skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good to see Krebs ending his piece with a conversation starter on the costs/benefits of using Facebook, and whether people are changing their usage or deleting their accounts. I wonder when this discussion will expand from tech sites to the general press?

Years ago Krebs did something similar whenever there was a new hole in the Java interpreter. He regularly advocated that people remove Java support from their web browsers, and that they consider removing it entirely from their computers if they don't use any Java apps.

In a related comment found below the original article, "MrB" writes how Facebook still tracks people without accounts. This is why I block Facebook's BGP prefixes in my router, their domains in my DNS resolver, and key hostnames in /etc/hosts. With this combination, Facebook is unlikely to be able to track me even when I'm in between setups. For example it should work in cases where I temporarily fail to re-populate /etc/hosts while doing testing, or set up a new computer (still using the same router), etc. And since their IP blocks and domains are relatively stable, it doesn't take much babysitting on my part.
The top comment on this thread right now calls it "annoying filler".
It's software, it can be optimised much quicker than optimising the politics and dynamics of the existing banking system.
In the article you will see that they started with an experimental result and turned to simulation to figure out what was going on.
It’s also one of the most dreaded?!
There is a rule where a stock isn't allowed to rise or fall by more than 10%. It doesn't really work because there are ways to circumvent it using financial instruments which are a proxy of the stock price but not subject to the same rules.
Conservatives hate it because of the Gamergate nonsense
Interesting, thanks!
But from what I know people in US often end up paying extra cash (on top of their health insurance) for procedures, checkups, and drugs. This is rather rare in EU. That should be included in whatever international comparison.
No. Their enterprise support is not great, they happily leave bugs in production unless you complain loud enough, their user management and security policies don’t really scale to large orgs. It’s really not a great experience as an enterprise compared to other clouds, they don’t seem to really care about you
If you have a mortgage, and paid state youd easily be over 2x the standard deductions
Ok, we'll use that. If anyone can suggest a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral, preferably using representative language from the article itself) we can change it again.
while they may end up monitoring you I think the most direct reason is that it is a feature they hope will attract new users and that they will use search referrals to make money like other browsers use.
It's an illusion to any given organism, from the outsiders meta kind of view, sure, but in the context of your own reality, it's real. Your decision making depends in ways on believing you have decisions to make. Not having a sense of free will can have some negative consequences, whether or not you believe we are actually deciding anything or just a function of our inputs.
There was an earlier version of this book -- less slick -- that you could buy from DEC. I had gotten a copy from my uncle.

At my public library we had a teletypewriter, with an attached paper tape punch and reader, and a phone-cradle modem, with which you could connect to the the PDP-8 at the local high school.

Between this book https://www.amazon.com/Illustrating-Basic-Simple-Programming... and "BASIC Computer Games" my friend and I taught ourselves BASIC programming.

It was about 42 years ago, but I remember to this day the initial astonishing joy of making the computer do something new that I had thought of.
I imagine there's a parallel plan to drastically reduce the total number of their lowest pay tier workers. With contractors and more automation.
On the other hand, the IRS generally already does many of these calculations, since they receive many forms of income directly (W-2s from your employer, 1099-INT from your bank, etc).

The better question is how much it costs TT to operate returns, and how much of that $50 is profit-taking.
"What can be done to keep these drugs off our plate?"

The simple solution is to stop eating animals.
I'm a non-binary manager who was formerly a non-binary engineer. I use singular they.

I've had people go out of their way to make my professional life more challenging or insulting. But it makes me happy to see nonbinary/nonconforming identities addressed in this survey. Our experience of the tech world is very different, and it's great to see some acknowledgment of that.
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Ask HN: Linux vs. Mac for Developer
So I'm planning on picking up a new laptop reasonably soon since I'm on a 2014 MBA which is showing its age.

I really like my Mac and I'm somewhat tied into the ecosystem as I have an iPhone as well. I enjoy the availability of software, and the good screen quality.

On the other hand, I'm concerned about the build quality issues which seem to be plaguing Apple's products. I'm a full-time dev who works from home and don't have a company provided machine so reliability is a big deal to me.

I've used linux in the past and primarily used Ubuntu before moving on to Elementary OS as a distro.

So what's your opinion? Should I pick up a regular laptop and just install linux on it? Or take a chance on a macbook?

Budget is probably £2000 GBP - enough to buy a well-specced MBP 13" or with a stretch, a regular 15".
Yes, in reality, corporations are evil things trying their best to be smart!
Python is really simple and easy to read, and macros can make it really hard to switch from code base to code base in ruby. Python is also the #1 intro teaching language in boot camps.
> I care about security, fingerprinting, etc... but most people don't and they don't want to learn about it.

