skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny how little organizational power structures change:

I only had two horrible bosses to be honest, so I consider myself lucky.

One was at my first job out of school, the other a few jobs later.

Fist one basically stripped me of my confidence in my coding ability - I could build complex algorithms easily. She just didn't understand minor complexities and made me use more, simple algos and over document.

Later on another project, we were always behind schedule, just one fire away from the project collapsing. When we got a new boss, we were able to complete features easily, not because there were less features, but she could actually convey requirements.

At my later job, the boss didn't care about code quality, just that PBI's were moving through. Single mistakes brought down the entire app. We never did root cause analysis, just patched symptoms. Thankfully a boss that came in later was way better, he actually pushed quality.
? I believe the people who went through such experiences.

In my mind it is like riding a bicycle. Sometimes you get permanently damaged from circumstances you can’t control. Not sure why mentioning the risk is triggering...
EMx 050: Elixir Origin Story with José Valim
Naively, the ability to re-charge without stopping seems of limited value. Given predictable routes and the existing network of specialized stops for trucks, I expect that battery swapping and overnight charging of trucks is sufficient, and does not require maintaining expensive overhead wiring infrastructure stretching over miles. Just consider what is going to require more hardware: a single battery swap station, or miles and miles of overhead wiring necessary to recharge a truck battery given known limits to battery charging speeds.
The bird that came back from the dead
Objective-C ARC (automatic reference counting) solved the problem neatly for my iOS apps.

Is there some overhead? Maybe, but it's neatly spread out through the entire application life time, so there is rarely[1] a UI-freezing stutter associated with GC. To reduce the overhead I turned off thread-safety and simply never access the same objects from more than one thread (object has to be "handed off" first if it comes to that).

One wart on the body of ARC is KVO, which I avoid like a plague for many other reasons anyway.

The other wart is strong reference loops. This can be solved by the app developer by designing architecture around the "ownership" concept (owners use strong references to their ownees, all other links are weak references). This is a good idea in itself as it increases clarity of the program. I do make an occasional slip, which is where I need to rely on Instruments, and I do wish I had better tools than that, something more automatic that would catch me in the act. Maybe a crawler that looks for loops in strong references during the development process but is quiet in release builds. Or at least give me a pattern to follow that makes it easy to catch my errors. For example, we could assign a sequential number to each allocated object, and only higher-ranked object could strongly refer to lower-ranked object. This won't work for everyone but I wouldn't mind fitting my app to this mold if that gave me immediate error when I slip.

[1] if you release a few million objects all at once it may stutter for a second. Could be handed off to a parallel thread maybe.
In Poland you can assume almost everyone has a debit card that works on-line.

WRT. your number of paying systems, note that there's exactly one Polish payment system there - DotPay. Every other system there is to support other countries (not surprising, given that you've picked up the site of the national airline).
Major Governments [Australia and Austria] Pass Anti-Encryption Laws
It is a sign of my system being cleaner than it was before. Onion and garlic are extremely potent medicines. They are not food. They have antibiotic properties and kill bacteria. Our guts have microbes. Now, connect the dots...
>On the flip side my government insists on giving me a choice of schools for my child. I don't really want choice, I want the local school to be good and for my children to go there.

Yeah, people mostly start asking for control when you make the default experience shitty. They want control to escape the hell they've been put in, but they have to pay a price for it either in money or time. So functionally, "give users more control" is really saying "make the user pay more to use my product."

In an ideal world everything would be bespoke and custom tailored for me, but the idea there is that the tailor knows how to create what I want. Not that I have to go tailoring all my own stuff. I'm not competent enough to do that unless it's my hobby.
Keepass.com is present in uBlock Origin's Badware Risks list, I couldn't even access it first.
Maybe my filter bubble, but VRML was kind of talked about in the late 90s (when we got on the internet) but the implementation, features, and general application state was more of a running joke. Also that's probably why it faded so relatively quickly, nobody used it.
I would agree with your statement, most folks here use logic & statistics to backup their arguments. In my comment above I was talking about the 'conservative' vs 'liberal' cultural war going on right now.

