skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turns out it's illegal in the UK to buy email dumps and send everyone newsletters/marketing emails -- you need explicit consent (i.e. opt-in) or a pre-existing relationship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_and_Electronic_Communi...
Maybe - never heard that vernacular
I do know people who work in ad-tech. However, I don't see why that should matter in the least. Who I know in the ad-tech industry is not pertinent to my argument.

> how awful, insulting, and dangerous ads were before

You seem to be missing the point. Yes, advertisements are awful, insulting to our intelligence, and dangerous psychologically. But that has nothing to do with ad-tech. Your conflation of advertisement production with ad-tech is especially curious, considering your strangely dogmatic defense of this reprehensible industry.

It's even more curious that you didn't reference any of the things I actually brought up in my post about the ad-tech industry. The content of an advertisement is not nearly as important as the means by which people are consuming the content. This is a fundamental premise of Marshall McLuhan, on whose ideas much of the advertising industry has operated for decades now. ("The medium is the message.") The real problem with ad-tech is not the advertising content that it helps propagate, but rather the techniques employed by ad-tech to achieve its goals. Why don't you respond to those problems I raised, rather than ones that are both wholly irrelevant to the discussion and entirely absent from my comment? Ad-tech is what introduced malicious code, unethical privacy breaches, and absurdly non-scientific measurement practices to the advertisement industry as a whole. The ads distributed on yesterday's television and radio broadcasts, and on yesteryear's magazines and newspapers, could never have come close to the destruction today's internet ads achieve - because those older media were not capable of being leveraged as irresponsibly as ad-tech leverages the world wide web.
Racism doesn't require intent. It can manifest completely unintentionally by subconscious acts, especially when subtle racism is so prevalent and reinforces negative stereotypes.
> no one in the West is likely ever going to see a Nazi swastika and see a manji first

You're assuming that anti-Holocaust people are going to outlast pro-Holocaust people, but based on history this seems like a questionable assumption. E.g. it took less than 50 years for LoTR to go from an anti-war parable inspired by the horrors of WW1, to being an action movie glorifying indiscriminate killing. Similarly, compare the photos of people standing in front of Auschwitz with the photos that come up in GIS of people standing in front of the Colosseum:

https://www.123rf.com/photo_36629433_happy-mother-and-baby-g...
Unless your management is also racist, agrees to serve them but "when they get around to it". As in "I'm doing payroll right now, I'm busy." (aside: Ask any low-wage employee across any industry whether they get adequate support from their managers and the answer is almost surely "no". That certainly was my experience in nearly a decade of retail.)

That's sort of how these systems perpetuate isn't it?

Maybe if you just had to just stfu and deal with serving everyone, you get the opportunity to realize that X person isn't bad and actually does tip.
What's an EIP?
Yes. That's what the CEO seat is like.

Everyone assumes you have the big plans, the vision, the backup plans. They are ready to follow you wherever, do as you tell them to. What they don't know is that you probably haven't figured it all out.

It sounds like what you need to do is a cultural reform. You could try delegating power to others. Delegating doesn't simply mean giving more work, it's more like feudalism where you give out more territory.

You give them the autonomy and power to do as they like. They shouldn't be asking you what to do. They should report to you what they are doing, what problems they face, whether they need more resources.

You don't give them goals. You ask them what they plan to do, and what resources they need to do it.

The long term goal for a CEO would be to completely work outside the system. You should be able to take a vacation for months without anything falling apart.

Your job would be to simply see things that nobody does. This works only when you don't have to be sucked into things. The corporation becomes a machine to be optimized. You don't fix individual habits, don't micromanage. When bad things happen, you don't blame the person, but look at a high level on how to develop a SOP to prevent this from happening in the future. Any group larger than 5 people effectively runs on habits and culture and you are the only one who can make sure the culture is right.
"Stay ethical"? Since when has FB ever acted ethically?
It's all new accounts, a shame too, because the article is genuinely interesting.
The recognition that harassment has ranges of severity, and providing a proportional response to all of it is great. Too many places present a strict zero-tolerance policy on paper, and then are far too lax on enforcement, which leads to jadedness all around. On one side are people that are legitimately upset at the unfairness of the strict policy, and on the other people legitimately upset that harassment isn't be addressed (or both). As a result various people are discouraged from reporting both because they worried about overreaction and because they don't think they will be taken seriously, which is a horribly dysfunctional state to be in.

Not second-guessing the reporter is also much better than the alternative. Even if there is some abuse (like any system has), the fact that the staff can avoid dealing with people they dislike by claiming a yellow will mean that most abuse will be with yellows, and thus fairly inconsequential in the big picture.
The biggest problem with touchbar is that Apple intentionally made non-touchbar model inferior in terms of hardware and the amount of USB-C ports to make sure ppl buy touchbar. This is truly infuriating and I'm sure, was done for purely marketing reasons.

