skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can surely tell if they want to. It used to be their stated policy that they do not try unless requested by law enforcement. I don't know if that policy is still in place.

This is in complete contrast to FB, whose modus of operandi had always been "we will do whatever we can to figure out who you are".
The way out is as you've said. To fill the gaps, possibly attempt contributing to an open-source project you feel passionate about, just to demonstrate you can collaborate in a team and collectively solve problems.

I've done front-end & back-end on web applications, without ever specializing in either. These days, I mostly write single-page applications with a vdom JS library.
Number of drivers is a nonsensical metric; there are huge variations in activity between drivers and over time. Trips is better, but it should really be something like hours or miles.
Wat!?!? Ok I’m 37- but like why would I ever need to stop pwning nubs? Hack and slash for life bro!

If anything I know more now about solving problems and handling stress. Likewise, everyone I work with who is older than me I have crazy respect for ageism is so silly
What is the difference, in this context, between timing-accurate and cycle-accurate?
I love Ruby, but I would still advocate for Python as a teaching language.

Ruby's grammar is objectively more complex than Python's. People generally get stuck on syntax issues when they begin learning programming. Python's significantly simpler grammar, simpler and fewer basic building blocks, and historically "only one way to do things" philosophy makes it easier to pick up.

Ruby's conventional control flow also doesn't translate well to lower level languages; Enumerable pretty much replaces all sorts of loops, functions/methods tend to be chained instead of wrapped (math style), implicit returns, and perlisms, all make Ruby more confusing for a first timer language.
It's a men's fashion magazine. I don't expect high quality work on this topic from them. I just skim to get a salient point here and there.
> do you REALLY want to know how long your toenails get if you don‘t cut them?!

Obvious reply: not cutting your toenails would be a change from usual
In the UK, 2 of the biggest chains offer subscription passes... Cineworld, which is the one I use, allows me to see any movie at any cineworld (there's a 2 tier system for London, but ignore that for now) at any time for free based on me paying £17 a month. I live in London and the average cost of a ticket is roughly £12, if i see 2 movies a month i'm quids in. It seems insane that moviepass isn't operated already by one of your big chains (AMC? i guess). There's normally at least 2 movies I want to see a month, and even if there's not if i have nothing better to do i'd likely go and see something.
I wish the macro system was more ergonomic, like this:

fn %identifier(value:%type) -> %type {
BytesMut::from(value)
}

ie, to look like html templates like handlebars or similar.
The romantic notion of a functioning free market where the largest corporations aren't subsidized by the tax payer and lobbying the government for tax breaks? The romantic notion that corporations can be used to run social services more effectively?
Are you arguing that authors/editors/etc don't need to feed their families?

Our economic system is fundamentally broken, in that we need to give creators more financial support. Throwing our books into our current Intellectual Property mess isn't going to fix that, just like it hasn't really fixed that for other media for the past 20 years.

We need to bring non-library media closer towards the library model, rather than the reverse.
They also have a service where you can watch any movie on Tuesdays for $5, for $12 a year. I prefer that service, and have renewed for 3 years.
No worries, and no need to apologize, I don't take offense when people assume I don't know something (particularly economics and business topics on HN).
Are they really this scared of Teams? I don't even really see them as true competitors, they are going after different customers. It's kind of odd to me. Maybe they believe Google is going too enter the space soon, that would change things if it were bundled with GSuite and then Teams is bundled with O365.
Most people don't have a strong opinion about writing software. They do have strong opinions about how tech companies think they can bypass the law and "disrupt" things.
It's worth bearing in mind that as education is primarily a state responsibility, the vast majority of education spending is at state and local levels. Libraries also tend to be budgeted for mainly below the federal level and thus mostly don't show up in the federal budget. The Politifact article you have so wisely provided speaks solely and exclusively to the federal budget.

You're absolutely correct that education spending at the federal level is ridiculously low! There just might be an important qualifier to that.
While this certainly is not exactly a decent way of dealing with people and a less than stellar customer experience, Microsoft isn't the judicial system but a private entity. This being a civil law affair there are no formal charges and you're not accused of anything but merely (and potentially ) in breach of contract.

If you sue them they'll have to reveal what they think you did. Other than that you're probably only entitled to access to your data so you can transfer it to another provider, as well as maybe a prorated refund if applicable (and you'd probably have to hire a lawyer for that, too, because they possibly won't answer any further inquiries on your part).

