skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is an option, I can't drive because of medical problems, long distance traveling in cars is also problematic when you have kids that get bad motion sickness.

You also need to consider the opportunities that cheap long distance travel gives you, A poor student like I was can travel to a far city to study and afford to come home each 4 - 8 weeks. Because the small cities are linked to bigger ones you get more students or better quality students in the big city. The nation has more educated people, the students from the small city also have to live so they will spend money in the big city, so the big city has an influx of money. The small cities don't have airports, the students are also poor enough so they don't own cars, have where to park them in the big city or afford the fuel.
Best anecdotal evidence/advice I've heard is that it'll significantly reduce your volume of signups, but also significantly increase your rate of conversions from sign-ups to paying customers.

Whether the increased conversion rate overcomes the reduction in signup volumes is the big question. I suspect it's different for everybody, and the only way to find out is to test.

One thing that'll affect your decision, is what the cost to you of "freeloading" no-credit-card signups is, and whether it's worth forgoing them to concentrate on the more-likely-to-convert signups who are prepared to put their CC number down. If you're offering a SaaS or Pass thing where the incremental cost for each new signup is extremely c heap (like cents or less), then it's much easier to justify a totally free non credit card trial than if whatever you're selling has incremental costs in the dollars or tens of dollars range.

(And, the flip side to that, if you want to build an Uber style "grab all the market while supported by ever increasing VC round funding and profit after you've collected all the underwear" business, then don't ask for CC numbers up front. Or even at all... And hope you can flip $700mil of shares before your Uber-but-for-office-space business crashes down around everybody...)
I’ve always been curious how much data fixed cameras in Australia is used by LE, how can I find out?
Also:

Kids being shot in schools: the price of freedom.

Private communications means also criminals can communicate privately: outrage.
I find it truly difficult to believe that you believe this so easily. It's preposterous. They closed the case immediately after replacing the prosecutor.
Tell that to the people who study the heritability of intelligence. There are some nasty pieces of work in that field.

EDIT: I should clarify: I agree with your point. This is not stopping actual brain scientists from making really disturbing claims about genetic determinism, completely oblivious to their own political leanings. I'm speaking from experience of having shared departments with them.
Everybody knows that real websites are generated in the browser using JavaScript, right? Right???
Moderation shouldn't be hired out. The community should provide the moderation.
There's one thing you can always do: help the separation of money and state. I believe it's going to happen globally, but it will be painful at the same time.

You can buy physical gold, silver or Bitcoin (I prefer the 3rd option, though I know that it's the most controversial).
"Everything that can be invented has been invented" -- goes back to an 1899 joke about closing the patent office and has apparently been oft repeated.

https://patentlyo.com/patent/2011/01/tracing-the-quote-every...
I agree with the "blackbox" metaphor 100% but you have to bare in mind that we all have blind-spots. Sometimes they're due to the path we took into our profession, eg different education/training routes; and sometimes due to the way we've specialised, eg the example I'd given about how specialised knowledge that isn't recalled frequently can be forgotten over time. Sometimes it's just because there's so much information to take in that our leaky brains missed that specific detail in lessons. However the fact that the author literally did research that "blackbox" -- hence the article being written -- should be an indicator that she is actually a pretty decent engineer.

I find criticising people for having blind spots that we might consider obvious isn't a great way to share knowledge. Not only does it make individuals less willing to come forward with questions but it also means they're less likely to correct your errors (we are all fallible) for fear of being chastised again.
> It's a grey area, but it's clear cut when you do it consistently over a longer period of time... It's a totally different problem.

It's not a totally different problem, it's an extension of the same. There's a shared resource meant for employees to be used in a reasonable way, and someone decides to take it all for themselves. The difference between this and taking extra for family starts with "I'm taking 6 bottles home, but I don't really need 6, might as well give one to my kid".

> significantly? Please avoid exaggerating to make your point.

