skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points, however this one is wrong.

> Banks typically use customer registration numbers as opposed to user-chosen usernames or email addresses so there goes the value in credential stuffing lists.

I've had accounts at most of the major US banks and I don't think I can think of a single one that did this. Almost every single bank allows the user to select a username or occasionally uses email for login. This is not a good argument for Chase, Citi, Amex, Discover, Capital One, Barclays, and a whole bunch more I can't think of off the top of my head.
.int is more exclusive.

.gov is restricted to US government, but consider the immense sprawl that is the US federal government, and then consider that US state and US local governments are allowed in the club too, and it doesn't look so exclusive any more

.mil is restricted to the US military, but that is a gargantuan entity with countless agencies and bases and divisions and whatnot all of whom seem to want to have publicly accessible websites (even for stuff that is obviously only useful for people actually in the US military), and .mil turns out to be a dime a dozen too

.int – under current rules, you need to be an international organization established by international treaty, or else you need observer status with the UN General Assembly. Numerically that is smaller than either of the above two categories. (It also has some random stuff that doesn't belong under current rules, like the YMCA – which wasn't established by treaty, and doesn't have UN General Assembly observer status – but those are grandfathered registrations.)
That is a good point, I have a harder time deciding if I want to spend $3-4 to rent a movie on Amazon than just pulling up Netflix and browsing around! Plus I don't feel like I wasted money if I don't enjoy a movie and stop watching (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs sorry!).

On the other hand I don't mind buying music, since I basically know the entire song ahead of time, and I don't think I ever buy more than $10 worth of music a month.
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I just started grad school this fall (September 2019). My "systems analysis and design" course spends three weeks on UML, Data flow diagrams, and CASE tools.

This would have been a great course, 20 years ago. No sane business uses these tools today. The military might, but that's about it.
For me the benefit isn't sustained peak use, it's about saving time when there is something big to download. I want to play a game I haven't played in a while but it needs a 4 GB patch? With 1gbps I don't mind sitting there waiting a bit, 100mbps and I'm likely to just quit and find something else to play.
Still, and circling back to the main point - a movie or two per year plus a single TV show and some occasional filler content is not by itself worth keeping a service subscription at the current prices.
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> There's just so many Star Wars movies, and so many Marvel movies, and while I've seen most in theaters, they are basically juvenile blockbuster cookie cutter crap.

There are at least a few of us out there who think the same as you. The one difference is I haven't watched one in the theater in years.
Turns out people wanting a touchscreen want a much smarter OS. If Firefox OS was adaptive for non-touch devices - who knows?
Recent box office history is littered with studios losing money on “original” stories.
Being from America the nation, obviously. I'm sure you're just being pedantic, but that is how it's used. I'm not sure why you feel a need to make a point about this.
What other free software is good for vector graphics? Is there only Inkscape?
> 3 trys - thats it.

Until the users logs in, then you have another two tries. Until the users logs in, then you have another two tries. Well, and so on, ad infinitum.

> 5 lower case letters is ~12 million bits of entropy,

That's more like 23.5 bits, which, as far as I know, is quite a bit less than 12000000.

> again, as the article says, "Banks like ING will give you your money back". they have skin in the game and will refund your fraudulent charges.

So, if everything looks like you authorized a transaction, they'll give you your money back because you said so? And you seriously believe that?
None of it even matters. Both agile and waterfall can succeed. Mostly in spite of the chosen methodology, not because of it.
Oh god, I can't think of many things worse(network-wise) than having wireless internet at home, no matter how fancy the technology behind it is.
Check in on the app first?
Also google has a query language for some of its Cloud data products with that name https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/reference/gql_refere...
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This looks sleek and well-made! However, this is a pretty crowded space. Spreadsheet Converter (https://www.spreadsheetconverter.com) and Spreadsheet Web (https://www.spreadsheetweb.com) are directly comparable and have been around for years. (Like Publisheet, Spreadsheet Converter offers an Excel add-in.)

Then there are lots of web app builders, including Calculoid (https://www.calculoid.com), Calconic (https://www.calconic.com), uCalc Pro (https://ucalc.pro) and Calcapp (https://www.calcapp.net/lp/website-calculators/), that require more work to get from an Excel sheet to a web app, but get the job done with an end result that doesn't look like a spreadsheet. How does Publisheet improve on the competition?

(Full disclosure: I'm a co-founder of Calcapp.)
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So I was writing some C++ and hit a weird bug, isolated it and made a simple test case on Compiler Explorer: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/64oYt0

Neither Clang nor GCC complain, and making minor changes makes the issue disappear.
Surely this is a bug, or did I stumble upon some undefined behavior?
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There is no mention of Pinboard, title should be: "Observations on Technology Use in Hong Kong Protests".