You mentioned a university licence. Many vendors explicitly prohibit usage of such licences for purposes other than educational ones. This might be the cause of your problem, for example if you used your account for hosting a commercial application on Microsoft Azure.
As it points out in the article, for safety and astrodynamic reasons a loop would be situaties over an ocean, and most failure modes would be limited in scope.
I never could remember what PCMCIA stood for (something about a memory card association, even though there ended up being lots of types of those cards beyond just memory).

If someone asked me, I used the tongue-in-cheek alternative someone came up with of PCMCIA=People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acroynms.
Procedural macros can have this, in a sense; see this crate: https://crates.io/crates/quote
If banking and internet services are so vital that we justify the existence of libraries because they provide access to them, then the Government should be responsible for providing to it's citizens anyways.

It's possible that libraries are the best way to do that but it's also possible that there are other, better ways.
Interesting. Hawking appears to have preferred his old CallText for similar reasons to why I prefer chunky old bitmap fonts in my terminal windows rather than something like Consolas: One part nostalgia, and one part noise-robustness.

> The lesson is that software companies shouldn't be quick to kill an old product or let it die just because they have a newer one that they think is better.

I wish Microsoft had stopped trying to "improve" Windows after Windows 95, UI-wise. Maybe port it to the NT kernel and offer support for modern hardware like GPUs and USB, but that's it. Too many of their improvements to the experience aren't, really.
On the other hand, could this be a signal that slack might be considering offering on prem ?
Japanese society of the time integrated their wartime weapons manufacturing inside cities, a fact that isn't true today. So both Nagasaki and Hiroshima were legitimate targets. The other issue is that towards the end of the war, there wasn't much left to bomb. If we had had nuclear weapons at the beginning of the war, we'd have likely targeted naval installations.
A whole lot of people in here are discovering their tax dollars collectively fund a wonderland of knowledge, tools, and access they had no idea about. It's great.

Go to your local library today.
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I used it in two different jobs, both with paid plans (and obviously different internet services) and both have had the same disconnection problems. Maybe it's a regional issue? I'm around Nashville/Atlanta. I have had multiple instances of someone asking me why I haven't replied only to see a message marked as "failed to send" because of a disconnection. This is multiple team members too, not just myself.
You can develop on the property, but you should also have to pay for archaeologists to excavate the site and identify artifacts of historical value. History is too full of examples of foolish cultures of the past destroying historical artifacts because they don't like them, think they are inconvenient, think they aren't significant, or want to use them as building materials. There have been plenty of cultures who basically thought "What's the point in preserving this stuff if we know the history of this stuff?" The interest of the world to retain and understand historical evidence is more important that the interest of relatively few people to make marginally more money.
CICO doesn't explain the obesity epidemic? I thought it was pretty well-established that society's caloric surplus has risen pretty much in line with increasing obesity.

CICO doesn't explain why people are consuming so much more than they expend, but it does seem that CICO explain the obesity epidemic.
I wouldn't say it's a myth. It's been a while but I recall being in a theater (San Luis Obispo, CA) and witnessing a manager ask a person to throw away his smuggled snacks or leave the theater. He declined to do both and the police arrived and escorted him out.
> When I'm "home" (where I grew up, my parent's house) I emphasise my accent a little more, just as I use local slang.

This is known as code-switching. It's different from modifying your "voice" (although I suspect code-switching to a different pitch may kinda count).
You also have the opportunity to better engage with people's brains' built-in fallibility to the sunk cost fallacy, which is also a lesson places like gyms learned a long time ago.

You see this in things like upsells for classes: a gym will send you a flyer every couple months about exciting new classes that are only $x more thanks to that membership you bought months prior ("just imagine if you were paying for this class on its own somewhere else"). People like thinking they are getting a deal, and want to make use of an existing investment they already sunk money into, and are sometimes willing to sink more money into the existing investment.
Just a few paragraphs earlier the author makes clear that he's talking about since the Pueblo; it's the lead sentence of the graf:

Ever since the sailors of the U.S.S. Pueblo were beaten in 1968, there have been no clear-cut cases of North Korea physically torturing American prisoners.
You still have to excavate it just in case you do find something unique or historically significant.
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As someone who learned English purely from Hollywood movies, I can confirm its a solid way to learn a language. I even picked up the accent to the extent that I'm frequently asked if I'm American - even though I never lived in an English-speaking country.