Significantly, i.e. to account for growing demand caused by unrestricted freeloading. I can imagine it easily being 5x+ if more people decide to abuse the system too.

> Nah. A junior engineer at Google is paid ~$1000 a day. These bottles' cost isn't significant.

On the one hand, fair. Maybe this is how it works at Google. On the other hand, all other companies I had personal experience with agonize over spendings that are fraction of their developer's salaries, and most people wouldn't quit over just cancellation of free sodas.

> Nah. Even Rachel (the blog post owner) would disagree with this...

Well, she just did put a post that's chastising such behavior and that post can probably identify a person at Google to their peers, so I'd disagree with you here.
Ip banning for new accounts together with creation time exceptions seems pretty good thought: almost all existing users would be unaffected. Only costs you growth untill you find some extras to put into the account creation process.
Details on Jeff Kao's analysis of the comments from 2017: https://medium.com/hackernoon/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal...
That's a fine law. However, there's a vast distance between that quote and convincing evidence of a violation in this instance.
I don't understand the downvotes, the title of the article is pretty poor indeed.

After reading the article I see that it even does not explain what it asks in the title apart from mentioning what it "seems" to be caused by.

The code for having two sides to everything --seems-- to have got embedded in our DNA very early in the evolution of life

I'm also pretty sure I've seen some three-legged animals in my lifetime, albeit it was because they lost a limb or because it didn't grow properly.
Yeah, me too. I actually thought of it as a sort of innovation-economic stimulus package and went "oh wow, this could work".

Imagine the amount of innovation we'd get if this happened with hardware too.

But then I opened the article and was brought back to earth.
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I think I wasn’t ready to appreciate skateboarding in all of its complexity
What about gdb?
> People ought to go to jail for this kind of crap.

Yes. The inability of ordinary citizens to ensure that this occurs, is what allows corruption to flourish.
> Wouldn't a mass surveillance system force people to never go outside, by fear of unintentionally breaking the law and get caught ?

I find it more likely that enforcement would be relatively rare, and selective. Rare so that people still go outside. Selective in a way that marginalizes anyone who gets in the way of the people in charge. After all, they'll be able to find a record of criminal activity for anyone.
That was my original question - if it's not about slow requests, what's the reason?
I have recently moved to another team, so we shall see.

However, we also administered two crud dbs, one we inherited and another recent one. The three dbs were doing pretty much the same thing. Understanding and maintaining what happened in the crud db we built was significantly harder than understanding and maintaining the event-sourced one.
At that point just flag the warnings instead of having it break the build...
The issue really isn't with -Wall, it's with -Werror. If I release an open source package that compiles fine today with -Wall -Werror, and tomorrow there's a new compiler release that adds a new warning to -Wall, then that adds a new error to my package, and users trying to compile it with a new compiler will fail and complain. They didn't ask for -Wall -Werror, they only asked for some program that produces a working executable with ./configure ; make.

Like enabling assertions or not, this is (a matter of opinion, and) a difference between "development" and "release" compilations. Ideally we would consistently use something like ./configure --devel for one and ./configure --release for the other. Other languages' build systems have this built in, and building a tarball with autotools used to do something similar, but if you just pull something off GitHub it's not clear what mode you'll end up with.
Oh, but they do. Indeed, it is a prerequisite for having four legs!
The thing is we've never seen a distribution level as massive as Facebook before.

Lying politicians have always existed but plugging that into a distribution machine that is meant to push infinite content to people is bad.

There are obvious lies that can be easily fact-checked. Facebook just wants to accept ad money without bearing any responsibility.

FTC has laws that require advertising must be truthful. It probably just applies on TV and radio.

CNN refused to air ads from Trump recently. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/business/media/cnn-trump-...

But yes, you are right, this should be solved on a legal/political level.

There's been no progress on this. Not sure if it's lobbying by the tech companies or lack of tech knowledge by politicians.
How did you go remote?
Plus you save a lot of time not having to go to and through the airport.

