skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, it's a weak methodology. A better one would be "Take a break from counting, and show this frobnozzle to the administrator for a special bonus prize!" That rewards the "openness" they are looking for without making it into a relatively high-stakes gamble with a pre-fabricated outcome.
The statement about the acids doesn't make any sense. Every building engineer in charge of an industrial site knows that the pH of wastewater has to be within range, or the city will come after you for messing with operation of the sewage plant. My undergraduate university had a neutralization plant at its science site.

And what's with the solvents dumped down the drain? Only water-soluble material is disposed of through sewage, with constraints on biological oxygen demand. Solvents don't go into sewage, they are burned, and some halogenated solvents are exquisitely toxic to the biological stage in the treatment plant, but that is known. Also, the sewage engineers would notice.

With semiconductor plants it's usually halogenated solvent plumes. No leaky sewage lines involved.
I am happy with it, I hope they go further and outright ban OEMs and carriers from installing anything that can't be removed

I am tired of awesome hardware that Verizon/Samsung/att decide to take a gigantic shit on with their custom garbage software
Even if it's the $20 bill you lost the day before?
> Some tool may easily take charge of modifying import paths and go.mod files from v1 to v3 (to follow your example).

No, in my example foo works with all of versions 1, 2, and 3 of bar. vgo has no way to express that. You have to pick a single major version. That's a drag because it means anyone who wants to use foo now has to adopt this artificially narrow constraint. Maybe they want to use bar 3.0.0 for other reasons but I put bar/v2 in my imports in foo.

It means there are many valid package constellations that would work, and where package maintainers know they would work, but the package manager isn't smart enough to understand them.

> if you are importing from your foo package some other package baz that also uses bar, and baz requires bar v1 because it is using that function you did not care about, you may have problems using a lock file. Either you will import the wrong version, breaking the build, or you will have two packages with the same import path and different major versions.

in practice what this means is that the version solver picks another version of baz until it finds a set of versions where everything is happy. This is hard (NP-complete) in theory, but in practice it works out really well. It gently incentivizes package maintainers to check and make sure that their packages work with the latest versions of their dependencies, which in turns keeps the ecosystem healthy and moving forward without being forcibly dragged forward.
IME the more complex your code formatting, the less likely people are to do it, especially after your code has been touched by dozens of different people with a dozen different editors.
By "everyone around you", I meant the majority of everyone else in the world.

The majority is always sane.
That has been a * value-added feature* for years. Since at least 2014 when I started buying 'Chinese' Android phones. Many sellers advertise it as an advantage over their competition.

Not of interest to me since I install LineageOS over the top, but useful to very many people and not at all 'scary' to them. Why is it any scarier than trusting the OEM's build? In fact the seller has more reputation to lose if he does something nefarious. The OEM can just shrug and issue a press release if they get caught installing dodgy stuff; a seller might go out of business.
>The idea that Alice has any right to consent to the dissemination of other people's (Bob and Charlie) data is just ridiculous.

I agree. However, I think it's ridiculous to claim that what the Obama campaign did and what Cambridge Analytica did is ridiculous. And by the way, you mention it was unethically of the Prof to sell the data, but what about CA buying it? Do they get a pass?
Correct, it will get the newest version that is actually tested against your dependencies, which is by design.

Why would you want to pull a version that is newer than the author of the library you depend on has actually tested with? You can of course force this in vgo, but having the default use the versions specified by the authors makes a whole lot more sense than just using the newest.
There’s a simple trick known as asking the banks where Google keeps their money to freeze those assets.
As I understand it, these aren't foreign apps gifted to a US campaign, this is software from a subcontractor of Cambridge Analytica?

Whether CA CEO Nix as a foreign national played a key strategic role is a different, perhaps thornier, issue.
Geez, that's enough to drive you crazy.
Seems to go back to 2010 in the HN context:

https://page99test.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/making-the-front...
> This black-and-white segmentation IMHO ignores a middle segment of customers who don't care that much one way or another.

I think this is very obviously wrong. A middle segment of customers that don't mind getting 47 spam emails per day from dozens of services they've used or businesses they've shopped with in the past (even if it was five years ago and then they just keep getting emails every week forever)? There's no way. Nobody is reading all of that worthless junk. If I didn't aggressively police my inbox from that technically theoretically legally solicited abuse spam, I'd get a thousand plus emails per month of just that. I don't believe for a second that there is anybody on the planet that enjoys that kind of email inbox abuse. Nobody wants to spend their time every day scanning over that and deleting all of it.
I literally just switched to dep.
Unless it's explicitly described as EU/US version (I assume there's no difference in quality or hardware), I don't see the problem in buying a "China only" phone?
I liked the article, I think there’s a lot of truth here. These people could avoid their hypocrisy by stopping preaching frugality and instead talk about how they are succeeding by being a remote worker and a business owner. Then they would be admirable. Although of course they’d need an alternative business and therein lies the problem. I’m sure they could think of one though give the success with this frugality nonsense.
Yes – there was an original report implicating VW, but the same report implicated 5 other companies equally, including GM, Ford, and 3 European carmakers (plus, ofc, VW).
I'm curious why people find the diagnosis to be so important.

