skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. We flipped off all the breakers and the damn washer & dryer were still hot. My memory was a bit off and the the water heater and maybe stove were also hot. We had to replace all of that. I was 10 at the time so I was working on other stuff while Dad and the uncles took care of it. Putting in a new structural support beam was also enlightening.
Not everyone is the richest person on the planet.

For this reason the it backfired when tried on Bezos argument is somewhat blunted.

Come to think of it, the articles surrounding the Bezos blackmail attempt even mentioned others had been successfully blackmailed because they didn’t have the resources to say to the best legal firm: “fix this, I’m too busy”.
What Do VCs Want to See Your Financial Model
Epicor 10 – Any Experiences?
Looks like we're headed for an Epicor 10 deployment at our distribution/manufacturing company. Does anyone have experience with this software that can discuss the pros/cons of implementation and any gotchas?
Decentralized Dataset Exchange – Rocket Exchange
Works amazingly well in Iran. I suspect that will change once cloudflare warp makes it mainstream.
Deschooling Society (1970)
To expand a bit more here, the Strong Towns folks argue that city infrastructure project costs do not factor in long-term maintenance. Growth is the driver of revenue in the short term (building permit fees, more expensive single-family homes paying property taxes). Once growth slows or stops, the party is over. Maintenance costs kick in, and the errors made during the boom time are revealed in the form of broken streets, abandonment, blight, etc.

They consult with cities to target a 20-to-1 "return on investment" when taking on infrastructure projects. That means that the costs to build street or water pipes should result in 20x that cost in economic activity.
Right, that's what I meant. The plane would have been tracked and/or followed by interceptors.
3rd party but the creator of wireguard is active on it.
I have a PBX (Asterisk) I setup as my main/primary/only personal number. That number is given out to anyone who needs it. The beauty of this is, no one has my personal cell (or other) numbers. This makes it very easy for me to block any spam numbers. In fact, I inject the FCC telemarketer spam caller list into the system blacklist. I also have it setup that the caller needs to 'press 1' to reach a human. It's not exactly hard to setup, but is certainly not for non-technical folks. However this system has given me the control over my phone number, callers, and spammers.
Would have probably killed someone in our group except my Dad and one of my uncles had a bad feeling about it. Apparently working for Ma Bell will give one a sense of those things.
Are the salaries “significantly enough higher” that someone moving to the Bay Area could buy a 3000 square foot 5 bed/3-1/2 bath house with a large office, as soon as they move there?

The average software as a service CRUD journeymen developer could do that in many non west coast cities could do that with an FHA loan with less than $15K down with 3-5 with a salary they can make with around 5 years experience. If they are part of a married dual income couple they would be quite comfortable.
Not really it can't. Openvpn on its own has a very identifiable header.

You can put it behind stunnel though for example.
Many standard Windows apps are currently also quite buggy, including Store and Mail to name a few.
Better yet, why not just scrap the whole system and implement IP addresses and security certificates for the phone system. We seemed to have already solved pretty much every analogous situation there that the phone system is dealing with.
Try+Before+You+Buy+Luxi+Mattress+Review
> Your bank, your doctor or a potential employer may all have different numbers each time they call you.

Then maybe they ought not to do that?
That’s an enormous amount of plastic. Yes you are.
Rebuttal from the author of uBlock Origin: https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1139186208049905664

Edit: Not necessarily endorsing either side here; just thought it would be valuable to link to the response.
I do hope the author takes this up too. They're extremely talented. Could make a big change in firewall systems.

Iran sometimes does data per endpoint analysis and is able to block any VPNs since they're all single endpoint VPNs. If we were able to split the data to, say a few hundred unique ips it would be extremely difficult to block it.
Activist groups urge McConnell to hold vote on NetNeutrality restoration bil
> Safari adblockers have shown that declarative lists can work well enough

I've written my own Safari blocker based on https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ and found the declarative rules to fit my needs.

