skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Ovid wrote in his Metamorphoses that when Orpheus went down to the underworld to find his love, Eurydice, “all the places that he’d seen before / He recognized again.” He passed through these horrors to find her and began to lead her back into the light. “There hand in hand they stroll, the two together,” Ovid wrote. “Sometimes he follows as she walks in front.” I chose to put out of mind what happened next in the myth. My wife and I—we are not living a myth. We got engaged in view of a glacier we knew might not survive our lifetimes. We’re alive in the world, this world, to which we are beholden, as we are to each other, as we are to all. We are only two, but two is a beginning. I grabbed her left hand with my right and did not let go."

What a remarkable, moving piece of writing. Rich and detailed, timely and poignant.
They do! But they charge you full retail price on the bill, without the loss leader pricing.

If you've ever had an oil change and thought, "I can get oil for less" - you're right.
I've found that it really helps to start with the high-level overview of Phoenix if you don't have experience with 'Railsy' frameworks.

Then look at the 'magic' bits. <app_name>_web.ex is an important one, and the view/template distinction can be a bit confusing at first.

From there I suppose endpoint.ex covers pretty much all the rest of it (and then hands things off to router.ex).

With Rails I was always uncomfortable that I couldn't quite follow or understand the path taken through my codebase, but with the exception of a few 'magic' things, Phoenix is wonderfully transparent in this regard.
Plus if you paid in the past, you can ask Apple for a refund.
Now the longest US economic expansion in history
> and there aren't even proposals to change, and why should we?

becaaause.. it's intermediate scales are un-prefixable, because it names adjacent intermediate orders of magnitude with only subtle mutations of the previous name, because it's inconsistent with itself (<x 10^9), and finally because in 2019 it's extremely ambiguous, in all languages SI prefixes have been around since 1960 all of science and engineering uses these. In other words the same reason English abandoned the long scale.

Then again it was probably far easier for Britain to change in 1974 than it is for the remaining long scale countries to change today since the discrepancy will have been built into all software and systems dealing with currency and other things between countries since then... So i guess you are probably stuck with it and all it's disadvantages whether you are aware of them or not.
Malcolm Gladwell is quoted, "I don't write things that are true, I write things that are interesting". He has a concealed reactionary slant. Generally, the facts he cites are true, but he omits the other facts that would tell the truth. He's more clever than David Brooks, who just makes things up, but more dangerous.

Seriously, Google him. There is a page devoted to fact-checking him.
It's not automatically legal to carry a blade under 3 inches,

(2)Subject to subsection (3) below, this section applies to any article which has a blade or is sharply pointed except a folding pocketknife.

(3)This section applies to a folding pocketknife if the cutting edge of its blade exceeds 3 inches.

The three inches is clarification around folded pocketknives, it's not blanket authorisation to carry knives less than that length.
If you do a calculation of the number of Ebay purchases that are handled by PayPal, it's certainly in the millions, and probably hundreds of millions. The rate of outright fraud is unfortunately very high, and the average person is so prone to error that PayPal must employ many people to handle all the cases.

Once you have a very large organisation, consisting of many staff handling cases, all of whom need to be acting consistently, you face the real statistical likelihood of fraud within the company itself. Any sufficiently large company will have employees that try to defraud it.

The upshot of this is that large companies handling many transactions like this, especially ones that will often be disputed, must implement security not just to prevent fraud from outside the company, but also inside.

Such security measures are often very difficult to work around by employees trying to do the right thing by customers who are in the right, but where something unusual has happened that those security systems didn't anticipate. I can imagine this often frustrates the intention to have a smoothly working system.

You also can't easily make changes to accommodate such corner cases without opening other security holes, both within and without the company. And it takes a long time to formulate and disseminate new protocols that your employees should work to. And then you have to communicate any changes in the way you handle things to your customers.

Running a company like this must be an absolute nightmare of logistics. And it is surely made worse in that Ebay seems to have the ability to authorise chargebacks and refunds in disputed cases that can then be appealed to PayPal itself.

But the alternative is in my opinion worse. As a buyer, you must pay for an item before receiving it. I am aware of so many complaints online of fraudulent sellers making off with tens of thousands from fraudulent sales, and there being nothing anyone can do about it because of banking privacy laws. Having a service like PayPal seems essential to reducing fraud in such online transactions.

In summary, I can perfectly understand PayPal wanting to perform a security check for every long time customer for whom a flag was raised by some security protocol.

And naturally, there are going to be many false positives, and many unfair decisions taken at such scale.

Independent arbitration would indeed seem like a good idea. But who is going to pay for independent arbitration for potentially millions of disputed transactions? The reality is, almost every single transaction that has already been appealed to PayPal that can be appealed easily to an independent arbiter, will be. So you simply double the (already high) cost of such a service.
What's the issue with running on Windows?

