skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It does not work that way. If some average person sees some brand advertised on WSJ and FT, and another competing brand on PornHub he will attach more 'premium' value to a first brand, and will pay more for owning product from this brand.

That doesn't explain the connection of "porn" with "less than premium". You call it "normal and part of human nature" but looks like totally cultural.

Historical prudery, and a past that associated looking at adult content with "low status", lesser citizens (and not what the "proper people do", does explain it.

(While we of course know that people of all statuses and walks of life look at porn, from the industrialist, to the bank executive, to the judge).

>People enjoy content from PornHub, but they want to be associated with something advertised on WSJ/FT/NYT/etc.

I'd understand it if we were talking about high status ads, yaugt ads, hi-fi ads, expensive clothes ads, and so on. But most people don't read or care for WSJ/FT/NYT -- that's a small minority. Most people read magazines just as popular/mass market as People, Reader's Digest, CNN, FOX, USA Today and the like, and advertisers have no issue advertising at those.
It's because we don't live in the metaphorical frictionless vacuum where the speed of light is infinite.

Less pithily, complex, multi-stakeholder ecosystems don't instantaneously adapt to shifts in incentives, but that doesn't mean that we can't reason about tendencies that will shape long-term equilibria.
I think you're overestimating the rigor of other software delivery channels. Consider for instance that the biggest Windows SSH client (PuTTY) was delivered over http from a super sketchy looking website until very recently. Now it's the same super sketchy looking website, but with a green lock!
Could've used this 30 years ago when I was forcibly-bused across town to a "magnet" school 1.5 hours in each direction (3 hours of busing total). Getting up a 4:45 am and not getting home until after 6 pm as a pre-teen sucked. The big thing is the route they took was very circuitous and served both many stops and schools.
The point is not realizing what one should do but internally valuing it on an emotional level so you do it every day - not because you have to but because you want to. "Realization" is only the first step - the Buddhists would say this is "right thought" but also there needs to be "right action" etc etc.

This describes me well as I've gone through having that realization due to some extreme peak experiences. It makes life harder as well as more interesting, although I'm not sure if I'm better or worse off. I care more about things that are broken in society which I cannot fix, although I try where I can.

I would also say that if you believe it is "self-congratulatory" that is also not right. Part of the realization that comes with this is that society is just a game everyone plays, and really we're more or less all the same. I think you may believe it is "self-congratulatory" because in typical society someone only acts different from another in order to advance oneself in the hierarchy. Someone who comes to a realization of this sort simply doesn't believe in the hierarchy in the first place.
Usually your name, another credit card or debit card number (and sometimes its expiration date and CVC number unique to that card). Pretty similar to what you'd put in a web form, or manually enter into a card reader machine if the card's magnetic stripe or chip isn't being read properly.
Early Rust used M:N exclusively and didn't need dynamic dispatch for I/O.
Rewriting is a misleading metric. You might not rewrite the bad code because (a) there is worse code to fix or (b) sales features are prioritised over bug fixes. There might be other reasons. Also good code might lead to rewrites as a step in the right direction refactoring wise might encourage other improvements.
I was overeager
Apparently it was great simply because it was a native app. Who knew that was the top criteria for a work chat app.
Just know the cap is pretty low -- like $1200-ish/week iirc.

Echoing everyone else: a ceo who lies to get someone in the door? That person is going to fuck you (again) at the first available opportunity.
> The future is not centralized. The future is distributed.

been hearing this promise for so long, it's becoming a meme like The Year of Desktop Linux
No. The pollen is digested by the bees, which end up with all the gunk accumulating in their bodies.

Honey from cities tends to also taste better than rural, because the variety of flowers is far higher.
It's often worth parsing "people would like" as "marketers think people would like."

Or even, "although people would like, someone's trying to maximize profit margins."

And that second one is notably is taken within the scope of that quarter, or the next few years that they expect to work there, or even the next few decades before they expect to retire. Which often conflicts with longer-term sustainability problems like retained biodiversity.
For a second, I thought it was referring to the colour of the bees. Black bees certainly exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylocopa_virginica
You should almost make it a documentary.
That's just it though.

I don't we should emphasize race in that way, when it's only relevant because "your race is less common in doing this thing". I don't want to see a headline like "white basketball player becomes all time NBA point leader". The race isn't important in that way.