To compare travel times you can easily consider a 2-hour advantage to the train.
That's how I take it. I find his videos hilarious. No more a parasite than any other YouTuber.
Or maybe the "going out and working" phase of life is delayed between 3 and 6 years longer than it used to be
Why are "people who are doing software engineering" expecting to build code in a new compiler without migration effort, and ignoring new warnings that have been added potentially pointing to existing undetected issues just so the code continues to compile?

"People who want to get shit done", sure. Pragmatists, even.
> issues cloudflare created.

But that's the thing, Cloudflare didn't really create any issues. If I live in the US and I decide to use some random public DNS server in Australia, it will be an unpleasant setup, but it's a perfectly valid one.

There's no rule that your DNS server must be on the same network as you, or send your subenet if it isn't. When that's the case it allows for some nice performance optimizations. (I.E. sending you to a closer cache.) But it's just that - an optimization. If your service is completely unreachable without performance optimizations, you've created a very fragile service.
Looks like Honda might be removing it though

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a27007185/honda-lanewatch-...
Wait, so a lobby group was behind it all? /s

The reality is no one is surprised, and the lack of surprise is exactly why the system is broken. Let’s hope the states advocate for Net Neutrality.
Looking good - what no-code app you used to build it?
Some states have zero India/China born developers - am I reading the second-to-last chart correctly?
Horde everything seems exaggerated. It's 6 bottles.

If we substitute the story with 6 bottles of water (as in I need to drink 6 bottles of water to be productive), we would immediately shift blame to Google as to why Google doesn't provide abundant drinking water for everyone. Because we can easily imagine that we need to drink water to be productive at work.

We only think this story is ridiculous because we couldn't possibly imagine how these sodas help with productivity.

I don't drink soda (which isn't healthy), so I can't imagine how it helps with productivity. But people are different...

This story just screams extreme lack of empathy.
Seems they announced a few days ago, but it's not live yet.
> if it's so bad for privacy and isn't necessary for a CDN, does Cloudflare the CDN simply disregard ECS when receiving requests from DNS.Google, or do they take it into account?

I don't understand that for various reasons.

1) Privacy is already lost here. If I shout my mobile number on a train with you that's full of people, everyone knows my phone number. If you choose to keep it / use it to call me tomorrow doesn't matter.

2) If Cloudflare can make _better_ decisions based on the information shared by Google, why shouldn't they? As long as it is optional and they don't take their ball and go home^W^W^W^W^W^Wreply with 127.0.0.3 in cases where you don't provide it..
It would be cool if Memos could do the indexing on my Macbook and beam it to my iPhone via WiFi (no cloud plz)
Hong Kong’s government plans to ban people from wearing masks
Thanks for the link, for which there's the counter-argument, "The Harmful Consequences of the Robustness Principle" [0]:

> A flaw can become entrenched as a de facto standard. Any implementation of the protocol is required to replicate the aberrant behavior, or it is not interoperable. This is both a consequence of applying Postel's advice, and a product of a natural reluctance to avoid fatal error conditions.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-protocol-maintenance-0...
There are records in the Ukrainian prosecutor's office, and statements on the record by his colleagues and deputies that he did nothing with the case. In 2015 he literally took 0 actions on the barisma case. Literally nothing. He didn't even touch the file.

His deputy (Kasko) resigned in frustration because Shokin made so little progress in the corruption cases he promised to pursue.

And he says there were no complaints about him... but he refused to assist the UK in a separate corruption case against Barisma... the IMF wanted him gone; the ERDC; the entire G7; and the Obama admin (not just Biden) because he failed in his job.

There were protests in Ukraine demanding his dismissal:
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-protest-prosecutor-shokin-di...