FWIW we're running a lot of instances on Windows, and there are differences for sure, performance falls off a cliff, but for testing it's decent enough.
A cheat sheet for self development
I think the argument is that for a lot of cases OOP isn't the right paradigm
Gimp is challenged in the UX department as well. Getting a professional onboard would help with that a lot too.
An insightful point. The tacit assumption here is that your "whatever" is some sort of meme, yes? But memes are also strongly heritable. So far, in all of human history, memes which promote celibacy and childlessness have a tendency to die out.
Until cheap knockoffs heard they could charge 4x their normal price by changing the coloring.

... You can't trust the coloring either if you're buying off of Amazon, eBay or any Chinese site like Alibaba
> Once a mistaken transaction showed up and disappeared a few hours later, with no trace left behind at all. I just assumed it was a mistake and didn't bother getting angry.

In many (all?) countries, your bank would've acted criminally. If money has been deposited to your account, only you or a court order can get it out again. If somebody "just does it", they are on a similar legal basis as somebody that forgot a jacket in your house and decides to break your lock and enter your house without your knowledge or authorization to get it back.
I find it strange that the places where this happens are so compressed that people feel like they literally have "make the space" to do normal life activities.

What about public squares, parks, train stations, seating in/around office plaza's, libraries, cafe's?
To be fair, I've cut open pound store USB-B cables before only to discover that they contained literally 2 strands of copper (Or at least I hope it was copper). The idea that people are trying to sink 2 amps down that type of cable is a bit frightening.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is, specs are great, but the reality is that there are infinitely many types of cable and the only thing which definitively defines the capabilities is physics.
I highly doubt they spent years on the design... But regardless we all make mistakes.

What is a no brainer to you may not be to everyone.

Besides, you are fundamentally assuming this was a mistake and not a deliberate design decision. Maybe they prioritized X over following the spec 100%. I may not make that decision, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t.
So not only the physical repetition of an activity makes it perfect, and not only replaying it mentally with eyes closed, but also dreaming of it...

It's the common sense being proven right, thus reinforcing how to improve it.
I'm an asshole. If you work form me, work come first, as is the most important thing to me, after (and outside the office) your life, lifestyle and everything that is important for you.
I think they're referring to the psychological component of gambling. Most people only exit when they go bust, i.e. when they get sufficient consecutive tails to wipe out their budget.

That's how I read it, at least.
Benson Leung is the person who wrote the OP link....
In this case they directly shorted two pins together though. That would give me pause to ask why the two pins existed in the first place. Something that should have led to the conclusion the author reached about the configuration.
Just to be entirely clear: While a cheap cable may be wrong, good (i.e. fully featured) cables will always work in all combinations.

Having gone all in on Type-C, I have only ever gotten a "bad" cable as a cheap charge cable, and have never had issues with cable incompatibilities.
As someone who's written and released his own Free Software, I have to say, I at least definitely cared about getting users. Most of the fun is in your product actually being used, not just it being out there. I never did anything remotely as important as Gimp, but if someone had come along and offered some simple services like "Let me design a cool logo for your project" I'd have jumped at the chance. I can't imagine Gimp hasn't had similar opportunities.
I don't think humans are every going to evolve past being a K-selected species.
Leung's Amazon reviews are helpful: https://www.amazon.com/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AFLICGQRF6BR...
I've never been to a 'proper' casino, but I've seen a few in James Bond films.

Everyone is attractive, powerful and sophisticated. People look on, impressed at his daring. Everyone has a bow tie on. Beautiful women hand him free drinks with a smile. The atmosphere isn't even slightly tinged with the desperation and regret of gambling addicts.

I can understand losing $50 a day to live out that fiction.

I have no idea whether any casinos offer that experience - the gambling things I've seen in my country have all been far more tawdry.
Being able to Just Do Things without mucking around in config files, building a, b, c things from source and dealing with random missing dependencies d, e, f. Then having to search online to fix Random Obscure Errors g, h i, etc, and so on. Or in the case of bsd-likes, maybe needing to write ports and adapt makefiles, etc.

I've gone Arch -> FreeBSD -> OpenBSD -> Debian for my main pc, and osx for my laptop. I used to like manually tweaking and configuring everything but these days I just want to turn on the computer and get into a workflow with as few headaches as possible.
Pro: employee is more productive.

Con: none for the company
Air supremacy is necessary for defense as well, especially so.
MacOS is amazing in many ways, and is spyware-free, which makes it the only choice for privacy-savvy users who also want to use adobe products.

Unless you go the Hackintosh route, you’re locked into Apple hardware.
The spreadsheet you are probably referring to is still online: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vnpEXfo2HCGADdd9G2x9...
Why is reading so important?
It's a bit finger-pointy, but it is also a pretty darn stupid mistake.

