skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I'm on gawker sites, the sarcasm is pretty high, but it is still jarring when I end up reading a Kotaku story: the distinct air of spoiled entitled teenager runs through their comments and stories in a way the other gawker sites do not, and considering the trashrag nature of most of the gawker stories, that says a lot.

But that is the nature of their target demographic. Why can AAA studios drop a repolished doomclone/shooter turd each year and do good sales? Same reason there are always preteen pop groups every couple of years: because there's a new crop of kids each year to sell your crap to.

I almost like the fact that these games are now polluted with lootboxes, it just lays bare the contempt the studios have for the players, even if it probably is producing a generation of gambling addicts.
> AFAIK the logic is that the since root CA is fronting the risk (in case of any misissuance), there doesn't need to be any extra scrutiny on the part of browser vendors.

This logic doesn't make sense (though I think it is the logic)

- We audit CAs precisely because the cost of being caught isn't high enough to provide a reasonable deterance.

- No one is suggesting removing digicerts root certs over this. The cost to the public is too high.

> the root CA will simply provide a API that rubber-stamps whatever certificate is requested.

- We audit CAs precisely to prevent them from doing things like this... Any CA caught doing this after it was forbidden isn't worth anyones trust and could be immediately removed.

- Even that would be an improvement because they would presumably keep logs...
there are literally hundreds of companies in SV solving interesting problems - i would ask him why he doesnt look for a new position
This is still a security concern.

I live in a building in NYC with a shared mailbox for both apartments. I can see every piece of mail my neighbor gets.

Granted, I see this when I open the mailbox, but having a digital record of it in inherently insecure email is a bit concerning.
Why?

Because you'd have to AirBnB the destination, Uber the guests there, Blue Apron the food/cake, Facebook the invitations/web site, etc...

IOW, what I'm saying is you would have to be multiple startups in one.
Perhaps, but I was just talking about myself. I definitely prefer that UI (maybe stylistically updated but not as far arrangement/placement and what's available).
>Magazines never have a picture but get a blank stating no picture for the piece is available.

This is interesting. We have this service for my address, but don't get magazines so I haven't seen it. I wonder if this has to do with the size/format of the scanner being designed for envelopes only, or if it's something crazy like fear of copyright infringement?
Bootstrap & templates didn't make web design boring. People using them without much modifications did.

I think Bootstrap is trying to offer both an out of the box template like framework & utility framework in their latest & upcoming releases. Foundation also does this. Whereas something like Tailwind does a nice job of being just a utility framework.

I think there is a lot of value in using any of the above depending on your skill level. They all solve common problems so you don't have to.

A good HTML/CSS designer/developer should have no problem extending & customizing them either so that they don't look like every other site using them. No reason to rebuild everything from scratch.

On an additional note, it depends what the website is trying to mirror as to how you want to layout the content. A news site is often best done similar to a newspaper with nice table like structure.
Why are New York’s bookstores disappearing?
It's because colder air is more dense, making it more heavy and stay closer to the ground.
Maybe you're missing some causation. Only the top tier commit fraud because the anti-fraud training scares the lower levels into compliance, but is ineffectual on people higher up in the organization.
> the point is that a wedding is supposed to show affluence. It's in the same ballpark as a present to your fiancée (remember the rule of thumb for the price of the engagement ring: three times the gross monthly earnings whatever they are- which means: expensive by any standard).

Ugh. Are many people really like this? I would never date, let alone marry someone who had this kind of attitude. It's so... wasteful. And stressful. I don't understand it at all.
Its not informed delivery that did it. I signed up for this a while back with no change. It was the forwarding address thing. When I last did it there was a bunch of boxes you had to uncheck to not 'sign up' for all the other stuff.
What's New in the Go Cloud Development Kit
see https://www.amazon.com/Masks-Mirrors-Generation-Chameleon-Pe...
I think the commenter means that doing what's easiest or best for you at the expense of society (now or in the future). And it doesn't have to just be for yourself, it can be for your family or tribe over others, and it still has the same effect.
The ranking is just based on PM2.5 which is just one category of pollution. Could it be that the pollution there is of another type?
Wow, I'm impressed by the consistent progress.

There is so many things based on Debian and adding reproducibility in Debian is a massive security improvement.

I have a lot of respect for people working on this, it must be hard to respect release freezes when you've been working on this for years.
The problem is externalities. Not convenience.
It's a software issue. No one cares what the port says. When I plug something in the OS should notify me, and try to autonegotiate with the device. And if there's a problem, let me know what is it. Not enough power? Port or cable issue? Great, I'll just plug in a different cable into a different port, etc.

The OS knows the USB controller hierarchy, knows what the deveice wants, etc.

Cables might be a mess, but it's because low-level software is absolute bovine manure biogas plant on fucking fire level shit when it comes to user experience.

