skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The markup on this gear is probably insane, it has a limited shelf life, if I told Amazon they could get this many column inches of good will for a few 100k they'd jump on it :)
AIUI from that article, clock-face scheduling is just scheduling with consistent intervals of a unit fraction of one hour (or possibly a multiple of one hour) so that trains always arrive and depart at the same number of minutes past the hour. This is what that article calls integrated scheduling.
Presumably this is same sort of tech that is used in the T-Shirt spam that plagues Reddit.
I'm not Dutch, but moved here around 18 months ago and the rail system is one of my favourite things. City to city is one thing, but many many small villages are linked by slower trains. Sometimes I've caught trains to small villages to do an NS walk and it reminds me a lot of Japan.

The fact that I can consider moving to Rotterdam or Den Haag and continue working at my job in Amsterdam is really something.

EDIT: sometimes traveling by car is cheaper even with _one_ person in the car, if you don't have the 40% discount. I guess that's the biggest downside.
“Nearly all tracking is by default and governed by impossible-to-read privacy policies. [...] For more detail please see our privacy policy.”

Ironic.
Proper computing , I have heard similar war stories about telecoms accidents with large dc power systems and shorting the busbars.

Real Datacentres have diverse routing for every thing
I'm inclined to agree that's what most people mean, (particularly non-STEM people) but it seems that's not what the poster I replied to above meant.
>Eh, if you use the word "mindfulness," you are yoga guy

Everything in Buddhism and meditation surrounds around mindfulness/sati/awareness you call it.

>A monk isn't mindful, he is mortifying his flesh to practice the tenets of the religion he believes in so fiercely enough he is willing to self-imprison to follow it better.

Monks have to cultivate the 8 fold path which includes right mindfulness so saying he isn't doesn't make him monk. And also wow that sounds so disrespectful and ignorant.
Tangent: How many here have verified their Phone# for recovery reasons?

Or even installed some apps like true-caller?

Browser finger-printing, 3rd-party tracking or the website itself. Better off with p0rn-torrents' magnet-URLs?
Yeah, a bit misleading, given that incognito mode doesn't share cookies (but does disk cache!) with the main profile. It's correct that they "may observe" as in "the browser still sends requests", but unless they do additional fingerprinting or use other information to correlate (IP), they can't easily connect the two observed users.

It may be useful to tighten up anti-tracking-tech in incognito windows. Currently, since plugins aren't enabled in incognito windows by default, it has the opposite effect: while your cookies are hidden, you're loading each and every tracker when in incognito mode.
I'm surprised there are quite so many single satellite outages, and no whole-system outages.

What causes satellites to suffer single satellite unplanned outages? Uploading bad software? Bad data? Wrong commands for orbit adjustment?

One would think that after the 20th time these mistakes had been made, automated tests would be in place to prevent them happening again.

Yet it's impressive no whole-network outage has happened. Presumably after uploading data/commands to one satellite, it gets uploaded to the rest. Yet there has never been a time that everything looked okay till after it was deployed worldwide?
Some privacy tips:

1. Use firefox with multi-account containers, with each domain set to auto-open in a different container (google, gmail, amazon, facebook, youtube, etc.). Make sure you're logged into google only in the gmail container (and not in the google search container), etc.

2. Use uMatrix and uBlock0, and enable limited third-party access using uMatrix dashboard only when a site breaks.

3. Enable DNS over https in firefox

4. Enable privacy.resistFingerprinting in firefox's about:config to thwart fingerprinting

5. Use the tor browser for browsing porn (or any site you really do not want associated with your IP).

Edit: Added resistFingerprinting to the list.
Exactly. Most people don't agree with the principle of "free speech without any asterisks". Die-hard free speech advocates are a fringe group (which is why they need to use a fringe service like Gab).

(Side-note: Of course, you can probably come up with a poll where a majority of people respond that they support free speech, but you know how easy it is to skew polls. Asking for "Yes" or "No" does not make people consider the ramifications of their answer.)
Interestingly, I've noticed some adult websites (not necessarily pornography) are requiring Google captcha.

