skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like stupidity not malice. There’s clearly a usability issue when different UI flows charge the same person differently for the same service.

Edit: that’s just it. I don’t believe there was a meeting where a PM sat down and said “muhaha let’s make our UI confusing to screw service members.” That’s ludicrous. What likely happened is substandard engineering practices created an overly complicated UI and then failed to correctly handle all cases due to poor coding.
Yea, definitely agree about automatically. For me the biggest problem with automatic is, exactly as you said, the worth of varying projects.

I think automatic inclusion would also run the risk of OSS becoming less integrated. Ie, if I include another dependency I risk losing money, incentivizing me to reinvent wheels so long as I have the ability.
I've gotten a few warning popups from my ISP along with threatening letters in the mail. I didn't react at all and nothing happened.
Definitely just that the HW hasn't caught up.

https://www.netdevconf.org/0x13/session.html?talk-quic-offlo...
> ...get it funded before I even make the product.

Strictly speaking, you don't have to do this. You could make the product, send it under a strict NDA to a variety of widely-trusted 3rd-party reviewers/critics, with whatever sort of protection against leaks you might require, then put the existing product for crowdfunded "ransom" (Like Blender was, after the original company went out of business), building in whatever return you might wish to ask for in exchange for bearing the ensuing risk. This doesn't require ordinary copyright protection at all, only a very limited-in-scope protection for private, unpublished stuff.

(The "ransom" model is in fact already potentially-applicable to a lot of existing content that's generally considered worthless, but that, much like Blender itself, might be valued more in the context of an open release. Transaction costs - namely, wrt. the exceedingly-common case of "orphan works", with unknown rights-holders - get in the way of it, however.)
Can you elaborate on how you managed that? I'm trying to get there but not sure how to make it happen.
> I don't think we need to cater to paranoid Americans.

A fine position if you don't care about businesses abandoning the European market and the US government using it to justify retaliation against EU companies in the US market.

> It's perfectly reasonable for a legislature to assume it isn't changing the law when the law isn't being changed and it's not the legislature that is acting.

If a court is interpreting the law to mean something other than what it says, it's changing the law.
> I decided early on to edit the menus to remove a lot of the "junk" and replace it with my list of apps, so I fired up the Main Menu Editor app. Normally this is quite responsive, but on the resource-challenged Zero it had worrying lags and pauses as changes were made. Ultimately, it meant that my ad-hoc menus were corrupted and worse still, the default Pi menus had been reinstated.

If I understand Raspian’s portability correctly, this could be mitigated by preparing the system disk on a Pi w/ more resources, e.g. a Pi3– run Main Menu Editor w/ system disk in Pi3, then put system disk in Pi Zero W when menus are edited to satisfaction.
Two days? Scheduled maintenance began at 5:45pm PT May 22nd, and it's currently 12:10pm PT May 23rd. We're hours behind (this stuff is tough), but it hasn't even been one day, let alone two.
No, ZoL bypasses the usual page cache.
There are jobs that you can take where you don't pay into nor receive ssn benefits.
A lot of people are living paycheck to paycheck. Money in == money out, both by necessity and by increasing spending whenever they have increased income. Some people are deep in CC or Student debt, so extra money goes there, some are spending beyond their means (or right up to their means).

Basically, people don't or can't save (much). So any unexpected expenses need to be covered by income.
Yes, I think that's something that isn't always made clear. The roof is simply used to prevent water from falling on the stone vaults; when a fire destroyed the roof and timber frame in Reims during World War I, the vaults resisted and only collapsed later because of rainfall.
Bet they were disappointed (in the show, not the service)
Per my other comment [1], that's why such surveys (and, I'll add, their reporting), should sidestep these judgments calls and just find out in what precise sense someone can or can't cover the expense.

In your example, where you are putting something on the CC while already having the cash to cover it, that would count as my category 1, and you don't have to resolve the (irrelevant) question of whether using a credit card "is [inherently] debt".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19994836
An evaporative cooler (a "swamp cooler") can help get you a few more degrees cooler if that's all you need.

Im also pretty fond of Purple products (their original pillow and any of their mattresses) as they don't get much warmer when you use them.
According to Zerohedge, since about 2014
It's funny, that's almost all I torrent.
April new home sales up 7% YOY
I don't think your company deserves you.
There is nothing stopping you from backing up state in s3 and git. Just have CICD to sync it up.

State really shouldn't have anything secret in it in the first place, so 3rd party having access to it shouldn't matter.
I run PG10 (default on Ubuntu LTS), usually join table with billion rows with table with millions rows with table with thousand rows, and constantly observe situation when just one core is loaded by 100%, and others are idle.
Municipal Government Employee here (from a top 15 US city).