Imho they would care if they knew. They don't know so they don't even know why & what they should learn about it. That's why it needs scandals and good analogies to tell them about it. They won't read "weird" tech blogs, they need the evening news to tell them about it, and to explain it in simple terms. Kind of what Al Gore did back then with global warming: "the planet has a fever". Everybody can understand that. It's not technically correct, but it gets the point across. People don't know what other products are better than Apple's, so they rely on social proof: everybody is buying Apple, so it must be good, so they buy Apple.

People are starting to shift away from Facebook because there's a narrative "Russia stole the election by using Facebook". It's wrong, but it gets the point across that Facebook's algorithms aren't transparent, FB has too much data on the users and whoever controls FB wields a powerful weapon. That got people's attention, that's what you need to for any technical issue that the general public should be informed about.
Because as per your linked article 95% of it is fake. Supply of fiat money is also „fake“ in a sense that it’s arbitrary controlled by one entity per country at most.
"Liberal on social issues" is all it takes for a vocal chunk of gamers to obsessively hate them and everything they write.
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BoA basically wants you to open up an investment "savings" account with them, and allow them to use your money to play in the market.

It's why their interest rates are abysmal.

Beyond that, on the consumer end they charge rates for random things unless you keep a significant amount of money in your accounts.

If you do then they basically charge you no money and call you once a week begging to redistribute your savings into something with "greater returns" by which they mean stocks.
Django and Rails achieve a very similar productivity, with similar high-level ideas, implemented by completely different low level architecture.

While Rails has an inclination to apply code generation and convention, Django tends to use introspection and monkey patching to get the same results. Both are amazing on similar ways, but horrible on their own different ways. Maybe Django developers just go into a different framework when they get some project that isn't a good fit, so they see less of the bad.
Can you give an example of my "constant lies" and outrageous claims?
Then the interesting bit is the question of "how do I push it to that level every single day without pushing it as far as making myself ill".

For me working out isn't that fun. But if I push myself too far over a few weeks - then I will become ill. And I would like to keep working out as close to the limit as possible. The problem becomes a low-frequency one - and it's not that easy to manage.
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"Is the mystery of Nineteen Eighty-Four that it bears so little relationship to its creator’s life?" <-- If you read "Homage to Catalonia", a recount of his first-hand experience fighting in the Spanish Civil War, you can see how there is a relationship between 1984 and the creator's life. This article is a fascinating description of Orwell's "last neighborhood", but it seems to conflate the last chapter in his life with his whole life.
What was the name of the software?
I agree. It means they view software labor as political andnot technical. The burden is on developers to reject jobs that have open-plan offices.
Far left nonsense
Nothing about the situation required an expert opinion and the pediatrician made a pretty poor decision to boot. It was abundantly clear that the wound just needed stitches, that's not something I can do myself. In the future I might just get some Vetbond, because if I had that on hand that would have been preferable to the care received from paying an expert $120. No other developed country on the planet is this backwards when it comes to health care.

I'm fine with paying a premium for trained professionals, I'm fine with paying doctors a high wage. $120 is crazy for a doctor who already has an opening in their schedule taking less than 10 minutes to glance at a wound and slap some steri-strips on it.
The dev command includes support for some of their edge logic (redirects, proxying) and functions with first class support.
This is a little too much like The Unincorporated Man for my comfort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unincorporated_Man
If nothing else, it signals to the rest of corporate america, which might actually have more people that would benifit from this, that it's cool to make these kinds of moves. That's a good thing, or at least not a bad thing.
I found it quite surprising that Azure is the least used and most dreaded cloud of the three major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) among all respondents, despite Stack Overflow being heavily C# and .NET biased.
Ask HN: Privacy-focused web analytics platform for blog/small site?
Heya HN! I currently run a small, statically-hosted site on Neocities which has been great, but I've grown a little unhappy with my use of Google Analytics as a way of seeing what posts, etc, are the most popular.

I was wondering if there were any recommendations for privacy-focused website analytics that weren't super expensive (in particular, a quick search shows a few hits, but all of them look like far more than what I'd need and with a monthly price—I wouldn't mind, except I'm a current student so 15$/mo isn't impossible, but it's enough to make me reconsider).

Thanks!
I understand, which is what I call FUD by the parent commenter. There is no such policy going on.
you would need “I don't know” if you changed the questions to your format, but you don't need them with "do you expect" which should default to no.
> Nothing against fortnite, but we are animals with bodies, not brains in a jar.

If you truly believe that, then quit your office job and take a more physical, human occupation.
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I'm a weirdo.

I did not take any programming classes in high school. BUT...

My first code was at around age 7 (in the mid-1980s). I found a computer (Commodore 64, including manual) in a very rural area off the side of a road where some people dumped trash. And at school, I got invited into a special program starting around second grade, that included doing some projects in BASIC. But then I didn't really do any coding in high school. But then I majored in Computer Science. But then I dropped out...