I've also had the displeasure of removing malicious extensions from my dad's laptop, so I get why they want to remove an API that allows data exfiltration.
I believe I could back that statement up with references, yes.
Urgent Care centers do not have hospital privileges and cannot admit to the hospital. If they think you need hospitalization, they send you to the ER.

Bypassing the ER is a good way to have your insurer try and deny coverage, since you’re giving them a plausible case that it wasn’t an emergency.
> For most Americans, such robocalls represent an unavoidable digital-age nuisance,

No, I'm pretty sure this is very avoidable if phone companies put some effort into it.
you'd love ios13
The iOS implementation of DND is lacking. It kills notifications for text messages from everyone, for example.
Yeah I have no clue. I'm partial to Patrick's "AmaGooBookSoft" but then you're leaving out Apple.
Do people really bitching about ~barely~ over 10k USD a MONTH? There's a lot of people living on that or barely double that, for a year. Yes, even in/near SF. Quit with the damn entitlement.
On the other hand, up until about the late 1970s or early 80s, Coke and Pepsi in the US were typically sold in eight-packs of 16 fl. oz. returnable bottles. These were returned to the store, which refunded the deposit on the bottles, and the delivery trucks would take the empties back to the bottling plant to be cleaned and reused. The bottoms of old-school Coke bottles were stamped with their original bottling plant, as well, although bottles often turned up far from their original plants.

No need for laws, but then Big Soft Drink got greedy and pushed for the disposable mess we're now stuck with, because, hey, no more money spent on washing bottles.

I think it's about time more state legislatures enact bottle deposits. I've noticed that highways in Michigan ($0.10 bottle deposit) are a hell of a lot cleaner than in Illinois (no bottle deposit).
>An escalator can never break

This reminds me of the first time I went to /r/gore. I'll just say the scene involved an escalator.
Not sure what you mean. Everyone doesn't pay all types of taxes, but everyone pays some types. Payroll tax, sales tax, etc.
Some great thoughts in this thread, most of them I already agree with. Some thoughts I haven't seen discussed.....

Cars go out of style. They last a lot longer than a phone or tablet. Look at any 00's era GM product. The radio/climate buttons are straight out of a Cozy Coupe. It's gross, but in 2001 they were stylin'! Look at the 1992 Subaru Legacy, or the 1990 Ford Tempo, or the 1991 Nissan Sentra. Electric seatbelts, enormous speedometers, oddly shaped steering wheels... They were cool! Now they're eye-catchingly gaudy. Lets not even get into the "digital dash" (yeah, I'm talking to Jethro in the Pontiac).

What if you could have a car with a touchscreen but it only included Android Gingerbread (2.3) and that was it?

Other than that I am always amazed that modern cars have back up cameras and drive-by-wire steering/throttle/brakes but they still have a simple "check engine" light. They don't even print out their own trouble codes let alone tell you "Cylinder 5 misfire!" Such a feature would be trivial and add real value, especially in the truck market. Perhaps when right-to-repair takes over there will be no more incentive to keep the workings of cars magical and mysterious to the layman.
C++ is still painfully slow to compile, and seems to get slower every year.
Actually we are too late to act on this. But its a good initiative to begin with and need more actions to save the earth.

Recently heard that Philippines govt has announced that students should plant 10 trees before they could get a degree. Creative steps like these will take us closer to create great awareness.
For power users, it's not just the extensions on Android (though it's a big part). It's the massively cross-platform for many years: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Android, BB10, MacOS, and more (I'm only listing the ones I've used in somewhat recent memory). To have that feature parity across so many platforms has immense value to me. I can support family, friends, co-workers.
Where can one go to find a strong d3 developer who could extend these charts into something even more dynamic?
Even though this has nothing todo with cryptocurrency, the naming confusion will benefit Bitcoin and Co I assume.
I declined multiple 6 figure salary + RSU offered positions with FAANGs due to on-site requirements in CA/SF. What can you competitively offer? Remotely?
Are you suggesting they just chrome plate the stairways and there are actually no motors underneath at all?
Twitter thread mirror: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1139186208049905664.html

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One of Raymond's comments on the Chromium forum paints a different picture than the official Google blog here.

