skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
who conspired to commit violence and escalate an already violent event and who were members of what is essentially a terrorist group were just defending themselves?

I like the principle you are espousing here. The people who commit violence, trying to inject/normalize violence and intimidation into the US political system, should be treated as a terrorist group.

They were the aggressors. They have a history of being aggressors. They openly admit to being violent and aggressive.

People who fit the description given by the above three sentences should be treated as a terrorist group. (1 - Aggressors. 2 - History of aggression. 3 - Openly admit to being violent and aggressive.) If you are espousing this principle, I wholeheartedly agree!
I hate your business helping middlemen scalpers. Middlemen scalpers are just barely different than phone scammers. It may not be technically illegal, but it's a detriment to society.
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Done i'll delete this. Thanks. I figured i was being dumb. :)
Like a WiFi at a café or airport?
The alternative was back in the day when clickjackers could install Actionscript malware without a prompt that rootkitted the whole computer. Sandboxing and prompts are a definite win.
This story is incredible. Someone with a podcast should interview you all!
I really wish we had Singapore-style hawker centers in the US. I'm not sure the economics could work here, though.
I'm curious how they determined this? Surveys?
I'm curious do you only hire people with US citizenship?
Right?

Don't forget that Zuckerberg started out making an app to get laid. It's a long, long road from there to preaching ethics and whether or not he actually has reformed, he has not exhibited that reformation.
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A bit more recently (I hope), PCI requirements helpfully forced our hand to stop supporting IE8.
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Funny you mention this as a drawback, while it's actually a strength of mono repo that is perfectly handled.

For a widely used library. Leave the argument. This argument could be defaulted to NULL, the function can be marked @deprecated and it can log a warning message that the argument has no effect (depending on the language). That's how to handle updates with backward and forward compatibility. No need to break user code.

That's a strength of a mono repo. It only lets you do the right thing. You can't ignore other developers in the company and break all their software.

In a typical multi repo, there is the luxury to change anything anytime, as often as a developer feels like renaming a variable or a parameter. Creating a ton of unnecessary work for other developers who have the pain to keep up. That is, if they ever attempt to upgrade any library, there is no benefit to upgrading and it's impossible to keep up with all changes going on in all libraries thus it's rarely done in practice. The more it's behind, the more work there is to upgrade, the less likely it is to be done.
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> nobody used IE6 except grandmas and corporations.

And a fifth of YouTube users at the time.

"IE6 users represented around 18% of our user base at that point. We understood that we could not just drop support for it"
Critical mass starts with you. If you want to play video games on Linux, support developers and games that you can plan on Linux.
> The people around me who seem to be most active when it comes to the topic of climate change also tend to be vegetarians or vegans.

What do these people do? Unless they're working on renewables technology or carbon-capture technology, they're not doing anything useful. That's just how the math shakes out. The climate problem is so huge that only engineers and scientists can help us now. Everything else is just putting on one of those "raising awareness of breast cancer" ribbons.
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All forms of private business were forbidden in the Soviet Union. Punishment: 5 years of imprisonment and confiscation of property.

Individual state-owned butcheries were managed by regional centers, which belonged to the ministry of meat and dairy industry. They planned how many pigs would be grown, how they would be distributed among butcheries, etc.

Everything was at the mercy of central planning. If they planned for less than the actual demand (a very common occurrence), then there'd be no meat left by the time the last 40-50-60% got to a butchery.

Personal contacts were very valuable. People in the know could tell you in advance when the next shipment of meat would arrive, or even hide it away for you in a backroom.

Over decades, a huge acquaintance-based shadow economy formed. Positions like butchers and store managers became some of the most desirable jobs in the society, since they effectively decided who got to eat meat (in return for similar favors) and who didn't.

Since there were no real elections and no competition, there was no way for an average citizen to express dissatisfaction neither politically nor economically.

And it was like this with pretty much everything. Even toilet paper was something that had to be hoarded, because its supply was unpredictable. Being a woman was especially difficult as central planners assigned very low priority to female hygenic products.

If you complained enough to get noticed, there were psychiatric hospitals waiting for you because one had to be mentally ill to believe in the superiority of free-market capitalism.
I agree and the article was more nuanced than that. I think organic farming is great and maybe needs GMO in order to thrive, sustainably, into the climate/soil future.

It's a deep topic and there are no simple answers, thanks for pointing that out!
AI is not going to kill us; it might make us more human
Why do people still use the mobile facebook app? I've just added the web app shortcut on my phone and it's more than enough, plus it doesn't bother you with useless updates, doesn't track you when you're not running the app, and doesn't drain your battery.
Oracle's WebLogic Server exploited in the wild to install ransomware
Yes, we're on the same page. It just seems that people parrot what golang authors say without actually deeply thinking about it.
Looks very interesting, but the part of the installation instructions where it says that its directory "will be in your $PATH environment variable" worries me – is the installer taking the liberty of messing with my configuration without asking first?
I can't imagine why this ever would make sense. Only scammers would benefit would accept this, because of the lack of clarity in ownership, it's like a deliberate attempt to circumvent normal financial transactions, which only benefits scammers.

