skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 2007/8 bailout of banks is far from the first time the US government has socialized losses in the sector.

The modern era of Wall Street bailouts started in the '80s after the Mexican Peso crisis.

Bank bailouts have been happening since Colonial times, through emergency suspensions of specie payment, par laws, legal tender laws, etc.

> we can't rely on the banks to make sound financial decisions

Banks that have an implicit (or explicit) guarantee of bailout are making rational decisions about risk, since they can offload it on the taxpayer.
My comment is about Safari Online as well as other similar services.

I don’t like subscription services that limit offline options or movement of content from one device to another with DRM. Somehow, I prefer reading a (purchased and) downloaded book than having to figure out how to read online content page by page or get it downloaded within some stipulated count or time limits on certain devices.

So no, this service is not for me.
GDPR requires affirmative action for consent. This was specifically touched upon in the recital 32:

> Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her, such as by a written statement, including by electronic means, or an oral statement. This could include ticking a box when visiting an internet website, choosing technical settings for information society services or another statement or conduct which clearly indicates in this context the data subject’s acceptance of the proposed processing of his or her personal data. Silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity should not therefore constitute consent.
On a Data Engineering/Data Science team we were using it as the missing Apache Spark scheduler. At first cron was good enough but then as more projects and processes and people came online we turned to Airflow to help wrangle everything and it helped!
> Companies advocate for their bottom line and their employees at the same time.

Pretty much just their bottom line. Companies advocate for whatever position makes a large majority of people think of them as the "good guys". How many companies did you see advocating for gay marriage before the political zietgeist shifted in favor of it a few years ago?

Rest assured that all these "socially conscious" corporations will have a sudden and miraculous change of heart the instant the sociopolitical winds shift on any given issue. And you will be expected to fall in line or keep your opinions to yourself.

Personally, I don't want my career success or failure to depend on my willingness to pledge fealty to whatever insincere political opinion my employer thinks is currently expedient.
That's not my point. Obviously people will move away on their own accord if living in a location is no longer safe/viable.

My point is, until a location is no longer safe, they will generally stay put and resist any pressure to leave, even if all evidence points to it becoming unsafe in the not so distant future. Elected officials live in the moment, and will not make decisions that impact constituents today in preparation for a future disaster.
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It is idealistic. Idealism is how the status quo changes for the better.

The short-term effect of GDPR is ugly interstitial pages and mandatory consent, but that's not the point of GDPR. The point is to make legally collecting user data difficult, annoying, and onerous in the hope that going forward more companies will eventually decide it's more trouble than it's worth. That'll only work if complying actually is a chore.

Call your local news site and complain if they aren't honoring GDPR to the letter. Call your country's ICO and complain to them too. Talk your friends and family into doing the same. Be a pest; the more annoying the better.
It's the same as "resume driven development" but at enterprise scale ?
Ten years is not the long term.
Um, the fact that the last time it was this bad was 400 years ago is pretty much the definition of "record breaking".
Vim doesn't have a 1990s UX; it has a 1970s UX. "Modal interface where you do everything from the keyboard" was old UX before MSN was born.
Isn't Zillow ignoring the immense value created from all those new beachfront properties?
Reaction times vary between individuals and even between an individual depending on context. Being hungover, tired, on the phone, lost in thought, reading a billboard, or fiddling with a stereo can significantly impact reaction time. Additionally the stopping distance varies between vehicles and even base on external factors like road conditions, weather or ol'Musky pushing a firmware update. Following too closely is vague and only enforced after an accident because of these variances.

I was once told by a driving instructor that the safe following distance behind a car is always 3 seconds regardless of speed. At 3 seconds distance there are no evasive stopping actions and your underwear remains unsoiled.
I mean...what? You seem pretty nonchalant about literally only being able to digest liquids.
> When you are gay or trans and a significant chunk of people find your mere existence revolting, when you are black and a significant chunk of people believe you are innately less intelligent and more prone to violence, when you are a woman and a significant chunk of people believe you have no business starting a career or working in tech or people don't believe you when you claim to have been sexually assaulted, it's hard to treat "politics" as an abstract debate where free-thinking intellectuals joust in the marketplace of ideas. In these contexts, you actually live "politics" - every day, from the moment you wake up to the moment you sleep. You can't opt out of it.

I've never seen any of these ideas openly expressed in the workplace, or for that matter, anywhere.

You know what's more dangerous than treating politics as an abstract debate? Treating it as a constant life-and-death struggle where enemies must be destroyed before they destroy you. The ideas you're talking about aren't even the ideas being expressed by anyone of importance: they're straw men arguments that propagandists falsely accuse people of perpetuating via "dog-whistles" so that you ignore and dismiss what they're actually saying.
Not to my knowledge, the acidity of the juice helps a lot to get more awake very quickly, pure sugar itself doesn't help that much to get the continous effect.
>> People won't even know their US salary until 1 or 2 days before travel

That is messed up. Why is that "service letter" that valuable?

