skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree but not downvoting because I think you raise a valid point and it's worth discussing. To me, the reason it's more than just "annoying" is that it encourages one-dimensional, superficial idols that will end up having an outsized impact on shaping a generation's values and notions of success. This is essentially an extension of celebrity worship, which existed long before Instagram. The difference is that Instagram is basically "democratizing" celebrity, lowering the barrier to entry and yielding an explosion of these types of icons, while simultaneously delivering them in a remarkably efficient manner that acts as a lever for reach and impact.
Have had the same issue with a 2015 MBA. Got charged 300 USD for a display swap.
Note that '<input grep | foo' is also valid.
Government Shutdown May Have Permanently Damaged U.S. Security
India’s diaspora influences politics back home
Well fuck, why didn’t anyone think of that?!
As a consumer you are free to open another account with any bank anywhere in Europe. The merchants should have the same freedom.
Some places just accept credit card payments. Even with a ~3% surcharge for paying with a credit card, it can easily be worth it, depending on the particular sign up bonus.
New Technologies Give Neuromorphic Computing Better Memories
Agree on the single file components for Vue, they're amazing. Agree on the React, I found a lot of overhead to do even the most simple things, maybe I still not grasp the beauty around it.
The problem is being written as <= 0. The compiler could complain "why aren't you just == 0 because it is unsigned" but that's probably enabled at -Wpedantic or such level.
There's also the potential for skewed reviews when companies offer bonuses for financial or recruiting performance
Diversifying the product line for every single customer desire will lead to Apple's slow evolution into Dell. We already have a Dell. Apple needs to be free to focus on making computers the Apple way.
Intel Plans Oregon Expansion for 7nm Chip Production – Report
I’m operating on a Macbook Pro 15 from mid 2010. I upgraded the hard drive to SSD, upgraded the memory to 8 gigs (max supported), and the mobo has been replaced twice (fried from overheating .. the thing gets really hot). This has prolonged my machine for a bit but it’s starting to getting long in the tooth. They also just dropped my model from being able to install the newest mac OS (for a 2010 that might make sense). Seems being able to upgrade modular pieces of your tech is a thing of the past. It has saved me some really time and money being able to remain on the same machine for 9 years. If it weren’t upgradeable that probably be a totally different story.

Biggest features that I would miss from my macbook:

--Touchpad with BetterTouchTool - I heavily use custom gestures and it’s insane how much this drives my daily work flow and speed

--Unix environment is super nice

--Reliable and quick resume from hibernate or suspend

--Never really lags at the OS level .. but individual apps might get a little bogged

I would use a windows notebook as my daily driver if the experience were close and it had a solid build (weight and slimness is not a huge deal to me). Laptop + linux would be fine as well but I don’t know about the user experience with the newer touchpads in linux.

Does anyone have any success stories with notebooks that mirror my experience and isn’t OSX?
At least in Norway most visa debit (and/or credit) cards now come with nfc/"tap" payment up to a certain amount (10-15 usd I think) - with no need for chip&pin for "Small" transactions.

Has some issues wrt theft (portable pay terminal with boosted nfc signal/antenna) - but certainly convenient.
Tesla gets green light to sell Model 3 in Europe
> Like the brand keeps its aura of quality longer than the quality as been maintained? That would just be a phase shift between the reality and perception.

That's a phenomenon that actually exists, and is deliberately exploited by private equity. A stark example is newspapers: there's a company that's aggressively buying them up, and once they acquire one they slash the newsroom staff to drastically cut costs. That results in a much inferior product, but it takes time for their customers to realize and even longer for them to cancel their subscriptions en masse. In the meantime they collect greater profits as they kill the business.

The fact that lots of customers buy a thing does not necessarily mean that thing is presently a good product that serves their needs.
I was recently in SF for the first time to attend QCon. Beautiful city with a lot of character and culture IMO.