EDIT: Oh wait, after re-reading it's a tongue and cheek comment making fun of liberals. Let's try to be more civil in our discussion.
There is an underlying assumption that facts are evident and we should be guided to the same conclusion by them, which is false. The authors are acting like it is a new discovery that people can have widely different views in the light of the same facts, that people have different realities. They authors even quote Goethe who figured this out a couple hundred years ago, so it is sort of laughable.

The article doesn't even touch the issue of the "fact-checkers" having bias themselves (who checks the checkers, as it were).

Even more silly is the list of things on which people disagree. Climate change and vaccination are the only issues with a overwhelming scientific consensus. The other issues, like the economy, minimum wage increases, etc. all have substantial bodies of research supporting both sides of the argument.

This book feels like a cash-grab, or maybe attention-grab.
A majority of instances won't involve breaking a line, although that certainly does happen. The typical case is that they'll thrive off of damp soil around pipes with small existing leaks and leach off that for hydration.
They’re only out $50 for debit accounts. Credit accounts, you’re not liable for anything.
The analogy fails, because it’s more like projecting power as a beat cop who doesn’t always feel like risking their life going to every neighborhood, but on a whole, (from a utilitarian point of view), things are better off than they would be had the beat cop failed to exist prior.
I wonder if there's a potential class action suit there if you could get enough people together.
Can you cite source for the claim that people have switched?

Cause all I see is people using both...and the publicly available data supports that
That, honestly not trying to be snarky, is my question.

Is the convenience of an app so important to you that you're willing to deal with this nonsense?
Can you link to the sales figures you're talking about?

I googled around a bit and found the chart on this page, which contradicts your point completely.

https://www.cultofmac.com/544737/iphone-x-is-the-best-sellin...
Looking at the link, this device measures formaldehyde in mg/m3. You'll need to convert this to ppm, just FYI.

1 ppm in air = 1.24 mg/m3 @ 25° C

If you're measuring 0.1 on the meter, that's about 0.08ppm (still pretty high).
Why is it harder, just block s3.amazonaws.com that's it. I don't think countries that block domains care about s3.amazonaws.com.
I mean... its not even hidden in fine print or written in legalese or anything, they are pretty clear about "Activities Requiring Approval" in readable plain language.

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/acceptableuse-full

>Providing file sharing services or access to newsgroups
It stops them from freezing the account on Paypal. If you really want to insulate from the service you would set up a similar job at your bank that would immediately transfer the funds out of that account and into some other account. But honestly if you are going to this much trouble is it even worth it to use Paypal?
According to Prof. Herbert Stoyan, probably the oldest GC algorithm description is in 'J. McCarthy, M.L. Minsky: Artificial Intelligence. Quarterly Progress Report No. 53, Res. Lab, of electronics MIT, Cambridge, April 1959.' Prof. Stoyan then mentioned that the 'first garbage collector was implemented by Dan Edwards during June/July of 1959'.

So we have 60 years of GC research.
https://acsbadge.com/product/formaldehyde-vapor-monitor-f-50...
One solution for this may be – at least in part – in becoming more aware of these kind of cognitive biases. I'm hardly free from them, but a realisation of how they work does, at least occasionally, catch them.

The compassion vs. rugged individualism in racism/oppression debates is something I've noticed in the last few years as well. It's good to see my observations proven by some data :-) I'm pretty firmly on the "compassion" side myself, and realising this is a good way to ensure I don't jump to conclusions too fast, or at least not too often.

It's also useful when having discussions. Instead of arguing about whether or not something is or isn't racism you can talk about underlying views on racism/life/society, which is in my experience a better way to understand each other (which is the real value of any debate).
I note that all the mini-Bell's have now merged and reformulated into just 3 companies, and $10 says AT&T or Verizon will gooble up CenturyLink before long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System.

