skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Throwing toilet paper in a basket and taking it through the garbage route is a very sensible solution.

Have you lived where this is commonplace for any length of time? Have you done this in your own house? Having been born in a country where this was commonplace a few decades ago, I have a very hard time accepting it as a "sensible solution". It's just gross. I'd much rather pay for spelunking through my property taxes.
> Or just bundle local versions of dependencies yourself and stop relying on shared libraries.

That used to be the norm, until a really bad (as in, remote code execution) vulnerability was found in zlib, which was bundled nearly everywhere. The lesson learned was that bundled third-party libraries are a security risk, and all major distributions changed their policies to allow them only in exceptional cases.
Here here.

The only "big studio" I pay any attention to is Nintendo, because they make games like a midsize to indie firm: Fun gameplay

Otherwise, I think all of the things a "big studio" does now, primarily the backend for online and p2p services is going to have it's open source / platform killer app soon. Valve almost did it with HL/Garry's Mod/ etc but they've stalled out recently.

Whomever develops a truly plug and play infrastructure module, handling networking, server config, deployment, etc will own a big boat by 2029.

As will the guy who figures out distributed PnP microtransactions.

AI and ML will likely be capable of full service character design and modeling in the next 5 years.

So things will change, and democratize like almost all of the rest of tech has as things become less human capital intensive.
glyphs that look similar in most fonts: appIIe[.]com
payaI[.]com

They look different in monospace, but I know Gmail renders plaintext mail with a normal sans-serif.

You can also just spell things mildly wrong. People often auto-correct spelling in their mind without realizing it, ex: microsott[.]com

Note I added [] to avoid linking the sites. Those domains look like they're squatted by suspicious customers already.
Moves like this really demonstrate the economics of most internet businesses. There is no real tangible link between what people pay and what it nearly costs to offer a service over a stream of bits & bytes.

Netflix started at $7.99 in 2010 and today for the same subscription you pay $12.99, which is a 62.5% price hike. That is particularly interesting, because it's considerably more than the inflation over the same period of time, which is at only 17.5% (https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/).

Content got cheaper through Netflix's own productions, engineering optimisations over the last 10 years probably also helped to significantly reduce infrastructure cost for the same service which someone paid $7.99 before and hosting got cheaper as well as Azure and Google Cloud have significantly started to compete with Amazon, yet customers pay A LOT more.

Now they want to capture a share of the Indian market and can basically offer a "reduced" service for only a small fraction of the price what a US customer pays, even though nothing changes in terms of what they have to pay their engineers and hosting, etc. in order to sustain the company. Yes there will be a little bit of additional infrastructure cost to also facilitate 480p streaming in India, but I doubt that has anything to do with the actual pricing.

I bet Netflix would happily offer HD streaming to Indian customers for the same price if there wasn't a risk of upsetting other paying customers from different countries.

Netflix customers will pay arbitrary made up prices always going up and never going down for as long as there is still enough people who just don't care to foot the bill every month. A sense of entitlement to be treated fairly or otherwise walk away, even if that means that you have to spend more time with friends instead of binge watching dumb TV is being lost in this world.
You are obviously correct and I'm not sure why you are being downvoted.
Drew, no. - Will
the difference there is that the wage doesn't change with the amount of the tip, and that consistent wage is communicated up front. Yes, the tip-wage sucks, but surprisingly it's more honest than this.
Not sure they are killing it unless they make more from online subscription than cable. Lots of my friends and I have unsubscribed from cable and brought Hotstar subscription. So now they have to support multiple channels (online/cable) for a disjoint subscriber base. And it is only a matter of time when Netflixes, Facebooks and Amazons start bidding for live sports in India as well [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44396151
Neither do I. But even if I download a pip package from blender and it depends on 14-third party packages - how on earth am I able to assess the risk/trust of that?

I most certainly trust that there is no ill intent from them and that it didn't raise any flags during testing. But even if I believe they have the resources to audit everything I might be getting a newer and infected version.

And even if my trust of a programmer/entity is rock-solid it is hard to guard against their account being compromised, that is all it takes for most 3rd party sources.
Forests and climate change: pine trees dying in France
There are a lot of homoglyph url tricks. It turns out there are even online attack generators for these, so you can see for yourself:

https://www.irongeek.com/homoglyph-attack-generator.php

https://adlinkurl.com/blog/2-homoglyph-url-spoofer
True that - it's a sign of privilege.
> What if he says that it was his policy to put an expiration into all his software deliverables?

If he says that in his contract, and the expiration process is written to do something honest like pop up a dialog saying "you need to renew your license" then I can't see there being a problem with that.

It sounds like there was malicious intent, however, if the contract didn't specify expiration and the expiration is intentionally designed to look like a fault rather than an expiration.