On a side note, as an H1B holder, I am really happy with a current administration's crackdown on work visa abuse. Companies like yours seriously need to be dealt with.
Yes homeowners should bear the full cost of their choices. It's entirely possible to build a modern house strong enough to survive earthquakes, tornadoes, and hurricanes with only minor damage. Flooding is more difficult to design around.
Not so sure about that - I spent a few weeks this spring trying to badger PlantUML into generating the diagrams I wanted to include in a piece of documentation, and I'd much rather have used an ordinary mouse-based graphics tool where I could have simply put things where I wanted them to go.
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> No doubt, at some point, an apocalyptic prediction will come true, and we’ll be caught with our pants down.

We consistently have this problem with preventative measures. Someone accurately predicts that something terrible will happen unless we do something about it, we spend a large amount of time and money preventing or mitigating it, then people ask why we spent all that time and money when the thing turned out not to be that bad.

It turned out not to be that bad because we spend all that time and money.

The problem is it's also easy to spend time and money on wasteful pork barrel projects to prevent threats that don't actually exist but line the pockets of government contractors, and then they make the same argument for not cutting them.

What we need is a better way to separate the legitimate problems (e.g. climate change) from the hype (e.g. terrorism). Because if you're going to pay a bunch of money for something that also serves as a jobs program, it might as well be addressing the real problem instead of the fake one.
similarly, win98 shell was html + js :)
>same people who don't like being guilted by portions of society in general.

Being "guilted" is not an act others do to you, it's a mind-state you inflict on yourself.

>The real question is, if they find it annoying, why do you care?

I don't care if anyone finds anything annoying. But I do care when someone waxes useless about it on a forum that is supposed to generate meaningful discussion.

>it's about imposing the choice upon you via bombardment, guilt, perceived righteousness, etc.

Again, these are all things you yourself give permission to affect you.

>Surely you can understand the level at which society accepts/approves of certain actions has value? And if you do, how does one derive that level sans discussion?

Go back and look at OP's comment, and then look at your comment that I replied to. The "point" both you and OP have made is that elitism is annoying. You gave no commentary on "the level at which society accepts/approves of certain actions". You literally only said that elitism is annoying. Might as well have said that the sky is blue.
Firefox Focus deletes all data upon closing. That includes cookies where your consent was locally stored. That's why you're seeing it every time.
The GDPR should get one important update and that’s QUICK:

You shouldn’t be allowed to ask for consent to do tracking or targeting as a pop up. The site must be completely usable using only “required” cookies (to which no consent should be required if it only tracks a limited set of data) and any option to consent to anything outside this must be a hidden option.

That is: sites should have to work 100% without popups and shouldn’t be allowed to use “marketing cookies” (for tracking and ad targeting)

Otherwise we just traded one nuisance for another.
Accruing penalties when you fail to make payments is typical for almost any kind of loan. It is also totally normal for penalties to be paid before principal. I'm really not sure what your complaint is.
And their support for OpenPGP encrypted email.
> Mostly we aren't educating young children. Rather, they are the recipients of memes

Guided repetition is a common educational tool.

I guess you can call that a "meme" if you want, but that doesn't make it "not education".

> By contrast, arithmetic is intentionally and exhaustively taught, yet most adults cannot perform it.

In countries where arithmetic is taught, adults are certainly capable of performing basic arithmetic.

I have yet to meet a literate adult who couldn't compute some arbitrary sum or solve a multiplication problem. In fact, the only counter-examples I've discovered are that a lot of people have problems remembering order of operations. But that's more about language/notation than arithmetic -- if you put the parens in, they'll give you the correct answer.

> It has been speculated that if we tried to educate children how to walk and how to talk then they wouldn't succeed at either!

I was taught to talk. Some of the other children in my class were deaf, and even they eventually learned how to talk (albeit not as well as you or me). I assure you, they weren't "meme'ing". There was a lot of rather complex guiding that looks a lot like what I imagine you call "education".

>> But you cannot reset a human being.

> See Tom Scott's face around 3:30

That's... pretty weak evidence. And also a weird definition of "reset". Presumably, he still knows his name is Tom, his mother's phone number, and can write an essay or add numbers together...
Not quite. But possible.

I have two 1TB external hard drives. The data was added over a few years. But now to copy 1TB over USB 2.0 is beyond painful.

Fortunately I can just disassemble the drives and connect them directly. But that's if I have an old system with IDE controllers.

