skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of it is getting used to the situation. There is an ongoing battle between the military and armed-islamic groups. It is not a heavy conflict but this (https://thedefensepost.com/2019/04/27/tunisia-soldier-killed...) happened very recently and it is not a unique case.

There has also been several civilians either kidnapped or killed by armed terrorists. It has become common now and people stopped talking about it.

Also Tunisia has got a significant forgotten population. Think people with no access to water, electricity, roads, education... most Tunisians you'll see in the nicer neighborhoods do not relate to those and probably don't remember them except for some brief Facebook posts.

Tunisia rural population is around 30%. That's a third of the population. Compare that to 10% in Venezuela.

To answer your questions:

1- It is more likely we don't reach a consensus on how bad Tunisia is. You should take into account that probably neither of us went to Venezuela in the first place.

2- The US Travel advisory is spot on. You should stick to it: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/... I'd never venture into these places myself and I'm a local.
This same thing happened to my personal Paypal account out of no where one morning. I hadn't used it in over a month. My mother's personal Paypal account (lives in a different state) was also banned at the exact same time. She hadn't used it in months. We still have no idea what triggered it.
Cannot tell for Spain, but I assume it's similar to neighbouring countries like France.
Compared to the united state, it's a much more equal society, which means unlike the US, you won't make 15 times what a barista is making. I'd assume salaries to be around 40, 50k euro at best.

Now that can be enough to make a decent living, have your own flat etc. but it's not, "let's go on holiday to the other side of the world twice a year" sort of money either.

Also there is much less a culture of senior developers, the idea being that to progress in your career you need to stop coding and start being a manager (not true everywhere but the norm)
Even if they recover your property later, like during a big arrest, you won't get it back. It will sit in evidence, for years, then it will be destroyed because nobody picked it up. Chances are, you were never informed; even if you filed police reports with serial numbers.
It doesn't mean going hungry, but it does mean taking some pretty extreme measures, because any day that exceeds keto-level carbs is going off the wagon and requires another physical reset to get back into keto.
1password, lastpass or similar password managers. They sync "in the cloud" but some also allow putting the database on a server you control. Alternatively there are a open source solutions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19135519
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boeing-737-max-8-at-least-4-pot...
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I am surprised, but at the same time I'm aware that unfortunately there is an endemic lack of taking responsibility in many modern engineering professions. Software engineering being one of them. I often see by myself and read about other cases elsewhere of examples of badly designed and written software being put in place due to short shortsightedly perceived financial goals of doing so.

I bet that every software engineer encountered such software in their career. Were the engineers that created it incompetent? Perhaps, but more likely is that they were put under pressure to deliver such flawed solutions, and people who said no were replaced with those that said yes no matter what.

I recently watched a documentary about death penalty and how states couldn't get doctors to design the lethal injection because none would agree to work on it. I envy that doctors can have such integrity, but as a group we engineers have very little when money is involved.
An engineer likes to model the world in terms of systems with interconnected moving parts, but rarely accounts for the irrational human political factor. What may be fraudulent or inefficient to an engineer may be a "necessary evil" to a policy maker, in order to satisfy the group interest of a company or nation.

Making things 100% efficient and transparent seems like a dystopia with a central world government and no pluralism whatsoever.
Agreed, I think I'm somewhat putting the cart before the horse but I'm in development so it's a question I'm asking myself now before the MVP is finished.
This is a side project I built. I'm a pro devops person and was looking to build a side project, so a hosting service comes naturally to me. I hit the need for this while learning flutter, and wanting to dodge writing a custom backend!

I'm very interested to understand:

* Would you consider using this?

* What can I do to make this perfect for your needs ?

(You can currently launch an unlimited number of temp envs, please do not abuse :)
That's not at all what the original comment ' That's the urban lifestyle in general, isn't it? ' was suggesting.
Law can be different for "theft" and "break & theft".
These countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country...
They do: nuclear power. Already built, costs already paid, minimal extra costs to be incurred due to running it longer.
Totally wish we could upgrade but for some reason AWS have still not implemented any upgrade path for Aurora PostgreSQL other than dump and reimport despite apparently working on it for a year...
Org crime would never walk into a place and start making threats, they would approach the manager through somebody they both know in the community who makes the bribe offer 'just produce fake receipts, unlock phone and pocket $100 each time'. These stores are all over the world it's probably not impossible to convince the manager of a foreign Apple store in a highly corrupt country making peanuts to reset iCloud logins on stolen US phones that have been shipped over.
I wholly disagree. The system as it works today is miles better than a circular buffer. People trying to leave new voicemails are informed that there is no more room and thus they know that if it is important they should try calling back later.

If it just deleted old entries then it's possible someone left an important message and assume you'll hear it but then it just gets silently deleted.

