skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who's to say they're doing anything wrong? Microsoft is a huge company that can subsidize products using their profits from other products. They book Office 365 revenue as cloud revenue, and they're eager to grow that portion of their business to make Azure look good. So they're basically giving away services and throwing money at it to pad growth for Azure.

If anything, it's likely Dropbox's prices are closer to the true cost of providing the service.
Which source are you using for that number?
... yes. In states that require two-party consent to record a conversation (CA & MA, for example) Grubhub can't record a call without telling _everyone_ on the call it's being recorded. The article opens with a story of the author having a conversation with a restaurant employee who's clearly unaware of the recording.
The knowledge {pointers to accelerate the rebooting of civilisation}
I thought GDPR violations were handled by national ICOs on behalf of the EU. Am I confused?
And you are right on all counts. Inst was magic. The things I did, often on live systems...
Facebook is ordered to delete any Facial Recognition Templates within 90 days
“If you are reading this you are a player in a new kind of game”
Lunar crash may have seeded indestructible ‘water bears’ on the moon
> Thousands of Japanese centenarians may have died decades ago

> The justice ministry said the survey found that more than 77,000 people listed as still alive in local government records would have to be aged at least 120, and 884 would be 150 or older.

> The nationwide survey was launched in August after police discovered the mummified corpse of Sogen Kato, who at 111 was listed as Tokyo's oldest man, in his family home 32 years after his death.

> Kato's granddaughter has been arrested on suspicion of abandoning his body and receiving millions of yen in pension payments after his unreported death.

> Soon after came the discovery that a 113-year-old woman listed as Tokyo's oldest resident had not been seen by her family for more than 20 years. Welfare officials have yet to locate Fusa Furuya, who was last seen in about 1986.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20627021
Didn't much of Spain switch to drip irrigation / greenhouse farming? That would be innovation, right?
I like working with people with high expectations because you learn the most from them but you can't let them dictate your self-worth.
Afraid not, Virgin Media offers cable internet - cable is only available in large cities/towns in the UK. It might well be half of the population of England, but it's nowhere near half the area of the UK.

As an example, I just checked a postcode in the city centre of Aberdeen (Scotland) - no availability.
Sounds like an endlessly cascading problem that will effect the whole world eventually. If we have more consumption than is sustainable then it is going to run out eventually.
In this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20316831) you used the formal term "mother" . Why did you switch to "momma" when talking about Black families?
And requires you to jump through non-obvious hoops to make "hidden" files and folders visible.
I'm not a Chrome user, but this seems like a good thing. Address bars have been getting crowded the past few years.
A contract was violated when these phones were unlocked. In return for a locked phone the buyer received a subsidy from AT&T on the cost of the hardware. I don't want people to violate contracts with me, why should I recognize someone as a hero just because I don't like the contract?

To be absolutely clear, I don't like locked phones, either, so I always buy non-carrier-locked devices and it means I pay the full, unsubsidized hardware price.

[edited to fix a typo]
I am often disappointed in US healthcare discussions for similar reasons on gun violence discussions. It can work a lot better, we have many examples of this around the world that can scale and be even cheaper/better like the Canadian system or German system.

But for some reason, we want to do it our own way with profit seeking companies who can game the system or lobby the government for their benefit, not citizens. Maybe that's BC/BS or the NRA, maybe it's libertarians or conservatives that want smaller government (that time and time again fails like in Kansas or with the federal deficit hawks and their lovely tax cut).

We have solutions in front of us. We just need to shift momentum and get there instead of spinning our wheels and debating doing anything at all.
There's more factors in play, too. It's coherent to think B && !A, but also (C) Unelected members of the press should not have the power to shame businesses into excluding individuals and organizations.
Because when you look at doctor salaries out of context, you get a misleading answer.

I looked it up. The US health care system costs 25% more than Switzerland (the second most expensive in the world). That's not because of doctor salaries.
Why is illegal scheme necessary to create derivative works of Mickey mouse? Because this world, while being peaceful, is overrun with hostile actors at every corner.
Well, if you're using TLS it shouldn't matter if someone is monitoring, right?
PayPal uses Ironfist approach to cure fraud.

It's known to freeze large amount of cash balance without contacting you or getting anyone to talk to you about this.
Had issues using Brave.

Tried to pay off my contract & upgrade my phone on O2 UK's (mobile network operator) website.

Card transactions failed multiple times because of a blocked popup.

Ended up having to wait a week for the pending transactions to be released (£600 worth. Rang up Monzo, my bank, and they'd tell me I'd get the money released in pending state the next week which was true!).
Are you aware of Syncthing? What it is seems pretty close to what you'd get if you did that.
And giving a platform to them creates a legal liability.
You keep using that word. I dunno think it means what you think it means.
Amazon seeks FCC’s go-ahead to test mobile broadband devices in Silicon Valley
Like Syncthing?
It's the "X-Class" from Paul Fussell's classic book _Class: A Guide Through the American Status System_ retooled for the present day.

https://www.amazon.com/Class-Through-American-Status-System/...
A cassette of course :)

https://youtu.be/BnHW-f5ayhs?t=108
I'm a maintainer of the Unison package in Fedora and I'd love to know which version(s) of Unison you use day to day.

