skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MailChimp removed half my users from a mailing list that I hadn't sent out recently claiming lots of unverified sign-ups and spam complaints. The sign-ups where all through MailChimp, so I don't know why then didn't like them. Actually I suspect MailChimp may have sent out on the list without my permission for an extra GPDR handshake and triggered a list of spam complaints.
Elon Musk unveils prototype high-speed LA transport tunnel
What’s missing in the context here really is whether he was a commercial customer or not. If this was a commercial account, then this truly is shameful. If it was a free account, then it’s just another story of unjustified internet-age entitlement.
Add to that:

-US schools not offering nutritional meals

-Waking up kids so early in the morning it hurts their sleep

-Not having soda and candy machines on school property

-Proper sex education

-Vaccinations and other healthcare for children
I have all of Facebook's domains routed to 0.0.0.0 in my hosts file. So their "like" buttons don't even appear for me.
Recently I went shopping for a new, nice, couch.

After having visited all the local medium and high the retailers, my choice was which slight variation of preferred leather couch style did I want.

All the furniture companies turn out very similar models. If you pay close attention you can spot when one retailer releases a new design, a 6-8 month delay, and then the "inspired copies" being released by other furniture brands.
We can debate that we both are or aren’t, given it is a cyclical relationship of chicken egg.

The regulators are, in the USA, frequently installed lobbyists with profit-at-all-costs ideologies in place. It is clear that the USA’s concept of “oversight” is complicit in this.

Hard to shift those underlying ideologies.
D.C. attorney general sues Facebook
This is almost 66 years old:

> What can the world, or any nation in it, hope for if no turning is found on this dread road? The worst to be feared and the best to be expected can be simply stated. The worst is atomic war. The best would be this: a life of perpetual fear and tension; a burden of arms draining the wealth and the labor of all peoples; a wasting of strength that defies the American system or the Soviet system or any system to achieve true abundance and happiness for the peoples of this earth. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Role of Trust in Technology
TFA = The F*cking Article

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My intent was not to blame the developer, I'm aware of the context they work in and as you have guessed correctly our engineering process is fucked up in many way.

The developer writing the correct implementation was just the earliest point where it could have been avoided in this case, I didn't want to frame it as the developer's fault, but simply wanted to say that some algorithmic knowledge still comes in handy.

My original comment wasn't clear enough about this I confess.
One is easy to pin on a small private company, the other would involve targeting other politicians, larger deep pocketed companies, and raising taxes.
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Do you think that there are so many similiar topics that you have to choose?

I would personally put vaping in the top 10.
I feel like the New York Times really enjoys blowing these Facebook stories out of proportion. Letting a company like Spotify integrate with Messenger is not wholesale selling of messaging data to advertisers. The data was shared with reputable companies using it to expand capabilities of what is offered to Facebook's users. This is not a shocking revelation and certainly not out of scope of the kind of sharing I would expect Facebook to do. Why all the sudden outrage? I have no problems with Facebook doing this with my data. There is nothing revealing about the NYT story. They are just adding hot takes to what is already public knowledge.
While engagement as in just tweeting doesn't provide a price you can do an estimate by (number of fans) x (amount they'd like to have invested) / (number of coins) = (estimated price)

eg 20 million BTC investors want to have $10k in BTC, 20 mil coins available => the price should be $10k

obviously some guess work in there
Lab study adds credence to life arriving on Earth from asteroids theory
And then proceed to shit on whatever did bubble up from the community, at least as far as package management goes. I’m glad we’re finally getting the core team to focus on modules but as an outsider that whole situation was handled poorly and doesn’t give me a lot of faith in solutions bubbling up from the community.
No Proof Against Huawei Says BSI Chief
I didn't nicotine wasn't addictive, all I said it there is some evidence to suggest that MAOIs are responsible for a significant portion of nicotine's addictiveness.
Typically you want to find the mistake in the central point and explain why it's mistaken
Sure, but you're not selling me on the value of the product with platitudes and meaningless sentences. Sentences like "X lets you solve your Y problems faster and better" have near-zero information value, because they don't define reference point and scale for "faster" and "better", nor do they say what "Y problems" it's helping to solve. I feel such copywriting only preys on people who can't read with understanding.
they said "an order cannot ever have DeliveryDetails"

