skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may sound crazy, but I'm OK with a request falling through the cracks if it was not important enough for the requester to follow up with me.

This sounds great in theory, but in practice it turns into an asshole filter (https://siderea.livejournal.com/1230660.html). In other words, what you've just done is create a set of incentives that reward the most obnoxious people with your attention, and starve those who politely wait. In time, those who politely wait will write you off as a flake, and then you'll wonder why everyone who contacts you obnoxiously sends three e-mails, four slack pings and an after hours text message for good measure.
> I also believe the physical titanium Apple Card is a marvel of engineering

Three SpaceX rockets landing vertically in unison is a marvel of engineering.

This is a metal credit card.
For further info - they were likely compounding it into a liquid for infants/children (it's very difficult to get them to swallow pills) and compounded liquids have a much shorter shelf life than pills or prepackaged liquids, so we rely on distributed compounding pharmacies near customers. This has the obvious problem of guaranteeing quality and consistency across thousands of small operations.
Yes, it does get complicated. I love music, including the music of Wagner, who was an extremely shitty person on top of antisemitism. Once I learned about that, I re-examined my opinion of him, and my appreciation of his music changed, but did not disappear.

Part of the problem is that the world itself is incredibly complicated, and behaving ethically gets correspondingly complicated because of it (highlighted most excellently in The Good Place).

If you notice, I didn't set a hard rule. I just said, I have a difficult time working with racists. I don't believe that you can set hard rules for any of these things. which leads to another part of the problem: People want simple rules for how they should act, and things that will absolve them of being completely responsible for their actions. These things do not exist, and will never exist.

Everyone is always going to disagree about where the line should be drawn. As a society, we're terrible at managing those differences. We let our egos get in the way too often.

I believe I am not racist, but I still recognize that I can do things that will feel racist to others. In fact, I have done racist things in the past unintentionally. When I was called out on it, instead of letting my ego respond, I listened, and because of that, I became a better person.

If your intention is to be a kind person, then I've found that there generally isn't a problem in handling these things. If your intention is to be able to do what you want without consequences, or to protect your ego, then you're going to have problems.
Interactive Recreation of Capital One's Data Breach
Is it really wasted time if it's intellectually stimulating, and you can finish what you need to while maintaining your required 8 hours of butt-in-seat office time?
Sorry I didn't see this earlier; am traveling this week and less on top of things. Are you asking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20812948? I think the trouble was that it admits too many interpretations, some of which (e.g. "dumb ideological boilerplate") are provocative, and users have a strong tendency to leap to a provocative interpretation if one is open. Or rather, probably every possible interpretation of your comment lands with some readers, but the ones who hear the provocative interpretation have a stronger tendency be provoked into replying—often in a fashion that is nastier than the original perceived provocation, because they feel like you "started it".

Many readers are locked and loaded for such responses to begin with, and since firing back provides a certain release, they don't tend to scrutinize the text they're reacting to very closely to see if it really does say what they're reacting to, or what other interpretations there might be. The HN guidelines specifically ask users to do the latter ("Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."), but that requires a slower reflective process than is available in the locked-and-loaded case.

This is compatible with what nkurz said, because shorter comments admit of more interpretations. It also implies a mitigation that, in practice, seems to work: include disambiguating information to rule out provocative interpretations. The more provocative a possible interpretation is, the more flame retardant you probably need to pack with your message. This sucks, because it makes you responsible for deflecting things you don't mean, which can be a tedious and political way to communicate. In practice, though, if you really aren't issuing a provocation (e.g. dumb ideological boilerplate), it often suffices to share more of your thought process, especially anything unusual or unpredictable about it, and that tends to make for a more interesting comment too.
No different to people spending money on expensive watches, bags, clothes.

You still see less popular celebrities flashing about their American Express Centurion cards.
On another note my experience with customer service on the Apple card is absolutely abysmal. My card was locked on Monday probably because I'm traveling in Europe and that flagged some fraud detection algorithm. With any of my other cards I could resolve this in minutes with a quick SMS or at worst a phone call. Instead I'm still waiting for a call back from a representative that was promised to come no later than Wednesday.

I guess I'll add this to the growing list of recent Apple products that look nice but are overdesigned and under engineered and functionally inferior to the competition.
TL;DR It's metal, like many cards, which bothers the author.
This is just pretty standard text for any metal credit card and is (as this article states) mostly for aesthetic reasons. You can and should carry your Apple Card in a normal wallet in a pair of jeans. That disclaimer stuff is just because indigo and leather coloring bleeds, and the card is white.
how was she able to capture / sniff those HTTP posts? Any kind of sniffer would just get encrypted SSL data...
Edit: CANCEL MY KNEE-JERK REACTION TO A KNEE-JERK REACTION! A few tweets down (good [deity] twitter is a terrible way to transmit information, this is why I don't generally bother with it) she does say the full library is sent.