> From the description of the declarativeNetRequest API[1], I understand that its purpose is to merely enforce Adblock Plus ("ABP")-compatible filtering capabilities[2]. (snip)

> If this (quite limited) declarativeNetRequest API ends up being the only way content blockers can accomplish their duty, this essentially means that two content blockers I have maintained for years, uBlock Origin ("uBO") and uMatrix, can no longer exist.

> (snip) It's really concerning that the proposed declarativeNetRequest API will make it impossible to come up with new and novel filtering engine designs, as the declarativeNetRequest API is no more than the implementation of one specific filtering engine, and a rather limited one (the 30,000 limit is not sufficient to enforce the famous EasyList alone).

> Key portions of uBlock Origin[3] and all of uMatrix[4] use a different matching algorithm than that of the declarativeNetRequest API. (snip)

> There are other features (which I understand are appreciated by many users) which can't be implemented with the declarativeNetRequest API, for examples, the blocking of media element which are larger than a set size, the disabling of JavaScript execution through the injection of CSP directives, the removal of outgoing Cookie headers, etc. (snip)

> Extensions act on behalf of users, they add capabilities to a user agent, and deprecating the blocking ability of the webRequest API will essentially decrease the level of user agency in Chromium (snip)

Ref: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897...

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Raymond also commented on the topic on news.yc:

> The most concise summary I can come up with is in the article:

> Google's primary business is incompatible with unimpeded content blocking.

Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20038872
Wrote a browser automation script to notify me when rooms suddenly become available at a hotel.
How does one do this with nftables?
ASU explicitly disallows adjunct faculty from holding multiple courses. I have no idea why.
In related News Hampshire historical nerd news:
There is a statue of Ralph Baer (developed first video game) in Manchester.

https://www.concordmonitor.com/ralph-baer-video-pioneer-manc...
At least Madagascar will make it out alive.
Unfortunately words like "Liberty", "Freedom", "Justice" and others have been ambiguous for so long that they can be twisted on a whim.

The idea is that two people can be talking about the same thing, both with different ideas (and plausible deniability) in their head.

Even privacy policies have their own form of ambiguous polite euphemisms, such as "advertising" or "telemetry" or "analytics", which would benefit from clarifying translations.
While the desire to enable carrier level and carrier determined blocking of calls seems appealing for functionality, make sure to strongly consider the significant power that such authority would create. As a change would revert a base requirement of being a carrier which is connect all calls, in the same vein as net neutrality.
Interesting to hear Fender described as innovative. Their core products -- Telecaster, Stratocaster, Precision Bass, and Jazz Bass -- have remained mostly unchanged since the 1960s, and Fender fans seem to like it that way.

Have they really succeeded because of their digital guitar lessons?
Except that usually 1-month MVPs become 6 to 12 month projects, unfortunately. Making conservative estimates at this stage of the process is the proper way to go, imho.
Take the risk! It’s clear that you have a very rare combination of design, programming, communication, and marketing skills. The sky is the limit :)
Given Facebook's security history, I would assume the private key being stored in cleartext in log files and so on... I'm not sure why one would trust Facebook more?
All-Clad (but not the HA2 line, I presume an MBA got their hooks into the operation) is still made in the USA.
Totally agreed. I keep trying to explain this to companies as an interviewee, but it does not go well. Even in my current job, doing the same thing/title/exp/degree as others on the team, I am paid less; because I work remotely. Yet they do not expect less of me than my coworkers, but they pay me less due to geographical region.
The networks do have unspoofable numbers which they use for reciprocal compensation, rural termination fees, and other fees/assessments. They are "bill to numbers" and how the carriers figure out payment between each other.
You could see "abolishing" the CIA by name and replacing it with a new agency over the Bush torture program, and the failure to cut through the legal morass erected to protect the authors of the torture program --- a lasting shame for the CIA and the nation --- would certainly justify that.