Of course multi-million dollar companies do at times get away with built-in obsolescence... be great if this set a precedent regarding all the smartphones that mysteriously become unusable after 2 years...
If you work with R wouldn't it just be R? I've never seen R Studio abbreviated to Rs. If anything I could see a programmer interpreting it as rust but the capitalized R would be weird.
There is an example right in this article:

>(Confusingly enough, with typical “machine precision” computer arithmetic, this doesn’t work correctly, because even though one “runs out of precision”, the IEEE Floating Point standard says to keep on delivering digits, even though they are completely wrong. Arbitrary precision in the Wolfram Language gets it right.)

The man can't help but promote himself. He worded this in a way that makes it look to a lay person like he invented arbitrary precision arithmetic, but in a way that is still technically correct. It's like he's actively trying to peddle something to people who don't know any better.
I think you should indicate somehow that you've edited your comment (e.g. customary "EDIT" following your original comment), granted in your case, you changed your original comment entirely (after the apparent backlash at your disagreement with GP's comment), which is IMO somewhat disingenuous.
Gizmodo posts the headline on their front page, "You Might Want to Uninstall VLC. Immediately"

Following the debunking of the story, what does Gizmodo do? Leave it on the front page and change the headline to "You Might Want to Uninstall VLC. Immediately [Updated]"
Compensatory strategies to disguise autism may delay diagnosis
The browser wars and the birth of JavaScript
On the opposite end of the scale: go to a sporting event and cheer on the home team. You’ll be in an energetic group with common purpose, and no expectation to hold a conversation of any kind.
GDevelop is an open-source, cross-platform game creator
In most countries in the world having to hear, smell and be heard is considered disgusting and embarrassing.

Even more so if you know the people around you.

In many places stalls are not used and toilets are fit in one small, dedicated room each.
I think the main issue at play here is quoting. In particular, how bad rich text/html mail programs are at dealing with inline quoting. In my opinion, that’s the main “feature” of email communication that has been lost over the years. On the top replies make it difficult to follow a nested thread of emails.

If html email clients handled this better, I don’t think there would be as much of a problem. I think you’re right though that plain text acts as a bit of a shibboleth to differentiate “advanced” users vs luddites. But the main thing that I’ve heard people complain about with respect to html email is the loss of inline quoting.

Plaintext has its issues too— in particular long line soft wrapping. Which some would argue would be better supported if html email hadn’t become so popular.
> The corn used to feed the food animals is considered "not fit for human consumption" because it's rather hard and tasteless.
I find GUIs easier for several tasks. These come to mind:

- Staging/unstaging/dropping hunks or specific lines within a modified file

- Interactive rebase is simpler and clearer
One of the differentiators between personal and business use is that when I worked for a big corporation they had excellent negotiated rates that always included unlimited mileage and full insurance.

If you rent a car personally, and want to have that same peace of mind, the extras will cost almost as much as the rental itself.
See, you fell into the problem I'm talking about. I'm not saying the people in the article are correct. I already thought they were short sighted and just bitching about problems they put their heads in the sand about.

I'm arguing that this being anecdotal isn't enough to invalidate their claims. Their claims are invalid because of other factors that anyone with their own business can see through. But not for being anecdotal. I have an issue with the HN community using anecdotal as enough justifiable cause to say someone is wrong. Data is just a lot of recorded anecdotes in one place.
>pretty is an after thought.

Pretty is a design choice (or should be). Minecraft's low resolution works well with people who appreciate low resolution worlds, aka kids. Minecraft's true genius, intended or not, is being a game that grows up with the kid as they play.

You start off singleplayer by yourself just getting by in survival mode and you end up building massive city sized projects in multiplayer learning to co-operate on a grand scale. That learning process can cover 5yr old to 16yr olds.

Photoreal is going to become cheaper and cheaper so making an artist aesthetic is going to be more important for standing out than 'better' graphics.
> Minimum waged labor is very, very, very inelastic. For better or worse the people who clean your toilets and serve you coffee in the mornings are extremely necessary and very hard to substitute. Much more so than most middle class jobs, even.

Literally the opposite. It's so elastic they can't demand any wages for what they do. Minimum wage is about turning it inelastic with the punishment of prison.

The best argument I have heard around MW is that businesses can afford to pay more but have too much market power to let that go. I tend to disagree in a 3.5% unemployment economy, but its possible.

These famous studies of minimum wage always come with caveats, on both side of the aisles. If you increase minimum wage today you might not see the unemployment ever in a stat, because you are sacrificing future employment (businesses that don't open because upstart costs are higher). In the end, MW is a handout from left leaning people passing the bill to businesses: they could help the working people they want to target just as well with suplemental labor income, but that implies reducing other expenditures from the government, whereas MW looks like a freebie from businesses.
Sergey Dmitriev of JetBrains once said at a conference or interview (I forgot which) that any well designed class library is in effect an embedded DSL.