That thing is spreading like weed.
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I think this sounds reasonable until you really consider Earth's history. We've gone through far more radical changes in environment - not only in terms of temperature shifts from ice ages to worldwide saunas but also in terms of geographic change as what was presumably one land mass gradually divided into many, land bridges between the newformed continents disappearing, even things such as the oxidation of our planet which resulted in the extinction of nearly all life. Yet, through it all - only one species managed to evolve anything like our cognitive and developmental ability. Quite peculiar in many ways.
I think it's not that odd. People assume that incognito means, well, "incognito" – like "anonymous browsing". But there are obviously more ways to identify a user besides cookies that are cleared/reset when incognito mode is closed and re-opened.

Edit: To clarify: The easiest would be an IP address check. More sophisticated techniques are browser fingerprinting. And I think there's no reason to assume that Google/Facebook/AdTech companies DON'T use these techniques.
>It's not just taking advantage of forgetfulness, I think there are a number of additional psychological factors that make you more likely to keep it active.

yeah, these companies really like to take advantage of my adhd too.
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These small meals help the metabolic rate to Renutra Pro Review keep going because food is provided more frequently. Hence the metabolic rate of the body is active and works faster because it is getting more meals every day. The capacity to burn food increases with an increase in the production of fat burning enzymes also. Eating more meals helps to control hunger pangs which results in eating more than usual. It also helps in preventing fatigue and tiredness.

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> The officials see this as a feature: real estate is just a huge jobs program, and the fact that they have to do it again just means more jobs on the future.

And in the meantime they're scratching their heads trying to figure out why their tertiary sector isn't growing.
Not true. I did received refund for my account when codeschool got acquired by them. They auto renewed but i compliant on first day, so support team did made refund.
I don't know about other countries, but where I live you are allowed to return any product you bought online within 30 days of your purchase.
It's not about morals, it's about the laws that give different privileges and responsibilities to different actors.
TBH the article looks a bit sensationalist. The $10m worth in CSV were sold obviously at a lower price, so it couldn't possibly make him 10 million US dollars; plus, they went through other black market resellers who I guess would take their cut.
>The reason people don't prefer the train vs. almost every other mode of transportation is because its extremely expensive.

This. Same for many other countries in Europe. Which borders on criminal from an environmental point of view, because the rail network is built & maintained with public money.

Also, it's not unusual for Europe to get to a place faster by car than by train - like, the whole of Germany.
> what URL they have used to arrive there

This is yet another example of why sending the Referrer header is insane. It's a massive privacy breach by design. Anything serious about protecting privacy needs to stop intentionally betraying the user's browsing path and simply remove the header from all HTTP requests.

Anything that functionally relies on a valid referrer is at best an unfortunate but necessary casualty. However, I suspect that far too often this is simply a way to obfuscate the usual tracking. If you tie your functionality to something designed to violate user privacy, don't be surprised if that functionality breaks when the privacy leak is finally fixed.
Initially, the availability issues were fixed by rationing (dreaded food coupons), then by improving production and transport, and finally the Berlin Wall fell, after a short hyperinflation almost everybody can afford basic food and most kinds of produce (except meat) are cheap.

The problem is somewhat flipped now that affluent people overeat or eat fast food due to time pressure.
These are more expensive than produce and basic components (excluding most kinds of meat, still) even including preparation and work required.
Fewer people cook at home, though healthier take out options are quite available in many places. Small restaurants, kinda like old American "greasy spoon" but healthier and more often with disposable cheap packaging and cutlery - big catering is barely competitive. Replacing in many instances previous "milk bars" with both cheap and more gentrified options depending on area.

I think the main difference is how near these are to living and work spaces.
Neither of these things. I am certainly not arguing that Amazon is unethical. Only that it can be ethical for people to make different decisions about when to take advantage of someone else's mistake on a case-by-case basis, based on the circumstances involved, without being required to produce a bright-line test valid in all possible hypothetical situations, as you seemed to imply. I'm just of the opinion that it's important to accept nuance and common sense in ethics, even if it means that sometimes dilemmas will arise that cannot be resolved easily. I'm also rather convinced that no human moral system exists without such dilemmas anyways. But the existence of dilemmas does not mean that every case is a dilemma, and it can be ok to make different decisions in different actual cases without having an answer to every hypothetical case in between.
One might think that since browsing privately and securely is such a pain point, there would be more than one product (firefox) to solve the issue. Any HN entrepreneur types out there reading these posts?
Valid point, but wonder if business-sponsored travel results in inflated price for other types of travel?
There is only uproar about deceptive marketing and lack of support if the marketing is actually deceptive and if there is an actual lack of support.

