skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The implication was that if your pension is removed it's a non-issue because the state is providing you food and shelter on their own terms.
A) What FT is a "techlash"?

B) No they are not winning.

C) Fuck you shill.
Same here. I love email for a variety of reasons, one of them for being an open standard and protocol.

So, naturally, as many of you, I went the mail/postfix, DKIM, SPF, etc way. And all is fine until you start receiving random hard bounces with no real debugable answer for Google.

It got me deeply sad and questioning my decisions: since you can’t really ignore Gmail, email isn’t in practice “open” anymore. So I might as well sign up for Facebook, WhatsApp and the likes. It’s been years and I haven’t yet, but it’s getting harder and harder.
I'm now regularly seeing search results bury political pages which seem to run counter bay area political views. I'll search the terms on Bing and DuckDuckGo and the page I'm expecting will be the first hit, but on Google it'll be on page 3 or 4.

Clearly they keep the hit in the search results for plausible deniability, but they're trying to influence people by suppressing speech. Given that Google is becoming synonymous with the internet, like AOL, this is a very concerning trend.
Slack S-1
For what Accenture (and probably other similar companies) delivers, for given price point, i don't get how they are still in business. Results are always super costly, and often meh or okayish at best.

The variability of quality of people is simply too big and this is completely on Accenture's side. Yes some locations provide reliably good quality, but Accenture doesn't have the same standards for hiring across the globe.

Seen first hand, couple of years ago batch of folks from central/east europe was hired for long term cooperation, out of 20 maybe 2-3 were worth their salt. For rest, firing them on spot would be more time-saving than baby-sitting extremely junior clueless unmotivated crowd.
To address a problem is about intent rather than action. Usually it's an acknowledgement that a problem exists and a potential solution to that problem. You don't have to actually act on the problem or solve it just present a possible solution.

For example I could address climate change with blockchain by suggesting that people don't use bitcoin. Even if I continue to use bitcoin this could be considered addressing the problem.
Sauron looks really great and I for one am super excited about the future of Rust + WASM for web apps(with Backend). However I am a bit concerned that even the minimal example is 1.17MB of WASM which seems really high since Rust compiled to WASM should be quite small.
Gee golly!

You mean to tell me capitalists are trying to extract more money by increasing capacity (and thus increasing misery)? Please say it isn't so!

/news at 11
Interesting! Do you plan a less nerdy user interface? I'm afraid to say so, but a mobile phone app could be a game changer. (Yes, it would drain the battery, and yes, it could run on an old phone because many people have them in their shelves)
Ask HN: Why can't Google determine ownership of copyright
I have recently submitted multiple DMCA requests to Google re a new site plagiarising the entire contents of a site which has been in existence for over 12 years.

I have provided archive.org URLs which clearly show the content has been in existence for multiple years (since 2006).

However, in some instances Google are stating they can not determine I am the copyright owner and have rejected, so far, 2 instances despite accepting more than 50 similar examples?

What is more galling though is that the offending site is currently ranking #1 in search for the titles of both offending pages. My own pages are nowhere to be seen.

This isn't the first time this has happened and I am beginning to wonder if it just isn't a simple reverse seo strategy that anyone with a bit of time on their hands can implement?

I should add that I am in the UK and the other site's host is US based. They are not being helpful either, thus far their response has been to say 'get a lawyer'.
"as a serious health debt"

Except, sleep isn't a debt because the loss can't be repaid.

This is one of many important things I have picked up from Dr. Matthew Walker who wrote "Why We Sleep" and has been doing the podcast rounds lately.

Not to pick on you at all. It sounds like you have made some big realizations and are making fantastic changes. Realizing I can't make up sleep to pay off the "debt" has been eye opening.
Rule #1 if you're applying for jobs or graduate school - Don't use gmail for your email address.