Imagine if PC storage devices worked this way, it'd be chaos.
No, you cannot. Federal law sets out how all banking must be done. There is always reciprocity. Since PayPal isn't regulated as a bank there is no directly applicable federal law. Instead, it's regulated on a state-by-state basis and the majority of the time you'd be hard pressed to figure out exactly who within your state you would have to file a complaint with. PayPal wants it both ways. It wants to act like a bank when it's good for them, but avoid all of the regulations. It's the worst of both worlds for the customer.

Anecdotally speaking, I know multiple people that have had funds frozen by PayPal after months or years of use. I know exactly nobody that has had a bank account frozen.
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Nuclear power production is a net-negative in that it costs more to make electricity that way than the electricity can be sold for.

Around the world, nuclear power is heavily subsidized, in addition to being terribly dangerous and permanently polluting.

As Einstein said, "It's one hell of a way to boil water."
>a) Mark selfishly disregards privacy for the growth of the company. (bad)

You say that as if "disregarding privacy" is.. well.. bad? Most people don't care about privacy as much as you probably do. It's not that he disregards all privacy, just after a certain level most people really don't care about that level of privacy that he's able to extract value from.

So I always find it difficult to take an argument seriously when it assumes that everyone should have the same care about privacy as you do.
“good guy” here is social code for “guy i don’t really want to piss off” and is akin to grinning in other primates. the phrase is disingenuous in most cases.

this american life did a whole show on “good guys”[0] (including exploiting the “good guy discount”).

[0] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/515/good-guys
Though you didn't explicitly say it, since all examples relate to russia and rubles.. this isn't a russia problem, it's a social media problem.

Plenty of US, Chinese, Saudi, Israeli, ABC, XYZ, PQ oligarchs manipulating public opinion via social media to suit their own political objectives.

Depending on the time and the situation, one country or another may/may not have more 'skin in the game' depending on the contextual stakes.. and their 'scary' involvement will likely be highlighted or ignored in the media based on congruence / conformity to the existing geopolitical status quo and editorial bias of the publisher..
There's also the court of public opinion to consider, in which actual legal standing is irrelevant. Small comfort if you successfully rebuff a suit but lose your reputation in the process.
A real "dog whistle" is used to get the attention of the dogs and tell them to do something.

A dog whistle headline would therefore be attempting to round up a bunch of people to fight their fight for them.

And had they been doing good, wholesome things at their company instead of creating spam tools, it probably would have worked. Unfortunately for them, people are starting to learn to dig a little deeper before getting out the pitchforks.
>It is weird, I do not feel restricted when I write non-GC code.

Some people don't feel C has any safety issues either -- perhaps they think all others are idiots and their code is mistake proof because they do it right.
>... but instead they don't want to because these calls mean more money for them.

This. If something is broken and nobody wants to fix it, follow the money.
> It can't all be automated yet, not some machine learning algorithm dreamt up be Facebook is any better of a prospect.

Some of it is automated. Youtube removes/demonitizes stuff based on automated checks. I suspect other platforms do this stuff too or are headed in that direction.
I see and agree with the privacy concerns however I'm trying to judge whether my target demo values ease-of-use over friction that comes from managing passwords.

The demo I'm looking at is quite broad so I'm trying to plan for the lowest common denominator...questioning my early adopters is definitely part of the plan but I'm trying to pre-empt some potential technical complexity in the beginning.
it's funny how web developers are finally discovering UNIX, bash and free software now and how MS is surprised. Cmdline has always been unusable, powershell is better but people need a proper pty and Bash.
Stripe is a bad substitute to paypal.

Stripes, wants you them to be the center point of your relation with your customers.

We prefer no-big names, no information collection about my customers, almost a white-label payment processor that we could sub-contract.

We still have some time, and are searching for the right company as billing and payment processor. But we naturally eliminate companies that are VC funded and, or located in high-cost areas (so that eliminates most of the CA/NY/LDN places).
> but the automated process that CPUs are tasked with consumes a lot of computational power—up to 10 percent or more of the total time a CPU spends on an application.

Is that even a problem when most CPUs are idle 90% of the time even when doing typical daily tasks?
Near weighing stations/rest areas where they go slowly/park overnight...
Battery swapping is an inefficient use of resources.

Batteries are expensive assets and make up the bulk of the cost of an electric truck. You want to have all your batteries inside trucks, working as much as possible, not sitting around stored at swap stations waiting to be used.

Fast charging infrastructure beats battery swapping, and recharge times aren’t really an issue. In Europe, truck drivers are required to take breaks every 4.5 hours anyway.
Came here to discuss the same section. It makes sense that urban trees die younger when you think about how heavily the odds are stacked against them:

* No network of fellow of trees to share nutrients and information with via their roots, as mentioned above.