so, if in a nominative subtyping situation like you suggest, a DeliveredOrder is-a Order, and so we can see that some subset of Orders CAN have DeliveryDetails. any method receiving an Order could receive a DeliveredOrder.
Curious—have you ever actually been to China? Those exist, but a lot of the infrastructure is used a hell of a lot more than most American infrastructure, where passenger trains are so crappy nobody rides them except in a handful of cities, and vast, usually empty roads are covered in potholes.
You seem to be asserting that you have knowledge of the situation, enough to dispute the article. And you're an ex-employee of FB. That's most interesting. What else can you tell us? Be detailed.
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According to what my wife occasionally shows me, my dad, a man in his 70s, and my cousins, men and women in their 40s and 50s, have posted as questionable of stuff and theoretically-damaging-to-presidential-aspirations on Facebook as I can ever imagine any millennial could possibly post. I don't think millennials are unique in this regard.
Similar scenario here. Did not smoke/dip before I started vaping. I really only became addicted when I switched to salts. Quit cold turkey for about a month but came back because I enjoy the effects.
People are scared of hosting their own SMTP server because hosting an SMTP server is woefully insufficient for actually having mass mailings reliably delivered.

The hard part isn't actually sending the mail, the hard part is staying abreast of the already long and perpetually growing list of legitimacy signals you need to send to reassure understandably paranoid SMTP clients that they shouldn't mark your newsletter as spam. And you're not done even when the server is set up and configured properly; it doesn't take more than a handful of ignored complaints to start getting added to blacklists.

It's not difficult, per se, but it is a huge time investment for a service that centralized vendors can provide extremely cheaply because of economies of scale.

I'm all for moving toward decentralization too, but we're not going to get there from here if we don't understand and respect the incentives that lead people toward centralization in the first place.
I have the opposite “problem”: my posts get weird traffic because of higher rankings than they would deserve. One thing I noticed is that titles matter: a “how to do X” is more likely to emerge than clever puns or artistic sentences - which is typically what one tends to use after writing longer essays.
Great point. I had a non-tech-savvy friend who “accidentally” got into spamming, and had no idea what he was doing was wrong or antisocial. He simply got hooked with one of those “make $$$ from home easy!!” scams where they send you a pre-baked spamming kit and convince you that you’re a businessman with an incredible opportunity. He came to me for help when he started getting banned everywhere and his emails stopped going through. I told him he was scammed and that the “kit” he paid for was junk mailer scheme, but he swore up and down that no, he’s an entrepreneur and that all the problems must be his competitors “hacking him.”

I felt bad for him that he had no idea what it was that he was doing but I couldn’t convince him that it was not legit. It was MLM-level brainwashing.
My bad, I totally misread something and posted too quickly
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You say "you" as if you're talking to the person you're replying to. Most scripts in the world aren't authored by the person you're replying to. They're powerless to change the ocean of python out in the world.

For example, out of about 50 or so /usr/bin/python scripts I see in a RHEL7's /usr/bin I can't find a single one that runs on python3.

No individual user is going to be fixing this. It's a very silly and shortsighted move on RedHat's part.
I’m literally preparing for my suicide now by giving away all of my money, after years of being harassed by strangers. The incident in August 2015 that was related to my Facebook private messages was one of many, but was particularly insidious and caused significant damage to my life.

It’s highly likely that data has been for sale behind the scenes, readily available for malicious actors, making players like Facebook complicit in ugly shenanigans.

Please understand the downsides of information technology. It can be abused to hurt others in ways you may not have foreseen. I’m unable to withstand being harassed any further, and the harassment is 100% enabled by infotech. The Facebook shenanigans will hopefully serve as a prime example of the dangers of free information sharing by malicious actors.
I'm sure you know about it, but IMSLP (https://imslp.org/) has quite a few scores from which they could pull.
It's too bad their main story on this isn't available in translation. It is, ironically, one of the most thrilling stories I've read in a while.

Here are some nuggets, although I cannot do the original justice:

He fabricated impossible-to-verify "facts", such as quotes or other, often tangential, factoids

Many times, some eerily apt song was somehow involved (playing on the radio, sung by passing child etc). They write it's impossible to miss if you read all his stories at once, but wasn't noticed in the normal, daily flow with sometimes months passing between stories

He was caught by a colleague sharing a byline on the US/Mexico border. He survived a first round of accusation by being very convincing, but the colleague used a trip to the US to collect incriminating information that was impossible to dismiss. There was apparently lots of scepticism of the accuser, which they openly admit.

The SPIEGEL has 60 fact-checkers, but they have not had the mandate to search for intentional, bad-faith acts such as this. The reasoning is(/was) that fact-checking involves a lot of cooperation requiring trust, and that relationship would be destroyed by a fundamentally adversarial model.