Source: Led a hiring committee this year. Interview invitations and job offers went straight to the junk mail folder. Also serve as Director of Graduate Studies. Admissions and funding offers, as well as general inquiries about availability, all went straight to the junk mail folder. We're not going to change our email service.
I’ve made a career out of going “a bad business plan + computers is still a bad business plan”.

It’s not just Google.
Hi, you seem to be the leading critic of nesting on this page, so I have a question for you.

Assuming you're using a component framework like React, Vue, or Angular (and not a shadow dom based system like Polymer), how do you isolate your component CSS?

When I make a component 'MyComponent', I give it the className 'MyComponent'. Then I can create a SCSS file and scope its entire contents:

.MyComponent {
// all the css specific to MyComponent
}

Without nesting, how do you keep your component-specific CSS from polluting the rest of your app? Do you scope every rule every time? Isn't that tedious?
At first i thought the full story was one paragraph, but then realized it was a paywall.
The bicycle like standing seat does look awful.

Reclining, though, is a silly feature on coach airline seats. At best, you temporarily get more room at the expense of the person behind you. Until the person in front of you reclines. Reclining seats when the seat pitch is so tight is just dumb.

Oh, and if you get the paywall: http://archive.is/vqTNf
Williams College Students Claim ‘Free Speech Harms,’ Fight Chicago Principles
I passed it at 7 and it wasn't easy. I have personal experience of it being nasty, anti-vaxxers mostly don't. They don't even know what they're talking about because that's the whole point of their position, ignore every actual piece of knowledge about this and construct an very entertaining conspiracy that has no consequences until herd immunity crumbles. I don't even know why we're having this problem, we were on our way to eradicate measles, as we did with smallpox.
> somehow think that the scams that people have used in the past with banks will not be used again with crypto. SURPRISE!!!

But nobody thinks that. That's the point I was just making.
Slightly off topic - I can’t imagine calling the framework Sauron and posting a photo from the LOTR movie is legal.
> you'll keep your pension unless...

In the government you can lose your pension. In the private sector you can't. In both cases you have state benefits. How's that a benefit of being in government?
Print the QR codes, put them inside a plastic bottle and bury them 6 feet down in your parents backyard under the cover of darkness.

-- the more elaborate, the more cool you feel doing it :)
I don't think this is a general problem with e-mail services. If you use an e-mail provider that's a paid service rather than a pipeline into an ad company, you actually get good service and a customer support team that has an incentive to fix your problems. (I've been very happy with Fastmail for many years.)
If enough expected messages don’t show up, users are going to start thinking gmail is broken. The problem for Google is that they are not the only trusted brand consumers interact with. I’ve seen a lot of stuff start ending up in spam that shouldn’t be there. If enough password resets, customer service responses, and order confirmations aren’t delivered, it looks like Google has a problem. If it doesn’t even make it to the spam box it makes Google look really bad.

Google has definitely been changing things, everyone presumes it’s some rogue ML system. My company had solid Gmail delivery for almost 10 years, and at a fairly large volume. Now we can’t get it delivered any more. Very close to showing users a message not to use Gmail.
Stealing Fuel Price Data
You're partially correct. Citizens can bring complaints before their local supervisory authority, but cross-border issues are dealt with first and foremost by the lead supervisory authority.

To wit, article 56(1) of the GDPR:

>Without prejudice to Article 55, the supervisory authority of the main establishment or of the single establishment of the controller or processor shall be competent to act as lead supervisory authority for the cross-border processing carried out by that controller or processor in accordance with the procedure provided in Article 60.

and 56(6):

>The lead supervisory authority shall be the sole interlocutor of the controller or processor for the cross-border processing carried out by that controller or processor.
Nope. Censorship is damage. The Internet just routes around it.
>There are trade-offs involved with any paradigm,...

