skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A typical huachicoleo involves two or three people soldering and tapping the pipe and a group of halcones, or hawks, keeping watch. The solderer and his teammates use high-power drills to perforate the pipes, then affix taps and sometimes a hose to retrieve as much fuel as their portable tank can carry, generally into the hundreds or thousands of gallons. [...] Generally, these extractions, or tomas clandestinas, are coordinated operations run by gangs in the dead of night."

That doesn't sound like it has anything to do with the incident where 137 people died.

"Huachicoleo is becoming one of Mexico’s most pressing economic issues. In 2018 thieves made off with about $3 billion in gas from 12,500 siphonings, almost double the number of thefts of two years earlier. The motive comes down to math. “Most people here earn around 1,500 pesos [$78] a week in a normal job, but by doing this you can get your hands on 2,000 pesos a night for being a hawk and up to 15,000 pesos for being the one who solders the tap,” the Hidalgo huachicolero says. “In an area where people were not long ago riding donkeys, they now have fancy cars.” He and other gang members say a night’s worth of stolen fuel, sold on the black market, can net their bosses roughly $46,000 in profit."

Which means all that has nothing to do with the story, right?
I will have some of this in my "technical factors" chapter coming down the road. I definitely will be evaluating the percentage of SMB websites which use chat clients and various (annoying) marketing tools.
The missing piece which the Twitter thread author only touched on is that how a tweet is received by a reader depends a lot on whether or not they come from similar communities and have similar context to the author. By surfacing tweets to people that the author doesn't know at all, it's likely the responses will be more negative in general.

Anyone with a large twitter following knows roughly what the makeup of their follower base is, and they compose tweets accordingly. While always necessary to some extent, it's usually hard to contextualize every single tweet as if it could be read by anyone, so it often isn't done.

As a silly contrived example, lets say I am a software developer that focuses on operating system performance and I tweet something like "I'm working on an algorithm to make killing children an order of magnitude more efficient". (note to real twitter users: never tweet that)

My followers know I'm talking about killing child _processes_ on a computer. So they reply things like "oh, that would be great, it would make this one shell script I have a lot faster to execute" or maybe even "personally I'd rather you encouraged users to use threads rather than forking lots of processes". There might be a heated discussion, but it will be with a HUGE shared context of information.

Now the Twitter algorithm picks it up, and the tweet gets seen by lots of people who don't know anything at all about operating systems. They are, understandably, completely appalled. They start responding with anger. Threats, abuse, etc.

So, Twitter changing the dynamic from "your tweets will primarily be seen by your followers" to "your tweets will frequently be seen by your followers followers" can actually have a big impact on the platform. It will at minimum take some adjustment. Operating with the assumption of one dynamic when there is in fact the other will be...painful.
That's already been happening though, so I'm not sure how much that would change what's already been happening.
According to OECD DAC statistics, since aid began in the 1960s donors have given a grand total of $502 billion to sub-Saharan Africa, which is worth about $866 billion in today's prices.

Aid has only made things worse for Africa and the world as a whole.
I wonder if this is still true: "right now the road to bro advancement leads through an Arabic classroom."
I notice you don't link the Wikipedia page about the rolled R [1], probably because it contradicts you. There are many kinds of rhotic trills and the guttural R (aka uvular trill) is one of them.

Another fun trill is the bilabial one [2], like imitating a fart with your lips. It doesn't really qualify as a rolled R, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolled_R

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilabial_trill
The 45,000 members of T_D online now might have something to do with the quarantine. When it reached 750K it was just 5,715 "winners" online
https://old.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/bzau5s/we_just_...
From the post:

"The ad is attempting to use the Audio API as one of literally hundreds of pieces of data it is collecting about your browser in an attempt to "fingerprint" it... Your browser may be blocking this particular API, but it's not blocking most of the data."

Seems like killing the audio is the metaphorical putting a finger in the dyke of serving arbitrary JavaScript to your users.
> If you bet more than that in the long run you will go broke.

The optimal bet is not the same as the critical bet separating the positive growth and negative growth regions.
Infowars: Clinton runs a child abuse ring from a pizza shop.

Pulitzer Prize winning news source: Clinton does not run a child abuse ring.

How does ignoring Infowars because it is intentionally lying make me less informed?

>Every comment about being skeptical about media ( especially mainstream media ) gets met with your type of comment. Makes me wonder.

Our conspiracy has been exposed! Back to Moscow comrades!
Go modules have some (minor, in my opinion) issues, but Dep was a total nightmare.

Dep was made by one of the authors of Glide, which coincidentally suffered from many of the exact same bugs, maybe because it reused some of the same code. Our entire team constantly had "dep ensure" failing in unpredictable ways (locally or on the CI server), usually caused by the solver not understanding something. These failures were completely incomprehensible and not fixable by the user. Dep's solver was also very slow.

