skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Buzzfeed News article was debunked and denied by Mueller himself, its part of the Intercept article I linked and what prompted it. The fact you still believe that proves the point.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/18/politics/mueller-statement-bu...

Again, they run the headlines at the top, then issue the retractions quietly, and nothing happens. Public opinion is changed, but no one goes to jail (for collusion) because they so far, don't actually have anything.

Democrats were running a false flag operation during the last election to make it look like Russian bots were supporting Moore so they can say, "Hey look, the Russians want you to vote for this guy" and the media reported on it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jon...

All I'm saying is, the next bombshell you hear about Russians, wait a month and see if anything happens with it, otherwise, you're just being manipulated. Stick to what Trump is actually doing that's bad.
>Tariffs hurt US consumers

US consumers are first and foremost US workers first -- and only consumers in as much as they have a job and they make enough to pay rent, consume, etc.

So while they might not get cheap global shit as easily, they'll be able to get jobs easier...
Syncthing is designed for decentralized syncing, but I've forced it into a hub-and-spoke model by running one instance on a cheap VPS, with my client machines configured to connect to only that with all the discovery/relay features turned off. It's been painless to administer so far - the "server" has been running without restart since I set it up 18 months ago and I've had to fiddle with "client" settings maybe once or twice in that time. Then again, I don't put it under much stress - mostly documents and source code, no multimedia.
A world with only bicycles sounds like just another variation of hell, not an improvement.
For what it's worth, they don't retain any of that metadata. This has been tested in court:

> We’ve designed the Signal service to minimize the data we retain about Signal users, so the only information we can produce in response to a request like this is the date and time a user registered with Signal and the last date of a user’s connectivity to the Signal service.

https://signal.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand-jury/

This was even before sealed sender, so if anything my confidence in the Signal Foundation has only increased.
Formula can be consistently made. The "breast milk is best" argument depends on cherry-picked breast milk.

Is it still better than formula if Mom drinks or has some health problem? Stuff passes into breast milk. If Mom takes an ibuprofen, into the breast milk it goes.

Can HIV pass through breast milk? No clear answer:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8826332

If you look at the scientific arguments about how breast milk is better, they revolve around hair-splitting. Like increased risk of necrotising enterocolitis in pre-term babies.
Eli Yablonovitch has spoken extensively about this. Here is one talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_K1URyarE0) but I think he makes the point elsewhere that the central government in China told their regional governments that they would need to close down their smaller scale PV production with the result that they all added capacity to meet the minimum causing an even greater production glut.

Edit: I found the source (cued up for 37:25) https://youtu.be/lDxJsa8miNQ?t=2245
We just got blindsided with a $16,500 charge from Experian for a security audit. Previously they accepted out PCI letter now they insist on selecting an auditor and sending them onsite for us to continue using their API. Maybe this will become the norm gong forward? Any vendor you get PII from will insist on you paying for an audit of their choice?
The FCC is so corrupt. FBI really should be brought in to clean house.
> Cities existed before without cars and I suspect they will exist again after they leave. Sucks that I had to live in the time period with them.

I find it interesting that many people don't realize that city with cars have exisited for a very long time. Romans did not pave roads all over Europe just to make it more comfortable for pedestrians.

The only difference is that back then, cars where horse-powered. As a result, they were more smelly, poluting, and noisy than now. Also, many farmers, artisans, shop-owner did have cars to transport goods.

But, the traffic became really dense only when the population became really dense during the 19th century. The first traffic light was in London in 1868. I have read 19th century articles complaining about traffic jams and bad driver behavior in Paris.
I think the problem here is that "recommendations that maximize expected marketing revenue" and "recommendations that maximize user experience" are not the same. Most of us would prefer Google to present us the latter, but they have considerable financial incentives to present the former instead.
Contracts can be yearly, with or without your will, with the possibility to cancel or not. That could become debt if not paid but not necessarily, there are consumer protection laws against abusive subscriptions, but maybe not in the US.

Services that care about cancellation and charge backs always charge the full duration upfront at the reduced price. Not month to month.

The gym, the newspapers or tinder will charge you ahead for the next month. If they can't charge you, they terminate your access and it ends the contract. You stop paying and you stop being able to use the service.
For those wondering, the biggest differentiator of this from PICO-8 is that this is open-source and PICO-8 is not.
For someone who really wants to quit, it's annoying as hell. For someone who might want to stay, it helps retain them.

