skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There once was a model railway enthusiast. He loved trains and knew just about everything about them. He had a wonderful collection of model trains. One day he met someone with the same love of model railways. Together they built complex simulations and had their trains running together. They wrote software that could schedule the trains, etc, etc. A few more people noticed and while most people said, "Wow. These guys are the real geeks" a few said, "Wow. These guys are amazing" and joined the group. Eventually there was a small club of highly dedicated model railway enthusiasts who knew practically everything about model railways.

One day there was a person who like model railways, but wasn't really that into it. However, he noticed the model railway club and realised right away that these people are amazing. He would go to the meetings just to bask in the glory of the incredible things that these people built. Eventually, he couldn't keep it to himself. He told a whole bunch of his friends and they all showed up too.

The model train club started to get bigger and the original members couldn't be happier. When they first started most people looked down their noses at them. Now they were downright popular. One day some of the members said, "This really amazing stuff is really amazing, but I wonder if there is a way for me to approach this without being quite so geeky. I have a family and I don't have so much time. I want my train setup to be super awesome, but I don't really care that much about the details".

Lots of the other members were in the same boat and so they worked hard to have a kind of "scaled down" setup that would appeal to people who didn't have the time or energy to devote themselves completely to model railways. The club became even more popular due to this and lots of people who really liked trains, but weren't that interested in model railways started to show up.

Eventually several of the members started to have outings to visit train museums and to have photo competitions on train themes. To raise money they even made a calendar with pictures of trains. The model side of the club was a little bit less accessible to most of the membership because the core group of enthusiasts were interested in highly technical details that most other members were not interested in.

Eventually, it was decided that the model railway club should change it's name and purpose in order to be more accessible and welcoming to new members. It would now be the train enthusiasts club. Of course model train enthusiasts would have a place, but it would be appreciated if they refrained from having heated discussions about highly technical and inaccessible topics like programming train simulations and the like.

Eventually, the original model railway enthusiast stopped going to the club. He liked the people. They were great and friendly, but he was, after all a model railway enthusiast.

If you take something that appeals to 1% of the population and scale it to include 20% of the population, it morphs into a thing that the 20% group likes, not the 1% group. Can't be helped. It's just a matter of numbers. It happens everywhere.
A few idiots always ruin it for everyone.

Bad attitude. They're not idiots, they're abusers. Ruining it for everyone else is a feature, not a bug, although if they have been using a platform successfully they may be sad about their scope for abuse being curtailed. Also, consider that punishing everyone because of the actions of a few is the overreaction of someone who isn't willing to understand the problem and just wants it to go away.
> But even those get reused from week to week (even day to day?)

It's quite normal, especially in the US

> United 1644 operates BDL-IAD-IAH-MCO, yet BDL-IAD operates as a 737-800, IAD-IAH operates as a 757-200, and IAH-MCO flies with a 757-300.

https://www.southwestaircommunity.com/t5/Southwest-Stories/T...

Looks like that specific flight number is no longer a multi segment.
I found that the best way of curing procrastination was to have a partner or a group of people you can report to and keep tabs on your tasks.

I even tested this theory by hiring a virtual assistant to do just that and it worked for me. But with all things said, YMMV.
Hi Hacker News! Here are some features from Colorffy:

1. It's a design website, where you can search for color gradients and palettes, get color codes like hex, rgb, hsl and cmyk

2. Preview UI elements (buttons, badges, navbars, cards), with differents gradients, css codes and images downloads

3. We have some cool generators like for color gradients, random colors and get colors from images

I'd like to monetize this by selling a pro version with additional features like color blindness filter for colors, icon previews with differents palettes, saving of unlimited gradients from the generators and liking of color gradients and palettes that we post.
totally agree. If subsidies are given then the it should be possible to tell farms to go organic or whatever.
I think from a logical perspective, you're right, but not from a practical perspective. For better or for worse (especially at large companies) your title basically defines where you are on the totem pole, and if the average salary for your title is lower than someone else's average title, that de facto puts you lower in the hierarchy. That's why I think PMs need to make as much as the devs pretty much everywhere and why the managers need to make more than the managed pretty much everywhere - it's not because these jobs each produce exactly that much value, or even that the skills to do the job have that particular rate on the market, but that you need these relative salary relationships to create a stable working environment.

Also, if engineering management paid less than engineering, I think you would mostly end up with non-technical engineering managers which doesn't sound like a very pleasant experience.
Tinder won't accept Google Voice numbers. That kept me off their platform for years.
>The broader point is that collection of phone number isn't intrinsically a bad thing

Phone numbers as usernames is intrinsically bad for user data security at the meta level. If a service requires a verified phone number to signup, it becomes a de-facto username.