It strikes me as the same thing as the fake-check auto purchase scams that infest different on-line auto sales channels.
A fifth of youtube users were people at work. The same people who aren't allowed to change their browser or tell their boss to upgrade to IE8 so they can watch more youtube.
I mean--that's totally fair. And those are the sorts of conversations I have.

Because I'm hiring somebody to do something I know well--this is my bailiwick! In that post, I was trying to approach it from the perspective of someone who...isn't...a former devops consultant and miles deep in this stuff. ;)
They don't have to be awful; most of them are just poorly designed. Another Area 120 startup, Chatbase, is a service for designing voice bots that are much smarter and versatile than the norm by anticipating what questions people ask based on precedent (and all the different ways they ask them). Most voice bots can't do that.

[Disclaimer: I work on the Chatbase team]
Older mobile homes turned to kindling during extreme weather. Newer ones are built much better because now there are building codes they have to meet. But reality is you pay for what you get.

Newer mobile homes are treated like custom homes. Including being cemented to the floor, permanently. They cost more, mortgages are larger, so banks treat those homes as permanent. Going so far as making sure the undercarriage is completely dismantled and removed. If the owner defaults bank employees have shown up to take possession only to find an empty lot!
Researchers Compromise Netflix Content in Widevine DRM Hack
Not really true. Tom Brady makes $20m/year and his manager makes $10m/year. Both are arguably the best in their position and it would be hard to gauge which adds more to the overall team success.
Possibly, but this is also coming from that Area 120 internal startup incubator... rather than the team behind Duplex.
You still should have filed a complaint with the State Attorneys General of all applicable jurisdictions.
Of the agile shops I've done similarly only one did it well, and I won't lie - there was way more process and documentation than any waterfall shop I was ever a part of.
A lot of indie cafes are kind of like this. Example from my city:

https://www.cafepyrus.com/

https://www.google.com/search?q=cafe+pyrus+kitchener&tbm=isc...

Healthy, inexpensive food. Order at the counter, they bring it to you when it's ready. Bus your own table when you're done. Extremely basic decor, but they're a community spot, with fairly frequent mini-concerts, a monthly poetry slam, etc.
Microsoft should prevent this. It's not in their interest to allow OEMs to circumvent the normal software installation methods for Windows. It should be prohibited in whatever agreement OEMs make with Microsoft, and maybe Windows should prevent execution of such code if it's possible to tell it apart from drivers.
Ahh, I think I got it. I'll restate it to see if you correct me.

The SpaceX long-term goal is cheap and safe space travel to Mars. The risk is very high that this goal will fail. NASA won't accept this sort of mission because it's very likely to be a waste of money which could be used for other NASA goals (eg, robotic probes).

Though looking at it, it implies that NASA is being fiscally responsible, but the other 1/2 of the Mahoney is the 'government-sanctioned monopoly', so my interpretation cannot be what is meant. (I can think of other reasons, like not wanting to upset the funding system.)

Still, I think it's close enough that it clears up my confusion. Thanks!

EDIT: But if people do die on a SpaceX mission, will that count as a mission failure, and will SpaceX be able to continue?
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Cash-friendly and bank unfriendly. I lived in Germany for a year and I haven't had to finish a branch so many times in my life as that year.
Beer and Wine Contain Traces of Metal Contaminants from Filtration Process
Check if you haven't forgotten to bump the PyPi package (Python) version
I'd hope a metro area of 13 million people could drive transit construction in the 21st century in the general case, but cities all over the US continue to impress on their total failure to do so.
Having worked in early stage angel funded startups, I am impressed they are doing severance.
This is the first example I've ever heard of where a browser-upgrade banner worked. Every time I've tried it on sites I've worked on, the "please upgrade" banner does nothing.

Years ago, we even tried turning it into an intrusive pop-up for a percentage of users. They just clicked through the pop-up, presumably without reading it.

I wonder if it worked in this case because it started a movement?

> Between YouTube, Google Docs, and several other Google properties posting IE6 banners, Google had given permission to every other site on the web to add their own. IE6 banners suddenly started appearing everywhere. Within one month, our YouTube IE6 user base was cut in half and over 10% of global IE6 traffic had dropped off while all other browsers increased in corresponding amounts. The results were better than our web development team had ever intended.
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> (And now we’re back where we started with Chrome as the new IE.)

Except for the part where you get BSoD and infinite recursion or any of the other stated IE6 nightmares...

Really, the only thing Chrome and IE have in common are market share. Chrome is magnitudes better than IE in every other way as far as being a web dev goes.
I think Haskell's been working really well for us. Strong types give a lot of confidence during refactoring. The language is performant too which has definitely helped us as we've been scaling.