When you consider that UML tends towards object-oriented modelling of systems, it is practical to consider the methods as the action semantics of the model.
If enough people bet on wheat prices to rise, futures contracts get expensive compared to the current price of wheat. This opens the opportunity for someone to rent a warehouse, fill it with wheat, and then take the opposite side of the futures contract (i.e. lock in a high future selling price for your wheat), yielding a guaranteed profit.

So if futures prices ever show a price increase greater than the cost of storage, people will start filling warehouses with wheat everywhere. It's just that normally commodities don't increase in price at a rate that exceeds the cost of storage.
That's an incentive for the customer to select another company.
But not nearly as much as you'd have in the US, probably.
> In Argentina most toilet paper is very thin, and as a result people uses a lot more.

This is no different than the false economy of single-ply in North America: you end up using the same mass (volume?), you just have to have more pulls.

While not a topic I have quizzed many people on, I would hazard to guess that most folks want a certain thickness for their wipes. With two-ply you can achieve that with x revolutions of the roll, while with single-ply most people simply do 2x.

I'm not quite sure if single-ply really saves anything.

So for Argentina, are people really using more, or simply doing more pulls to reach the same thickness as the thicker-papered Americans?
The Day John McCain Got Shot Down – Did He Show the Right Stuff?
Exactly, work mailboxes are a treasure trove of automatically-archived information. I'd argue that these days, emails form more of a "knowledge base" than any other single repository of information for most organisations.
I think a sizable chunk[1] of that revenue may be coming from mechanics that are more properly classified as gambling. If/when regulators catch on, things might change very quickly.

[1] Mobile seems to be the fastest growing segment and it’s dominated by gambling and psychologically manipulative micro transactions.
This is worse though. Neither MITRECorp, CERT-Bund.de nor NIST are tech news websites or journalistic publications. This is beyond being an issue with online news: this is an issue with security organisations actively ignoring their own policies due—seemingly—to an institutional disregard for a non-commercial FOSS project.
As far as health data is concerned the regulation is very clear that any aggregates must have a certain minimum amount in bin for precisely this reason.
In fairness, none of them printed their own money really. They all relied on something else, and then printed promissory notes for that "something else". So the more promissory notes they printed, the less "something else" each promissory note was worth.

One of the most confusing things to me in some of my econ classes was the realization that there is no "something else" backing my nation's currency. The US Dollar. As I understood it, it's just backed by the word of the US? (Could be wrong, it's been a while.) So I always wondered, what keeps them in check? I've never really figured that out. Someday maybe I'll go back and sit in on some more advanced classes?
Well, with that being said, what I read, at least to some extent, implied this society had a (heavy) hand in their own undoing. But if the area is known to be in flux, then maybe it was simply another round in that cycle? Or not?

That context, to me, should be stated plain and obvious right upfront. Caveats. They matter.
Not being wrong doesn't absolve you from being deceptive. ("Save up to $1000!") A scientist doesn't hide the truth in fine print and technicalities, they expose it.
Canonical probably does care less than in their desktop golden years, now they are perhaps focusing on the server os market (cloud).

The distribution model has the advantage of single click install. Great for basic users, but you run outdated software, sometimes with well known security holes. For power users who can take some work in maintaining their system, it seems to me that your way - keeping up with the latest version of all software - gives you better security.
I've seen so many Word or PPT documents with a single hyperlink in them, uploaded to SharePoint with filenames like "process_manual_2013_v3.2.doc"...

Ugh.
I'd say that is pretty clear-cut with "making it impossible to derive insights on a discreet individual"

If it is possible, it's not anonymous per GDPR's definition and that is what counts.
For the record, I’m pro raising the minimum wage. I was just stating that it is absolutely true that _some_ jobs will go away. Therefore a WSJ article about a few jobs going away in a county where minimum wage was raised should not be news to anyone. I completely agree with you.

It also makes sense to me that restaurant jobs are more elastic than janitors as they are a product of discretionary spending.
FTC fines Facebook $5B, imposes stricter privacy controls
Recent Google AI Publications on Machine Learning
We built a SaaS company to make email better
Twitch has some engineering in Berlin, Amazon pays quite well, Siemens pays quite well, as do the various car companies (basically any company with a strong IG Metall presence pays 70k+ for developers), Snowflake has some engineering in Berlin too (I work for them, you can figure out my email address fairly easily and drop me a mail if you like). Startups in Berlin generally pay 60-100k depending on seniority. Median income in Berlin is something like 18k after taxes, so maybe 30k before taxes.
IANAL

It looks like he was hired as a contractor to work on their internal systems (i.e. the spreadsheet) rather than licensing a product to them. If as is likely the bank owned the spreadsheet, he's purposefully modified it without permission to malfunction after a certain date - that's why it would be a criminal matter, he's been told "you can access these internal systems to incorporate functionality x", and has additionally gone in and planted malicious functionality.