Let's say a fetish dating site is partially breached, and the usernames are emails. Now your let's say your database is fullly breached, with the usernames as phone numbers and emails included. Guess what happens next with the intersection of those two datasets?
Is it clear if the lack of reception is what caused it to not start in the first place?
This. I don’t see why you would move from Monzo or Revolut for this.
Hasn't that battle been lost for a while now though? How many different services have linked phone numbers with email or some other handle? (Particularly for 2FA)
With that description I still have no idea about what you actually do. Maybe that's not actually the pitch and you're just giving an example, or maybe not, just wanted you to give you my feedback :)
or you know, algorithmically prevent their posts from showing up in front of people
Would you mind sharing the hosts file for blocking FB and all of their domains?
I've done this too in the past, but my list seems outdated for a while now.
That's an interesting nuance and is the reason we can't/don't use phone number as the primary identity, and must be wary of it for account recovery, but we can and do safely use it (in conjunction with other factors) for duplicate account detection.
The obvious counter to that is: without flyover country, the cities would all starve to death (rapidly) and would not have had the energy necessary to have been built in the first place. To say nothing of that the population foundations of most US cities were seeded thanks to people moving from more rural, agricultural-heavy regions. Labor imported from the more rural areas directly helped to build the cities over time (and that process of rural to urban continues today, albeit slower).

It has been a fair exchange in fact.
Would have made so much more sense to post the official Kubernetes blog:

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/03/25/kubernetes-1-14-releas...
Fees, cashback, and the convenience, yeah.
Not saying it's the case here but randomness is clumpy not uniform.

Also new models unfortunately sometimes have problems. They'll get it sorted out.
Security through obscurity is a useful and valid part of a security process, but only if it's one of many parts of the process.
Yeah, some projects have explicit technical leads, they are usually the best resource but are sometimes pretty busy.

What exactly do you mean by confirmation bias here? As in, the other people on the team are just as competent but I don't find out because I only ask the seniors? It's possible. I have had some relatively unhelpful interactions with junior engineers in the past.
Quite many services require phone numbers. But services like reddit, GitHub, lobste.rs, or hacker news don't. Twitter has been in that list itself, but now is outside.
Negotiating position, employers' perception of your negotiating position, perception of your productivity and potential costs.

Edit: Also maybe you were getting low-balled because they actually hoped you'd take another offer.
You're the adult, just don't buy junk food. It's worse for your kids than it is for you.
The irk, is it's still in my launcher, and on Chrome home screen on my android device. But it's a pain to get in a browser on the desktop.
Age requirements for any web app always struck me as a joke. I'm sure everyone is telling the truth when they click "I am over 13/18 years old".
Why not allow a hash location to be passed, and update it when you do a search?

E.G. https://whatsmyaircraft.com/#UAL123 -- would immediately load the data for UAL123.
I don't remember honestly, but I was looking for a site to do my taxes when I saw the last one. I didn't finish signing up. It mentioned not supporting "voice over IP" numbers, or something to that effect. I wish I'd taken a screenshot.
As a buyer, it cost the same whether I pay with PayPal or directly to the vendors website, and having been a user of PayPal for 15-20 years now, I would actually congratulate them on their recent UI and UX improvements. The new PayPal is fantastic.
I didn’t make any statement on their democracy. I questioned by what metric are they the best and I commented that Hyderabad and Chennai are not a place I would take my family.

Not sure how you took that to be any kind of judgement on India’s democracy.
I wonder if procrastinating may be a healthy response to having too little leisure time and being over committed to too many things.

We are evolved for more immediate concerns. The TPS report lacks the same importance as catching dinner.

Unfortunately in the modern era the TPS report is what you catch dinner with.

What to do.
The smell of an apple orchard is all sorts of chemicals you've never heard of - that's how smell works.
The legal system lets them say "you already have the information? Great, give it to me". It doesn't let them say "you have to redesign your systems to collect information that you explicitly told your users you aren't collecting".

I don't have a direct citation for you, besides having seen this spoken about before, but a simple thought exercise should prove it: If the government could compel that sort of thing, then we wouldn't have end-to-end encrypted chat (including iMessage) and the government would have already compelled Apple to give the government a backdoor into iPhones.
In my experience you make a fraction as an upper IC vs director. I think an upper level IC (12-25 years experience) makes about $250k-350k/year. Senior managers making about $600k. Directors are probably making at least $1mm/year
Or maybe people with corn allergies feel safe when they see sucrose instead of HFCS?
At my old company (in a small east coast market) the leadership had supported a local boot camp wholeheartedly and highly encouraged teams to bring in junior candidates from each graduating cohort. In the round I participated in we interviewed four candidates for my team. (I was the tech lead.)