Which do you think the company cares about more?
I don't want YouTube to reccomend anything for me. I don't want Facebook to show me the news stories they think I should see. I don't want Google to show me the ads they think are more relevant to me. None of this improves my life in any way whatsoever, and in fact is leading to the dumbing down of society. We have completely handed over individual taste, interest, and curiosity to algorithms that do nothing but optimize for engagement. I'm done. I want the old internet back. A place where you were presented with a variety of information, indexed by it's content, from which I am able to pick and choose, and then discuss with other human beings.
Open vim, type code. Done. Hold `u` for playing backwards, or `Ctrl-r` for playing forwards. If you want to show your undos too, then remap `g-` and `g+` to something you can hold and use those instead. If you want to save that undo history, set options `undofile` and `undodir` and perhaps `undolevels` if 1000 is too little.
Percent of Facebook users could be fake
I know a couple who do in Oslo, and I’ve seen others.
Democracy Now is good for US news
Calculated Risk != Gambling on crypto currency.
Pay disparities – contractors vs. full time
I’m the head of an engineering organisation, leading multiple backend teams for a relatively successful and established startup, based in London, with millions of users and a workable business model.

I’ve been there for several years, starting as a senior engineer, and progressing fairly rapidly from there. While I absolutely can’t claim to have single-handedly saved it from a quagmire of technical debt and bad descison making, I’d like to think that I’ve played a non-insignificant part in steering it towards into the engineering company it is today. I’ve definately bled for it over the years, and for the most part have enjoyed every minute.

In London, the contractor market is much stronger remuneration-wise than the permanent market (as well as being personally more tax efficient). In part due to hiring challenges, we’ve recently changed our policy around contractors, and seem to be freely engaging with contractors on a long term basis, even hiring back some previous full time engineers who left to go contracting, now as contractors.

The other day I negotiated an increase for one of our contractors, that took his yearly take-home pay to 70% greater than my own, even taking into account 8 weeks of unpaid leave/year.

I don’t feel that I’m badly renumerated when compared to senior or lead engineers who are also full time employees, and also more generally when compared with market rates for full-time engineers in London.. But when faced with a 70% gap between myself and a direct report, though I’ve got a few share options, I’m left feeling somewhat disillusioned and wondering if I’ve made the right descision to stay a loyal employee.

Had anyone else found themselves in this situation? How would you address this with your manager? I can’t see asking for a 70% pay rise going down particularly well.
If you're on mobile there's alternative ways of watching Youtube videos, at least if you're on Android:

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

No ads, no direct tracking [1], just videos.

[1] Google can still watch your device downloading videos of course...
A very limited range of scenarios. Like (in the dating or social context) when the other party has already crossed some important line in some fashion (e.g. by acting outright abusively).

In the vast majority of cases, it's really much better all around to at least try to close the loop properly and decently -- even if it runs the risk of some "cost" to yourself (which in most cases - such as having someone argue with you - really is quite trivial).
I don't know where this is coming from but this "plenty" you've spoken to is not at all representative of the left-wing thinkers I've spoken to personally. There's no reason to drag politics into this.
Wow, thank you so much for bringing this to light. Our org is literally in the process of signing up for their enterprise product but I can not in good conscience allow it to proceed after seeing that, it is unprofessional on so many levels. I would expect this kind of contractual bullshit from an NY landlord, not from an education platform.

I know they wont miss our 220ish users, but I hope enough individuals see your post to put a dent in their numbers.
Florence Knoll Bassett, Designer of the Modern American Office, Has Died
I explicitly make spending money online harder for myself as a protection from things like this. (Well, primarily I also don't play any games with micro-transactions for one because they're universally a rip-off designed to exploit addictive personalities. Games based around these shady tactics should never have been tolerated, let alone allowed to become the standard to such a degree where even real AAA $60 video games are now infested with this. It's disgusting.) Very few things and services have my payment information saved -- usually just Apple and PayPal have it saved. I never save credit or debit card details to the keychain so the browser doesn't auto-complete it. I always go out of my way to set payment confirmation dialogues to always appear. Whenever I subscribe to something, I use PayPal or the App Store subscription feature. In case it's a yearly recurring subscription, I always go out of my way to cancel auto renewal. If nothing else, I delete the authorisation from PayPal for automatic renewal. I always go and double-check if some place saved my credit card details or not and if they have then I delete them.

While not completely fool-proof, these steps have made it easier to more carefully manage my online spendings and not to suckered into parting with my money.
For those who aren’t quite sure why these media layoffs keep happening
A thoughtful article this is. Heck, I like Typescript. I've used it in extensive experimentation and would gladly use it in production if a client or employer insisted on it.

