skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the toolbars being a big problem in the early 0's.

It seemed like everybody and his brother wanted (and could) install a toolbar on IE. Some of them were actually cool, but when there are 100 people who want you to install a toolbar for every 1 that wants to install a toolbar that is way too many toolbars.

Today we have Chrome, which is 100% a toolbar.
> Some personality disorders allow a high functioning career and social life.

No, they don't, because built into the definition of disorder is the impact it has one someone's life.
Perhaps that's related to the fact (from the article) that video gambling remains illegal in Chicago?
This dude is a horrible monster and has been one for years. 17 years seems like barely enough.
That's a bit of a simplistic programming, the phones should've seen other SSIDs around it and figured out they're not in Kansas any more. Except if your parent's WiFi network is the only one around the area.
I'll take an Electron app on Windows any day over one that has to utilize an X11/POSIX layer to run. In fact I'm not aware of any widely utilized software on Windows that relies on the stack you're advocating for.
I suppose this headline is meant to imply the opposite is true too

well, rest assured that corporations care deeply about your nutritional needs and safety, and would never compromise for profit or make mistakes in production
There's definitely not enough evidence to say Oumuamua is an artifact of an alien civilization. But there isn't enough evidence to say it isn't either. Moreover, as far as I know, there is enough evidence to be pretty sure every other significant celestial body is not an alien artifact. So it's higher on the scale than anything else.

The argument I've heard is that it is a disabled alien probe. This makes sense given that any device sent into space will probably last much longer as space junk than as a working device. So, the density of alien space junk would be higher than the density working artifact. Thus, if this thing were to turn out to be disabled alien probe, it would be more or less what you'd expect to see occasionally if alien civilizations of our level existed in some moderate density (note, most of "Fermi Hypothesis" possibility arguments involves hypothetical higher levels of civilization, which seems to me a rather thin argument).
Embracing militant veganism as a "marketing" gimmick, to name one example, sounds even more psychopathic than usual for marketing.
sure. On the flip side, few years ago I went to a casino in Rosemont, had a good time, ate a steak, played a few games and went home. And I am not addicted to anything and don't want it closed. 20% of people who drink alcohol get addicted. Should we close every bar in Chicago?
The whole case sounds just crazy publicity stunt.

After reading more, I think Avi Loeb had a valid reason to speculate and put it out there even the numbers have large uncertainties and put the article out because the argument is good enough even with the large uncertainties. It's the fault of the general public if they get carried away.

(If I would bet, I would say the probability is less than 0.00001 that the hypothesis is correct.)
Is being able to recruit the most important trait? I think it is overall selling that matters. Why can selling potential not be demonstrated by other means? Playing with human relationships can come later.
I generally file it under:

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Why I’ll work without a laptop and desktop computer in 2019
Agreed, they have a pretty impressive and aesthetically pleasing portfolio:

https://www.pentagram.com/work/
A handful of startups I've talked to have regretted their decision to host their application (or parts of their application) on a graph database. The ones who migrated away (to a traditional RDBMS) mentioned better tooling, higher stability, and faster performance as outcomes of their migration.
> My therapist has explained the biggest issue about PDs: the disorders make a person extremely unlikely to seek out help

Sounds like a completely shit therapist, because the vast majority of people with BPD know full well they have a problem and are desperately seeking help for it.
Agreed, it was kind of a "reductio ad absurdum" feature. No one would knowingly choose it, therefore, allowing cameras is absurd.
CTO here, Boston based Junior Software Engineer job for Third Eye Health a national healthcare company providing high quality remote and bedside medical care to acute, post-acute, and senior care organizations. 2 days a week meeting on-site, 3 days remote work.

C# / SQL / Swift

https://www.indeed.com/job/junior-software-engineer-f037bec7...
CMU 18-645: How to Write Fast Code
Yep, testing definitely has a hugely decreasing marginal value.

I personally like the approach of writing a small amount of "obvious" tests to detect large functional breakage, and add a test for a bug once it's been identified aka a regression test.

Imo it's maximum test value per effort. Of course it depends on how impactful a bug could be.
> Electron does allow people to build projects quickly using simpler HTML/CSS/JavaScript technologies than prior-era desktop applications, and you get cross-platform for almost nothing.

Free cross-platform is a good thing, I agree, though it comes at the cost of lowered interoperability and inconsistency with other applications and OS's conventions - which is a big usability issue. But the "build quickly using simpler web technologies" part? That's a problem right here - it essentially makes it easier to create low-quality cookie-cutter app, instead of forcing people to do this well. It's not that much more effort to learn something beyond JS, but it seems that these days a lot of devs think their education ends at their first job.
The other side of that coin is without anonymity only the strongest can truly speak their mind without fear of repercussions.