Just a few weeks ago I had to spend about 1.5-2 hours (not exaggerating) trying to get 2 Logitech gamepads working on Win10. (It worked fine at first, but wouldn't survive a reboot. It worked fine in Linux.)
Bootstrap Kubernetes the Hard Way on GCP
FaunaDB can tolerate the loss or partition of a minority of replicas (datacenters, AZs, or racks) in a cluster, so if you want to tolerate more concurrent failures, just add more replicas.

For example, a 7 replica FaunaDB cluster can lose 3 replicas and maintain availability for reads and writes; better than Aurora in your example.
here is one in python(a very very basic version, big enough to fill an A4 size sheet :D ) https://github.com/anekix/dungeon-generator
It's very easy to shift from some other programming work (where you have a degree in CS or similar) to working for FAANG.

You can't take a CS degree and start working in disease research, any more than you can get an MBA and start in disease research. The time to get people on that track is when they're coming out of high school.

You can't take doctors and have them work in disease research either. They'll have the necessary undergrad work most likely, but all the med school stuff just isn't useful for it, and they'll have to start over with the postdoc studies to specialize in that research. After they've already invested a fortune in med school, they're not going to do that. Who's going to pay all these people to move away from more lucrative fields into research?
Vacant-land mythology impedes serious energy discussions
I work in the Credit card industry. Account origination fraud using the real address is a thing. The bad guys hire mules to check mailboxes daily until the card arrives. This would greatly simplify that task.
I don't think you meant to imply this, but for anyone else - please note that the reverse can also be said - closures from an FP setting are objects from an OO setting, and it is natural to implement closures if you want them; see e.g. C++ "functors".

That is, objects and closures can both be implemented in terms of the other, if your language doesn't happen to offer both.
Sorry, I have a habit of making comments and not following up in checking replies.

I work for each NASCAR series, so Cup, Xfinity, and Truck. We also work with ARCA, NHRA, and IMSA but I'm not sure if this particularly level of photography or application will ever make it down to the lower series.
Since doing anything prior to being proven guilty in any way seems against the principles of justice we espouse in the west, perhaps waiting until proven guilty would be best.

But then, don't nationalize some of it, just nationalize all of it, but under specialized program for 2-5 years that replaces the board and some/all of the corporate officers with government bureaucrats to run the company short term and replace all the management deemed problematic while giving the replacements a few years to come up to speed in running the company, eventually turning the board back over to shareholders. Sort of a variation on some of the stuff I think was done during the financial crisis.
Looks like everything is free so far and the paid options are coming later?
Show HN: Build your own crypto “DataFolio” and automate the trading execution
Rethinking 21st century higher ed
You can always re-privatise it later. Doing it this way — especially if you make it clear to the shareholders that such misbehaviour has consequences for their bottom lines and the money they get from forced nationalisation isn’t supposed to be the pre-offence share price — makes it a deterrent for anyone who would otherwise say “we’re too big to fail” or “we want out portfolio to take unnecessary risks, because there is no downside for us”.
My guess is manufacturing plants and burning of farm fields.

Reason is i am not seeing other big cities like shanghai/Bombay etc. which would have comparable number of automobiles but smaller cities which are known to have big factories.
We apply a terrorist watch list to deny access to online project management software under the premise that international terrorists will use their real name to register for an online service?

This seems totally bonkers. If a terrorist organization wanted to use an online service to do project management and communication, would it not be in the best interest of intelligence agencies to encourage that kind of behavior? Particularly when Australia now legally requires backdoors.

I would have called "BS" if I had not seen the Atlassian reply.

How did Altassain gain access to this list? If they don't have "the list" how much does it cost per lookup? How do they disambiguate a (partial) match? Do they look up the identities of all prospective clients or only ones with names they think sound untrustworthy?

I work for a company that provides an online service related to higher education. We have international users and we don't have access to this list. Does anyone else work at a company that uses a terrorist watch list as part of user registration?

Apparently Atlassian feels free to talk about it so I gather there is no gag order in place.
Can you as a vendor charge for your images or do you need to publish your work free of charge?
Now need one for kafka!
Not sure of the down votes, but I have the same assumption. Actually, my guess is that they were doing this first, and then someone said, "Hey, we could charge people for this as a service, and then that would offset some of the costs." Of course that person would not have received a raise or bonus for the idea though.
One argument I've heard: if evolution could get rid of sleep, it would have a long time ago. There are several survival drawbacks from sleep, as it leaves one vulnerable. It must be important!
And the irony is that the people who have kids tend to be the ones who care the least about these things (whether because for them it's much harder to do anything about it or because they are ignorant). Talk about loving kids.
I don't see why anyone would expect any extremely poor, heavily populated, industrializing area to not be very polluted.
> If Google is there (1) they can minimize censorship as much as possible by pushing back frequently

The CCP doesn't value Google, and they will ban them if they "push back." If Google wants to operate in China, they will have to be the most slavish of lackeys.