Shokin's statement (that you linked to in part) was made to help Firtash in a court case in Austria. Firtash is another Ukrainian energy tycoon being investigated for corruption, bribery, and money laundering. The fact that he's going to bat to help corrupt individuals avoid charges kind of says it all (the same people that as a prosecutor he would have been in charge of prosecuting--Firtash was also under investigation at the same time.. he did nothing on that case either).
This is an ad for ZenMetrics, which isn't available yet, so I'll throw my company's hat in the ring as well. Amongst other things, Cloudability [1] does cost monitoring and reporting, proactive budget alerting, advanced rightsizing and reserved instance recommendation, and anomaly detection and alerting. It works across AWS, Azure and GCP, and it's available right now from the AWS marketplace.

There are also other tools that do this sort of thing. Stax.io has their Spotlight tool, Cloud Conformity does some as well, and Microsoft still maintains Cloudyn as Azure Cost Management.

[1] https://www.cloudability.com
People should understand that they cannot outsource filtering BS from everything. Advertising is a necessary evil to keep trade and economies going. But it's mostly the recipients job to filter information. Pre-filtering is patronising. While it's true that companies advertising their products with blatant lies should be held accountable, it's not the same for politicians.

In technology for example there are clearly defined standards and safety guidelines. Circumventing them with lies is punishable, and should be punished. But in politics, especially in rallies, there is no clearly defined code of conduct to make people vote for you. It doesn't mean that just anything is permitted. But there are no clear rules either. A lying politician who hopes to get elected will, or will not, get themselves elected, it depends on gullibility of his voters. A lying politician holding an office is again different, they are not permitted to lie in context of their work to avoid scrutiny and responsibility (no matter what Trump does, it's still wrong to lie while in office).

I think Facebook has made a very sensible choice. Fake ads and fake news are bad, lying politicians are a necessary evil and it's up to us to point out their lies and just not elect lying politicians into public service.
> Trains are not more efficient than a the average car when measured in passenger mile per gallon equivalent. And trains are much less efficient when compared to a high MPG cars like a Prius.

While the article you're quoting does indeed claim that is the case, it does have (Amtrak) in parentheses.

Here's some data I have:

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/byline/kandatoshiaki/20141002-00039...

A Shinkansen eats 270,000 yen worth of electricity for a single trip from Tokyo to Osaka, and 1 kWh is 12-14.8 yen. A full train would seat about 1300 passengers.
So every passenger pays about 208 yen, which works out to about 16 kWh. To side-step awkward conversions, let's look at the electric cars with the best efficiency on https://pushevs.com/electric-car-range-efficiency-epa/, highway efficiency:

2019-2020 Jaguar I-Pace 29.1 kWh/100 km (5 passengers => 5.82 kWh/100 km per passenger)

2019 Tesla Model X 22.5 kWh/100 km (7 passengers => 3.21 kWh/100 km per passenger)

Tokyo-Osaka is 515 km by train, 506 km by car. So in the Tesla you'd use 16.2426 kWh per passenger, which is pretty much the same.

Here come the less reliable figures: this Yahoo Answers thread suggests Shinkansen are about 58% full on average. I don't have any data for cars, but I usually don't see many cars that are completely packed, but I have seen Shinkansen that were over-capacity.

I also have a feeling it would be pretty tough to attain this figure in the car. Occasionally you'd have to spend time in traffic jams, and it's a 5-6 hour ride anyway. Plus, if the Shinkansen were to go as slow as the car, it would probably use much less energy.

One more data bite I've seen is that the railway company in Germany currently uses 57% renewable energy (https://www.railway-technology.com/news/deutsche-bahn-signs-...).
There is no extradition treaty between Taiwan and China.

https://www.mac.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=FD37619195CF6DA5&s=CED28...

You are probably thinking of this. It's not an extradition treaty. It's also now widely ignored.
The phenomenon described is a significant source of social woes in every place on the planet. This is how you get overfishing, overgrazing, and other forms of overexploitation of natural resources. This is how you get people not caring about pollution prematurely killing others because hey, it's cheaper for me to burn actual trash in my stove. This is how you get companies like Uber and AirBnB, all too happy to strip mine the non-material, social commons. This is exactly why "we can't have nice things".

