skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, even being addicted to otherwise good things (such as exercise) is unhealthy.
Looks simple enough to get working. I'll try it out. Am curious to see what the disctro architecture is rather than isn't.
Related article https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/20/chef_roasted_for_ic...
Rooted users can block ads system-wide and non-rooted can use Firefox with blockers or one of the blocker browsers.
If you have a problem with FOSS and authors having ownership of their creations, feel free not to use it.
Best context I could find https://twitter.com/sethvargo/status/1174451060263530502?s=2...
All I could think of was this[1] and was wondering how a silly esoteric language can cause human rights issues.

[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Chef
Whether by suicide bombing or by a flying drone: a Pakistani got killed
And spend the 30 seconds at least telling us what some event is in case others are possibly interested like OP suggests
... no, they’re worth the same. Hence morally vs practically. The difference is that killing some third world farmers doesn’t cause a war between first world powers.

Alternatively if Yemen rebels attack Saudi Arabia, that’s bad. If Iran does it, everybody in a thousand mile radius starts sweating.
I feel like the "GDPR doesn't affect you unless you sell data" line is the new version of "surveillance doesn't affect you unless you've got something to hide". Every time GDPR is mentioned in a HN thread you see dozens+ of comments asking for clarifications on how to "get around" GDPR issues for legitimate uses. The point is you don't have to be a bad guy to be affected by GDPR and need to spend time+money on not only complying (auditing and implementing systems), but also verifying you're actually compliant with an expert, and the smaller you are the more relative time you have to spend on this work yourself (instead of e.g. hiring lawyers+developers to just do it for you).
Terrible mobile site.
You mean, like Facebook “admitting” to a “bug” that “leaked” user data after they'd been caught red-handed?
"Chef is a company and the name of a configuration management tool written in Ruby and Erlang."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_(software)
Ironically it’s hosted on github owned by Microsoft which certainly works with ICE.
It wasn't taken out on you, personally.
This finding talks volume about two facts:

1) Competition, even among smart money investors, works
2) The implicit value of, as user sethbannon stated, "getting a known and trusted person on the board"
When you get to compare the average lifestyle though, this is a joke...
It is a bit ridiculous. Are people going to start pulling things from projects because they find out that FOSS is used heavily by the intelligence community?
The day ublock origin doesn't work on chrome is the day users will flock to firefox. We have seen time and time again that users aren't afraid of switching browsers. This is because since their core functionality is so similar, small advantages will tip the scales.
Eli5 how does minimum unit pricing work exactly?
The StreetScooter has a range of 31 - 50 miles. This may be enough range for an urban delivery route but not near enough for the large number of suburban or rural delivery routes in the US. In comparison Rivian currently claiming a 410 miles range for their pickup truck. I don't expect the vans to get that range but 250 - 300 is probably reasonable to expect.
I, for one, look forward to a future of navigating politicized open-source constraints of each creator.

You get what you pay for.
Your argument implies that Google is acting in the limits of the current law.

Not really relevant to a change in the law.
I contribute to FOSS, have a number of small projects ballpark of [1,000, 10,000) users. I guarantee I disagree with a non-trivial part of those folks, politically. I don't put in constraints to deny them because of that. That's the world I want to live in.

> feel free not to use it.

If you disagree, feel free not to comment /s
They weren't built for the homeless, they were built for the public in general. Anyone who might need to go for any reason.

It's true that mandatory private provision of toilets in food and drink serving businesses has greatly reduced the need, as has people's tendency to drive everywhere. But really they were closed due to cost-cutting imposed on the councils.

(The number of homeless has ebbed and flowed depending on whether there was a Labour or a Conservative government)
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On the other hand, maybe some are moving on to harder stuff? https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/07/18/scotland-overta...
The content blocker APIs started on Safari on their mobile devices.
I’m not confused. I still have the consent paperwork somewhere that lists the drugs; it’s part of the “conscious sedation” cocktail in some places, including at my oral surgeon’s office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_sedation_and_analge...

postoperative pain management consisted of tylenol and codiene, and I didn’t bother taking it anyway.

anyway, my point is merely that fentanyl has legitimate medical uses and that you can indeed have it administered in a medical setting without descending into opioid madness or overdose.
Presumably you can’t go below a certain price per liter
At best this proves that this law is harmless.
I think it's reasonable whatever one's view. He made it. He can pull it. This is literally what this freedom is all about. I don't understand when the personal expression of developers of free software became constrained by some kind of nebulous corporate responsibility.
Am I missing something? It looks like a generic procurement /federal contractor company entered the contract, and not Chef.