It may not be for everyone though. The only reason why it worked for me is because I've seen so many US movies and TV shows. I started with subtitles and gradually moved to watching without them (though I had lots of difficulties understanding everything, especially in the beginning). I'd argue its a great way to learn the little language 'quirks', expressions, idioms, etc.
Very kind of you to provide this link; highly interested to know your take on this work.
They just underwent a 250:1 reverse stock split and the stock is barely 10% of what it was after the split. It's lost over 60% today alone. This company is going bankrupt and quickly.
Every Seattle Public Library branch I go to is packed full every single day they're open, especially people using their computers.
Eat a lot before? 5 hours seems like very doable without hunger.
Almost every country has libel laws. But I think there's legitimate debate whether retelling someone's story is considered libel if you are clear its not a first hand account. Also in the US the website is not considered the publisher despite their branding being everywhere and getting all the ad revenue.
I didn’t say it was an inherent problem of public transit. But it is an inherent problem of compelling people to share space in San Francisco. The library, for example, is a similar story.

The array of policy, economics, and values that make Germany and Japan work so well are not going to magically appear in an American city just because you try to cargo-cult some of their second-order effects. Public space in those countries is genuinely good; you don’t have to ban alternatives to get people to use it.
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They can claim that they are following the law, but that doesn't mean they actually are... If you have a university based license then I would suggest you complain about the suspension of service with your university. Possibly the person who manages the business relationship with Microsoft has contacts they can talk to.

Also: keep backups outside of the Microsoft ecosystem.
Probably a regional thing. Every NYC-metro movie cinema I've been to check your bag before you enter, and I've seen them actively stop people from bringing in outside food and drink before.
Your experience mirrors mine exactly: we would go broke if we had to buy all of the picture books we checked out for our kids (sometimes on the order of 20/week). And for myself, the inter-library loan has been incredibly useful (especially for recent popular science titles).

I also appreciate being able to browse the small selection of fiction/non-fiction at our local branch. As with the bookstore, I often pick up things I wouldn't dream of searching for online and would therefore never have found.

I likewise wish my library system had more of a "long tail" stored somewhere.[1] Older books (no matter how popular and well-known they were at one time) are often simply not available.

I had practically written off libraries when I was in my 20s:

* The hours didn't mesh well with my work schedule

* I could afford to buy whatever I was interested in

* They never had the up-to-date programming books I wanted/needed

That has changed completely now that I'm a parent. And yes, I do think libraries need books. Communities need books. This stuff needs to be available, even if just in principle.

I was skeptical but surprised to find that my local library system has one copy each of:

* Introduction to Algorithms

* The Art of Computer Programming (vol 1)

* The Pragmatic Programmer

But the list of computer science classics they don't have is far larger. What they do have are a ton of of titles like _Teach Yourself Visual Basic.NET in 21 Days_ (real) and _Excel 14.2.32.rev13 for Boneheads_ (made up). No doubt it reflects what patrons are requesting...but I would personally wish for a collection that leans a little more heavily on the perennial classics.

[1] http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april06/dempsey/04dempsey.html
That's not how this works at all. GQ and Esquire run serious long-form journalism all the time. For that matter, Vanity Fair is Michael Lewis and William Langewiesche's home after leaving The Atlantic.
Sounds very interesting indeed. I wish more of those secure protocols would focus more on some sort of obfuscation. This is to stop repressive regimes from simply blocking all this impressive privacy tech, yielding zero actual benefit to end users.
I don't oppose a production/consumption tax, it is necessary given the intricacies of the world, but we need to keep in mind that it is regressive, and will impact the poor more, when making decisions about taxation.

But between VAT and sales tax, I strongly oppose a pure sales tax, although I would be ok with VAT charging a final tax which is allocated to the consumer location (vs. the location of the business).

Pure VAT: taxed where value is generated.

Pure Sales: taxed where the consumer is based.

Mixed VAT-Sales: mostly taxed where the value is generated, plus where the consumer is based.

The mixed VAT-Sales model would generate a better allocation of tax funds across the entire supply chain, all the way to the consumer.
Aulerion: Infrastructure as a Service provider has just soft-launched
Hospitals know how to protect mothers. They just aren’t doing it. (USA Today)
You see? You are still able to make theories based on what you know and causality, and we can debate about which theories are most likely to be true. Not directly observing something is the beginning of theorizing. We don't just give up on knowing.
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If you use the account on Win10, do they lock you out from your whole computer?
And, never, ever forget OS/2
After 25 years, military told to move from “expendable” to “reusable” rockets
Does this service have a name?
You have to be careful though in some cases. For instance, if you read two MMIO registers in a one liner, there's no way to guarantee the ordering between them.
The story doesn't imply that DPRK didn't "get a fair shake"; it simply says that the story spread in the press was false. We don't believe falsehoods simply because we think they should be true.
ln(65m) - ln(65m - 65m x .17) == ln(65k) - ln(65k - 65k x .17)
Lunar eclipse: Century's longest 'blood moon' underway
It appears my facts on gay HIV are off but on drug users they are on (for the west).