* Dogs constantly pissing on the trunk.

* Smog.

* Planted in a small patch of dirt, surrounded by concrete. The dirt itself is usually extremely compacted so no water gets through to the roots.

* Gardeners and city workers constantly cutting off branches, exposing inner wood to deadly fungi.
One wonders what the effect of tariffs on imported Chinese goods are with respect to poor Americans. Domestic USA production protected by import tariffs would hire lots of poor people – right?
>> literally NO ONE wrote

> The first sentence is throwing me off so much

I didn't go to check because the mystery is more intriguing, but if the OOP's username is NO ONE, then maybe NO ONE literally did write that?
Maybe they'll ban your card, but you probably have more. If they ban your phone number, they can't ban it for too long, in case it gets recycled.

If you are a driver, a ban seems more permanent, but it's not like they really identify riders.
"exec() is the world's most efficient garbage collector." [1]

This idea is both worthy, and old.

[1] DJB, paraphrased, when responding to a criticism of the design of qmail, which rapidly forked very small processes which did a simple task and exit. Unable to find a link to the mailing list.
If there's not a breakthrough, I at least hope that countries start to legalise assisted suicide so those like myself that don't want my life to end that way can at least go out in a civilised manner.
The success of agrarian diets doesn't mean they are healthier than what might be called paleo. Rather, it has a host of other side effects - a larger, more stable food supply means a larger population. A large population means specialization. Farming means staying in one place, forming permanent communities and permanent tools/storage that can't necessarily be carried by hand. Agrarian societies can develop new technologies and field dedicated military forces. They can develop writing. Etc.
Well, if you kill yourself the plane may then go on killing others. This is double plus ungood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522
Except vaping has known and unknown health risks.

Saying "I the only way to stop smoking is to vape" is also horrible advice.
Paypal? Seriously? I've no sympathy.
>Really, manual memory management is not rocket science folks, just error prone

Doesn't have to be rocket science to be a cognitive burden. And we want to eliminate "error prone" factors...
I amuse myself by asking the "health insurance" and student loan callers for a number at which I can call them back. This generally causes an immediate disconnection. One guy was naive enough to give me a real number, but I never got around to hassling them.

In the days when the calls were for auto warranties, it was "What company do you represent, and in what state is it incorporated?" that caused them to disconnect.
I think the idea is that if the pilot dies then most likely passengers or others will die too. Someone needs to control the plane.
The Uyghurs siding with China was before China started rounding them up and putting them in camps. The Uyghurs now live under the worst dystopian future humanity could envisage -- Checkpoints with phone scans, mandatory government spyware that scans for illicit content, deep facial recognition and social profiling EVERYWHERE. Its a different time, and a different China. I hope the Uyghur rise up and smash this. I wouldn't bet on it happening.
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Most of the real horror stories about PayPal are about companies that are doing something that PayPal wouldn't want to be associated with, such as Spam, Porn, or filesharing. some of the stuff is already in their ToS, but quite a few of the stories came from before they had it explicitly in their ToS.

So I'm not surprised that people continue to think "It won't happen to me" if they don't think they're doing anything "wrong".
>> Many politicians, activists, wealthy donors, ... are de facto opposed to self-defense but they at least have to pay lip service to it.

Unless you consider hiring (or working with tax-payer funded) armed protection a form of self-defense. Then they're very pro-self-defense. "Gun control" in America is a euphemism for "gun consolidation". We don't believe weapons of war belong in middle/lower-class people's homes, but they sure as hell belong in every patrol car and on the streets of countries whose oil we want to control.
Isn't abstraction a tenet of every programming paradigm?
But the problem here is that paypal doesn't tell you if you're business is "ban-able" ahead of time. They have a list, and terms of services, but even if you followed them to the letter, they can still ban you, and not provide a reason.

This isn't a good foundation for a business to depend on, so i would completely avoid having paypal as the only option.
A lot of people use it as a party drug though. It's becoming increasingly common to microdose because it has similar effects at small dosages as MDMA -- elation, putting a shiny glimmer on the world. I'm not recommending it, but I see it increasingly often here where ecstasy used to be the norm.

I'm not sure we should ever be encouraging people to do a deep psychonautic dive. We don't know what past history of mental health issues someone may have in their family or what crucial brain development stages they may be at in their maturing psyche. I'd hate to be the reason someone dove off the deep end into mental illness because they were just at the precipice of brain development. I may not have experience, but I do know that psychedelics are not a one size fits all.
Somehow I doubt that a side position would substantially improve the situation for either party if the woman still feels violated.
Such a low res photograph.. I wish they'd found something better to represent Joe.
Butter, oil, bacon, pork rinds and eggs
ARC is just garbage collection that doesn't always work (circular references).
Doesn't need to be censorship, maybe just personal preference of the owner who didn't like the comparibly explicit allegoric theme of Vermeers earlier work, compared to the "open" interpretation of the letter without the cupid. Full statements are here by the museum

https://www.skd.museum/en/besucherservice/press/2019/a-new-v...