Reminded me of the aphorism, "All models are wrong, but some are useful" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
>and are much shorter than average heights in Western Countries

Not to dismiss the other stuff you said, but this probably isn't relevant to the pollution. Up until recently, China was pretty poor and even now a large number of people moving to cities come from impoverished rural regions. A lot of it probably comes down to insufficient childhood nutrition. Look at the height difference between 20-something Koreans and the 40+ crowd. There's a huge disparity in height.

Also, Asians in general tend to be a bit shorter than Europeans.

>Shanghai has major, major negatives in terms of quality of life and especially if you don't speak Chinese (because almost no one there speaks English).

And this is always a weird thing to me. It's like saying living in Germany sucks because almost nobody speaks Chinese. It's true, yeah, but that burden is on you, not them. :)
Find one.
> We need more people in government who actually have a plan, that are actually willing to take bets on people, to hire high-quality people, to see hard projects through, not to punt everything off to consulting firms.

I share your frustration, but there are evolutionary pressures at work here. The people most likely to be in government are those most likely to survive in it.

Seeing hard projects through does not increase your "fitness" much.

Knowing how to manipulate bureaucracies, build up little fiefdoms, acquire the pull to bring in expensive consultants, manage the reciprocal relationships with those consultants, etc. -- all this stuff does increase your fitness in a bureaucracy.

The only two proven ways to cut this Gordian Knot are smaller sovereign jurisdictions (suddenly those bureaucrats have to answer to people who are many fewer degrees removed) or executives with more unilateral power (authoritarianism/CEO-style governance). For better or worse, the American system has evolved in the opposite direction on both those poles.
> I've always thought that makers of image capture equipment were striving to create technology to capture the world, as it is, without any bias towards any particular subject.

You'd be surprised, especially with pre-digital photo. Each film emulsion has its own characteristics. I won't go to much into details because it's explained all over the internet already, but here is a quick comparison of a few emulsions:

https://www.thephoblographer.com/2017/11/27/quick-comparison...
> Microsoft doesn't get a bad rep like facebook or google, because their business model is not based on pushing ads onto their users and selling their users' data, which everybody hates.

Microsoft has many business models and one of them is based on advertisements, example : LinkedIn.
It's for buying and selling carbon offsets. Which in the grand scheme of "crypto for X" is not bad, since it's at least a thing that's actually exchanged in an existing market.

Farmers can sell their carbon credits to fund things that need to happen on their farm, to businesses that need to purchase carbon offsets because they're producing more than they should be.

Could it be done without crypto? Almost certainly. But I think the article's flyby description gives the thing room to sound much sillier than it really is.
The Japanese Death Cult's String of Futility (2018)
I don't think it's just a fad, sadly. It's a kind of post-modern hipsterism that borders on the quasi-reactionary, of a sort that seems to be weirdly popular as of late, and it might stay around for a while whether we like it or not. Yes, crowded environments will definitely be an issue. Hopefully wearing face masks in public will become more popular, much like we see happening in East Asia.
Reverse College Application
Slack releases S-1 as it prepares for IPO
Apparently that branding company is also active on the Wikipedia page for the logo:

> The subliminal advertising involved with the Pepsi Globe logo is also extensive. The different logos and packaging designs are purported to represent the human body, rediscovery of the Vitruvian principles and their publication, Chinese art of placement and spatial arrangement and many other representations that may not seem clear or obvious from just a glance at a Pepsi Bottle. The most famous visual representation is the Pepsi Globe logo’s representation of The Earth. The swirling horizontal stripe running through the center of the globe is claimed to provide a visual representation of the earth’s constant movement around its own axis and around the sun. The stripe also represents a naturally occurring electric generator in fluid motion generating and sustaining the magnetic field of the Earth. This marketing has resulted in an extremely recognizable logo and an aid to a profitable venture.
But they are still missing machine learning and AR in the business plan...
So Google--or any other big corporation--can take it over as well? I don't think coming up with yet another open protocol is the solution.
>Specifically, Judge Judith Dein, of the federal district court of Massachusetts, gave agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) the right to press Robert Brito-Pina's fingers on any iPhone found in his apartment in Boston. The bloke was suspected to be trafficking guns, hence the application for a search warrant