When you license software that disables functionality without a current license, it's legal because you have no right to use that software without the license. If you own the copyright to some software and someone you'd hired to work on it goes and sneaks in a logic bomb to make themselves indispensable, I think you have every right to be pretty peeved.
Will be interesting to see if any VPN streaming services pop up to resell this outside of India.
What about hemp protein? :)
In a well functioning market, inflation is purely a monetary phenomenon, raising the minimum wage should not affect it.

But you're right, rising rents are likely to capture much of the gain in the lower class. But that's because the rental market is not a well functioning market.

Rising rents should encourage more apartments to be built, stabilizing prices. Instead, NIMBY rules prevent them from being built, allowing rents to soak up all the gains.

Fix the root cause, don't use it as an excuse.
That stuff is actually not that hard, mozilla's engine has compile flags for that stuff and the patches you have to make are minimal. There are a few methods for runtime restrictions too, they're quite extensive in their capabilities and sufficient for sandboxing a mail.
Good lord. I wish people that argue for enacting higher MW are forbidden by law to be served by businesses that operate below MW.
The one you're about to found based on profits from this bet? ;)
If you do format=flowed correctly, then code is not mangled.

However, there is a higher risk (than with hard-wrapped) that users can mangle code with format=flowed.
Do these apps have freeform text boxes, "special instructions" or whatever? Could put a note in there, or make it your middle name displayed with the order, "Bob ITipInCash Smith"
But you can only get to Hakodate... The shinkansen tracks to Sapporo aren't finished yet (unless I've missed something). It takes nearly as long to go from Hakodate to Sapporo as it does to go from Tokyo to Hakodate :-) I wonder if they are really serious about that...
GM Cruise to delay commercial launch of self-driving cars to beyond 2019
> This occurs in a lot of the developing world. Older sewerage systems weren't designed to accommodate the stuff we flush down in the west.

Also, building code inspections may or may not be as strictly enforced in these countries, so even newly built things may not work properly.
You can do that today with tipping.
Watchbog Linux Trojan Endangers 1,610,000 Vulnerable Exim Servers
>If my window is small (maybe because I am using a small screen), the text is painful to read.

If your screen is so small that it can't display 80 characters across then pretty much anything you look at it with is going to look odd. Any HTML formatting such as tables will also be painful to read.
People who fall for phishing are not idiots. Even technical people can be fooled by clever spear phishing.
Maybe you are over-engineering for an MVP?
>So if you get a new, fairly nice car every three years and use it exclusively for Lyft, you won't make any money.

Doesn't Lyft require you to drive a fairly new, fairly nice car?
I echo the other comment about easier selective commits. I have done that in the console and it's a pain. Nevertheless I have been using VSCode git features for that and it basically removed my need for a separate GUI program.

I used to use the one from atlassian, but they made it so difficult to use it, and also I think they started charging for it. I also downloaded kraken, but found it very heavy and intrusive.

Nothing beats using the terminal (except for selective commits)
UK is part of Europe.
It seems, though, that it's even worse than that for games. Every so often you see an article to the effect of, "Authors of that indie game everyone was talking about this summer ended up netting $not_very_much_at_all apiece."

The economics are just really, really bad. It's not just all the competition driving prices down so low that people will literally consider the price of a coffee to be too much to pay for several hours of entertainment. It's not just that a musician can hold down a day job and do what they love on evenings and weekends. It's also that the the potential payoff on your invested time is really, really crappy. To become a musician, you have to practice a lot when you're a kid, but, once you're there, the time it takes to produce new work is really quite low, especially considering how much replayability it has, especially if you're mostly playing standards and other traditional stuff. And, if people like it, they'll come see you perform it repeatedly.

Indie games, no matter how much I liked that game, I'm gonna play it once, and then, if you want me to be your audience again, you've got to basically go back to square one and start over.
People often discuss of surveillance in the context of companies they interact with every day, but kinds of tools like this camera are typically used by public services. What 's the discussion about privacy wrt to the data that govt services have? Event GDPR glossed it over, giving these services basically free reign.
Neon’s Latest Version Sets New Benchmark in Marketing Agility for Operators
>if we want to stop beating around the bush, what about "nameless identification"?

The difference is the other proposed alternatives more directly suggest risk is involved.

It's a nice ESL example because technically, I don't think you're suggestion is wrong. In practice I think few would infer its implications.
Facebook: Cleaning Up Data Access for Partners
because you apparently don't want to go pick it up with your car and your time. are you really being serious?
from an etymological perspective, this is kind of gross; you are grafting a latin-derived prefix onto a greek-derived stem. there's no direct Greek equivalent to the Latin "de", but you could consider "apo" or possibly "kata", both of which have similar meanings.