skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve long thought this is an issue of changing definitions. To anyone who was buying cell phone data plans when it was charged by the byte (and later in tiers of bytes with insane overage charges), “unlimited data” was easily understood to mean no overage charges, no per byte fees.

But somewhere along the way (or perhaps as an unfortunate consequence of not seeing far enough ahead to always throttle unlimited plans) the definition in consumer minds also seemed to include no speed limits either.
What about motorized desks that allow you to go from sitting to standing? I'm not standing all day, and I'm not sitting all day. Plus I take a walk at least once a day. It's helped me tremendously to have one.

I suppose it won't help that doctor sell his chairs, though.
That's probably more of a distinction between individualism and collectivism, than democracy per se.
If you are the only device in the network, yes.
rather tragic over-reach I feel. I hope the law is challenged down the road.
Even running just once a week could significantly lower your risk of death
This is just the author trying to use this platform to sell his own product.

Nothing he describes is any different than the sellers on the internet that promise you extra product for a 5 star rating.
> Selling your positions because of this would be a misinformed decision.

That is why I specified moving. That should not be parsed as "sell everything".

My concern would not be losing my money/positions. My concern is Robinhood losing its license and then being stuck on a comically long cue while they hire 5 under-motivated temps to handle hundred of thousands of account transfers. Their customer support is already terrible now. I can only imagine what that incompetence + financial collapse + end of operations would look like.

I am assuming the prospect of being locked out of your accounts for several weeks/months would be stressful, not to mention the monumental task that may be involved in getting certain records back in place for tax season.
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Scan Container Images for Vulnerabilities in Azure Security Center
This is pretty true for every artist out there. If you code for the passion and want to survive on donations then it's quite close to being artist.
Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Found in RConfig
By the way, my account on HN was banned by Dan after the author of this article complained to the mods. Here’s the follow-up email the esteemed Stanford prof sent to me:

“ Hahahahaha you are now banned from Hacker News.

For any requests for my time from those outside of the Stanford community please contact my assistant Jessica Method: jmethod@stanford.edu

Jo Boaler
The Nomellini-Olivier Professor of Education
Neurosciences Institute Faculty Affiliate
Stanford Graduate School of Education
room 326, CERAS, 520 Galvez Mall
Stanford University, CA 94305-3009

phone: 650-723-4076

joboaler@stanford.edu”
UAC's compatibility workaround is privilege exemption, not emulation. It is not like TrustedInstaller was suddenly introduced in Windows 6.
> I'd bet that next to none of these employees would quit and toss away their fat paycheck over climate change.

So quitting is the only acceptable solution to disagreeing with your company? That'd ridiculous.
An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect [video]
No

Its harder to leave a job that pays well, with good benefits and great work / life balance above all
>That is completely understandable because where are they going to store all of this data.

Who is "they"? If it's the users, simple. Either on your harddisk or RAM (temporary).
For reference, Bloomberg terminal costs $24,000 per year.
Yes. But wouldn't it be better to deal with that individual when it's necessary? Give everyone what they pay for and if someone abuses it, deal with that person.
They aren't doing that, in places I've seen, they just take your payment and let you go away with that. (I've never paid myself, but I've seen other customers do so)

If it's raw bitcoin, they couldn't even be sure that the transaction is a valid one (that the wallet has the funds in the first place, not even talking about double spending). I suspect they use some kind of third party like Coinbase, and that there aren't really using bitcoin at all (and just use Coinbase as a bank) but I'm not sure.
Arweave’s Permaweb cheaply hosts sites and apps forever. A16Z and USV invest
See, this is either a serious proposal (reducing global fertility) or it isn’t. If fertility reduction is one of the means necessary to avert what is, allegedly, an existential crisis for civilization I don’t see how a “voluntary” program gets it done. I’m certainly not going to volunteer. Do I get socially shamed later for having kids (the fiancé and I want at least 3, hopefully more depending on career timing)? It’s also a little strange to outright claim that more education for women means lower fertility. I understand that that is usually the result, but it seems to run against a lot of the equity rhetoric I run into wherein the goal is actually to preserve a woman’s right to have a family while maintaining a career.
Why can't reddit replace facebook as a notice board?
As a random observer I always thought that a linear text based OS would be good for blind people, basically what the CLI is but with more metadata, a tree structure so things not of interest could be skipped, eg a long list of filenames. A CLI with folding.
IPv6 for Azure Virtual Network is now generally available
Hiking up the rates from 10% to 15% gets you an additional 5% in returns over the course of the next year. Whereas if the English government decides to stop propping up the currency, you're going to see a significant loss, within the next few days or weeks.

Which is exactly what happened in this case. Anyone who bought pounds in order to lend it at 15%, would have taken an immediate 15% loss over the next week instead.