People have been burned a few too many times by less reputable developers (EA) selling unfinished, deceptive garbage (SimCity 2013) at full price, so a certain amount of uproar and skepticism when it happens again and again is to be expected, I think.

But there are good, reputable companies too who are doing honest business by selling quality games for a reasonable up-front price. I don't generally see people having an issue with that.

See if you can find a lot of people who are unhappy with dropping $60 on Zelda: Breath of the Wild or Super Mario Odyssey, for instance.
To redirect a UPS shipment after a card has already been charged? Not even in pending - the charge has cleared at this point?
Problem is, that it costs up front, people tend to hope for the best and discount the cost of the worst.
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It's also important to keep in mind that most of the projects that NASA works on/worked on like Apollo 11 aren't just software projects. They involve massive scales of cutting edge hardware that is developed by independent teams and needs to come together, operate in extreme environments and physical constraints, and all be complete and tested and ready for a relatively narrow launch window. Not to undersell the importance of the software component or the skills and talent of those who developed it, but it's usually only one part of a massive effort. Waterfall with intense requirements gathering and up-front design makes a lot more sense in that context. It's very different than developing software to run on commodity hardware to meet potential needs of a wide range of potential users who may have conflicting needs that they don't even understand themselves. In that case, time to market, extensibility, and the ability to iterate with actual user feedback and production data become much more dominant.
How is this ironic? Having a privacy policy is not the same as having an 'impossible-to-read' one. Also, I doubt the journalists at the New York Times are responsible for what the company's tracking policy is. Are they suddenly not allowed to write about privacy issues?

By this standard nobody would be allowed to talk about climate change, seeing as probably nobody has a 0% impact on climate change.
> Also, it's not unusual for Europe to get to a place faster by car than by train - like, the whole of Germany.

That's due to the inflexibility of the train network, I guess. It's fast & easy to get from Hamburg's main station to Berlin's, but if your starting point is 45 minutes from Hamburg's and your goal isn't at Berlin central station, the car is likely just as fast. And that only gets worse if you're traveling to some small town where you need to switch trains.
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Well, F-Droid already is the free alternative (to the Play Store). Maybe we'll see another FOSS app store pop up because of this, but I won't count on it. People may start their own app store projects, then quickly cave once they realize what a large undertaking they signed up for.
From the article, the CEO and director of Juwai.com explains it as a result of "a combination of anti-Chinese political rhetoric, a clampdown on visa processing, and of course tariffs".
I think we both know that it's a poor substitute for proper threading.
LinkedIn is the worst.
Starting a trial through the mobile app requires only a couple of clicks. Trying to cancel that trial? Haha! Good luck!
There's no way to do it through the mobile app. I had to open the website, login there as well, go to the help section, search for "cancel" and click on the help article. At this point I was greeted by "this feature is not supported on mobile devices" so I had Firefox request the desktop version in order to view the page.
What did you think was going to happen after you entered your payment details for your "free trial"? Did you not read the terms at all? It says clearly that it'll cost a monthly fee after the test period.

Here's what you don't want to hear: You were acting negligent and irresponsible. You paid the price. Worst of all, you didn't seem to learn anything from it. You're here complaining that companies shouldn't take your money when you agree to give it to them, because you can't be trusted to actually read the contracts that you enter. It's embarrassing.
Their machine is really impressive. I think for a medical device a needle has a great advantage from the safety perspective. You can make a needle that will never penetrate too deep into the brain because it is physically too short. Not so much for a laser capable of burning through skin which, if there is a bug in the controller would burn through the soft tissue in a matter of seconds.
I have interviewed at one of the biggest retailers in Italy (Esselunga, a retailer in groceries and pretty much all the related things).

While they had they own datacenters (two of them, hosting about ~2k physical x86 server machines and many more virtual machines) all of their retail shop inventory and sales processing ran on IBM SystemZ mainframes. They had more than one of them, and were in the process of buying a new one.

What they told me is basically they have a 24/7 operation with no downtime accepted. They also need to process a huge number of orders (check-out at the grocery stores, basically) in real time. Their inventory systems were not very different from the original ones written in the late 70ies except for some evolutions along the way.

They also told me about that time when they switched from an old mainframe to a new one, during the business day, in the middle of the operations, with no downtime or service interruption.

