skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should be a way to cancel this sort of thing with your bank. On a recurring basis.
Constant Contact — same thing.
I didn't.

Or rather I took back control.
I have now 2 email addresses - one for humans, one for the rest.

And I systematically unsubscribe from every email I don't want to receive (gosh I miss Europe for that), I delete everything that I have no reason to keep, and I archive anything that needs to be kept.

It demands a lot of effort at the beginning. But now my inbox is useful again.
>To add insult to injury, WhatsApp permits rekeying to take place without any indication to the conversation's participants [in the default settings].

Agreed.

A nice Twitter thread [0] by Mustafa Al-Bassam back at the end of November on how that might be exploited by GCHQ:

>Ian Levy of GCHQ has released an essay on how law enforcement should get access to end-to-end encrypted communications. Here is the critical bit to pay attention to. They're proposing to exploit the fact that users don't verify each other's public keys, and inject bad keys.

Then this [1] later in the same thread by Twitter @inag_fc:

>This is a coordinated attack by 5 eyes. They slipped it through AU parliament in the week, presumably as some horse trading because there was practically no debate nor warning, beyond the normal straw man proposals.

[0] https://twitter.com/musalbas/status/1068179464197156864

[1] https://twitter.com/iang_fc/status/1071373264646225920
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There are plenty of handicapped, disabled, elderly people on public transit.

You are fortunate enough to be able to afford cars and think that we should continue to design around what works for you. That simply benefits you - and not the handicapped, disabled people who use public transit every day.
Well there's certainly a very strong argument to reform the system of voting: switch to some form of preferential voting and remove the electoral college.

Then you might see people voting for a third party because their vote isn't automatically wasted.
WMATA is at the low end of the farebox recovery ratio (42%). Meanwhile SF's Muni is at 35%, BART at 70%, and Caltrain at 63%.
I think an electric wheelchair makes perfect sense when compared to walking, and using public transport. There are small foldable ones that can fit in a taxi or Uber as well.
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non profit does not mean low salaries. They pay themselves enough to just run a little red ink so they can cry to the state.
So what is going to happen to them as a result of this?
I don't understand? hungry people are buying leaked credentials? black-hat hackers are selling meals through a competing service to customers who then open the door for a Deliveroo guy? None of this is making sense!

Either the fraud is within Deliveroo (dig deeper!), or locating the served customer will result in the discovery of some kind of weird low-usage "stolen credential delivery of Deliveroo foods" service (dig deeper!)

This is not properly fleshed out IMHO... but yeah lets market and compare credit and debit cards and point systems and pffff
I know it's not as big of a problem to have as them deleting all your files but to my knowledge you still can't use the Web-based UI on a Mac and make it sort folder-first. I mean how non-sensical is that? It works fine if you load it on a Windows-based browser!

It's such a major annoyance that I ended up paying for another cloud file host instead.
The increased cost of housing near transit also reflects that various costs associate with sprawl no longer have to be funded (e.g commute time, roads).
Yes, some code requires ratcheting down strictness even from the defaults.
Some other online store, but related :)

I once bought crab meat in a can from an online store (hard to get it any other way in Poland).

A banner for buying more canned crab meat kept haunting me for the next two years, in various internet locations :)
How to fix YT:

* Stop censoring people that dont support GLOBAL FASCIST LEFT

* Support Equal Opportunity + Merit for hiring staff

* Stop shadowbanning people

* Stop removing subs from people

* Stop pulling channels without valid reason

Basically be FUCKING HONEST and be held accountable
for your shady shit
Are you literally focusing on that population of residents?

Name a freaking company who's office is in ANY of those locations who's employee population we are talking about.

What's ridiculous is you sound like a person who thinks their millenial perspective is the only thing that matters.

Let me leave you with a litteral quote from my interview at twitter in 2008:

" So tell me how you will do things differently because most people I interview came from facebook as their first job out of college and think that their way is the only way to do anything"

Yeah - you sound like those people. Moronic to think that we are worried about "commuting to russian hill" jeasus.
ExpressVPN also has a cancel screen like this. It's particularly insidious since they make it look as if the cancellation is confirmed, even though you need to press another grayed-out button to finalize it. They've squeezed 2-3 months of extra payments from me this way.
Never by loyal to a company. Company is not a person, it can never be loyal to you and it will alway protect the interest of the shareholder. Be loyal to your boss if he deserves it, but never to a legal entity.
I'm not sure either party can govern effectively when they are in a political bubble. It seems that both ideas have good sides and the best governments are the (rare) ones where multiple parties have power and compromise occurs.