Unless you want to speculate, you're better off waiting for the market to settle instead of diving in during turbulent times.
The fact that I disagree with you doesn’t make my argument emotional.

I did not suggest forcing anyone to move. I suggest that if you cannot afford a home, you should go somewhere you can, rather than stealing homes from people who have bought them already through confiscatory taxation.

There is no reason why people need to be displaced from their homes if jobs are created elsewhere.

If people in full time employment are unable to afford housing, they are being paid too little, and should not have accepted the job, thus forcing employers to offer more.

You have stated that you think people should be driven out of their homes even if work can be moved elsewhere. (“The solution is both”).

That seems pretty reprehensible, and I’m curious why you think it?
Were you surprised? The job is not that different in what is asked of you and what is given to you than any other unskilled work. We just have a tendency to think of doctors as smarter than auto mechanics when they both are pattern-matching repair jobs, and lab techs as more capable than CVS cashiers when they are both just routine operator jobs.
Azure generation 2 virtual machines (VMs) are now generally available
U.S. Admits for First Time That China Sells Lethal Autonomous Drones
And yet if I started a Tesla warranty climb with "So there I was, driving through several feet of water" I'm skeptical it would be approved. That was my point. Electrics are fantastic vehicles. I can't wait to own my first one, but they aren't yet built for every purpose.

I don't think the Ford dealership would warrant me driving an F-150 through several feet of water either but fixing the issues that come from it are a known quantity. Not so much with an electric pickup.
Urban Planners Herald End of the Car in Cities
Norwegian Air Will No Longer Fly from New York Stewart International Airport
This doesn't seem to take into account that Access isn't just a database.
> The market has spoken

I legit see more Microsoft stuff all around, Linux stuff close second.
I wish I knew.

FWIW, the film Law Abiding Citizen examines a similar topic: plea bargains in criminal cases against individuals. For me, it was a great thought-experiment about how one's anger about plea-bargaining could play out. But just a warning, it has some pretty horrific scenes that you might regret watching.
Evo is pretty good as well.
Aluminum or carbon fiber? I'm betting carbon fiber, they are very lightweight but don't really hold up to use.
I have vague memories of complaints, but I recall it being because Settings was lacking a lot of really basic functionality at the time.
Yes, "zero tolerance" is a simple-minded ethic, but I think we all have ZT topics, whether it's Jeffrey Lebowski and The Eagles, me and olives, or police and sass. They go by other names, such as "red flags," "dealbreakers," and so on.

It sucks that in the gun/murder example it would ruin someone's life, and I would advise them to be more thoughtful if I could, but there's no accounting for taste.
Yup same here
Oil companies expend a ton of resources ensuring societies continue to buy & rely on their products.
The situations are not comparable. If you and I meet, each with our guns, and you shoot me for no reason, you will be arrested for murder and go to jail. If a police officer does the same, the worst consequence he is likely to suffer is an administrative suspension with reinstated back pay.
There may be two different interpretations of "risks" in use here. If your mechanism both causes swathes of unexpected damage and also (because of, perhaps) favors cells with defective p53, certainly there is a reasonable until-it-improves risk of causing cancer.
> You can't yell Far in a crawdad theater.

That saying was created by the Supreme Court back in 1919 as a way to convict a man protesting the draft. I’d be careful using it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
The never-ending blame-shifting has to stop.

Nobody killed the local grocer except for consumers.

Consumers killed the middle class. Sometime, somewhere, someone walked into a store and saw a Philco radio made in Pennsylvania by unionized middle-class manufacturing workers and a cheap Japanese/Tawianese copy of the radio and bought the cheap radio.

Sometime, somewhere, someone saw a mailer from Walmart and saw that they had eggs for 98 cents a dozen instead of the 99 cents a dozen at the local grocer, where the employees were unionized and fairly paid, and they went to Walmart instead.

The same thing happened with air travel. People complain about poor service but the vast majority only ever sort by price and click on the "race to the bottom" fare that shows up first. And then they complain about being nickel-and-dimed.

Now the malls are dying and people are blaming Amazon for physical retail centers turning into ghost towns and eyesores. No shit Sherlock, when you buy everything on Amazon you go to the mall less often and the stores start turning into physical manifestations of the stuff you can get on aliexpress, or they close the doors completely.

If people spent 1% of the time they spend complaining about Walmart into shopping conscientiously, there would be a butcher closer than one hour away from my house and I could support a small local business, paying more in exchange for ensuring a higher quality of life for me and my neighbors.

But I can't because sometime, somewhere, in the past, someone went to Walmart and saw floor-scraping ground beef for 95% the price of the butcher and started getting meat at Walmart, so the butcher locked his doors.
This incident was the main reason the UK didn't enter the Euro.

