skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matter of legality aside, it happens anyway.

"Carnival Corporation ships illegally dumped more than 500,000 gallons of treated sewage, 12 gallons of oil, 11,000 gallons of food waste & dozens of physical objects into the ocean during its first year on probation (4/17-4/18)."

That reporter's summary came from her tweet: https://twitter.com/taydolven/status/1118233060569493504

The full story: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/tourism-cruises/ar...

She published her data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ERS2c_Kn4m9Ov4DfmzTh...

The large list of incidents have inane stuff, some human stuff, some funny stuff and some ironic stuff all mixed in with very serious stuff. You have to pick through a lot of entries and text to make sense of it.

Empathic: "While the ship was alongside in Mahogany Bay, Isla Roatan, a passenger accidentally dropped her purse into the sea from the pier. The MARPOL Annex V violation was reported to the port authority."

Funny? Inane? They had to file a report anyway: "During loading of provisions in Galveston, Texas, a shore side worker placed a pallet of watermelons on the ship's platform. Due to the pallet not being correctly positioned on the platform, the pallet tilted causing a number of watermelons to fall. All the watermelons were recovered from the netting placed below the ship's loading platform."

Ironic: "While alongside in Galveston, Texas, as a passenger was boarding the ship, he dropped his paper boarding pass, which was blown overboard and into the water in violation of MARPOL Annex V. The Harbor Master was informed by the ship's local agent. No additional actions were requested."

Serious: "Approximately 467 cubic meters of treated black water/sewage and 6.2 cubic meters of comminuted food waste was discharged inside Bahamian Archipelagic Baseline between June 13, 2017, and June 15, 2017, due to misinterpretation of Bahamas baselines listed in ENV 1001."

That's about 120,000 gallons.
Caveat that he designed it for 7th graders, and it was aimed as explicitly an educational program rather than a short show and tell, but my cousin put together a lesson around the "Routing and Deadlock" problem that seemed reasonably successful [0].

[0] https://www.paulcweidner.com/posts/stem-like-me/
British study. We can infer instant coffee was the main preparation recorded in the study, which has a lower caffeine content than fresh brewed.

~70-120mg look like drip brew numbers. Instant tends to run from 30-50mg.

25 cups of instant == ~750-1250mg
And even if you leave GMail, you may email with people that have it, and Google will still have those emails of yours via your email contact.

I’ve been moving to ProtonMail. It’s harder than you expect to de-Google-ize.
Personally I think the increase in LGBTQ people would most likely be caused by increasing public acceptance and/or awareness - if you're going to be ostracized by everyone you know it's a lot harder to come out, and if you think feeling however you do is bizarre/unprecedented/obscene you similarly won't tell people. Plenty of anecdotes out there of people who didn't think they were gay/bi/trans/etc because they didn't think of it as a thing-you-could-be; you see things like "oh, I thought everyone thought girls were hot" (or equivalent).

As acceptance and awareness grow, the bar gets lower -- fifty years ago it'd take a lot of dysphoria to justify trying to transition; now it's still not simple but it's a lot easier, and so more people who are comparatively less dysphoric are willing to take that particular plunge, and more of them know it's a doable thing.
WebAuthn (previously U2F) is just now gaining that support and momentum, with support both in Firefox and Android
I think the results speak for themselves.
If there was an iPod Classic that supported syncing with Spotify I'd be all over it.
Just-in-time compilation is supposed to save you time when compilation time is less than savings of execution time - comparing to static compilation. Can you prove that JIT savings can never happen, or don't happen on average? And even if you do profile collection, JIT will adapt to changing load - think about long-running services which have variations in request patterns frequencies and data - while static compilation can't do that.

I'm not saying that JIT is always better. It seems to me there are cases for that though.
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> 1) Wait, does DuckDuckGo use Bing’s search index?

They do what a company called metacrawler did back in the 90's (and I see still does now) but w/o the privacy angle and whatever other bells and whistles DDG adds. It also crawls but I don't know what percentage of that makes up the index. Generally I don't believe it's a very large part from memory.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/duckduckgo-seo/252165/#c...
"It is a small schadenfreude to know that these dreams will never come true. There are dangerous enemies, and then there are jokes of history. The libertarian seasteaders are a joke. The pitiful, incoherent and cowardly utopia they pine for is a spoilt child’s autarky, an imperialism of outsourcing, a very petty fascism played as maritime farce: Pinochet of Penzance."

That is cutting :)

An enjoyable read, thanks for the link.
The power of visualizing goals
>resentment by people who don't like making special accommodations for remote workers definitely happens.

Resentment can go both ways
Well for one off the top of my head the terms climate change and global warming being scrubbed from government sites and reports politically altered or suppressed. Subtle but real. Steps in the wrong direction.
If you have a budget you can go for robotics. I'd recommend getting a Lego Mindstorms kit, they usually come with ideas for builds (both hardware and software).

When I was presenting this to 10 year olds couple of years back they loved it! With mindstorms you can make it very interactive, you could easily do a show and tell of programming it with block diagrams.

You will most likely have a lot of fun yourself!
IIRC didn't they get bad intel from Iraqies who wanted an invasion (because they didn't like Sadam)? I think they might have known the intel was suspect, but didn't ask too many questions.

I grew up among conservative US expats who didn't have message boards and mostly didn't watch television. I think you underestimate the desire of some Americans to relive their glory days and "liberate" other countries.

Edit: I think most of them didn't really even care about WMDs, they just knew Sadam was an evil person (and to be fair, he was).
I add a couple half-hitches to the bowline for extra assurance.

