skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an apparent plan from 2001:

> And he named them, starting with Iraq and Syria and ending with Iran." While Clark doesn't name the other four countries, he has mentioned in televised interviews that the hit list included Lebanon, Libya, Somalia and Sudan

Iraq, 2003.

Libya happened in Obama time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_...

Syrian war also started in 2011.
It saddens me that this was downvoted, because it's entirely true. It doesn't just apply to LGBT people, though. There are all kinds of minority groups that are treated as second-class citizens in modern Western (and Eastern) cultures.
The study is of the United States only.

I gotta say, I'm seeing a shocking amount of mailed-in right wing defensiveness in this topic, by people who clearly aren't reading the article.
> I was referring specifically to Twitter -- it's been a while since I checked, but doesn't Twitter require an email address for every account on signup?

I see, I misunderstood. it does not require an email address on signup, they’ve been pushing more and more aggressively to force new accounts to have numbers tied to them in fact[1]. https://mobile.twitter.com/i/flow/signup in a private browser tab in fact defaults to phone number and the email flow is deprioritised.

I agree that it should never be required, much less the only factor. Nothing good can come of it but these companies get to lean on Trust and Safety as an excuse to collate this information for nonconsensual purposes.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8e5m73/twitter_is_... and some other stuff that I’m too tired to search hn for
Yes and no. Once you've got some practice under your belt, you'll be able to decide what the ownership structures will look like ahead of time. You'll either avoid circular ownership entirely, or you'll decide ahead of time that you're just going to have to bite the bullet and use runtime bookkeeping of some kind (Rc/Arc/etc). A lot of this is domain-specific knowledge though; if you've gotten really good at writing a game using ECS then the specifics of that might not help you much if you start writing a line of business app or a web page. The ownership and borrowing rules are the same though, so it's not a complete loss.
I'm interested in this, because it was suggested to me that I get tested for Vitamin D deficiency, and apparently I have it. I haven't started any particular supplementation, but I have read that Vitamin D has some connection to calcium absorption. I wonder if it is a good idea to take either calcium or magnesium with a D supplement. I also take medication that I'm told may remove calcium from bones as a side effect.
Ultimately, Google will still decide what goes into Chromium. As it stands, Google decides what patches get merged, and Google decides how core features are implemented. And they can be implemented in ways that are very hard to toggle and very specific to Google's business model.

We need to get a version of Chromium that's not owned by Google -- but, I don't see any motivation for Google to give up control of Chromium or move Chrome over to use a different, community controlled fork.

So if you want a version of Chromium that really is community controlled, you'll need to have a community fork of Chromium that we all agree to work on and use as a browser base. Otherwise, we'll just be giving free labor to Google, and they'll still filter contributions so that primarily their interests are served.

Unfortunately, now that we've forked Chromium for all of our browsers, one of two things is going to happen:

- either the fork will need to be tightly constrained by Chromium, in which case Google will still effectively control it, or

- the fork will diverge from Chromium, in which case we'll be back to the exact same position we are now. You'll have multiple competing browser engines, one of which is used by the most dominant browser on the market.

The TLDR is if you're worried about Google controlling the browser engine, it still seems to me that the only solution is to get a non-google controlled browser engine used by a browser with market share comparative to Chrome.

The relative lack of user adoption for Vivaldi, Opera and Brave suggest to me that standardizing on Chromium won't significantly help with that. Edge is now moving over to Chromium -- if it sees a massive influx of new users, maybe it'll be worth taking that strategy more seriously.

In the meantime, since it appears we are going to need a browser engine to compete with Chromium anyway, what's the harm in having one company (Mozilla) try to compete by building their own browser engine the way they want? Sure, Firefox isn't doing great right now, but is it doing any worse than Brave?
Absolutely not... who gets to decide what reason is good enough to fly? How about instead of reducing freedom we stop externalizing these costs, no matter their purpose or industry?
Is your shtick to act unsurprised at things? There's more going on here than compound interest friendo, this is not the time for acting suave and ignorant.
Don’t have a dog in this fight , how do you handle container migration on host failure
I suspect this happens quite often.

There are ways to mitigate this:
1. Instrument, monitor, alert
2. Experiment, and convert canaries to experiments.
Seems like a PEBCAK
It makes sense that rental stores would get cheap copies if they're also doing profit sharing. But it's unclear to me who's getting a better deal there compared to the rental place just buying at normal price and keeping all profits.
Any additional information or articles on Facebook’s implementation
I still hope someday servo gets mature enough to be used as a backend for anything webkit is used for these days: electron, etc...
This doesn't tell you what your shrink is, though.
pretty exciting to me. lots of interesting projects. thanks for sharing.
I think any complexity in my explanation is probably inherent to a layers-based graphics program, and probably can't be further reduced. The "tab" part of it works exactly the same as every browser in existence. (Are you using an ancient version of Gimp without tabs or single-window mode? The latest is 2.10.)

