out of my way to avoid that area.

It was also the home of the Texans can’t drive in snow meme. One day there was snow falling lightly, wasn’t even really getting the ground wet, and somehow it caused a seventy car pile-up.

Bizarrely when they have tornados and severe weather in that area of Texas they tend to follow I35 south and you’ll get a lot of damage within a mile or two of the interstate.
From what I've read of the statistics yes. In addition, 38% of hospitalizations in the UK are in the 20-54 age range, and this is also ignoring the fact that there isn't enough aftercare to discharge certain patients, again reducing capacity.

FWIW I don't think herd immunity will work given that other corronaviruses (the common cold) mutate frequently, it is too early to tell, but TBH a risky move for any government which can see positive results from other approaches elsewhere.

The current approach is really bourne out of a failure to act early - that $1 antibody testing kit was overlooked by ministers until it was pointed out to them by a journalist. That airports weren't locked down immediately with a 2 week mandatory quarantine, drafting ex-NHS staff only last week was 3 weeks late etc

A cynic might point out that this virus is likely to kick the can down the road wrt pensions /ageing populations /finding an economic model not based around GDP/having more kids.
There is a rumour that a senior MP made comments about collateral damage, if you were really cynical it might be pointed out that this constitutes a large portion of some parties' voter base.

There are some silver linings- after all of this teachers are likely to be appreciated as is a national health service (Medicare anyone?), remote working will be easier, and there are some amazing stories of compassion out there!
I'm one of the guys who made the website, and I thought a lot about these things too. You have good concerns. My group talked to doctors and epidemiologists before starting this project and we proceeded with these thoughts in mind.

If it were actually possible to go to your doctor or get tested for COVID-19, I would agree that this is not the best way to collect medical information. The reality is we don't have that fortune right now, and this is the best fallback we can propose.

If you have specific criticism that we can take to improve the form, I'd be happy to implement it.

We're biased towards action, not sitting on our hands.

Thank you, James.
> Taiwan doing this = effective. china doing this = creepy

That's the difference between a dictatorship and a democracy. You can have at least a little trust in a democracy to do the right thing when it does the necessary evil.

This pandemic isn't a reason to take the pressure of china when it comes to human rights. Quite the opposite.
The way you said that reminds me of a Wes Anderson movie, somehow it’s funny but endearing at the same time.

I used to rent my parking space to my neighbor Mrs. SEO (a less common Korean name I suppose).
Title is extremely misleading: I read the graph as saying that 32% have been to hospital (which probably includes a large number of recovered and dead). Certainly need to back up title with more than just a bar in a report.
We used Discord for the "We vs Virus" hackathon last weekend and I was baffled how much better than Slack it is.

Everything runs much smoother, voice chat is like with TeamSpeak back in the days. Solid product.
GameMaker Studio might be worth a look. It's $39, but there's a 30-day trial as well. From what I can tell, it's a simpler, more user-friendly alternative to the likes of Unity. Also, it's from the creator of Lemmings (although he's since moved on).

https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker
> If, like some studies show, the virus gets stopped by the warmer weather

Looks at the map of infections, focusing on areas near the equator... No, I wouldn't count on it.
I'd be curious if this would be considered against the google compute engine ToS.

If so, it'd be simple for Google to wipe them. Otherwise, I have no doubt the tor directory authorities will be keeping an eye on these for malicious activity and will mark them as Bad Relays if any is detected.
I think this increases the possibility of something like Square being built into the next iDevice with Apple buying Square first. If Square doesn't sell, then expect Jobs to build his own.