Of the four candidates, two were essentially extremely under-prepared on multiple levels. We simply could not even convince ourselves that they had rudimentary coding skills or problem solving intuition. One candidate was marginal but seemed intelligent and possibly able to handle the role.

One candidate was previously working in IT doing helpdesk and project management work and wanted to break into software development. She did quite well on the fizz buzz level coding task and we had a strong belief that she would be able to perform and get up to speed so the company hired her.

She was very intelligent and hard working and she did slowly begin to learn the applications and the tech stack (Java + Spring) but I can't emphasize how much hand-holding, mentoring, and knowledge transfer it required on our part. She was assigned a mentor to do pairing with her and I personally spent a lot of time with her going over the systems and pairing with her. A short time later I moved to another team and then later left the company but my former coworkers report she's doing ok. It worked out but it was definitely a slow and time consuming process.

I think the key challenge is that when a very junior engineer like this gets 12-24 months under their belt they're going to be very attractive to other companies and are very likely to leave. I do not currently believe that the investment that any single company would put in on some of these folks is likely to pay off. The productivity that these folks contribute minus the effort spent on them in 12-24 months is very likely to be a wash unless the person is exceptionally talented.

I get the weird sense that companies recognize that they won't get too much benefit out of mentoring any specific person but that they've collectively decided that they want to increase the number of junior candidates badly enough that they're willing to "take one for the team" in a sense. Perhaps the expectation is that for every junior candidate they train but quickly leaves they'll just get a junior-mid candidate that somebody else trained.

In conclusion, not all candidates from these schools are good and the good ones probably won't stay all that long. It doesn't seem to be an obviously great bargain but companies are clearly willing to take those risks.
It might as well be a combination of the two, but to be honest I don't think it's an issue. If those ego boosts are what keeps you building something useful, that's great and you probably deserve them.

It's a bit like social networks for exercise (Strava etc) - the whole thing is just people looking to show off because they've exercised, but if that's what's keeping them in shape, then great!
You don't need a separate radio for each "line". It's not like a BBS running directly on your modem - you have multiplexing and packet routing, so a single physical channel can accommodate many logical connections.
Mike Crawford Is Dead, Contributed to Mac System 7.5.X and Activist
Some of you might know him on the west coast. He worked for Apple fixing/debugging System 7.5.X and attended Cal Tech. He was an activist for the mentally ill and homeless. He was openly bisexual and open about his schizoaffective disorder. His Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/repeatiblehairstyle?sk=wall&fref=gs&dti=2315152128&hc_location=group_dialog

I had helped him with his project Soggy Jobs: http://soggy.jobs/ which is unfinished. It was his project he needed a business model for.

He was on CNN about the taking away of tax credit from software engineers:
https://youtu.be/VhLV7jydPJ8

His website is here:
http://www.warplife.com/

He was a member here at Hacker News.

He had serious physical illnesses that made him suffer and he took his own life.

I was an online friend of his, and I too suffer from schizoaffective disorder.
http://www.warplife.com/mdc/books/schizoaffective-disorder/

His wish was not to be forgotten to be remembered through his works. To at least have a Wikipedia article written on him or some other Wiki. Wikipedia named him non-notable about ten years ago. But if you met him, he'd always show you respect and even if he disagreed with you he was nice about it.
I have a good manager right now. If that person hasn't had a good manager ever, then it might be one of those cases "if it smells like shit everywhere you go, check your own shoe".
Sure, you pay interest on the loan. By the time the loan is paid off you have generally paid well in excess of the original loan amount back to the lender. Borrow 100k at 4% for 30 years and at the end you have paid $171,870. Maybe the home appreciates at the same rate, maybe not. You are right in that it is better than credit card debt my a mile though.
For older people with more medical issues, the tax will be lower than paying for private medical care. For younger people it will be a tougher sell. Also, don't underestimate the political power of those who are accustomed to the "freedom" of not having insurance and just going to the emergency room when they get hurt.

Nationalized health care will also have to grapple with freedom of religion. Does Medicare pay extra money for specialized operations so that Jehovah's Witnesses don't have to get blood transfusions? Does Medicare not cover certain medical treatments or procedures to ensure certain religious constituencies don't have their hard earned tax dollars paying for "sinful" activities?
Please please make this work!
Chinese censors incinerate entire run of a kickstarted RPG sourcebook
I think you need the date of the flight as well?
Small legislation is different from major overhauls. We are seeing how well the first 3000+ page for healthcare is going
Instead of attacking the person who is making a fairly lengthy and supportable argument, and basing your stance on the notion of some nebulous value “people” find, maybe you could respond in kind? I have to say that I find myself in the camp of Twitter being silly, except when it’s being destructive. Instead of being dismissed as “empty-headed” I’d prefer some value proposition justifying the previous comparison to a phone number.