If I can find an IDE to USB converter I'd be back to square one (unless it is USB3). And I don't know if there is such a thing as an IDE to SATA converter.
Conservative states like Washington, NJ, and California.

Is this a meme? Or copy pasta?
Insurance companies aren't morons. They already know this region is doomed.

https://www.axios.com/sea-level-rise-costing-billions-in-hom...
They absolutely are. 99 Percent Invisible recently did an episode about the Outer Banks islands in North Carolina, which would be eroding naturally anyway even without sea level rise because they are barrier islands, which are always impermanent. Interviews with the residents there made it clear that they feel that a) there is no problem and b) if there is a problem, they are entitled to unlimited government funds for beach reconstruction to preserve the value of their property. Florida isn't going to be any different
Mechanisms in the laws or the institutions? The difference is very important and many people, who agree with the intent of the law, have been pointing out this difference for a while now. Scribbles don't make something so. If the approach of just writing it down didn't work before, why just change words instead of approaches?
So what you're saying is that drivers should endanger themselves by taking risky maneuvers to spare the person driving behind, who are endangering them by following too closely, from an accident?
How is something with "gopher" in the name not about gopher? That's misleading.
win95 is still peak average GUI to me. not the full os, just the ux idioms, even if they are limited (unlike the ultra dynamic material design); for graphical ergonomy, they're the 80%. xerox may have had the 90% gui but history couldn't take that road.
A really simple way to see how google is easily gamed, these days: Just try searching for <some less known book title> + "pdf download"

You will see this giant network of the same site that tries to sell you on e-pdfs
> Banks that have an implicit (or explicit) guarantee of bailout are making rational decisions about risk, since they can offload it on the taxpayer.

Agreed. From their perspective it's a sound and rational play - a better term would be to say we can't rely on banks to make moral or ethical decisions from a society perspective
No flipping: How smart TVs are getting quite smart about you
I think we should have a de facto standard element class for legal notices with no required user action, like legal-notice-no-action-required. Webistes use the css class, uBlock Origin makes it a built-in default element filter. Website owners can fulfill their legal obligations and users that proactively shape their browsing experience are all set. Neither side wants these things messing up the browsing experience so, unlike the ad wars, we can work together.
What do you see as the difference between them?
For context the global rate of sea level rise currently seems to be 4cm a decade so you could come back in 10 or 20 years and probably not notice much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise
> Those incredible highs are all of your nice feelings for the next couple weeks getting released at once.

This is a massive simplification. It represents the pop-psych nonsense like serotonin is the happiness molecule. It really depends. Mood and brain chemistry are much more complex than: serotonin, dopamine, acetylcholine, norepinephrine

My anecdata: most of my friends have a down day 1-2 days after, then they’re fine. A couple have a really hard down day, others don’t have comedowns. This comment is irresponsible in that it confuses anecdote for data and uses a very inaccurate metaphor.

Good advice here is: if you want to try MDMA:

1. Test your product. Almost none of the MDMA on the streets is actually MDMA. It’s usually bath salts or something else unsavory

2. Dose correctly. MDMA is dosed generally based on body weight. If you don’t have the luxury of weighing you should probably take 75mg to 100mg.

3. Spend some time during your experience grappling with things that have bothered you lately. This is purely anecdotal, but this helps me with both the comedown and helps me figure out difficult things I’ve recently had difficulty with.

4. Expect some sad feelings 1-2 days after, so if you can plan those days around close friends in non stressful environments.
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Well, technically he doesnt have anything to learn, because he is right. The person behind him should always keep enough distance to stop according to the speed he is driving. The person who rear-ended him is in wrong and is responsible for the damages.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I appreciate it - makes sense! I wish you all the best of luck.
It's both. Numbers and our model of what "developed" is.

If only 10,000 people were living an American lifestyle the planet would cope just fine. When it's 1bn it seems like it's clearly becoming problematic. What of when it's 3bn?

If, as seems to be the case, there are 7bn who want, or are advertised at to want, a throwaway Western lifestyle, we're screwed. All 7bn. We can't pretend the numbers are not there or that most are going to happily remain with subsistence lives for all future generations.

It's probably more feasible to make larger families unfashionable or nudge them via the tax system than simply "fixing" climate change globally, habit and species loss.
Waiting patiently until we murder 4 Billion people.
GDPR gives sites a choice: either stop doing shady stuff, or ruin the UX. If a site's UX has been ruined, that's because the site has specifically chosen to keep doing shady stuff. Blame the site for being shady. GDPR is on the side of the users.