I made the mistake of taking an Uber from my hotel, about 1 mile away from the convention center. Traffic is horrendously bad and it took about 40 minutes to go one mile. It did give me a great opportunity to sit back and just sight see some buildings and what not for 40 min.

For the week I was there, I walked a lot after the conference each day to see the city. The thing that really stuck out was there was no new construction and certainly no high rises. Well of course, why wouldn’t prices go up then?

The roads were also pretty atrocious. I understand taxes are high. What exactly do they spend tax dollars on? Serious question.

I’d certainly would like to visit again but honestly it’s not a place I’d want to live in.
Very accurate, but most of all, Instagram is where the girls are.
The filters Instagram supplied to the common end-user brought girls in by the truckload. All of the people that recommended Instagram to me, begore it was well known, before they were acquired by Facebook, all of the people that pushed Instagram by word of mouth were girls, and almost without fail, photogenic girls, or there somewhat less-so friends.
This class of girls also went to Snapchat, but for obviously different reasons, in particular, as a pseudo-forward security toy (sexting via app). Something they presumed to be, mostly “secure enough” for the moment.
This split, of forward security contrasted against accessible cookie-cutter photoshop filters that place many images on a sentimental pedistal or permit the ability glamourize one-handed, were what precipitated the viral runaway growth hack the differentiated each from other varieties of photo sharing, like flickr.
Yeah I noticed that this one is getting called out as well. It's good that the whole video was released; also as it was children getting the brunt of it, it was necessary to correct the misconceptions.

Unfortunately this sort of retraction doesn't occur in the thousands of daily online discussions where the same sort of pre-judgement and labeling occurs every day. The media in it's clickbait culture has successfully divided the two sides, and they believe the other side is the epitome of evil, which leaves no room for discussion.

Edit: there could be a filter bubble effect going on here too. We all see different slices of online life. Pretty much all my follows are extreme leftist, so I see a lot of the behavior I'm discussing
You don't say! I used to work as an engineer at a truly awful little company, the worst I've been at, and when I left I gave them a scathing review. Not long after, several new reviews popped up. Here are some choice excerpts, get a load of this:

> Pros:
> For anyone reading these reviews, take it from someone who has been at this company for over 10 years, some people just like to use these review sites as a sounding board for their own distorted views of a company where they obviously were let go for good and obvious reasons.

> [skipping forward a bit]

>The truth is that every company will inevitably come across a "sour grape" that was not meant to be part of that companies future. Its just a shame that instead of trying to improve themselves they waste time trying to justify their irrational beliefs and convince themselves that writing negative reviews will somehow fortify their distorted view of what actually happened during their time there.

>Cons

>Former employees that sit in dark rooms and write negative reviews in between shifts at the local convenience store.

---------------

Then they separately put up some absurd propaganda reviews. This one was titled "Sunshine, Unicorns and GumDrops," if you can believe that:

> I have been with Snowbound for quite a long time(about 10 years) and I have been meaning to write a review.
I am inclined to agree with the "like a family and home away from home” reviews. At least on my side of the office it’s the land of Sunshine, Unicorns and Gumdrops. We like to work hard but also have a good time doing it.

Then they had another one titled "Like a family", here's an excerpt~

> You aren't just a number or a body behind a computer screen. If you're going through a personal issue, …

Yeah, like when I was fired and the CTO coldly told me "We can do better than you." This is the same guy who I watched stroke a waitress's hand as he passed her a tip during a company lunch outing and tell her "You have a smoking ass."

--------

There's another review titled "home away from home," and another called "long time here and worth it," but you get the point.
Await pushes your task onto the end of the event queue; this might seem like you’re immediately executing a future in many cases but it’s not true in all cases. Other futures created by your thread might take priority. Consider the case where you pushed a future onto the event loop which infinite loops before you used await. Then your code will freeze.
Ask HN: What sites offer free, legal, downloadable (and/or embeddable) music
I'm interested in record labels, repositories/platforms, etc.