I’d say, overall, it’s been worth it so far.
looks jizzy

I'm sorry but I'm just being honest, made me think of a porn shoot.
At least AzireVPN has some claims of not logging Wireguard:

https://www.azirevpn.com/docs/security#blind-operator-mode
>Another thing you're not considering is that the EU has 30+ languages in it. I'm sure it will be great to see advertising in languages you can't even read.

I'm no web dev, but couldn't sites use the HTTP header `Accept-Language` to pick appropriate ads?
So either way, it's all ego. Why should I care at all if I'm "remembered" after I die? I'll be dead. Conan O'Brien's NYTimes interview the other day captured this sentiment exactly. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/arts/television/conan-obr...

"I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that."
What about Benghazi??????
MIT ring?
> Debian, like any organization, is free to shut the door to people they don't really care for.

Yes, if they follow the rules which have been defined to deal with stuff like this. Which they didn't. They came to a private decision and just went ahead, revoking his privileges before informing anybody (including himself) about the allegations and the decision. The "evidence-gathering" is starting now, after the decision. Which makes a lot of people itchy, understandably.

> He's been asked multiple times (the Debian team was nice enough to have clear links about emails) to shape up, and he's not being teachable.

That seems to be the private stance of the anti-harrassment team, but none of the developers who have chimed in seem to understand why this has happened. At least I don't see anybody standing up and yelling "Good lord, finally!".
This is very good explanation, but only explains what happens with the files, nothing about the graph what is a git repository. This talk helped me tremendously to finally understand what's going on in git: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffBJ4sVUb4

It is one of the best talks about git for beginners with an unfortunate title :D

Also, this interactive visual tool helped me to understand branching: https://learngitbranching.js.org/
I like the new icon, but prefer the old font.
You wrote: "He's just dancing down the street 'cause he feels like it. No one is hurt, yet so many are upset. Why?"

Maybe people frown on that or treat the man awkwardly, because they see it as "weird", which subconsciously really means "unfamiliar/uncommon and unexplained, therefore the odds are increased of it being a threat to me or interfering with something that is familiar or desired to me." I think that happens a lot.

There is a story I read (which might have been in Covey's "7 Habits..." book), about a man with his very noisy, disruptive children on a subway train: the passengers seemed irritated, but when he explained to one passenger, that his wife and the children's mother had just died at the hospital, from which they were now returning home, and maybe they were all a little confused and out of their normal behavior. Then the perception of others suddenly changed from "control your kids" to "oh, how might I help?"

Which connects to the whole set of ideas about how we judge each other superficially, but sometimes there could be some reason for our doing so (our safety, or comfort levels with surprising behavior where we have no choice whether to be around it). I expect that is the source of many social norms. Another way to look at it is to consider that we might best not judge others too harshly, and we might be understanding, including to those who themselves judge others harshly, since in all those cases we don't know why they do it. (None of which is to say we should not have any boundaries while thinking about it.)

Various comments in this discussion are interesting. My belief in God and my choices and the specific, long-considered reasons around that are directly connected to why I feel peace and motivation even when things are very hard.
Where are you getting that definition from please, because it's not one I recognise.
Thanks, I'll have to check that one out. That all sounds about right to me.
The way it is actually engineered is that it is impossible to view a review, before leaving your own (or waiting until the review shows up, after which you can not leave a retaliatory review).

For the ridesharing, it depends. Maybe the driver has a route they know well, or has friendly connect. Maybe traffic for you was very bad and chaotic and there was no click.

For ridesharing I played tit-for-tat for a while, until I realized that I don't want to play this game (if my rating drops below a point where less drivers will pick me up, I will switch to Taxi's). For AirBnB: I never leave bad or lukewarm reviews, only good reviews. Getting a host that is actually there for check-in, really acts a host, is getting increasingly rare, so my good reviews are too.
Nah. That's not AI enough!
Looks like a derivative of this. I feel like I've seen a company using this logo but am spacing out.

https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-images-arrows-logo-designs-...
don't fool yourself, people have been harassing and exploiting others without issue long before the internet. the difference is that while the internet can extend their reach the very nature of brings such occurrences to light more often than before.

so while the internet broadens their reach it doesn't always give them more anonymity, if anything their trail is easier to follow by more people, especially law enforcement. people just don't understand the depth of a trail they leave when using the net
IIRC only the Node.js runtime has the ability to be emulated locally. Is this still the case? If I wanted to test my function locally, how would I go about doing that?
It's worth noting that almost no traditional anti-capitalist or Communist argument relies on doubting the extensive evidence that widespread lifting from poverty is the result of capitalism and even fewer would disagree with the fact that such development has occured under capitalism. Marx famously declared that workers must be "doubly free": firstly free to sell their labour how they like, and secondly freed from the means of production and the products they make.