Note that GDPR doesn't say things like "cookies need a consent form"; rather, it requires that data processing is only performed if a certain valid reason is given. One valid reason is that the service offered by the site couldn't be achieved without the processing. That's fine. If something's not required to perform the service (i.e. shady stuff), the only valid reason for doing it is if consent is given; hence the awful forms.
The article isn't saying Miami will be underwater soon. It's saying that Miami's water supply is at risk, partly due to rising sea levels, partly due to human activity damaging the aquifer (limestone mining, toxic waste).

Moreover, six feet of sea level rise isn't going to happen instantaneously. It will take decades. Property will slowly be lost, but people will just move inland (or move away). And a key question is, whose property goes underwater? If it's wealthy people on the beachfront, they can afford the loss. If it's poor people, that's something else. We saw that in New Orleans, where the worst Katrina flooding happened in the poorest neighborhoods.

This also excludes the idea of simply building seawalls to protect low-lying areas. I mean, that's half of Holland, so it works. Making major social decisions on a distaste for the concept of global warming is foolish, though. Governments should operate pessimistically when it comes to threats to the land and people they govern. It should be assuming it will happen, on the worst-case side, not denying the threat because we don't like to think about it. Think that way, you might as well disband the fire department too. It's expensive and your house probably won't burn down.
Man, when did TC decide to go full-on yellow journalism?

Today’s internet can be a toxic place, and not one where people should spend large amounts of time.

But many of these networks were built by young men who couldn’t conceive of all the ways things could go wrong.

... and even dopamine drug dealers like Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have begun to ...

Thankfully, as this study shows, there’s growing awareness of this among younger users, and maybe, some of them will even do something about it in the future – when they’re the bosses, the parents, and the engineers, they can craft new work/life policies, make new house rules, and write better code.

Yep, every group of teenagers thinks exactly the same thing. "Our parents fucked things up, but when we're in charge, we'll fix it all". Sadly the real world does not make it easy to effect such change on a large scale. But hey, now that my generation (Gen-X) occupies many key positions of influence, maybe we can finally get it right...
Except flood insurance doesn't appear to be economically viable in those areas

>More than 861,000 of them do not have flood insurance. And for homes in those counties that aren't designated flood zones, the numbers are even worse.

>Those four counties have a population about 5 million people, and include the Florida Keys, Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Naples.

>And there's still cause for concern about homes and businesses covered by flood insurance.

>The National Flood Insurance Program, which is part of FEMA, is chronically underfunded.

>A series of major storms that caused floods in the last 12 years, including Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, has left the program roughly $25 billion in debt and with limited borrowing resources.

>Its financial woes are expected to be compounded by the flooding that devastated Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast after Hurricane Harvey.

>Irma will only add to the problem. [1]

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/08/news/economy/flood-insuranc...
uhhh... the fact that there was a time that was "this bad", means that at most it's record equaling.
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Anyone got a gdpr;dr for those of us who don't want to click ok on their cookiewall?
Plus people here have to learn that insulation is for hot or cold. Many people open their windows on hot days then complain it's hot in their houses.

It wouldn't take as much energy if people would close their windows.

And my dad leaves the AC on all day. I said just turn it on ten minutes before you go in the room it will probably do the same and be cheaper.
I think Classic MacOS/System 7 (from the same era) holds up pretty well too. It's been a long, slow decline ever since. Hopefully the trends will come back around soon.

EDIT: I just remembered a video I found a month ago with a mock-up of a "Windows 95 Mobile" OS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DDQumaaCg The screens that look like they were mocked up specifically for the video (as opposed to the ones that are just screenshots of Windows 9x-era desktop applications) look like they would make for quite a nice UX.
See this article from 2014, about the port city of Norfolk, Virginia: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-norfolk-e...

At high tide on the small inlet next to Norfolk’s most prestigious art museum, the water lapped at the very top of the concrete sea wall that has held it back for 100 years. It seeped up through storm drains, puddled on the promenade and spread, half a foot deep, across the street, where a sign read, “Road Closed.”

The sun was shining, but all around the inlet people were bracing for more serious flooding. The Chrysler Museum of Art had just completed a $24 million renovation that emptied the basement, now accessible only by ladder, and lifted the heating and air-conditioning systems to the top floor. A local accounting firm stood behind a homemade barricade of stanchions and detachable flaps rigged to keep the water out. And the congregation of the Unitarian Church of Norfolk was looking to evacuate.

“We don’t like being the poster child for climate change,” said the Rev. Jennifer Slade, who added that the building, with its carved-wood sanctuary and soaring flood-insurance rates, would soon be on the market for the first time in four decades. “I don’t know many churches that have to put the tide chart on their Web site” so people know whether they can get to church.
Why in the world would you want someone else to do that for you? You are leaving for a reason and in my experience it was incredibly liberating to put notice in.