Examples

https://freemusicarchive.org/
http://magnatune.com/
https://bandcamp.com
Argh, that's frustrating, I checked 4 of them and thought it was fine.

The problem is that there seem to be many classifications of remote code execution including buffer overflow and "code injection" and you can't choose multiple. :(
My understanding is that the creator is funded mostly through patreon and this is simply a passion
A Bleak Warning on Global Division and Debt
Every time this site comes up people entirely miss the point in this regard -- Debian operates a large voluntary network of mirrors. You are not trusting content coming from Debian, you're trusting it coming from the mirror. SSL only secures the link between the client and the potentially compromised mirror, it does not solve problems like the one from the article.

Meanwhile it's worth pointing out that OpenSSL has historically been one of the buggiest pieces of code in existence. Despite this being a game over RCE, it's the first of its kind in many years. If OpenSSL had been in the mix, Apt would have required forced upgrades /far/ more often. https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html
Mint is ok, but I feel like there is a gap in the market for budgeting apps. I still have a spreadsheet of general categories like "groceries", "restaurants", "discretionary", and "cell phones/internet" that I prefer to group things into. The way Mint tries to categorize my transactions makes it frustrating to use. They're trying to push users into using their categories instead of letting me create categories and assign my transactions to them.
It will have to be solved considering an major vulnerability was released today that allows any attacker to get root-level RCE by manipulating the HTTP Response.

HTTPS as default would have severely reduced the attack surface for this bug.
Seems like a good example of "concentrated benefits versus diffuse costs."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action
http://consulproject.org for the curious.
> on my Windows 10 box, a Steam update can take half an hour or more

This hasn't been my experience at all. On my Windows 10 box with an aging third gen i5, a 50Mbps connection, and an SSD, Steam client updates rarely take more than a minute or two.
The problem isn't the consumer who takes advantage of the system. the problem is the regulations that prevent consumers from choosing whether they want to pay that extra 2-3% that credit card companies charge the merchant. Right now, if i want to pay with cash, I still end up paying that extra 2-3%, even if the merchant wants to give me a 2-3% discount, they're not allowed, due to those regulations.
I pay a 2.5% fee but it’s not considered a cash advance just a regular purchase.

The math works for me since it’s the fastest and most convenient way to meet spend (usually around $3k)

For a $3k rent payment (mine is less than this but as ex to meet spend), you’d pay a $75 fee, but earn the signup bonus + 3075 points. Depending on the credit card, 3075 points is likely at least worth $30.75 if not more, so your net fee is $44.25 or 1.475%, which is not bad IMO.
> We came to the conclusion that the vast majority of feeds are filled with posts from sites that other like-minded people also have in their feeds. This causes the comments on those posts on your feed to mostly be filled with people whose feelings align with your own.

This is pretty well-trodden territory, cf. 'filter bubbles'.
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It's the natural cycle of the internet.

1. Be a nobody company

2. Utilize generous user content to build up an important knowledge-base/economy

3. People begin to trust the information in the system and come to rely on it

4. Sell-out entirely and make a lot of money letting people buy influence

5. People abandon the site realizing it has no signal anymore

(Digg, Reddit, Amazon, Glassdoor, experts-exchange, facebook, google search ~ish)

Notable exceptions: Craigslist, HN, stackoverflow, wikipedia, youtube
This article kind of misses the entire point; Glassdoor and the rest of these "professional review" sites sell reputation management services to the company. They use the negative reviews to push other high margin services to the companies. The only one who should care about Glassdoor being gamed is Glassdoor executives; anyone looking for a honest and balanced review of a company workplace on Glassdoor is already getting a manufactured picture.
I made a Portuguese alternative to Glassdoor (IT only), and I confirm that is a daily challenge and time consuming find what reviews are honest or not. Fortunately many HR and marketeers use their company email to create fake IT reviews, and a cross check with linkedin handle many cases. Using blockchain is also useful to guarantee that reviews are not manipulated or deleted. I don't want to create spam here, but if anyone has curiosity check for Teamlyzer.
Money doesn't grow on trees. The "bonus" you get is actually paid by higher prices on the stuff people buy. Card fees are transferred to merchants, and merchants transfer it to customers via higher prices. I wrote about it some time ago: https://svedic.org/economy/indirect-razors-and-blades-busine...