A good deal of research justifiably focuses on what life is actually like and the nature of exploitation in capitalist societies, and especially under neoliberalism. I'd point you to the work of D.K. Foley, Dumenil and Levy, Roberto Veneziani, Naoki Yoshihara, G.A. Cohen and John Roemer on those points.
That's going in the right direction, but keep in mind that the entire federal budget is about $4 trillion. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#/...)

A UBI that pays a portion of a living wage might be a very good idea, but it's not going to allow the majority of Americans to lay on their butts all day watching TV and eating cheesy poofs.
> That political choice is "don't do anything about it, and leave it without a hard border".

That would be (from the UK side) the effective open border with the EU choice.

> And this is the choice that both the UK and Ireland want to take.

No, Brexit with the Irish border as an end-run around Britain’s new EU border is not a choice that has majority Parliamentary support in the UK.
You can hold an opinion as to whether it's a sound investment for yourself. E.g. Warren Buffett was, for a long time, notoriously reluctant to invest in tech.

I'm not sure I understand the counter-argument about vaccines. The crucial point there is herd immunity, which doesn't apply to many other fields.
May's government survives no confidence vote
This blog post is not true and not fair. Airbnb specifies that there must be textual disclosure of any cameras, and there is a section on the listing page that shows them.

It's also very rare for a security system to include indoor cameras. My own uses motion detectors to provide information about climate control and lighting needs, but absolutely no interior cameras.

It's not clear to me that the object in the picture is a camera. If it is, I do think the host should rethink having cameras in a bedroom, but if that's what it takes for him/her to feel comfortable renting out the home, then as long as it's disclosed clearly, then it's OK.
> - Chromium :: not Electron

Can't tell if this is a joke or not.
FWIW Jason called it A Defensive Rootkit [0].

But the parent post is wrong, the defensive rootkit is not to prevent logging, it's to prevent extracting the configuration from the kernel. It effectively makes the WireGuard configuration write-only from the perspective of userspace. WireGuard does not do any access logging by default as far as I am aware.

[0]: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2017-November/00...
From a response:

> "naming and shaming" is an option ... but ... Stack Exchange is not the platform to name and shame on.

This might be a better place for that. Shaming seems to be an appropriate response if the allegations are correct. While a legal response would likely cost more than the damages, it could be a service to readers to warn us. The company allegedly at fault is of course free to reply here as well.

Mr. Kendall, who did it?
Excessive conscience probably constitutes an anxiety disorder.
Linden Lab Could Pay Back Its Investors (Including Bezos) and Split into Two
Hmmmm... yeh, but when any company starts messing with their branding, it frequently turns out to be not a good sign.
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I had to disentangle myself from a friend who was a narcissist.

Looking back it feels like I was his 'sidekick'. I was one of his sources of narcissistic supply.

He thought he was improving me, helping me with my 'problems', like I was his project. This went on for years before his personality became sufficiently extreme that I couldn't ignore it any more.

It was a very difficult time, and it was surprisingly hard to disentangle myself, even though being around him made me feel bad.
It's somewhat surprising to me that someone hasn't proposed a policy (for private universities) or legislation (for public ones) that require professors to be paid to review articles that are not open access.

Currently UC Berkeley is negotiating their elsevier subscription, if I were cal, I would put that sort of a policy on the table.
My Batman Decoder Ring™ didn't help with my interviews.
Keep in mind that there are a near-infinite number of ways that crops can be genetically modified. I'm personally against each of these:

* Roundup Ready - studies are finding that glyphosate causes endocrine disruption, yet farmers saturate their fields with the stuff: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19539684

* Splicing pesticide genes into crops - there are the unintended consequences of having no long-term epidemiological studies. In this case, they put a gene into peas to act as a pesticide, which of course triggers an immune response in other animals (like us): https://responsibletechnology.org/genetically-modified-peas-...

* Splicing animal genes into plants - they are putting animal and custom-tailored genes into plants that produce compounds that humans have never eaten, so our gut doesn't recognize them, which can trigger autoimmune diseases: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1070817/

Each of these should scare the crap out of anyone who knows anything about science and evolution. These genes will likely spread into neighboring crops (which is why GMOs are starting to be banned in many countries).