Because when it's accurate it offers a biological rather than moral causal explanation, and makes it easier to identify and apply workarounds.

It won't fix things overnight, but it will streamline your cognitive process and with practice you'll find it easier to adjust to other people.
Struggling with Digital Transformation: How to Get Back on Track
What? Just look up Keepass2Android etc.
This is true, but none of that reduction is attributable to a suable party, even one the size of megaupload.
pseudo-science is deceptive promotion of falsehoods. Under-informed speculation is more "quasi-science"
Evidently not https://codesandbox.stream/changelog/

Maybe March last year.
I work with several clients that between them send roughly 1 million emails per day, every day, and we are small compared to others I know. They fully understand that there are people like most people here that hate email marketing of any kind. But the response rate to those emails is significant.

On an average day they get a 15% open rate. Click rates and purchase rates step down at each stage depending on the purpose of the email, the offer, etc. But that is 150,000 people every day opening at least one email from one of these businesses.

While the 91% stat is probably pure fantasy, the number is far higher than anyone would want to believe. eMail simply works. It is a large and vital part of many businesses.

All of our lists are double opt-in so there is NO WAY you got on it by accident. We also aggressively clean our lists. Don't open an email in 30 days? You get automatically moved to a different funnel. Don't open an email in 90 days? Yet another funnel. 6 months? Off the list entirely. There is an entire process behind this.

We don't want to send emails to people that don't want them any more than you want to get them. Bad lists create delivery issues and get you sent into automated spam filters by providers like GMail. They aren't sent to harass you, they are sent because they work.
If you’re not an iPhone user you may not be clear on this, as I see the help page isn’t explicit, but during setup it actually asks if you want to allow Location Services and you can turn it off as a whole right there. No default exists for it, as it is a yes/no selection on initial setup (And if yes, you still need to approve each app’s access, but you might be thinking of how it is auto-enabled by default for system services after you initially opt to turn on location services).

For iMessage, I think you are getting something mixed up. Apple does not have your encryption keys, but like Signal it does control the server used to retrieve keys for your interlocutor(s). This is a trade-off based on the fact that most iPhone buyers likely do not have a desire to run their own server nor would they probably be able to get their friends to all use it. However, apps are available in the App Store if you do want to do that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16676614
Windhexe in Action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxuM7xWL5RQ
Its interesting, I've always been asked what the 'official' definition of Silicon Valley is, or if some specific city is 'in' Silicon Valley or out. Like say, Redwood City.

By looking at this map here, https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/plume-minimal/index.html# you can easily tell by wether the city has a Superfund site.
But they haven't cleaned them up?
The comment under reply was talking about payment requirements, not filing requirements:

> The only way that I know of that you can legally enrich yourself without paying taxes…
Though unless they somehow own the hardware and fully own the software, this might not be a bad thing. People will open their eyes and third party stores will get a chance (of course, that comes with it's own set of security/privacy/etc problems, but that's a different matter).
I realize that TFA is a critique of these silly people, but somehow reading the first two paragraphs seemed to be as much as I would ever need to know about them.
Am I over-generalizing, or are "moral failings" something that autists really can develop?
Clearly we need a morality board to determine what is or isn't in the best interest for someone to do with their private property. /s

Slippery slope right there.
Thank you for having a conscience and not doing these dirty work.

Reading how these technology affected election outcomes make me want to work on the 'light' side. I'd love to help out in 2020 in some capacity for the right candidate.
> A landlord deciding that people should be homeless just so they can make some more money is probably morally wrong.

By the same logic, someone who chooses to save money rather than pay to rent a dwelling for someone homeless is also probably morally wrong.
I think that example is generalized to the point of uselessness.

A really good re-engagement email would hone in on the relationship between you and this company, and offer help in some way. Did you buy a consumable good? Well, maybe you're running out and would like to restock. Did you sign up for a SaaS trial and the trial's nearly over? Here's a step it looks like you had difficulty with, our support number, and maybe a trial extension, so you can really evaluate.

But because the author is trying to write a super general-case email, it actually turns into something you don't want to see in your inbox.
The idea is that we shift the entire timeline of discovery by a few years at first then by more as time passes. I didn’t mean to imply that we spend large amounts of money on one project to get it done earlier.

