skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand what you think the issue here is?

My interpretation of this is that the customer had pre-paid credit on their account. Meaning they had not been through the typical bill cycle yet (hitting an external payment method).

How are you interpreting that they are running on credit? As in their account is in debt and they haven't paid yet?
FTC is asking questions about Amazon business practices, including Prime
The article discusses violating TOS, not a billing issue. I don't think it's unreasonable to disable an account in that circumstance but I agree that deleting images/resources without allowing customers to defend themselves and backup the systems would be unfair.
I had a look into it; user-select doesn't apply to before/after content.

This process has taught some interesting things about browsers. For example: `<br>` and `<img />` elements are "replaced" and can't really be shown in the way all other elements are. (I conveniently avoided using them).

And, as described above, ::before/::after content cannot be selected, and generally behave... strangely.
And image tags do not have pseudo selectors/elements.
Isn't this the goal of every business and employee ever? To make money with the least effort.

Is that so shameful?
CSS spec says no, unfortunately. Pseudo-elements aren't part of the DOM and thus can't be selected by any means.
What jumped out to you as weaselly? It read more like a blameless postmortem to me than weaseling around (unlike any of the recent big PII breaches), and they acknowledged that this needs to be something they respond more quickly to directly.
In my case it was Opera's built-in ad blocker.
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> A precision made box joint glued with wood glue is stronger than a finely made dovetail joint.

To clarify, do you mean "than a finely made dovetail joint without glue"?
Apologies for being pedantic but the link contains no mention of magnetic field information and Neptune's discovery would not have taken this into account either.

Im fairly sure this has been done so far by analysing orbits in different ways, but Ive never heard of perturbations in solar system wide electro-magnetism (within solar wind) taken into account, or if that could be possible and effective to model in detail.
I knew they gave credits, but I didn't realize it was to the level of $20k worth of credits. I think I got a couple hundred from DO.
IIRC there are rules that any catastrophic engine failure must be contained. The Concord was granted an exception and that didnt go so well. Degree going out the back and hitting hydraulics was the cause of some other incident like Sioux City Iowa.
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I want to know more about how it was measured incorrectly the first time.
Care to share more about your experience releasing a game? Did you do any marketing? How much did it make?
Ever since I first heard of Beaker (https://beakerbrowser.com/) I fell in love with their idea and concept. They've made making web apps/sites really fun and easy. They are on Open Collective if you'd like to help (I'm not associated with them in any way): https://opencollective.com/beaker
I don't quite see why a HL3 would necessarily be bad. Doom 2016 managed to be good despite shooters having changed a lot since Doom 1, 2.
If you would like to read without trackers, the Times no longer allows private browsing:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190603190109/https://www.nytim...
> Or do they make HL3 in the dated style and risk a flop because the market for that dated style has only gotten smaller over the past decade and new players aren't interested in it?

I get your point that they can't win either way, but I wish there were more developers that would stick to older style games, when the goldeneye/timesplitters style of shooters went out of fashion the FPS market left me behind completely, similarly when platformers became 3D there weren't a lot of options for people that preferred the 2D style.
>It's not as if they are doing it retroactively.

You can't do this retroactively.
Valve has the network effect being both a top-of-mind store, distribution platform, and friend network.
If I were a mouse, I'd optimize for maximizing likelihood for successful escape over minimizing the time needed to execute an escape.
I have seen hundreds and hundreds of resumes, but have never -- not once -- been shown a cover letter by anybody whose name wasn't on it.

They are always thrown away.

Probably some places expect to get it, but they don't pass it along. So, it really doesn't matter much what it says unless you are writing it to a specific person. In that case any other letter would be useless.
Execute the old style well, perhaps with some modernizations where appropriate, and your game is lauded for being unique.

Execution is paramount. Valve certainly had the talent to pull it off at one point, I wonder if they still do...
Yeah... that one was painful and we are fixing it. At least if the priority placed this at the top of the queue we could have acted faster. Probably the same outcome due to the other issues involved in this incident though.
What does this mean about Opera's ad blocker? (I also see a ton of junk up top when Opera's block ads is enabled, but I don't know what to make of this.)
I love Vivaldi due to vertical tab bar
But I use Palemoon (Firefox fork with XUL) with Tab Kit for vertical tabs too

I think Vivaldi (based on Chromium) is great for one time browsing (open -> close)
But I got a bunch of sites I visit daily so I got them opened in Palemoon and open them when I need
With another extension you can also unload tabs (manaual or auto, config it as you like) in Palemoon like Vivaldi (called hibernate in V)
Because I reinstalled my droplet with a different filesystem manually, the snapshot restore doesnt work. Support tells me they cant do anything, so my 2~ of chat logs are sitting in a disk image that they cant restore bc they need to mount it for some reason...
Looks like it’s offline right now.
I use Firefox for meet calls every day
That is awesome (pun intended), thanks!
Your boss can vigorously deny responsibility just as easily as a senior co-worker. What's to stop them?
Where I work, we by now have all build steps of server-side code occurring in containers, and all local dependencies for that are `docker`, `git`, and `make`.