But, you are right, if you careful you can game the model. In your case, if you are paying 90% of your travel expenses with bonuses you are probably getting back more than $400 a year, which is an average credit card cost per US household.
Have you seen the new mac commercial with all the different artists? They were all using the pre-usb-c macbooks. The usb-c macbooks aren't tools, they are accessories. I'm still using my 2014 macbook and will never likely buy another mac.
Germany is still nowhere close to what's common in other EU countries. Pretty much all Germany's neighbors have much higher adoption of terminals accepting MC/Visa.
There's a service called plastiq that charges a flat 2.5% fee that won't look like a cash advance on your statement.

Otherwise, some landlords might let you pay via credit card.
This is why we need crypto.
The constant attribution of all things Apple during Steve Jobs’ tenure to Jobs personally is itself a form of cargo cult.

Apple prioritized thinness while Jobs was CEO, and Apple continues to prioritize thinness. Jobs is gone but many of the same product executives remain—Cook, Ive, Schiller, etc and many of their deputies. Is it really that surprising that the product goals are also unchanged?

Complaints about thinness are not a new phenomenon—look back at how the first MacBook Air was greeted for an example. (intro’d by Jobs)
I don't understand the hero worship that goes on with DHH. He seems to make some blunt, uninformed and lacking arguments and people take it as gospel. (His offhand tweet is on the front page of hacker news).

Is facebook the worse? It's bad, and there have been many things it's done badly. I would say there are far worse actors on the internet. (I.e. mpaa, agressive marketers etc) People have been screaming from the rooftops during the whole time. Many of the worse-case predictions have come true (considering the info leak/cambridge etc). However they're far from the only one doing that.

They've really brought on the walled garden there. That imo has been the worse. It's no surprise that you're getting all these negative effects when there is no competition. Thankfully they haven't taken the full-on paid censor.

We're lacking in rights about our data and ways to stand up to this.
Yev from Backblaze here -> Not sure if you'd get that metric from that data. We use Reed-Solomon erasure coding (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/reed-solomon/) to make sure that data is "rebuilt" should we lose drives (which happens all the time).
I used to use it to put 1:1 crops up of the photos I took because it simply seemed like a pleasant little place to leave my memories.

I ended up deleting most of my social media accounts this year, starting with Instagram, the moment I noticed that I keep getting drawn in by a rush of excitement after I uploaded each photo and kept checking for notifications.

A lot of these social media sites require high levels of awareness and self-control to use responsibly, in my opinion. I myself struggle with that.
Essentially adding HTTPS would make the attack harder to exploit. It's not that HTTPS is a pancea (it's not) but that it raises the bar to a successful attack.

With HTTP, this can be exploited by anyone who can MITM a connection between you and the APT server or has control of your DNS.

If you consider all the cases like wi-fi hotspots, that's (potentially) quite a large set of attackers, and a relatively easy attack to pull off in a lot of cases.

With HTTPS, the attacker has either to compromise the whole APT mirror or has to get a valid HTTPS certificate for an APT mirror. This is likely harder to pull off, especially when you look at the work on improving CA security that the browser vendors have been doing over the last couple of years.
That's a very different market. Munchery was targeting the Eatsa crowd.
Most merchants also prefer to take WeChat and AliPay because there are no fees.
> just make it slightly thicker and you could add hours to the battery life.

Well, they have been making iPhones thicker. Apple's obsession with thinness apparently isn't as obsessive as purported.