There are even some overpaintings done by Vermeer himself, like the tilt of the head and a wine goblet, which wont be restored.

https://youtu.be/sFH8vhOI1Ck?t=536
The JSDF is a self defense force in name only at this point. They get away with it because they are very friendly with the US.
>as software engineers we find a bug and just fix it. [...]
Unfortunately, the recent 737 MAX incidents seem to have changed this.

I think there's some nuance about MCAS that's lost in all the media reports. As far as I understand, the MCAS software didn't have a "bug" in the sense we programmers typically think of. (E.g. Mars Climate Orbiter's software programmed with incorrect units-of-measure.[0])

Instead, the MCAS system was poorly designed because of financial pressure to maintain the fiction of a single 737 type rating.

In other words, the MCAS software actually did what Boeing managers specified it to do:

1) Did the software only read a _1_ AOA sensor with a single-point-of-failure instead of reading _2_ sensors? Yes, because that was what Boeing managers wanted the software to do. It was purposefully designed that way. If the software was changed to reconcile 2 sensors, it would then lead to a new "AOA DISAGREE" indicator[1] which would then raise doubts to the FAA that Boeing could just give pilots a simple iPad training orientation instead of expensive flight-sim training. Essentially, Boeing managers were trying to "hack" the FAA criteria for "single type rating".

2) Did software make adjustments of an aggressive and unsafe 2.5 degrees instead of a more gentle and recoverable 0.6 degrees? Yes, because Boeing designed it that way.

Somebody at Boeing specified the software design to be "1 sensor and 2.5 degrees" and apparently, that's what the programmers wrote.

I know we can play with semantics of "bug" vs "design" because they overlap but to me this seems to be a clear case of faulty "design". The distinction between design vs bug is important to let us fix the root cause.

The 737 MAX MCAS software issue isn't like the Mars Climate Orbiter or Therac-25 software bugs. The lessons from MCO and Therac-25 can't be applied to Boeing's MCAS because that unwanted behavior happens in a layer above the programming:

- MCO & Therac: design specifications are correct; software programming was incorrect

- Boeing 737MAX MCAS: design specifications incorrect; software programming was "correct" -- insofar as it matched the (flawed) design specifications

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...

[1] yellow "AOA Disagree" text at the bottom of display: https://www.ainonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/ain30_f...
The mental model of inheritance is easy to grasp. I think inheritance has its place as long as things don’t get too crazy. For 90% of projects out there, inheritance is a simple model to understand and can be used just fine. It’s when “architects” get overzealous and try to force everything into a hierarchy where things get bad.
But wouldn't that be good for carbon capture? Let the tree grow quickly, then when it dies store the wood somewhere and plant a new one.
This. Soften up (and appeal to) your target.
Big parallelism updates that the query planner can take advantage of.

I believe also updates to index seek or scan in that time.
Agree completely. Companies will do whatever it takes to drive sales and revenue and stock price. Employees don't want to raise their hand and get fired as they have families to support. A true whistleblower program with WITSEC level provisions for protection and monetary support would help cut this down. Once it happens once or twice companies are very disincentivized to continue down this road.
Author here.

I did the D3.js part - the main graph and timeline. Force layout link strength was based on Pointwise Mutual Information, vide https://github.com/stared/tagoverflow.

I was given the data. There is an accompanying write-up:
https://culture.pl/en/article/what-makes-a-composer-polish

Official project info:

"Map of Polish Composers is the most comprehensive resource ever dedicated to Polish music giving users instant access to biographies, extracts from recordings and a carefully charted map providing a rich global cultural context for every artist highlighting their influences and inspirations.

Map of Polish Composers is powered by Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

The project is created by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the Polska Music and POLSKA 100, the international cultural programme celebrating the centenary of Poland regaining independence.

Financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-annual programme NIEPODLEGŁA 2017–2022."
ISODE [1] worked, and it was usable before there were commercial ISPs offering TCP/IP services.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_Development_Environment
this is a huge issue for us and I'm extremely unhappy this was not clear in the docs
Look at the comments here. This website is essentially a bunch of Ayn Rand novels come to life.
The hardest part of playing games like Wing Commander 2 and Ultima was getting them to load in the first place
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Does anybody know the oldest version of Photoshop you can buy and not license? Can you still buy the software second hand?
Wow. Best joke I've seen this week at least
A big problem is that it takes whistle blowers in the first place.

This is why we have PE certification: so that projects with safety implications can't go forward if engineers are silent, instead of letting silence imply consent.