Though docker does not completely isolate the build process, it definitely limits writable local directories to those explicitly mounted into a container.

An extra bonus is that docker also installs on Windows and on MacOS and is controlled seamlessly, so our developers are free to choose whatever OS is needed for native development.
Google Trips app being shut down on August 5
Valve was founded by ex Microsoft devs wasn't it?
From my experience, the landlord would throw us out of the house if we even breathe the wrong way - let alone screw in holes in the wall.
The most frustrating thing to me is that I can't just find a good app for my daughter without there being some sort of dependency on 1 or 2 of the following: Ads, Links to other games/apps, microtransactions. I want to buy a full app experience for her wether it's just for fun or education and I'm willing to pay it just doesn't really exist. Even the best apps I can find always have these and they interrupt her experience to sell her/me more.
I remember reading ~10 years ago that mode-lines were considered to be insecure (you are parsing arbitrary data as configuration options) and have always had them disabled in my .vimrc. I'm surprised they haven't been disabled by default (even in neovim).

EDIT: I probably was reading about CVE-2007-2438, another mode-line based RCE attack.
Pay attention to my words. I said to sample all of the data.

I didn't say anything about reading every possible review. But you do need a good, rounded sample.
Interesting, I did not think about this way at all, I will take a look.
Who else’s first embedded advert in the article about online prostitution was a picture of a beautiful woman with the tagline, “Here for every beauty. Shop now.”?

Top notch work, there, Yahoo Marketing.
In a few words you said that the $40.000 pro monitor that Apple used as reference in their comparison is a marketing gimmick for consumers

I think the comment you're replying to called Sony's "infinite contrast" OLEDs a "marketing gimmick for consumers". This Sony BRAVIA OLED is listed for <$2,000: https://www.newegg.com/p/16C-0006-00183?Description=sony%20o...

That seems like a consumer price point to me.
the only approach remaining would be to have some minimal vanilla js, as part of the page, that rewrites the dom to include the tags.

This would also alleviate the need to use CSS, and in particular the repetitive CSS.

It would also allow the tags/attributes to be styled in a more idiomatic way.

But i'm out of time on this idea ;)
Which is why I said you're supposed to sample all of the available data.
What do you do when you are actively trying to resolve something with your bank? Do you start answering calls from random numbers and risk letting a few spam calls through?
What's the problem with the LED, does the liquid filling cause TIR off the watch-face/external air boundary?
If that's not the problem, you could try side-mounting the led, as here: https://www.instructables.com/id/Watch-LED-Light-Mod/

Does the oil leak out of the buttons when they're pressed?

How about the buzzer? I think it's attached to the back of the watch so shouldn't be affected too much?

Someone mentioned improved readability. I assume underwater that is definitely the case, as you no longer get TIR reflections off the back of the watch-face/internal air boundary at steep angles, but how is readability affected in air?
It's not too much effort to pay someone a third-world salary to do whatever you want.
This seems mostly not true. Can you elaborate how?
Hey xnxn - Thanks for raising this issue. I'm Zach, Director of Support at DO. Please send me an email with your account detalis, first name at, and I'll take care of this.
I know a couple of people that have worked there over the years. Everyone with half a brain knew fraud likely was happening.
In order to increase resilience against this threat while large networks patch and upgrade, there are additional measures that can be taken

I'd say those are the first things that should be done, regardless of the presence of exploits; exposing a port/listening service to the Internet you don't need, especially one that can remotely give complete control to an attacker, is always a bad idea. Fortunately the majority of computers out there are probably behind a NAT, which helps greatly to keep them from being hacked remotely.

Disable remote Desktop Services if they are not required. Disabling unused and unneeded services helps reduce exposure to security vulnerabilities overall and is a best practice even without the BlueKeep threat.

Very good advice --- too bad latest Windows versions have not-so-clearly-described tons of services running by default, many of which phone home in some way, and some of which are nearly impossible to disable...
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This is what AppArmor and SELinux are used for. AppArmor has the ability to apply a profile whenever a particular binary is run, and so you can confine the process. SELinux has labels and all that jazz so you could probably configure it in a similar manner (though I think it doesn't support restricting all callers of a binary).

