skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Who's blogging and what platform do you use
User eitland wrote:
> I wish we could have a thread (possibly even a monthly thread here, like who is hiring) where people could mention their blogs, web sites etc.
If your current investors want to pump the stocks up before using the pump to offload them into pension plans and the like, it makes sense.
I would be more than happy to pay for gmail, google docs, and an entire suite of google products with the absolute guarantee legally that they could not and would not either collect, or sell my information as part of that payment.

I highly doubt that would ever happen though, considering data is the new oil.

Oh well, one can dream.
This opinion leaves out many of the parts of living in modern society that go beyond what we can choose.
Just as a quick example, in the US, you don't choose to get sick and fall into medical debt -- but capitalism underpins the health system that induces that medical debt (which is a major contributor to poverty [0].)

It seems like you may be confusing the situation of the people in your immediate circle with the larger, systemic problems that are directly related to the accumulation/hoarding of wealth.

To your last point -- the majority of people are not able to simply "make better choices." No one chooses to be born into poverty. No one chooses to lose their job. No one chooses to be ill. It is exceedingly harder, year after year, for working-class people to even have the ability to improve their lives meaningfully.

[0]: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/09/12/medicare-for...
Sounds like a good way to burn through a million dollars.
More details on the mac improvements https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red...
The brutality under the Bolsheviks was on a different scale than what occurred under the Tsar. According to the Gulag Archipelago, during the 1905-07 anti-socialist purges, fewer people were killed in one year than were killed in single days in the mass executions that took place in the USSR in 1937-38.

Another source on the comparative brutality of the CHEKA:

https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=ohiou13987...

>>As great as the Okhrana’s reputation may have inflated to, however, its repressiveness never equaled that of the Cheka or later apparatuses. Okhrana agents, for example, did not determine or carry out execution orders, nor did they engage in systematic torture; in contrast, the Cheka’s brutality is often exemplified in s actions during the ‘Red Terror’, during which five hundred perceived enemies were executed in just one day.18

The brutality of the Bolsheviks mirrored exactly the inhumanity of the Marxist ideology which animated them. Marxism was utterly hostile to propertied classes. The crude narrative generalized huge populations of people as victimizers, based on a single superficial dimension - their possession of property, and condemned them all to any punishment the proletariat deemed fit.

The class warfare ideology of Marxism was premised on highly prejudicial assumptions about wealthy classes that rationalized extreme class-based bigotry. The dehumanization and bigotry enabled a level of inhumanity/brutality that didn't occur under the more traditional/humanistic Czarist state.
Yeah, and I was gonna say, "McKinsey's same study revealed that the other half of banks are all McKinsey clients in good standings..."
Thanks for that link. I'm afraid that events have moved faster than me. The last time I looked into this (6 months ago or so), EES was still standing behind Obbink on the various accusations related to him and Hobby Lobby, which at that point merely involved authenticating papyri sold at auction (the same lot in which the new Sappho was discovered a few years ago).

EDIT:

I see that Obbink claims that the "documents being used against him" are fraudulent. Whether he means the contract or the EES records is hard to say.

https://variantreadings.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/obbink-s...
Some customers also believe they want this: CDNs are often about both performance (content closer to user) && reduced origin load. Caching a (too!) broad set of error codes “achieves this”, with the caveat of a poisoned cache.
Maybe I’m naïve, but to me the word “capitalism” is not an “economic policy” that can be changed through deliberate action, but rather a framework of analysis that makes predictions on supply, demand, and pricing in markets that are varying levels of free.

I’m confused when people in my generational cohort say things like “capitalism is unfair” or “capitalism sucks”, in reference to the system of government and benefits we have currently. Every economy has had forces that were usefully explainable with capitalism, even the soviet economy in the 80s. Markets abound, and capitalism is a powerful explanatory tool, so to me “let’s end capitalism” sounds a bit like “let’s end gravity”.

For somebody more in the know, this can’t be what people are meaning, right? Are they just trying to bargain for a “better“ social contract with fewer free markets? Any idea why they associate this with “ending capitalism”?
Thank you for pointing that out! This makes my search life and sticking with DDG a lot more easier than before.
So long as they don't continue to sell my data while also taking my money, peace.
Speaking as a member of one of the many W3C working groups, I would say that it isn't desirable. When designing a standard, we want to have multiple competing implementations of the standard to ensure it is well defined and understood by users.