I'm also not sure what you're talking about with right-clicking, since the instructions I gave don't require you to click on the image at all.

If ctrl-c on one image, ctrl-v on another doesn't put the first image on top of the second for you, it would probably be helpful to report a bug to the Gimp folks because that's always worked for me and surely ought to work. (Obviously if you're on MacOS or something the key might be different, cmd-c or something.)
>People's Policy Project
>The primary mission of 3P is to publish ideas and analysis that assist in the development of an economic system that serves the many, not the few.

Some article titles:

>Tackling Inequality Through the Social Ownership of Capital
>Capitalism is hostile to families. The welfare state can fix that.
>The Difficulty of Using the Firm in Socialist Policy

With this as context, it's pretty easy to see that the thread's post is clearly anti-capitalist, socialist propaganda, with a heavy political agenda to make people mad at "the rich" and support overthrowing "the system."
I think it’s for the case where the app crashes after accepting payment but before writing the granted asset token to the user’s profile. No real way around that other than two-phase commit.
If you don't deliver the purchased good, a refund seems like a reasonable default. Want to keep the money? Acknowledge you've delivered the good.
Some examples:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/business/media/att-youtub...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/technology/youtube-pedoph...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-20/disney-pu...
Don't fall for what? The fact that some people move between percentiles during their life doesn't change the fact that the distribution has grown more unequal. What the number means is that, while those who are poor are poorer now in relative terms than 1989, the rich have gotten richer in relative terms.
JavaScript should be used like a condiment instead of a whole meal. It's led to the bastardization of the web in my opinion.
Or the Germans' failure showed they were incapable of carrying out the strategy. I find it easy to criticize the acts as abhorrent without the threat of Nazi rule over your head.
> I don't even know why you'd assume so.

In my comment I was talking about communities and you replied with a comment about types of societies. For me a community is focused to one thing like idk a specific game or fan community of a book author, while a society encompasses all aspects of life for its members. So for me, a "type of society" is about a general way of living together, be it capitalism, feudalism, socialism, etc. I've thought you meant that but apparently you haven't so my comment doesn't apply to you, sorry :)
Would you like to engage with the ideas in the piece?
I think the message is more about general inequality rather than individual progress. Over the past 30 years the histogram of wealth distribution has skewed even more heavily to whomever happens to be at the top at the moment.

We've gone from approximately a 12:1 ratio for 1%:50% to about a 150:-1 ratio. -1!
What is it called when you live in an environment where X is not available and so you convince yourself that X is a bad idea?
You didn’t explain how nose failures can be handled. In k8s a new pod is started ( with a storage migration story)
Without that and obviously people have been doing h/a before k8s you have To write your own fragile buggy scripts or use software that’s more just centric than container centric or and this was the question what do you do ?
It's mostly to give your domain more authority (thus making it rank higher) by putting your link on various other sites. Of course in reality, you want your link to be on other sites with relevant content.
Insomuch as there is a cultural "mainstream" then relative to that. Most videos on YouTube do not carry the potential for offending anyone (tutorials for baking chocolate cake etc) but the ones that play at the edge can strongly appeal to some audiences
I am using IT to refer to more than support/help desk. It includes, for example, having a working network, email, and CRM. It includes custom database applications. It includes an internal wiki and an external web site. It includes lots of other things.

All of those things are there to support the business, not the other way around.
Carpets in South Africa
That's exciting stuff. Let's hope they'll do it.
SF and more broadly the bay area has much better job opportunities than where I'm from on the east coast, but after spending a few months living in the city from living on the peninsula, I really hate it.

SF is not a real city and the default is to be surrounded by the most extreme greed and antisocial behavior imaginable on a near constant basis. It's also more literally disgusting and expensive. I believe that there are probably ways to help mitigate this, but I have been unable to do so.

It is very easy to make a lot of money here especially if that's your primary focus. If you're even marginally competent technically and lack a strong sense of ethics, you will thrive in the area. There are many amazing programmers here, but there are even more bad programmers making, to be frank obscene amounts of money for their level of competence and ability to provide value.

It goes beyond being a tech monoculture, that exists but it's secondary. The thing that everyone here has in common is a greed monoculture. Getting rich at any cost is the name of the game. I don't think it was always like this, but I've only been here for 3 or 4 years so I don't really know.

Do I regret moving to the area? I don't think so, I've changed so much while here. I don't know how I would have changed somewhere nicer. I feel good that I've decided to leave soon.
There are 3 books on software development in Javascript. I view JS as an inferior language, not just for semantics, but because it's origins are troublesome for me. JS started as a language to provide interactivity to web pages. Contrast that to C#, which started as a general purpose language with serious minds working on it.