To a lesser degree, seccomp is similar but you don't have an easy way of applying a profile to a binary (instead the binary would need to self-apply the profile or you'd need to come up with a separate way of running programs so that a profile would be auto-applied).

The problem is that users want to be able to edit any file on the filesystem with their text editor -- if you don't allow vim to edit files in /etc/ then admins won't be able to do their job (though, please use "sudo -e" instead of "sudo vi").
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Very often the way to make money with the least effort involves some kind of scamming/fraud - and at the very least it's not usually good for consumers, so it's not good for your company in the long run.
Thanks Zach, will do.
A naive question (not read the actual paper or know much about the field) - if requiring dark matter to explain galactic physics can be dispensed with by a distance correction, doesn't "we've been underestimating distances all this time" serve as a simpler fact of galactic physics than needing "there is mysterious dark matter everywhere" to explain galactic physics?
You can only fake it to a certain extent since you report cash flow. Even for cash flow from operating activities Google (35%), Apple (30%), and Facebook (52%!) outshone Comcast (25%).
Ah yes, good point. Although I am sure you could sort it all out in some kind of wrapper script. Although it's not that simple then.
It is the kik that broke and triggered the left-pad fiasco a few years ago in the JS scene?
Most people in these threads have been complaining about wanting a mini-tower from Apple at a rock-bottom price. Personally, I'd love one, too, and the Mac Pro has never been a consideration to me because of the price.

Unfortunately, cost-creep has been happening more every year. Apple seems pretty proud that the average cost of an iPhone has jumped up since the iPhoneX. For almost a decade I would buy a Macbook Pro, then aftermarket upgrade the ram and hard drive. Now that it is no longer an option that has greatly increased the cost of a new laptop for me. (to be fair to Apple, the PC laptops I was looking at also had soldered RAM and while the SSDs weren't soldered on, they had worse performance and were close in cost after upgrading). I'm still hoping PC makers catchup.

The iMac Pro seems to have filled the price-point of the old entry level Mac Pro.

It sucks there's not a Mac that fits your needs at a reasonable price...I feel similarly about their laptops. It's like pros have gone from ignored to priced out of the market.
Unreal Engine is miles better than Value's engine.
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https://github.com/adnzzzzZ/blog/issues/44, https://github.com/adnzzzzZ/blog/issues/35
Search or the assistant or just the calendar or maps always seem to be a step ahead of Google's specific use type apps.

Some Google product (i don't even remember what) likes to tell me about popular new spots to visit but it only pops up randomly, really only cares about the urban core type places, seems kinda to prefer the more absurdly trendy (if I was 21 I might think that place is neat), and often reads like a paid advertisement.
I am willing to struggle with the problem of boredom for as many centuries as it takes to solve it!
-DGAPING_SECURITY_HOLE is how you have to compile nc in order to enable "-e" support. The gaping security hole is that it is literally RCE-as-a-feature -- yes, it's not as bad as "pass any text you get over this socket to a shell session" but it's still pretty bad.
Americans Are Now Spending More Time on Devices Than Watching TV
Not every business has an EIN. I'm kind of surprised at the number of regulatory hoops you're willing to jump through to negotiate a minimal level of service.
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Yep this was it.

Thanks to all for your concerns of my potentially malware-infected PC, alas, it was just an ad-blocker.
We dropped DO from our company usage after similar issues, though honestly DO probably wasn't the right place for our product at that stage of development. What was meant as a POC became technical debt and an outage forced is to come to terms with the fact that by the time the issue happened we had more than enough of our own capacity to run on our own metal.

Kudos to DO for the open incident management. As someone who does this myself, these are often really painful and hard to get right.
I made something very minimal the other day because I was tired of setting up fonts in all my repos.

https://quickfont.xyz/

It doesn't have many fonts at the moment but feel free to open an issue with any font requests and I will add it to the site: https://github.com/kiwicopple/quick-font/issues
China’s Churning Out Revolutionary Cancer Drugs Much Cheaper Than the U.S.
Generalist here went from engineering to design and psychology [0] to psychology and anthropology [1]. Lately been eyeballing economics and political science.

When I started, I just couldn't see myself doing the same thing for the rest of my life and I branched out. I took opportunities that presented itself and the ones where I was thrown into (thank you mentors). I did try to specialize in engineering but I went from embedded systems to GUI to front-end to back-end to data (mining/analysis/visualization) to systems design to (developer) operations then ML and technical management. I just can't help but be attracted to the next thing but I don't stick around long enough to be absorbed by it.