That USB-C is complicated is all the more reason for just taking the pre-provided mandatory design for things, and to test with at least a few cables. Having worked in hardware before, this seems very careless.
I'm quite glad I've held onto my mid-2012 15 inch mbp all these years. I had the latest 2019 model for a job and it was a distinct downgrade. The 2012 model isn't much heavier or slower, has all the ports I need, and they keyboard feels relatively solid. I hope Apple will come to their senses and pull an iPhone SE, releasing the design from 2012 with updated internals. FaceID would make it perfect.
Add to that, that the keycaps break.
They have teeny-tiny clips on the top edge, which just break after a while, and they just lift off, sticking to your finger, or just shift slightly, enough not to 'click' when you press them.

I'm not a particularly heavy typist (though it sounds like it on the butterfly keyboard, compared to my previous 2013 macbbok pro), but I've now had about 8 keycaps replaced in the lasst year.

edit: OK I was going to edit out the multiple-letters, but not this time, as this is actually quite typical of typing on this 2016 mbp, so illustrates the problem.
Vacances anniversaire sorties, colloques, cérémonies de mariage, séminaire
Bensen Leung is also the author of this blog post
Loneliness is based on a feeling of disconnectedness, but what are you disconnected from? Please see you cannot be alive and disconnected, you are always connected to the rest of the universe.

Does it mean you always have people you are comfortable with who are saying nice things to you? No, everyone has it's own life, views, interests and it's entirely possible no one around you shares yours. So what, people are different.

I think society puts too much stress on it that everyone has to have a bunch of friends, fellows, do birthday parties, shopping and whatever is fashionable in that place. And people who don't have it at some point in life get stressed.

On the other hand, being alone means guess what? Freedom - you don't have to belong anymore, you don't have to share opinions or views, you don't have to fit someone's "standards". You can go and do what you want without having to share time and energy with others. It's a great thing many glorify, talk about and complain about not having it. But if they get it most people freak out and turn the possibility into a problem.

In other words, if one finds himself in this position it's a personal choice to be free or be lonely.
Think more along the lines of "they once had a mainframe in their infrastructure which stored passwords instead of hashes, which caused their requirements to limit the length of passwords to 20 characters, even if that system is no longer in use, or now uses hashes."
I have seen these points made before, but I really like how well this post presents them.

One thing interesting today is the world is highly interconnected. We are all part of a gigantic network. The hierarchies and boundaries of the past are hard to maintain as contentedness increases.

In that context, what effects the Tend and Befriend stress response will have is going to be very interesting to watch imho.

Fight/flight/freeze is clearly causing a lot of chaos, energy and resource wastage of the entire network.
>Just try doing 5-point breathing while doing yoga

Why should i try this when i can do 12-point Neigong-Daoyin-Waigong-Shaolin-Micro-Macro with a side of Yoga-Tantra-Chakra-Channels and a topping of Reiki? :-)

...jk...

I am just trying to help out people who are interested in esoteric subjects of which i have some knowledge by steering them away from BS and charlatans.

I will provide a more serious answer in my response to your other post so that everything is in one place.
I've had frozen shoulder in both shoulders in the recent past. Neither was injured beforehand in any physical manner. I agree with the exercise treatment. It worked for me both times. In the end I found that swimming, breast stroke and then freestyle, worked best for me. For me the first couple of lengths were searingly painful but after ten or fifteen minutes it was really surprising how quickly the pain diminished. Each swimming session kind of followed the same pattern, acute pain at first that slowly faded. After maybe a dozen sessions over six weeks it was pretty much gone. One more anecdote.
We have a pretty strong tech startup culture here in Montreal, and even without that there's always the gaming industry here.
NestJS authentication for server side rendering with Handlebars
> Just spitballing here but it makes me think there should just be an option to rent a dinged up, scratched up car for cheaper.

Here you go
https://www.rentawreck.com/
Bridging the Latency Gap between NVM and DRAM for Latency-bound Operations
You can use the server cli/conffile driven networking tools, ifupdown (pre-18) / netplan (18.04+) even if you are on a laptop and running GUI. Just uninstall NetworkManager.
Heh, I'm afraid that might reclassify a large portion of the workforce that falls under the saying "I can replace you with a simple shell script"
If they want to charge consulting rates or if they want to get a job somewhere maintaining it full time, then adoption matters.
You can help by switching your search engine to Ecosia:

https://www.ecosia.org/

Each search result generates revenue (through ads) that sponsors tree planting.
House bill targets use of Pentagon networks for child pornography
Can we finally get greenhouse credits for tree population?
If you want good results, I'd advise considering needs of photogrammetry before the day you take the photos. I just don't want to post a public link to the example I mentioned.

Depending on how you take those shots/arrange for them there might be tricks to get (closer to) certain goals.

