skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Senders of official-looking direct mail get around these restrictions by including language — often in fine print — declaring that the correspondence is not in fact official.

Ban fine print. Honestly. Anything that declares the correspondence is not official has to be in the same point size as the body of the text, separated out into it's own paragraph in plain no uncertain terms that the majority of adults could understand.
Sigh. Basically you want to disregard web standards that have a purpose to be able to "stick generic classes."

> there's a mismatch between how HTML is designed and what it actually has to do in the wild.

There is an entire HTML spec[1] that explains what specific elements are for. And I agree that is not perfect, but this is what we have and if we at least don't follow it, we will be building even more shitty websites.

> Maybe using the "correct" element structure is going to be much more complex in a given situation due to the fact that you've got CSS rules that will be in scope that will style it for another purpose, and you'll have to undo and override all that work bit by bit to get it to match what the designer envisaged in this particular placement.

> So instead you just use some divs, stick a few generic classes on stuff and get on with your day.

Some "web developers" want to use `div`s instead of `button`s because it takes less CSS to style the former, but what they don't realize is that they are making theirs (the "developer") life easier, but are giving a bad UX to people that use assistive technologies and someone else, guess who? Search engines!

Search engines are basically blind entities that only use the keyboard. So, if you use a `div` they will see it as a `div`, they won't see the bunch of classes you added to make it look like a button.

So, it's a better good experience and search engine optimization to use semantic HTML. This means if you need a button use a `button`, if you need a link use an `a`, if you need an image that when you click on it it will take you to another page, surround the `img` with an `a` tag and use `aria-label` to announce what clicking on that link will do for the user, e.g.,

<a href="/learn-semantic-html" aria-title="Visit the learn semantic HTML page">
<img src="/img/surprised-pikachu.jpg" alt="Surprised Pikachu meme">
</a>

> The tools are supposed to be the slave of the workman, not the other way round.

A good craftsman knows its tools and the best way to use them because each one of them has a purpose. You shouldn't use a screwdriver to hit a nail.

[1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
It’s probably not sponsored, I’ve never googled the company and I’m also seeing hiring posts on the front page even today. It’s possible it is backed by YCombinator, in which case they often post those postings here.
> The only people who could possibly be confused that this is real news are toddlers who have not yet developed abstract thinking and would be confused by the whole thing anyway.

An actual Congressional representative fell for an Onion article titled "Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex".

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republican-congressman-falls-vi...

> "I was kind of on the fence in the beginning," says the made-up person, Marcy Kolrath, in the article. "But after a couple of margaritas and a ride down the lazy river they've got circling the place, I got caught up in the vibe. By the time it was over, I almost wished I could've aborted twins and gotten to stay a little longer."
It's a marketing and naming failure that people are asking what this is.
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My problem with peertube is - if I install it and federate I'll have all sorts of illegal videos on my computer. Nazi propaganda, child porn, anything.

I'm not going to spend hours moderating that, and I certainly don't want to explain myself to police.

And if I don't federate it's basically less convenient ftp.
I was thinking particularly of the pre-open-source .net implementation (Rotor; not a binary FWIW), but I wouldn't be surprised if there were others.
I am always interested in building graphical tools like this in the web client side, does anyone have experience in this area and let me know what technologies/frameworks that are used?
elephant in the room: how does this platform deal with DMCA requests, copyright violations, and content moderation.
The main reason is that only a subset of all our datasets are actually exposed in Looker, and Amundsen would have applicability to other data sources - certain production semi-OLAP DBs, the future hive-on-S3 deployment... that we have no plans to expose in Looker at all.

That said I haven't looked closely at how far we could go with Looker, I'll check it out.
It's especially cool because AFAIK the OpenSolaris family is the only current open-source UNIX System V distribution, and it has real AT&T code in it.
Thanks, edited. I was wondering when I wrote that 'why would I have got my credit card out'...now it makes sense as I remember having used that service in the past.
Looks like you're talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icyball
As 5G Rolls Out, Troubling New Security Flaws Emerge
For every "unnecessary and burdensome regulation" in the books people love complaining about so much, there are people like these who exploit and profit off of loopholes in the system.
I agree. From the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down, then fall steadily, and only one should be on the front page at a time.
Yev here from Backblaze -> The Western Digital drives that you've purchased will fail too. That's part of the whole point of these reports, all of the drives eventually fail out or reach a state where we have to replace them - it's not any one specific manufacturer. That's part of why having a backup is so important, even the SSDs in newer machines will eventually go wonky.
There is an external record, 13F filings. Every quarter funds above a certain AUM have to disclose to the public their top long equity holdings. I’ve personally analyzed these holdings at my old quant job, they definately trade.
Really I related I suppose, but if you’ve never attempted to use the camera or microphone in the FB app it doesn’t even show those permissions in the app settings, just basic Locations, Photos, etc.