I usually start the 'next' thing as a side project or side gig. If it becomes interesting enough I change my main role to it. In a way I've become a specialist at being a generalist.

Fear of the unknown doesn't frighten me, it excites me. Somehow I've come to love chaos and making sense of it. Few people and companies bet on this behaviour of mine and we both walked away with satisfaction and wealth. But life as a generalist hasn't been easy. I've had to deal with imposter syndrome often. Always ended up learning on the job.

It wasn't just jobs/career though... I find myself relocating to new country or continent once every two years. Financially it's a nightmare but its a price I'm willing to pay.

[0] https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/13276/rayraegah

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19712234
Airlines have been having record profit the last several years, especially in the US. Over the last decade they have figured out how to take back pricing power from the internet and they've gotten better at data anlysis and price discrimination.
Oh interesting, hadn't seen that claim before
I think it's moreso people continually creating new accounts to get free credits. Then bitcoin mining turns the credits into actual money.
So, Valve is a terrible company bogged down by incompetent middle managers, just like many other terrible companies run by incompetent middle managers. The only difference is that at Valve their official title is "co-worker" instead of "boss".

I'm not sure that perspective is useful.
It means that it's more of an ad-hider than a blocker, adding more CSS to hide the relevant elements instead of stripping them out completely (which something like a MITM proxy could easily do.)
AWS doesn't really offer that much between all their products and those integrations are all done over public APIs anyway. Many of the new features they release are just automating away things that people previous hooked up themselves.

I don't see why a startup would have such a problem with it, especially when they control the software as well.
You should write that book!
As far as I can tell, this article doesn't belong on Hacker News.
They do highlight reviews from users who actually purchased the item. That's why there's a thriving business in free products in exchange for good reviews.

Giving away a few hundred or thousand items can lead to huge sales numbers.
Can outside contributors to CockroachDB get a cut of the licensing revenue? I mean, if cockroachlabs is upset that people are taking their open source code and making money without giving them a cut, should they also be upset that they are taking people's open source contributions to that code and not giving them a cut?
Given that most administrators use vim to edit everything in the system and often open random files, I would think vim is the most obvious thing to attack (just like printers in corporate networks).

Just do "set nomodeline" and move on. I've had it disabled for the past ~10 years because of previous CVEs like this (such as CVE-2007-2438).
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In the USA the Department of OHSA specifically says that it (and the employer) don't bear responsibility for a home based work site. They won't do site inspections and the best they can do is give tips to the worker and have the worker complete a self-assessment. Overseas this is viewed very differently. e.g. in Australia and UK the employer is responsible for worker safety even if they are working from home.

https://www.osha.gov/enforcement/directives/cpl-02-00-125

"OSHA will not conduct inspections of employees' home offices.

OSHA will not hold employers liable for employees' home offices, and does not expect employers to inspect the home offices of their employees.

If OSHA receives a complaint about a home office, the complainant will be advised of OSHA's policy. If an employee makes a specific request, OSHA may informally let employers know of complaints about home office conditions, but will not follow-up with the employer or employee."
Cuil idea!
To be fair, hiding elements may mean not fetching any resources needed for their content, which can be faster despite having to parse a bunch of additional CSS first to determine which ones to hide --- especially if the former involves the execution of JavaScript.
The first few items on your list are actually a part of what we meant by "having billing history with us". There are a number of things we look at in that bucket. We use these items as a part of validating users before taking any action (yes, we clearly failed on this account due to the credits which is a clear bug). As far as offering things like a copy of your business license or other means of verification that isn't a bad idea. As an example people paying with POs today are excluded from the algorithm already.
As far as I can tell, neither does your comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.
Yes, and they're one of the better vendors, which shows how bad vendors are at managed services.
Valve created the digital game stores as we know today, away from the expensive physical copies into the digital distribution.

Before that, to release a game, one would need a publisher, a distribution deal, a ton of money wasted to get the game into the player's hard drives.

What Valve did is much much more significant for the gaming industry and sparked a ton of indie developers. That's much more impactful than half life 3 could have ever been.
Yes.

Telemetry and auto-updates are important enough that having them on by default isn't wildly unreasonable.
I have a favorite in Wells' unknown back-catalog, the rom/com Wheels of Chance[1,2]. Wells really felt the pleasures of bicycling, but also understood (and took mischievous enjoyment in) the revolution it was creating in his society. For a cyclist it is great fun to have this glimpse of how the bicycle was seen shortly after its invention.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheels_of_Chance (review/synopsis)

[2] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1264