From what I could tell, it was a combination of shoddy engineering and trying to do too much; if I remember correctly, Dep and Glide both tried to automatically detect and convert dependencies that used competing tools like Godep, which didn't work very well. For a long time, Dep didn't work at all with the Kubernetes client library, for example.

We've had almost zero problems with Go modules. I've encountered some minor bugs, but unlike Dep, nothing worth tearing my hair out.

The drama around Dep vs. Russ Cox shouldn't have happened, of course.
What a load of rubbish by someone that apparently is not able to understand what encompasses an object is the real source for where blame is fitting.

Reality can make one human suffer compared to another that doesn't suffer because of displacement rooted in nature and where the result was not equal experiences; when it came to evolution. Nobody has any control in their life at the fundamental level and because we're all just input/output by the forces exerted upon us.

I've been damaged by a reality that was shit for transgender kids when I was young and now reality has been changing for future kids that are lgbtq. You're labouring under delusions with the nonsense you wrote.
>bunch of posts soliciting violence towards slaveholders

Slaveholders? What kind of violence?
Turkish from 1922 is Ottoman Turkish. Most Words are from arabic.You should work on a Ottoman dictionary and to understand Arabic Words is easy because
The Root/Pattern System of arabic Words.
To read arabic Letters in turkish is a bit difficult than Latin Letters but not very difficult after learning words.
This reminds me the days of free hosting w/ banner ads, then you'd get a whole month of surgical banners. I'm sure YT has good metrics on what level of discomfort will prompt certain folk to go paid.
You did a great job explaining that in the article, and I'm not trying to muck up the conversation with a generic swat down. Just specifically interested in that particular result. Also it's likely your hard work gets reblogged into "5 things you MUST do to improve SEO!"
If lending money on compound.finance is a 100% safe and guaranteed way to make money, why bother joining the pool? Why not just directly lend your own money yourself and get 100% of the profits 100% of the time?
Couldn't you just google it?
Well, the behavior is a bit awkward, and older browsers don't even work right. Of course, some older browsers that shall not be named, you couldn't disable certain styling attributes of buttons, which means an anchor may have been more appropriate back then.

I tend to prefer semantic tags most of the time. I do wish there was a CSS declaration, or maybe an <html> attribute to start off with absolutely NO styling, so that it all comes up from what's in the CSS only. Various resets suck or don't work well, or are really big for various reasons. For that matter, being able to reset everything under a given element that way so that in-browser rules aren't applied would be really nice for WebComponents.

My own weakest point is probably on CSS these days, I just haven't really kept up since 2.x as I haven't really needed to, and can usually google when I need more. I feel the flexbox stuff is more complex than it should be.
I'm not engaged in the twitterverse, so a lot of the jargon goes over my head. Can someone translate what happened?
Not sure where you are in Europe, but they're £0.15 - £0.30 each in the UK. TBH, I still think that's too expensive, but it's nowhere near 1-2 Euros
CBP doesn't have enough money for soap and toothbrushes?
A little observation: this subreddits posting and commenting habits were not like other subreddits. The users used the system more like chat than a forum with no long threaded discussions, very short one line replies and new posts being created instead of comments in an established one, for example.

There are a few other subreddits like this and they all appear to work in a similarly ephemeral way. It's odd to me how they use the system. It's similar to 4chan in the ephemerality but it's more like IRC.
Honda makes cars. Toyota makes appliances for people who hate driving.
Howard Schultz was a moderate Democrat, and that didn't save him from the ire of the media and his former allies.
A Louer Meublée à Cotonou Fidjrossè Jacquot
And this is why, even with the best intentions of site operators, my browser will continue to use the best ad-block tools I can get, and my networks will be protected by tools like PiHole.
Interesting to note that Frog got a new owner yesterday - they are now part of CapGemini, through the acquisition of Altran.
This does not really work if you multi monitor, because that way you get separate trees for each window.

Or is there a plugin that gives the same tree in multiple windows?
So the guy tried to swim across Rio Grande, killed himself and his child in the process of doing so, and this somehow means that Trump government is fascist? Well, I guess that would make sense if he tried to swim to escape from the US, but seems like he actually was trying to get inside the "fascist" state. The kids in cages are also there because the parents tried very hard to get them inside the "fascist" state. Seems pretty irresponsible on their side, to put their children in the "fascists" hands, doesn't it?
The implied logic is "This person was Great, and said X, therefore X is Good". It is only fair to point out this can be used to support the almost polar opposite of the quote you chose.

I mean, people should make up their own minds, instead of being swayed by authority, no?

And the Einstein quote wasn't aimed at 'any' race - it was aimed specifically at the Chinese. The implication being that being supplanted by the Chinese is worse than if by some other race.
Dependency Indirection with Injectable Factory
No, it's not all the way down to the person. Yes, it's just correlations. Even if the fingerprint was so unique and it went down to 1 user, it wouldn't be able to actually identify that person's name etc.