As always, great summary of what's been happening in HK for someone that hasn't been following the news.

Off topic aside, the article notes that HK citizens have a hard time picking up Twitter to share what's been going on with the rest of the world. I feel the same way, there is too much unspoken convention on how to use Twitter and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
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> That is a good point, I have a harder time deciding if I want to spend $3-4 to rent a movie on Amazon than just pulling up Netflix and browsing around!

I'm the opposite. It's easier to spend money on something I'll probably like vs. spending time on something that's likely mediocre. What normally happens is I browse around Netflix watching previews for an hour, get bored, and go do something else.
Sure, there are different definitions of sexual assault.

In none of them does the law say "let's break the phrase up into two words, sexual and assault, now, assault implies violence, and was this violent?"

That's not pedantry, that's playing word games.
you need a dev to make that work.
I guess OP value is "no dev needed"
Hasn't driven me to piracy. It has, however, driven me to subscribe/unsubscribe as needed. Paid for a month of HBO, for example, mostly for the Chernobyl series, watched that and a few movies, unsubscribed.

I think that pattern might hurt these services more than piracy.
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I use X11, wayland has way too many issues for me at the moment (and I test sway, plasma and GNOME every other month)
Failing to blindly follow the herd is not being insensitive.
I would love to see this demo ported to an 8 bit computer
Well, what use is there for AI solutions that require humans to do everything? Of course the procedures that only require computer's time will add more value.

But that doesn't mean that they'll solve more problems, or solve them better. It just means that if some expensive developers are competing on the market with a cheap GPU cluster, it's obvious who will win. At some point I imagine they will stop competing for solving the same problems, things are just not that mature yet.
Until the streaming services go full circle: show is only visible money to Friday next episode next week. When all episodes are "aired" they start from episode one from Monday to Friday. So that you need to be subscribed for several months. (that's when they go back to more episodes which they just cut to 10)
Probably more like what happened on Symbian where the market fragmented but nobody cared as most apps weren’t very compelling.
ATT brought 1gig fiber to my neighborhood (probably because I'm in NASA's backyard). I have gig symmetrical unlimited for $70 a month. Comcast of course tries to offer the same but with cable and you and I both know it wont be symmetrical, or anywhere close to the speed you pay for. It's funny how quickly Comcast will bend when there is a competitor in the area. Just down the street where there is no fiber they will gladly charge you $100 a month for 50 meg down.
Right, there's the concept of JBGE:

http://agilemodeling.com/essays/barelyGoodEnough.html

I think too many people want to apply a "silver bullet" to all projects: IoC, Docker containers, auto-scaling, etc. But sometimes I'm just tossing data from an API into a database somewhere. I don't need all that complexity.

Other times, I'm building an enterprise product with three fully-staffed agile teams, spending a million dollars annually for five years. Architecture that enables those teams to work in a cohesive way becomes very important, so an IoC pattern might save us a lot of time down the road.

Great architects know when to underengineer and when to overengineer.
That's a pretty vast question. Graph DBs and Relational DBs are obviously somewhat different, and therefore require different query semantics?
As in: try querying SQL for "anything with an in-degree >= 4" without a four-way join.
I'm very tempted to buy Nokia 8770, but I can't confirm it supports a WiFi hotspot.
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> There must have been a brief “monopoly period” when Netflix had all of the content, but I don’t remember it.

I think it's important to segment the content into movies and TV shows. At one point Netflix did have a lot of popular TV shows, and new seasons seem to show up pretty quickly. Netflix never really had a huge selection of popular movies. Some here and there, but never a deep catalog.
It likely means they use reCAPTCHA.

They could be doing 2FA when someone logs in with a new device too.
Isn't a contradiction that "globalists" are the bad guys in your story and at the same time UK wants to keep the benefits of being part of EU market ?

What I see happening is that in some countries the EU become the scapegoat for the government corruption and incompetence, usually you could use the other party that was before to blame them but if your party was in power for more then 8 years then is harder to find scapegoats.
That does not mean that typical service will live for a decade though. You don't see all the ones that did not make it.
That's true, though the things in the demos directory would simplify that.
People forget you don't need to pay for all of them yourself. About 5 people share the Netflix I use. I suppose someone else will get Disney and give me access.
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Amazon has many products so that to trace the audience it needs time to time update in the algorithm.
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I don’t think it is.

Perhaps you have a lot more aunts than I do, but everything I can find suggests standard mail had a large minimum (200 pieces?) and preprocessing requirements.