Is that normal?
I would assume some business bought more than they needed.
If it's just salt then it's basically just a matter of figuring out how much seawater we need to evaporate. Which we can find out by dividing the total energy consumption by the energy density of hydrogen [1], this results in a figure of 120 tons a year, or about 2.8 billionth of the ocean [2], or about .001 cm a year [3] (until the area of the ocean starts shrink noticeably). Assuming the evaporated water returns to the ocean after a while I reckon we should be fine.

[1]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28world+energy+consum...

[2]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28world+energy+consum...

[3]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28world+energy+consum...
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The judge can order that in egregious cases. It's not an appropriate role for juries; there are often aspects of the case that the jury doesn't see so they don't have the full picture.
Taskheat – Task manager for purposeful people
mosh is so resilient partly because of its own UDP protocol...which gets dropped in many places. If VPNs don't go through, don't expect mosh to do so :( If in a hard place, I usually need to fall back to SSH on port 443...and even that may not be vanilla enough.
Been using draw.io for years and have turned many people at my work on to it. Simple, elegant, and works a treat! Thank you so much for sharing this work and for helping make the work day run a little smoother :)
I just want a place (that I own) where I can store my videos, watch them and share them with people.
Even if they didn't work on Peertube anymore it's already enough if they give me basic (but working) features.
Not everything has to keep "improving" all the time.

A big THANK YOU to those who contribute to this project.
Let me know if you do it!
You make too many assumptions. The snopes article on this is two paragraphs long and puts little effort into debunking, as it needs little effort. But for whatever reason, people ask them to look into it. For other reasons, people like you seem to think this diminishes snopes. It doesn't.
The legal costs are a real damage that he can claim for. It's just that it isn't automatically a given that he would be awarded them. In a case like this, I would expect that he would prevail in such a claim. You can also be awarded punitive damages far in excess of the financial damages.

Edit: I would expect the main claim to be reputational damage with some absurdly high made up dollar value, and if the facts of the case are as you have presented them, the plaintiff would probably win a smaller, but still very high award.
I had no idea draw.io was open source, is this new?

Good stuff either way. I always thought it was amazing that it was free.
That shift happened in bootstrap 4, bootstrap 3 was <div class="..."> everywhere. Also 3 was when bootstap was really big.

Good to see they improved, i guess :-)
Ok, just finding it strange with the amount of search I've conducted today - wondering if my IP/search is matched with me and shown as "relevant" post but might just be a freaky coincidence. Looks like ad-stalking paranoia is a real thing!
Funny, I just used it this afternoon to create an diagram of our technical infrastructure. Initially I was looking for the "Sign up" button so that I could save my diagram in the cloud but then I realized that it's all run in the browser. Love it!
I assume that since the lawyer has history in front of this judge, and the judge knows he's a lying dirtbag, this is the judge's chance to get his willful, continuing deceit on record and possibly get him on the road to disbarment.
When I bought my house, I very nearly fell for this. They are very official looking, with faux degraded copying artifacts on a 'proof' deed. Even if currently legal, this is absolutely a scam.
The Quantum Computing Threat to American Security
Surely this is just fraud, i.e. obtaining money by deception? Do they really need a new law to ban this, or do they need to enforce the existing laws better?
I was about to comment to say the same, haha. It's pretty nasty. You have a broken blinker, and now you're going to have more trouble for speeding too, because you guessed wrong.
What about Google employees looking for damaging data on adversaries? Or stalkers, looking for information on particular individuals without consent.