The most likely use-case here is ad fraud detection anyway.
(User Defined) Generics support.

edit: clarify.
> [not] block javascript and instead block trackers and ads

That sounds like it would be great if it were even possible. What about the million times that someone relies on ajax.googleapis.com and forces me to either allow it or walk away? Am I really supposed to believe that Google isn't logging my visit, each and every time I get a script from there to restore the functionality to or even put text into someone's page?

And then, what will we do about any original domain owners (hypothetically) cooperating with them by hosting such scripts in order to go under the uBlock radar and keep getting paid? What about sites that intentionally host and run whatever malicious scripts themselves? Right now it is merely convenient that we can often choose (correctly) to run or block based on URLs alone, and I don't expect that to last.

I just admitted to everyone that if there are blocking mechanisms which work around other bits besides URLs, I haven't heard of them. I just admitted to myself that I have no real reason to think that it's even enough, and I might be just punishing myself and making everything needlessly difficult-- for my own little privacy theater.

I suppose that unless uBlock or Pi-Hole can (someday) analyze every script in every page (hopefully in sub-second time), and determine whether it is cosmetic or mandatory or exploitative or malicious based on nothing but the code and the context, we lose anyway.
Use Brave.
GE Aviation Electrifies Airplane Engines to Meet Carbon Emission Goals
We're at a stage in "AI" where we can fool image detection with modifying a single pixel, where Google AI mislables black teenagers as gorillas and bing overlooks child porn, and where self driving cars still self drive into things.

All while "learn to code" is used to harass in some contexts...

But we expect twitter folks to just figure out an algorithm to filter out "hateful" posts, when there isn't even an accepted definition of hateful? The first replies it would filter is all the people telling Trump how bad and evil he and his policies are, while the people who try to actually harass people will find quick and easy ways to game the system, as they always have; that's my prediction of a 'best' case outcome.
Product Hunt Voting Distributions for the Last 6 Months
Based on that definition it cannot be assumed that censorship is always wrong. For example, removing a post that was doxxing an individual would be considered censorship but could also be the moral thing to do.

I would also point out that the_donald has a very aggressive moderation policy where most comments critical of the president are removed, so I don't think there is much room for them to complain about censorship.
Unfortunately the best (only?) true way is by doing. I suppose prospecting is the best analogy I found. You study geology and gain some theoretical foundations so you understand the relationships and can analyze the results, but you have to go out in the terrain and get your hands dirty so to speak to get true intuition and understanding.

Also, doing it on your own is tricky. You have to constantly talk and mingle with others or you quickly lose insight into current developments. Having a group of people to bounce ideas off of is incredibly important. On your own, every single small topic is a potential rabbit hole that you can spend endless time researching. In a crowd, someone has already explored that rabbit hole most likely and can give you practical pointers. At risk of sounding like a marketing prospectus, there's real synergy in being part of a team. I dare say the age of lone wolf traders is gone. They've been arbitraged away. Successful people have teams behind them.

So I'd say the best way to gain market knowledge is to join a systematic trading shop (in almost any technical capacity) and once inside, you just talk with the others. People in systematic firms tend to have a solid academic approach and are usually more than happy to teach and enlighten anyone interested.
T1 is rare compared to T2, but those figures are still shockingly high.
These puffed up, cocky bastards sure think they rule the roost.
In the article it is mentioned that Apple's previous head architect left earlier this year so they needed a new one.
DDC might tell you that. On the other hand it is also good. Avoids that the OS moves windows around.
Intoxication is a hell of a thing.
Pretty much every countries engineering certifying body does have a track for it professionals.

I do have to ask why all the self hate here why would a rational person what to degrade there profession do you want to be working in a blue collar job with worse working conditions?
This discussion is falling to a trap where "Fake News" is diluted to synonym for all influencing in and propaganda.

Fake News is propaganda that consists of deliberate disinformation or hoaxes. Nothing mentioned mention here falls into a category of Fake News. Fake News creates cognitive dissonance and distrust. More subtler methods work differently.

"But mainstream media also does Fake News" arguments are whataboutism.
Honest question: Have you tried just vigorously shaking your hands and then letting them air dry? It only takes a couple minutes. Worth the wait to still have clean hands.
Seriously. I've been using it for years and have almost forgotten that YouTube even has ads.
The values you are objecting to are not "liberal" values but radically collectivizing ones. Liberals value freedom and have always done so.
Laws are not needed and will have unintended consequences. Technology is needed.
"The scene in the green alfalfa field abutting the pipeline appeared to be a free-for-all, roughly 80 villagers swarming a leak inside a 100-foot-long, 5-foot-deep irrigation trench that bisected the field. There seemed to be no organization, no tap, no hose—only two holes in the pipe, which made the fuel spurt as if from a wonky fountain. It seemed possible a local huachicol gang had screwed up the extraction, but the holes had none of the typical hallmarks."