I like Elizabeth Warren's idea (in the case of Google) to break up the sales side from the platform side, and let them compete like everyone else for advertising impressions in the exchange. I admit I may not understand the nuance here, but the idea is readily grasped, which is, perhaps, the most-important thing in getting political leverage behind it.
Credit / Debit cards are the same thing online. We, as is USA people, use the terms interchangeable often. I'm going to guess that most EU people have some form of banking card. So we will continue to assume that people have a form of payment other than cash.
If I hadn't just purchased a for-parts T460s & everything else necessary to cobble together a functioning machine, then this would be my first choice. I'm resolved to no longer purchase new Intel machines going into the future, so Ryzen, ARM, RISC-V, & POWER machines are what I'm watching closely.
That is really cool. Thanks for sharing, I love it when people collect data.
Do you know of any existing system of trolleybuses running at highway speeds? Equating the tech here is like equating trams with long-distance trains.
I would call that theft, no question.
Its absolutely possible to break facebook up horizontally. And if the government were to explore a breakup, its the way they should go.

Company 1 would be a Social Networking and Hosting PaaS from hardware, networking, bandwidth, databases, serverless workers to services like ads, anti-evil, localization, social graph, development tools, frameworks, runtimes. Company 1, would be THE place to build a social network, if you were an upstart. Company 1 could instantly be a tier 1 competitor to AWS and Azure. Imagine being able to tap into Facebooks Identity services, but running your own Directory Tenant, instead of tied to the FBID. Company 1 would compete with Firebase and restart Pulse, it would jump headfirst against Microsoft and its Visual Studio/GitHub offerings.

Company 2 become clients, consumers, of Company 1 services. They include Messenger, WhatsApp, FB, IG, and Occulus.

The other beauty of a horizontal breakup is that Company 1 lowers the barrier to entry for new upcoming social networks, without being a risk to them being eaten by Company 2. Mark then also can profit off selling his competitors service, similar to AWS profiting off Netflix.
impressive and .. upgrade on 10.x now in process, easily, quickly, thanks to the Postgres PGDG Debian/Ubuntu repos .. BUT do not choose meta-package postgres ! Under Ubuntu at least, upgrading the meta-package postgres adds an entire new server 11+ without confirmation .. why is this tolerated.. genuinely annoying
> Making the claim “users want control” is the same as saying you don’t know what users want, you don’t know what is good, and you don’t know what their goals are.

Yup, that's exactly what I'm saying. There might be overriding concerns coming from _community_ needs (which is where arguments for things like ACA and other public healthcare come from, actually, and why I might not give a user a particular configuration option), but while I might know better what a platonic ideal of a user wants, what any particular user wants _I do not_ unless I ask them.
What's the difference between this and 1-click VPS with WordPress/etc preinstalled?
>These models reflect what users do -- isn't that much more democratic than employees deciding?

What users do is different from what users would like to do. If people's aspirations lined up with their real behaviors, Planet Fitness wouldn't have a business model. But when navigating the world people often want to improve themselves into something they want to be, not fall deeper into the worst tendencies they exhibit in any given moment.
Facebook lets you share posts from Twitter and Instagram, not sure about what else
I noticed the Edge page does not make any distinction between Spartan (current EdgeHTML-based version) and Anaheim (future Chromium-based version). The downloadable rar contains Anaheim though.
yes. And additionally it uses a new Dart language, requiring re-training JS programmers, unusual and less readable noodle-like code, slow single-core compilation and not as much 3rd-party libs and plugins as they are for JS and Cordova, React Native and NativeScript. I liked it at first, but I have doubts it will ever be wide-spread and highly-adopted. At first I hoped it could make Android app development better, getting rid of Java tooling nightmares but it is also bad in its own ways. So many years passed and Android dev experience haven't improved much. And Flutter is considered main Fuchsia UI language. :( I miss xcode and Cocoa...
It's only relatively recently that cities began to have higher life expectancies than the countryside. Last 200 years or so, IIRC.
I 100% agree with you that the idea of spin-offs is flat, tone deaf, and all about PR for the proposers, and not anything actually beneficial to the public.