What worries me the most about this is that staples (all grains, many legumes and nightshades) are being hit hard with GMO tinkering because they make up such a large part of our diet. Which means that to save a few pennies on the dollar, the food industrial complex is willing to offload the externality of the cost of these health impacts onto all of us. Forcing us to buy organic, which cost 2-4 times more.

I feel that this was all by design. It started sometime around the late Clinton or early George W Bush years, and ended up transferring wealth from the masses to a few patent-holding firms in big agribusiness.

We've started seeing increases in allergies, asthma, autism, and other sensitivities to things like gluten (which may have been triggered by GMO compounds and increased use of pesticides, though this is still being researched).

Food was already cheap by the 1950s. I just can't believe that we're still exploring dangerous cost-cutting measures like GMO, while ignoring the fundamental causes of world hunger like wealth inequality. That's why I think that the article is propaganda.
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Not only that, more often than not, it turns out that the original claims turn out to be false or negligible at best.

The latest weight fad was intermittent fasting. Turns out it isn't any better than any other weight loss regime.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18537250
ehh, I dunno about that. We (750 person company) always buy non refundable, but if we cancel, the credit can go into our company account to be used later sometimes.
The problem with identity in the USA has always been a religious problem more than anything else.

All legislation aimed around allowing people to be identified by numbers has been killed due to the whole "mark of the beast" .. "can't buy sell or trade without your number" revelations rhetoric.

As religion has less of an impact on people's daily lives, I expect this to change, but in the past it's been the one thing that's always prevented proper identity management in the USA.

I am curious to know though, if there are other countries that don't identify their citizens with a public id number?
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True, all the public has to do is pay back the money the government didn't make from gambling. That is a win, not in my book, but in some book.
And in reality, when/where can we find an actual state of equilibrium where no one has an unfair market advantage?

Here's an anecdote: I've received hundreds of thousands of euros from my parents (in my early 30's), they fully paid my education in a well-known private lycée, a nice "classe prépa", an expensive French business school. They paid everything until I get a highly paid job in a European startup, incl. some student exchange programmes abroad. I'm getting dozens of €K a year as gifts (with absolutely zero taxes). I own a big flat in one of the most expensive city in the world (where prices keep rising), and tones of shares on the stock market (4x in a few years, thank you Wall Street). My gains on the sale of these stocks are taxed far below my salary, so I'm not working too much (I'm already saving 2/3 your yearly revenues, and own ~6x the median wealth in my country). etc. You probably get the point. I'd be glad if anyone can explain how I'm not taking advantage of an extremely unfair advantage, and what Smith (or any other liberal economist) suggests to reach a state of equilibrium where I have to compete fairly with my fellow citizens.
That's the point, you don't have to. The spotify software synchronizes your personal collection between all your devices and uses it to fill holes in their catalog.

Afraid that an artist is going to pull their stuff from spotify? Acquire digital copies of that artist's work some other way, and spotify will slot them right into your playlists where the old ones used to be. I did this when SPV Records pulled Silverthorn, it was practically no work.

Even if the whole industry abandons spotify, it will still be unique and valuable as a seamless way to synchronize your music library between all devices.
I am very skeptical of any study about "how only dumb people don't trust GMO's"

Monsanto very infamously sponsored studies all over the world and with prestigious universities and professors that "found solid proof" that GMO's plus RoundUp was "non-toxic", but now we know that RoundUp in large quantities clearly causes cancer.

It's too bad because now, I am honestly can't tell if any study on GMO's is valid or sponsored by these large corporations.
Should have a current clamp on the cable to show that you're not cheating when doing the demo.
> The fact is that Electron is a good platform for ONE application. Once everybody jumps in and makes their application with Electron, and all applications running in your machine are electron, then you as an user have a big problem, basically no battery life.

That's a huge cultural problem right there. Some devs seem to think that their software is a special masterpiece (obviously, since it's made by an ensemble of rockstars), and therefore it'll run alone on users' computers. But that's nearly never the case; even the least technical users run many applications at the same time. Unless you're writing a fullscreen videogame, your software should never assume it has 100% of machine's resources for itself, and these days, even most videogames shouldn't.

(Or, in other words, tragedy of the commons.)
Which really cracked me up, having consulted with firms on the IT side and knowing so many lawyers, I can say that one's that put ethics above profits are the exception, and so lawyers already violate the basic reasoning for that law in the first place!

Just seems like an excuse to maintain a racket to me.
"If anything, you might expect the price of the cheapest staples and crappiest housing to go down as UBI enables the poor to upgrade their food and housing."

You do realize that is self-contradictory, right? More people buying X means the price of X goes up, not down. (Modulo a bunch of factors that probably don't apply to housing and staples.)
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