Sure, in a microkitchen this is just obnoxious. But this exact - not similar, but exact - pattern of thinking causes trouble everywhere. So I'm more than creeped out to see people defending it.
The French high speed lines were built between 1981 and 2017, and ongoing.
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nginx has an ad-free truly FOSS offering under BSD-2-Clause (not AGPL or SSPL) that isn't intentionally hamstrung. Their paid features are for larger and more advanced deployments. They don't try to claim a different non-commercial license for the binaries. It's definitely a massive step up compared to how Caddy operated in the past.
> due to their lack of manpower vs other languages offerings and continuous improvements

No. D failed due to a mandatory GC and the 'two standard libraries' idiocy.
The article really should have been called: "Do you have a problem? Write a DSL". I use DSL's (Domain Specific Languages) or "Little Langues" all the time to be much more productive in C++/Java/C#/...
That article says the apps will remain separate, only the backend will be the same. You don't need to separate Threads out of IG to use that unified backend.
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Keep the government out, we do not live in China. Priti Patel is trying to create a name for her self, using children as excuse
I guess they wanted a reason to fire you?

Regarding twice the salary - seems like you got as much respect as pay. That's usually how it goes.... :(
I was recently trying to set a cookie to "never" expire.

Apparently there's no good way to do this other than pick a date that's far enough out in the future.

A stackover answer gave an example setting it for 10 years. I thought I would be defensive and set it to 20 years.

But then it will immediately break because 32 bit dates wrap around in 2038!
I'm amazed by how professional PR/Community Management/marketing people can be so tone-deaf. Especially when they don't post this by themselves, but on behalf of, and most certainly with a lot of discussion in, the company.
Has anyone out there used this or have any thoughts on its functionality?
Priti Patel: “Facebook encryption threatens public safety”
> Language is infinitely malleable

I mentioned this before but my GF worked on an mmo's for tweens. Said one experiment with filters ended with a 12 year old boy writing, I'm going to stick my giraffe up your pink bunny.
I like this WikiBudget idea, how do we add our own countries?
How to Use NLP to SQL API
It's only not so helpful because -Wall is badly named and now we're forced to deal with that legacy. Ideally, -Wall would be the same as clang's -Weverything, and there'd be a -Wstandard (or something) flag for what -Wall currently does.
> Well, she just did put a post that's chastising such behavior and probably can identify a person at Google to its peers, so I'd disagree with you here.

Fair.

I'm disappointed in her blog post; she didn't even offer a systematic fix. The blog is, at best, unbalanced, and, at worst, screams public shaming.

It's just so unlike how google/facebook thinks about management in general.

So, I'd still give her some benefit of the doubt; and say that she doesn't believe in shaming/peer pressure.
Uhm, I do know what happens and it's fine? I mean yeah, today we're using X11 to push application-created images even though the protocol encourages you to render applications from lines, horribly rendered text, and ellipses or something... Btw lines can be stippled, wow!
Right, because you can totally trust the Chinese numbers...
How often do you get warnings that aren't either real bugs or trivial to fix anyway?

The problem with ignoring warnings is that they tend to accumulate and before long you can't see the ones you really do need to pay attention to. And yes that means you have to take the time to cleanup on new compilers with more warnings.
Hi! It's very great work indeed. Though I think it would be better, music theory-wise, not to mistake F for E#. For example, when I run the Chord Heaven with C# as the root, it gives C# F G#, instead of C# E# G#. Even if the frequencies of the notes are the same (in equal temperament, obviously), it doesn't convey the same harmonic meaning.
It would need toes of the same size on each side and a symmetric knee plus muscles to control it, I think it would need a leg and foot or hoove design completely independent from the outer ones, it couldn't copy or reuse the existing design, so less likely to evolve.

But if the kangooroo tail counts as a leg, it's indeed very different, but symmetric.