Of course there's a design tradeoff: how thick to make it and what to use the available space for. We can argue about specific tradeoff decisions all day, but we can't argue that the decisions have to be made -- and whatever the decisions are, they won't satisfy everyone.

Anyway, if you want to trade thickness for battery capacity, you can get a battery case.
Also, if you use something like plastiq.com, you can use them to pay your rent and other places that typically do not accept credit cards. They do have a charge for their services, but frequently runs 0% charge sales.

Disclaimer: I have been a satisfied customer for them. I do not work for them or get any kickbacks.
Yes. The EU's consumer protection priority is "no hidden fees". They want the advertised price to match reality.

For some transactions the reality is that almost every single purchase will be on a card and the vendor knows it, so advertising a "cash" price was just always going to be misleading. Rather than try to figure out some complicated rule (maybe you can advertise the cash price if most customers pay in person at a store?) the authorities just said it's simpler to ban all fees.

The British news media actually did stuff about this in the last few days. A bunch of famously shady lines of business like letting agencies were still charging extra for credit cards even though that's illegal.
That's not quite true. The interchange fee is the portion of the fee that goes direct to the banks.

The payment processing market is a bit more complicated:

When you make a transaction:

1) Your bank charges Visa/Mastercard an interchange fee (this is the bit capped at 0.2%/0.3%)

2) Visa/Mastercard charge a payments acquirer a processing fee

3) The payments acquirer charges the merchant a fee - this final fee is likely to be a blend of percentage and fixed fee per transaction. There's no cap imposed here.
So, assuming you have an electric furnace, it basically costs nothing to run all the electronics in your house? (Also assuming it's cold enough outside that you never want to cool the house.)

I guess the water heater might cost some money, since it produces heat, but a lot of that heat just goes down the drain with the water.
Gotcha it was to meet the sign on bonus. I was thinking you were getting a net benefit for just the points alone not to meet the sign on bonus.
Yes, I also was surprised that the search didn't have more useful tools (e.g. search by high ranking in individual factors, or even just sort by severity: confirmed RCEs should all by very high)
Twitter suspends account that started MAGA teen Native American controversy
Yep, this is our daily reminder that they're called "testing" and "unstable" for a reason. They're not meant for production.
Another factor is our tools are becoming more complex than necessary. I do a lot of "internal CRUD" programming, and the GUI IDE's of the latter half of the 90's took far less key-and-mouse-strokes to use, had more UI options, and used screen real-estate better. (They were clunky at first, but got better with time.) One could spend more time on analysis; you didn't need an army of coders.

The Web bleeped that up. Everyone hoped HTML5 would fill in the CRUD gaps, but it didn't. Thus, we still waste lots of time because the Web was not designed for CRUD and shoehorning CRUD into it is like backing an 18-wheeler truck into a parking slot. In the old days you just pointed your sadan steering wheel into the parking slot and DONE. JavaScript-centric UI's have proven too fragile. It's great for eye-candy, but not reliability.

Yes, I know there are some good Web stacks out there that can mostly overcome this, but they are rare and/or hard for managers to recognize. Their urge is to "keep up with the Joneses" even if the Joneses are doing something that doesn't help typical CRUD. Nobody can tell fads from good stuff.

One good invention and/or new standard could wipe out half of CRUD coders. I propose the industry experiment with a standard GUI Markup Language designed to do desktop-ish things out of the box and be more stateful. Mobile-friendly UI's are nice for mobile devices, but not good for regular office productivity. Desktops and mice still rule work.
VK.com is facebook of Russia
The worst thing to have ever happened is the monetization of clicks. It's killed journalism. And by proxy it's created echo chambers where people only seek validation of their existing beliefs.
I'm not surprised.

If you're interested in looking up the pros that a company has to offer, then Glassdoor is great.

If you're interested in the cons, then you have to go into Glassdoor knowing that information can be manipulated and/or inflated.