skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure.

For one we had a service that records video of your site visit so we knew exactly how you interacted with it. It would be no different from be standing behind you and watching your screen as you navigated a website. While the data is anonymised, I'm still morally against essentially video recording someones interactions with a site. There was never any notice that they were being recorded.

The email marketing workflows were relentless, especially on e-commerce stores that required several points of contact in order to make a purchase. We were able to build profiles on most customers by combining purchase history, personal details, and details pulled from social media to get a fairly accurate portrait of someones behaviour. For example, if someone bought engine oil, we knew that a typical bottle of engine oil would last someone, say, 6 months. The email marketing workflow would automatically send out a promotional coupon 6 months later for a discount on more engine oil. But because we were able to build profiles on people, we were able to tell that "Joe Blogs" is a motoring enthusiast and therefore the likelihood of him using up that engine oil in three months rather than six months increases by 50%, so send out the marketing materials to him quicker than the regular customers. There were very smart people working on these campaigns. Statisticians, psychologists, linguists and the like.

Because we had several points of contact with customers, having them unsubscribe from an email list wasn't bad. If you unsubscribed from the email, you would just be sent SMS notifications. If you replied STOP to that, you were sent physical mail, and after all that it was still quite easy to target you with remarking ad campaigns.

The amount of complete and utter garbage we were pouring out onto the web on a daily basis was staggering. Hundreds of pages a day that were of absolutely no use to anyone but to Google would mean that we were able to rank clients for some very serious keywords where real people needed real help but were instead being presented with crap that we'd put out that wasn't meant to actually help anyone but to get the #1 position and the sell things. And when I mean people who need help, I mean people who seriously need help. We'd push crap to rank for things like depression, bankruptcy, divorce, a whole array of legal issues.

I hated working there.
Having 2FA in 1Password is still strictly stronger than 1FA. The a leaked OTP token stays valid for about 60 seconds. Your leaked password may never change.
Yeah perhaps it should, Im new to hacker news and maybe missing the etiquette.
Microsoft’s Ready Do Contribute to OpenJDK
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They can and should. That has nothing to do with my response to your claim that they currently notice obvious discrepancies.
Facebook permanently deletes accounts of NSO Group workers
Came to ask the same question. I would love a nicely animated screensaver that has planets spinning round and highlights the current orbital configuration
Reminds me of the Death Jockeys in The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect.
@Mauran Kilom. Thank you for your criticism, especially your mention of https://letsencrypt.org/. I will look into that! And I am also very grateful that your pointed out the obvious: the red thread was missing, and I have tried to fix this by erasing large parts of the text. My english is however as it is, much to improve! :) Thank your the time!
Set up a new account, and remember not to link the new or old accounts by way of a recovery email address or using the same phone number.

It's a bit of a hassle, but most things you can transfer over between the accounts, and then just dump the old one. Lots of effort, but the only way unless you know an employee to get the block removed.
it’s only reversible through another ballot initiative

It was a Constitutional Amendment. It can replaced by another Constitutional Amendment, which can come via the Legislature or via initiative. Whichever process is used, it must be approved by popular vote, but only a simple majority.
Trimble Announces CEO Succession
Quantifying the dynamics of failure across science, startups and security
I'm from Sweden so that is what I'm aware of, and I have a hard time finding anything aspect with more benefits in the US than in Sweden. For example our unemployment benefits works almost exactly like USA (up to $550 a week in USA but not higher than you earned, up to 20000kr a month in Sweden but not higher than you earned). So I don't see how the American system is special, it seems kinda standard to me.

> The only way to obtain money without performing work is to be disabled. That is it.

Right, but getting a diagnosis from a psychologist that you are depressed or similar and can't work is not very hard. I've also received this kind of aid before I got a job so I know.
Quelle excellente nouvelle ! Ça en laissera plus pour nous :-D
lol yep. Incidentally I happen to be reading that right now 0_0
The interesting thing about this is that this is only the third CEO of the publicly-traded company in four decades.
>> Do you realize that there was a time when it was "truth" that the earth was flat?

This is a bad argument that ignores the concept in the GP post, that of intent, and instead addresses an unchallenged point that humans don’t know everything yet.
What scum Della-Vedova is. His ‘brain fade’ story is complete bollocks too. Who realises they’ve accidentally failed to destroy the full set of rockets and then because they’re scared of being demoted doesn’t turn them in and instead sells them to someone in a bike gang.
I can second Dbmate.

The process of a sql migration management is pretty simple and like other comments it's not hard to write something yourself which works well I just prefer to use something a little more battle tested in the deployment process.

