skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for this. As a 50-something, I've swam my entire life but never mastered the breast stroke that seems to be required for "serious" swimming. Instead I backfloat, paddle, and swim underwater. It's always seemed to work well-enough. I've even got a SCUBA certification. But I always wanted to learn better technique. I thought that there wasn't a lot of options for older folks.
I downvoted you even though I admit, people is the countries you named have less chance to learn swim. But we are talking western Europe and if society (that includes everyone of us) wants to prevent unnecessary deaths in our pools, then WE as a community of humans must act regardless of migration backgrounds.
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United States Kitchen Filters Market Forecast and Opportunities, 2013 – 2023
The sanitary ware market is segmented on the basis of product type, material, and geography. The market segmentation for the product types include toilet sinks/water closets, wash basins, and cisterns. This Report helps to industry consultants, sanitary ware manufacturers, distributors and other stakeholders align their market-centric strategies.
This is basically "the horrors of using any relatively new feature on Azure and by Microsoft"
You would be surprised how little of your Android phone is actually open-source code.
> `:x` is a shortcut for `:wq`

I've been using vim for years, and I'm still learning new things about it. Thank you.
Global Sanitary Ware Market Forecast and Opportunities, 2012-2022
"At root was a failure to grasp the elemental point that currency unions with no treasury or political union to back them up are inherently vulnerable to debt crises. States facing a shock no longer have sovereign tools to defend themselves. Devaluation risk is switched into bankruptcy risk."

This is the fundamental issue. It's not a surprise. It has been explained by many commentators even before the Euro existed (see, for instance: [1]).

[1] http://www.bondeconomics.com/2015/07/book-review-eurozone-dy...
Whatsapp Helpline of IndianRailway are getting random text instead of complaints
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> many sites that detect that their adverts and tracking scripts don't load and refuse to let you in

I think I've only seen that once since running pi-hole (which I've done for about six months now), so I assume the rate of occurrence varies widely with what people are browsing. Do you see it a lot on sites with a particular pattern (i.e. pertaining to a certain industry or hobby/interest)?

> and refuse to let you in

I'm fine with that. I doubt the information isn't available elsewhere if I really care about it, and the most insidious stuff I'm blocking tends to be on less important content that I can live without anyway (imgur.com was the final straw that made me install network-level blocking - too many pop-unders, the occasional drive-by install attempt, adverts trying to access my microphone and/or camera, and less worrying but still annoying things like auto-playing audio - if such frivolous sites block me for blocking their ads because they can't police them properly I'm sure I'll live!).

> a family member or co-worker can't get to a site then they have no way to bypass it unless they also know how Pi-Hole works

> Personally, I find a browser based advert/tracking blocker add-on to work better.

Other people is why I run blocking at the network level ATM (as well as on my individual mobile devices). I'd rather deal with the occasional "I can't get into X, oh, it is because of the malware/ad blocker, try somewhere else" conversations than have the tech support load of undoing drive-by installs!

Also, I wouldn't want other people to easily add stuff to my network's whitelist.

Anyone who really objects can always use their own mobile data plan instead of using my network that runs just fine the way I want it to...
youtube got you covered. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=learn+to+swim

but don't learn to swim in the sea. and do look up on rip currents once you go swim at the beach.
> Sexism can also include paying less attention or being ignorant of stereotypically “female” activities.

What is a stereotypically female activity?
Is it time to remove Zuckerberg from (his) office?
Referencing previous material like this is commonly called a callback (just like programming :-). It's extremely common to end with at least one call back.. if not multiple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callback_(comedy)
In my experience, Windows is the worst offender for this. *Nix, macOS and iOS will always prefer the first resolver if all other variables (ping, availability, etc) are equal.
Wouldn't such a behaviour be against GDPR? Probably not because of technicalities, but then I would hope the EU to make yet another piece of legislation to address this.
I don’t know if it’s sexism or not but is it possible that Fitbit and Apple Watch aren’t so good at tracking your movement/steps when your arms are stable whilst pushing a pram? I think a lot of the data comes from your vertical movement as you walk.

Maybe they just can’t track it.
I don't trust a "smart" device to spend my money. The first thing I do when I get a new Echo is disable the ability to make purchases.
Why not both though? Both Qt Creator and Visual Studio code have quite good Vim Integration and their IDE features dwarf Vim with tons of plugins.