I like the sheetbend, or double sheetbend for tying two ropes together, as long as they are similar is size and not to thick.
Huh. I just worked on a bug around this at work. We just added some quoting and that solved it.
I like Godel: "this sentence is unprovably true".
When i was younger i believed the tank crushed the man who was blocking the tank. Many years later i saw the complete video. The man walked away, persuaded by bystanders. Did a google search and found this: Tank Man full footage: https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1134582926325104641
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Probably not really. If you really hate paying taxes you can convince yourself that taxes are bad. If you ignore all evidence to the contrary and just really hate filing paperwork and following rules, you can convince yourself that regulation is harmful. If you actually want to experiment with new forms of governance, you will need to convince lots of other people to go along instead of just declaring yourself sovereign and then complaining that other countries don't recognize your right to do that just because you're rich.
The timeline seems a bit short, but ok. :)

(the problems with runners and the UI started at least at 2019-06-02 7:48 UTC, though they were hit-and-miss at the time)

Still, happy this is solved and we can use the (fantastic otherwise) service again!
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Interesting, I’ve read some but in all but one the sample sizes where waaaaaay to small (around 20). Do you have any links?
Not super relevant to your problem, but a fun anecdote:

I used to be a game developer at EA Tiburon, the studio that does Madden among other games. Somehow I got roped into giving a short talk to a bunch of visiting high school students.

Beforehand I emailed a bunch of game teams and asked them to send me screenshots of their weirdest bugs. I got all sorts of fun stuff. When a game with rendered animated humans goes wrong, it can look anywhere from funhouse hilarious to horror film insane. Giant players dwarfing the field. Players with their eyes sticking out a foot in front of their head. Arms on backwards.

The kids loved it. Heck, I loved it. It was a ton of fun.
When propagandists discovered you can turn enough of the populace against the press (specifically the free press) as a whole, you don't even need to censor anymore. China could start unblocking all evidence of the massacre happening, but counter it with the brainworms of "fake news", "whataboutism", and "FUD" - then it doesn't matter how loud the truth screams, more and more of the populace willingly calls it a lie regardless.

It sure saves money on having to find each bit of truth and stamp it out. It's brilliant.
Fortunately our legacy automakers have solved that problem. I haven't seen a story on HN about any of them catching on fire.

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I second @traydee — this has never happened to me either. Do you turn on the option to have the app remember your master password? If so, maybe that's why they ask you to change it; don't use that option.
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I thought the whole point of helicopter money is because you want inflation and shouldn't be buying it back later.
Why doesn't India have this problem?
Audrey Tang was also an author in The Architecture of Open Source Applications (AOSA):

https://aosabook.org/en/500L/web-spreadsheet.html

Chinese (Traditional): https://github.com/aosabook/500lines/blob/master/spreadsheet...

https://aosabook.org/en/socialcalc.html

You can check the series out in its entirety at https://aosabook.org
That said I think there is some evidence of potentially criminal activity in the treatment of those living on the islands. John Pilger famously made a documentary about it.
Those are fake feel good offset, it price a Paris-NYC round trip with 2.2 tCO2eq at 52€, but the only serious future project of durable carbon capture that I know price it at 600$ the tCO2eq, this would be a 1320$ offset.
I don't think American anti-trust law makes any provisions for buying out potential future competitors.
"In 2007, for example, Facebook introduced a program that recorded users’ activity on third-party sites and inserted it into the News Feed. Following public outrage and a class-action lawsuit, Facebook ended the program. 'We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them,' Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote in a public apology.

This sort of thing happened regularly for years. Facebook would try something sneaky, users would object and Facebook would back off.

But then Facebook’s competition began to disappear. Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. Later in 2014, Google announced that it would fold its social network Orkut. Emboldened by the decline of market threats, Facebook revoked its users’ ability to vote on changes to its privacy policies and then (almost simultaneously with Google’s exit from the social media market) changed its privacy pact with users.

This is how Facebook usurped our privacy: with the help of its market dominance. The price of using Facebook has stayed the same over the years (it’s free to join and use), but the cost of using it, calculated in terms of the amount of data that users now must provide, is an order of magnitude above what it was when Facebook faced real competition."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/opinion/privacy-antitrust... Why Privacy Is an Antitrust Issue
To be clear, I'm not criticizing you! I'm criticizing the Guardian, which should be better than this.

The HN rules are clear, and you followed them. And the rules even made sense when they were created and the Internet was less dumb than nowadays.
Was that a DBaaS or a DB that you deployed yourself?

I think many new databases are handling the concerns around lock-in by being Postgres or MySQL compatible. PlaneScale is MySQL compatible of course.
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I'm in my first remote position now, and my current opinion is that it would be extremely difficult to be remote unless it was actively baked into the company culture.

Has that been your experience? I love working remote but even at a remote-focused company, I feel there are things I miss out on since I'm not onsite in one of the offices.
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FWIW, I have seen (and have recommended) designing a number of applications with the spreadsheet as their front end. This works particularly well with google sheets, given its reasonable API. It is way richer than anything you will quickly build, is designed for mucking with tabular data (and makes it relatively easy), and it turns out a ton of applications are basically interfaces on tabular data. Hey hey!
Bing is (unexpectedly) aging well
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It's much worse than that. You can call any of the credit card companies and just buy data dumps of transaction histories that are barely even anonymized. Google organizes your purchase history on your behalf. Everyone else is trying to sell it.
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> Most of the time, I use excel because the SaaS tools that I have that do a better job have a per/seat cost that is MUCH too high for me to bring casual, one time people into the projects. If companies were more sensible about licenses for casual users, maybe excel would be less relevant.

This is the main reason why I don't use products like Airtable or Notion, even though they are otherwise very compelling. Charging $10-40 for every user, even people who may log in once every few months (and maybe don't even change data) makes no sense. At that price, even excel files on a network drive is better.
It's not censorship, it's "alternative facts" - far more effective!
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