This wonderful BBC documentary explains everything on detail.

https://youtu.be/K_oET45GzMI
Dealing with Failure in a Distributed System
Is there a reason why Japan shouldn't monetize the debt? The usual explanation is that it would cause inflation, but I'm not sure how that works for government debt that trades near 0% anyway. It's a tradeable store of value that you can trade 1:1 for money, so might as well be money?
RIP OG Pixel: Google ends support after just three years
If you're so eager to shrug off the burden of proof, you have no business making those kinds of claims in the first place.
Portraits in Oil
Ripple partners MoneyGram, Ria to power Walmart's money transfer service
Stipulating that $14 might be off by as much as two orders of magnitude, cost remains an insignificant barrier for any adversary with access to a credit card.
This seems like the sort of thing that happens when the people writing the code don't know the domain, and the domain experts can't express how the software needs to be tested.
Unrelated to the post, but I'm reminded that the color in question (at least as far as light goes) does not actually exist and is made up by our brains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9dqJRyk0YM
The life and death of Google Flu Trends
These days I put a real premium on how a product is supported after I purchase it.

I paid almost $200 for an Outdoor Research rain jacket back in 2017. Last month the zipper broke off, and they immediately sent me a replacement. Now I won't think twice about what brand I buy the next time anyone in my family needs a lightweight rain jacket.

I used to be a long-distance road cyclist, and I paid a premium for the Dura Ace brand for chains, cassettes, chainrings, shifters, etc. On two different occasions something failed in the 3rd year of use, and both times Shimano replaced the broken part under warranty. Had I gone with cheaper kit, I would have had a slightly less quality ride experience and would have been out the cash to buy replacements out of warranty.

I bought a pair of L.L.Bean boots 2 months before they suddenly dropped their lifetime replacement policy. Guess what brand of boots I'm not going to touch with a ten-foot pole now?

Finally, I owned a Tesla for almost 3 years. For the first year Tesla honored its warranty for about a dozen issues that came up. I was willing to work with them through the issues because of how responsive to the problems they were at first. By the time I was at year 3, they were refusing to fix anything -- most notably, a shudder in the half-shaft that happened under moderate acceleration. I immediately got rid of it and won't ever purchase another car from that company.

It's all about how you treat your customers after the sale. Shimano and Outdoor Research have a fan for life. L.L. Bean and Tesla have earned someone who now discourages others from purchasing their products.
The article explains that the UK government caused the massive disturbance. Soros made his money betting that it was happen.
A Dutch research group is using this to detect breast cancer. Currently the method to detect breast cancer is very painful but with the photoacoustic method it is painless.

The only con is that it can only 'see' 3cm deep.

https://optics.org/news/6/7/13
Since we’re talking about excel and VBA. Then does a program built in perl5/Java/C++ have that same problem? Assuming the code hasn’t changed for 20 years.

I totally agree that Microsoft maintained compatibility to the point of breaking good engineering practices. But shouldn’t gcc/jvm count as programs too? And code developed for those program still runs assuming same input. It’s much more impressive with Microsoft because they are GUIs but functionally I think they’re pretty much the same.
First Notarized macOS Build of Krita
Merging code before validating it through CI
Soros didn't kick the stilts; he bet that the house would collapse.
Looking at ARN's past judgements, there doesn't seem to be any restrictions on marketing "unlimited data" plans with throttling in Sweden, as long as that's in the contract. There was one case in 2011 where the consumer was awarded a victory as the contract only said unlimited data and nothing about throttling.
Ok, if anyone ever sues you with an overly broad trademark claim, just tell them to be more ethical and that should handle it.
Maybe I’m from a background where 45k for a car seems like a rich people thing. That’s how I feel
Bernanke was pitching them this idea. He suggested the Japanses government issues zero-coupon perpetual bonds and the BoJ buys them. Ha, ha, "bonds".

As crazy as this sounds I think it makes sense - just admit honestly that the situation is fucked up, monetize, generate stagflation and eventual normalization.
The UK government did not by inventing a phony exchange rate.
A web app to combine 24 relaxing sounds
Post your source.
Alternatively, we're still stuck on the beta and they've learned from our mistakes.
AVoid the Void
Interestingly, I randomly stumbled upon https://github.com/stripe/react-stripe-elements/issues/451, which is the opposite of what you describe. I'm not intentionally cherry-picking and I have limited experience working with Stripe, but there seem to be struggles on their part in some areas too. I suppose it's only natural to have some less shiny areas at any company.
Because your friends are likely to take a picture of you and other friends with good angle/exposure etc, and upload them to some network. There is no escaping that, unlike credit cards.