Would I use Typescript for my own production use? Likely not. My perception is that it is yet another layer of complexity added to front-end development that, ultimately, does not need to be there.
Don't you just love the USPO? They are severely understaffed for the increasing rate of patents. Any other gov't agency would just form a backlog, but instead they just approve things with little examination.
Drop-off baby boxes: Can they help save lives in the US?
I once new a guy who was working really hard to keep a blood % out of his tribe treaty in Washington state. Said it was really hard to get his tribe to realize just how valuable it was to only have to show lineage, and not how much. The US (state?) government wanted to pay a small sum of money as due consideration for the treaty change, and he just couldn’t get the tribe to understand that the money would be gone in less than a few years, but that their grandchildren would likely have a harder time. I don’t think it helped that this guy looked pretty white, and wonder if there were people in the tribe who thought this % clause would help keep people out of the tribe who maybe didn’t look like they belonged.
I am actually very happy about this. For too long, private data has been viewed as an easy business opportunity. Now we are getting to the point where private data is being viewed as a liability.
After a few days of configuring ProseMirror I was nowhere close to having a usable editor. It's not for the feint of heart.
In the US, cars comprise 90% of land-based passenger miles traveled. [1] In Europe, it's 80-90% in most countries. [2] So if we in the US are "over-reliant" on cars, Europe is not far behind.

Considering that cars are the preferred method of transport for the vast majority of people, you could just as well say that "people who want to leave the house are the villains."

What really bothers me about the Urbanist attitude is that it seems to be based on shaming people for the ways they choose to live and comparing it with a mythical urban car-free utopia that doesn't exist.

I like transit and use it frequently but I detest the shaming and condescension.

[1] https://nhts.ornl.gov/person-miles

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/f/...
100% money back guarantee is also something that's usually gated behind a sufficiently annoying process that few people take advantage of it.
Micro has always seemed like the weak point of this game; it relies a lot on making the UI clunky for humans.
China is still only a moderate emitter per capita, though it's caught up to Europe in recent years. Considering the wealth disparity it's a little hard to criticize.
Yeah, it's not all peachy there either. I made the same assumption till I went to the bank to "block" a service-provider that kept insisting on billing me. They "blocked" the service-provider from charging me for 3 months, then they were apparently obligated to let it through because they could only do it for 3 months. At which point, the service-provider just back-charged me for those three months and continued anyways.
It's obviously fbs fault that you can't educate your kids or even control them. Fb did not put a phone in your kid's hands to shut him/her up, you did.
I've personally been hired to clean up at least two of his codebases after he finds the next shiny object. Much like his prose, they flow beautifully and end up doing very little substantive work.

I'd rather someone that knows that their shit stinks for X number of reasons than one that thought theirs was a work of art. My favorite question to ask a mid to senior interviewee is what do they hate or what would they change about the framework, language, or technology that we're hiring for and why. If they're unable to answer that, yet they give dozens of reasons why they hate Java over C# or what-have-you then I usually assume they don't have enough experience or have pigeon-holed themselves into some specific task and will flail if you start to steer out of their comfort zone. Eric seems to have dug himself a very successful hole. Good for him, but I wouldn't trust him to work on a business application that's core to the monetary success of a company. I'm sure he makes great homepages though.
You wouldn't happen to have a link, would you?
Not to mention JS vs Lua (an unfortunate direction in my view). That said, open source is good. There are a few other open source versions. TIC-80 is another open source option. LIKO-12 as well.
funnily enough, human players were also obsessed with blink stalkers for years ;)
Cellular and synaptic reorganization of arcuate NPY/AgRP neurons after exercise
> It makes me wonder if there just aren't enough people who share my values but actually have skill in governance.

The people who come in with skill in governance and are in a highly-visible local government like SF rapidly move up and out of local government.

For that matter, term limits mean they move out even if they don't move up.

> I identify as a liberal democrat, it makes me sad that a city that has been under the control of my preferred political ideology for decades is so completely dysfunctional.

SF hasn't been under liberal democratic control for decades (at least by any single coherent definition of “liberal democrat”, which has two opposed uses—it can refer either to the center-right neoliberal or center-left progressive faction of the party, and the two have been back and forth in SF.)
NYTimes deconstruction: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/well/move/exercise-appeti...
A Brief Literary History Of Davos
The emacs-gif-screencast package does this very well. Each keystroke (technically, each command) is recorded as a frame, with timestamps used to set the appropriate duration of each frame. e.g. if you stare at the screen for 30 seconds, no additional frames are captured, and that frame lasts 30 seconds (which you can then edit the duration of later in other software).

Note that I don't know how well it would work for long sessions. Theoretically it would be fine, but the way it uses ImageMagick to convert the frames to an animation can be heavy on memory, so that could be a problem. However, the frames could be stitched together with other software that didn't present that problem...
5 years promises on the options and currently nothing, didn't need to read any more, take the offer and move on.
There definitely can be risks depending on the health of the mother.