Every single fact that can be checked, is. For one (weekly) issue, they counted 1,000 edits made in this process (with about half of them being stylistic, typos, etc.). Examples they give:

- "<Whatevertown> is a sleepy city of 2,446, an hour outside of Memphis" => They check the distance on Google maps, the headcount in US government data. They don't check the sleepiness.

They would "not investigate the journalist, but only their story". An example for what they don't do is checking rental car bills and if they fit the places the journalist claims to have visited (see above for reasoning)

If you want to help me do some sleuthing, I have a question: In one article, he portraits an American woman and describes a scene where she supposedly "locked her front door, turning the key three times". From my time in the US, I seem to remember door locks having a mechanism somewhat different than they have in Germany, namely one where it would not be possible (or increase security) to make three full turns of the key. IIRC, a second turn would actually unlock the door?
Here is a point that I think hasn't been raised yet:

You need consent from all parties messaging back and forth.

One party consenting to Netflix/Spotify/etc accessing your chat messages, is not enough.

I would hypothesize, that they didn't only grant access when all sides had consented, as the API was (supposedly) primarily used to share media with your friends, something that's pretty innocuous and shouldn't require "chat message read" access at all.
Setting that stuff up is not that hard, you can even just use unix Sendmail.

What's hard is actually making sure your emails get delivered and don't end up in the spam folder.

Starts with the easy stuff like DMARC (needs DKIM & SPF), goes further to properly warming your IP's, then to properly parsing hundreds of different error response messages and good retry scheduling, and to complex problems like individual mail receivers spam and max-throughput rules.

Also these companies sell you the ability to easily make campaigns targeted at a specific subset of your contacts.
fwiw, vaping is treated the same as tobacco use by most insurance companies with regards to what is provided to employees.

I have been amazed at how some who vape think it is acceptable indoors in public places that other tobacco use is not. At work it had to be reminded more than once it was not acceptable outside of designated areas. It simply is an addiction that is easier to partake of and hide than most.
Might want to put a 2017 in the title "PUBLISHED WED, JAN 18 2017"
I am very interested in the "freestyle" model of chess, where one or more human players are paired with one or more chess engines to form a team, playing against other teams. This model has demonstrated that these teams can play stronger chess than either the human players or the chess engines.

I believe that this same model can be applied to many more creative applications, including music. A lot of the pure AI creative applications I've seen still have a long way to go before they get close to what talented human creatives can do.
One of the manager's biggest jobs is helping employees be as productive as possible.

I think one of the most important topics to talk about in a 1-on-1 is what parts of the business are conducive to you doing your best work, and what is hurting your ability to do your best work, or as much work as you think you can do.

Obviously you shouldn't be a diva, but I think these meetings are the time to talk about distractions or interruptions to your work that your manager can fix.
ITT TIL MailChimp sucks.
The US wasted trillions on warfare period -- they could have just not spent it, and either not run up the debt or left that money in private hands.
The point is they like to make a big splash about problems that aren't really huge and are cheap to fix for the government with minimal pushback. The actual huge problems are ignored, mostly due to money.
I wonder if the big tobacco companies are behind this.

They have much to lose because e-cigs are not used for tobacco, in my experience.

So they (tobacco corps) will lose future tobacco addicts to e-cigs and vaping liquid producers.

peace.
What is a typical developer? My definition and yours will be different. It would need to be established what skills and experience this person already has to get to the meat of your question.

Choosing a framework would increase or help speed along the project.

There is multiple aspects that would need to be addressed. Architect, rough design or proof of concept, testing/QA, documentation etc..

I would agree that this is too high level....
Have you heard of XML? Not my first choice, though:

<World>
<Asia>
<China>1409517397</China>
<India>1339180127</India>
<Indonesia>263991379</Indonesia>
</Asia>
</World>
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Nope don't wait for last minute. have an agreement in 1-1 that this is what you are planning to do this year and then have a regular follow-up with him on progress(once every month for ~15 minutes). Normal manager needs clarity on what exactly you are doing with quantifiable data. If you can present that to him , it make his life much easier ...then yon can negotiate that with some perks.. i know we(as engineers) feel very uncomfortable with these discussions but fact of matter is this is what needs to be done in any company where there is a "manager" title.
It works. The content should be SEO-optimized, though (it isn't "normal" content, it targets certain keywords). Your domain ranking, on-page SEO, link structure, even title formatting and other stuff is also relevant.

As someone who has 50k+ views per month on one site I know a thing or two about this.