Feel free to mail me some questions regarding the shots/arrangements you mention.
The other reason for is that the developers of the USB-C specifications left us with a terrible confusing mess where visually identical cables have different capabilities and behaviors.
I've dealt with my share through the years... the most problematic asshole I encountered was definitely in the 'unintentional' mold: friendly, outgoing, always willing to help others... So what made this person an asshole?

They WOULD NOT LET GO their solution to a problem. If the team agreed on another approach, every planning meeting or conversation for the next month got derailed to rehash why this persons' idea was the best, and why we should change our decision. If we held to the original decision, this person would call team meetings with PO and PM 'to help resolve the issue'.

This person didn't badger juniors. On the contrary, this person would have side conversations with the most junior devs to get them 'onside', then come to the senior devs with "the rest of us have been talking and we think the way forward is X".

Caused a lot of divisiveness on our team before getting fired.
as a tech co-founder what convinced me to join my current co-founders was a prototype they build with bubble.is. It gave me confidence that they have at least some understanding of what it means to build a product.
Yeah, welcome to enterprise development (regardless of programming language). Every VP fancies themselves as the next Steve Jobs and like to be uncompromising about delivering their vision. Which ironically ends up as design by committee when you have that many assholes in a room unwilling to back down but also needing to save face.

And to be fair, most of the premature optimization and bloated abstractions are just your architects sitting around bored for 6 months while the project sponsors argue over reporting minutiae (but won’t approve the designs until their pet features are pulled in on the roadmap). They know the entire feature list is going to get changed at the last minute as the political winds shift, so they’re designing an overbuilt architecture to CYA for whatever random bullshit someone will pull a week before a deadline.
Because Engineering Managers spend too much time on interviews
First of all, California isn't just any state, it's the largest one. It even has stricter auto emissions standards pushing forwards the rest of the country -- so this isn't so much a dangerous precedent, as a "special California thing" which is historically more protective of the consumer than the federal government. (I personally see this as a positive thing.)

And as long as state laws are limiting abusive behaviors, I don't see what the problem is -- then we all follow the new "floor" and the whole country benefits. A small start-up can not choose not to lie about a bot being a person just as easily as a tech giant can.

The problem is if local laws conflict with each other or impose a significant burden. But then the federal government generally steps in quickly and shuts things down thanks to the interstate commerce clause.

So I don't think there's anything to worry about here.
DoH is just a protocol. Your appliance/application could choose to bypass the network specified resolver whether or not it uses DoH.
can you explain what you are looking for i na little more detail?
OP here. The fact that I am actively engaging in conversation with them, to resolve this, should bump me up a notch on their trust level (of course I could be playing an "iocane trick" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_eZmEiyTo0] but there is no way to honestly prove this).

Also the fact that they reply to my initial question about the refund, with an absolutist "After investigating, YOU have logged in and YOU have initiated the refund", when I know I have done not such thing, immediately makes me think that I've been hacked or somehow have fallen a victim of fraud.

Further inquiries to clarify the issue, only leads me to get my account blocked/locked. I have no idea how this can be considered fraud protection from their side! And all this means that all in all I agree with you about the lack of competence of the fraud protection team...
My time isn't free. The fact that I have to deal with this at all makes me never want to buy another Mac and I have been a heavy user for at least 20 years. Super annoyed.
I’m not sure I have an issue, because I always use an external keyboard. Will Apple still fix my keyboard, or does it have to exhibit some issue?
USB-C is not a standard, USB-C is a combination of a dozen different standards, some of which you mention. There's electrical standards, optical standards, slow, fast, using 2, 4, 5, 6 and/or 8 electrical conductors.

So no, there's not one cable, there's a boatload of them.
You have to pay for the electricity to run it rather than getting free juice off a supercharger?
> it's not like Paypal will miss me, I know, I would just feel too "dirty" to keep it open after all that happened

It's comforting to know that other people feel the same way.
From invisibility to readability: Recovering the ink of Herculaneum
Tax credit on new greenhouse tax. Revenue neutral if done right.
If you want to read more about this kind of thing, I can highly recommend this book:

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

It's incredibly well researched and written, and gave me a much better understanding of what's going with the ecosystems.
Telemarketering volume dropped? I guess you still aren't getting 10 spam calls on some days.
They've improved a bit over the years. The power screwup on the original Pi meant that some boards wouldn't work reliably at all with any power supply. (They mistook the 1.8v output from the USB+ethernet chip's internal regulator for an input and connected it to the 1.8v rail that powered everything else on the board, meaning that for some unlucky folks it ended up supplying 1.8v power to the entire board, overheating spectacularly, and falling over. It took an outside engineer to find that one after the folks who designed it blew off all the complaints about overheating Ethernet chips, USB falling over, etc as user error. In fact, they were so confident all the problems were user error that they banned the person who spotted their mistake from their forums for pointing it out.)