My thought for the original post was of an average healthy woman.
Would like like to reword your first answer to take into account your last answer?

Also, my bad - not sure where you live but it sounds horrifying. I can't believe there is somewhere in the world where people on 6 figure salaries are the only ones with access to basic employment benefits, and those less fortunate have no government provided safety net (now that sounds morally bankrupt to me).

I'm curious as well to find out if there are any people considered to be in the middle classes? Say...two full time earners taking in less than 6 figures, for instance? Is that a rarity in your country?

>im pretty sure you will find that most paid leave is taking by people that dont need it.

Not where I'm from, no. Most of the people I know that take paid leave are families where both parents need to continue to work to cover cost of living.
Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite
How is it guaranteed that a transaction will make progress? It sounds like every (initial state -> a,b,c,d),(initial state = a,b,c,d; modified state -> a,B,C,d) can be aborted by another transaction? Is there some queuing system for transactions, or timed locks?

And for distributed shared systems, not all shards will have all of (a,b,c,d) in order to make a decision.

If one of the shards fails (i.e. write error) how would the transaction on the other shards abort? If there was shard redundancy I can see this becoming less likely, but by no means impossible.

Sure, maybe they can roll back transactions, but that presents a time window of wrong state to the world.
I think Lua is a wodnerful langauge, highly embedable, great feature set/style, quite fast, really lightweight. Pico-8 had it right in everything but the license.
getting their taxes on tobacco products is of extreme importance
You're not wrong, and this is the same argument used in regards to bicycling. Something I hear all the time: 'You ride in this city?! Isn't it super dangerous?' When the solution is armor-up with a car and contribute to problem I just think we're thinking about it wrong.
Not really - some webmail clients act like they have one but they almost never works.

The other way is when you create an account somewhere, first thing you have to do is to go in their privacy and / or notifications settings. Stop it at the source.
50%? I've seen 2 copies of my account and my name is unique.

That would make it more like 66%
Right... sorry. I didn't make my point very well. What I was trying to say was that this is sort of an ORM, which makes sense to me. I see a need for that on the front-end. I see your other comments about how this isn't exactly an ORM, which I see as a semantic discussion. It's ORM enough for my purposes. I bring up Ember Data because it's an example of battle tested and feature rich front-end ORM. I'm thinking it would be more popular if it wasn't tied to Ember so closely.
The trick would therefore be to pull in a little bit of Apple's code so you can argue that it's a derivative work and therefore covered by the patent license grant ;)
> I have been working as a ux consultant for 15 years now

> ...

> I am actually not very sure what we see here, is it a dark pattern?

It sounds like you've been in the grey/black side of the UX industry for too long, and have become a bit institutionalised.

eg You're not see things clearly.

If possible, maybe take a break from the UX space for a year or so, and do something else? Might help to regain your sense of things. :)
That's even worse when you make videos, especially when they search for something that is episodic like a let's play.

I'd much rather have youtube recommend episode 1 or the first video of the playlist to people but instead it gives them a random one in the middle. This causes the viewer to get mad and press thumbs down. This also makes the "average viewed minutes" go drastically down.

That's probably the source of most of my thumbs downs.. It also causes ridiculous stats like episode 27 of 50 has 100 times the number of views as the first episode but not more view time.
Personally, I would just assume they're all like that, to varying degrees. Everyone optimizes the "on-boarding" process that they completely neglect how to let customers get out.
I'd also like to add that despite the negative publicity PayPal gets from the merchant side, it's also preferred over credit cards by merchants for better handling of "disputes".

Some consider paypal to be archaic, but it's bleeding edge payment tech when placed alongside traditional credit cards.
Thanks for pointing.

I went to read my comment above with Maximum Attention, too see why is strange, or If there is something strange on the my comment. So...

Yes, there is something strange, thanks for pointing, dboon.

Sounded like I want a Competent War Monger as my ruler.

No, just to clarify, I want a Competent Not War Monger.

Thanks.
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This seems like a very consumer friendly move. The last thing we want for 5G rollout is for it to be hampered by NIMBY cities. Clearing barriers for 5G equipment to be rolled out is a good thing.
The two phases in the ATM scenario would be,

Phase 1 ATM Request to withdraw funds secures a lock

Phase 2 Gets the all clear, writes the new balance to the ledger, distributes funds.

Anything trying to modify the ledger at that same time should be blocked for the short time it takes to process the transaction.

This is how these systems work.

The reconciliation is what happens when you can't do 2pc or when it fails.

Re it being a network protocol, no, its been around d since the dark ages.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10619-008-702...
Pretty sure Chase and banks do the same.
You should probably re-read the comment, because that is not what he's saying ;)