skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, but the consumer who does the research, does need to find out what options are available. Does that mean advertising on TV is not allowed but advertising on the internet is? I don’t have an answer but it’s an interesting question and probably one component of the reason why our drug and medical system is broken in the US.
Because studies show that people are more collaborative when they work in the same office as their co-workers. Studies also show that collaborative teams are more productive. There is a lot of value in personal face to face conversations with your co-workers and you don't get that when working remotely.
Hm this does actually sound like a usecase for using timezone info.

However. I don't think that content blockers are third parties. They are part of the user agent. The choice to use a blacklist is up to the user. It is not a third party breaking your app. It is the user themselves.
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The most commonly referenced references to read can be found by searching for GitFlow (heavier) and GitHubFlow (lighter).

Personally, I recommend the GitHubFlow and CI/CD for "agile", and never branching per-environment but there are almost as many opinions as there are developers.
Here's another scorecard: https://www.securemessagingapps.com/

The EFF doesn't do recommendations for all users - whether a messenger works for someone depends on their threat model. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/why-we-cant-give-you-r...
Gartner manager: Ok boys, we got approval, heres $600,000 now go do the 2019 strategic trends report

-- 11 months 1 wk later --

Joe: "Oh dam lol hey bill whats trending top of HN atm"
How do you know at least some of our children are not going to starve, or worse, be forced into warfare over crucial resources?

I'd like that crystal ball you have.
Blind optimism is still blind. Facts are not on our side.

50s optimism and status quo dropped us into most of the current problems. (combined with population boom which has now ended)

The trends as they are now are not reassuring and there seems to be no political will to touch anything meaningful.

It is all fixable but the upheaval is likely going to be massive. We have no idea which form.
> Every thread has someone correctly making the point that the company's business model requires them to store the leaked data, but this is not an excuse. Pick a more ethical business model.

The two points in this thread are:

- The company's customers specifically demand that the company store the leaked data, and they personally provide it in the expectation that it will be (1) stored and (2) released to other users.

- You can't send 2FA codes to a phone number without knowing that phone number.

What would a "more ethical business model" do to address either of those points?
You can get MilkDrop 2 on Kodi, which turned out to be a just fine replacement for winamp once you strip all the other nonsense away.
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I still have all generation Zune's and I still use them quite often. They're off the grid, Zune software still works with no online features, FM radio, and the interface is pretty decent. I wish they didn't get discontinued as well.
The question is why do you want to learn something - because it is marketable or because you will learn good practices in software development?
I had the feeling that AWS and Azure are pushing their own NoSQL solutions and don't care much about MongoDB.
Author makes a valid point, but what about folks who actually like writing code (among other things)?

Here's what worked for me as a remote consultant who lives in a small central european country:

My partner and I currently position ourselves as "A high-grade self-managing team of two, specialized in mapping out, designing, and delivering complex custom-built web applications on time".

I suppose we might fall under the authors category of predictably positioned "opinionated developers".

Our ideal customer is a non-technical entrepreneur who needs someone to help them polish their idea, turn that idea into a high-grade working product, bring that product into the market, and start making traction and revenue.

I noticed that many entrepreneurs, especially non-technical folk, have a very difficult time building their first product — especially if it's a relatively complex piece of software. Most contractors are focused on using cool tech or writing clean code instead of helping people build successful businesses.

Our selling points are pretty basic: Learn about your client's business, be reliable, communicate effectively, deliver a great product on time. If needed also help with additional hires, validating PM-fit, marketing.

It's nothing revolutionary, but the fact that there are so many uninvolved developers on the market makes it very easy for us to find long-term engagements. The clients are happy and we're able to charge San Francisco-like rates. Just last year I put $1XX,XXX into my savings account.

We're in our late 20's so there's a long road ahead of us. Who knows, perhaps we'll get bored with programming in a couple of years.

But people should know that you CAN make very good money while still writing code most of the day.
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Damn, an Uber rival built on blockchain launches in Austin
Not surprising. Benioff has already created an official group internally to try to address people’s issues and avoid losing employees.
> slowly

My grandfather, who raised me, was born in 1919 and died in 2003. He didn't say much about anything, but he watched, listened and observed, always.

He lived most of his adult life in suburban Southern California, but thanks to a 30 union job, and an early retirement, we spent each summer, all of it, camping in the eastern high sierras. Growing up with them, I first went in 1970, and (with them) last went in 1990.

He noted on more than one occasion how much less wildlife there was in the deep woods we used to hike together. He said it was 'quiet', and I sensed anxiety from the old man as he said it.