Why does Google get PII?
Microsoft to employ California's digital privacy law nationwide
I had a blog for a decade but I realized that I would post something and nobody would read it, but then a famous programmer would post the same thing in their own blog a year later and everyone would hear about it. So I concluded that blogs are only for the well known programmers and that it’s a waste of my time to share my thoughts with “the web” as a general entity. Instead I share my thoughts with individuals when requested (which mostly just means answering my kids’ questions). Well, also commenting here but I’m not convinced that’s been beneficial to anyone either so I’m seriously considering giving up that too.
Investigating the emerging black market of retail email account hacking services
I wonder if this is not a coincidence given acquisition of fitbit.
I hope it starts working for me soon. I just had a very fun idea to make with it.
I seem to recall we called them online diaries or e/n sites before that :-D
Automatic Differentiation Step by Step
Huh... most of them has been built by using complex software and a lot of them is using software too work. Webdev != all software engineering.
> But naming things is hard for some programmers I suppose.

Naming things is indeed one of the exactly two hard things in computer science, the others being cache invalidation and off-by-one errors.

I'll see myself out.
This happens all the time in Florida when you register an LLC or get licensed as a real estate agent. It's a shame.
I understand that these scammers automatically send their letters whenever something changes about an address. Wouldn't it be a fantastic public service if someone else automatically sent those same people a letter warning them of this scam and directing them towards more honest services?
Absolutely true, Factorio is such a wonderful and rich game!
Loan Prediction Project Using Machine Learning in Python
I must have missed it somehow, but what is the difference between boot drives and data drives in a typical Backblaze server other than the boot drives store the OS? Obviously you don’t need 8TB capacity solely for the OS, I’d assume you also store user data on boot drives? In which case why is there a distinction?
Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 Victimize Sony, Samsung and Amazon Devices
Allen's Octopus was for research as well, remember. Simons funds plenty of giant expensive research things - just not in yacht form. I wouldn't expect something worthy of Larry Ellison from him.
You don't have to be left or right to fall for this sort of stuff. However, to assume the right is targeted does demonstrate a low opinion of the right.
Ask HN: Should I Quit the Job?
I have been working as customer service representative for over 7 years; recently I got promoted to team lead, however I am not feeling like leading team as I don't like office bureaucracy and politics. Some of team members are toxic, including manager.

How should I handle?

Should I quit the job?
Google’s Fitbit acquisition will help it compete with Apple
So what do we do to stop this? What recourse do people directly affected by this have?
This is the nazi bar effect. If everybody forbids something, and you allow it - you quickly get associated only with that 1 thing you allow others don't.

Normal people don't want to hang around in a bar that allows nazis, and nazis from everywhere go there because it's the only place.

Peertube solves the easy problem (infrastructure) and ignores the hard problems: search, discoverability, moderation, accountability, handling all the relevant laws.
Very interesting. Will add it to the (already large) "eat lots of (and a good variety of) fruit and veg and do enough exercise" pile of life advice.
If you have physical checks, it's printed directly on the check on the bottom.
Most of the ideas that already exist in the world, I would actively reject out of fear, examples, putting current carrying wires into water (heater), metals weighing 800 kg moving with high speed (cars).

So I guess we (at least I) are rejecting quite a lot of potentially useful ideas?
Labour Party confirms cyber attack was DDoS
I get this for vegetables, but surely the 'strategy' for a lot of fruit is that they are tasty when ripe and get eaten so that the seed is spread?
Originator of the action should be explaining it (even if decision making is automated and the decision making system is not open), seems pretty obvious as noone else can realy know, only guess.
Related trivia: logos initially meant story or account, as opposed to how it later evolved. So we're back to history again.
Anyone following science (or tech, or medicine, or anything) news will (ought to) realize how over-hyped and fluff-heavy every press release is. Real breakthroughs are very few and far between, because progress seems incremental. And because usually those breakthroughs are unseen, uninteresting, not even press-release worthy, because we haven't realized its potential. Then someone tries out that new thing for that old problem, and gets maybe decent numbers, usually just meh. Then slowly it builds, and then eventually comes the paradigm shift. But at that point it's the waiting game, slow march of better and better engineering, getting better trade offs, and so on.
Why not just dump them right back in the ocean?