Yesterday in the thread about the MA state police getting told they need a warrant for real time location date I said that MA judges will consider politics when reading the law. This is exactly what I mean. MA really doesn't like guns (this is a statement of fact, I'm not going to get into a discussion of whether that hate is justified). It's no surprise that a MA judge allowed the state to go after someone accused of a firearms related crime. Had this been the DEA asking for a warrant for a drug trafficker's phone the judge would likely have ruled the other way.

>Jacobsen notes that gun traffickers "often use cellular telephones to acquire or sell illegal guns" and that they are "normally maintained for reasonably long periods of time because they are expensive, can often be subject to long-term contracts that contain substantial penalties for early termination, can store large amounts of information, and do not easily wear out." He also notes that even when people buy a new phone, they will typically transfer the contents of their old phone onto it.

What BS. People who make their living trafficking in illegal things use burners for their business. Everyone with a brain knows this. The ATF know they are not likely to find anything on that phone they don't already know. The ATF is just looking to set a precedent and they picked a forum likely to let them set that precedent.

FYI the second page of this article includes a pretty good summary of relevant case law to date.
That’ll be fun when you spend 3 hours on the tarmac before your “short haul” flight due to airport congestion or weather conditions.

Edited to add: what about people with disabilities? Can elderly people no longer fly? Or even if they have a few sitting seats to comply with disability regulations, what happens if you sprain your ankle at some point between booking your flight and boarding?
I don't believe that "customers want cheap flights more than they want comfort".

Really customers have about as much choice in the comfort of a flight as they do in the cost of health care services.

For years it has been "pay 4 times as much as economy or suffer", in the last ten years they've introduced "basic economy" which at least is realistic.

I might rather fly in a widebody on a domestic flight but I don't get the choice. One reason you hate to fly is that you hate to fly in a 737 (or A320) and you never get to fly in anything else so you just don't know it could be better (at a lower cost per seat mile!) in an A220 or E195.
Woah, what Beijing did you go to? Did you walk in the backstreets at all? A block outside of the forbidden palace and it the streets are filled with trash and unpainted cinder block one story buildings. Even around Wangfujing I'd consider it dirty and the further outside the center you go the worse it gets.

I may a Tokyo apologist but it is by far a cleaner city than Beijing, it's just busier.
Or perhaps light skin was an evolutionary development as humans moved to higher latitudes in order to obtain high enough levels of vitamin D. See [1]: The evolutionary significance of vitamin D, skin pigment, and ultraviolet light.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/1211435/
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There will, inevitably, be people who simply can't use these seats.

If you have a bad knee, you might not be able to bend it. If you are old and have a bad back you might not be able to stay in a such a seat for long.

This is going to cause trouble.
I disagree. Yes, large companies can be very slow and bureaucratic. However, they still have a profit motive which tends to drive action. Gov’t don’t have a profit motive, so for them, there is little that forces them to act beyond politics.
The remark from Feynman may have been fair at the time, but JASON has nominated and has been joined by scientists who aren’t physicists for quite some time: certainly predating the dust-up with DARPA.

I know it probably wasn’t intended, but the proximity of those two things 1) DARPA issues and 2) Feynman on honors could be uncharitably read that DARPA wanted a broader set of disciplines that JASON refused. That’s not true.