I use all three for various purposes, but an IDE is a very useful things when working with languages that can take advantage of it.
The thing about rip currents, all you have to swim are those 25m or 50m sideways and the waves will wash you back to the beach.
Seeming ignored in these discussions is that right up to the bailout Greece's problems were entirely self inflicted. When you're unable to take responsibility for or support yourself you suffer the whims of others. That's the real lesson here.
Sure, I'd say this applies to the vast majority of websites, and technologies like docker, kubernetes or multi-region deploys simply are not required for most projects. There is no need for massive scale and multiple nodes for most services/websites and if you find there is, well you'll be rewriting a bunch of things anyway unless you've done a lot of work on very large websites before.

I do think there's something to be said for habitually separating the database though - if you store data elsewhere, you can have 1 instance or 2 or 3 pretty easily, and sometimes having more than one is nice for redundancy, handling big spikes or seasonal traffic etc. It is pretty easy to scale horizontally nowadays on cloud services where they take care of load balancing and sometimes the data store too. You also don't have to worry about wiping a server and starting again, as your data is elsewhere.

Embedding a db like sqlite introduces other problems (cgo requirement for one). It is really handy for things like mobile development though as then you don't depend on a separate api or db for data. It's also handy if you don't want potential users to have to worry about setting up a db when trying out your project, so an embedded db is really nice for that - I wish golang had a clone of sqlite that was pure go code as it would make this even more attractive for a broader range of options.
That's where Google/Apple should step in and ban those apps from the store.
It's more about budget cuts. Public pools need to be maintained and modernised in the same way as commercial ones. Here in Germany communities decided to save money by closing or privatizing public pools. When I was a kid there were enough public pools around where schools could offer swimming lessons. Those are now either gone or replaced by much more expensive private ones.
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Because swimming is no longer publicly funded and mandatory at schools. Which leaves it at the discretion of parents. Is it racist to point out that asylum seekers and migrant children are over represented in drowning? Swimming is something that needs to be taught.
I'm a big fan of WireGuard. But it gives a bad taste in the mouth to know that the author banned a WireGuard fan and user from the IRC channel just because he took time to code and release a free Windows client for the protocol. And that the WG author spend time to talk shit about this client whenever he has a chance, for example when the Windows client author announce it here.

The protocol is quite easy to get into, it is well documented to the extent that it is easy to believe that it is in WireGuard's interest that more people develop software that supports the protocol.

Maybe the WireGuard homepage should make an official statement that anyone who implement the protocol and release a client is no longer welcome in the community to discuss the protocol or listen when other people discuss the protocol.

The WG author mentioned in the mailing list that he has reverse engineered Tunsafe and found security flaws. I would like to see that he presents these security shortcomings in order to legitimize his claim instead of keeping it secret. As he is a representative of a security company, it might be a good tactic to not hurt his reputation as it is practice in the security industry to share such information.
The one I dislike is the debt-to-GDP ratio. A year or two there was a lot of talk about the US being dangerously close to having debt at 100% of its GDP. That sounds scary, if you don't or can't think about it too hard - like the US literally can't have the money to pay its debts, and it's only a matter of time before its creditors realize that and make it sell Alaska.

But debt is counted in dollars, and GDP in dollars per year, so crossing 100% just meant adding a few days to the time it would take the US to pay back its debts. It's now at around 104% - or, more meaningfully, around 380 days - and nothing much has changed.
They have no idea what privacy mean. They upload their all life on internet.

The problem with privacy is not that people try to take it away. It's that most people don't care.
Transaction fees for all payment types except contactless.
I would not be surprised if other activities were missing also. Why do we have to assume that everything missing is gender specific?

On the other hand it would be a big surprise for me if the people that designed the Fitbit's period tracking feature did not include or at least consulted women.

Something else that surprised me is the bit about crash test dummies. I found it difficult to believe that no female dummies existed. A quick search showed that in fact dummies modelling females exist since the 70s. However it seems they were derived from the male dummies.
It seems it really took many more years to design a female dummy from the ground up (although I found articles from at least 2006 about it).
Isn't that what Biquery for Google Analytics does?
The iPhone screen repair gamble
There are many things about this article that I really dislike.

1.) The implication that a statistical outlier not being represented is something that would have been fixed by having more female engineers.

How much of an outlier is it for a woman to have a period exceeding 10 days in length? 1 in 15? 1 in 100? Is it not relevant? Would the 14/15 women who are not themselves these statistical outliers be roughly just as likely as men to lack this information? Presumably they would have a chance to be exposed to it by family/friends/relationships, but isn't that the same for the men? This sounds like either a problem with the FitBit team having not done proper research, or this being such a statistical outlier that it's an understandable mistake. Do the programmers on a diabetes bloodsugar reader need to themselves have diabetes, or is it not reasonable to suggest that they should instead be as well informed as needed to build the product?

2.) The implication that the lack of employed female engineers has more to do with anything other than...the lack of female engineers.