Municipal & State IT systems (particularly around cyber-security) are atrocious (See Atlanta, Baltimore Ransomware). Many of our (and our peers') systems are a hodgepodge of paper, excel sheets, legacy systems, and new off the shelf systems.

At the end of the day, government maintains a strong role in the operations of cities, counties, and states. For example, our city manages the issuance of more than 250,000 permits annually, a road network of more than 10,000 lane miles, and an annual capital infrastructure budget of nearly $1 billion.

There is a very real need for better IT systems that can be customized to meet the needs of differing legacy systems and data structures by municipalities. If our city is any indication of the industry, there is an insane amount of waste and mismanagement that can be attributed to poor/legacy systems or data.
a shell of its former self. Not even worth going back to IMO.

Now if what.cd came back...that would be a great time
Intuit has weaponized tax filing against the American taxpayer for great profit. Their lobbying efforts are very impressive.
That's a brutally long time. My respect goes out to the Flickr engineers working 24/7 to bring it back up.
Do you have any sources for this bullying? I like the NY Times. I have a feeling watching nearly every newspaper around them collapse or struggle has spurred them to act in creative ways to stay relevant. I'm not saying they're not throwing their weight around, but I'm just not certain what you're referring to and you seem to really really dislike the NY Times.

And I think it's worked personally, and they've brought some great stories to light as of late.

Plus, as a New Yorker, I enjoy the New York section, and probably have some sense of pride in having such an established and premier news outlet so close.
I don't know, he kept saying he talks daily with someone who lives an hour away, and was constantly assuming that person was in the office.
The linked page says flickr is down for planned maintenance. There's not really anything informative/educational on the linked page. Not obviously anything that "gratifies ones intellectual curiosity" as suggested in the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
y, I wouldn't express hey I'm being recruited.

If they value you and you are providing value use that as leverage. Sometimes no matter how good a developer you are or how valuable you are they won't give you the raise you think you deserve.

Sadly sometimes the best way to get a large raise is to change companies so keep that in mind.

Good luck.
That seems like a great idea. All kudos to the LEGO Foundation for the idea, but the article repeatedly references compromises made to maintain the brand. A 3D printed version could be made without those compromises. It's not like it matters if these blocks integrate with the rest of the LEGO world particularly; any solution for laying this reasonably securely on some sort of foundation plate would work. That's not completely trivial, but I bet it would be sufficient to just have something like sized, spaced holes 1/2 to 3/4s of the depth of the blocks, so they'll stay put with fingers dragged across them; pick it up and flip it over to empty it. Less elegant, certainly, but much less printing precision required. Other solutions may work as well.
Seems like it would give people the wrong idea.
It’s been less than a day (about 19 hours). That’s longer than the 12 hour scheduled maintenance window, but not that much longer.
I think this is the key passage:

> Reading opposition to SB 50 and other efforts at increasing density, I’m struck by an unsettling thought: What Republicans want to do with ICE and border walls, wealthy progressive Democrats are doing with zoning and NIMBYism. Preserving “local character,” maintaining “local control,” keeping housing scarce and inaccessible — the goals of both sides are really the same: to keep people out.

California's failure to address the housing crisis isn't an economic failure; it's a moral one. Moving to a high-productivity city has long been the best way for Americans to better their prospects and their childrens' future. That opportunity is still available to the handful of engineers who can move to SF and pull down $150k-200k right out of college, but it's increasingly a thing of the past. It's been dismantled by wealthy homeowners who don't want to share their cities with the wrong sort of people. The fact that many of them are self-described progressives and theoretically in favor of greater equality doesn't make this worse, but it certainly is ironic.
BSD licenses wouldn't be required if copyright didn't exist.
Japan has been adopting outside influences for over a century. Not to mention, it has been handily exporting its own culture. So it has contributed to the global pop culture that you are denouncing. It is complicit. And yet, it is hardly the death of high culture as you predict.
The USP of the Deluge seems to be the isomorphic(?) chord keyboard. How did you find that to be? Was it easy to learn?

I admit I would love one but the price puts me off.
Would generic ads really be more interesting for you? Don't forget, the United States is not the only country in the world nor is English the only language. I hope you're ready for ads in Chinese, Russian, German, French etc.
Bendix West!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Saint_Mary_of_the...
More companies have announced that they will not be doing business with Huawei
I just read it, it's a great story. I can see some obvious drawbacks to Vertebrane (I like my privacy), but I can't imagine it being worse than Manna.
I'm sure there are also some people who drive a combine harvester to work and find it an optimal commuting vehicle.
Imagine you’re a solo maintainer of an NPM package, and you know that one of the FAANG companies uses your package. Normally, you respond to issues on weekends and cut new builds when reasonable bugs are reported.