Personally, I like to stay pretty close to the javascript when doing web work. Elm, Purescript, GHCJS all have their benefits but I find it just too difficult to integrate with the rest of the (disjointed) web development toolkit.
golang just brought these arguments back, and they're ending up reinventing most of what's been done, but in a subpar way (e.g. code gen instead of generics, verbose error handling + panics instead of exceptions, etc.).
What's different between this and a buffet?
Absolutely. I let the pms do their thing and follow the rules. Every organization I've worked with is thrilled when developers get buy in, but guess what your process is still pretty crappy and we just want to make you feel good about it.

Positive criticism always falls on deaf ears - "why not just give it a chance" blah blah.
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Public WiFi networks really should use client isolation. Sadly, many don't.
Even just the transportation infrastructure is incredible to me. I was just there and it was honestly amazing to me how deep the metro stations can be. Multiple long escalators/stairways from surface to platform.
The primary objective of the employer is to get the work from employee and the employee's primary objective is to get paid well according to the market and skill. Having nice socially intractable colleges is outside the control of both the employer and employee. In my personal experience people who oppose Remote work are the people in managerial positions who does lack coding skills.
It's more amazing that Williamson was ever Defence Minister in the first place.

Latest: "Theresa May considers the matter closed."

So there we are. No police investigation into a rather serious matter of national security. Meanwhile Williamson himself is absolutely insistent he's innocent and that the internal investigation was ineffective - which means that if he is innocent, someone else was responsible.

And if he's telling the truth, that person remains unnamed, and in a ministerial position.
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Interestingly, according to the graph at the end, IE6 was already well on its way out and they only accelerated its death by a few months. The real effect seems to have been stopping IE7 dead in its tracks, and almost single-handedly catapulting IE8 to the top. A most peculiar effect, despite the banner's promotion of IE8, since only IE6 users should have seen it!

I smell an untold story... maybe one of the other teams' banners was accidentally visible to IE7 users as well? Or did IE7 sometimes spoof IE6?
I fund you folks on Liberapay so you've already got my $10/mo (and much more) without the other overhead of taking care of my messaging service. I also self-host so am not going to use Librem.one anyway[+]. However...

> old infra surrounding the matrix.org server had grown organically and hadn't received any proper ops love

I'm sorry to be a bit harsh, but "hosting package and android signing keys on production servers" and "not putting services on an internal network accessible only by VPN" aren't small mistakes. They're major screw-ups. An "organically grown" setup where the signing keys were on one developer's laptop would've arguably been more secure than the old setup.

Don't get me wrong, I really want you to do well (I've used Matrix for years and have donated >£1500 over that time). But I have to be honest with you that trust in your infrastructure is going to be very hard to get back. Hell, it took until last week for some of the remaining services from the breach to be back up (fedtester was down last week from memory)!

The offer for hosting matrix.org packages on OBS is still open. It'd reduce at least a bit of maintenance overhead and would at least allow homeserver operators to get the latest packages independently of the main matrix.org infra. :D

> and was set up by a professional ops team

Given that the ops team is presumably employed by New Vector, why wasn't the matrix.org infrastructure fixed before launching a new product? Was this something that was planned to happen but never did, or was the long-term plan to shut off matrix.org and get everyone to switch to Modular?

[+] Though I'm surprised that you seem to see public offerings of Matrix homeservers to be a negative rather than a success of the protocol -- surely this plan was obvious given the Librem 5 wanting to use Matrix as the main messaging service. Obviously I think they should contribute back to Matrix.org, but isn't focusing on that missing the wood for the trees? Also the main benefit people will have out of a service like Librem.one is that you are paying for all of the services provided, not just one. I have a feeling selling "just another chat system" to folks (which is what most people think when they first see Matrix) will be much harder than selling "G-suite that protects your privacy".
Astronomers discover 2k-year-old remnant of a nova
Since the patlive service and all those 'answering services' that you get are basically faciliating a scam, I'm sure a serious prosecutor could get a court order telling them to pass the information on that they had about the underlying person.

If it was a reloadable card, you can still figure it out with more effort. You threaten to sue them into oblivion as facilitating criminal actions, and you get them to get you on a real phone number with the scammer, and then you track them down that way. You just have to try harder.

A reporter could pursue this by getting a job with that firm and tracking backwards.
> so many people interpret acknowledgement of one's own fallibility as lying.

I can't speak for others, but for myself I interpreted the bit about his bio saying this meant that it was the intention, not an honest assessment of what will occur despite intentions.

I mean, I'm TERRIBLE at estimation and despite all my efforts and awareness I still underestimate most everything. But when starting a company I wouldn't say "...and we'll have optimistic estimates!"

That said, I've not read the bio, and I may well have misunderstood the capsule summary. On the gripping hand, despite (or because of) all his undeniable brilliance at execution, Musk says and does a lot of things that are Not How I Would Do It, so who knows.