In Fedora (and I think this applies in Debian too) we have to maintain 3 versions because Unison isn't interoperable across minor releases. For this reason we package 2.13, 2.27 and 2.40, and I think there is discussion about packaging the latest release too. Keeping these ancient (esp 2.13) versions going is a pain to say the least.
Some media (not greentech which is pretty good) have a hard time explaining the problem from the utility side. There are valid utility side issues much as I hate the electric company as much as everyone else.

This piece missed an opportunity to deal with these utility-side problems. How to pay for the grid side modernization that's needed to prevent grid destabilization as intermittent producers start to exceed the 5% figure most utility people find is the point where grid instability becomes a real problem.

Forward-looking states like California and Hawaii, particularly California by way of Rule 21 [0], seem to have found the proper technical balance by requiring new producers to install equipment that provides "grid support" power intelligently with constant 2 way communications rather than looser "grid interactive" standards where if the grid is on frequency and the voltage is within tolerance it's like an open spigot.

What remains are problems to solve at the utility side. Who'll pick up the tab for the utility-side communications and dispatch enhancements needed effect use of the grid support features? How to incentivize the utilities to quicken adoption of these enhancements, given that utilities never plan on timelines shorter than 10 years?

[0] for ex https://www.gosolarcalifornia.ca.gov/equipment/inverters.php
Really wish they'd make it easy to show images of menus in restaurants. I usually use Yelp for easily viewing photos of different aspects from interior/exterior to menu, etc.
"hair straightening products" - there are also products or procedures to give white people more curly hair, or tan their skin. That really doesn't prove anything.

"Take this as an opportunity to look deeper."

The sheer arrogance in that statement. Being queer or whatever doesn't make you special. Sorry.
I think it’s only common for male knowledge workers. American culture brainwashes men into believing that they are less manly if they don’t do physical work, and men who internalize that message feel emasculated by their desk jobs. They don’t realize that their dissatisfaction is not an intrinsic facet of the human condition but an artifact of very specific cultural prejudices.

Women often complain about their office jobs too, but you rarely see them fantasizing about being able to swing a hammer for a living because they weren’t subject to the same cultural programming.
wouldn't be surprised if this dude is bought out by Invision in the coming year or two.
Multicultural empires couldn't survive the onslaught of nationalism that came in the 19th century. The modernization attempts of the Ottoman Empire (unlike Austria-Hungary or Russia, the other two major multicultural empires of Europe) rested very heavily on a very narrow Turkish nationalism movement that alienated the Armenian, Arab, and Balkan peoples in the country. But Austria-Hungary, which was somewhat successfully trying to force an inclusive, multicultural modernization process still imploded, as did Russia, which was somewhat in the middle between Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans.

Even the multicultural aspects of the British Empire would come flying apart in the 20th century--Irish nationalism was successful in splitting from Britain in the inter-war period, and Indian nationalism would end the British Raj shortly after WW2. And Britain was consistently the most modern, liberal, and inclusive country in this period. The only countries that could successfully survive multiculturally were those that received multiple countries from the sheer immigration of the period and channeled them into a melting pot of immigrant cultures (most notably the US, but many of the large American countries went through similar experiences).
It doesn’t hide www. And you can install alternate browsers on iPhones, you know.
"Hey there Mr. Smith, I'm Dr. Brown. I'm going to be doing blah, blah, medical stuff, right here on your left abdomen." ... "Well that's the right spot doc, but I'm Mr. Jones."
To sum up your main hypothesis is that freedom of speech + internet communication leads to extremism. I don’t think that model fits very well to actual data.
While it’s true that some nations struggling with extremism have both elements, there are also nations with both without issues, and nations without either internet or freedom of speech that still struggle with extremism.

I think it’s a very USA centric view, that’s focusing on effects rather than causes.
It seems natural that everyone with any strongly held interests will take to the internet to talk about it. Be that extremist views or gardening. But gardening forums don’t cause gardeners.
This project makes laptop vendors selling touchscreen laptop with premium price cry.
The Compact C Type Format in the GNU Toolchain
Just for fun, going with the scenario. Why not?

Edit: rate limited by HN, so here is my reply to the question below:

Racist - seriously? So "momma" is not a word that is ever used? Is it a word from the AAVE - so why would it be mocking the AAVE?

I'm not a native speaker of English. But honestly, I don't care about that level of political correctness. I doubt that using "momma" is as big of a deal as you make it sound.