All that is to say, at least in my low-cost-of-living area, we had this weird dichotomy where a few special snowflakes got to learn programming in primary school, but then our high school didn't offer any programming classes at all!
As with every year, take these result with a massive pinch of salt.
The results are heavily weighted by students and young developers who are way more likely to chase the latest trends and buzzwords
github: https://github.com/yanglin5689446/linbox

I build a app with react.js and gmail API; It has a UI similar to Google Inbox, which, sadly, shutdown by google without good reason recently.

Currently only very limited features are supported, the repo is in the early stages, but I'll try my best to improve it in my spare time.

Any suggestion, comment, issue, feature request or PR are welcome.

P.S. I'm pretty new to HN (I shared this repo in a FB group and some people suggest that I can post it here), so apologize in advance if I do something wrong :)
Having built lots of WordPress sites over the years, I can give you 2 strong reasons why it continues to grow, despite being disliked by software engineers:

1. There is no easier way to set up a standard marketing/business website, despite many quality attempts to build replacements. The plugin library is a big part of this.

2. It's extremely easy for anyone to start hacking on, leading to lots of developers "cutting their teeth" on WordPress by following online tutorials. Show me a self-taught front-end developer and I'll be shocked if they didn't learn on a WordPress site. This has good & bad aspects, of course.
I don’t want this? We are very bad in America about hiding taxes, e.g. through unfunded mandates and mandatory cross subsidies. We don’t need to do anything more for people to have even less insight into what the government actually collects from their paycheck.
Massive respect to the Netlify team. I played around with having my static site hosted by them (for free!) and got only a modicum of extra performance from a $5/mo Digital Ocean droplet.

With this ngrok competitor making it easier to experiment with lambdas/serverless technologies, they're creating a compelling reason to use them for production builds.
Good, more countries should have opposed this corrupt censorship bill.
Thanks. And yea I've experienced that too, people tend to engage on a similar level, and so the most engaging comments tend to be flamebait.
It depends what you build for. San Francisco, the dystopia as described in the article, has under a million residents. Its wounds, and that of the bay area in general, are entirely self-inflicted.
and also second most dreaded web framework, i wonder if it's because 95% javascript questions have a jquery solution and it's hard to find vanilla js one
This kind of knee jerk anti journalist gamer bile is getting old. Respond to the points the article actually made. There's nothing inherently wrong with this kind of criticism.
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I can speak to the RoR dread side, as someone who is now in Django-land coming from RoR.

RoR is ridiculously opinionated. If you don't know The Ruby Way then you'll be fighting the framework for every inch of productivity. It also has a lot more magic than any other framework I've ever used. It hides so much of what it does behind abstractions on top of abstractions that it's hard to do a simple thing and understand what's happening. (This ignores the fact that Ruby is Perl in better clothes, both a huge strength and weakness, depending on your past experience.)

Django is better in that it's slightly more obvious what's happening and why. It still has some magic to it, but not to the same extent. You can also do whatever you want, and it'll be a little harder or a little easier, but it doesn't fight you nearly as hard if you're not doing things The Django Way.

I think if you're a RoR dev and know RoR and like how it works then you're golden - stick with it and be productive. If you don't drink the kool-aid then you're not going to be happy.
I am a (not good looking) man, who dates women, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. I too was once a virgin, I too was once someone with a bad tinder profile. There have been 2 times when I have started Tinder conversations with sex immediately. There have been times when I have been awful at making conversations. There have been times I've received a message and thought "Shit, now I have to respond! How do I respond to that? I need to keep the conversation going... What can I say though????? Ughhh"

As someone who has also struggled, I can tell you the biggest thing (once you've both swiped right, and before you've actually gone on a date) is conversation. Because they've swiped right, they already accepted however you looked in your tinder pics. Now you just need them to actually like the conversation you have with them.