So basically what I got from that is that the benefits are:

- write once, run forever code

- 100% uptime (not "five nines", literally 100% uptime)

- a reference environment that you can rely on (no runtime change, everything that works today will keep workin in 30 years)

- value added consulting from IBM

- a complete set of tools (runtime, database, primitives, libraries etc)
It does not help but doesn't hurt enough to grant a special syntax to avoid it.

Yes, it limits your ability to rename a local variable, but that seems minor.
Really a personal mix of analog and digital; I will try to explain a bit in detail, hope this gives an idea.

So I use Bullet Journal (analog notebooks) for perusal work and Notion/Org Mode for office work; Notion for non IP work and Org mode for IP work. My org mode is not in cloud anywhere; only on my disk. All my planning and to-dos go somewhere in here.

I follow this directory layout convention in my home directory:

Projects/<Subject Area>/:
- Books
- Articles
- Courses
- Papers

So for everything I am working through, say a book 'Realtime Rendering' under 'Graphics' subject area, I make a dir 'Books/realtime-rendering' directory with 'mind-map' directory which contains all mind-maps scanned from my analog mind map notebook where I make the mind maps with pen and paper. This also contains the exported Anki flash deck for that book.

After making this a habit, I have found that I have become selective about what to work through; I take my time to find out as there is good but worth-it effort to make flash cards and mind maps for long term memory augmentation. Even if I am not very regular (only about 50-60% a week) to review my cards, I am way better off now than before putting this system in place.
> I do think it's ridiculous, however, than driving somewhere by car is cheaper than going the same distance by train once you're 2+ people in the car.

A prerequisite for this is often already owning the car and not incorporating the ownership costs into the cost analysis, I think. (Which does in practice means it's cheaper for practically everyone. That said, I think for many people hiring a car when needed and using public transport most of the time would actually be the cheaper option. For some value of "many".)
> French cuisine

I'm French and I have no idea what "French cuisine" is. When picking a restaurant we would decide which kind of regional cuisine we'd like (when opting for French cuisine rather than something foreign). I don't live in Paris so it might be different, but I don't really think so.

My favorite French-cuisine restaurants around my place were either Flemish, Breton or Réunionnais, but I don't know where I would go for "default French cuisine". Maybe some kind of tourist bistrot, but... well they feel like they're really just for tourists. Some of the luxury restaurants don't seem to have a regional identity, but they're above my means.
Ukraine also doesn't give up its citizens, just like Russia. Ukrainian and Russian hackers are often caught in their holiday trips abroad, when they relax from their money stealing activities. But that's the point of luxury life - it's easier to live it in US than in Ukraine.

And why is that "bad"?
Is it just Google Analytics and similar things? Pretty much every website has some tracking of this sort.
How TensorFlow outdid itself in handling Overfitting in DNNs.
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> But why ?

Recapping what i've written in another comment:

- 100% uptime

- reference, full featured platform that does its job doesn't change much during the years

- write once, run forever approach

- everything on premise
The best part of that was, being a space-faring civilization, the narrator muses that its starting point is probably based on the date when humans first left Earth to go to the moon!
I had a run in with BitDefender the other day. They charged me 120 euros for something that costs 37 euros on their website claiming auto-renewal was part of my original order 2 years ago!

The first counter offer I got, when requesting a full refund was adding 1 year or paying 37 for 1 year. Reminding then that in the EU you have a 14 day return period for online purchases made them refund the complete order.

What is especially ironic about this is that they supposedly want to protect me against online scammers, etc. In my book auto-renewals like this are scams.
the amount of investment needed especially for infra to catch up is enormous

Only if you see hardwire (e.g.fiber) as necessary. 4+G provides sufficient speeds now.

Much of the third world skipped ISDN/DSL/etc and went straight to mobile for data.
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Eh? There are plenty of HSR routes that are faster by train than by car in Germany. Munich to Berlin, for example.
"In one of my frequent bouts of negligence, I bought something that I didn't intend to buy and now I want to return it for a full refund for which you shall bear the cost. If you don't give it to me I will issue a fraudulent chargeback and leave negative reviews."

Who is screwing over who here?
Why is that odd? "Incognito mode" is a feature to hide your browsing history locally. Usually this meant hiding your porn browsing from your parents/roommate/etc. Hiding anything from the server was (unfortunately) never a design goal.

The scope of incognito mode has recently expanded, but browsers still trust servers far too much (e.g. the Referrer header still exists, which is designed to leak private information).