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> copying and uploading the libraries is actually illegal (copyright violation)

That isn't what is happening here - the headline is misleading.

Further into the tweet (FFS, it is a tweet and people aren't reading it all before reacting!) it clearly says "It periodically uploads metadata of system libraries to the server".

Basically that means they are sending and storing what versions of what things you have, not the code or other data in the libraries themselves. I'm pretty sure there is no reasonably copyright on the name and version number of a library in this context.

If it is being done for fingerprinting purposes then there might be an unreasonable tracking claim by the users, but not the library copyright holders.

The less worrying explanation is that it is being used for problem analysis: if a new version crashes a lot but only on devices with a specific version of a specific library, that makes tracking down the bug and implementing a workaround or fix much quicker. Of course this is facebook so if it is for the issue analysis (which it almost certainly is) but can also be used for fingerprinting as well, you can bet your bottom dollar that it will be used for fingerprinting as well.
Absolutely. If you can cope with it, it's a win. It's just important to note that the bread that comes out of the freezer is materially different to the bread that went in.
But as stated elsewhere on this post, Google's official policy states that virtual cards are accepted.

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2375433

Credit cards and debit cards -> Make a payment with a one-time use credit card

>In addition to regular credit cards, you can also use a one-time use credit card (also known as virtual credit card). It's commonly used as an alternative to physical credit cards when making online payments.
Have you held and inspected one? The thing is pretty ridiculous in its tolerances. It's not on the same scale as a modern rocket, but I'm willing to bet the microscopic tolerances and knowledge of metallurgy / material science (titanium alloys) is on a similar plane.
You can sharpen the edge of the Apple Card into a pretty good knife. I think they should ban Apple Cards from airplanes in addition to (some) Macbook Pros.
https://content.knightfrank.com/research/478/documents/en/20...

This research shows that there’s an average of 1.5% price increase per floor. Care to share a counter-claim source?
All of my other credit cards are scratched up and look awful. If these other cards had instructions to keep them pristine, they would have similarly laughable requirements.
I think you got it wrong. Fructose is more inflamatory than glucose (which is not good in high concentrations as well). Fructose-Glucose would be saccharine, the most common type of sugar extracted from cane and beet.
For what it’s worth, I’ve been using the Apple Card pretty much exclusively for about a month and a half (in a leather wallet, and I only wear jeans), and it’s been nothing but enjoyable.
Not many celebrities getting Centurion cards issued in the US anymore.
>in this case people literally trying to give you money!

Gmail for Android has 2 core functions: to send and to receive mail. It fails at one of them. (Emails get stuck in its outbox indefinitely - you can force it to send by going into the "outbox" and dragging down to refresh, which is an action that has no button to show it is possible. There is no notification that your mail wasn't sent.)

Here is a thread about it:

https://support.google.com/mail/thread/3130686?hl=en

How is it possible for an app that has 2 functions, to fail to do one of them?

This is like a salt and pepper set where the pepper side has no holes - the pepper is stuck inside. (You can unscrew the top and manually shake some out though.) Sure salt is more common. But it's literally a salt and pepper set that only functions as a salt shaker.

Gmail for android is literally a mail sending and receiving app that can't send mail.

How can this happen? I mean literally, how is the support thread I linked possible?

If I were the CEO and I saw a thread like that, the issue would be fixed within 7 minutes, as every person within earshot of me rushed to make themselves look good to me.

How is Google's CEO different?
If for some reason the word "misandry" hacks your brain, consider the term "intersectionality." If you understand it, then you understand it's possible to hold some privileges and be systemically burdened at the same time. You understand that holding power and suffering prejudice aren't single dimension matters, nor are they exclusive. You might even understand that they're a function of more than various identity markers.

Or... maybe you're just in this to lol at windmills with one-sentence drive-by insulting comments. How would anyone here know?
> Really, any respectable company...

Here's the issue. From my perspective, Google used to be a respectable company, but through automation of customer handling and service they've elected to accept negative consequences and impact for customers - which isn't a very respectable position to take in my book.
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They are literally just explaining in some esoteric support document how to not scratch it if you care about that (you shouldn't).

This doesn't matter. This is the internet outrage machine people are always talking about.
I don't want to start a flame war here, but I think Rails (and gem ecosystem in general) is a better choice than Django, at least for SaaS apps.

These are all my personal opinions, take it with a grain of salt. Having said that, here we go:

* Authentication - it is a pain if you'd like to deviate from the standard Django User model (using username to login instead of an email). I don't like Devise either.