Wrote more about what I think is better replying to a child comment of yours. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19868464
Trolleybus cannot operate at highway speeds or handle detachable trailers.
Hong Kong is part of China and also not part of China. So it makes perfect sense that a Hong Kong company is both Chinese and not Chinese.
What were you using them to process?
That study was also promptly debunked.

https://insideevs.com/features/347409/german-study-diesels-c...
I think insurance rates will drastically increase for human operated ICE vehicles, as well.
Nothing glaring about the sound , I didn't expect much but I haven't upgraded since the iPhone se and it's better
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> increasingly severe hurricanes have been predicted but not observed

The severity of Cyclone Fani has been directly attributed to climate change. The hurricane may have occurred without climate change, but there is very strong consensus that its severity is directly attributable to abnormally high temperatures in the Bay of Bengal.
Question about the phrase 'dog whistle headline'.

I thought a dog whistle in current popular use was a headline or sentence meant to imply something hidden, usually racist/sexist/other-ist. Like the phrase 'those people' or something like that.

How is this headline implying anything other than what it says, or is my interpretation of that phrase wrong?
That would be the point.
Civilization is an affront to nature -- it's amazing how few of us understand this.
I'm not a database guy so have no clue, but why are there so many versions receiving support? Is there just that much legacy crap they can't get away from, like Python?
Aside from Equifax, I disagree. I think FB is getting what they deserve.
There was no Grand Congress but there was a loose confederation of ideologues who saw GG and saw a major opportunity to radicalize young people. I don't know how organic GG itself was. It didn't look organic but then again it's hard to tell.
When you walk into a grocery store, you assume the fruit isn't plastic. When you walk into a furniture store, you do.

Why? Ambient context.
How to implement pseudonymization: your key questions answered
What you describe as a corrupt employer is anyone that uses Mailchimp, SendinBlue, MailPoet, CampaignMonitor, Dotmailer, MailGet, etc.

Do you think that companies who send newsletter do it without any traces of analytics? Every link is tracked, every image is tracked. On the web, there are heatmaps of every single mouse movement. Your keystrokes used to be tracked too, until GDPR hit. Anyone who works does analytics can play back the path visitors used to navigate on the site.

It doesn't take any advanced team to do that. You simply drop a .js file from some third-party CND in your site's head and you have all that data. Any mom ? pop shop that has a website has access to that data.

Everyone does it, that's the current state of the industry. To refuse work from anyone who does analytics would mean to leave the web industry.

> but seriously the amount of money flowing to developers these days

At the time, I was paid cad$40k/year. According to glassdoor.ca, the salary for the same position would be cad$59k/year today. Not everyone works from the inside of a bubble.
Ah, both maybe.

I can't find a reference, but I'd heard somewhere Sam-I-Am was a thin metaphor for Uncle Sam, trying to convince the public to accept green (ie nuclear glowing) eggs and ham as normal and acceptable in exchange for the benefits of nuclear bombs and power.
Lisp is also typed - the tagging made for easier native code compilation vs. bytecoded approaches.
That's assuming everyone can telecommute or has a non-physical job. We have already tried suburban sprawl in many cities, and I'm not sure it worked. It's also assuming that people only live in cities because of work. A lot of people live in cities because they don't want to own a car, and like what they have to offer for community, lifestyle and culture.

Suburban sprawl, office parks and shopping malls don't offer much in the way of cultural and community development and they are very heavily focused around those who own an automobile and get everywhere by driving. Riding a bike or walking in a busy CBD is usually much more productive and practical than riding or walking around a sprawling suburbia. Getting any meaningful distance takes far longer in a suburban sprawl and often your destination is in the center of a completely different suburb, with it's own gigantic sprawl to cover before you get to the businesses.