Also it's a go app so you don't need to pull down a stupid amount of dependencies for it to work just pull from it's github release and mark it as executable.
I was surprised to learn that India is the only country[1] to ban the production and import of Foie Gras. Very few people would even know about the dish in India.

But anyway, I hope this torturous practice comes to an end worldwide.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras_controversy
Luna being the defining example of what a moon is, it would be interesting if its designation would change!
Heh, connecting to serial terminals is the only reason I even have screen installed nowadays.

I wish there were a port of cu to Linux, but I haven't come across one yet.
I like your insight. Narrative is fine.

Narrative with conclusion is challenging to deal with for large swathes of the population, myself included.
See my answer to one of your sibling comments.
this is all fine and dandy, but when do you think will we have anti-grav drives?
Trying to get foreign students (outside of EU) to pay tuition fees in university is not damaging to anything. On the contrary, it is flabbergasting that they get free tuition at the moment.

Of course the issue is that free tuition has just been ruled to be a constitutional requirement and changing the constitution is a big hurdle.
I came here to say the same thing.

But it reads much better in the original French.
Thanks for the correction. I'm an Australian infrequent visitor to D.C.
That’s not really true. The other 3 “fundamental” forces are irreducible yet still entirely explained by the standard model.
What core of the education system do you feel was under attack? The ability to assess how much a student learned about a specific subject?
People seem to forget that the initial problem that led to the term “fake news” being used was actual fake, completely made up out of thin air, news.

“Pope endorses Donald trump” being the classic example

Not lying with statistics
Alternatives to Google's Dead Products
Is it me or is there much more Australian content on HN these days?
GoDaddy Releases Automatic Canary Deployments Tool for Kubernetes
It's interesting to see that, given that in modern times, Microsoft is the only tech giant that can still build user-empowering software. Not Windows, that's getting dumbed down UX-side. But Office suite still includes Access and Excel, the latter being probably the single highest productivity booster in modern companies (to the chagrin of IT departments).

And you're essentially saying that this is already another order of magnitude worse than what came before Microsoft. Now I wish I was able to see that older software in action.
Yeah Why not? It’s pure narrative without conclusion.

another source, in this case the ny times, would be equally free to publish the statement:

“Vice President Biden was overseeing American policy toward Ukraine at the time, and he did push for the removal of the country’s top prosecutor, who was seen as corrupt or ineffectual by the United States and Western European governments. But there is no evidence he did so to benefit Hunter Biden or the oligarch who owns Burisma, Mykola Zlochevsky.”
How can we get the best ROI for ERP implementation?
UK Government Faces Court over ‘Biased’ Visa Algorithm
Yes. I also need to remember when sharing projects with programmers to ask for similar: I appreciate your help spotting the many flaws—but I'd be curious to hear about any bits you liked, too!
I've recently changed a habit of mine where I amass a huge list of bookmarks or files that I'll "read later". I've owned a Kindle for a while now and recently had the idea that I can use the sendtokindle extension to send and store my articles for offline reading.
I find it's easier to read the content and my Kindle is usually with me for times I want to read unlike my laptop with all the weight and distractions that come with it.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle
A simple CRM, by just supporting labels, lets you implement pretty easily any scheme like you have described.

Hierarchical labels (like gmail) are IMO the gold standard that every bit of software should implement on every type of object.
Its supposed to be more of a mental endurance challenge than a haunted house. A lot of people that try it are either people that run their own extreme haunted houses (which are generally nothing like this one) or people into extreme sports or other challenges that somewhat replicate intense military training similar to special forces selection. The guy claims some actual special forces people have gone through it. From the videos and the vague descriptions it sounds like a SERE school simulator with the exception that in this case they keep going until you quit and then you get sent home, whereas in SERE school you definitely "lose" over and over again, but they fully intend for people to make it through. Also at the manor in addition to the SERE like torture they seem to focus a lot on making people eat gross stuff or do gross things kind of like fear factor.

To sign up you have to watch at least 3 hours of videos and then go through an intense interview process. Don't know if its true but the guy claims that they tell you everything that they are going to do to you before you start.

Its not for me but unless they are lying about the way it works it seems like its impossible to not know what you're getting yourself into.
I work in advertising, and have been for over 15 years. Two points to make:

a) Advertising is (and always has been), fundamentally, the application of data science to drive return-on-investment decisions. Any company that can do data science and understands RoI will eventually converge to be an advertising company. Calls for Google to "find a product to sell instead of being an advertising company" are calls for Google to throw away their data science expertise. Not gonna happen.

b) Breaking adblockers is a technically solved problem; just serve web pages as server-rendered blobs. (Think 'flash pages' of yore.) We're not doing it yet because the proportion of adblock users is still too small to make this profitable.

But if this proportion changes in the future, so will the web. So calls for more adblocking are just calls for a vastly more closed and proprietary web than today.