* Asset pipeline, even though it is not updated anymore (sprockets) and partially replaced by webpacker is still better in Rails

* Configuration in multiple files, by environment, instead of a single config.py file

* Sidekiq has a better API compared to Celery. Also, Celery's default broker is RabbitMQ, not Redis. It is really hard to find managed RabbitMQ hosting, for Redis there are plenty

* Mailer previews, small but quite useful utility

* Testing - Minitest and Capybara is just a joy to work with

* I prefer ActiveRecord over Django ORM

I could go on and on, but I remember struggling a lot with Django/Celery when building a SaaS app. I decided to switch to Rails and haven't looked back (Rails has its warts as well). YMMV
On a silk cushion, carried around by your servant?
That seems like a stretch. Metadata is still data.
Really? I'm looking at the text I got with other metal credit cards (I scan everything so it's easy to search) and I don't see any "handling instructions".
I use a metal money clip with all of my cards packed tightly together. Would that cause any issues with Apple Card?
I’m reading the book Loaded, which makes a pretty convincing argument that the reason for the amendment was to quell worries that the colonists would be in any way impeded in grabbing land from the native people by force.
The question isn't whether it's intellectually stimulating or not. The question is whether a minute spent on Hacker News is best spent on Hacker News or better spent on something else.

Is reading about a new Javascript framework on Hacker News more intellectually stimulating than actually writing some code? Even if you're just trying to get your 8-hours-of-butt-in-seat-time in, it's a pretty questionable assertion, IMO, that HN is the best you can do with that time.
Jack Dorsey has account hacked
If an app helps a PM profess more feedback in the same time (efficiency), and helps a PM process more feedback than they otherwise would have because previously they forgot it (effectiveness), then that PM will be performing better.

It might help some PMs that were overwhelmed to no longer be overwhelmed.
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You're right that it being from Facebook makes things a little different. At the same time, I've never needed to install a native desktop app from Facebook and I'd have some suspicion about doing so if such a thing existed, for exactly this reason.
I use a compact wallet and just keep the card (in a plastic sleeve from amazon to keep it looking fresh) in one of the accessible side slots.

https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Mason-Black-Leather-Card/dp/B073...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06X968MFG
Neither Firefox nor Chrome under Linux are capable of using GPU for video decoding.

Only some distribution-specific Chromium builds do.
Yes, and sometimes individuals "attempt" suicide not actually to end their own lives, but just as a call for attention or help. One thing can be sure though: the ones shooting themselves aren't in this camp.
Chrome also had a very posh reputation in those days, for some reason. I remember many of my very non-technical friends who never cared or even understood the notion of a browser suddenly get very enthusiastic about Chrome. Whatever the marketing trick for that was, it was very successful.
Another article which I don't think has a paywall: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/30/hurricane-dorian-scooters-re...
I'm kind of betting on EndlessOS.
Has anyone else just ignored the recommendations from Apple in how to store the card?

I keep it in my wallet like any other card and haven't noticed any scrapes/marks on the card or issues swiping.
Again, using the iOS version of Google drive to back up the iPhone would back up all the photos, videos, contacts, and calendars.

All the user would need to do is sign into their new Android device with the same Google account they used to backup the iPhone.

Copying user files from iCloud Drive to Google drive (or any other cloud storage option) is likewise extremely simple.

I'm not aware of any lock in that isn't related to apps that aren't available on both platforms.
'Science', 'Magic' & 'Religion' in the Middle Ages
And you think that’s related to a free market?
until your post I didn't know this card was made out of metal.
Enjoy! This year one of my favorite crops has been carrots-I have never grown them before for just that reason. My first bite was an eye opening experience. I had no idea that there could be so much more flavor.
> point is to drive businesses in the US to supporting contact-less payments.

So the card does not support contactless payment by itself? Only magnetic strip and chip? I hadn't realised this, but I guess might be difficult to do in metal.

Is it too much to wonder whether making it out of metal is to distract from this missing feature, because they'd prefer you to pay with the phone?
Let's not forget Firefox is also better than Chrome in many use cases. For instance: fingerprinting resistance and containers.
I hope the part about "pesky retailers" not accepting contactless payment methods was sarcasm.
Shockingly quite simple.

If you are obsessive over the look of your items then you can use the support guide to keep it looking pristine. Otherwise just use it like a normal credit card and understand that a white card is going to discolour over time.
> Fruit is extremely good food for humans

It is most certainly not. The soluble and insoluble fiber in fruit is good for humans because it prevents rapid absorption of fructose, which is most definitely toxic. (Paracelsus was right when he said that the dose makes the poison! It just so happens that even small doses of fructose have an outsized impact on appetite.)

Fructose is toxic because it is primarily metabolized by the liver. It has been shown to be at the root of overeating because of its effects on satiety signaling via leptin and ghrelin.