3.) The fact that statistical outliers need to be represented in every application for the general public. If there was a nutritional application that didn't account for Celiac's disease, or a running app that didn't properly accommodate somebody's asthma, I'm not so sure that the right idea is to determine that this app needs to cover all such cases. There are market forces at work here, if there is a need for it, i.e. asthmatic runners who are unsatisfied with XYZ apps, then there is an opportunity. If you have longer-than-10 day periods, and FitBit doesn't change, you have a market opportunity. If it doesn't do well...there wasn't enough of a market. Or I guess we can just demand that all apps are built by diabetic asthmatic women to cover our bases.
Reminds me of another turbulent IMF intervention: South Korea's bailout in 1997. See https://www.koreaexpose.com/imf-economy-south-korea-asian-fi...
About car crash dummies: i know nothing about that field, but i suppose crash test dummies are build to represent the "most average human being", gender neutral. The fact that women are a subcategory that require specially manufactured dummies is i think a scientific discovery. Not something the average person would have guessed... I suppose there are other subcategories ( obese peopl, old people, short people) that probably would benefit for custom made crash test..

On female voices not being recognized i'd like you to show me the article that tell this story, because it seems so obvious that i'm having a hard time believing it ( looks like something as obvious as understanding people speaking with different accents).
I like this one, it has more options and also features a JS-based offline version: http://donjon.bin.sh/5e/dungeon/index.cgi
I think they are perfectly comparable.

If you were to convert all shares to cash, you could make every single purchase that was made within that country in a year.

That tells you a lot about how much value you are dealing with.

It is similar to the physical volume of the market cap, if it was converter to cash.
Commonsense is easy to develop. Just invite anyone who doesn’t believe in germs/handwashing to eat a meal using a public toilet seat as a plate.

It’s amazing how real something becomes when beliefs intersect with consequences, especially those involving self-preservation.
I don't do breaststroke either, find it too hard on my back even though I regularly do up 3KM open water swims front crawl. Do whats comfortable and enjoy it
I push a pram every day but I think of it as "walking" not "pushing a pram", if I was working on this feature it would not be obvious to me to include it as a separate activity.

I don't have much experience with activity trackers though. Do they also have option for if you're carrying a backpack or not, and other similar minor consequential details?
> that's sure not what I think liberalism is

I haven't read the article, but he is probably referring to Classical Liberalism[1].

Up until around 1900, this ideology was generally known
simply as liberalism. The qualifying "classical" is
now usually necessary, in English-speaking countries at
least (but not, for instance, in France), because
liberalism has come to be associated with wide-ranging
interferences with private property and the market on
behalf of egalitarian goals[2].

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism

[2]:https://mises.org/library/what-classical-liberalism
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> "Early voice-recognition software didn't always recognise female voices,” she says. “None of the developers had been female and no one thought to test out the technology on women.”

So why didn't women build voice-recognition software? Developing software is not a regulated activity.

It's simple to complain from the sidelines [edit: or push down-vote buttons].
One of the reasons for period tracking is identifying changes to one's menstrual cycle, which may indicate health issues.[1] So even if periods normally were to only last up to 10 days, not allowing to track for a longer period would impede that goal. In fact, this is even one the vague reasons Fitbit mentioned when it launched this functionality. [2] The functionality feels like a bit of an afterthought.

[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320758.php

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/13/17113096/fitbit-watch-per...
Any and all aspects related to child rearing, for example.
It's deeper than that. The adoption of the Euro without a fiscal capacity at the Euro-area level means that the Euro countries are basically working with a foreign currency. That means that monetary issues are beyond political control. That means beyond democratic control. Some people consider that is a good thing.

Another issue is that the Euro is not a bad thing for all the countries in it. Germany, for instance, as a big exporter, get a currency devaluation for free an unencumbered access to a huge market. Interestingly, this success of the German economy have not reflected, for the best, in the quality of life of most of the Germans, but maybe, this is a discussion for other day (even if in my opinion is really the same issue, see first paragraph).
The rules explicitly state that you shouldn’t count seconds … this presumably also includes using a clock as reference.

It’s given as a guideline (in the optional to read spoilery upside down box on the rules that explains that it’s a game all about timing), not an actual rule, but that still completely contradicts your statement that “that's how you are supposed to beat it”.
Right.

Put crudely: Put someone in jail and he's not going to be around to rob anyone. But he's also not going to be around to talk sense into his kid brother.
Notably, Skype Classic has a traditional Windows UI. It's familiar, full-featured, and easily usable -- and that usability given by its UX is key.