That is probably not what you really want.
The animals are literally force fed with a tube. The animal's liver swells to many times its normal size. I am not sure what you are talking about. There is a reason why this practice is controversial to begin with. Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
Very funny thought to imagine plants panicking when it rains.
Is there such a thing as "non-military rocket launchers"?
Thus journey in spirituality starts.
Look behind you... OOGA BOOGA
> At that time, it was making people crazy to think that an object could remotely affect another one.

Astrology?
Yep. At 2:03 in this video clip :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wzXqa_2KZ0
Controlled Digital Lending Takes Center Stage at Library Leaders Forum
This has to be my favorite story on this topic today. Triumph and tragedy in the same instance - tragedy that the person mentioned didn't learn how to use Access properly and triumph in that the person overcame, adapted, and innovated to find a solution.

The second sentence of your post contains both joy and heartache and - in my opinion - could stand alone as a short story for the tech crowd almost on par with the record holder for shortest short story ever.

These are some of the golden nuggets that I used to read Slashdot for 15 years ago and now find on HN.
If you do a Hohmann transfer — the most basic sort, used by most Δv calculations — from Earth to the Sun, yes. But if you give yourself solar escape velocity (a savings of about 59% in your hyperbolic Earth escape velocity, which works out to a huge savings of about 18.9 km/s Δv if you do your burn in Low Earth Orbit), then once you get very far from the Sun you can stop yourself virtually for free, and fall straight down. The whole trip would take decades though.

The same basic idea works for reaching any inner object orbiting any body.

In practice you can probably do better by aiming for a planet and slingshotting, but that gets more complicated.
This guy and his haunted house were covered in "Dark Tourist" (Netflix). The whole thing seemed more brutal than scary (at least in the traditional sense of "haunted").

I did get the impression participants were pretty well informed about what they were getting into though.
System provides cooling with no electricity
You guys are disagreeing on facts, or at least entering muddy territory.

> The prosecutor said he was forced out for leading a corruption probe into Hunter Biden's company

> there is no evidence he did so to benefit Hunter Biden
I did this while looking for a new apartment.
In 2001, Shane Della-Vedova, a military captain in the army explosives team, was asked to dispose of ten M72 shoulder-fired rocket launchers from an Australian Defence Force base. On the 8th of June, Shane spent the day blowing up M1 rockets that the Defence Force claimed were unsafe or out of date. Apparently, he overlooked ten rocket launchers that were still in the car boot––driving away that day with them in the back of his car.

I don't exactly get it. He was tasked with destroying 10 rocket launchers, and claimed he forgot to destroy all 10 of them? Does he think this is believable at all?
Cool, I didn't know it existed, but I'll check it out from time to time!

What was the main reason for requests to open source the project? I'm curious because personally I don't really mind if a job board is open or closed source.

Thanks for your work, by the way.
> Anyone that checks out historical records will discover that there was no Inquisition in most of Europe.

I don't know what the protestant countries had, or how they called it, but they were definitely doing something wrong because the casualties in Spain pale in comparison to those in Germany. It seems that the inquisition saved lifes, after all.

> hundreds of thousands of Moors and Jews fled or were expelled, and that only tens of thousands returned.

What you say is true, but you have to give the numbers: From 200k Jews living there, 100k were expelled and from those 50k returned. The conversion terms offered by the Catholic Kings allowed for quite a comfortable life in the peninsula, and you had to be a really fanatic believer not to take it. It seems, by the way, that you are talking in terms of race and not religion, which I find quite amusing.

> anyone that checks out historical records will discover that the Jewish ghettos were in fact established by Isabel and Ferdinand, the monarchs who also established the Inquisition and, a few years later, expelled the hundreds of thousands of Jewish people and Moors from their lands.

No, the Jewish ghettos were stablished by the Jewish population itself. Spinoza (whose parents were expelled) wrote about that; they were building an empire within an empire, which caused social friction and translated into popular killings or pogroms. One of the earliest tasks of Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordova was the protection of such converts from the mobs. The stablishment of the inquisition attempted to solve the problem institutionally.

> One of the few true statements in your comment is that many empires, not only the Spanish Empire, have been founded on genocide.

I didn't say nor imply that. To say that the Spanish empire is rooted in genocide, at least to the extent of the English and Belgian empire, or nazi Germany is laughable.

You speak with such harshness about the past, but you do it from the eyes of a pathologist, grounded from today's vision (which owes, by the way, a lot to the School of Salamanca and its contributions to natural law and the so called human rights) and so you have no autority, not only to judge it, but to use it as any sort of argument against the current secesionist situation.
Race Condition in Web Applications
Would be much better to spend that money on another VC funding round for WAaaS (Wiping Asses as a Service)!
The incentive is already set, city limits are already set, eventually they will fill up and then people will be motivated to build up a bit.