> Fructose also has the best ability to be absorbed by muscle cells without the need for insulin, compared to other sugars.

This is simply false. (Google it!) When used by an athlete after strenuous activity, it is true that fructose replenishes _glycogen_ in the liver, which is released as glucose, which muscle can use. But most people haven't just finished running a marathon when they gulp down a liter of Gatorade. So the effect 99% is to just fatten you up.

I recommend a few educational videos to bring you up to speed on a great deal of science that has been discovered in the last 15 years or so. Dr. Lustig (endocrinologist at UCSF) lays it out:

"Processed Food: An Experiment That Failed": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvgxNDuQ5DI

"Fructose is a poison": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgTlFFWMNy0

https://robertlustig.com/fructose-restriction/
https://robertlustig.com/fructose2/
The Costs of Optional Chaining
EV Price Parity Coming Soon, Claims VW Executive
I wouldn't disagree with any of this except to suggest my comment was narrowly tailored to parents who feel compelled to provide their children "the very best" education and opportunity set in the country (predicated on ranking and exclusivity). If you believe American parents who aim toward this have an undue paranoia about class and an unhealthy amount of insecurity, then I'm afraid we entirely agree.

However, the point was that in Canada, because the peaks are lower, getting "the very best" education is much more readily achievable by those in the middle than in the United States.

> If you want to know why many Americans don’t view their country as a loaf-apocalyptic wasteland, it’s because they don’t live in New York or San Francisco.

I certainly hope my post hasn't given this impression. I have a green card and am proudly in the pipeline to become an American citizen.

This is a wonderful, special country which has provided me immense opportunity that does not exist within Canada (the primary thrust of my original post).
>I found it remarkably sensitive toward transgenderism.

Yes, although it does give Reg the last word, who claimed that Loretta was struggling against reality.

Regardless, that scene would I'm sure be regarded as too offensive to be released nowadays. The BBC article either didn't notice or they simply ducked the issue. My original comment, an innocuous statement plus link to a YT clip of the scene, was flagged and removed by HN.
> On the flipside, the kernel developers are a group of people with a detailed understanding of what makes C unsafe, and how to watch out for it in code reviews. I'm not saying that every bug gets caught in code review, not by a long shot, but the kernel developers as a group don't have any experience with reviewing Rust code, let alone reviewing it for unsafe or undefined behavior.

I believe the kernel core developers are good programmers and good at code reviews. That said, a huge proportion of Linux CVEs are memory-safety problems -- use-after-free, race conditions, out-of-bounds access, etc -- which do not exist in safe Rust.

> I can understand if the kernel developers want to hold off on using Rust for more central parts of the kernel until this work is farther ahead.

I can understand this too! It takes time for large communities to change, and the only real research we have on `unsafe` is the RustBelt paper, which demonstrates that the concepts of the borrow checker are sound provided that `unsafe` code respects its invariants. The way this framework has been pitched, though, is for building optional modules. If everyone takes this seriously, I think it'll result in wins all around -- Linux benefits from memory-safety improvements, Rust benefits from kernel developers' experience, and the world benefits from having more secure code running in ring-0. I'm looking forward to this.
Let's see Paul Allen's card.
_This library was brought to you by Coca-Cola._
For the most part, four things have done it for me:

1. Reading academic papers.

2. Being very hands-on; always implementing something, even it means trial and error. (Re #1: A lot of times, I end up implementing ideas from interesting papers that I’ve read.)

3. Doing my best to be around smart folks and learn from them (i.e., going to technical events, developing mentors, etc.).

4. Never giving up! This seems cliché to say, but forcing that mindset on myself has helped me tremendously for especially hard topics/domains (e.g., distributed systems). (Even if I have to reread a paper 10x before I fully understand it, I’m willing to do that.)
I'll agree with this. I was 18 when that movie came out and I immediately got business cards made with nothing but my name on the front. I also immediately signed up for the card and when I got it, I had the same feeling as when those cards arrived back in 2000.
Well, Apple expects you to use Apple Pay for the vast majority of your transactions. The physical card is a last resort, it's allowed to be more form than function as eventually, you'll only want it for the former.
It's not that they have huge userbase lately, so they could afford to lose it any further.
Even further into the tweets it says:

"Facebook can upload the entire files of all system libraries to their server through their Android apps"

and

"I found they have already collected metadata of 2233 system libraries from my phone, in which 1162 system libraries are pending to be uploaded"

So they've already uploaded the metadata and are in process of uploading the whole files.
He once answered a question of mine about recursion with x86!
Male gun ownership is 62% while female is 22%.

Male suicide rate is somewhere between 3 to 5 times higher than female suicide rate in the US. Globally, males are ~2x more likely.

Note that women are also ~20% more likely to see health professionals.