I am interested in what your solutions to the symptoms would be, I think I'm probably doing you a disservice by assuming your solution is more suburbia.
Sorry, there's a bit of misunderstanding here, my fault. I'm referring to metropolitan area population, not the specific city population. My city, Porto, for example, has less than 300k inhabitants. The metro area is, however, about 1.5M. In the context of auto traffic, or city services, the relevant number is the metro population, not the city proper.
I believe the exact opposite
Common fallacy is that phone numbers uniquely identify a person or a geographic location. Neither has ever been true but that is the real reason banks want your phone number so bad. It wasn't so long ago that you couldn't even get a loan or credit card in the US without a phone in your name.

My phone number came from an old alt.phreaking post and has run busy continuously since at least 1982. If banks try to SMS authenticate me then instead of their app or web banking, I just link the account to another bank that doesn't do SMS. These days I pay for everything with credit cards anyway and the bank is just there to insure and hold my funds until I pay the cards, so I don't need much from them besides an ATM card and the ACH numbers.

I've noticed that all of the synchrony branded credit card sites require SMS only for password changes, and when prompting you they pull a list of every phone you've ever owned from a Transunion skip-trace database. If they wanted to authenticate me again before entering an area of elevated security they could just ask for my password again - but they don't, and they don't ask for any credentials when changing the phone number, so that suggests to me that security isn't the reason they are prompting for SMS authentication.

SMS validation or not, don't try to access the web portal for a Synchrony issued credit card from outside the US, they typically block the account with SMS validation for 3-4 days. Several times I've forgotten to turn of my VPN and ended up sending them paper checks in order to pay my bill on time.

Plus I think we've sufficiently proven that phone numbers are susceptible to SS7 and social engineering attacks, anyone with my mother's maiden name, DOB, and social security number can take over my phone and all the information is easily acquired from Transunion or Experian. The best thing NIST ever did as depreciate SMS auth for all the reasons I just described. The worst thing NIST ever did was backtrack on the first thing.

There are financial services companies out there that give a damn about security. Shout out to Robinhood for enabling strong passwords (32 characters!) and standard TOTP. They are the only financial services company I've found that offers TOTP. As soon as they have a cash management account I think that is where I'm going to park my funds.

(E*Trade has 2FA also but you have to buy a hardware dongle from them. I appreciate the effort but paging Captain Marvel just the same.)
These days it is but back before the revolutions in public health at the turn of the 20th century cities were very unhealthy, so much so that they tended to be net consumers of population from the countryside even when they weren't growing.
The author obviously meant personal cars.
Chrome extension that converts Trump tweets into crayon scribbles by an 8yo
Civilization is nature.
Garlic and onions are high in fructans which trigger IBS in millions of people a day.

My wife enjoyed and _loved_ galic for 30+ years before her IBS kicked in. Garlic is extremely bad for IBS because bacteria gorge themselves and produce a ton of gas, which causes horrible intestinal pain.

A study [0] recommends garlic and onions as key foods to restore a healthy, balanced microbiome.

I have never heard anyone before you claim that garlic or onions will kill bacteria. Rather, they let a specific kind flourish.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5470704/
It's not a US-only phenomenon. I've got lots of similar incompetency stories from Poland.

My mom was a math teacher in primary school for 6 months after which she had to stop doing it because the kids drove her close to a mental breakdown.

Her friend from high school (which sucked at math) still teaches in her hometown and is seen by a lot of kids (and now adults) as completely incompetent (as reported by cousins growing up there).

I recall multiple instances of incompetency, abuse, blaming and general stupidity in my own education. Good teachers were the odd ones. Most were mediocre. The problematic ones had to really cross the line to get fired or warned.
Unlikely to win,
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/acceptableuse-full

Activities Requiring Approval
> Providing file sharing services or access to newsgroups;

Looks like he didn't seek approval and got flagged for it.