This moved the young me, profoundly, because my grandfather was the most stolid person I've ever known. No surprise: he spent his teenage years in the dust bowl, following a 5 mile trap line in the often brutal Nebraska winters, with a rifle, by the age of 14, in order to help keep the family from starvation. As a young man, he survived some of the most brutal battle in the Pacific.

A man who, faced with armed and dangerous gangs in the neighborhood he bought into decades earlier, showed no fear.

A man connected to the land in ways most of us can't even imagine today, he was worried about how the land was changing.

Thus, I effectively automatically, by default, became a young person who cared very deeply about the environment.

> we boil

I consider all of this, and my 16 year old son, and no clarity is apparent to me.
I feel that rails is still a good framework to prototype, and grow a business from scratch.

https://www.rubycademy.com/
> Also, if my frame of discussion isn't relevant to you then why did you respond in the first place?

You know, you’re so right. Why waste my time with someone who clearly doesn’t care about the core issue at hand?
The Netflix CDN. We run a slightly modified version of FreeBSD.
That's fair enough. Even pre-Amazon, it's absolutely fair to say that they could have been Walmart at least.
It's pretty crazy how the internet, once perceived as superior to TV in terms of quality of content and possessing an interactive aspect (more interaction than couch potatoes get) has become seemingly worse for people. Probably because as you say, the content is infinitely more.
What does the engineering station do? That seems new, or maybe I just haven't been on a ship where it's useful.
Try selecting "Verbatim" in the tools menu - it can really improve your google search on technical topics.
Well, in our modern world, we still face passionate denunciation of women and people hating on gays Etc because someone wrote something thousand of years ago. So it's okay though point out problems with these originalist documents.
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I have a cell phone plan with limited data. At first it was just a frugality thing, but it's also done wonders for attention/mindfulness. I tend to listen to podcasts instead of mindlessly FB/Redditing. Not only does it clear my mind, but listening to the news instead of constantly refreshing a news site throughout the day saves time and decreases stress and "FOMO" (fear of missing out). I know I'm missing out - I've chosen to! :)
Not the product itself, but there were only two features of Spotify around ~2010 that I used, which have both been removed:

* Set as Current Playlist: would allow me, with one action, to set the next playlist, but not interrupt the current song. Song would finish playing, then only song from selected playlist would follow (until I'd set a new 'Current Playlist' again).

* Empty Playlist: I used to have a plsylist called NULL with no songs in it. Combined with the Set as Current Playlist feature, this would allow me to, with one action and without waiting, let the current song finish, and then not have another one start (e.g. to go to bed, play a game, or to focus more intensely). Nowadays you cannot have an empty playlist anymore.
Priorities. Mine are definitely aligned with ordinary people long before payment processors.

Ever had bad things happen? I have. Cash counts then. Payment processors not so much.

Now do not get me wrong. The processors are not doing anything wrong. I am not making a statement against them at all. Just not one for them.

Not a priority, put simply.
IANAL, but I believe in this case a maintainer can just fork MongoDB from right before they changed the license, then new contributors can just contribute to that forked repo, creating an off brand “Non-goDB” that will get a lot of the updates that people want. This would fracture the development of the project and would be bad for everyone, but at least the open source community wouldn’t completely lose the project.
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Yup, article also states this.
Seed-eating birds spend a lot of time gathering insects to feed their young. I presume also seed plants are dependent on pollinators. Certainly this is just an armchair comment but I would have expected the effect to show up across the board.
Winamp is coming back as an all-in-one music player
Hackers tamper with exploit chain to drop Agent Tesla, circumvent antivirus
I generally agree, but in a regulation NFL game the running backs are typically only running for about 5 minutes total.
Czech intelligence service shuts down Hezbollah hacking operation
The problem with the turban is that it will detach from your head the instant you touch the ground, and in doing so might wrap around your neck.
How the STARTTLS Everywhere initiative will affect surveillance
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This is super actionable and useful advice. I love it, thank you so much!
If I wanted to bother with hacks I wouldn't have Apple products.
Very nice. What happens when two clients open the same document library at the same time? Do they only overwrite content if you add comments etc?

We created a web based multiuser web annotation and discussion system, for inline annotations around ‘99-00, then the dotcom bubble burst and we had to shut down. I have been looking for something along those lines since then. There have been several attempts by others but it seems that the alternatives (PDF, screenshots, email etc) are hard to displace.
> I'm always surprised people are willing to give random developers that much control over their browser

I will say this is why people install content blockers, to avoid giving control to random developers behind countless websites, which have shown that there is no limit in the amount of data they will try to gather without a hint of informed consent.