Then, the FAANGco starts sponsoring you, a pittance for them but a solid amount for you. They put in issues and submit PRs that are intended for their own use case, or even worse, that constrain the utility of the package to that company’s use case.

Other people put in issues, but let’s be real, they’re not sponsoring you.

A maintainer can reject an issue or PR from a sponsor to keep the package pure and generalized, but would risk getting that sponsorship revoked. And if you don’t think coercion would be involved in that, think again.

It is FOSS so someone could fork it. But then, you’ve got a situation where potentially tens of thousands of projects and consumers would have to switch over.

All straw men for sure, but I am thinking that the ecosystem of FOSS might be shook by this, from both the maintainer and consumer side.
what.cd still had some of the best organization of any site, ever. It's hilarious that a company as big as Amazon has such a horrendous UI for browsing music, but lil what.cd had such a comprehensive and slick design
> How do you keep up with that?

the wikipedia article has the official site.
I have looked at those extensively, and seen articles where they shoehorn dual 10gb NIC on via PCIE but the pricing is slightly higher than I want to be at (at least initially).
Democrats are liberal. They’re synonyms right
I have a really, really hard time finding any meaning in a job that isn't directly working to address environmental and/or societal collapse. It feels like we're on the deck of the Titanic trying to network instead of looking for a lifeboat.

Unfortunately, my efforts to be useful in this regard in my career have failed. Regardless, you can be useful to someone and still have a bullshit (or worse) job. Hitman comes to mind.
https://www.senecagov.com/ (no association, just a fan)
That's mentioned in the piece:

> Not-in-my-backyardism is a bipartisan sentiment, but because the largest American cities are populated and run by Democrats — many in states under complete Democratic control — this sort of nakedly exclusionary urban restrictionism is a particular shame of the left.
I once attended a SMPTE meeting at the Directors Guild building, where the wifi ssid was "MPAA". I took out my laptop to follow along with the specs under discussion and half way through the meeting I noticed that I had accidentally left my torrent app open and was seeding movie torrents. Whoops! :-)
"Optimizing for fixed size" implies that comparative advantages are not a thing, and economic growth only comes from exploiting poorer countries (at least, as far as I can understand).

Do you really believe this?
I'm not much of a Perl user, but [its user community](https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/perl-not-dead-it-was-...) is surprisingly strong and enthusiastic (even if they do talk about Python the way the TF2 community talks about Overwatch).
A pity Pirate Party never took off in US, because of the entrenched two party system.
if humankind (best minds) is not able to build something better in every aspect today, we as a species are on the wrong trail and should change.

We already need to change a lot (carbon free and many other problem areas) and like the Apollo program was a challenge for engineering we could start an effort in the domains of architecture and arts (and maybe others) to build something better, spiritual etc. ...
Watch out Equifax, here come those collection calls.

If owing thousands as a US peasant earns you harassment and dozens of calls a week, I'd love to see the Experian leadership get thousands a second if we're staying proportional.

Corporations are people and all.
Is it? I suppose it'll depend on the definition of "third world".

The US ranks ~56th on infant mortality; of the countries that do better, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are the poorest by far. The IMF classifies both as "developing", and the World Bank calls them upper-middle-income. Even by the Cold War standard, all of them are either First or Second world. The first entry I see that clearly counts, Nauru, is about 40% worse than the US.

Mississippi, though, is ~60% above the national average, with some regions well above that. Which is to say, down around Barbados for infant mortality.

(Of course, I don't mean to imply that "rivaling poor and corrupt developing countries" is something to be proud of. It's just staggering to me how incredibly bad the situation in some parts of the US is.)
...I've been on reddit over 10 years and never noticed that.
Would you be ok with a geo-libertarian style land value tax?
Python string interpolation uses the same syntax as str.format(), and happens to be shared by c#’s string interpolation
>Offering low cost subscriptions, e.g. instead of exorbitant one time fees.

I couldn't disagree more. I pirated Adobe's products many years ago when I was a poor student who couldn't afford the price. I also wouldn't have been able to justify the price of a monthly subscription back then. Now though, I would pay any price up to a couple thousand dollars for a one-time purchase of CS6 Photoshop and Illustrator, but it's literally impossible to do this now.
When people think they're "drawing attention to systemic issues of [someone else's] mindset", what they're usually doing is generalizing from their own limited perspective, rooted in their own identity and emotions. Underlying this kind of generalization, usually, is a desire to give expression to one's identity in opposition to what one experiences as the opposite identity. When people do this, it mostly comes across as a slap to the other side.

We don't mean to do that—on the contrary, we think we're helpfully pointing out information that other people need in order to improve themselves (which in most cases means, be more like us). But the other side feels it acutely. We don't see or feel the shadow we cast when arguing like this, but it's the first thing the other picks up on. Then the impulse becomes irresistible to fling it back—which the first person experiences as being misunderstood and unfairly interpreted—and so we get fights where people are no longer exchanging information or learning from each other. I believe that this may be, in the small, the same phenomenon which in the large is known as war.