There's no description or picture of the pipe, other than that and the photo captioned, "Survivors have erected a memorial at the site of the fire." Similar pipes get punctured by farm equipment fairly routinely; there's no reason to believe this was a criminal tap rather than an accident that the local people tried to take advantage of.

What I suspect Bloomberg wants is an article about the evils of gasoline thieves and they're sticking the human interest story to that to get attention.
Really great looking stuff. How long did it take to get your dovetails perfected?
We still get recommended extremist videos on YouTube with no way to opt out, unless we create a Google account. Casual visitors will continue to be exposed to that type of content.
This part from your link [2] is interesting:

>In the Foreword to Dinero's book "Training Within Industry", John Shook relates a story in which a Toyota trainer brought out an old copy of a TWI service manual to prove to him that American workers at NUMMI could be taught using the "Japanese" methods used at Toyota. Thus, TWI was the forerunner of what is today regarded as a Japanese creation.
> And if they refuse to work, and pay?

They find themselves without spare income and a constructive usage of their time.

I do believe some prison systems, I want to say Angola has something along these lines, use work-history as a test for certain privileges and or use punitive measures. These are probably not quite productive, particularly the punitive, but at the same time I think finding a way to incentive work is a good thing.

To be honest, I can't quite understand why something as benign a wage garnishment (tax?) against convicted criminals income is a controversial subject. Is the current system optimal? No, prisoners could probably use a bit of an increase in earnings such that they could establish a reasonable "nest egg" for their return to the real world.

I'm sorry that I don't see this as a moralistic boolean as you appear to, but levying penalties on a criminal is not wrong. Doing so in an overly punitive manner that doesn't serve society's best interest is another matter.
My grandfather was a mathematician and he once admonished me that understanding math is as useful as understanding swimming. If you're drowning, you need to be able to DO swimming, not just understand it. Understanding will come from practice, but not the other way around.
For what its worth, I just tried this on Firefox 67.0.4 and it didn't work. It couldn't find the name I typed after I loaded from a private window.
Facebook Agrees to Hand over Hate Speech Data to French Courts
Ever seen those "Dial before you dig" signs?
It is BitCoin. Same address space, same hashing algorithm, same consensus rules.

BTC is just one version of the BitCoin experiment.
What I hate is the instant power saving of most displays. You try to reboot and see some BIOS info or even the key to enter ... and you end up booting the OS because the display is too slow.
Yes, if you develop it.Angola, Zambia, Tanzania , Uganda, Kenia has more than enough water and arable land to accomplish this. But the development part is a big if.
Coinbase Hit with Outage as Bitcoin Price Drops $1.8K in 15 Minutes – CoinDesk
Wish I could upvote this 1,000 times.

It's ridiculous. It's a text-based ad. At worst, it's a clickable image. At what point did it become okay in your minds to let advertisers run arbitrary code?

I've left ads turned on specifically on StackOverflow because 1) I want to support StackOverflow, and 2) I trust them not to run malicious ads.

I don't even care that they're running ads network-wide. But if they're going to be running these kinds of ads anywhere on the site, they're going right on the ad block list along with everyone else.
> At the same time we are surviving the type aliases quite fine (who has ever seen them used? Not me...)

You night not have used them directly but you might have benefited indirectly from type aliases. For example, when the "context" package has been moved to the stdlib aliases allowed existing libraries that still used the old "x" context package to be used together with code that used the new package.
I'm not an expert, but I'm running Firefox Nightly for exactly that reason.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protectio...
In the thread that allegedly lead to the ban (you can see an archived version here - http://archive.is/vpvb4), The_Donald users post comments like:

- 'get a rope'
- 'So, firing squad time right?'
- 'If he is not fired for this then wtf do we do next? Take matters into our own hands?'

What was Reddit supposed to do? Tolerate death threats on its platform? Then get sued if the person gets murdered?

And this isnt an isolated example.
> "3 hours of planes taking off"

Now that's a video idea. I currently live right under the flight path for planes flying out of SFO; I should set up a camera and just record the sky, since they fly pretty close overhead.
You're talking about BTC, not BitCoin.
Good! Then maybe they'll go back to writing normal html and let my user agent present it to me how I like and how my device best does
How Two Firefox Zero Days Led to Two macOS Backdoors
They linked to their previous reporting that they're working on it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/apple-is-...
Firefox has been putting a lot of attention to this area. https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/how-to-block-fingerprinting...
Companies are not free to choose with whom they do business. There are many constraints, not the least of which is it being illegal to refuse to do business with someone because of their race, sex, sexual orientation, and, in California, political opinions. Free enterprise and private property might have been fundamentals of civil society in the past, but that ship has long sailed since then.