On the other hand, content blockers are opt-in and people are free to install or not after reading the description/documentation and further researching them.
Chrome, Edge, IE, Firefox, and Safari to Disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in 2020
Thanks! I meant to mention that --preserve-merges is not really for use with interactive rebase, and does not work at all with pull --rebase, but I was in a bit of a hurry.

I did not know about rebase-merges!

> The --rebase-merges mode is similar in spirit to --preserve-merges, but in contrast to that option works well in interactive rebases: commits can be reordered, inserted and dropped at will.
You can do all the cool but it is going to have no result when industry is responsible for a third of GHG, agriculture about a fourth and transportation a fifth.

To stop those takes regulations and laws. Major investments too which won't happen if not forced either.

Best targeted results for efficacy of behaviour modification at a fifth. Good luck. This with self-efficacy training. You cannot do that with everyone so you're bound to fail. Worse if people cannot adapt at all. Tell a guy they now go 50 miles to work by bike is not going to work at all.

You cannot destroy a mountain by removing a few shovels of ground. The action and change has to be both forced and massive.
Yes, substantially. There's a legal record and accountability to voters (thin as it is) in the scenario you describe.
On macOS it doesn't let you open all PDFs and I wouldn't know why, expect maybe file size.
> The opening scene of her ordering pizza online was such a leap of faith for people at the time.

In 1994, when the Internet was opening to commercial use, someone gave a demo at my university of a pizza ordering system. I thought to myself it would never work, because all the stores would need to be wired up, and how was that going to happen?

I've been wrong about technology far, far more often than not.
it's too profitable to change direction now
FWIW here is a previous discussion from 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8102624 (29 comments)
Is there a price for ignoring change? Yes there is.

For example, when you lose honeybees, you lose everything they pollenate... apples, cranberries, melons, broccoli, blueberries, cherries, almonds, mangos, plums, peaches, strawberries, pears, onions, apricots, kidney beans, lemons, and much more.

https://honeylove.org/list-of-food/

It may seem natural to let nature take its course. But that didn't work too well for the dinosaurs. And since we seem to be the cause for this change, ignoring it is likely to just make it worse, not better.
The first people that approached him were the guys from Project Veritas, veritably right wing nut jobs. Joe Rogan has a libertarian slant, and while not a right wing nut job himself, he does have a large right wing following who definitely appreciated hearing from Damore.

And here's your boy Dave Rubin:

"In an interview in March 2018, Rubin said he would vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. presidential election if a progressive like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, or Gavin Newsom is running against him.[29] Rubin also characterized President Trump as a political moderate, saying "he's a Democrat in a lot of ways", and spoke favorably of Trump's cuts in government regulations.[30]". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Rubin
> You're not offering MongoDB as a service though. I think that part is pretty explicit.

I agree that I feel like I'm not offering it as a service, but according to your quote, "Making the functionality of the Program or modified version available to third parties as a service includes, without limitation, enabling third parties to interact with the functionality of the Program or modified version remotely through a computer network, offering a service the value of which entirely or primarily derives from the value of the Program or modified version"

And that does not actually map on to how I would define "offering the program as a service". I think with that definition it would not be difficult to argue that my ferrets using a webapp are "third parties interacting with a modified version of the program remotely through a computer network", because that is in fact what they are doing.

The fact that this might seem like a ridiculous twisting of the intent of "offering as a service" is somewhat immaterial. I'm old enough to have lived through the SCO trial. Companies and their lawyers, when the company is in need of ready cash, will do a lot of shaking of the couch cushions for loose change, and that includes changing how they interpret previously-acceptable behavior with their software.

Even if one argued that my ferret dating site was offering "value which primarily derives from the value of mongo" and failed to win that suit in the courts, I'd still have lost here - I'd still be on the hook for actually defending myself (or just give in to the hypothesized shakedown).

These are all the fears about open source that came from that first SCO trial and persisted via FUD from the 90s version of microsoft: that using open source platforms somehow opens corporations to legal liability, and it was (in part) to allay those fears that the OSI arose.

That's why I'm concerned about this development. I could be 100% overreacting here, but at the end of the day I am not convinced (with either this or the Redis module license thing) that it is possible to micro-target classical SaaS providers with a commercial-only license situation without collateral damage to self-hosters.
What social and moral constraints exactly? They invest money through SoftBank, reap the dividends, and then spend it on wars and oppression just like before. It's fine to just admit that the tech world has shaky morals. But utterly delusional to think that investing in tech will somehow make Saudis more pliant.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
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Disclaimer, one of the authors here.
You can see a video with discussion of the NVMe support in HopsFS in this Spark Summit talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx6HyoUYGL0
>If he wanted an honest discussion he shouldn't be passing notes around like it's highschool. The memo apparently ended up being pass by more and more people. That's not how you approach this or many topics that are sensitive.