Should there be one implementation, we wouldn't be able to say with confidence that we have succeeded for that goal.
I'm happy to pay to Google, but I would be happy if in return it would stop mining my emails. Still, I know that it's too much to ask for.
I was an undergrad in CS as the bubble burst (graduated Dec. 2002). I was planning to attend graduate school in CS when I graduated but the market was flooded with people laid of from their dotcom jobs going back to school. I went abroad and was a volunteer teacher for a few years, then came home and found a nice entry-level web development job. Very happy that I got to see the world before I settled into a career.
Amazing work by my colleagues! I hope we'll not regress this with WebRender ;)

Celebration aside, one particular note (that was known, but still) makes me sad:

> It’s worth noting that the ability to assign an IOSurface to the CALayer contents property is not properly documented. Nevertheless, all major browsers on macOS now make use of this API.

So we end up in a situation where using the most efficient way to display contents now relies on undocumented/private APIs. At any point Apple can break them, or punish us for using them.
I just started https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21324420
Private Equity Drives Surprise Medical Billing
It seems extremely prejudicial and even driven by a bigoted and hateful motivation to emphasize the purchaser of the fragment when the story is really about the person who is accused of illegally taking and selling the fragments.

It would be like writing the headline like this "Oxford is Officially and International Illegal Historical Artifacts Dealing Organized Criminal Enterprise." if one were to have a bigoted bias against Oxford.

When one takes a step back the far worse villain then Hobby Lobby, is definitely Oxford, which was apparently complicit in this type of activity by way of insufficient controls to prevent it. But even that would be ridiculous in many ways, but not as ridiculous as blaming the other victim Hobby Lobby, that was defrauded by the Professor who also used Oxford's credentials and authority to make the sale.
https://www.google.com/settings/storage can be at least a little helpful to see storage usage across Google's main properties.
That was the first sentence of my reply. The latter part clearly questions the relevance of the parent comment.
Singapore has 0% GDP growth and even need a loan from IMF to invest in infrastructure that's laughable for a developed country.
And yet, they still have ads. It’s not clear what I’m paying for. They aren’t just annoying, they are a clear violation of basic journalism—you don’t publish things that will scare the advertisers away, which is almost all news.
While nothing is impervious that really has nothing to do with Equifax. Equifax is a case of gross negligence and malfeasance. There were no less than three security audits of Equifax going back as early as 2014. Every audit indicated major security vulnerabilities and Smith disregarded these audits each time.
an interesting feature would be to have either Github or a third party "ping" projects with issues to see if the author is still a) responsive and b) interested in maintaining the project.

obviously it would be best if Github itself implemented this, potentially along with an automated process to indicate that the author is no longer responsive/interested in maintaining the project (and potentially facilitate a transfer of "authority").

a third party system trying to determine the same might be ignored as spam by the author, and multiple third party systems (potentially jockeying for supremacy in the space) might exacerbate this.

if folks think this would be valuable, i might pursue this as a project (after petitioning Github to do it themselves)
This has not been true in America since at least before WWII and the GI Bill.

Latin was never a part of the standard primary school curriculum.
Man alive I lived on that site during those years. If you don't remember or if it was before your time: people anonymously posted internal emails, layoff notices, and so on. Some of them (the Cerner "tick-tock" email comes to mind - though it looks like it appeared on a Yahoo board first) were legendary. And the FC forums...oofah.
“Please do not think that the case is being dealt with as just another extradition request,” wrote a lawyer for the UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in 2011, without explaining why, or why the CPS would spent the next few years arguing against their Swedish colleagues questioning Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in order to resolve the matter. In 2013, when Swedish prosecutors proposed to drop extradition proceedings against Assange, it was the CPS who persuaded them to continue.

In 2017, having finally questioned Assange after refusing to do so for more than six years, the Swedish authorities dropped the investigation altogether. Both the accusers and the accused were denied any chance of justice through the incomprehensible delaying tactics of the prosecutors in both countries.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2018/07/25/wikileaks-political-ror...
Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ludlam
Why are these companies allowed to hold my identity information? I have no form of credit and yet these companies are still allowed to keep track of me and store my information in an insecure fashion. I hate how idiots control the show in this country.
They just launched the first couple satillites. Its all internal testing on non-finished hardware as of right now. Far away from an beta.
This happened to us a couple weeks back. One day I woke up and our domain had been blocked from sending and receiving. We upgraded our account temporarily to get phone chat support, and what happened was they added some filters which unintentionally got triggered by incoming spam. It was completely their fault, and they fixed it in a few minutes, but they couldn't give me much more detail. Not enough for us to leave Mailgun -- everything else has been great -- but it was very concerning, and I am sure many other accounts were affected.
It speaks to what may happen when the orginal haskell developers leave. Highly likely it will be rewritten.
NATA Recommends Against over Specialization in Sports
And you can’t trust the government to regulate business either between the revolving door of government and private industry and each party is biased for and against certain industries.
It's possible they were already planning to make those sales. Executives who can potentially have inside information often need to tell the SEC far ahead of time about sales they intend to make.
Paying 2 dollars is not for the "wealthy". Nice try.
No, Eric holder's legacy will be not going after bankers because that could hurt the economy. His solution was to rather leave the criminals in place instead of suffering any sort of short term pain (if that).
It's basically therapy for corporate executives, delivered via powerpoint, with a healthy side of blame insurance. And yeah, it's expensive.
Episode 5: Customer requests can send your startup down the wrong path
He didn't say a word.