You're also ignoring the leverage the CCP will gain over Google's non-PRC operations by allowing them in. It's not hard to find recent examples of the CCP/PRC using economic leverage on foreign companies to make them fall in line with its political positions (e.g. representation of Taiwan on airline websites, treatment of Tibet and the Dalai Lama, etc.). I think the most important aspect of Project Dragonfly is that leverage.
> the baker will hear hell about it - maybe not from your wedding party, but for every reasonable wedding party there are 99 expecting perfection.

Note and important that the baker is not insulated in any way from the aggravation and the bad feelings as a result of a problem. They will hear about it and they will live it. This is pretty much true for any small business. In other words if you are Comcast the CEO is well insulated from the pain and agony of any customers. Ditto for Airlines and so on. But the front office staff and/or the people who actually take the calls. Sure they hear about it and sure they might perceive it's a problem but they are not hearing the actual customer pain and getting aggravated. The baker will have someone come into the shop and they will see and feel the pain directly.
Backported this to run on MS Visual Studio 2008 in case anyone is equally constrained and still wants to give it a go. Did it based on @Joker-vD's deobfuscated gist

https://gist.github.com/airstrike/66e0152e75c3a81fd1496bfbf5...
Because we've worked on improving it for a hundred years. A mixture of regulations and regulation-driven technology improvements.
Why not measure surface area polluted and how much of that is in a country, rather than very long lists of individual cities?

E.g., China - 100km2, India 500km2 (making up numbers), rather than list 300 cities from each country as nearly equal pollution?
Monitoring Apache Flink Applications 101
Does anyone diff public releases with builds done using a known good environment?

It would be a lot of work but could expose malicious providers.

Then again it might be hard to create an actual good environment considering all the software /firmware/hardware layers modern systems have.
According to your logic, people who ride in or drive cars shouldn't get any insured treatment if they have a crash, because they willingly indulged in risky behavior.
I just took CS121 recently and echo this. Theoretical CS is really a broad topic to cover in a semester. The early sections on computability theory, CFGs, regex are really good. Once it gets into complexity classes things kind of stop making sense.

Doesn't help that the textbook is still a buggy WIP, and there are no written solutions to problems in the book or the homeworks.
Ah, mules. That makes more sense because people are really stupid. Takes the locality requirement off the “brains” of the operation.
I connected with long lost people on facebook. Most of them just upload a fake happy life on social media and it made me compare my life with them more.

After deleting my facebook profile it never felt like I lost something. I don't want to know what's going on with everyone's life everyday. I just use phone call to connect with people I care about and few real friends now. It feels much better.
I'd spend a year or 2 consulting with your current skills while you tool up your cloudops. A good place to look at is Codementor.io. I'd probably get an AWS cert or two while you do this (while certs can be a vanity metric, they are a very useful, and objective, benchmark)

I wouldn't take a lower pay job, and I wouldn't move into management. In your shoes, I'd rather take the pay cut while consulting over carving a new title on my resume that may influence the rest of my career.

Take time to shore up your finances. Get out of debt and/or reduce expenses if possible. The lack of freedom in this area is what causes people to do things in their career that makes them unhappy.

Once you get past this, don't stop learning. Don't be afraid to expand outside of your immediate focus - the market decides what is valuable, not you. (for reference, I'll be 42 next month)

Don't be afraid of onerous job requirements. They always are, and they're often BS. Kubernetes was announced in mid-2014, and didn't pick up steam for a couple of years, so it's virtually impossible for someone to have five years of experience. Docker isn't much older.
I don't have a dog in this fight but there's this https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/03/article/no-proof-india-sho...
If they added a standard SQL layer I’d be onboard. Interesting project though.
Not sure why tab hiding is needed. I want the extension to track my activity, not interfere.

The only two point when it needs to do something is when I want to restore a "group" that has been saved. If I close tabs or windows, nothing needs to be done; my hypothetical extension would already have saved their state to a database of some kind on every change.

As for multiple windows: An "open" group would be associated with a single window. You wouldn't be able to open a new window for a group that's already live and in use.
FBI Probing Bitcoin Exchange Quadriga over Missing $136M
sounds like modern day globalization
There are multiple sources:

Automobiles (including highly polluting two-stroke rickshaws and motorbikes), coal-fired power plants, industrial emissions, domestic cooking fires, and agricultural burn-offs.
I'm confused for years there have been a large collection of 1-click options when logged in. It says here WordPress for instance is New but that has been there forever. Can someone explain how Marketplace currently is different than the 1 click options we have long already have? The main issue has been with WordPress which I imagine is your most popular 1 click option is that it runs on LAMP rather than LEMP (the more modern recommended option). Does this "new" version resolve that? Or am I missing something?
This issue is a privacy / security nightmare.