That kind of thinking is what led to the self-fulfilling prophecy of slavery and racism against black people in the Americas in the first place -- the idea that they are less capable and it would therefore be surprising if they achieved something that the white man finds commonplace.
Consumers in some countries don't even know there is more than one type. Monoculture and mass distribution rule. Where I live now there are half-a-dozen varieties that are routinely eaten.
This opinion column, written with an argument "These hypocritical tech company execs" is missing the actual story: In the United States right now, companies feel that making statements in line with government propaganda and actions that symbolically support it, is what will make the difference between being regulated or not, in business success. The regulators will decide what and how to regulate based on how much a company is liked by the President.

From drain the swap to a political commissar in every swamp. (These are the people that don't like socialism? This is the worst part about socialism! This is the worst kind of 'political correctness', government-enforced) Support our political program, we'll leave your business alone. It's practically a protection racket.

(of COURSE they're all hypocrites, in business and government both, it's just not news, and not nearly as alarming as the part that is news).
Thats not quite right - they did optimize bus routing and did save $5M. But when "the algorithm" suggested further improvements that required changing school start times (presumably so that the same bus and driver could work multiple routes to multiple schools), there was pushback and those changes weren't implemented.
>EVs lose out here because of battery degradation.

You're absolutely correct. That's why every Tesla with over 100,00 miles on it has been sent to the junkyard because it no longer takes a charge.

Oh, and one consequence of rapidly falling battery prices is that if at some point your battery capacity eventually does get too low, you can buy a replacement at a small fraction of what the original cost.
Doesn't seem to be the case.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main?p...
We've found the model of strong CEOs or GMs, combined with a great culture and shared platform, can be really magical. It doesn't need to be complicated, but it's also not easy.
Kink.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=LGBTQIAPK (#2)

They use a slightly different order, but I'd imagine it's the same thing.
Who are these people? In the Python community, no project ever used yum/apt. Their versions of basically every package (where they even have it) are hilariously out of date with what you should use. They are frequently missing major security fixes, in addition to the usual functionality ones. My understanding is that this applies to most other languages as well.

To say nothing of docker base images and popular docker containers...
where was this when I was in school haha
Not using GNU Radio but perhaps you might be interested in http://www.whence.com/minimodem/. It only supports really old standards, up to 1200bps. But later modems should, in theory, be backward compatible so if you don't care about speed this could possibly work.
It's built on Electron and still no native Linux client. There's a web version, but you can't join meetings or screenshare. There are 3rd party wrappers for the web version that enable meetings, but you still can't screenshare.

At the very least their web version needs to have parity with the desktop application. It's 2019, browsers can handle voice chat and screensharing!
Ported to 3.8.

https://github.com/drmpeg/gr-paint38
> It would be much easier to audit a single file declaring all of the permissions a program has been granted than it would be to audit the entire source code of the program itself

The problem is that it's much more difficult to write software that way, which is why few people do it. And it doesn't actually solve the problem of trust because it's exceptionally difficult to prove that those rules capture and constrain the most security-relevant aspects of the program, so you're back at square one in terms of trusting the developer and their skill.

Your argument makes the most sense if security were simply a matter of enumerating filesystem and syscall access. But it's rarely that easy. Usually you need certain kinds of access at various stages of the programs, or the types of access required are a function of the inputs to the program--e.g. the files specified on the command-line or the configuration file. Handling these requirements in the most appropriate ways tends to devolve to a matter of writing ad hoc code in the context of the peculiarities of the program architecture. Declarative solutions divorced from the structure of the code don't work well. What's most important are the time, place, and manner of constraining particular privileges, as opposed to merely identifying all the privileges and switching from "insecure" to "secure" at a single point in the application.
My read suggests that the recently proposed changes to school start times was scrapped, but that the bus scheduling is still in place.
Does anyone here agree that this a valid usage of the word accessibility?

From a quick glance at the alistapart topics, it seems to me as if the site has veered off to some other world I know nothing about.
I want to have GMO big mikes =(
Ecosia has its own narrative to push but the real problem is much deeper than that.

By setting up an auction system, Google has effectively ensured that ALL of the options on the screen will be Google search syndication partners, because no primary search competitor (Bing/Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu) can afford to compete in EU countries. Google will give up some app market share but all search traffic will flow back to them at what is likely to be a very low TAC. If I'm Google, I just view this new TAC as part of a separate, on-going EU fine.

Google is very clever in their approach to these regulatory challenges. However, the EU anti trust authorities are more aware and empowered than ever before. It will be interesting to watch how this develops.
You're right for total cost of ownership. But in a few years sticker price will be equal, and then the market is going to swing to EV's.
From my understanding, there's also a caveat that you have to live in the home. Or have a tenant or something similar. I think it has (had?) something to do with preventing outside speculators from holding properties while the structures become (further) dilapidated and/or collapse.
Non sequitur? (That is, your comment does not seem to follow whatsoever from mine.)
They just had to keep themselves out of politics, but they did not and now they're hated from the left and the right.
How to chain multiple functions in JavaScript properly with async/await
For what? Legacy desktop developing?

