skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm under the impression that the number of times an account is blocked _could_ provide some signal to twitter that, hey, maybe this person/bot/thing shouldn't be on here - so I went ahead and clicked the go button for this huge list.
For me the page turning itself doesn't seem to be slow but choosing this gimmicky mechanism as a delivery vehicle for this kind of content is, well, a silly choice.

I can't zoom in enough and when I do zoom in I can't pan around when the page doesn't fit my browser window. Both left and right click turn the page.

Aaaargh...!

Whom ever is behind this, can we just have images please? Thank you.
Somehow Overstock.com has been accepting BTC as payment for several years and they've been more than enthusiastic about it.

https://help.overstock.com/help/s/article/Bitcoin
https://www.overstock.com/blockchain

Not sure whether they are instantly selling the coin or keeping part of it or what. I suppose it would depend on a company's risk tolerance. In the case of digital content, I might be willing to accept the volatility risk in exchange for access to a relatively untapped market and supporting a censorship-resistant monetization platform.

Stable coins, like DAI and USDC also offer many of the benefits of crypto ecosystem with nearly zero volatility relative to the dollar.
I agree with the comment too.

The best way to know other people culture/traditions/foods is with locals. The "normal" tourist is (to me) a kind of lemming: they go by subway with a lot of bags with no respect with locals, they visit monuments with centuries of history only because they are mentioned in a flyer, they bought a souvenir because it's supposed to.
So how many errors were uncovered, and how serious could they have been?
I have to be honest — the allegations made here do not surprise me. The days of corporate espionage seem alive and well, and China’s image in the United States is taking a significant hit.

It isn’t fair to the honest, hard-working Chinese nationals who want to build a life outside their homeland.
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You can disable the Reboot task present under Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows > UpdateOrchestrator in the Task Scheduler app

I haven't had a Windows 10 computer just randomly reboot and I work with about 30 PCs.
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Huh? No. You can perfectly fine have a constructor that just leaves the object in an error state if it fails to acquire its resources. And a destructor that doesn't destroy unless acquisition is successful. No need for init(), though you can have that too. And your "arguably" is not arguable, it's just plain wrong. You don't have to successfully acquire something on every single invocation in order to have RAII. Otherwise e.g. initializing a smart pointer with null would suddenly imply smart pointers are not RAII...
Still seems gigantically space inefficient. Would love to see this experiment done with scooters, especially in LA where the weather is pretty good year-round. I say this as someone incredibly annoyed with people leaving Bird scooters all over the street.
You're incorrect, or at least that's what this complaint claims, and I personally have been expecting it for awhile.

The fact that cookies are pseudonymous has 0 effect here -- literally their entire purpose is to be able to associate third party data with a person's browser.

Your contention that all they're used for is frequency capping isn't true either, but even if it was, it's not relevant -- "I'm just using it for frequency capping" isn't acceptable under the GDPR, just as much as "I need the data to do advertising" isn't a reason acceptable under the GDPR for keeping a piece of data in the first place.

Here's the text of the GDPR on cookies: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-30/
>Also, where is the exploitation?

Some theorists define exploitation in capitalist society as unequal exchange of labour, see John Roemer for instance; other more traditional critiques see it similarly but it may apply individually (such as Marx's theory), and yet others see it as a class issue. Of these, they can be grouped into PECP (Profit-Exploitation Correspondence Principle) and CECP (Class-exploitation Correspondence Principle). There's a lot of talk and debate as to whether which of these, if any, is a viable or possible way to characterize modern relations of production.

>It's a trade, one person trades their time, knowledge effort and skill, the other trades money and other compensation.

In the employment relationship, this trade is assymetrical, hence the need for either strong labour laws, a rich union culture or both.

>No person's wants should ever infringe on another's rights.

The critique of capitalism begins with a critique of rights-based thinking. In short, some people don't believe that rights are a useful tool to characterise how society ought to look, since it is clear that despite universal rights, some are clearly more able to take advantage of them than others. The propertyless have right to property. So what? Where does that get them most of the time?
I can't tell if it's satire
In some places (southern US), freezing temperatures are abnormal and can cause damage to crops (livelihoods), property, cause significant physical discomfort and potentially death (homeless).

The US is a really big place. Some of us go for a jog in 35°c, and some of us wear shorts and a t-shirt in 5°c.

Where I live, I only own a single item of 'warm clothing' because it's unnecessary for 360+ days of the year. We also have no heating in the home other than a small space heater. These temperatures will be rather uncomfortable, and will likely kill half our garden and potentially cause damage property.