I had my mail forwarded to my colleague while I was traveling for business for 2 months. Signed up for informed delivery with his address but my name (that's how I was forwarding mail).

Not only did I not have to verify that I live at that address and hence started receiving emails with images of my incoming mail, but I also received images for his and his wife's mail.

Trying to set up informed delivery for my address required some sort of in person address verification which I didn't feel like completing, but the emails with scans of incoming mail still are sent to me daily (which is all I needed anyway). Very concerning how anyone could easily observe my mail this way.

By the way, it seems that address verification is only required to access some sort of dashboard, but this doesn't prevent the emails with images of incoming mail to be sent.
I find this statement confusing. Is it not generally true that optimizing for maximum convenience (coupled with lowest monetary cost) often corresponds with an increase in negative externalities?
> This is a common meme, but I'd like to see some robust empirical evidence either way

I wouldn't call that datapoint robust nor empirical, but Scala developers have been complaining about the slowness of their builds for more than ten years now, and it's pretty much accepted that the Scala compiler will never get marginally faster than it is today. The Scala 3 compiler is not looking much better either.
Also, if your spouse/partner picks up the mail and then forgets to let you know something arrived for you, you'll have a reminder to ask
The term gamer means nothing anymore. The only requisite is to have an interest in playing games. There's no conditions attached to the point where people argue over what is a "real gamer". The only way to discern gamers as different "groups" is by what games, forums, sites, and platforms gamers frequent. Reddit, 4chan, ign, eurogamer, pcgamer, kotaku etc.

I find toxicity is often attached to multiplayer games of the competitive variety with player interaction.
I think Atlassian handled this okay by explaining themselves and requesting proof of identity. His name looks common enough that it is probably a case of mistaken identity.

The one thing they could have done better would be to provide a grace period, but I doubt that would be compliant with the law.
> One thing that seems to fall by the wayside frequently is a followup.

Yeah, I agree. We worked very hard to fix all major issues during the evaluation period so that Kyle could test the fixes himself, and we are a planning a formal followup on the remaining items and some planned improvements as well, once we are ready.
It seems they're not actually increasing the minibatch size here. I don't see how the updates for N microbatches of size M will be any more out of sync than a single large minibatch of size N*M.
Their monitoring in CA appears to be a lot denser than in (say) the midwestern US. In general, agriculture creates a lot of dust. You can certainly see some hot spots in their CA data due to fires, e.g. the PM2.5 of 200+ in Paradise, CA.
Everything PAL. I live on Spain, and got both on Spain.

Think that analogue signals have a lot of tolerance. The Spectrum PAL signal was very far from followiing 100% the PAL standard.
I think it’s actually the agricultural centers. When I visited NAPA valley when I was younger you could see the smog blanketing the area. Not sure what exactly smogs up the air so foully there from the agricultural production but it seems to be a large contributor.
> Web design 3.0 is the new dimension. It has the free positioning of elements, overlapping, and layers like in Graphic Design tools. It opens the new prospects for Web Design. And it is the beginning of the new Web Design era.

No offense to the author but this is not new. Of course neither is Web XXX 3.0 which has been used for over a decade.

I'm somewhat sad to see the Flash era wasn't mentioned. A lot of this non positioning was done back then in the late 90's & early 00's. And one can not forget the days of giant images in Photoshop spliced apart to make a web page.

Content should determine design strategy 99.9% of the time.
TL;DR: as a founder, if you focus on the essential and do less stuff than most other people do, you'll be more successful.

Yet another trivial and superficial piece of advice from a nomadic/minimalist entrepreneur. Not really anything eye-opening there.
KDE Plasma 5.12.8 LTS Released
> But also fewer want to haggle on prices when planning a wedding

To overgeneralize a lot, but nevertheless I think that the trend is this way though it's nowhere close to an ironclad rule on any of these, petit bourgeois White Anglo-Saxon Protestants don't haggle over prices when planning a wedding. People of lower socioeconomic standing do, people of higher socioeconomic standing have agents that do it for them, and people of other ethnicities do because they don't have the cultural attitude that haggling is gauche.
The people who have kids are also the ones causing the most harm to the environment. The single most effective way to diminish your impact on the environment is to not reproduce.
Can anyone recommend a good way to install/maintain/remove new software on distros like Debian or Ubuntu LTS? (By 'new' I mean versions newer than the ones available through apt).

I never figured out a maintainable scheme. Some of my packages are in /opt, some are in ~, some in ~/local, and some under GNU stow. And other than GNU stow's half-assed uninstall method, it's always a pain in the neck when I have to remove or upgrade any of these packages.
I did not make a blank statement about the usefulness of outdated books. But certain topics do get out of date pretty quickly and would be less valuable to a maintained book.