I'd buy a non-touchbar model if it had the same hardware as a touchbar model in a heartbeat.
You might want to correct a typo in the landing page: "Our indespensible reports..."
There's really no comparison. You could use Vault to build a PKI. You couldn't say the same for a proprietary, vendor locked solution like this.
Physicists zoom in on mysterious 'missing' antimatter
This is such a cool idea.

On another note, I was delighted when I read the word "Homeroom" - I've only eaten there once, but it's such a fantastic restaurant! I have to go back next time I'm in the area.
"We connect people. With Facebook. That's why all the work we do to stunt competition is justified."
Fascinating ethical shifts come with thinking in a different language
Show HN: Minimalist and highly composable UI toolkit built on top of React
Given how wayland works and how similar it is to the KMS fbcon abstraction it might be interesting to discuss that as well.
The cross is a sign of solidarity for supporters of one particular person who died on it, not as a sign of solidarity for the people who put him on it.
The 'cloud' (...which is a silly word...) runs on Nextcloud. Keeping it up doesn't cost much time at all, updates are close to painless for recent releases. I made a few apps related to library maintenance (OPDS Catalog) and reading (Reader, an epub/PDF/CBx reader)

Mail: Exim/Dovecot/Spamassassin/greylistd. Roundcube as a stand-alone web mail interface, not used much since Nextcloud gained a usable mail client. About 8 hrs per year of upkeep.

Web: nginx (used to use lighttpd) as frontend to a host of different applications and services running on two ancient Intel SS4200 servers. I'm about to move the whole bunch to a somewhat more upscale server (building a rack now to contain it plus some assorted network bits, disk cabinets and one of those SS4200's, the bottom bit of which will be used as a fruit/herbs drier so that heat won't go to waste...)

X2go to run X11 apps on remote locations

Searx for search, now also local search using Recoll and the mentioned plugin

GOGS for code hosting

I'm still running Trovebox as an image server, currently working on a media server to combine video, image and audio.

Subsonic/Madsonic for remote audio and limited video service, the same library is served by mpd on several machines in the network.

Some long-running experiments with XMPP (using Prosody) to use next to (and eventually replace) Telegram. If Telegram opens their server code this might not be necessary but I'm not holding my breath.

Eventually I'd like to end up with a plug-in replacement 'box' for many 'essential' network services, something which can run on modest hardware and does not take much upkeep so it can be used by as wide a range of people as possible. I'm not the first one, nor the only one to come up with this idea but as I've been doing this for more than 22 years now for personal and family use I do have some experience with the matter.
At my work, we have a vault service, but it takes 3 servers for vault plus another 3 for consul and they are not very cheap servers (m4.larges). Our rough calculations, using a 3x3 vault/consul architecture, estimated you'd need over 1100-1300 secrets to make it worth implementing vault (not including development/maintenance cost which could be significant. and if you have multiple, independent environments, it gets worse.

The real issue for some of the people at my work is the vendor lock-in versus vault.
The speech, falsely accusing someone of a crime, is illegal in the US, EU, and pretty much everywhere else. It's not exactly a free speech issue, at least in the conventional sense.
That's fine, returning to the attempt is a big part of it. You don't just start blanking out for a half-hour, it's like a muscle that has to be exercised, or a skill that improves with repetition. Just set a timer on your phone for 5min, it's hard to get mad about wasting 5min.
The same way Japan "enforces" around violent and petty crime - by removing the need for it, and establishing a culture opposed to it.

It's not nearly as easy as that but that's the basic summation of my philosophy around the idea.
You can change the active VT with ioctl()s.

See how chvt does it.
Man I'm so sorry I let this slip and didn't get back to you. It's not perfect for sure, but better than nothing and possibly something people will buy into.

The big problem is there is no licensing-yet- that could be removed if they were caught lying. So you're right- we would have to build a trust model somehow.
Pump all the water up hill.
yes can you share the complete list for finance and math books?
thanks... I'm finally getting all the bubbles in that thought smoothed down.
I use share2archive app on my Android phone usually can read 90% of the pay wall articles
In all three you manipulated your code directly (instead of indirectly through text or other interfaces).

In five square you worked with tables, and programming felt like exploring a database. You just created different tables of data and then filtered and joined them in a graphical way, then bound the result to an interface. In the end, we had a working fivesquare clone without writing a line of code, that could be built in a day or two from scratch.

In Wikieve, data was presented as card, or wiki pages that you could edit. With some clever tweaks, you could ge a working program out of this, but it felt more like managing a wiki.

Smalltalk Eve was more geared toward graphical applications, so a lot of neat things could be accomplished just by adding simple actions to objects on the screen. I had built a kinect application that allowed you to steer the wheels of a robot car using your hands, again without coding anything.