Not fun.
From the abstract:

> The ease of new firm formation and the enormous amount of capital available has resulted in to a situation within which new firms can afford to run massive losses for long periods in an effort to dislodge incumbents or attempt to triumph over other lavishly funded startups. The result has been remarkable turmoil in many formerly stable industrial sectors, as the new entrants fueled by capital investments undercut incumbents on price.
They haven't changed their story since the outset. In this case it isn't a founder myth, or if it is, it's was a well constructed one from the start.

(I signed up early on - I've had a support rep confused by the lack of digits in my customer number. I'm also a big fan of Revolut, and use the two services in combination to eliminate costly international transfer fees.)
You just brushed right past doubling energy costs in your rebuttal. But whatever.
Yes I did. This was typed out on a mobile phone and missed that one. Now I can't edit it.
Is nuclear profitable?
We have "Park and Ride" for GO buses in Canada.
In Brazil only. In Portugal it's just the name of the little chicks (chicken after they hatch).
Snapchat completely blew it with their app update, and Instagram just happened to release stories at exactly the right time to get their fleeing users.
That that website took a long time to load. I hope that in itself was a subtle element of the satire.
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I really hope so. This hurts to read through haha, we've all seen some of this in projects/startups before
Everything takes practice. Everything takes practice.
I have to largely agree. A lot of the downfall of Buzzfeed and to an extent HuffPo is that a significant amount of their content is poor quality click-bait. Beyond that is a lot of content based on feelings over facts. Most of all, the majority is poorly edited with significant grammatical and spelling/terminology errors.

I, personally would rather far more facts, research and understanding over emotional rants that give no regard to actual truth in reporting.
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Mt. Gox was a Magic: The Gathering trading platform that accidentally ended up being "the largest bank in crypto". So Mt. Gox shares more in common with early, early banks, of which many did fail.

At any rate, the current dominant examples like Coinbase do not seem to share the same problems as Mt. Gox and having watched a security presentation by one of their executives, I believe they have great practices to prevent hacks.
I don't fault them either, I'm just saying my charlatan detector goes on high alert.
If you are giving your ball a collide method, or creating a CollisionPolicy, then you are probably doing it wrong. Therein lies a huge part of the problem of OO design: modelling is difficult, and lots of us get it wrong.

Just because you use FP or some other paradigm does not automatically mean you will get it right. I have seen poorly modelled solutions written in many different languages. I have also seen elegant solutions implemented in a variety of forms as well.

I think that having some depth of experience in a language, as well as a solid grasp of the problem, and perhaps some anal retentive tendencies (i.e. an innate desire to keep things very structured and consistent), can go a long way to solving problems elegantly :-)
looked for the "Buy Roastcoins" button but couldn't find it
Using a bike for ~2 mile trip is very fast and cheap. Seems like a much better and possibly faster way to get to and from the metro station most days.
This is just a result of the culture in the areas where soccer is most popular. Most notably, south america, where the sneaky underdog grifter that defrauds others is almost a cultural icon and hero rather than a scoundrel.
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These look like serious charges:

Defrauding four large banks into clearing transactions with Iran in violation of international sanctions.

Conspiracy to obstruct justice by moving employees out of the United States so they could not be called as witnesses before a grand jury in Brooklyn.

Conspiracy to defraud the United States by impairing, impeding, obstructing and defeating, through deceitful and dishonest means, the lawful governmental functions of an agency of the United States.

Money laundering conspiracy.

Conspiracy to steal trade secrets about robotics from a competitor, T-Mobile.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/us/politics/meng-wanzhou-...

If the charges are true, I hope Ms. Meng is extradited and prosecuted, and the company barred from operating in the US.

But if this is just a bargaining chip to be exchanged for a few worthless face-saving trade deal "wins" for this administration, it will be disgrace.
160M daily active users might beg to differ.

Otherwise, I (xennial) tried it twice and found the UI rather confusing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat#Growth
But is it fair to the Americans who lost jobs, manufacturing, future, because of the 20 years of "technology transfer" by China?
Dallas has the same problem as LA. I live about 3 miles from a light rail park & ride but I don't even have bus service. I'd love to be able to use a ride share service, but taking Uber or Lyft adds another $10-15 to my daily commute.
The page shows nothing until a 27MB full screen video downloads and starts playing. Sigh.
For good reasons?
Oof, I hope they can absorb the cost :-/
I mean I think at this point it isn't unreasonable to say it's over for the ocean.

Either we start sequestering on a massive scale or the ocean is going to turn into a pool of acid anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if it was already too late right now and all life in the ocean is just currently in a slow death spiral because of what we have already done.
Bad ones? I've definitely had furniture that looks beat up and/or doesn't work as well after 2 years of everyday use. It's usually the dirt cheap stuff, but not always.
I can only speculate but based on what you quoted, I would guess that TransferWise Inc. is only a licensed money transmitter in some states, and so must partner with a bank in the other states in order to function.
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What are "wafers"?
This is pretty much spot on.