We used Visual Studio daily. Everyone I speak to wants to switch to VS Code because we're tired of the laggy mess that is Visual Studio 2019. Even with no addons it stutters and micro-freezes all day long with medium-large solutions.

Somehow VS Code, an electron app(!), feels snappier than VS a native app. We're just waiting for feature party (and nothing special, just managing project files/solution files without editing the XML manually, better publishing, and similar C# debugging).
Hey gang!

I've always found it easier to think through async operations with .then(), but recently decided to make the switch. Totally worth it for conciseness! I thought I'd share my learnings above.

Suggestions welcome!
"Yes! We Have No Bananas"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas
Who is "we"? I didn't get to take part in designing any system of right and wrong. And it's very obvious to anyone that looks closely that the only people who have any significant influence over that system are coming from a small powerful and wealthy minority.
We must have posted at the same time ;)
Plenty of coffee shops have built their business around providing a place that's comfortable to relax in: free Wi-Fi, power outlets, lots of comfortable seating. Sure, all else held equal, they'd prefer that people move through quickly, but they'd also prefer to charge triple the price. The reason they don't, and the reason they do provide for customers hanging around, is that it's a way of attracting business (and prevents loss of business to competitors who try this strategy). The parent comment's suggestion seems more in less in line with this general approach.
The thing there is you almost never need external tooling post-exploitation on Linux; it ships with most of the tools you could want. Add on that nobody seems to be able to harden web servers or SSH, and why would you need "viruses" in a targeted attack? Hack naked, and there's no hash to find.
You're arguing search engines should disincentivize gaming SEO? That seems to be exactly what Google has done here.
> Desperate, the predecessors of Chiquita and Dole switched production [from the Gros Michel] to a banana they knew to be resistant to Panama disease, despite its relatively bland flavor: the now-ubiquitous Cavendish.

I want to try the Gros Michel. What I'm eating is relatively bland?
If 'the mention of "black" makes many [..] uncomfortable' then that would seem to be their problem.
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I've heard that, three blocks from Caltech, many people have never heard of the university.
> because no competitor (Bing/Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu) can afford to compete in EU countries

You're saying that Google syndicators value a unit of traffic more highly than Bing/Yahoo/Yandex/Baidu do? That does not seem especially likely to me. Perhaps in some small countries, but I would be surprised if Bing, Yandex, and Baidu don't bid in e.g. France, Germany, etc.
http://www.whence.com/minimodem/ does bell 103 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pmxkt9mYgM

This dude https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/modem/ wrote V.32 soft modem stack for SGI Indy back in 1996

I remember reading back in the day in hacker zines about magic police modem tapping boxes, but no idea how would that work in the age of echo cancellation.
A trick I've seen used at least one large site (feedly) use is piggybacking off Google's image serving infrastructure. Their ggpht/googleusercontent system gives you access to an image manipulation platform with more features than many open-source solutions (width, height, blur, rotate, frame, invert, etc). The only legitimate way to use it is through an application on their appengine platform, and I'm not sure why they don't offer it as part of the google cloud suite. Feedly seems to take the url in their appengine instance (seemingly dedicated solely to this, and redirects to a google URL which can then use the image manipulation features. Does anyone else here do something similar?

Edit: forgot to mention, the appengine documentation is very limited, and only mentions the ability for width/height resizing. Searching stackoverflow and other sites, however, reveals many other available modifiers

Edit 2: Also to mention is that the (ab)use of this service is quite popular with illegal sites. Who doesn't love offloading your image bandwidth to google's image proxies?
Yeah, Automattic probably got a steal. I doubt they would've been able to afford Tumblr in its heyday, or pay the price Yahoo paid.

Wordpress doesn't seem to ever have been able to push into the "social" discovery space. I bet Automattic folks have a bunch of half-baked ideas that didn't make sense for Wordpress but would be great directions for Tumblr. Seems like they were able to "buy low" so-to-speak and get access to a whole landscape they not only competed with but couldn't have afforded.
Hypersanity isn't well defined but it implies 'saner than normal'. Now sanity has many aspects to it in how it is defined but it clearly isn't meant in a pure 'normative' sense. Viewing infections as caused by germs instead of miasma or evil spirits may be reacted to negatively but it is still sane.