But there's no possibility of abolishing the function of intelligence analysis and clandestine service, nor should you want there to be: net-net, the CIA might in fact prevent more armed conflicts than it contributes to, and in any case no major power will ever unilaterally disarm.

Against all that, you have a 70-year legacy of people putting their lives on the line for the agency, which abolition/rebranding would likely be seen as sullying (further than the torture program already has).

It's not going to happen.

I echo the other commenters on this thread who suggest that we might want to think harder about holding Congress and our Presidents responsible for how they've overseen and directed the CIA.
Most maybe... but not all. Amazon and Microsoft to name at least two.
Yeah, Apple aren't known for being entirely honest about the scope of their innovations. Suffice the say, that's Apple parlance for "a handful of times the past year."
What Galls a Hacker Most? The Metrocard (1997)
Do you know what those other agencies do, and how they're staffed, and which functions they serve, as compared to the CIA? For that matter, how well do you feel you understand the high-level functions of the CIA?
Sure, but one is comparatively minor vs the biggest threat to democracy and human freedom.
Realtek Launches 4K UHD Set-Top Box SoC with AV1 Video Decoder
Normalization of Deviance at its finest- 50 million (and over time and aggregated its been way more) is not something to be proud of, rather the opposite CSO, maybe even CEO should have resigned for how frequent they have breaches and "bugs".
> There was a single throw away line in WWDC that suggested they may have finally added this (depending on what they mean by “unknown” caller).

I could be wrong, but I believe a "known caller" is someone whose number appears in your Contacts, or a number that has recently shown up in Mail or Messages.
Both of these are ludicrous. The salaries for my school are public, they are for all public schools (that I've looked at at least).

I can tell you from the data from my school the administrative costs have gone up substantially. Both from number of administrators increasing significantly. The average administrative staff wage is over 250k (I know that's not a lot in tech salaries, but that is HUGE where I am. Cost of living calculator says $663,545 compared to SF). Our president makes 700k (just under 2m equiv) and gets 60k/yr salary increase.

I'm sorry, I just don't buy it. 60k/yr is more than the average lecturer at my uni makes. A lecturer! Not a professor. Even the CS Professors only make like $120k/yr (highest I see is 220k, which are the heads and are Full professors). So you are telling me that half the admins are worth at least twice as much as the CS professors (ones that are required to bring in money? And a substantial amount I might add). All our STEM professors are paid about that (CS is on the higher side) and all of them are required to bring in money and as far as I'm aware are paying for themselves (with equipment) and their students (all our masters get funded because all the PhDs are filling research positions).

I can understand lab costs going up but I think putting all the blame, or even the majority, on the professors is ludicrous.

And you also need to consider that hiring more professors doens't always equate to less income. You hire more professors to get more students (who pay a significant amount). I'll buy the argument of hiring professors in subjects that don't draw in enough students to justify their cost, but that's a different argument and I would argue is definitely not the lion's share.
There needs to be ReCaptcha for inbound calls.
> When you hear hoof beats think horses not zebras.

It depends where you are of course...
And a result, schools are building things like lazy rivers and rock climbing walls to attract students....and the federal money.

Best solution would be to not back student loans.
I'm no Carnival fan, they are terrible for the environment and don't seem understand the harm they cause. Example, once again fined just a few days ago: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/04/729622653/carnival-cruise-lin...

My issue is that I'd like to see the comparison to Maersk, not sure how 700+ ships compares to Carnival Corps !00+ cruise ships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_Corporation_%26_plc. Article just points out how bad Carnival Corp is without painting a broader picture. You can certainly point out that a company is bad but how bad is it?
I'm not sure about that... 3 of my friends have quit Facebook last few months because of the company's reputation.
They don't have a good visual display of the check engine light, but you can get a lot of information from that light, with the cross manufacturer standard ODBII/EOBD (on board diagnostics 2 / enhanced onboard diagnostics). Progress is going slow in adding features, but a $35 tool like this can give you detailed information. One of the best car related purchases I have made:

https://www.amazon.com/ANCEL-AD310-Enhanced-Universal-Diagno...
> Shorten the work week and it is hourly workers getting screwed.

