skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, the majority of the people in the Philippines are severely oppression due to status quo of greed and corruption by the upper-middle to upper classes. There is so much socioeconomic pressure to keep the working class poorer and poorer because public utilities are sometimes scarce and always expensive. Internet and electricity is "like water" in developed countries such as the United States; however, even water and electricity is expensive and scarce for the majority population of the Philippines. Keep in mind the minimum wage is around 360 Philippine pesos a day ($7 USD), while pre-paid load of 300 PHP gives you 1.5 GB of data for 30 days. Electricity is extremely expensive, especially since it's so hot, that if you run air conditioning during the summer times, the cost of electricity is at least 5000 PHP per month (~$100). The trade off is worth it. See cost of living estimates here https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Manila
The dream of a free OS.

I've heard something like this in the south-Indian state of Kerala as well.
These design flaws in the software running on modern aircraft are symptoms of a more fundamental flaw in the philosophy with which modern software is designed: the idea that the authors of the software understand the application better than the user.

I think this is part of the reason people who like free software defend it almost religiously: they understand the dangerous of the authors and users of software being legally segregated.
This defies belief. In a meeting between a former Vice President and executives of an $80B/yr health care company, they authorized hacking of a 20-year-old, little-known site to reword unfavorable articles?

The authors clearly feel that they have been wronged by KP and have spent decades fuming online trying to "expose" the organization, and failing to have done so, have fabricated an even bigger conspiracy involving unstoppable hackers and election tampering to silence them.

If indeed they have a "professional security firm," they have almost certainly told them they can't help anymore to get an irritating client to go away.
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A copy of the content, just in case the page gets HN'd, is below. The email addresses have been removed so that spambots don't pick them up.

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KaiserPapers.org

In Copyright Since September 11, 2000
This web site is in no manner affiliated with any Kaiser entity and the for profit Permanente

May 13, 2019

Due to Professional hacking/vandalism of the Kaiser Papers and related sites which began when Kaiser Permanente representatives met with Joe Biden a few days ago and our professional security firm has been unable to handle this problem it has been decided that the web site and related sites should be removed from the web, at least for the time being. We apologize for the inconvenience.

A similar problem took place during the last Presidential Campaign. It became a daily problem to repair the site at that time. Content that many people found useful, including medical professionals was found to be reworded and that in itself is dangerous. To avoid such problems this year, 2019, we are simply removing all content.

We are not a political website nor organization, so whatever games, for whatever contracts anyone wants to secure with the Federal Government determined by the outcome of the election is something that we can all just sit back and watch. The government itself appears to be divided in opinion regarding medical issues involving Kaiser. Consequently, as before, even though we were then told by law enforcement who was doing the hacking, we can't count on assistance from our government to stop it.

If you need assistance or suggestions pertaining to navigating the Kaiser system here are three email contacts you may write to:

Vickie Travis

Hillarie Levy

Michele Monserett Ramos
Ask HN: How far would you go to stop spam calls?
Would you:

1. port your number into a developer-controlled service (Twilio is most well-known I think)

2. abandon your voice service (close account, port number away, replace voice SIM with a data-only SIM)

3. download a SIP app on your phone, to make/receive calls while in WiFi/LTE

4. abandon texting mostly (could have a browser UI simply enough, maybe with push notifications, but it's not the texting you're used to, if you use it)

If you are ok with all the above, I've been experimenting with this for months. I have two features that make calling work for me:

- a whitelist of caller IDs that are allowed to cause my phone to ring. My family, friends, etc are on this whitelist.

- a "temporary pass" where I let all calls through for a certain time period. I use this when expecting a call from an unknown caller ID soon (deliveries, uber/lyft, etc).
The story presented by this website simply makes no sense. There is literally no way that anyone can "hack" a decently setup static site especially if you are being advised by "professional security firm".

My guess is that either:

A. The people hosting the site are simply doing this for attention and never actually got hacked.

B. They did not actually consult a "professional security firm" and instead are hosting the site in a very silly way and probably got hacked randomly by a script kiddie.
https://stackoverflow.com/help/self-answer

If you are in SO for the points, splitting them between two accounts seems lame. Remember that the question also collects points and badges!

I've never checked the user that answers to see if it's the same user that is asking, and it happened to me a couple of times that I tried to upvote my own answer.
Science Technology Engineering and Math aren't just for business, but I think you mean that the business managers end up owning their product?

MBAs seem mostly centered on the US (some in Europe, but much less in Asia) business experience. I haven't noticed that it's made the US much more successful, but it is important to have the MBA tool set to fairly get money out of the US banking/venture system.