So my recommendation would be: don't do it. But if you have to do it, hold off until you've conscientiously searched for unhelpful signals in what you've written and unhelpful intentions that may be lurking in your feelings. Take care to give space to the other side and to allow for how your own biases affect your view of the other. (If you want to look into the latter, one place might be with the feeling behind that word "gratingly".) On HN, there's an additional don't-do-it: don't do it if it would take a thread on a generic tangent. Those lead to much lower-quality (high indignation, low information) discussions.

All that is so hard that it's better just to not go there. Instead spend the energy on processing why one feels the need to go there in the first place—especially on the internet, where misunderstanding is on a hair trigger and human bandwidth so painfully low.
And better people to run it.
Same, it is rare for me to torrent

As an American in Europe last month, I experienced:

Watching Showtime through Playstation Vue was impossible from European IP, and impossible through US VPN. So I torrented Billions instead of trying a redundant unportable Showtime through Amazon Video subscription, or instead of trying a redundant Showtime subscription through their native app assuming they have one.

Watching Game of Thrones through HBO Now also had the same issues. But downloading torrents over VPN worked really fast. I only used VPNs partially out of habit, and partially not to get my host (hotel/airbnb) in trouble.

Because VPNs were so readily detected and blocked, it reminded me to consider buying a dedicated IP address in a few different countries for VPN, instead of having IP addresses that all the VPN users use. I have not done this yet, as I also heard that another way to detect VPNs is by knowing if the IP block is associated with a data center. I wonder if this is really done by the services I use.

Final note is that I did notice that alot of the torrent providers are doing "webrips" now instead of ripping in the highest quality their TV provides applying compression. The webrips are noticeable worse as the streaming service already is using compression.

Kind of weird outcome currently.
So given how historically stringent the Japanese government has been in doling out citizenship, it stands to reason even an "open" policy would be more measured and less laissez-faire than those in, say, Nordic countries, no?
“safety factor: even more rock, please!”
I feel like Aldi is getting a lot of submarine press lately.
I can't say the same for Apple anymore. When I see Apple products I have a feeling that is equal parts regret and sadness. I've come to associate Apple products with functionally flawed products.
> literally everyone who'd want to visit Facebook knows Facebook's URL

Never forget when ReadWriteWeb posted a blog post entitled "Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login", which ended up ranking very highly for the search query "facebook login". It was subsequently innundated with comments from angry people who hated the new redesign and couldn't figure out how to log in... believing that they were on facebook, because they googled "facebook login" and clicked the first result.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100213061037/https://www.readw...

Scroll down for the comments. It's pages and pages of people frothing at the bit looking for anywhere to enter their facebook password.
FWIW:

What The Swedish Pirate Party Wants With Patents, Trademarks, And Copyright (2012):

> Copyright must be reformed. We’d like to keep the copyright monopoly for commercial use (but with shorter, more sensible terms of protection). The big problem is that copyright has expanded in the past 20 years, going from being something that only corporations needed to care about, into something that criminalizes the entire young generation (and more and more people who aren’t even particularly young anymore).

> The Swedish Pirate Party wants to; Legalize file-sharing and other non-commercial sharing [...] At most 20 years of protection from the publication of a work. [...] Registration after five years. [...] Sensible regulation for quotations, parodies, and remixes [...] A ban on DRM

http://falkvinge.net/2012/10/13/what-the-swedish-pirate-part...

Richard Stallman (2012):

> I agree with all three of these positions. I do suggest, however, that it would be better not to group together these three issues and only these three. Why would anyone group together these three unrelated laws? I suspect it reflects the mistaken concept of "intellectual property".

http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#16_Octobe...

You can reform copyright without rendering the GPL unworkable. I asked Rick Falkvinge about this a number of years ago (2008-2010), and he seemed quite confident that the GPL would still be viable given their proposed reforms.

(Current Pirate Parties appear to use similar policies, such as Pirate Party UK:"A fair and balanced copyright regime that is suitable for the 21st century is an absolute necessity for the UK to remain competitive in a global economy that is built upon ideas and innovation. Copyright should give artists and innovators the chance to make money from their work; however, that needs to be balanced with the rights of society as a whole. We will work for copyright reform and reduce copyright terms to 10 years to balance everyone's needs." https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/policy/culture/home)
I wouldn't worry too much about not being able to run the software forever -- after all virtualization, DOSbox and whatever means we can run both recently old and ancient software. But I came to say has no one reverse engineered the protocol and implemented open source software for it?
Google disables Baltimore City gmail created during ransomware recovery
Do you know/notice the performance difference from encryption?