I live in LA and am an avid driver, motorcyclist, and bicyclist. I'm also a huge proponent of public transport, and use it whenever I can.

That last bit is often a bummer; it's very rare that I truly can use public transport to get to where I'm going.

The nearest train station is a 15-minute walk from my apartment. That gets me onto a pretty good train system that can take me to Santa Monica and Downtown Los Angeles on one train, but not many other places. Changing trains adds time, and then they also go to a limited number of places.

Buses are a bit all over the place, and victimized by the very traffic I try to avoid by using public transport.

My current office is about 9 miles from my apartment (Mar Vista to West Hollywood). This translates into 35 minutes by car, 20–25 minutes by motorcycle, and 1 hour and 20 minutes by public transit, involving at least two different methods. It would be a great 1-hour bicycle ride if I could shower at work.

I start a new job in a few weeks, and that office will be only 4 miles from my apartment. This should translate into 12 minutes by car, 10 minutes by motorcycle, and 40 minutes by public transit. It might also be a relatively sweat-free (low-sweat?) 25-minute bicycle ride.

Most people aren't as fortunate as I am.
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We (sparelabs.com) just launched a very similar on-demand transit system in Dallas today! The service is primarily used to link up the suburbs and working hubs to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail network. Happy to answer any questions about this here!
That doesn't make any sense. LA is dense. The suburban areas from satellite look like wall-to-wall housing for tens of miles in all directions. How can that not be enough to support a bus-stop every half-mile? How can my little town in the UK support a bus depot but a small area of LA cannot?
If you don't persist JWT in localStorage or sessionStorage, how would you handle page reloads? You'd have to rely on a session cookie and get a new JWT from your auth service. You'd solve XSS but get CSRF.

Storing a JWT in localstore isn't the same as storing a password in plain text. JWTs are indeed non-revocable, but they are also non-durable (ours expire after 24 hours) and cannot be renewed without a refreshToken. Most people also do not rely on JWTs to write important information (like password reset) because there are more secure alternatives for these specific use cases.

As an aside, if someone gets script access to your SPA, you're already very far up shit creek. If your user types in any sensitive information like a password to login you've lost the war. Securing the JWT is the very least of your concerns at that point.
Thanks for the detailed explanations. Cheers.
It is kind of you to notice her. We had to say goodbye last year. She was a sweetheart.
It's the underlying material chips are made on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer_(electronics)
The vocabulary and sentence structure was different, spelling was different, you have no idea of the context, and if these were meeting minutes it was probably written in haste and full of abbreviations.
People can typically borrow against future PTO if they get sick and don't have time banked. Again, I don't advocate a combined system and I actually agree the incentives are mostly wrong (for everyone except those who abuse sick time when they're tracked separately which are probably less common among readers here than in the general population).
Oh, that is absolutely disastrous if true. With their tight margins... oof. What can I say? That is ridiculously bad.
Not about TransferWise, but if anyone wants to know how banks ( and economies) work.

I seriously recommend https://newworldeconomics.com/category/how-banks-work/ as a required reading.
Oh yeah, don't mistake my glib tone I experienced major burnout and won't touch that subset of the industry with a 10ft pole.

When you're working 6-7 days a week at 80 hours+ there's really not room for any vacation.
> A wafer, also called a slice or substrate,[1] is a thin slice of semiconductor material, such as a crystalline silicon, used in electronics for the fabrication of integrated circuits and in photovoltaics for conventional, wafer-based solar cells.
This is the first release of the details of the US case. It's hard to see how a significant new release of information in the case could be "old news"?
Yep, College Board has been selling your info pretty much since founding in the 1950s.
My bullshit meter is through the roof. They talk about going to space, roasting there, how they'll do it, but they don't say why.
They say:

> To demonstrate the power of space technology and revolutionize the coffee roasting process

How does it revolutionize coffee roasting ? It's still a heat-based roaster. Nothing revolutionary.

Also IMO it won't taste good. They cool the beans, but how will they get rid of the gas? Right after you roast, the beans must be aerated so they lose their gas. The gas appears while the beans are roasted and it's why every roaster has a chimney. It's why coffee bags have air valves.

It all looks like a stupid cash grab.

edit: both founders seem to have no work experience related to coffee...
There used to be checkbox on the PSAT form that enables/disables this. Not sure, however, if this is opt-in or opt-out.
We could soon see the impact of a lot of efficient JIT supply chains being disrupted if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
It's not just you. I'd recommend using a CSS framework. Have you checked out Bootstrap [0]? I was very much the same way (focused on backend). CSS is just a means to an end for me, in that I just wanted something that doesn't look like total garbage, so I used Bootstrap for the frontend bits. Allows you to quickly get up and running using the examples without learning too much CSS [1]. Just find something that looks like what you want and then copy/paste. Much much easier.

