skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been preaching this since forever.

Don't rely on PayPal. They're less professional than a kid selling juice next to the road.

There are no grace periods with PayPal to give you time to move to another service.

There is never more than a generic reason and stonewalling when they terminate you.

And yes, their decision is always final.

They'll happily terminate your only source of income on a friday afternoon, freeze your funds, then laugh at you as you scramble to get an alternative up and running.

Don't build on PayPal. It's no foundation at all.
I'd argue that "de-prioritization" is worse than the status quo because it allows more people to feel secure using the drug but lets the state retain power of arbitrary enforcement.
On Mac it's a bit less (8k) and size reports:

text data bss dec hex filename
172 24 44 240 f0
> I travel quite a bit and change phone numbers often. Most of the time when I am traveling I am in locations that have poor or nonexistent cellular service.

Use Twilio or VOIP.ms, very cheap. You can do 2fa easily, just top up $20. I find that the biggest cost for me personally doing this is the $1/month phone number rental fee. I use maybe ~50c every month on 2fa. It's an already solved problem.

> I have debated using Twilio to create my own number pool of international numbers and a way to check my messages via a web portal instead of relying on messaging. Are there any current apps / services that already do this effectively?

VOIP.ms has a very nice SMS gateway, they will automatically relay SMS messages to your email address. You pay a bit of a premium for it (eg, of SMS cost 0.001c, you pay 0.0015c if I recall correctly) - but it's almost immediately delivered without issue.
A couple of articles about that:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-08/second-fish-kill-in-d...

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-million-dead-fish-environmenta...
Side note: I always feel pretty weirded out visiting a website called tenderlovemaking.com. It feels gross and creepy and not something I want when I'm doing my professional job in a professional environment.

Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like this tenderlove/tenderlovemaking thing is a bit uncomfortable-making and maybe not ok?
Did we read the same article? Because the on I read said:

> After calling their support twice, explaining the situation and asking for a reason, we have received nothing but “the decision is final, and we will not provide more information”.
Fair enough. Well, too late, I just hacked together a Haskell version based on the OCaml version. It's naive code, but 16 times faster (0.235s vs 3.818s).

So I expect some GHC specific optimizations are kicking in. Eg GHC is probably smart enough never to construct the whole tree at once. Whether that counts as the kind of static analysis static of object lifetimes someones else in this thread talked about or not, I don't know.

Update: I think it's just common subexpression elimination kicking in..
> I think you mean "Automatic Garbage Collection", rather than just "Garbage Collection". The latter is exactly what you do in C when you use `free()`, the former is an automated system that does `free()` on your behalf at runtime.

To me, the difference between garbage collection and other memory management systems is that gc scans memory looking for memory that can be reclaimed. I don’t consider free() to be garbage collection. free() is the final step you do in any memory management scheme, it’s not a specific technique of memory management.
and also PermitRootLogin, AFAIK
No, Google first. NYTimes is throwing the sacrificial Facebook under the bus to save the real systemic surveillance menace to the future generations.
Glad to see more treading into using games to reinforce beneficial behaviours.

If only the resources we were pumping into making lootbox games could start being diverted into projects like this.
But it might suit your application to have an animation happen on tap, or on load, that looks like the hover ones. The trigger is probably the least important part of this demonstration site.
What OO education? I find that people just fling around random tenants when they talk about OO, even worse when they talk about FP. Even crazier is when some darling FP technique like entity component systems specifically use a synonym for object (entity) to avoid being called OO.
The British empire to the early 18th century could be considered an example of this as it was entirely a private sector phenomenon and not considered hugely relevant in government policy.
Cancer is not one disease, it’s millions of different ones. I’ve worked in cancer research, and I believe our biggest bet are treatments that use our own immune system as a weapon. We won’t cure all cancers, chances that this is going to happen are very low.
Did we read the same article? "After calling their support twice, explaining the situation and asking for a reason, we have received nothing but “the decision is final, and we will not provide more information”."
I disagree. But I'm not on any, nor use any, of Facebook's services. "It's Time to Break Up with Facebook" is a better title.

> We already have the tools we need to check the domination of Facebook. We just seem to have forgotten about them.

That evokes different ideas with me and I'm sure it does for many users of this site. We have the tools and capability to employ them to make alternatives. We're so focused on the dominance that we ignore the possibility.

> Mark Zuckerberg cannot fix Facebook, but our government can.