So direct manipulation of code and the ability to see your results immediately, and to progressively change them are the properties that made these versions good.
I recently read a story here about someone spending a significant portion of their yearly income on a Fate game in Japan. I think it might be a mistake to assume that the only whales are rich.
This article is speaking to a single person (the reader), trying to convince them to switch to any of a few unknown (by their own admission) social networks. That has no value as a true Facebook alternative. For it to be a real alternative you need to switch with your friends, not alone.

I remember reading an article a few years ago about a talk the author had with his young daughter. I think it was shortly after Google+ was unveiled and the topic was social media. I don’t recall much from the conversation, but what stuck is that at one point the author’s daughter said something like “social isn’t a feature (app?). Social is where people are”.
Those things make me feel like an animal. Especially when the floor is a metal grate overtop of part of the trough.
"In a statement today, the social-media giant estimated 622,161 Facebook users in Canada had their data improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica through apps used by themselves or their friends.

Overall, Facebook says 87 million of its users were affected -- with nearly 82 per cent of them were believed to be located in the United States.
...

Canada's acting minister for democratic institutions has also said he'd be open to strengthening federal privacy laws, which don't currently apply to political parties."

Source:

https://www.cp24.com/news/more-than-620-000-canadians-affect...
> +1 for wet wipes.

As long as you bin them.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/putrid-130-ton-mass-...
>Are they that desperate to find their daily DeBlasio/Schumer/Cumo 2 min hate?

Anyone who lives in New York doesn't need the Post for that.
Is that a joke? Maybe start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc
where HN community are based

A vague question

The numbers depend on how you measure 'user' and 'location'

Gets a vague answer.

My question was specifically about the commentariat not eyeballs.

I don't think myself as worthy of an answer specifically to me. I think it would be for the best benefit of others if not buried in some obscure thread.
It's knowing when it's done
I wonder what will be different financially this time around, to make SST profitable. Customers are as price conscious as always and the first class crowd is limited, especially so for a higher priced option.
I sneezed.
I wouldn’t be so quick to assume these folks can actually afford what they are spending:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-07-06/zynga-s-q...

There were many articles covering this topic during the Zynga peak years, about folks developing gambling-type addictions to freemium games and spending money they don’t have.

EDIT: here’s another article exploring these connections...
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8544303/casino-slot-machin...

And sadly even as far as violence is concerned - there was a horrific story a few years back about a woman who murdered her infant in anger when the child interrupted her FarmVille game.
Don't forget the huge price hike "because of the touchbar" that included the non-touchbar model.
Oracle Cloud is a full cloud (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) that will eventually be at feature parity with AWS, but lol they are not there now (e.g. weird things like can’t switch the credit card you sign up for the trial with afterwards).

Either way, the contracting process should be opened up to bring out the best in /
motivate AWS as well as give the other cloud vendors a foot in the door for later engagements.

That being said, my job is full-time AWS consulting and their cloud is awesome / I love it to death. Just wish GovCloud would have all the cool stuff in Commercial Cloud.
> Literally tens of millions of responsible Americans walk around, every day, carrying semi-automatic weapons, and this is not a problem.

The idea that 'this is not a problem' is exactly the thing under dispute, so I don't think it should be cheerfully asserted

Objectors to this climate of easy access to firearms -wrong or right- will point to things like:

* criminal gun violence and mass shootings (a phenomenon that is staggeringly rare in most other comparable nations) but also to

* accidental gun deaths, frequently including of children, to

* suicides facilitated by this easy access to firearms, to

* the trigger-happiness of American cops being directly related to the significant likelihood that anyone those cops interact with is armed, compared to countries like the Australia, Japan, or New Zealand.

They also point to a political climate in which research into gun violence is blocked, and where measures such as universal background checks are supported by huge number citizens, but the political situation prevents these from being enacted.
I don't exactly agree with you ( Europeans have public toilets too)

https://www.tripsavvy.com/how-to-use-toilets-in-france-15179...

And some other examples you didn't know about :) --> https://rickzullo.com/bathrooms-in-italy/

PS. The hole in the floor toilet is also in france.
I think they figured out how badly their statement yesterday played.
That’s definitely a large contributor, but if you look at the number of new app releases you’ll see it went down quite a lot when compared to previous years. That’s the other side of the equation for the decrease.
As opposed to the col in the areas the government is in? Don't forget the limits of civil service pay oh and regular sequesters and budget cuts and reductions in the value of DB pensions.
Elastic IP. You can reserve EIPs from among Amazon's pool and allocate them to other AWS resources that need public-facing IPs (like an EC2 machine).
Please don't take HN on generic ideological tangents. They lead to generic ideological flamewars, which are more or less all the same, and therefore off topic here.
Why would a hardware selection or hacking on configuration files be out of the realm for your typical PC gamer?