Edit 2: no being black doesn't imply speaking differently, but the scenario here was poor oppressed black girls obsessing over white dolls, with mothers who don't care to buy them black dolls. Also, just because I used "momma" doesn't imply all blacks only ever say "momma". What weird twisted logic is that? In the same vein, if I had used "mother", I wouldn't have denied black identity by claiming no black people ever say "momma". If you are offended by little things like that, then sure, your life will be difficult. Lighten up! (no pun intended - I mean the mood, not your skin color).

I am actually a bit offended by you being offended, by the way! Why do you think so badly of me, without even knowing me (interpreting my words in the worst way)? It seems you have a lot of bias against me.
We found this out about my grandma near the end of her life. Everyone had always thought she'd been born in 1927. Turns out, according to some paperwork we'd gotten from her home country she'd actually been born in 1923. It was all because she wanted to lie to my grandpa and seem younger than she was. At some point she just forgot about it.
Yes, but companies don't see that they are running into this problem unless they get outside their own bubble.

When they keep doing what worked for them yesterday, they run into trouble.
It comes across as racist and mocking of AAVE. Is that fun for you?
This is so pointless. Why? To make the URLs prettier for the average user who they assume is too stupid to function or something?

Meanwhile most URLs around the web have UUIDs or other garbage appended to the end for the sake of tracking, which I doubt they intend to do anything about any time soon, so what even is the point of hiding the protocol and a single subdomain? Just leave the URL alone.
Ask HN: Do you like HN's karma system?
I really think they do a good job of enforcing a certain style of communication. I like how I know very little about the benefits more karma gets me. I think it's really an under-appreciated aspect of modern day forums.

This is speaking from someone that does a poor job of following the rules of the place.
I'm curious about how these things are expected to scale..

1000 subscribers, dedicated support person

5000, ???

10000, ???

At some point these community efforts must grow back into a company again, right? And the cycle repeats
IMHO, it's harder to read. I love the idea of Erlang (really like Joe Armstrong's book) but it just isn't readable in quantity compared to OOP languages, IMHO.
The other way around. The supreme court continually permits no class action in agreements split right down political lines.
Yes, I do think it's enough for most homes, even myself who is an "IT professional" and "power user".

I have 80/20 FTTC, and the only thing bandwidth has ever been an issue for is first-time cloud backups, where I'm uploading 1-2TB of data.

I'd still like it to be cheaper though. I'd also like it to be faster, but perhaps part of that is just because I know it can be, and has been for decades in other parts of the world.
Barneys, Global Symbol of Creative Cool, Files for Bankruptcy
Most people in this thread have taken part in the production of non-biodegradable trash. A huge fraction of ancient artifacts were trash, so don't feel bad about your legacy - it's typical. ;)
If you had feedback for where you were pointing I think most people would get pretty good pretty quickly (excepting people with movement disorders). It wouldn't be very precise, but I think it would be great for lazily triggering multitouch things like zoom/scroll/page-up/page-down/switch-app etc.
1. We support both client and server side frameworks (Django, python, NodeJS). We're adding support for more as fast as we can including Java and Rails.

2. The 'translations.json' file is autogenerated by the CLI and updated each time you pull translations. It's automatically bundled in the deploy process so you don't need to do any extra work.

3. Currently we have a single translations.json file. Space hasn't been an issue yet but we plan to add splitting to reduce it. For dynamic content which can be large, we have solutions where we can serve the content as a CDN. We could also give clients a microservice if they would like to self-host or directly update a cache on disk on the deployed machines. Still experimenting with the best/easiest way to do this.

4. Sure thing, we have a file upload in our dashboard right now, but we want to add this to our CLI to make it more accessible.

I understand your frustration and one of our core philosophies is to do away with keys completely. Our keys are auto-generated and not touched by the user. The code can have the actual text which is a lot more readable. Ping me at abhi@langapi.co and I'd love to help solve your problems.
Federal prosecutors love a good dramatic press conference.
> ... while he induced young workers to choose greed over ethical conduct

Corrected:

> ... while he induced young workers to choose ethical conduct over corporate greed
It's a gossip site dedicated to ppl who made THEMSELVES internet celebrities. And outside of munchy-moms very few women breach the LOLcow barrier. Unless you really mean transwomen, and even then the barrier is high, like Jessica Yaniv who sued women for not waxing its balls, for sexting 12-yos for a decade, who finally got uncovered b/c KF was keeping receipts.
Firefox doesn’t hide the WWW subdomain. The domain-name remains unmangled.
The contract sucks shit that's why
They fail because of severe checklist fatigue according to my wife (a surgeon). Checklists are great - so let's do them for everything, ALL the time. People start to tune them out because they do the same checklist hundreds and hundreds of times and they often have many irrelevant things on them. The people using the checklists have little ability to change them or to improve them and so they start to suffer from checklist fatigue. As they say in the article:

> “There's no point in having an item that says, 'Have the antibiotics been given?' if there are no antibiotics in the hospital,” says Dixon-Woods.