Is it worth reading JS based software engineering / design books, as compared to Code Complete or The Pragmatic Programmer?
The problem has always been the battery.

Energy density (MegaJoule/Kilogram):

Lithium-ion battery: 0.36–0.875 MK/kg

Gasoline: 46 MJ/kg

for reference, Uranium: 80,620,000 MJ/kg

We might get parity between gasoline and electric by 2045 [0].

[0]: https://cleantechnica.com/2016/05/13/ev-battery-energy-densi...
Depends if you sell gadgets or if you sell a dream aka a strong brand (such as Disney)
They're toddlers or babies if we're arguing semantics.

Kids < 4 really shouldn't have access to YouTube though.
Disrupting air traffic can definitely work towards political ends by beeing a credible threat to civilians. They are terrorists. Period.
Yet we aren’t any longer and they still are. What’s your point?
Scientists Found a Way to Extract Rare-Earth Elements from a Plentiful Resource
Oof. That's disappointing to hear, but I appreciate the heads up.

My more cynical side agrees with you that the shift is probably mostly explained by data collection and user monitoring. I would like to give Twitter's security team the benefit of the doubt, or say that they're expanding into different markets and it's an accessibility thing, but... I dunno. I'm not sure I actually believe that.
You see this problem with the 'edge lord' thing, they supposedly don't mean the things they say or the usernames they choose, but it ends up enabling and empowering people who do actually mean those things. It was supposedly all for the lulz, but now it's the actual world we live in.
It's essentially "rich people are richer than me, and that makes me mad." There is no novel idea here to engage with. People have been jealous of wealth since the beginning of time. But now we cloak that jealously with faux moral outrage and elaborate economic "solutions."
Are you saying that GPL holds off forks better than BSD/MIT? If so, by what mechanism? Of all the pro-GPL things I've heard, I've never heard that one before, so I'm quite interested to hear this fleshed out into something I can follow!
It was Overture that started doing pay per click ads on their search engine. Google copied that business model and actually got sued for it.
The arguments for the conservative lens in this discussion seem pretty weak. "But the 1% of decades ago isn't the same cohort as it is today!", etc. These talking points are untethered from reality. In the past, your economic quintile had respectively less correlation to your parent's income (e.g., where you come from). Today, it's quite sticky [0]. There's much less income mobility than there used to be. It's still possible to break out, but it's much less likely to occur.

The strongest argument against this might be "it hasn't gotten worse, but it's always been difficult in the US, compared to other industrialized nations". [1] which still leaves one hard pressed to say the economy works for most people. The lion's share of productivity gains go to capital holders, and metrics like life expectancy have plateaued [2].

[0]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rich-kids-stay-rich-poo...

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2014/01/23/265356290/study-upward-mobili...

[2]: https://www.google.com/search?q=life+expectancy+us
The original thread is here: https://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=28684

> and then a bunch of discussion a few months later

I remember the board got taken down, but was restored. The shooting was July 29, 1999, and the SIers were already discussing it on the restored thread Aug 11. The thread message at the top changed a few times, but it was pretty clear by Aug 16.
https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=10974409

> (also holy shit is the UX on this forum awful)

Hard to believe it was a giant step forward at the time (do we think people will look back at our current websites in 2039 and think they're beautiful?). SI was quite the daytraders place in its day, and this NYT article from Nov that year captures the spirit pretty well: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/magazine... (Mark Barton is also mentioned in that article, which was published pretty close to the absolute peak of the internet bubble. What a time.)
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/javascript-the-good/978...

^ Speaks directly to your viewpoint.
How about actually demonstrating harm to children (or to anyone else) before launching a moral panic?

Is that an option?
What kind of profiling did you do? How did you account for any biases in your algorithms?
Or even an different API design. Eg a @noignore return value that guides/requires the dev to acknowledgement.
Now you can hyperlink on GitHub using an extension
Just downloaded the MacOS build (44Mb) from https://download.servo.org/
but can't even start it:
"no mountable file system"!
What is going on?
I'm pretty sure that that would qualify as fraud, a criminal offence.
Great question!

On Observable, each cell is a unit that can be evaluated independently, with two sides to it — you have the source code editor, and you have the rendered display (either a chunk of DOM or canvas that you’ve drawn, or an interactive inspector for JS values).

Now, the important thing is that the code half of the cell is often collapsed. You navigate around the notebook, toggling open and closed the code editors, and typing into them. If the code is on top, the entire cell jumps when it opens and closes, pushing the rendered display up and down. If the code is on the bottom, it emerges from the half of the cell that is always there, and the display is stable.