I also write a personal blog where I don't do SEO and only get around 300 views per month. I could optimize that, but I just write about things that I find interesting (without doing keyword research, doing A/B tests, ...).
I'll admit, I feel somewhat smug over this after being talked down to by BSD guys.
Regardless, I'm glad we can all enjoy a shared codebase for an amazing filesystem.
Looking at this architecture, I wonder if it would make sense to replace Prometheus itself with something simpler? Normally Prometheus pulls metrics, evaluates rules against them, stores them, and answers queries on them. It looks like in Cortex the latter three functions are handled by other services, and Prometheus is just pulling and forwarding metrics.

Also, the article says Cortex "completes" Prometheus. While it does fill many of the gaps, there is still a big one: First-class support for pushing metrics. This seems especially important if you want to offer Prometheus as SaaS. Your customers won't want to run their own Prometheus installs (that's what they pay you for, after all), and asking customers to open their firewalls so that your Prometheus can discover and scrape their infrastructure is probably a non-starter.
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I can certainly sympathize with this. Over the past 20 years I've gotten bit several times by 3rd party email services shutting down with little or no notice and even had access to my email services sold to spammers by the providers I was paying for it.

The last time it happened I'd created a "Mandrill" account while developing an app and just a few weeks before releasing it I got a notice saying "Mandrill has been acquired by MailChimp" and I would need to create a new account with MailChimp.

That was last straw for me using 3rd Party email services. I spent the next several weeks setting up a "MAIB" (Mail-in-a-Box) server on a DigitalOcean VPS.

Setting up that server on DigitalOcean had it's own hurdles I didn't see coming, one of which was my MAIB server IP was black listed before I even sent an email because it was running on the DO platform. I contacted DOs support and all they could offer was "We recommend you don't use DO for email servers". Apparently spammers find it appealing to do this too so some email services, like AOL, Hotmail, etc block everything coming from DO and require you request to be whitelisted.

Because of that it ended up taking a few more months to reveal and deal with all the issues that popped up and that was painful too. It ended up being worth the effort though.

It's been working great for over 2 years now and there are some additional benefits I'd not expected when I first started working on it. One of the biggest is MAIB has a built-in DNS server too. I didn't use it at first but after playing with it a bit I ended up moving all my sites over to it and configuring my desktop Mac to use it first.

Given the chance the only thing I'd do different is to set up my own email server before I ran into this kind of "Mailchimp" problem again (because my experience is it will) so I could work through those issues first and transition to it from a 3rd party service at my leisure.

It's not an easy slog, but MAIB made it a hellava lot easier.

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In this case the two points where we should have caught the issue would have been:

* Integration testing with a specific data set that was different from actual production data.

* Code review (they're not systematic yet but we're working on that) because the faulty code had a sketchy section and the conversation around it would have lead to a better version (that's what actually happened when fixing the bug)
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This kind of blind exceptionalism is exactly why nothing ever moves here. We are stuck in 30 years ago of "we're so much better than everyone" that we're refusing to see how our lead has quickly worsened, and also attacking the messenger's background instead of taking the message to heart.

I think we're still leaders in education, for example, but that's under threat.

China has built thousands of miles of high speed rail in the past 10 years, and the people are using it like CRAZY. There are months-long waits if you want to take the Beijing-Lhasa train, for example.

Yes there's definitely what you're talking about. But I'd rather be lamenting overbuilding than the lethargic underbuilding (or no-building) we have going on in the US.
Because you should not have less right on the borders than elsewhere.

I know the courts don't recognize it; I will be dammed before I let laws determine justice.
A lawsuit that you wouldn't win.
So RHEL been around for 18 years, and suddendly users need to be aware about the "install instructions", which "are right at the top" and read a blog post about it for RHEL 8?
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I am sad to see that Logitech has fallen into the business model of technological churn.

I've found their devices (I've owned a few mice, a keyboard, some speaker setups) to be durable, well designed, and comfortable to use. Their industrial and UX design teams are top notch.

Somebody up the marketing side of the chain should do some math and figure out how to not disenfranchise users. Maybe lock down unofficial APIs and require authentication of devices (which legitimate users could do). Or something. There are lots of options that don't involve pissing off satisfied customers.

But devolving into 'we want to sell new system X, let's brick some old devices' is a great way to drive people away from a brand entirely.
Releasing highly flammable hydrogen gas is definitely not "dealing with the energy". Both electrolysis and the reaction of water with lithium release plenty of it.
Yep, you gotta work to work the work you want to work if you want to work the work you want to work.