Anecdotally, I haven't met anyone who likes the new Skype. I don't use it myself, including the new Mac version. It's an excellent example of fashionable design without being user- or UX-considerate.
> Blindfolds just seem unnecessarily humiliating

Humiliation would be if they mocked you for being blindfolded or once you were blindfold stripped you naked and paraded you through the canteen. It's just part of the process, everyone in your position goes through it and no one there would see any humiliation in that.
Why can’t she report it as a usability bug? Instead she complains loudly to her readership.

I guess Fitbit’s next step should be to recruit female testers to avoid Twitter mobs.
leverage: use (something) to maximum advantage.
"the organization needs to leverage its key resources"
A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History [pdf]
Correct. The primary purpose of incarceration is retributive justice, not rehabilitation; and although the punishment will often lead the perpetrator to see the error of his ways, that is not the goal. In that sense, a prison sentence is always effective.
I think the downvotes are for the unwarranted and, frankly, childish "idiots" at the end.
The Europeans are a crafty bunch. This arrangement is by design, not by accident or ignorance.

The main problem among EU members is the lack of reforms. Devaluation has been used as a panacea for all manner of economic ills, but devaluation achieves nothing except inflation and decimation of income, savings and assets.

Without the ability to devalue, members are in a vice, and the only way out is much needed reform.

In the case of Greece, things are so broken that reform is very hard, but at least their suffering serves as a warning to others who thing they can get away with it in the long term.
Abstract:

Neither economics nor political science can explain the process of modern social development. The
fact that developed societies always have developed economies and developed polities suggests that
the connection between economics and politics must be a fundamental part of the development process.
This paper develops an integrated theory of economics and politics. We show how, beginning 10,000
years ago, limited access social orders developed that were able to control violence, provide order,
and allow greater production through specialization and exchange. Limited access orders provide
order by using the political system to limit economic entry to create rents, and then using the rents
to stabilize the political system and limit violence. We call this type of political economy arrangement
a natural state. It appears to be the natural way that human societies are organized, even in most of
the contemporary world. In contrast, a handful of developed societies have developed open access
social orders. In these societies, open access and entry into economic and political organizations sustains
economic and political competition. Social order is sustained by competition rather than rent-creation.
The key to understanding modern social development is understanding the transition from limited
to open access social orders, which only a handful of countries have managed since WWII.
But that just the thing. When only or mostly men are involved, “gender neutral” ends up being masculine (like the crash test dummies that had height and weight distributions like average men, not like average humans) because that’s our societal default. “Oh, women are a special subcategory.” No, we’re not. We’re half the fucking population.
> In other words my current smartphone will be unsafe for everyday use after September 2018, but it may have some life left in it by protecting its operating system with some network level security.

I stopped paying attention when I read this.

Pi-Hole is an ad blocker and it is fit for that purpose. No argument from me. However, to give this advice to people for whom device and network security is not a major or even minor concern is frankly dangerous.

Buy an iPhone. Buy a Mac. Keep your Windows PCs updated. Get a mesh WiFi solution that takes care of firmware patches automatically. Run a browser-based blocker that updates in the background without interaction.

These are the low-hanging fruit that should be done long before you are trying to set up what is essentially MITM-as-an-appliance without any paid support or guarantee.

Who is this article actually helping?
>> and refuse to let you in

> I'm fine with that.

Agreed. Sounds like the Pi-hole is working exactly as intended.

As I see it, you have a choice between viewing an ad/malware laden cesspit, or avoiding it. And by installing a Pi-hole, you have already made that choice.
This might be unpopular, but I hope Pihole remains untenable for non-technically savvy users. Advertisers and ad-blocking are always engaged in a game of cat and mouse. I'd prefer advertisers to see Pihole as a tiny niche of the market they don't need to seriously work to defeat.
People who think this way in about their relationships (and I used to be one of them) should try to apply the same thinking to an workplace situation in order to see how messed up it is. You're effectively the person at a workplace that is dodging all the unpleasant work and everyone else have to pick up the slack.
It is open-source : it is open for review, forks and improvements
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I got lost and ended up at the opening page 5 slides in. Also the 'tap to continue' was half off the screen in iPhone X. This feels like a new version of those scroll jacking sites from 2010.
Yes, but you are part of the tech saavy bubble. That's not a solution for most users who don't want a downgraded version of their facebook/instagram/gmail/etc experience.
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> Isn't that why security clearances exist?

Clearance does not mean you can now see everything. There will be compartmentalisation and you will only see what you need to know.

I remember reading about sites in WW2 where people didn't know what the people in the next building did, or often what the project was. Bletchley Park is one example but I also saw a programme about a female chemist working in Cheshire ( I think ) who didn't know she was a key part of the atomic bomb project.