Sure, fundamentally nothing is sustainable because eventually the useful energy gradients where life can thrive will run out as the universe expands into a cold dark empty vacuum.

But before that let's try to spend the already fixed tax income a bit more efficiently. Compact cities can be more efficient than the endless sea of cul-de-sacs and occasional golf/sports fields.

That said, I have no real horse in this race. If the people of those particular cities want to live like that, let them live like that. Self-determination is important. If they feel that they don't want better mass transit and less sitting-in-traffic, no worries.
You're using emacs. Nothing can help you.
Cool! Seems similar to the Aho-Corasick algorithm, which was designed for exactly this task (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aho%E2%80%93Corasick_algorithm)
You should feel relief that you are only hacking in emacs and not paying to be tortured by a psychic.
You don't discredit anti-vaxxers with speech. Same with flat-earthers. Same with fascists. You know what works? De-platforming them. Not giving them a voice in the public discourse. Not taking anti-vaxxers seriously and placing them at the same level as doctors because ''both sides'' and ''free speech''.

What has been proven again and again is that bad information drives out good, because it's so, so much easier to write bad information. So you need to keep a tight lid on people who spread actual bad information. If not you might end up as the US, with a reality-tv star as president.
Ever tried EntityFramework in .Net ? It's amazingly easy and there are 2 ways:

- Database-First

- Code-First
I'd support splitting California into as many smaller states as possible

You don't cure a cancer by just cutting it into smaller pieces.

Among other things, that would just replicate CA's legacy of inept representation in the Senate many times over.
If i understand it correctly, its an rather interesting system working as intended. As an open "community" (to use the term very very loosely) image boards have an intrinsic problem of how to keep away unwanted behavior, and with that people, as they are designed to have as low of a barrier of entry as possible. Here the definition of unwanted behavior just differs, the focus seems to be that there is no drastic shift in user base and atmosphere. If you look at an image board a decade ago and compare it to now, the goal of a successful imageboard seems to be to have the impression when coming back as if you have never left. You cant achieve this with just (voluntary) moderators. Something like the far right taking over /r/europe/ over night with the moderators being overrun by to many new posters and old users leaving as a result would be the super gau for an image board. So how do you keep away drama and people who "feel the need to correct every wrong"? Thats how you get some of the profanity and racism. Making unwanted people want to leave instead of relying on unsustainable bans. If you look at the historical development of 4chan, the founding of /pol/ was in 2011, if memory serves right, that was shortly after 4chan introduced stricter moderating of outright illegal content. While granted necessary and the right thing to do, with that the last thing that kept people seriously engaged in the far right away was gone. As such the only option left to protect the remaining boards was giving them their own. Put differently imageboards are designed in such a way that filters for rather specific users by making sure that everyone else would never want to be associated with one and be disgusted by the sight. To give a real example, remember the guy in the first semester of university who brought up streaking in casual conversations and browsed old /b/ in the middle of a packed learnroom not giving a shit? Thats who they are looking for. So if you look at the history of 4chan, apparently you can either have an image board which gets spammed with gore and child pornography or you get one with an active far right userbase. The creation of /pol/ is in my eyes a direct result of former filter strategies no longer working. There is apparently very little that can disgust a Nazi. Who would have thought?
I'd imagine it's along the same lines as good police officers who sift through all the photographs, video, and audio recordings that conflict with their moral compass.
“(Almost) the same SQL as the big boy toys" was the most redeeming quality of Access. It somehow managed to be beginner accessible and productive without dumbing down, reinventing the wheel skillset lock-in.

Had Microsoft gone for a more custom interface like Filemaker instead of just nicely packaging up more general tools, my entire life might be very different and probably not better, even 15 years after having touched Access for the last time.
Who forgets they have a boot full of rocket launchers? Heads should have rolled in the army for this lapse, but makes you wonder if weapons go missing all the time.
I can’t help thinking that this has little to do with foie gras, but is part of wider push by vegetarians to ban meat eating. You could argue that an animal had a bad time for any meat.
I just found the perfect way to sum this all up and I'm making a prediction: NRA ads will be banned on twitter but Planned Parenthood ads will not. The total lack of self reflection and thinking on part of Twitter is really something else. Facebook made the right decision, Twitter made the wrong decision. It cannot be more obvious.
Access running on your PC is because it comes bundled with MS Office suite, which is installed for you to have Word, Excel, PowerPoint and perhaps Outlook available. It's a great thing Microsoft didn't make it easy to unbundle them all, otherwise lot of places with Access wouldn't have it.