Here’s a page, from the post office itself:

“At one time, it was called Third-Class Mail. Today, it's known as Standard Mail. In 2017, it will be called (USPS) Marketing Mail. The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a name change for Standard Mail to better signal to customers that this mail is used primarily to market a product or service.”

https://www.uspsoig.gov/blog/names-and-prices-they-are-chang...
There's also the second-chance process: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380.
The article does seem to operate on the premise that they aren't doing this. Until now, I assumed the point was to divest from fossil fuels and reinvest in growth industries: renewables and sustainable production. But maybe they aren't. The article might have a flawed premise, or maybe it's a call to action for organizations that are divesting to invest in the future.

I only skimmed the article, so I don't know if they explored this. At a glance, I see no mention of where the money went after they pulled it out of fossil fuels.
This is the problem in a nutshell. Revisiting plans when you get new information.

This is especially true with estimates. New work, new problems, unexpected difficulties, etc.

Over-planning can lead to a lot of rigidity in the process if it tries to plan too far ahead.
I really like how it is done in Sweden where the city provides the fibre but doesn’t run any service over it. We can choose from 5-10 ISPs. Much like the road.
Not at any of the companies I have worked for or consulted for in the past 5 years. At least at the Fortune 500 level. I love using new tools but Google sheets is nowhere near Excel for more complex projects.
Perhaps (if you may classify it as exclusive) .arpa which is still in use I think but you cannot register new domains.

There's also .aero which is pretty exclusive: "only those in various categories of air-travel-related entities may register." - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_d...
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>Seems more like basic economics than 'cultural imperialism' to me.

>The German market is very small, the English market very large.

Yes, and the English market is so very very large because... :)
The cable suffered because of two things: aggressive market segmentation with channel packs, and ads. Without these two, cable TV would be like Twitter for TV - a streaming service with a weird but perhaps adorable limitation that the streaming schedule is set for you.
I would add also possible non-strictly-logical or non-immediate reasons.

Let's say that the Britons at the time were following this or that religion that prohibited the consumption of raw milk to adults (something that may have been in itself originated possibly centuries before by some "common sense" that could be both connected to lactose intolerance or to better preservation of resources).
What shows up on the website search results is determined by an auction run by tripadvisor between all those hotels, restaurants, etc.
Like "military encryption" and buzzwords like RSA, which leads me to believe that banks do just the bare minimum that some consultant has told them to do...
>> 5 lower case letters is ~12 million bits of entropy,

>That's more like 23.5 bits, which, as far as I know, is quite a bit less than 12000000.

woops! youre totally right. added an edit.

>ad infinitum.

this is not true. banks take action and will not give you probably any more than 2 or 3 sets of lockouts before taking action.

>So, if everything looks like you authorized a transaction, they'll give you your money back because you said so? And you seriously believe that?

You must not be from the US. To my knowledge, most banks will refund fraudulent purchases. in addition to being believable at face value, I have also personally had fraud charges reversed.
SQL generally doesn't have primitives that let you traverse arbitrary relationships. You can join multiple tables together, but the nature of those relationships is expressed directly in the SQL statement you're writing.

Some RDBs provide extensions to the SQL standard to do some basic graph traversals (Oracle's CONNECT BY, for example), but these are just the most-basic sorts of graph traversals.

In a graph database, the primary notions are nodes and edges and properties associated with them, whereas in a relational database, the primary notions are tables (aka "relations"), foreign keys that allow you to connect together multiple tables, and rows in those tables. Those differences in primary notions surface in the query languages as well.
Two movies time 4 movie tickets pr movie (for a family) is pretty close to one years worth of streaming service.

If you're also the sort of person that considers popcorn an integral part of the movie watching experience then the streaming services is almost certainly cheaper even if you only watch those two movies a year.
This is misleading. There's no place in the specification of Haskell that specifically defines monads as part of the language. They aren't a language feature. They are a pattern which happens to be expressible in Haskell, and which is supported by libraries:

"Haskell's built in support for monads is split among the standard prelude, which exports the most common monad functions, and the Monad module, which contains less-commonly used monad functions. The individual monad types are each in their own libraries and are the subject of Part II of this tutorial."

https://wiki.haskell.org/All_About_Monads#Monad_support_in_H...

The fact that monads are used to implement parts of the language doesn't make them a core part of it. Techniques used in implementation aren't the same as language features.
Could be, or I have an over-protective Firefox. I still have the same issue with the link.
> As of February 2018, KaiOS Technologies has partnered with Airfind, Facebook, Google, Twitter...