Maybe because you stopped in the middle of the street and jumped out of your car and then accosted him?
Exactly.

> All while building the
talent and the advanced data-analytics infrastructure required to compete

Guess who, among the top consulting groups is currently investing a lot in data-analysis at the moment? Yes, McKinsey.
I never realized how many apps were trying to use bluetooth until these new notifications started to pop up. I appreciate this update as well.
The Big Change in Blame
I don't need to read the entire corpus of Marxist literature to conclude that Marxian economics is quackery. A few choice statements from Marx, demonstrating his economic literacy and belief in basic economic fallacies like Ludditism, is quite enough.

>>the mere indication of a historical difficulty within the field of political economy is good enough for you to call marx an illiterate quack

Claiming automation would reduce wages is a basic fallacy that economic laymen believe in. No one with even a moderate grasp of economics would believe this. He was a quack.

>>whatever helps you feel good about your brain i guess

You are promoting a man who had an amateur understanding of economics, and whose doctrines wherever they came to be adopted led to tyrannies the likes of which the world had never seen before.
No offense, but while this is clearly embarrassing and incompetent, it's not a huge gotcha.

If password auth is a speed bump. And once the physical/network barriers are breached, it would just be a matter of time.
> Web socket inspector - In Firefox DevEdition, the Network monitor now has a new “Messages” panel, which appears when you are monitoring a web socket connection (i.e. a 101 response)

Yay, this is great news. Thanks guys! Nice to not have to revert to Chrome for websocket debugging.
If you bring a letter to to post office, you have sent it, but that does not mean it is delivered. It takes the postal service some time before the letter is eventually delivered. during that time the letter is sent, but not delivered. Email works exactly like paper mail.

If there is a security related issue on the receiver side (like an expired certificate), the sender (Mailgun) may hold the email and retry a couple of times. Eventually the issue may get resolved and the email will be delivered, or the sender may choose to deliver the email without encryption (unless MTA-STS is used, of course). During this whole process the email is sent, but not delivered.

I understand that the status 'sent' may be confusing to you, but calling the companies 'trash' just because the email protocol from 1982 does not uphold your standards is a bit harsh.
Ask HN: Good cupcakes in SF that I can order online?
Hi HN-ers,

I'd like to order some cupcakes online as a thank you to a mentor of mine based in SF and wondering if anyone has recommendations?

Thanks
> This is a surprisingly common take on the literature, with an unlikely consensus among both the conservative and radical left, libertarians and conservative libertarians, and even many on the conservative side.

I hate asking but mind citing some sources?

Economic consensus is that labor pool operates on supply/demand, so greatly increase the supply through immigration will reduce demand and therefore reduce salaries. This part of the reason for why doctors have such high salaries: their supply is limited because only X number of people can become doctors each year and demand is very high.

Saying that an increased supply of workers does not affect highly commoditized jobs like cooks and construction works is an unusual claim and I would appreciate a source so i can review their arguments.
The problem with Gmail is that it lacks basic cleanup tools such as sorting by size and you are forced to waste your time with tricks like larger:20mb.
True but run of the mill languages like this always tend to culminate in codebases that are hard to maintain and necessitates an eventual rewrite due to accumulation of complexity.

Haskell is hard to learn and hard to find developers for, but the trade off is incredible safety and a type system that promotes good design and easy refactoring of inevitable design flaws.

To achieve such a thing with other languages you need a highly disciplined team/culture and you need lots of time (meaning less hard deadlines and time crunches) and willingness to invest time into refactoring.
It will be interesting to see in the report which trackers sneak past my uMatrix rules. :)
When and how did Apple start communicating those warnings for macOS?

I'm and Apple registered dev. I remember in 2016-2017 when it was announced for iOS and that was just 2-3 years ago. For macOS I think the first time I heard about it was about a year ago.

I would expect such a big deprecation to be announced at least a couple of years in advance if not more, but Apple generally does a terrible job at letting you know what will happen 2+ years down the road.
Don't forget it starts out with "universal". It's not just bound to Earth. We have greater aims than that ;-)
SP500 tripled in the last 10 years.
I don't know about other usages, but energy consumption while using YouTube is important to me (usually have something playing while I work) so I just did a quick measurement.

Safari 13.0.2 versus Firefox 70.0 versus Chrome 77.0

Playing the same YouTube video at the same quality (1080p) and watching Energy Impact in Activity Monitor while the video played, I saw averages of: Safari used 20, Firefox used 45, Chrome used 45.