This is incredibly naive. I haven't gone down the logical path to play this scenario out but my gut tells me that the hand that the government will force will be short-sighted and attack the symptom. The results may be worse.
All You Need Is Soylent Green
The 20th century's industrialization led to overcrowding and Earth-wide pollution. Natural resources exhausted, nourishment of the population is provided by Soylent Industries, a company that makes food from ocean plankton. In 2022, 40 million people live in New York City; housing is dilapidated; homeless people fill the streets; many are unemployed; those few with jobs are only barely scraping by and food and working technology are scarce with most of the population surviving on rations produced by the Soylent Corporation. Their latest product is Soylent Green, a green wafer advertised to contain "high-energy plankton" from the oceans of the world, more nutritious and palatable than its predecessors "Red" and "Yellow" but in short supply.

trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_jGOKYHxaQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

full movie: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6f3kgg
You meant to say that it was not a sensor anomaly no?, in other words that it could have been an actual anomaly (because they were viewed multi-spectrally) as the other commentator asked? Genuinely curious.
You'd hope at this stage, based on various PayPal horror stories, businesses would not need this warning.

> Do not kid yourself – your business is never, never

> safe with PayPal. Move away or at least have a plan B

> in place so that you don’t lose your business over

> their arbitrary actions.

They all read like riff on The Trial: you've been banned, we're not going to tell you why, this is going to cost you money.
https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/nutrients/report/nutrientsfrm?m...

here you go.

However, I do not like to measure these things. Like other animals, i like to eat and enjoy my food.
Great minds... :)
It is missing 5.5 - I have memories of that being a kind of important version ...
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For humans, as in, (more) directly for humans, without the (inefficient and cruel) cows step.
I mean, the name of the source implied that there was likely to be some material of that kind to find, so it's helpful in its way. The fact that you find the context damning but seem to be unhappy that it was revealed is worrying. I don't actually agree with the author, but it's not -that- bad of a position.

EDIT: it's actually a lot stranger on a second read
America has the same things besides national TV? Every country has one, I believe America us exception.
This and similar behavior is what ultimately drives people toward decentralized solutions, like Bitcoin for example.
> They go as far as shadowbanning users

Nevermind these users really don't do anything constructive since the problem at hand censorship.

Holocaust denial got worse because of efforts to silence some crazy people who did. Not slightly worse, it is really shit you have to think about it again. And people complaining aren't even jews or age above 50.

The self-righteousness, while the incentive might be good, really doesn't help at all.

And yes, denial of the holocaust is a form of censorship, so adjust your talking points correctly.
I can fully relate to the part of "not being terrified of breaking the phone". That's a peace of mind I didn't have for a long time and I still miss it.

That being said, don't most US households get carrier-financed phones?
Goes to show you that if something is really that big of a flop it WILL get repealed.
No Mac versions, pocket versions, console versions yet. I loved the Mac version back in the days before Safari, it was actually a pretty fantastic browser for the time.
As someone who's rather terrible at CSS I absolutely love this! Please make more :)
It looks like it sourced its downloads from https://winworldpc.com/product/internet-explorer/.
Sleep apnea is also highly associated with obesity, and obesity is not healthy.
based on a book written in 1966! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Room!_Make_Room!

Author Harry Harrison claimed, "The idea came from an Indian I met after the war, in 1946. He told me, 'Overpopulation is the big problem coming up in the world' (nobody had ever heard of it in those days) and he said, 'Want to make a lot of money, Harry? You have to import rubber contraceptives to India.' I didn't mind making money, but I didn't want to be the rubber king of India!"
Thank you for linking some studies! This is very interesting to me, since I have noticed CO2 levels having a major effect on my work routine.

There is a CO2 sensor on my desk for 10 years already. Generally it is around 650 ppm during a working day but occasionally the building's ventilation system's power trips and air movement suddenly decreases. This causes CO2 levels to rise fast - once they hit 900-1000 ppm, I can definitely feel a decrease in my ability to focus and think clearly (and yes, I feel it even before looking at the numbers, ha!).

Obviously silly single anecdote but subjectively the link is very strong for me!

PS. On a sad note is that I remember the days when coming to work in the morning meant the CO2 level was at 350 ppm. These days clean air is 450 ppm in this city!
Is there any law or regulation that requires institutions that handle money handling services to be transparent in cases like this or with any right to recourse? (In any country)

What happens if a multinational organisation based in one country has that right but doesn’t in another - but it’s a single PayPal account - could they get reinstated that way?
I tried something similar and that worked too. I decided to not have ANY sugar whatsoever for a week, and I managed surprisingly well. Then I thought I could do it for another week. Weeks became months and months became a year. Over time I've started consuming a little bit of sugar here and there, including fruits, and some added sugar in food that I buy. It's hard to not have any sugar because it's added to pretty much everything these days. But reducing cutting it out for a couple of weeks and
then having reduced sugar works wonders!
US lacks replacement of equipotent drugs.
I don't find it damning. You are the one that does.
But would you mind answering my question please?
NHS Digital Confirms Multicloud Strategy
What makes you think that Germany will stay on coal forever?
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> The nation isn't perfect, but does anyone really believe that, on net, America hasn't been a force for good in the world? What is your benchmark?