Compared to the environmental shit-show of coal and oil extraction, wringing your hands over brine ending up in the ocean, seems entirely misdirected.
If they were honest about this, Snopes would publish a single entry covering all the prominent satire sites by name, and "warning" people that they are satire. As opposed to whacking moles.
Proposed Interstellar Mission Reaches for the Stars, One Generation at a Time
And asbestos is a very generic term. There are certain particle sizes that are absolutely harmful and others that pose little to no effect. There should be a name for the dangerous particles regardless of meterial. Silicosis agents?
HubSpot -> AzureSQL -> PowerBI

HubSpot -> AzureSQL -> Tableau

Fully automated syncing with user friendly signup
> If I want my images to execute on click events, and so on, I probably have a reason for that. If that thing looks and works horrible, I'll learn that, but it may also work perfectly, or in 99% nobody cares.

There's a semantic way to accomplish that. If the click event you want to add triggers an action inside the page you can do

<button aria-title="Open modal">
<img src="/img/surprised-pikachu.jpg" alt="Surprised Pikachu meme">
</button>

Or if clicking in the image takes you to a different page, then

<a href="#" aria-title="Visit the learn semantic HTML page">
<img src="/img/surprised-pikachu.jpg" alt="Surprised Pikachu meme">
</a>

Then you can add your click event to the surrounding element and add a few classes to remove the default stylings.
The EPA Says We Need to Reuse Wastewater
"I blame myself, but do wonder why Google allows and even promotes these sites..."

Because they pay Google and aren't actually illegal.

A better question is why Google puts ads at the top of search results.
This is time partitioning, not indexing, but it's commonly done in data lakes for raw telemetry/log data.

mydata/
2019/
11/
12/
2019111200.csv
2019111201.csv

Where each one of those CSV files could be 10-100 GB in size.

Usually you want to process it into a columnar format like Parquet from there, though
Sparklines for Rust Apps
Can you name some sites you use? I would use it more, for lack of some more of those sites that degrade gracefully.
Honestly, I really don't care if sites like Snopes or Wikipedia shut down or disappear. While I appreciate what they provide and what they at least claim to provide, no one should be considered the gate-keepers of all that is not "fake news". BTW I did donate to Wikipedia this year...
Review: AWS Global Accelerator – Improving Latency and Design for Failure
The article says that it might be: "According to the whistleblower, the security fears raised at that meeting, including concerns that the transfer may be in breach of federal HIPAA rules on data privacy, have so far gone unanswered by Google."

That said, most people do not understand how HIPAA works (I am in no way saying you are one of these people). Unless you are a healthcare provider (think doctor) or a business that is supporting those providers (think 3rd party tools built specifically for managing healthcare records) it's pretty difficult to have a legitimate HIPAA complaint made against you.
'It said that the editors were sorry that photographs of some protesters had been shared by reporters on social media. It also said that reporters’ efforts to contact students for interviews using Northwestern’s directory had been “an invasion of privacy.”

“Ultimately, The Daily failed to consider our impact in our reporting surrounding Jeff Sessions,” the column said. “We know we hurt students that night, especially those who identify with marginalized groups.”'

If the newspaper avoided photographing and contacting members of "marginalized groups", it would be accused of further marginalizing them. What is it supposed to do?
Show HN: A fullstack application built with Svelte and Node
They heyday of Google were the years Eric Schmidt was CEO and the short time Larry Page was CEO before the ill-fated Google+ strategy.

After that he seems to have burned out, spun a tale about being a capital allocator with the whole Alphabet charade, then retired.

Sundar Pichai's mandate has been plainly obvious: generate profits (that mandate became more explicit with hiring Ruth Porat as CFO).
Every time I read "antifragility" I instantly remember a web of pseudo-science babble built around a core of repackaged bullshit and regurgitated by someone who comes off as a whiner and an arrogant ass at the same time.
Behind the Scenes of a Radical New Cancer Therapy
No, because KYC is required for all SIMs.
As long as that is called out explicitly, people can make a (more) informed decision about whether or not those additional services are worth $86. If I see "the document itself costs $3, additional <something> $86"; I'm much more realize I may be able to procure said document through other channels.

EDIT: grammar.
Thanks for posting this data! I love it!

I appreciate your diplomatic language, but the time to failure does matter, and consumers don’t have the same cost structure that incentivizes replacing working drives the way you do.

FWIW I share GP’s experience with Seagate. I had quite a few of them, ranging in size from 500 gigs to 2TB. Every last one of them died relatively quickly, while most of my Hitachis, Toshibas, and WDs from that era still work.

Seagate earned a permanent boycott from this customer.
Refactoring 2nd Edition

Stormlight Archive
The universal user rule should be "Don't be a dick!".