However in America I only get to vote for one of two sides and I still think mine is the lesser of two evils.
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Free Speech exists for EVERYONE , even if you dont support GLOBAL SOCIALIST LEFT and "progressive" Intersectional cult
Macedonia and Greece: Vote settles 27-year name dispute
I think the author gets the detectable 15% wrong way around. TS detecting 15% on average due to annotations means we're finding at least those. Then we have the possibility of detecting all the bugs caught by potential better design. With the example of stringerror for an invalid url, you have two options: it was an accident (broke a url while processing) or misunderstanding (put a non-url text in the string). The second case may be still caught at a higher level by having better containers, better enum, lower chance of using ad-hoc bare object, interfaces which prevent you confusing types of string you're operating on, etc.

Going beyond just adding annotations is not what the references study attempted to do.
> the letter alleges that FCC staff – almost certainly from Pai's office – put pressure on the big telcos to challenge an order that is designed to benefit them as a way of gaming the judicial system so the case didn't end up in a court likely to overturn it.
Ancient stegosaurus-platypus mashup has everything
That is fraud. Do not use fake identities to buy things so you can then get out of contracts by not paying.
I suppose you could use something like Privacy.com and just revoke the card.
Don't forget to count the subsidized road infrastructure that Uber/Lyft use (and don't say "but gas taxes", they only pay for about half of road spending).
Well I don’t get it.

The OP never mentions that the reason there’s a 2PC is because the client has to know whether it worked or whether to resubmit, and missing from the list of reasons why is network issues.

It seems to me in this world the client never receives a notice and the transaction commits in the background. I don’t know how devs are going to deal with that. Just always retry and swallow the error when it happens the second time and the data is already there?
This is a well-studied phenomenon known as Cartel Theory: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-history-rev...
If whatever language implementation you are using implements that, and infringes, then you infringe that by running programs in that language. All unlicensed users of anything emanating from the patent infringe on it.
I was curious too, found answer in comments of original publication:

> Normally there is just one XChaCha12 invocation per encryption or decryption. There's another to derive subkeys, but that's only needed when setting a new key.
I feel like this is just a loose-loose situation that instead of encouraging and protecting small innovators from the power of established companies instead just locks them out. Patents are essentially MAD (except of course for the part where everyone dies if it goes wrong). Like nukes, these patents aren't actually useful. They are only necessary because everyone else has them and the people actually under threat are the less powerful people that don't. This is very different from say pharma patents, where companies seem to directly benefit from Patents in their intended way.

I wonder if it's time for a Patent Denuclearization... but I'm not exactly sure how that could look like.
Ah the old "resource distribution" canard again.
Yeah, I should have clarified in my case I am using the nginx ingress controller, but Traefik would also suffice.
> I think the bar is incredibly high, and that many investors fail to clear it.

A two-sided lemon market, if you will.
Twice this claim is made with no reference. If there are plenty, it would not hurt to cite a source, rather than make a seemingly baseless claim to the contrary.
> But >90% of all cars on the road are driven by able-bodied people with nothing but themselves to transport.

Nowhere near 90% of cars in city centers, where all these bans are taking place, fit that description.
Because there are no retired subordinates after his 40+ years career?
Great to see more open source Godot games :)
And yet, here we are reading about Dave Cutler.
I bet there's a sweet spot in-between that will come out of this, like saturating your natural to 24 workers minutes before expanding.
A lot of people have their own opinions on this. Here is what I know in practice from experience.

There is DevOps the practice and philosophy(think agile) in which people with software engineering and systems administration experience work on "the same team" to deliver and operate product and/or services. They form a matrix team with complimentary and overlapping skills.

Then there is DevOps the team. These are typically also staffed with people who have experience in both developing and operating systems. Typically they will not work so directly with the product developers though, and they will be more focused on developer tooling, system automation, and operations.

Finally there is the role DevOps. Most places envision this as a person with both systems and software development experience to work in any of the aforementioned teams. For many they were called "systems engineers" previously and simply go with the title flow. Often they are full-full-stack developers; they also work at the systems/operations level.

Some places have DevOps assembly lines though, and they are staffed and run like a technical support call center.. Or a ticket mill.. You get the idea.
There is nothing wrong with bottle feeding. Some children do not breast feed well, some do. You should just go with what works.
“Hard” is a stretch. Annoying maybe.
I hope people trapped in toxic or unsafe work environments use this opportunity to ghost and make it a more common tactic. I think of it as a one time strike that your employer is powerless to prevent. Eventually management will catch on and factor ghosting into their cost-benefit analysis. I think overall the effect would be positive (unless you make your living exploiting others).