Lots of people all over the world who have been on the receiving end of US military or economic aggression enacted in the interests of the US plutocrats.

African Americans, Native Americans, most of South America, pretty much all of the Middle East and North Africa, anyone who has suffered structural violence as a result of the US's insistence on a morally bankrupt Friedman hack-job neoliberal economic ideology.

The US has done a lot of good things, but on balance I think it's done more damage and has merely replaced the British Empire as the current Anglo-sphere imperialist power.
Sure there are. That's what all of the associations e.g. NRA do. They write new laws, law makers possibly make a few edits, and then propose those laws to their legislature.
Funny, what do you have to break up something that you are not even forced to use, and that is not even remotely necessary for benefiting from the internet? I must be missing something.
It sounds like all you're really doing is taking any function that does want access to X and Y, and shoving it into the Point object where it has that access. Or to put it another way, you're defining any function that wants access as "part of the concept of point". You can indeed accommodate any code with this transform, but is it the right thing to do? Do you gain anything by bloating up 'point' with transformations and comparisons and alignment operators and so on?
Yes, but you can also avoid that and the cost of garbage collection by having an explicit ownership model akin to Rust.
I disable cloud updates for privacy reasons and bc backups of that size would cost more money than my own solution

As for offline salvaging, do you realize how many phones have had bugs that resulted in boot problems in the last 10 years?
I think the most likely route at the moment is schism and fragmentation within the existing power structure along geographic lines, as happened with the Soviet Union. I suspect this would only be possible in the face of sever economic crisis, in which the economic and political interests of the regions severely diverged from those of the central authorities.

It's difficult to see this actually happening though. China is pretty prosperous and can probably weather even a severe economic crisis. The Soviet Union was far more ethnically and regionally diverse. It also had the Eastern Bloc countries under a loose enough control that it was possible for them to slip out of it's fingers, which started a domino effect that China isn't really vulnerable to in that way.
Theres at least third party options that leverage paypal indirectly (and other services) 2checkout comes tk mind which is what I suggest if you like having the option of PayPal. I havent touched 2checkout in ages so no idea its state.

Also like they say... Dont put ALL your eggs into one basket!
Phage therapy: 'Viral cocktail saved my daughter's life'
This is an intriguing estate but I think there was sufficient institutional momentum that nothing would have changed. In particular this line jumps out:

> What if China's hardline military ruler, the eighty-five-year-old chain-smoker Deng Xiaoping, had passed away at the beginning of 1989 instead of hanging on for another seven years?

I think the same authoritarian system would have survived, however we would instead see statements like “if only the radical reformer Deng had survived and continued his reforms then 1989 could have been a turning point of democracy.“ It’s like the people who say “what if Kruschiev had not been deposed”
Perhaps they prefer to stick to putting their trust in things they own, rather than other people’s platforms ;)
I find it difficult to believe that anybody still says ‘SJW’ and expects anyone to take them seriously.
"A hypothetical Chinese transition to democracy would probably have followed the East Asian pattern, not the Eastern European one. In Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union didn't so much democratize as disintegrate. China might have started a transition to democracy in 1989, but it wasn’t on the verge of breaking up."

China would have disintegrated like the Soviet Union ( or like the china of the 1800s after the opium war ) rather than democratized like South Korea. You can't compare an ethnically and linguistically united country like South Korea ( buttressed by the US ) with a large multiethnic nation like China. Especially considering foreign powers, especially britain, europe and the US, have a vested interest in destabilizing china.

If china "democraticized" in 1989, we'd probably see a replay of post opium war china. A country that large and diverse, with a weakened central authority, would have been dismembered and picked apart, like in China in the 1800s and the Soviet Union/Russia in the 1990s.

Looking at what the soviet union and russia in particular went through in the 90s to even today and what china went through in the 90s to today, I doubt any chinese citizen is upset at the crackdown. But it is an interesting "what if".
I'm not the parent poster, but I'm somewhat confused now about the author and need further reading.
Dad Diaries: Down, but Not Out
Yep, I'm just curious to hear people's opinions. It gets so much positive attention, and despite working in a .Net shop myself, I really don't like it either.
The Content-Security-Policy header prevents any new JavaScript from getting executed. Any inline scripts have to have a matching nonce, or SHA hash in the CSP header. With XSS, an attacker can insert content into the web page, but they can't modify the headers, so this effectively stops all XSS without some additional vulnerability being exploited.
If we do that for every company/person bashing topic, we'll quickly run out of room on the front page.
CloudFlare's cfssl: http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cfssl
It's not about entitlement; if the purpose of a name isn't to give people an easy way to remember something, what good is it?