One way to define it would be lacking 'common madness' but even that is arguably a reference problem. There isn't a need for a word for 'not a believer in alchemy'. Defining it is a problem since practically by definition we wouldn't know that it was insane and it wouldn't be recognized as such. If you were to point out said issues there would also likely be push-back and resistance.

I have noticed from being on the autistic spectrum that interviewing protocols and expectations are truly insane - like finding people more trustworthy when they fake emotional expression on demand more effectively and mimic their manners of speech seemingly authentically - when it isn't a job skill. This may be too subjective to 'truly count' and I admit to not understanding people well enough to know for sure.

As mentioned earlier sanity is multifaceted with goals and how to pursue them as aspects. Barring a far worse alternative suicide isn't a rational goal but trying to pursue it with a deadly weapon makes more sense than attempting it by painting X's over your eyes.
You can make an efficient Electron app, just look at VS Code.
At least one. It doesn't matter though because the principle holds.
Unfortunately, you have just described the stereotypical American engineer and the main reason why managers here from other countries, such as India and China, will rarely hire an American for a domestic position. I can tell you, first hand, this stereotype is not durable nor applicable. I agree, most American-born students tend to go towards the 'soft' skills, such as marketing or sales. But many people I'll also give you, Americans aren't the best at rote learning, ie., memorizing texts. I'm not going conclude by saying American-born engineers are getting maligned, only those critical points you allege as being endemic to US engineers are applicable to engineers everywhere.
I think the article's point is that you cannot pay your Apple Card bill, not that you cannot pay any bills. Of course losing something means you cannot use it.
I’m simply pointing out the down side to the equivalently “meaningless” argument that backfill contracts are a good on-ramp. I’m not claiming that the consequences of the policy overall are positive or negative — you’re reading that in.

I haven’t written “just an opinion”. It’s self-evident that the generous mandatory policy changes incentives for businesses. My data itself is anecdotal of course, so the extent of impact is unknown — but I felt it important to clarify that these policies are not without negative effects (in addition to the obvious positive ones).

It’s not helpful to say you’re providing numbers, and cite only Canada’s fertility rate. And? A much more useful number would be the number of temporary jobs vs. permanent. Unfortunately, in Canada temporary jobs have been growing much faster than permanent positions over the past twenty years [1]. (Not a hard connection, but Canada’s major parental leave change coincidentally came around 2000, which made it 52 weeks.)

Obviously I understand there are many factors at work there. But this is probably one. I similarly understand there are many factors that cause public institutions to hire contractors. I pointed that out only to highlight that it’s not just “bad actors” engaging in this behavior.

On that note, if government has sufficient incentives to kill permanent positions in favor of temporary ones (and you cite this), then isn’t self-evident that additional incentives in private industry would also lead to more of that behavior broadly? Of course. Is society still better off? IMHO probably, but 18 months seems excessive.

I think if society truly values early childhood development, there are ways to support parents other than forcing private businesses to “keep a position” for years.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/temporary-workers-employmen...
It really isn't as simple as this, from a gender equality perspective.

First, many women will take on more the childcare burden regardless of the financial incentives that exist. That domestic labor ought to be recognized as real labor, and as such, be paid.

There's also a class angle: Many low income women would rather be doing childcare than crappy low wage work, because the oppression of a boss is worse than the oppression of their domestic arrangements.
If memory serves, bananas are only profitable as a monoculture. In addition to bananas being triploidy and unable to seed, it’s basically impossible to grow and establish the seedless variety of plant by any other means other than cloning.

It’s a pretty unique fruit and it’s economy has tumbled in the past already got these very reasons.
For all that, the author does not provide a definition of hypersanity by which an individual may be judged to be or not be hypersane. His examples of hypersane individuals are questionable. Nelson Mandela ordered the torture and murder of political enemies and their families, including teenage children. Tenzin Gyatso is a deposed theocratic dictator whose subjects toiled under abject serfdom before his exile. Jane Goodall is guilty of the admittedly minor sin of being a plagiarist.

It's not hard to win an argument that all of those people had a more positive effect on the world and on history than negative, and I would agree with you, but I believe it is an error to put them on a pedestal as examples of some sort of transcendental rationality.
Honestly, I'm not sure it does.

Of course it does. Less maintainable code is always less secure.

Embedding PHP business logic in HTML makes it much easier to accidentally dump confidential state into the response.

Sticking everything into a component does not completely eschew MVC. You are still forced to bind values to a template.

Mixing PHP and HTML without a template engine provides no guarantees.

The responses here from PHP devs reaffirm my beliefs about how haphazard and sloppy PHP devs are.
Protocols, which are essentially traits are a WIP. I think there's an experimental impl supported by mypy, but it's not in common use just yet.