They have a pretty nice grid system that allows you all types of formatting options (desktop/mobile). All types of text formatting options too. Honestly, I think you're way better off learning something like Bootstrap unless you want to do this professionally.

[0] https://getbootstrap.com/

[1] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.2/examples/

EDIT: downvotes? Why not mention why you don't like bootstrap and share with the larger thread? At least, then it is useful to everyone else.
beans in space make the lightest roasts
I don't understand how a charge against a company (Huawei) can result in a extradition request of an individual (the CFO at that)...

So if Australia passes some tax law that Google doesn't comply... We can extradite Larry Page? Or Sergey?
The title is facetious. It is 100% consistent with her writing style (which I love) and is therefore exactly correct.

The footnote #2 for bloom filter is especially good. "The real interview pro tip is always in the footnotes."
Indeed. He then actually does admit that, but indeed he does so in so many words, which was however probably expected given the nature of the interview. His start is rough, even arrogant, but then it gets better. I think the part where he answers is basically "so far magnetic and electric forces look like basic elements of nature, we can't explain them using anything simpler or more familiar. In fact these forces are what we use to explain the familiar mechanical forces."
Counter-thought: the pro-diversity trade position might've been an intentional diplomatic measure to pre-empt the blowback from the arrest. "We're pro-trade; it's the PRC/Chinese who goofed."
I thought "Black Mirror" was in the title, my mistake.
I was cleaning out stuff from my parents' house and found a bunch of college admission crud from 1981. Funniest was a postcard I was apparently supposed to write my name, height and weight on and then mail to Yale.
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The cinematography and lighting design really sealed the deal for me.

He has apparently tried LSD, which is probably why it actually the feel quite well.

Amazing to think Charlie Brooker was reviewing TV on his sofa not many years ago - not that screenwipe (etc.) wasn't great.
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There's no "trickle-down" effect. It's a trickle-up effect in terms of (1) rents necessarily raising in reaction to the dwindling supply and (2) the ensuing speculation bubble in "hot" neighborhoods.

Both of which royally screw over long-term tenants living on flat incomes -- i.e. "the middle class".
The whole situation is somewhat baffling. It makes sense if US considers Huawei a major future competition to US interests ( not an unreasonable assumption ) given recent arrest in Poland[0]. The main difference there though was: no royals in that case though so Huawei just fired the guy.

[0]https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/11/tech/poland-huawei-exec-arres...
> The vast majority of people working in technology are underemployed.

I am not of the "startups do everything better" variety, but I do agree that a ton of effort goes into upgrading yesterdays ideas. Without going to political I really think it has to do with the ownership model. It is the owners that hold the position in the market. Today we aren't seeing that many spinoffs anymore either from what I can tell. In fact most acquisitions are the opposite. And I know many people think startups are a solutions, but it is really a big barrier to overcome and especially to go on to become an independent company.
I hate faxing and signing real documents. Hellofax fixes that and I've been using it since 2011 or something.
This is absolutely fascinating. There is a handy transliteration available by clicking on the sheet of paper icon. Some bloke called Mr Hook gets around a bit in the 1680s at least:

Mr Hook gave an account of the book recommended to him affirming that the Author had well determined the problem of the pressure of a body upon an enclined plain; the second part about the separation of the gall in the Liver to which he could not so readily asset Mr Hook affirmed that the manner of evacuating Damps at Leige is after the manner of the engine for consuming smoke (17 Nov 1686) At that time (~November 1686) body preservation is a pretty hot topic, interspersed with say Mr Hook Shewed to the Satisfaction of the Company the Shells in & on the Nautilus

This is a window on the past that is absolutely priceless. The minutes are terse and have the feel of being hastily scribbled at times but that adds to their charm. You keep on finding gems:

the Magnitudes et cet of London and Paris; - so et cet is perhaps the original abbreviation of et cetera, before the modern etc. etc is very much a feature in modern English usage and to see it in use back in the 1680s shows a pretty deep continuity within some aspects of English (yes, I know it is really Latin).

Smashing.
DART just launched a new service that does exactly this. 4 zones launched today, but many more are coming throughout the year. Try out planning a trip in the updated GoPass app and, depending on where you're going, you should see options for GoLink.
It's frustrating to me that anybody takes anything that The UAE does seriously.

Most of the "wow so pretty" things all around that region were built by Indian and Pakistani slaves. It's similarly frustrating to me that anybody is willing to even work with China when they treat most of their citizenry like slaves as well.

If these are the carriers of the flame for humanity, and these are the people who are going to be going "to the stars" then that's really depressing.

Throwaway account because I travel frequently to both of these places, and don't want to get thrown in jail.