The Nokia KaiOS devices come with built in Google services, which instantly disqualify them for me. I don't trust that information from those phones aren't being seeded to Google.
I agree, Troy is way too gullible here.

> Do you really think the only thing the bank does to log people on is to check the username and password?

Yes. I assure you that when bad guys with your username and password log in and steal all your money the bank _won't_ say:

"Doh, our sophisticated environment, behavioural and heuristic patterns used to establish legitimacy let you down this time. We'll pay for this"

No, they'll say it is your fault because the bad guys had your username and password.

And that's all you need to know.
If only there was a nice feature phone with KaiOS in Europe.

Nokia 8110 sucks because of the sliding panel which makes it much harder to type on the bottom key row. T9 seemed to be worse than on other Nokia phones.

I would love to see a new Nokia 3310 with KaiOS.
If you look at the copyrights at the bottom of the page that's exactly what's happening. It switches from "Maxar technologies/CNES/Airbus" to "Landsat".
That's true, as technology advances, the knowledge needed to maintain it increases. In 50 years the software stack could require petabytes of memory to run complex simulations..

But to me that's a pessimistic way to look at it. It's an accomplishment to need less people to build amazing things.

We're already at a point where even the most experienced engineer can only understand a fraction of the stack they use. Compare that with the 1970's where a programmer might understand 90% of the mainframe they use... because it was simpler...

Basically you don't need to know as much knowledge as earlier generations to accomplish the same thing, but this devalues that thing (or makes it much harder to be good at) ... All the low hanging fruit is gone I guess
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At first I thought this was on becoming a professional author, now after I read it I understand this is on how to maintain professional author as a career. One thing I'm curious about though- the author in question never brings up cover designers or editors, but does advise to listen to the agent and ask a lot of questions.

I do know that cover design can be controversial and that editors can often encourage changes that make the author feel like garbage (eg. 'change the entire tense of the novel' or 'kill this beautifully written scene'). What is the advisement for that?
Yes, we are on the same page there. I think due to depression during my formative years, I have a mix of slight apathy towards expectations and a slightly off motivation system, which leads me to be very lazy - really only doing what is necessary to get a mantainable product and not so much caring about what other people want. Working in two software companies during studies was okay, but I really hope to sell my own software one day!

Glad to see you making progress!
A snapshot is actually just a struct with a few transaction IDs (xids) and some other bookkeeping that describes which slice of the physically stored data is supposed to be visible to a transaction. The article shows the details of that. So the size of a snapshot is unrelated to the size of the database.
Yeh schools are way behind real world!
Why don't we all speak in English then, and be done.

Linguistic diversity is an amazing beautiful incredible thing. There are things you can say in English that you can't say in German, and vice-versa, or Portuguese, or Swahili, or Mandarin, or Lojban.

You'll forgive me for speculating that you don't speak more than one language, or you would appreciate that.
> Though unrealistic, all things considered, there needs to be a single site for everything (akin to pirated tv/film sites, incidentally).

I'm from the Netherlands. I live in Sweden. In both countries the banks have been able to set up a shared service to make digital payments easy for consumers, despite them being competitors[0][1]. In the Netherlands we also have one national transport chip-card used by all public transport providers[2].

Based on that I would say that what this may need is just the right amount of (and type of) government regulation to force the different competitors to play nice enough to create a better end-product for consumers and to compete healthily with each other. I won't pretend to know what that regulation would look like though.

[0] https://www.tikkie.me/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish_(payment)

[2] https://www.ov-chipkaart.nl/home-1.htm
I feel like his defending pedophilia in cases where a "child consents" is a good argument for why sometimes the herd is right. His words are insensitive to those who are victims of pedophilia because it minimizes the impact and implicates the victim as being potentially receptive to the act.
There was a recent uproar in my country because a head teacher asked a young lady to either leave the premises of the school or remove her burka as it is against the law.

The head teacher was adamant about following the law against wearing any religious symbols because he believed they caused segregation and virtue signaling. The head teacher has held everyone accountable, from students to teachers for every law in the legislation and oddly enough, every student respected him regardless of their beliefs, religion or political alignment. Additionally, their school was the most ethnically and culturally diverse in the country.

Regardless of what the burka is classified as, a religious symbol, or head clothing, wearing it is against the law, despite that, his career was ruined due to the behavior of the lady and, the exploitation of the incident by certain actors looking divert attention or political gain.

Perhaps Pastafarianism could make a dent to the culture of outrage, political discord and virtue signaling. Perhaps we can start talking as the adults we are instead of not listening like the kids we try to “protect” and “look after”.