Ultimately, that’s why each cell has content before source code — the content is always there, and the code may or may not be visible, so working with the notebook as a whole feels much more stable and less jumpy with the rendered value as primary and the source code as secondary.
Set up a parallel deployment, run the experiments there. Document the failures in as granular a way as possible, decree that future deployments aren't allowed to add to the set of known failures. Assign e.g. 20% time to fixing the known problems. When confidence passes a threshold, start running the experiments in prod.

It's basically the strangler pattern[1]. It is painful, but can be made arbitrarily safe.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19122973
This is why software asks you for usage data
Static analysis aside, as soon as it happens even once, you'd think that there would be a big red warning on your dashboard saying "X purchases were refunded because they weren't acknowledged". The fact that the author had to figure it out through user emails and negative growth is strange.
I don't think it's devoid of meaning, but its use is telling. It's usually used to refer to libertarians and classical liberals by those who don't understand them, i.e. it's often a sign of ignorance. Sometimes it's used deliberately as a smear to suggest people are fascists or neo-nazis.
What exactly are retailers doing with this data, that they couldn't do before? If you go to a supermarket and pay by credit card, the supermarket is going to have a profile on what type of things you like to buy, even if you aren't a member of their loyalty program. They've been doing this since loyalty cards became popular in the 90s.

It seems somewhat benign, and not very useful, that they know I spent 45 seconds in front of the yogurt section, compared to the average at that time of 28 seconds. Maybe a friend I haven't spoken to for a long time started messaging me. Or maybe I was helping an elderly person get something from the top shelf.

The part about eending ads to your device is FUD, any app that starts doing that without my permission is getting uninstalled straight away.
I'm sure oppressed women in the kingdom or where ever gain great comfort from knowing that 50+ years ago, 10,000 miles away, women were possibly restricted in one aspect of their lives as those women are today.
I think aviation is pretty well-suited to carbon taxes/offsets. There are only a few major players and it would be very easy to enforce. Also I think the market would rather easily bear a 30% increase in flight costs
> PewDiePie, a skinny, fast-talking Swede

Is he really fast-talking? He seems kind of slow talking to me, when I watch his videos I use 2x speed.
ISO at least still releases real standards with multiple implementations. Web standards by contrast have basically become a pretense, as the actual standard is defined by Google’s implementation.
Protect Yourself from Online Scams and Frauds – XA Technologies
The algorithm works really damn well for 99.999% of the cases. It manages to show me great recommendations from very niche things I'm interested in. But it's the very same behavior that can, in some cases, lead to issues.
Interesting, that with the original title, "Flow Is the Opiate of the Mediocre: Advice on Getting Better" the discussion centered more around people getting defensive about Flow.
Maybe Youtube and their revenue sources agree with him.
> In order for Google Play to ensure a consistent purchase experience regardless of where the user purchases your product, you must acknowledge all purchases received through the Google Play Billing Library as soon as possible after granting entitlement to the user.

Can someone who understands this domain better explain why this exists?

A superficial reading of the text triggers thoughts of "fraud prevention", but the code the author uses to fix it is clearly one a fraudulent app can also easily include.

Other thoughts about preventing poor user experiences such as dark patterns to trigger accidental purchases, or bait-and-switch functionality with Fremium apps also don't seem to be prevented by this.

So what's going on?
It's interesting in that I have a pretty amazing spatial memory. I can find my way around the wilderness (off trail) by identifying specific trees etc. I just find it exhausting to do the linking part of memory palace. It's literally easier for me just to remember outright, which I have little difficulty doing.
Why are software developers confused by Kafka and immutable logs?
No, the wrong part was when the pedophiles made inappropriate comments on the videos.
I don't think it's worth reading the JS books in your case actually. I think I was also trying to talk about the different types of tech books I've seen; meanwhile, also talk about the books that directly impacted me. I'd recommend books focused on C# that cause you to really deep dive into the language or ones that flip the language semantics on their head a bit. It's always great to see other paradigms and what you can pull from them.
My guess would be to prevent lost delivery of the "payment received" notification from impacting the purchaser.
The super-tough drones and robots going where we can't
Capacitor – Build Cross-Platform Native Progressive Web Apps
I respectfully disagree. I’d much rather pay $50 for a browser, part of which goes to paying for the R&D and the standard, than have the status quo, where you have a de facto standard based on the implementations defined “by the companies who benefit from the standard.” Because that’s just turned into the ad tech industry dictating browser standards. I don’t think that’s healthy. It was way better when you had something like POSIX, which was defined by multiple competing vendors, where the R&D was paid for by license fees, than the “free” ecosystem where everything is bankrolled by ad money.
So Google knows that you know that they paid, would be my guess.
Playing into China’s Hands
Can't compare revenue to operating expenses for funding a new department, should use earnings minus income taxes instead. It would be closer to funding a $1 billion department.