The checklists that my wife uses are apparently filled with these types of irrelevant checks.

Not to say that they aren't useful, they are, but as this article points out the implementation of checklists often leaves a lot to be desired.
" Leibniz went even further, arguing that you could never hope to record total knowledge in the first place, so each field of science should be reduced to its fundamental principles and provided alongside the ‘art of discovery’. In this way, all of the details can be reconstituted over time. This is a clear articulation in 1680 of the concept of the kernel of knowledge that expands under investigation, which The Knowledge explores in the Introduction. "

this describes the trajectory of my server cluster.
the quonset hut is assembled and the lower galleries will probably be excavated this winter, when the soil is frozen, and can be undermined, relatively safely.
On windows? I've never experienced/noticed this, what extensions are still hidden? Hidden files is a separate setting from hiding extensions (which is good), but I've never noticed a file that wouldn't display the extension after changing the setting. I can't remember specifically for any of the earlier versions, but this has been my experience on 7 & 10.
It has been that way for as long as I can determine. There are always bad signs. Sometimes the doom is hours away, sometimes it is years away and in a completely different area. I have no idea how to tell the difference and I don't believe anyone else does either.

There are things you should do to prepare yourself. There are things you can do to prevent doom. They are all things you should be doing anyway even if God told you things would be alright for many more years.
What's the general Yelp employee vibe like when news like this comes out about features they've worked on?

Is it a feeling of "meh, we're growing revenue" or more of a "they completely misunderstood the value we're delivering based on what our users asked for" scenario?
> That's not going to be affordable for many poorer countries.

I think that's clearly the crux of the problem with desalination. It works well right now in wealthy countries. Israel couldn't exist without it. The Carlsbad plant in San Diego can provide water for about 500,000 people and the monthly average water bill in San Diego is around 2x the national average ($80 vs $35-$40; it'd be higher if San Diego were purely desalination). $80/month in a combination water source approach is an affordable problem in high income countries, for such a valuable resource. And it's an impossible cost - even at half that price - for all but the top few percent of families in India, Egypt or Pakistan.
The hovering aspect of this makes it something quite special, a feature normal touchscreens don't have. I imagine css ::hover elements would feel nice with this.
Google also did it better, but that's just my opinion.
Probably a very dumb question. Why do sites like Yelp/Quora try very hard to force you to use the app instead of the web site? Isn't it easier to make money on ads on the web? In the Yelp app I don't get any ads. I may be more likely to browse longer in the app I guess.
SFTP?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol
No, I mean, you can literally ask AT&T and they'll unlock your phone. Or if this was before that was possible, you could still just root it yourself. I don't see why the network or its employees had to be involved at all.
Amongst other things, the ACA removed the cap on payouts, making them more like actual insurance. What was the maximum lifetime payout on your previous high deductible plan?
> Google must really hate URLs.

Honestly, I suspect the motivation is either the Chrome team is too big and people are bored and looking for changes to make, or someone is angling for a promotion and wants to make a very visible change so they can show "impact" when they put together their promotion packet.
It’s plenty to sustain a company. Just not one that’s publicly traded and has 840 employees.
C++ Windows kernel hacking framework, driver template, hypervisor and API
Except that company doesn't own the infrastructure because it's decentralized. <Insert your favorite article about decentralized systems here.>
Same. I've been using it for over ten years as well. It always works correctly, which is just amazing.
Seattle-area provider becomes haven for online extremism after El Paso shooting
I misread that with 'breaking bad' and it turned into a really interesting plot with exotic biopsychodrugs in my head.
I wish Apple Maps would stop using Yelp as its review service.
Walking to the store “once in a while” is basically zero exercise. That’s an awful example of healthy moderation.
Mental Illness as a Service
Like Namecoin half a dozen years ago, but with an ICO or some other trick?
Completely agree. Good documentation:

- Makes a system more understandable

- Stops trivial support tickets

- Makes mediocre code seem great

- Lowers the bar to entry for non-trivial projects

- Increases the competency of many users/coders/etc.

Doc is awesome. And under-appreciated. And a duty far too many programmers slough off.
This axiom sounds contradictory. Maybe if you add the word "probably" someone else had it. Because the fact is that someone HAD to have the idea first, so it's impossible to always apply this axiom. But I get the idea
>> Western intervention seemed to have changed nothing, just with a new set of leaders.

That's why I believe the world starts loosing its faith in the West. The latest interventions brought nothing good.
Google would rather you use Google to search for what you want and not use a URL. They want the uniform resource locator to be "Search on Google".

We've seen their influence on Chrome in the past by their devs lying about performance as justification for crippling adblocking in extensions.
Seems like you’ e created the ultimate sketch plugin.