Funny this is exactly one argument that was used against the 40 hour working week!
There certainly appears to be some sort of sub-urbanity trap. Low density living isn't necessarily more expensive than living in a high density area, but that relies on certain economic modes that do not include much infrastructure. But those economic modes are not the ones that fit the needs of a modern office worker. Modern suburban living requires roads, water, electrical, police, and other services, where the cost tends to scale with area. When the tax base doesn't experience growth, the required services must funded through something like ballooning debt, which quickly leads to insolvency, or be curtailed. Both of which seem to form a feedback cycle.
JavaScript: Why Reflect APIs? By Tapas Adhikary
Classes vs Data Structures, or maybe Objects vs Data Structures, or maybe Classes vs Objects, or maybe Data vs Data Structures, or maybe Data vs State, or maybe Classes vs Types, or maybe OOP vs FP, or maybe I don't know what I'm talking about...
I don't trust cloud based password stores. So I use pass which uses gpg encryption for your passwords.

https://www.passwordstore.org

GitHub has a good tutorial on generating your own gpg key:
https://help.github.com/en/articles/generating-a-new-gpg-key

Using this you can encrypt your files. I store my gpg files in on a git forge. This way, I load my gpg key, clone the repo into ~/.password-store and voila! I can use my asswords/secrets across devices. It even has a utility for Android.

Besides that, I use Emacs a lot so I use helm-pass package to streamline my password discovery and copy-to-clipboard actions without exposing the password in plain view.
I’d like to ask the same. Most PL research is done with Racket; I imagine this might have a steep uphill battle if it wants to gain traction. But maybe it’s target application is sufficiently specialized… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Amazon comp drops significantly after the 4th year, unless you happen to get promoted twice before the end of your 4th year.
We already have that in all but name
I'm on Fi and get them all the time.
I'm with skissane, I'd be leery of any project without clear licensing as well... regardless of whether or not I had any kind of commercial interest in the project. To me, it's just one of Those Things That Should Be There, ya know? If the license terms aren't clear, I don't really know what I'm allowed to do, or not, with the project, and that just makes me uncomfortable.

But, I'm a bit of a radical ideologue when it comes to F/OSS, so maybe I'm a bit outside the mainstream on this one.
I have been using Fi from the start. I can't say the same. I get spam calls all day long. I always tell Fi it was spam, but it just comes in on a different number the next time.

What I am saying is this -- I don't think Google solved the problem. I think you are just lucky.
Probably silence, since China can veto any security council resolution, and a lot of the countries in the general assembly probably don't care to make waves (if they even care at all) since they want Chinese money.
You don’t need a Firefox account for files up to 1GB but you do for files from 1 - 2.5GB in size. It says so right on the home page.

https://send.firefox.com/
Feeling sorry for machines is no joke
Probably could use some configuration on fan control or CPU throttling :)

I have more issues with windows than I do linux but I have been using linux on a desktop for ~15 years or more now ( would say 19 but there was a BSD period in there )
AMD says its Ryzen 3000 isn’t just cheaper–it’s better
Food expiration dates are meaningless
A language under attack: China’s campaign to sever the Uighur tongue
Torture is illegal under international law, and it is unconstitutional. It cannot be the official policy of the government, which is why they tried so hard to pretend they weren't doing it.
Google rolled out a call screening service for android that is basically that. But I don't use it much. If it happens to be a legit call it is a fairly awkward interaction - just letting it go to voicemail and calling back seems nicer, and less surprising to the caller. If it is a robocall it really isn't better than voicemail.
A couple demo games for their gaming infrastructure ambitions are basically irrelevant. You can make a demo game with 100 man-hours.
I really think whoever approves these to go on the Google blog needs to cut the Newspeak titles of these announcements, as it seems like they are almost always saying the exact opposite of the title in the article.

Nerfing adblockers does not "improve security and privacy for extension users" in any meaningful way, and it is, IMO, a revealing glimpse at the attitude Google has if they think it actually does.