So on that task at least Safari is still king, but Firefox is on par with Chrome.
After Planetary Resources, ConsenSys Space unveils TruSat satellite tracker
Thanks for building a successful business around an open-source product, this is praise worthy.

Is it possible to generate a static site with Ghost 3.0? or does one have to use gatsby with a headless Ghost 3.0 instance?
So the pronouns thing is literally about being nice to people and respecting their ability to define their own identity. It's less "we need more than two sets of gendered pronouns" and more "people use pronouns other than he or she and we want to make space for that".
Gmail stopped reading emails a while back:
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en
It does not allow notes, only login/password.

I use it to sync passwords with my phone. I like that I can use a fingerprint to unlock the file on my phone (instead of passphrase). I used to put silly passwords on sites I didn't care about (variants on a common password), but now I systematically generate a random password for all sites because there is no loss of convenience.
Google does not mine your emails.

https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/ensuring-...

Disclosure: I work for google on G Suite, but not on Gmail.
Yeah, protesting against inequality is pretty dumb. He could just solve it by frying the software engineer if he just tried and put in a little effort.
Verizon’s 5G network can’t cover an entire basketball arena, either
Can you explain how Mozilla entering into a partnership is the same as vouching? Did they do any particular vetting or analysis, or was this just a marketing partnership?
It seems like the unstated larger problem here (in the blog article at least, I haven't read the paper) is that cached pages are served that do not match the full HTTP request. The problem isn't just that error pages are being cached, but that certain HTTP headers that should change the resulting page from the server are being ignored when it comes to determining identical requests. Even if no one is maliciously using this feature to cause error pages to be paged, the cache is still breaking the website if it causes a different page to appear than would have been served directly from the server!
I doubt the rules have changed much on his watch. The basic laws regarding theft have stayed more or less the same in England on his watch. These ancient manuscripts did not belong to Obbink, they belonged to the Egypt Exploration Society and Obbink was merely employed to take care of them, and had no right to sell them. The facts seem pretty clear to me.

As another poster said, putting "hobby lobby" in the title was not meant to denigrate anyone, it is in fact the correct description of the facts because the Hobby Lobby company actually purchased the manuscripts.

As far as value goes, I am not sure how much these texts were worth, I doubt they were worth nothing. And obviously, low value is not an excuse for stealing. Unless the Egypt Exploration society completely disclaims ownership of the manuscripts (e.g., they toss them in the trash), these things are their property and cannot be taken, regardless of their supposed market value.

Now one can argue that the Egypt Exploration Society themselves stole the stuff from Egypt. That may be true, a lot of the ancient things in English museum are stolen, but I do not know the details for these particular manuscripts. If the Hobby Lobby founder had his museum in Egypt and put the manuscripts there he might call himself a heroic righter of historic wrongs, but he doesn't so that is not really an issue.

I am not sure exactly why are you complaining about bigotry.

BTW, for those that cannot read the nyt article, the NYPost more or less copied it.
https://nypost.com/2019/10/17/renowned-oxford-professor-accu...

Note to the NY Times: your paywalls are forcing innocent people to read the NY Post!
That exists. Sign up for GSuite for a single seat.
Sure, lets flip it around for gun control. The same argument applies. The rest of the developed world is absolutely correct not to agree with American gun policy. It's dangerously antiquated and has failed to adapt to changing times and improvements in technology. Other western countries have experienced revolutions and years of conflict far exceeding that of the US, yet the US is the only one to cling to guns so tightly.

History is meant to be studied so that we do not repeat past mistakes. It is not meant to be used an excuse to continue to make them.

Also, you absolutely do not need to be versed in Chinese history to disagree with forced organ harvesting, forced abortion, "re-education" (read internment) camps for Muslims, mass government surveillance, social credit systems, etc.
Reminded of this line from Paranoid Park: "Grownups do stuff for money. There is no other reason."
I have two blogs [0][1]. For my main blog I use a Perl script that's far from ready for public release. For the tumblelog [1] I wrote a static site generator [2] that's available via GitHub

On the main blog I write about technical stuff, and solutions. The tumblelog is mostly links to interesting things I've read on the Internet with now and then short book reviews and some photos I have taken.

[0] http://johnbokma.com/blog/

[1] http://plurrrr.com/

[2] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
I was under the impression that this was a side goal of the servo project. Of course now it looks like it is it's own thing: https://servo.org/

Does anyone know if servo is supposed to be related to Firefox in some way, or if it is always meant to be independent?
Concerns about rampant pollution were a significant contributor to the fall of communism in East Germany.
What proof is there that he did it use Starlink for real? Considering he turned his twitter account into a joke [1] after SEC investigation [2].

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1176530527290941441

[2] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-219