I don’t know if security / street cams actually record anything for more than a day, and I don’t know anyone with home security camera, but friends are always there!
"The chains of tormented mankind are made out of red tape" - If Kafka were to live today, he'd write about AI bureaucracy.
Hmm? You can open old document formats just fine.
> "A generation of lazy people who don't work hard"

I am sorry for derailing, but how does that happen, did they come out like a faulty batch from a factory?

The mantra of "It's important to work hard" needs to die.
Today we have fewer friends than ever, population is unhealthy and the biggest killer of young men is suicide.

Please don't perpetuate this nonsense. It should be: "Work smart, and look after yourself/ your family"
Embedded OS Development in Rust on Raspberry Pi 3 and 4
Are there any quality tutorials for learning C++17 for basic tasks? Much "how do I do X in C++" is very outdated from that perspective.
Cell phone plans are purchased with the speed of service. Unlimited data at 50 mbps, for example, stops being unlimited when the speed is no longer 50 mbps.
It's a specification of essentially a complex graph of mathematical operations. If there's a function called

def mult(a,b): return a*b

it's not much more informative to write:

def mult(activation_a, activation_b): return activation_a*activation_b

Many of these functions are not much more complex than that, and the names along with their comments are more than sufficient given familiarity with the literature. If you think familiarity with the literature is unreasonable, it's still not clear what could improve code like this in reasonable space. "This is a linear function, which means that it satisfies f(x+a)=f(x)+f(a)"? "This is the attention head, it acts as a mask on the sequence input"? It would be like complaining that someone made a tree class and didn't put a comment explaining what a leaf node is. Code readability always assumes some reader context and minimum pre-existing knowledge (as do all forms of technical communication).
Now you're being rude and inflammatory. You're not worth the effort to respond to.
Same boat here but Eastern Idaho. I’ve been fuming since I saw the article on Saturday. Really happy to see it getting exposure here.
Hi Everyone, Startpage here. We are happy to answer any questions people have, please feel free to ask us.

To start, we’ve addressed some existing comments and questions with the information below. I’d also suggest reading this open letter about the acquisition from Startpage Founder and CEO Robert E.G. Beens (https://preview.redd.it/zher3ok6pct31.jpg).

- To ensure that our mission and privacy practices do not change, the investment includes covenants that ensure Startpage’s founders in the Netherlands will retain complete control over all privacy-related decisions.

- Robert still has final say over all product decisions, and Startpage will always be headquartered in the Netherlands.

- System1 invested in Startpage because they recognize increasing consumer demand for privacy-focused tools, not because they plan to alter Startpage’s core mission in any way.

- We will never compromise or weaken Startpage’s industry-leading privacy policy.

- We will not depart from Startpage’s core business model, which has been profitable since 2006. We make money with contextual ads (based solely on your search query) vs. other search engines that make money with behavioral ads (based on your personal profile and browsing history).

- The purpose of this investment is to allow Startpage to reach more users worldwide and advance our mission of making safe, private search available to everyone.
"Pro" means that only professionals will use it. Period.

Or wait a minute...
you can definitely use c++ libraries compiled with clang++ when your code is compiled with g++ and vice versa. It only gets funky when one uses libc++ and one libstdc++
Punishing bank robbing doesn’t make people want to rob banks any less. It just changes the incentive structure such that it’s not worth it to most would-be robbers with normal risk tolerance.

Bank robbing is an activity where punishment actually moves the needle on the risk of doing it. When you try punishing marijuana use you find out that the risk of getting caught is so low that even extremely steep punishments don’t affect people’s willingness to do it. Same with jaywalking.
The article seemed to imply detracking functionally comes along with teachers catering to the capabilities of individual students since the class is not defined by a particular education level.
Just another form of bribing.
As ridiculous as all of this is, there's some poetry in a company called Robinhood taking angel investment from various billionaires and using it to give millions of dollars in (probably) free leverage to teenagers.
Within the year of 2020? Do you think? I really don't know... suppose you don't either.
FidoNet – A PC-Based Network
You still need to back up the keys? How does this solve anything?

Backups aren't just about replication/redundancy, they also protect you from bugs and other sources of corrupted data.
> Yeah, on the surface that stuff always sounds nice because "see, I can run this thing from 20 years ago and I didn't have to do any extra work" sounds nice, but that also means it hasn't been maintained for 20 years...

Some things don't need intensive maintenance, and it's a bad thing to force it for unnecessary reasons. Backwards compatibility can often be understood as 10 vendor engineers performing maintenance effort so 10,000 customer engineers don't have to. It's a massive productivity win for society.

I'm a software engineer. I hate working on ancient codebases as much as the next guy, and I personally benefit from the constant make-work of re-engineering. But, as a customer, I'd rather invest my time and money to solve new problems, rather than spend it re-solving old problems.