Twitter seems to be a rage factory and amplifier, a shitty blogging format, and very occasionally a way to twist the arm of recalcitrant customer service.
Eat the rich.

Admit that our lifestyles are designed to drive the consumption based economy, rather than to actually make life more enjoyable.

The Australian Aborigines has a stable, sustainable civilisation for tens of thousands of years. European “civilisation” is set to make the world uninhabitable within two thousand years of inventing the steam engine.
Not too sure about the -tikos thing and the "good at" part, google (and the Oxford dictionary) gives etymology from kubernetes, pilot. Cybernetics is then, I guess, the science of (automatic) control, so nothing to do with "steering".
> was it really non-functional for some users? Really?

What matters is the result, not some technicality like whether the form worked correctly in every browser.

And the result was bad. No users were actually zero days old but they got their videos deleted just the same.

When you get bad results, don't blame the user for not understanding your system. It's always a bad design.

See also: Boeing 737 Max
This sounds like StackExchange's raison d'etre.
Invest in your content moderators and in tools to track and trace them. Very few firms seem to have any interest in how or why they are selected by abusers or in the dynamics of the abuse that takes place on their platform. People pointing out abuse are usually treated as an annoyance, when in fact they may have considerable knowledge about the bad actors exploiting the service.

A very low-cost approach suitable for a small firm would be that if someone is abusing your platform, you expose their account history.
I'm not sure it's possible for ridesharing to be adopted en masse by consumers at a price point that would provide healthy wages to drivers. E.g. if a rider works 40 hours a week and uses ridesharing for 2 hours a week, for the driver to earn as much as them, they'd need to be spending 5% of their pretax income on the ridesharing, in addition to gas and car value, with a multiplier on top for ridesharing inefficiencies since drivers don't magically pick up new riders in the same time and spot that they drop off. Pool / line can help lower this cost but in my experience I've ended up just riding alone more often than not anyway.

Of course, that doesn't mean Uber and Lyft aren't taking an unfairly large cut of the revenue, further reducing drivers' earnings.
The ACA was a compromise championed by corporate Democrats with no spine, nothing as efficient or as comprehensive as Medicare For All.

Incremental change is no longer tolerable in this domain.
These guys charge 5%, which I think includes the stripe fee, but no monthly fees.

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/faq

I have seen other people post similar products with lower fees.
> Maybe they will accept a scan of your passport

It won't be long before https://haveibeenpwned.com/ will let you type in your driver's license or passport number and tell you if a scan of it has been leaked.
That is a general problem even if the phone number is not the username and is not limited to phone numbers, but also any data that is referenceable by email addresses, which is to say almost every unit of PII in almost every online system that exists today.
Seems to me that they totally forgot about COPPA when designing the app, and then hastily added the age verification in response to the FTC fine. Didn't test the change properly, rolled it out, and disaster ensued.
From their install page :
"Kroki is available as a Self-Managed instance.
We are also actively looking for sponsors to provide Kroki as a free service."
Very skeptical that this is due to Amazon's generosity and not just because they can tap into an underpaid and underemployed workforce. They don't seem to be giving these people access to the jobs that actually make money at Amazon. I'm very wary of feel good stories about employing people with disabilities in low paying jobs with lots of repetitive manual labor. Often it's a way to get cheaper and more easily exploited labor that you can get your PR team to spin as charity.
matrix computations in swift as in numpy
You get higher bitrates at higher frequencies, but you also get more attenuation and hence shorter distances.
Haha so true. My mind auto shuts down with an alert alert sound track.
Only the truly innovative can lose money by being landlords.
A precise way of being imprecise.
Not much use if you need 200k numbers for your russian botnet
With the recent yield curve inversion, I think the writing is really on the wall right now for a lot of startups/tech businesses.
If you can even find a merchant that accepts credit cards! While in Berlin, the only place I came across that accepted credit cards was my hotel and a Starbucks. Every lunch and dinner place I went to were cash-only.
It's not consistently solved on Mac either (I have sporadic problems waking up rMBP early 2015 while docked with TB2 dock).
Cool idea. FYI I couldn't find jetblue in the list.
I don't think the goal here is to catch opioid users and criminalize them, but rather to try to cut off the illegal supply of opioids.
A lot of people on here seem to be concerned about hiding their identity. Why? I don't understand. If you don't want to stand behind your statements you're part of the problem. Thus you shouldn't be part of the Twitter troll squad that creates unnecessary BS around movies and political events. Grow a pair and join the convo as your real self.