In other places the business might hire a CFO to do the money-work rather than making them CEO or requiring it of your VPs. So although an MBA might be useful in many business contexts (especially in the US), I don't think id make it part of STEMB.
The most annoying part about this article is that he never specified how they cleaned his son’s butt.
After checking the archived content on [1], as posted by Updtrenda, it seems that it was just a bunch of HTML files indeed.

If this is really the case, I don't see why they can't just put it on a Torrent and distribute it. Or even host a mirror on S3 or Netlify.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://kaiserpapers.org/*
I'd really appreciate an epub. I read anything across a variable range of display sizes and PDFs just don't cut it anymore.
Not sure what you're saying, sounds like you're agreeing that they aren't living in "expensive, customized vans"?
These sorts of posts make me feel a bit stupid - I use search engines other than DDG less than once a week. Are my searches so banal and obvious? Do I not encounter tricky technical problems?

However, in the rare cases that I do switch to Startpage (!s), I get "better" results only sometimes. Conversely, on Google I miss the bangs, the capability to scroll through the results using up/down cursor key (and enter to go to a result), the simple way to specify country specific results (I don't care about Moscow, Idaho and its 23000 inhabitants very much, sorry).
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Spark is written in Scala, not Python. I've never used the Python interface, but I've extensively used Spark from Scala and while it's a little annoying to work with sometimes, for "real" Big Data (data set > 1TB maybe), its probably the best tool around.
>One important area where the analogy doesn't work: smoking can't be done safely in moderation.

Really? What are the health effects of one cigarette per month?
The best advice regarding job offer and salary negotiations I have seen is given by Patrick McKenzie (patio11).

You can check it out on https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

If you want more money, just ask them - if they say yes, then congratulations; if they say no, then find another job that says yes.
That school does believe in violent past, just not far one. They believe it’s the emergence of states and modernity that brought out the violence, and the state of pre-state society was peace and bliss.
Proof: https://stackoverflow.com/help/self-answer
Personally, I think it’s quite good, especially if you’re flexible about where you work. Getting practice and being good at enough linear algebra to understand graphics transforms thoroughly will help a lot. There are graphics jobs in web app developement, mobile/console/pc game studios, game engines, scientific computing and HPC, medicine, movie studios, third party software renderers, and lots and lots in the Bay Area giants like Facebook, Google, Apple, AMD & Nvidia.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/suffix-fu.html
Drug selling and smoking pot in the public (or even schools) is also not uncommon in other major cities in Germany eg. Hamburg, Frankfurt, Köln, etc. Hamburg has areas near the habour feeling quite extraterritorial in this respect. Munich I don't know; it's a much cleaner place than those other cities. Though drinking beer there and going to the Biergarten is kind of their way of living, and it's certainly a relaxed place with respect to nudity, love affairs, and sex.
> ...perhaps finally leading to the reasonably-stable "empires" we're somewhat familiar with from ancient history only as late as the Iron Age.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a capital/resource : technology boundary at which you see this.

Essentially, pre-metalworking, pre-farming, what do you have to risk if you upset order in your valley? You can migrate and hunt elsewhere.

Post-metalworking, post-farming, we start to develop centralized resource generation. Suddenly, as long as there is some sense of economic equality (probably where the Romans went wrong with their neighbors), everyone stands to lose if anyone's farms are burned or the forges destroyed.

At that point, the calculus changes greatly. And even more so when suddenly this technology is spread worldwide. Even during the world wars, you saw relatively limited wholesale destruction (e.g. carpet bombing cities) compared to what would have been possible.

It'd also be curious to extend into the modern era, because it seems like longer simmering civil wars tend to happen in places where there is extreme economic inequality or a lack of infrastructure (e.g. DRC, South Sudan, Afghanistan). Which I guess is where the "bridges, not bombs" strategy comes from.
> Sidewalk Labs, a sister company to Google, had acquired disused land in Toronto, Canada for this bold urban experiment

"Disused land" is a bit disingenuous. Toronto real estate prices are very high right now and this is waterfront property. It's former industrial land we're hoping to revitalize.

As far as I can tell, Google isn't doing us a favor here. They're just another developer trying to make a bunch of money off of our huge need for additional housing. They choose to make this money via surveillance and advertising, and increasing demand by promising some neat tech benefits.

But if they weren't here, that land would still be developed. Probably sooner. (And probably by a developer making money by cutting every corner in the build).
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As someone who has been written up at a prior job for nebulously "being creepy" it would be nice to be able to see the trucks coming. For most things that are against the rules in the workplace, there are a list of things you shouldn't do, and you can avoid trouble by simply not doing them. In my case, nobody in HR would tell me what not to do, even though I asked repeatedly. It was just "we got complaints that you were making women feel uncomfortable so please stop doing whatever you were doing." When pressed for examples, none were forthcoming. How is that actionable? How am I responsible for what is inside the thoughts of other people I work with?