Globally the situation is much different and about the same number of men as women have HIV and drugs do not appear to be a big factor in to the equation.

It is interesting how the data has changed over the years, for a long time gay men were not the largest group but maybe with the increased effectiveness of anti-virals combined with decreased mortality the balance has shifted substantially once again.

In the beginning of the AIDS epidemic it was basically a disease afflicting predominantly gay people and only rarely heterosexuals. The two groups being somewhat socially isolated was an important factor in this. Then the balance shifted as more and more heterosexual people got infected and was made worse by people thinking that HIV would pass them by because they were not gay.

So now we have come full circle.

Still, 32% (at best) are pretty lousy odds so better be very careful.
Indeed, when the home video/DVD usage was at its peak around the '90s, movie theaters were assumed to be a dying business by most people. Then consolidation and marketing to a younger generation breathed new life into the industry, with ticket prices going up alongside.
Obv IRC bro

(bring on the downvotes. What's karma for if you don't spend it sometimes??)
> audiences prefer more avant garde films (read: bad films which pretend to be about something)

Yikes.
The article cites an American doctor that inspected those teeth and said they were in fine repair.
See above. I do have to eat every now and then :)
"Now 2/3 of library patrons are homeless or struggling with addiction,"

Citation needed.
Well since I'm using the default fonts, wouldn't that effective be the same thing?
We don't merely make predictions based on patterns we currently observe. We also make predictions and reason about the past based on reason, causality, and other theories we can demonstrate to be true.
You can export your data in a nice JSON format; our exports are complete enough that you could fully migrate your organization from one Zulip server to another using them.

And if you don't want to host the data with someone else, you can self-host.
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That's essentially Rayiner's point--focusing on large payouts is not an effective response to this concern.

In states with a cap on the maximum medmal claim, the cap often "saves" the defendant money in situations where docs/hospitals really did screw up badly. But that cap has not effect on small, frivolous lawsuits where the doc/hospital weren't at fault.
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> "Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today [1998], twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net."

The scale of the web today is truly staggering. The entirety of Yahoo era internet users would be a single celebrity's Twitter followers now. It's no wonder things felt so much more intimate and real back then. It really was a qualitatively different time and place.
If you crank up the frequency of mentioning women, you are still pushing a woman-specific agenda and tacitly admitting that women still need your help to succeed.
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Why would you disclose it to employees? Do employees receiving stock typically get to review term sheets and ownership schedules before accepting an offer?

I'm sure it would come up in future investors' due diligence but I'm not sure it's information they're required to disclose to employees.
Classic bank run. I mean, I don't wish anyone ill, but it would be quite amusing to watch it all burn down.
I’d imagine even a moderately engaged gym user would lose the gym money on every visit, in staffing costs alone. The marginal cost of each user rises too, as people that are unable to get on machine are more likely to churn. It is however usually outweighed by the huge numbers of people who simply do nothing with their subscription.
What does soil have to do with this? You think they’re just going to put the thorium in fertilizer or drop it all over the country from the air?

Lithium ion batteries are incredibly important if we want to make a fast transition to green energy. The environmental calculus is 100% in favor of finding a thorium disposal site and making rare earths / lithium cheaper now, rather than being picky about where minerals are mined and pumping way more CO2 into the air due to the delay

Localized thorium pollution is something that we can manage and deal with. Global warming, especially if it reaches a runaway tipping point, could displace a billion people, cause massive famines, and destroy tens of trillions of dollars of infrastructure and assets. Also consider that localized thorium pollution would probably be on-par with the pollution from washing coal, which is what would be replaced
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I did not use my account for any commercial purposes, and I don't have much to say for the rest, read them like "you are a poor customer, who won't be able to afford, and should not afford a lawyer to recover your $100-300 loss, for your own interest". Sad that this is reality, or someone perpetuates this fact in such an acceptant manner.
Books will not help come crunch time. When faced with extreme adversarial situation you will revert to the self you are not happy with.

Take up serious martial art. A traditional sword school could be good.
React Native's new architecture (called Fabric) – why and how it works
It actually has changed, in the West the balance has shifted twice now, but globally (esp. Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America) things are still as I described.

So thank you for causing me to update my prior.
Education is a wonderful return on tax investment that a lot of these people claiming "we spend too much on it" don't take into account.

Just a quick example: How many of these libraries allow poor/low income/homeless to learn new skills or use their free internet to find jobs they wouldn't otherwise be able to find, in the end becoming tax paying contributing members of society?

They are an invaluable community resource that absolutely returns what goes into it.