I'm pretty good at conversing in real life, but initially found it weird that I'd struggle to write out a message when there was so much more time to respond. There were even times when I thought to myself "man, if I could just meet up with her in real life this would go so much smoother", and I occasionally even tried (and always failed) to speed up the small talk and get to the dating part. But after a good 2 days, I realized I was treating texting differently than real life conversations because I was giving myself too much time to respond. So I stopped doing that, started treating texting more like real, face to face discussion, and did very well (again, all despite my looks). I'm not a woman telling men "It's easy to date us, you just suck." I'm a man who has been in your shoes, and is telling you how to step up your game (without saying outlandish things like "get plastic surgery" or "completely change your personality").
NY Measles: Health Emergency Declared, Vaccines Required in Parts of Brooklyn
It should be implemented in a "global" way. Instead of filling in no tracking forms for each website, they should be forced to honor DNT (do not track) header. Similarly on OS level, it should be possible to say to all apps that I don't want any tracking.
The original was grey. ThinkGeek put out a "remake" a few years ago, which was white.
The basics of modern AI–how does it work and will it destroy society this year?
It's not 1919. Nobody is making their employees do the same repetitive labor in the same setting day in and day out. That's how you burn our workers. You can only get away with that in industries where they'd burn out regardless for some other reason. Modern factory jobs are no worse than the other jobs of about the same skill requirements and pay.
i never said nor implied "no fiat, less war".
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Heh - you may have ran into some of my old stuff from back then, up thru the late 1990s or so. BASIC still holds a place in my heart (if you haven't played with QB64, you owe it to yourself to look it up).

For that old stuff, "Pete's QB Site" still holds a lot of it:

http://www.petesqbsite.com/

Also, check out the old ABC Packets - they're still available, and also have a ton of code worth looking into (I was a frequent contributor):

http://www.phatcode.net/downloads.php?id=204
Ok, I'm not the only one. For the most part the gate-to-gate timeline is extremely predictable. They already have the clearances set up and know what route they're flying so the flying bit is not really going to change much outside of unforeseen weather or traffic delays. The variable part is loading, unloading, and staffing issues (someone didn't make it to work) and occasionally absorbing the impact of flight delays.

I suspect the net effect is actually a decrease in CO2 emission because the delay stack at the end of the day doesn't force pilots to bump the throttles a little to cut some time on flights with lots of connections as I've seen them do before.
I actually found this to be the most interesting excerpt from the survey results

>In the United States, almost 30% of respondents said they deal with a mental health challenge, a higher proportion than other large countries such as the UK, Canada, Germany, or India.

I would be interested to know just how much a higher proportion it was than other countries.
California launched DMV voter registration system despite bugs and hackers
What's the difference between core.async go blocks and goroutine please, I thought they would be the same to a reasonable extent?
I was blaming Valve for making gaming on Linux have such a broad library of titles. They've made Wine very easy to use, to the point that users barely know that it isn't a Linux native game.
Maybe - but definitely no sharing of profiles between dev & nightly and as you can see based on other comments in this thread I'm not the only one that has witnessed the behavior.
I know just enough to say that APL & J are much more expressive as long as Python doesn't have a fix_problem() method built-in.

This is pretty much the same impression I got, though I came from the other direction. I was kind of surprised how many StackOverflow posts ask about adapting a fix_problem() method to fix some very_similar_problem.
Sorry dude :)

It's been a while that I've been on Windows. All development and ops have been on Linux the last couple years for me.
I'm surprised bank branches even exist in the numbers they do, what an incredible expense. Don't think I've set foot in one for five years, besides heading to the ATM.
For one, there is nothing to configure with Netlify Dev.
So, in other words... it's a Chromium fork.

It's not a Blink fork, if that's what you mean. They built a new browser, using the HTML & JS engines from Chromium. The rest of the browser is different. As a user, I consider the HTML & JS to be commodities, and everything else to be the salient aspects that I look at when choosing between browsers.
I don't buy this.

"Use us and we will help you avoid the government's stealth tax" would be a marketing field day for intuit and h&r block PR.
Mozilla devs seem to take this into account whenever adding new JS features, at least on their mailing lists.

For example, this discussion of a new API for gamepads immediately turned to a discussion of its fingerprinting risks and how they can be mitigated: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/75GrJSP...
Not necessarily. Women on average reported less experience than men. This would mean we would expect the opposite self-ratings if the Dunning-Kruger effect was at play.
They've tried to entice technologists so far and it's put them in dead last, by far, versus AWS and Azure. From a business point of view shifting away from technologists to enterprise may be what they need to survive. If nothing else, technologists often don't have much control over the budget versus business leaders.
Have you explored Remote Freelance work? > https://www.toptal.com/
Mixed use developments don't really have giant stores. They have hangout spots.

Ex: Restaurants, Pubs, Cafes, Board-game "stores" (which are really Magic: The Gathering / Dungeons and Dragons meetup centers), Salons and Barber Shops.

When someone wants to shop, they want to have as wide of a selection as possible. Amazon is the generic marketplace. However, Amazon is losing trust (at least with me, not with a lot of others), so I've begun to shop at other online stores: Jetpens.com, RightStuf, NewEgg, BarnesAndNoble, Adafruit, Wayfair.

The specialty stores simply have a better layout and better assurances against counterfeits. Amazon hasn't really done anything to stop its counterfeit problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546

But still, one can't deny the fact that Amazon is the largest marketplace, and therefore one of the most convenient browsing spots on the internet.