I'm now very careful with my interactions with women at work. No 1:1 meetings, all conversation must be strictly work related, no walking the same direction, avoid eye contact as much as possible, etc. It's a total minefield and you need to minimize how much you walk through it, especially if you have a great job.
Procrastination is not a time management problem. It is an emotion
"patriots"
> harlot, that's the first time I see that used in a sentence outside of dictionary :D (not a native eng speaker)
Anyone you work for is also a person. You can talk to them as such. You can be transparent with them, and say you felt that you erred and are undervalued, and you can tell them that you feel your lack of negotiating skills has put you in a poor position.

You'll often find that when you approach someone with honesty and transparency, they usually respond in kind. And their honest response may be, "Sorry, we made this agreement and you need to choose to live with it or not." But they could also surprise you and say "We agree. Here is a raise." But the most likely response will be somewhere in the middle, with some specific plan laid out to hit performance milestones, and in return get a raise.

Negotiation is not a one-time deal when you accept an offer. It is an ongoing conversation through your entire career. That is how long-term retention happens in an organization - with both sides communicating their needs and deciding on long-term goals and compensation.

Most of the other comments here take a more adversarial approach. And while that is effective, it sets you up for these long-term conversations to be forever adversarial, instead of collaborative. It is your call which kind of relationship you want with your employer.
try to ask it in a way that doesn't make a negative assumption about the people taking a certain approach.

I feel like there is a LOT in this comment that is reading much more into a question that very likely are not even there, to take the position of scolding someone just because their inquiry was delivered in brevity.
I think the biggest surprise for me was learning that white collar workers are neither more intelligent or wiser than blue collar ones, and that upper management is also made up of people with no particular oversupply of either attribute. They are just people who were born into the right social class and who are really good at playing the power game.
So the whole less taxes less corruption thing isn't my argument, but I think they meant less taxes as in the number of different taxes you can give breaks from, not the total percentage burden.
This is great, thank you. I'm a big fan of socat for plumbing in pentesting environments, it's an amazing tool. Never had much luck with meterpreter's port forwarding as it seems to always eventually bug out.
Ask HN: I can never learn coding
Hello HNers,

I have been trying to learn coding for over 10 years. Languages I tried to learn include Visual Basis, C#, .NET, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS. I cannot code in any language. It is serious attention problem I have been facing.

I tried to abandon the programming. But Again I got curious about web development. And for last 1 year, I am trying to learn Python. Again, I am failing due to lack of focus.

What is wrong with me?

How can I focus and learn coding? Or, should I forget about learning programming for good?

I would appreciate any help.
This seems unlikely to have escaped the author? Of course a hybrid diet would be in between, I'm just saying that the diet breakdowns they chose to present are almost certainly model diets from literature rather than arbitrarily chosen to make meat eaters look bad. It's a thesis, not PETA marketing material, there are some standards for rigor and they would have needed to cite and justify why they chose what they chose.

That said, I honestly do not think that your diet suggestion is common for Americans, I rarely see people go a meal without meat. The total of 216gm/day is only 7.6 ounces of meat, and I remember getting weird looks ordering only a 6 ounce steak as an adult. And burgers are frequently about a half pound too. Or a chicken breast. It seems totally believable to me that this is average even accounting for less frequent consumers of meat.

I take efforts to rarely eat it so I'm probably barely different from vegetarian. Obviously hybrid diets will fall somewhere in between? I'm not presently an advocate for no-meat product diets because I don't like extremes but I am an advocate for using substitutes when there's little difference. Like taco bell meat could be soy-based meat-substitute ground and literally no one would notice.
Isn't Wordpress the most hacked software on the web?

This is free (domain aside), doesn't require managing upgrades and presumably has some redundancy.
Ask HN: What are your best tips to become a senior dev?
Hello HN,

I think this topic doesn't get enough attention. What are your best tips to become seniors? I am mostly interested in becoming a senior backend dev.
I saw a lot of programmers with 10 years of experience still stuck in the mid level, this proves that only experience is not going to make you a senior.
I think it would be pretty good. Less employers needing graphics programming, but a lot less candidates. I've been trying to hire someone with some graphics programming experience and so far have had a lot of trouble finding candidates in SF.
It was actually worse than that when I lived in Korea. It wasn't just Windows that you needed, it was Korean Windows. I thought I'd be okay because I was running dual boot machines with Linux and Windows. Nope. Windows purchased in the US simply did not work with many of the sites. (My understanding is that most software written for commerce/government sites had Korean people that purchased a Windows computer in Korea as the only audience they thought about.)
There's not evidence it actually is being targeted. And if it were they could just post the content somewhere more secure.