That’s like ICE buying Cisco switches from a 3rd party and getting mad at Cisco isn’t it?
I mean, I reckon he's well aware of this, given he was a tech lead at youtube
It's their prerogative to do that if they so choose. If you don't like it, don't rely on it. Get commercially licensed software where this can't happen or write your own.
That is a good point. If my browser is sending a do not track header, why is your server even asking me how much tracking I want?
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You don't think Firefox is a worthy competitor at the moment? I've used it quite happily in the last few years, but would be interested in what you think its shortcomings are. I know there is supposed to be a power drain issue, but I haven't noticed that personally. Apart from that, I'm not aware of any major issues.
Just keep bombing somewhat random people, year in and year out. Are we at the 2nd decade of this yet?

This way I promise no one will join the rebells. Why would anyone join the rebells just because their families are slaughtered? That's absurd.

(Irony.)

There comes a time when YOU would strap on a bomb belt. Just imagine that They killed half your family and then goes on telling you they will continue doing it...
Today I saw the BBC's "Bitter Lake" documentary. It explains why Afghanistan is so fucked up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p0z6iHGzdE
Apologies for some domestic political comment on HN - but surely the Scotsman isn't about to give the terrible SNP credit for something?!

Was there not a more negative spin they could've used, e.g. "deaths fall by smaller percent than promised/hoped"?

I note this policy is being mooted UK wide - good. Overuse - and outright abuse - of alcohol is so prevalent and "normal" in the UK it's shocking.

Impact to prices in bars and supermarkets has been totally negligible to anyone enjoying e.g. a pretty cheap £6 bottle of wine or four-beers-for-£5 bundles. It's the supercheap £3 for 2L of strong cider this policy's targeted at and it looks like it might be helping.
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France has an average suicide rate of 12 over 100,000 per year.

A company with 100K employees and over 20 suicides per year, is concerning.
Yes, let's get mad at the people enforcing the laws instead of the people who write the laws.

Then, we can turn off our code, make a big announcement, and feel good about ourselves without making any meaningful effort to actually help.

What. A. Great. Plan.
bit of a flawed response really. i cant think of many subject matters that are more nuanced than middle-eastern affairs. almost nothing is black and white in this area
So what's stopping anyone - e.g. Chef or ICE - from just forking the code and continuing as before?
What worries me more is that, it's not always mobile first either. Sometimes it's just 4K first.
Its okay it happens. You can compete with yourself on what you created in the past.
The cited contract is with C & C INTERNATIONAL COMPUTERS & CONSULTANTS, INC. who purchased $95k of Chef licenses.

C & C INTERNATIONAL COMPUTERS & CONSULTANTS, INC. is listed in the contract with these business types:

- Woman Owned Business

- Women Owned Small Business

- Economically Disadvantaged Women Owned Small Business

- Minority Owned Business

- Black American Owned Business

- Corporate Entity Not Tax Exempt

- For Profit Organization

- DoT Certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise

- Small Disadvantaged Business

- 8a Program Participant
The upward bump at the top is the line between her breasts, you can see it in the painting i linked too, but the logo is black and white so it is more obvious. It could be thinner but seems that all lines on it were drawn with the same width. The upward bump at the bottom is the silhouette her breasts are making on her right forearm as a background. Imagine if [1] or [2] was tilted a bit forward and the right forearm was below her breasts. In both of these paintings the breast silhouettes are visible due to shading even though the colors are soft and they aren't tilted like the woman in the logo. Again since the logo is black and white it makes the silhouettes more pronounced since it relies on them for definition.

The black below is her arm from the elbow to the hand. The hand is just at the bottom right of the image with the line going in a /| shape right below the elbow of the left (right as we see it) arm. The tip is the fingers. They look a bit too long but i think it is mainly due to the line width.

The anatomy could have been better (the neck is a bit too long, the left shoulder is a bit too rotated, the left upper arm is a bit too short) and a couple of lines are too long that can be distracting, but overall it is very obvious to me that this is a pose with a tilted head, right arm on stomach and below breasts touching the side/back, left arm rotated a bit forward, on top of second arm with a slight angle in the elbow.

I mean, it could be a bikini but it also could be a dress like in all the images i linked at. There is not enough detail to say one way or another, the only hint is that the image is inspired by 40s pinup posters and at least from a Google Images search one or two had girls wear just a bra or bikini. All others use full clothes and dresses.