People in places with crippled labor laws should consider coordinated ghosting. If the bargaining power attainable through a union has been whittled away to the point that ghosting provides more leverage, then ghosting should be adopted. The more common the tactic becomes, the less potential downside for people who adopt it.
Just because you stop paying doesn't mean you stopped the subscription. This is why there are late fees in the first place.

If you do this with any sizable company, you will just end up accumulating the original charge along with late fees until it is sent to collections and hits your credit report. Even if you get lucky and they just cancel your service, your lack of payment will still be reported to payment networks and eventually you will be deemed high risk when paying for other things.
I agree, that is the real issue. I was responding to the comment that the protections were only for "Apple's Swift".
No, it says "that person behaves badly".

Whether that's true or false is another matter, but it's not the same as saying "I hate that person".
StarCraft is a deep, complicated strategy game. DeepMind’s AlphaStar crushed it
AI-related inventions are getting harder to patent
Perhaps you could clarify about what "take power away from those who own housing means". Does it mean, own a house, lose the right to vote?
Just be careful with this. Some companies will treat this as if it were a bounced check and keep your debt going.
> I have to completely log out when I watch videos which put me to sleep a couple times /week because I don't want my suggestions filled with dry history lectures.

Why not just pause your watch history (or, in case you forget, remove the items after the fact)?

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725?hl=en
Many systems (especially caching systems) make a point of differentiating the `set` operation from a `check and set` operation (usually known as `cas`) in systems where both of these operations are available you are quite able to intelligently differentiate those two resolution states.
What a shame. I like to think if I ever saw anything like this as a software engineer, I would try to stop it.
What are the main differences with last year's course ? Also can we expect http://course18.fast.ai/part2.html to be updated in the near future ?
its the same amount of money, but not their pay
Is that as true as saying Minecraft has amazing graphics?
You can sometimes find a merchant’s direct line for billing in common personal banking sites. There is usually a toll free number you can call concerning on going payments like subscriptions next to a transaction. They got to cooperate or they could run afoul of the bank so I have found the numbers useful.
I would like a stronger option of blocking certain accounts that keep getting recommended.
This affects a whopping 1.9 out of 454 square kilometers. So don‘t imagine a car-less capital city in Europe. The effect on pollution and noise will be very small, unless you live in or visit the city centre.
Well, I did watch a couple "yugowave" videos, so maybe that has something to do with it.
China should continue to subsidize solar so they eatablish a completely dominant position, then use their navy to start sinking oil tankers. That's our best hope for salvaging Earth's climate.
Unpopular opinion: Extended paternal leave is unnecessary in most cases. I took one week off (my choice) for the birth of my son and it was plenty. My second is on the way and I will probably do likewise.
Not sure about land values specifically, but residential real estate in Japan generally doesn't appreciate much, if at all, outside the center of the most major cities. There are multiple factors I imagine, like shrinking population and the general aversion to buying used homes. Until fairly recently, homes weren't generally designed to last that long anyway. A lot of homes of the deceased are just abandoned due to the costs of demolition.

It's possible this could change somewhat going forward as newer homes have much better construction. This would still depend on the country figuring out how to grow the population though.
What do you mean "socialize"? Do you have kids? Most kids can't even walk until they're about a year old.
I'm all for quitting on the spot, when the situation merits. And for costing the company $15k to $20k -- again, when the situation merits. As it appears to have done in this case.

But still - given the overall narrative of the situation, it sill would be been a lot classier to have given proper notice in this case. Something short and sweet like:

"I've been trying for several weeks to work with bring my compensation in line with the very clear promises you made several months ago, but unfortunately you've been consistently unresponsive. I am now left with no choice but to terminate my services immediately. Sincerely, Kris

would be a lot easier to look back on (and explain to future employers) - and would have definitely gotten the message across.
I love absolutely everything about this except the language choice.
This is very bad advice. Do not just cancel your payment and expect things to be ok. You might end up with additional late fees, increased risk scores, notices on your credit report, and collection agencies.

Cancel the service properly and always have proof.
> I have heard in China doctors will give preferential treatment to patients who give sufficient 'hongbao' (red envelope = money).