The author is suggesting that somehow Joe Biden is behind it and has somehow convinced the Trump administration to not doing anything about it.
I hear this claim occasionally but it doesn't match my experience. The very first time I used Windows NT 4 (probably 1997 or 1998), I couldn't figure out how to log out, so I chose Start -> Help to look it up. Bluescreen.

In the subsequent months/years with NT 4, the situation did not improve. It was a sad day when they replaced the HP/UX section of the lab with more NT machines. They were faster but they crashed a lot. It really took until Vista before NT was reliable.
It's pretty abundant in developed countries that primarily rely on toilet papers, one would presume.
Paranoid conspiracy theorists run a paranoid conspiracy website, and are paranoid that a government is conspiring to hack their website.

Also, it is (was) static HTML. It is a bit hard to believe a static HTML site has been hacked, and professional security firm can't prevent it from being hacked.
How would you accurately simulate the force needed to turn the trim wheel under aerodynamic loads that vary with elevator position? It sounds like a very tricky mechanical setup.
Send me an email - would love to have a conversation!
I thought that this $10/year was for using a domain that you already owned... yes I did need to pay another $10 for a domain.
When I was in high school, I taught myself to write mirrored, and tortured (which, in retrospect, was kinda flirting with...) an english teacher. The teacher was annoyed/impressed/tolerant, and their approach was to read my papers in the bathroom with the mirror. They were dismayed when I simply held the paper up to the ceiling light.

To this day, I'm occasionally confounded by doors that have "HSUP" written on clear glass -- it's actually a "PULL" but I read the "PUSH" and smack. Other than that, I'm happy to have the skill. :P
Curious to know what you mean by “no room.” As in the performance impact of FKs and extensive use of transactions was too high? In my experience (not insane scale, but around 1 million daily active users hitting DBs with TBs of data), the performance overhead of FKs and transactions is fairly minimal. Ad-hoc attempts to bring the same functionality almost always end up in a loss of referential integrity, corrupt/wrong data, lots of bug squashing, etc. Why waste all that dev time and introduce all those bugs when you can use battle tested approaches like FKs and transactions that can guarantee correctness, at only a small performance hit?
Transporting water in pipes under pressure does not seem that expensive intuitively.
Not an issue if there are no third party plugins. Its however hard to resist allowing third party plugins when you already have the architecture. Also hard to resist feature bloat when adding new features are seemingly free.
Media and Message apps fit in a framework that google has provided this allows them to update the android auto UI with no changes for any of these apps.

they haven't done this for map apps yet but Waze is now supported. but this took a long time.

it could be possible there building the framework for maps just there not ready for 3rd party's to access it

the internet is quick to judge but you have to walk before you run. this is a system that will run on millions of cars and in the future possibly billions.

with Android Automotive OS its going to be part of the car so getting this correct is a big deal you want it supportable well into the future.
Not unless it comes bundled with an indie society.
Maybe it’s possible that the shared poop cleaner had some unknown health benefits as well. Obviously we all understand the risks, but there are potential upsides as well. I’m not familiar what they could be precisely, but I know there’s a lot of ongoing research into stool transplants and other poop-related remedies.
Water in London is very "hard". It crusts up your kettle, and some people don't like the taste.
If so, then nothing but greenhouse grown plants are vegan. Millions of rodents and rabbits are killed each year (not really an exaggeration, they reproduce prolifically) using a variety of methods to prevent them from damaging crops.

One amusing example is removal of burrowing animals with FAEs; propane and oxygen is injected into a burrow and detonated. (Google for "rodent blaster" if you're curious.) It does have the advantage of being an entirely organic method of agricultural pest control.
I'm just a customer ... it is very legit but it is a bit like ebay and amazon so of course the quality varies.
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>... and you painting it as "they don't want a poor person to have insurance" is not helping the discussion.

Then I sure wish people didn't say that if they don't mean it.
It's useful as a gatekeeper, to quickly weed out the chaff - I'm not saying it's the only test I do.

> it's offensive (or at least, boring) to any good candidate

Personally, I find this preposterous. When I get a CV, I don't know the person, and I need to decide if they are worth spending time on. FizzBuzz is a simple filter that I've found to be very effective the fact is that a lot of candidates just aren't up to even the most basic of tasks.

If being asked to do a dirt simple task that will take you less than 5 minutes offends you, then I don't want you on my team.
Ask HN: How can I focus and learn coding?
Hello HNers,

I have been trying to learn coding for over 10 years. Languages I tried to learn include Visual Basis, C#, .NET, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS. I cannot code in any language. It is serious attention problem I have been facing.

I tried to abandon the programming. But Again I got curious about web development. And for last 1 year, I am trying to learn Python. Again, I am failing due to lack of focus.

What is wrong with me?

How can I focus and learn coding? Or, should I forget about learning programming for good?

I would appreciate any help.