[1] https://muscleheaded.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/frahm.jpg

[2] https://www.ebay.com/itm/1940s-Pin-Up-Girl-Glamour-Shot-Pict...
The vendor experience with PayPal is appalling though. They'll randomly take money back off you when a customer hasn't even complained, frequently they'll just freeze you out of your account for months at a time. Better not rely on that seasonal income, half the time it'll be delayed by three months ...
You can do both, it's not mutually exclusive.
> i don't think its a problem that people don't let you use the site if you don't opt-in. thats a design choice

It's illegal. End of.
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It's not a short time. C++ is only 34 years old and back them there were fewer developers than today.
As a web developer in the past I found - though maybe that has changed in recent years, let me know if that is the case - there aren't any real resolution-independent units you can use to design an interface that is comfortable on every medium. You can peg your design to things like viewport width or font size, but you always end up having to make an arbitrary decision at some point, because there is no way for the web browser to know the physical dimensions of the screen the webpage is actually being displayed on. You have to make educated guesses based on the relationship between width and height, user agent and other headers, stuff like that, and create different stylesheets for each case. The style for the 1920x1080 screen (rotated horizontally) of the smallest smartphones can't have the same font size as the style of a 1920x1080 30 inch desktop monitor.
Legalising safer drugs would also be an option.
Sorry, I'm just a jaded old man pining for the old days of just throwing some code over the fence and letting folks use it.
I don't code, but every time I work on a document I share it with someone within an hour of starting it. An hour gives me plenty of time to get a framework down and to put some thoughts together, and then I make it a public (internally) shared doc and ask others for their thoughts. Knowing that people are in there helps my complete the work quicker and often gets good edits and suggestions.

I also publicly announce a time frame I'm working to - I'll have this complete by 4pm for example.

Often you need far less time than you think to do a good job of a spec or other written doc, so saying 'next week' won't improve the results and will likely just mean it drops down my priority list.

I'm in a relatively senior role, but still need these 'hacks' to get the best out of myself.
> One of the promise I often hear is that you don’t need systems knowledge or SREs to run it.

Maybe if you use GKE that might be the case, but otherwise, running Kubernetes is a fools errand if you don’t have extensive experience with systems and SRE, imho, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling snake oil. Sure, you might get lucky and never have a major issue, but do you really want to depend on luck?

> I learned in the last 20 years working as a systems engineer that the best tools or stacks are ones easy to understand, debug and fix.

Sure, that’s an ideal goal and one I strive for too when possible, but there’s a reason why many SRE folks make a very large salary compared to national averages. Hard work is expected from time to time.
Never claimed it was.
Per unit of alcohol -> https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/7130/economics/minimum-pr...
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Stronger drinks that contain more units of alcohol have a higher minimum price than drinks that contain less alcohol. Drinks that have been most affected include strong white cider, own brand vodka and gin, and super strength lager.

A bottle of wine containing 10 units of alcohol has to be sold for at least £5, and a can of lager containing 2 units of alcohol has to cost at least £1.

Unlike supermarkets and off-licences, most drinks sold in pubs, clubs and restaurants already cost more than 50p per unit so there is no real difference under minimum pricing.

Minimum pricing is an effective policy because it targets the drinkers causing the most harm to themselves and society, whilst having almost no effect on moderate drinkers.
That is in pure $$. According to wikipedia, the PPP according is $24,485. There is 80-90% house ownership. Income tax is 10%. It's hard to make a reasonable comparison like that.

Another example is Czech Republic, which has the lowest poverty rate in EU - under 10% before Finland and Netherlands. And yet it's way after them in the wealth list.
Per unit. The effects of a litre of vodka isn't the effects of a litre of cider.
I would if they were accepting $100,000 contracts with the NSA. Yeah.
The Taliban were a tiny splinter group before the US financed and trained them. They have always been fanatics. Funny how they were not called terrorists while the US thought they could use them for their own ends.
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How did you show the study OP cited as “false” by pointing to google image search of migrant communities on the border of Texas and Mexico?

Also, France has slums too: https://www.thelocal.fr/20171020/more-than-570-slums-house-1.... Any assertion that the French are better off than Bangladesh must be “false.”
In this case probably that the author removed all files from the repository. But if someone finds a copy: Nothing. It was (as far as I can gather) under an open-source license and people continue to have all the rights associated with that.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2012/4/section/1

All alcohol sold is marked with the number of "units" it contains. Multiply that by the minimum unit price (currently £0.50) to get a minimum total price.

Examples: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/scotland-minimum-al...