Yes, this is true. Hospital admissions requires approval of a doctor, and you essentially have to out-bribe other patients to get a bed, or even convince doctors to pay attention to you. [Personal experience.]
How to Stop (E2E Encrypted) Misinformation Without Sacrificing Privacy
That would also throw throw us into a world war that would devastate the planet, but hey.
On that note, I was really impressed with how easy it was to end an xmradio trial subscription just recently. I had gone over a few days into their regular monthly service. I was anticipating something unpleasant, but it was very easy to cancel, and they refunded the new month pro-rata without prompting.
4. Then again when you're getting blatantly dicked over, this obligation no longer applies.
Holy cow, that's frightening. Mobile games with in-app payments are clear about "These cost gems {or some other bought-with-real-money mcguffin)", but refilling those gems nearly always makes it clear that you're going to have to pay.
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare.
Sure, it's not like you have to call them, but all the ones I've tried have employed anti-patterns for cancelling meals and worse ones for cancelling subscriptions.
I think they’re trying to patent the syntactic sugar that corresponds to the Maybe monad, not the concept of “bind” itself.

That said, I think there are other languages with very similar syntactic sugar (e.g. Rust), so this is still a very questionable claim.
In what city is the high-density area confined to 1% of the city area?
"8-bit"

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Javascript has no 8-bit types, nor does it have memory limits that 8-bit machines had. Pixelated graphics are cool and all, but it does not place you in the same league with people who made games fit in 128 bytes of ram and 2K of ROM, sorry!
If you think they're conceptually quite similar then I don't know what else to say except that you would just be objectively wrong.

The difference between a conspiracy theory and a social critique is the personal nature of it. People that believe that the 'Jews' or that 'The Deep State' is responsible for everything believe that there are specific actors, people doing things explicitly to stop someone.

When people complain about the patriarchy or systemic racism they're complaining about a large tangled of social contracts and norms that result in certain people, races, genders etc being disenfranchised. For example it's a statistical fact that a black man smoking marijuana is not only more likely to be thrown in jail but also more likely to face harsher sentences than a white man smoking marijuana. What else would you call this, other than systemic racism?

You can't point to a similar statistic, study or what not that shows 'The Deep State' is specifically targeting Donald Trump or that 'The Jews' are attempting to kill all white people. You can, however, point to specific actions and trends the FBI has taken in the past to disenfranchise black people, including actions taken against Martin Luther King Jr.

One side explicitly has a factual basis behind it. The other does not. That's what makes one a conspiracy theory, and the other something worthy of scrutiny.
It'd be really nice if America could crack the two party system that's so heavily entrenched but... that'll only happen with the cooperation of those parties which have no motivation to do so - other than silly things like "democratic ideals" and "making a fair and open society"
I assume he's C. A. R. Hoare in publications, because that's how you write your name in publications, but Tony in person, because people mostly don't call each other by their initials [1]. Which is used in text like this would depend on how formal the writer wants to be.

[1] Unless you have cool initials.
What's an alternative that doesn't make massive sacrifices to the feature set?
Learn to program and get an AWS cert.

Change jobs to a role that will get you the experience you want. This may seem paradoxical, but no training is like on-the-job training. If you search around for a while you'll find somebody who you can convince that you're capable of doing the job.
Is there an automated way of unsubscribing?
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It's almost always harder to cancel.
But even worse is if you want to delete your account.

I had a subscription that was not lapsed on NORVPN and I wanted to delete my account. Of course I had to contact customer support and after 2-3 emails confirming that yes I actually want to delete my account even if it has an active subscription that I had paid for and no there is no particular reason for it except that I don't use it they actually removed me.

It wasn't the end of the world but I would really like a button.

Funnily enough their customer service is called "Customer success team". I had to laugh out loud at that.

In any case, the worst offender here is probably facebook with their probation pattern.
It's way too strong to say special cases are a code smell. A code smell is something that means most likely something is off. Special cases are just one way of achieving a result and often the most readable and maintainable one. The alternatives can be just as "smelly" in their own right.

I'd say this is a special case (ha!) of the principle that each person and organization has their own personal tendencies. If you say "X is a code smell" and the internet disagrees, it probably means you or your organization have a tendency to choose X when it's not the right solution.
Can it? There shouldn’t be any obligation implicit for monthly subscriptions outside of loans.
I use something like this for work. One downside is that it will download the SVG twice. Also if you are using PHP (i.e. wordpress) you can just PHP to fetch the SVG content and dump it to the page before render.
One Facebook author and like apple iMessages which used xmpp they lock the anchor certificate to a walled garden.

They're writing standards and deploying closed ecologies.
Nonsense!

TUC at 30,000 feet is 1 to 2 minutes if slow decompression, 30-60 seconds if rapid. If you lack cöordination and movement ability to reach two feet, grab a mask and apply it to your face in that time, you have no business flying a plane (or for that matter doing anything else like driving or operating a basic dinner cutlery set like a fork and a knife)