Simply, that we spend more on research, in general, then would we reach the ability to solve the Human Genome Project earlier. I picked this project randomly. The LHC and Higgs could be another.
> Rust is good but not great. Being able to import two major versions of a lib into the same compilation unit (am I understanding this correctly?) is a huge win.

The one time I needed that I found a pretty good workaround: you make two crates `helper_old` and `helper_new` and have each depend on different versions of that crate. Then I just pub re-exported the crate it depends on.

That way your other crate can now depend on two different versions of that dependency.
Well done.

I've often felt the same way about the need to label one's self in order to have an identity. But I can empathize with people who have some kind of undefined handicap/limitation and ultimately find solace in a label and sense of community.

For example, pretty much anyone over the age of 40 who has dyslexia will tell you how cathartic it was to be diagnosed when previously they were just regarded as stupid or lazy. A diagnosis meant that they had a medical condition that they could overcome (or at least manage). If they were simply stupid then it meant there was no hope for them. So their new, better, label mattered.

However, one could argue that pretty much anyone who suffers from any kind of limitation...is suffering from some kind of medical malady. Perhaps, in the future, people we will create new labels and therapies for many of the currently unlabelled, but afflicted, people as well.
I think the title refers more to the idea that those folks selling this frugality made plenty of money already and that financial freedom is what helped them establish their lifestyle... not the frugality they sell.
Google is in a partnership with Verizon on the pixel 2, they wouldn't risk losing that deal by preventing OEMs from installing the bloatware they want on people's phones.
The answer to proliferation of microservice queues

is to make lightweight microqueues proliferate.

Erlang is not an antipattern.
I find this very hard to do. Which Android devices do you use? Most of the ones I've touched don't have an obvious way to opt out of google crapware and google accounts.
How do you know whether users have opened an email or not? Or do you mean interacted with the email (i.e. clicked a link)?
>Because whataboutism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Ah, the current flavour of the year on reddit when it comes to debates.

It's not whataboutism. It's calling out hypocrisy among the reaction of journalists and general public who either ignored or in fact went on to rave about ingenious use of ads. In fact fb personally went on to remove api rate-limiters for one of the apps used by Obama's campaign. Suddenly now that it's someone that left/liberals don't like is in power, these very same practices are being questioned.
Considering the state of affairs regarding transparency and privacy, one would think that they would define what “certified” actually means.
Gotcha. Yep, getting fancy with the end credits is something big budget films tend to do. Those have better visibility, but there's fewer of those now and more of a long tail indie downmarket developing. A few bigger films have used Endcrawl (Expendables 3 and 10 Cloverfield Lane to name a few) but beyond the occasional prestige play, it doesn't make much sense for us to focus on that corner of the market. The area under the indie film segment of the curve is much bigger. 4000+ feature films submit to Sundance every year!

Pliny talks about the "chasing prestige" trap in our IH interview. This is how the film industry de facto operates, and we only managed to avoid the trap by approaching things like a software company would -- itself mostly an accident and byproduct of our backgrounds. Lots more opportunity for software to "eat film" imo.

Note: Endcrawl does let you carve out areas for a video inset where you can add things like blooper reels. Compositing those into the scroll is still something better done in your NLE timeline. Can't solve all the problems!
It's mentioned in the link to the Atlantic article people are sharing that tech industries in the valley were specifically requested to hide all traditional outward signatures of industry like smokestacks and storage tanks to make the industrial buildings more acceptable to suburban folks - and it actually worked.
> Color is mind-dependent

When transiting from male to female both red and blue shifted because of the effects of hormonal changes on the eyes. When the change was happening things like the blue in the sky and red in neon signs were different than it had been just a few days before. For a few weeks I could point at the sky and say that it was the wrong blue and I wish I had written it down because now I look at the sky and can't actually remember what it looked like before. And less exciting my prescription changed dramatically and my eye color changed too.

It is one thing to talk about how color is just interpreted by your brain, it is another thing to live through a shift like this that you can't ignore.
This all happened in the 60s and 70s when Fairchild was getting started. AFAICT, they just ignored all the rules.

Note that this was before "semiconductor plants" as a thing existed: Moore invented a lot of the technology underlying semi plants at Fairchild.
oh, peter cooper, haven't seen you since EuRuKo in Prague :) Do you still have those ruby shoes?
I think you read my comment backwards.

I think the "rule" should be "exit early", and the exception "multi-indent exit later".
> When it tells them, presumably.