I would trust membership of JASON to themselves vs DARPA, but that may just be my own prejudices: I think of the current DARPA as a shadow of its former (great) self without the expertise to pick JASON members without succumbing to various political pressures.
I'm not like that with everyone. Steve Jobs is a bit of a unique case.
Sure, but Microsoft is not exactly looking to brag about the fact that it owns LinkedIn. There's zero mention of Microsoft on the LinkedIn website.
I’m looking for the exact same thing. Seems to be few and far between. I have a Synology which has two photo products but they can be a little clunky. The challenge seems to be a sensible way to add an import.
I still use Lard for roast potatoes, it is excellent at the job. But it is definitely unusual to use it at all at this point
Local supervisory authorities can investigate issues that are "[in] the territory of its own Member State"

Where there are cross-border issues, though, the supervisory authority of the main establishment of the controller becomes the lead supervisory authority.
Lest anyone think Gmail is less susceptible to problems because of the sheer volume of mail they handle (so any problem gets a lot of 'eyes' on it), they had an amusing and long-standing bug that meant any email containing a link to any domain name starting with "0x" automatically went to spam.

You could literally have two long standing, legitimately used accounts send an email to each other containing a link to a URL like http://0xANYTHINGHERE.com/ and it would be insta-spammed. I suspect it was a hard coded rule to avoid people using "long IP" URLs to circumvent other filters.. except there are lots of legitimate 0x domains that aren't long IPs.

It was fixed sometime in the past year but I got a lot of use out of it in talks I've given about email deliverability over the years.
Not convinced that's the case, with a bit of code splitting the view may end looking more like (pseudo-code):

fn view(&self) -> Node<Msg> {
div(self.attributes(), self.content())
}

fn content(&self) -> Node<Msg> {
input([
class("client"), r#type("button"), value("Click me!"),
onclick(|_| {sauron::log("Button is clicked"); Msg::Click})
],[],)
}
That's a bad example, half the pic is white (white guys + white shirts), the other half is black (black guys + black suits and dark background). Even with today's tech it's easy to mess a picture like that. It also looks like it was badly scanned / digitalised., cameras in the 90s were way more capable than that.

There is no magic, photography is all about light, darker skin colors reflect less light, thus you need to ramp up the exposure or the sensitivity of the film, which destroys details/highlights. The only racial related thing here would be the photographer chosing to correctly expose one skin color over another.

That one is similar to your pic but even with the bad resolution you can tell it's much better : https://usercontent1.hubstatic.com/13875852_f520.jpg

Idk what type of film was used for that particular pic but some films are made to better render white people's skin tones (kodak portra for example), while other are made for the asian markets, some are better for snowy/sandy landscapes, other for blueish/greenish scenes, &c.

On the other hand, black and white film works very well on black people:
https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article8111113.ece/ALT...
Now I want to try this. I'll start my brainstorming session by watching this:

https://youtu.be/GyV_UG60dD4

I can make my website here:

http://tiffzhang.com/startup/

Now, what am I missing?
You don't have to switch to gmail, you can pretty reliably switch to a myriad of service providers. You could even solely switch your SMTP server to something hosted and retain message storage on your end if you wanted.

It has become very difficult / unwise to host your own SMTP server, though, but that's been true for ages now. Gmail's marketshare is going to make that veeeery obvious, but it really has been a bad idea for the better part of a decade, at least.
If you ever do a long haul flight in economy (which I assume you haven't) you will realize the obvious purpose of reclining coach seats: to allow people a fighting chance of remaining asleep instead of being constantly awakened by their falling heads.
My stupid questions and comments make people laugh sometimes, so I assume they do, but I would never want to know peoples truest thoughts about me anyway.

In the end, you're just another person in their life, just like they are another person in yours, so it doesn't matter as much as you think...
Accenture - I'm the OP at the top of this thread, still referring to the same family member!
There's a period where immunity lapses, see: https://www.jwatch.org/pa201006020000002/2010/06/02/how-long...

I'm not actually sure why they vaccinate for MMR at one year as opposed to earlier like other vaccines. There must be a good reason.
I feel like you're trying to say that house sales just stop, or come close to it, during this time. When the reality is it's more like a few % points drop in volume. If it took OP an extra week or three sell? Sure. But 6 months? Something else is wrong.
Kissmetrics' founder on what they did wrong