When they've already committed to purchasing and assembling special hardware components just to run the games? Crosschecking your build against Linux compatibility would be pretty simple...
Sorry for the double reply but I wanted to separate this from my other comment...

For someone in the industry that you're/we're in, I'm a little bit surprised by your level of optimism; in this case, that a loosely-defined social system works as intended when almost always strictly defined encoded systems (software, hardware, legal, etc) do not. Either the intended system is not accurately defined or it didn't expect everything.

Almost all of my peers/coworkers in infosec are extraordinarily pessimistic, see the flaws first, and from very far away.
Buddhism and its symbols have survived for millennia and will outlast your country and all Nazis as well.

Edit: the same can be said for Hindus.
The thing with mobile homes is 1). you can rarely refinance so no getting out of that sub-prime high-interest loan you’re locked into and 2). for whatever reason they have dramatically lower resale value so almost impossible to not be underwater on the loan during a huge chunk of your term.
My city (in Michigan) charges large users of water 0.2 cents per gallon (~$2 per thousand, they charge small users more). That's for treated, metered tap water that they pump into a tower. So the cost includes distribution and such. Another town in Michigan charges something like 0.8 cents per gallon.

Under the new permit, Nestle will be pumping about 210 million gallons a year. At the going rate for clean water in Michigan, it's in the ballpark of $1 million dollars (or maybe $2 million), with 9 million residents.

Whether the water is being put to good/appropriate use is the much more important question than the saleable value of the water.
Perhaps unexpectedly, it was the women who were most put off it, not the men. FWIW. I realize this was hardly a scientific sample.
> there's no way in hell any group of citizens can fight the US army these days so it seems like a moot point.

Afghanistan is the 8th poorest nation in the world [1]

The US spent over a decade and over a trillion dollars fighting there [2]

We did not decisively "win" by any measure [3]

[1] https://financesonline.com/a-list-of-third-world-countries-1...

[2] https://www.thebalance.com/cost-of-afghanistan-war-timeline-...

[3] http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-will-never-win-t...
That thesis is the western government needed to show that they looked after their populations better that the WP did.
> Is the weirdness of that because they don't drink tap water in the Dominican?

Yes, almost nowhere in Central America would you (or locals) drink water from the tap. Things like brushing your teeth are a grey area.
If you are running XP (32 bit at that!) then your choice of browser is the least of your security issues.

In any case you must be at least airgapping it (right?), so I guess it's academic.

Edit: you might be onto something here. Running an old, outdated browser on an old, unpatched 32 bit windows xp box might trigger some anti analysis defenses on whatever malware is sure to come your way. Security through being too obviously insecure!
National slights, regardless of nation being slighted, aren't ok here. You've done this before, unfortunately. Would you please not do it again? It's obviously uncivil. If people can't respect each other here, they can't comment here.

Because of HN's origins, it's often the case that there's some ambiguity about whether a statement is scoped to the US or more widely. The fix for that is disambiguation, not taking or making insults.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is why the data portability requirements imposed by GDPR are potentially so significant.
When I was little I asked my dad why people couldn't settle things with a snowball fight or something instead of killing each other in wars, he said because there's always somebody out there that will put a rock in the snowball. That's always stuck with me
Additionally, there are some specialist/professional apps that charge quite a bit and they would be screwed by a limit.

Example: the iPad is the defacto standard for electronic flight bags (digital charts for pilots), and the market rate is $75 per year. Higher end subscriptions with terrain awareness and instrument approaches are $150 per year. A rule designed to limit freemium games would hurt the EFB market on the iPad.
It's possible to block all mail sent through mass mailers like mailchimp and many others like it. Just block by the connecting client address/reverse looked up domain. They don't use that many 2nd level domains. If they're sensible they'll penalize senders for sending to email address that return 5xx errors and drop your address from their lists permanently.
That is obviously what is meant by the idiom - surely you are aware of that? How are you not being disingenuous on this point?
This seems like the easiest solution, and we've been pretty successful. We have sub-folders based on your environment and only machines have roles that can read production. We also realized you don't even have to encrypt and decrypt.. just turn on encryption for the S3 bucket, I believe it's the same thing.
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There would be if people cared. No one does. The only people not surprised by any of this is Asians. I not only had to be better than my peers to get into Cornell, I had to be MUCH better. So it goes. It could be worse...
> Qantas just commenced one of the (if not THE) longest non stop flights from Perth in Western Aus. to London in 17 hours.

It’s beaten out by Qatar’s existing Doha to Auckland service (9025 mi vs 9008).
Given the “(EC Directive)” part I assume this is true across the whole EU.
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