You are making the perfect the enemy of the good here. Your idea of "honest discussion" and claim that how not to approach topics that are sensitive is completely subjective. You are trying to silence his voice (just like google is silencing many chinese voices). You dont make the rules about how someone gets to speak.

I dont think he was productive in his desires but I do believe that he was candid , genuine and I would never tell someone they dont get to epxress their honest thoughts.

Think of the past decades with gay rights , trans rights and you want to tell someone they cant express their thoughts and need to keep their ideas in the closet. Is bigotry from the LGBTQ crowd allowed but we cant be bigoted against them? This double standard keeps us all back from making a truly free society. It seems google and and from your argument that this freedom is subjected and carefully tailored from elite that designate what voices should be heard and silenced.
I used to like permissive (OSI) licenses a lot more than restrictive licenses, but now I like copyleft better (for my own projects) because…

1. You’re still helping education, nonprofits, and individuals benefit from your work.

2. It’s still open source, so people will still be able to contribute and use your work in their own projects.

3. Companies that want to use your code to make money can do so, but only if they also help out the other “worthy” causes by contributing changes back.

In fact, I'm consider something more radical like a YUMMY license (you make money, I make money) - which has all the same benefits of being open source and helping worthy causes, except at least you get to make money when someone uses your work to do something that you might not even want, like selling ads.
It's more pervasive than that, they have hooks in the entire contemporary Internet ecosystem (DoubleClick, Google Analytics, etc.) So they don't care if you never touch a Google-branded site, they can collect and sell data on you. And Mozilla is largely funded by Google.
I would suggest using a docker image with a mounted volume for development - there are alternatives, vagrant being one of them. As your production server will _most likely_ be a flavour of linux, this can help weed out "works on my machine" issues.
>>Lister pointed out that, since 1969, pesticide use has fallen more than 80 percent in Puerto Rico

The article does make this claim, but it doesn't appear to back it up in any way. Additionally, nothing is said about the type of pesticide. If I use a pesticide that is 10x stronger by weight than what was available in 1969 and possibly doesn't need to be applied as often, then we're not comparing apples to apples.

Additionally, it's not mentioned what is meant by 'pesticide' Is that just insecticide or herbicide? Perhaps the application of herbicide (roundup) has increased, killing off native food-stuffs and poisoning the insects that eat them.
A lot of AWS's managed services are just off the shelf open source projects on the backend.

Amazon can afford to fork the project and poach top talent from your company. I think these moves are extremely short-sighted.

Changing license models only causes instability in the overall ecosystem.
I _cannot_ wait to start playing around with this. It really does seem to tick off all the boxes I've been looking for. Do you have any plans / strategy / tips for handling video? I tend to watch a lot of conference talks and lectures on YouTube, and find that I'd like to take some notes while watching. Having a single personal knowledge base handle that (or at least the notes aspect) instead of a one-off solution for other types of media would be useful to avoid fragmentation.
Which should have given sears extra help: they were a known and trusted entity that you could give your credit card to unlike that tiny fly-by-night startup bookstore Amazon.

They had everything needed to take advantage of the internet just a few years before: a trusted name, a large catalog, experience in online sales (progigy might have failed, but the experience would have been a big help), and a large distribution network.
> real world user experience

I'm getting so tired of this. Real world user experience is that the constantly changing interfaces are driving everyone mad.

Stick to a thing and let people learn it.
All of the ultra-trail runners I've known have had significant injuries from overuse or falling on the trail. When you're exhausted at the end of a 50 mile race it's easy to trip over a root and blow out your knee. A single mistake is all it takes.
It still seems very hard to shake the myth of meritocracy when wealth and connections are shown to have greater impact than latent talent, but here's some more ammunition for that argument. It's not that graduating from a prestigious school is without merit, but simply even getting the chance to do so likely means, in most cases, that one's starting conditions were more favorable. At the very least, privilege means being allowed to make mistakes and recover from them that would end someone else's aspirations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/09/its-bette...
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> And the .01% of crypto that aren’t scams/worthless are being used to buy drugs.

fiat currency is being used to by drugs as well...

Is there no better measure for the utility of a currency than people actually using it to trade for things?

Now I start to wonder, when people first shifted from barter to currency, who were the early adopters? were they also criminals?

By the way I have no opinion about crypto one way or another. If it succeeds, cool. If it doesn't, cool.
huh. I tried to run our rails app in WSL, and it was so slow that it was unusable