If the developer wanted to increase interest in the project, explaining the name could only further this goal.
> Garbage Collection involves crawling live objects from roots to determine what's still alive.

> If you're not doing that, you might still be doing automatic memory management, but you're not doing GC.

Whether GC and automatic memory management are [significantly] different terms depends on who you ask, I don't think there is a consensus on that. In many cases however people tend to say GC as shorthand for tracing GC.

I think in many cases we see ARC is "good enough", and in a JIT scenario you could remove many RC changes by effectively collapsing/merging scopes. OTOH it is quite clear that for the same workload tracing inevitably performs better.
Even if you break Google up it won't really change anything (i.e. it won't stop wide tracking of users online).
Exactly because whether or not you use it, Facebook is shaping your use of the internet.
What alternative would you recommend? Specifically, I am interested in a method of paying independent contractors.
Seconded. I've seen quite some Belgian and German (tech) companies that don't value good (tech) employees. They'd rather pay slightly below market rate and cheap out on everything. Somehow these companies keep going. People's standards here, are low.

Belgian news has an item every half-year where some big shot company boy complains about how difficult it is to get (good) ITers. This gets thinned down to "there's not enough ITers". Reality is that they refuse to pay for the quality employees they NEED, so those work elsewhere/leave the company/work remote.
Should Your Startup Have Two CEOs?
One major problem with sites like the skeptical Enquirer is that they exist to serve their main purpose -to be skeptical. This by itself is fine to an extent and much of their content can and does legitimately debunk nonsensical and unfounded claims. But when your main purpose is skepticism, it can become self serving to the point that you cherry pick arguments, evidence, cases and lots of other things in order to always ensure that a known explanation can be found no matter what, even if it has to be stretched thin. Unknown things do happen, forcing them to conform to a certain easy bracket of the known is its own type of irrationality.
This turned into a semantics conversation pretty quickly!
Looks like that's from the time of StarOffice 1.0, when I myself was but a wee lad, and before StarDraw. So not sure if there's any way to connect one to the other, and with the perfectly ungoogleable name the knowledge will probably never be mine.
My only experience with paypal was about 8 years ago.
I briefly remember signing up for it roughly 2-3 years prior to that.
I linked my paypal to my (older) bank account so I could purchase something. This account had about $100 in it - it was my old left over account from before I got married and got a joint account, etc. So I kept a tiny bit of money in it.
I had moved about 2-3 times since opening that account - I never used the account for anything, it just sat there with money in it. It was eventually forgotten about.

Anyway, long story short. Someone managed to access my paypal and request a sum of money around roughly $40. That account had about $38 in it at the time. Paypal flagged the transaction as fraudulent, stored the money 'in my paypal account' instead of sending it to the requester, and froze my account. But this overdrew my bank account by roughly $2. Needless to say, 2-3 years of late fees added up to a substantial amount of money - two separate accounts - one for about $280 that I owed the bank and another that was about $350 that i owed to their 'overdraft' company. I didn't find out about either until they were about 2-3 years old and in collections.

I realize what I'm explaining is totally my own fault for not monitoring that account and keeping it up to date, but if paypal would have either redeposited that money into my account or sent some emails, instead of freezing the assets in a holding account, I could have avoided that.

In either event, that left a bitter taste in my mouth, and i severed all ties with paypal and that old account at that point.

I had to explain this multiple times to different government and military agencies throughout my career - it still comes up on background investigations.
As a control freak I don't agree. I feel uncomfortable even with good solutions I don't understand and have no control over. I think a lot of Linux users like myself have chosen it because of that in the first place.

And the same holds for privacy even more. I'll prefer encryption on my machine with my keys to the best permission model in the cloud.
Ways I Saved My Failing Business and Made My First Million
Baby steps.

I remember smoking cannabis openly in front of police officers in British Columbia 20 years ago because they had a similar de prioritization policy in the city I lived in.

And now cannabis is legal federally.

It takes a long time for enforcers of unjust laws (which have persisted for decades) to learn and admit that they were wrong.
For some reason, that domain name arouses my suspicion... if I saw that in the search results I'd probably think "SEO spam site" and skip over it.

One of the obvious things you can see between the versions is the gradual trend of dumbing-down and flattening the UI, most apparent between 8 and 9. The older versions' UI give the impression that they are very customisable and powerful, while the newer ones seem to be implicitly saying "you have no control (anymore)." I'd love to use a browser with a newer rendering engine, but retain the old UI.

I also noticed the sizes are a little weird:

IE1: 2.88MB
IE2: 17.9MB
IE3: 232MB(!?)
IE4: 357MB
IE5: 640MB
IE6: 105MB
IE7: 78MB
IE8: 147MB
IE9: 207MB
IE10: 218MB
IE11: 166MB

I remember using those older versions of IE on systems with hard drives smaller than that.