Snowflakes don't matter, if only one Facebook user cares about their privacy, then Facebook shouldn't care. Is it a perfect system? No. But it is democratic.
This is why emacs is the One True Editor ;-)
Previously they expired after 18-24 months, I am not sure if that is still true

It was annoying to have old dead devices still on my account with no way to remove them
I find it pretty hilarious that they're also promoting their Facebook page at the bottom... "Like the FTC on Facebook"
The biggest group of victims here is most probably those with Amazon devices that have Gapps sideloaded. Are there any other large segments this would affect, seeing has how custom ROM users are (for now) spared?
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Most of them focused on two metrics: 1) increasing inpatient admissions (ie volume) and 2) increasing surgical volumes (biggest profit driver in HC services). To increase inpatient volume and surgeries they often buy outpatient clinics so they can control that patient flow. So they often view primary care as a loss leader that is directing patients to the profit center of surgeries. If those nonbillable staff are optimizing billing, or generating / managing patient flow, they are accruing profits to the health system even if they are losing money for the individual clinic

Negotiating good rates with payers is a top priority and a lot of strategy derives from that (which is another reason why they bought your doc: if they control all patient flow in and out of hospital, they have more leverage with payers)

how does your doc like working for a big health system?
The Perils of JavaSchools
You're missing the point. The 'frugal culture' is selling the idea that this is the road to economic self-sufficiency while omitting or glossing over other significant information, like having a very healthy income stream to begin with.

If you're poor, being frugal is very unlikely to lift you out of poverty. That doesn't mean frugality is bad, but that marketing is as the key to financial stability is deceptive.
Wow, if that's true, that changes the whole tone of this. Hopefully this is just a temporary oversight, and Google allows the opportunity to delete and reuse these 100 slots.
Uber just had to sell is SE Asia operation. It has a bad rep now lots of people remember. The worst thing that is happening to facebook right now is if someone told me they worked there I would be like "fuck you guys" to their face. They are viewed as the enemy and their staff is feeling that and a lot of good engineers are going to peace.
> It's interesting when style becomes rules, the years goes by and no one challenge the "best practice",

FWIW, I would start making plans to leave a company where any significant amount of my colleagues followed rules like this without challenging them or being able to articulate their rationale.
The main industrial solvent described in superfund sites in the south bay is TCE (trichloroethelyine), which does not bioaccumulate. The fruit won't contain it, even if you live right on the superfund site.

I'm not aware of a major soil contaminant around here that does bioaccumulate. I guess lead from the old leaded gasoline, which we stopped using in the 1970s. (Areas around roads that were active prior to the 1970s will have higher soil lead levels). But that's the same as any place in the US.
I guess this is the real motive behind the article:

But here’s the thing. Regardless of intent, these Millennials are telling an older generation of elite Americans — the very people whose policies and financial decisions kneecapped the economy — what they want to hear: that everything is more or less okay, and young people just need to be more thoughtful about their money. And that’s a shitty idea to perpetuate. Because whatever happens in the years ahead, penny-pinching will likely remain a lifestyle enhancement for bourgeois Millennials who possess enough money to enjoy the dividends of being thrifty. For most of us, there are no dividends: just thrift.

It's not about the advice itself -- the advice all seems pretty reasonable -- it's about the place that advice has in the story we tell ourselves about young people. I myself practice many of these thrifty tips, but I cringe to think that the blog posts that people write about them will be used to justify continuing to build a world where they are more and more necessary.
Zuckerburg uncomfortable with his enormous influence
I've wondered about this similarly with autism: people refer to their kids as being "on the autism spectrum". Isn't the point of modeling it as a spectrum that we're all SOMEWHERE on that spectrum, it's just that most of us are further in one direction. But there's no binary yes / no that guarantees certain approaches will work well for you. Some things work well for kids with serious cases of the associated disorders, but you might fight that the same approach works better for people who are struggling despite no autism diagnosis. I would think the real approach is to know many techniques and try varying them to see what works best for someone as an individual.
Unless they're base64-encoded, images in emails must load off a web server. By customizing the image URLs per recipient, the system serving those images can tell who saw the email.

It's not perfect because:

- Some preview functions load images, even if the email was not actually opened, and

- Some email clients block images from loading by default, so it's possible for the user to open and read the text of the email without triggering an "open" signal.

Clicks are much more reliable signals of intent, but there's far fewer of them.
Is anyone else getting a "something went wrong" when trying to register your id?
At the heart of the story Robin Hood is about a good person who was breaking unjust laws to fight for the little guy. Kim Dotcom wants you to think he is breaking unjust laws to fight for the little guy but he is actually doing it for his own personal enrichment either financially or egotistically. That it the distinction I want to make that I think was missing from your initial comment.