See also https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/alcohol-scotland-d...
I think hanging a man out to dry without any possibility of defending himself is the definition of a witch hunt...

This is the definition of cancel culture, drag up some old shit out of context and then get fake offended.

Sad to see so many people on hacker news is brainwashed. Hacker culture used to be anti authority, free markets etc.
It's nowhere near evenly distributed.
The best part of this debacle is the author is still getting a paycheck from Google.
29% of bird populations have been lost since 1970 [pdf]
Can someone explain what the guy's action accomplished? If you yank your code from the internet, and people have backups of it, and it was under the Apache license, it seems to me that people can just restore the code and keep working with it as if nothing happened. The license is perpetual, no? And that's not just a technicality - if FOSS licenses were revocable by the author at any time, only idiots would use FOSS in their business...
This guy abused the company's benefits to benefit strangers and people he never met by offering them an empty seat next to them. No doubt he was a nice guy but he was only nice in one direction.

Well meaning people like this need to be informed better. I can't blame AA for not informing him and stealthily taking his pass away. Too many people of far more sinister personalities matched his travel patterns and they treated all of them the same way.
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Here's a mirror: https://gitlab.openminds.be/mirror/chef-sugar/-/branches
More accurate - "We value your privacy".

In other words, your privacy has value to them, and they are eager to shaft you that privacy to extract the value.
Those horror stories are the reason why I am moving everything away from Google. I used to make Android apps and got a strike once. Then another app got delisted and I don't even know if it counts as a strike or not. Can't risk losing everything if my account gets closed. I will never again put all my eggs in one basket.

As per your specific case, I don't think you'd have to worry. But I still think in general anything of value should be separate from Google.
Meanwhile I’m out walking my dog and one of these trucks turns the corner. I immediately turn and run, it’s always futile.. the truck passes me and I’m left standing there holding my shirt over my face. Doesn’t matter; inhaled DEET.
> thanks to that huge OPM hack several years ago

You don't need that. Just search names in Google and Facebook and spend 15mins for it. Works for 90% of military personals. People share what they do, eat, and where they go these days.
> Firefox really needs to become a worthy competitor once again.

For me it's always been, I've used Firefox without pause since it was called Phoenix. I know there was a small exodus to Chrome when it had better parallelization, but as far as I know Firefox is leading on that front again.

So what do you mean by "worthy"? Higher market share or some missing features? I'm obviously biased as I never left for competition but I don't have any complaints, neither on desktop nor with the Android version.
Tin Foil Hat Theory:

Step 1 - Create your own digital currency.

Step 2 - Assign everyone a social 'credit rating'

Step 3 - Get public services to adopt your digital currency.

Step 4 - Get government to adopt your digital currency.

Step 5 - Gateway certain public events/services depending on social credit score/pay with digital currency you can only acquire with a good standing social score.

Step 6 - Loans, services, ability to pay and interact with society depends on your social credit score and access to the digital currency.

Step 7 - One world cashless society with a privately controlled currency to keep citizens in line.

All kidding aside, I am sure they see value in becoming their own bank and not having to pay 3rd parties all the times for transactions. Heck they may convince employees to be paid in libra and other things which would cost them less in fees compared to using the traditional banking system.
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I don't think configuration management tools are dead.
I use puppet to build my image with packer. It's way easier than build with a bunch of shell scripts. I agree that you shouldn't use it on live servers.
The US is in afghan for one reason only, opioids. It's no coincidence that US opioid addiction rates skyrocketed in the years following the Afghan invasion. The big pharma companies benefit from the US controlling the worlds major poppy fields, and in turn they pushed their product unto the masses.
Basically. There is a minimum price set of 0.50 per unit. This means a bottle of whisky, 70cl at 37.5% ABV cannot retail for less than £14 whereas previously these would be on promotion sometimes at £11/£12/£13.

By setting it per unit instead of quantity of drink the government targets super strength cheap cider etc that were linked to lots of anti-social behaviour and crime.
This is almost entirely an off-topic point; but the public toilet situation in London is pretty dire. Most tube or train stations have limited or no access to facilities, and as a result, nearby businesses have become hostile to people in search of a respite.

What we have instead is a gross public urination problem (or worse on some streets). Which the city oddly aimed to solve with street-level urinals; acknowledging the problem and providing a solution which still manages to leave the city smelling like urine.

No criticism of the bars and cafes; most of these public facilities have gone abandoned (like the ones outside of Liverpool St. Station). But I do wish the city were more livable and accessible.
> Firefox has gotten pretty good now

But it burns through the battery!
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