skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it is safer. With Wordpress and other execution environments your attack vectors will increase.

Why would I use Wordpress if all I need are some static sites and maybe a form?

I would rather use a form handler that processes data that comes from the form and let the other sites be what they are: static sites. So my question in this case is: Why Wordpress?

For me less is more sometimes and I can sleep better when I don't need to watch WP and it's plugins to be updated before the next malicious actor decides to attack half of the internet with an PHP exploit. Of course there is auto-updates for WP itself nowadays but the basic problem is still the same. You use a dynamic programming language though you probably don't need one.

I am also not an advocate of custom markup because I think we already have more than enough flavors now.
Although I don't think we're at any risk of a Generalized AI taking over a spaceship any time soon, the naive application of machine learning is perhaps scarier to me. If the computer is already misunderstood by the programmer, what hope would a law enforcement officer have in deciding if it's wrong or not? If they're trained to trust the system, and we haven't built the appropriate escape hatches into law and regulation, then the system could be wrong and the humans would have no recourse.
Outsourcing armed forces recruiting to Capita went as well as could be expected...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/15/capita_defence_recr...
> it has rhetorical impact. You have to wonder 'to what end' they are hoping for with their exposition.

I think the difference between scientific mindset and political mindset is that the former doesn't ask this question or consider it relevant.

> With the Google memo, did they hope to change hiring strategies? Would this have had any real impact on the operations at Google?

Yes, this was kind of the reason this memo was written - and remember, it was written in response to Google soliciting ideas on the topic.

> Did Damore feel that the hiring strategies at the company were having any tangible negative outcomes... if so, he didn't care to mention that. So why then?

Did you read the memo? It's whole text was arguing that diversity efforts at Google are misguided and harmful, and what should be done instead.
Hello, author here.

I actually brought a US keyboard which made life much easier. It was only ever a pain to type on the laptop's keyboard, which luckily was quite rare.
Cuteness is not a good indicator. Both kids and dogs can fast grow out of being cute. Just think about how cute they are when you have to clean up their poop.

OTOH, in my experience, raising a dog is quite comparable to the first two years of raising a kid. Less so with cats, they are too independent whereas a dog relies heavily on you.

Another possible way of finding out if you have it in you being a parent, is to play "The Last Of Us". That might sound strange, but I've seen many people say that they felt very protective of Ellie and had parental feelings towards her.
> $1m rising from 0% to 1% seems much more significant than the chance of the same win rising from 20% to 21%.

0% to 1% is a much bigger change expected value when viewed as a ratio. 20% to 21% is a change of about 5% whereas 0% to 1% is an infinite or 100% change.

I think it is fair to say that the example does not demonstrate any human bias.
My girlfriend's family lives in Baden-Württemberg, and I can't really recognize your impressions of woeful supermarkets nor of Germans not appreciating good food.

Go to any Edeka, and you'll be spoiled for choice, including fresh herbs. And while German traditional food may not be as high concept or artistic as other cuisines, there is a definite pride in using good quality ingredients and making deeply satisfying meals. It's a more down-to-earth way of appreciating good food.

A simple platter of good sausage, local cheese, fresh butter and crusty bread is nothing fancy to look at, but it is deeply satisfying.

Regarding the restaurants from other cultures adapting to local tastes, that happens everywhere, and is a real shame for those of us with adventurous taste buds.
It's linked in the project page, but see: https://github.com/alexherbo2/krabby/blob/master/doc/differe...
Yeah, ideally they should be classified as forwards. Though I guess Salah being the furthest forward is more because of Firmino being a False 9 rather than a proper No 9, which makes his case for being considered as a FWD even more valid.
Illegal migration is wrong and is rightfully opposed by many countries. There are procedures everyone must follow. Nobody is above the law, especially not if you're entering a country.
This is exactly what MS tried with Windows and Office in the late 90s. People hated it and MS has since removed this automatic adaption completely.

Office menus in particular took on a shortened form with only the most used items. You had to explicitly expand them to see the remaining items that Office considered irrelevant to you. This has two major problems: the UI became incomsistemt between users, too dynamic and therefore comfusing. Amd even though users used a particular 1% subset of an Office program today, it would be a different subset the next day or the next week. This sent them constantly hunting for menu items that "should be there".

All of this was replaced with the ribbons makeover. Now, the interface is not adapting to the user, but to the current context. Although I don't like that interface very much, it is at least less surprising.
Clicking the "Alt + Escape" text seems to do the trick. Firefox Nightly on Windows.
I think the issue is that here in Germany there is a lot of unspoken peer pressure in regards to where you should be in life at your age. That pressure makes it hard to keep things in a flow and basically people (German and expats) tend to put a structure around everything. Social interactions? Needs to happen at the appropriate time and scheduled at least 2 weeks in advance. Fancy restaurant dinner with girlfriend? Needs to be scheduled weeks before. Work life balance? You must have work life balance and you must go out on sunny days, which is great until it feels again like pressure to be something you don't want to be. Hiking? You will find another zillion people on that mountain because again you are supposed to go out on sunny days.

It can feel very "robotic" and I think people just end up detaching themselves from what they truly want or truly need from their social interactions.
Always does.

They put out a RFP and because they are a large org they assume only another large org can actually do it, which narrows the list down to 3-4 companies even though they've all previously proven many many times they can't be trusted one of them gets the contract.

Decade later and hundreds of millions of pounds of fuckups later it sorta works or it ends in questions in parliament.

Then a different gov branch needs a system, puts out an RFP..and on it goes.

Honestly amazes me anything works.
Because it means losing control over their brand. Who knows what some random youtuber will do, who they are, etc. It's just not worth all the legal headache.
Had to dig through the archive a bit, but this one calls Fujitsu its 'IT partner':

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252459274/Post-Office-co...

I don't know why it's not more prominent, Wikipedia 'Horizon (IT system)' doesn't say who created it either. Between 19th century and the second world war, the Royal Mail (General Post Office) employed engineers and researchers, established telephone service (British Telecom later span out), telegrams, and built Colussus, the computer that helped crack Enigma. But I imagine those days are over; I doubt Horizon was developed in-house.
Another older guy here. I can barely wrap my head around how much I disagree with this comment.

Spend your focus on acquiring money for your kids leads to kids who want money from you. Spend your focus on giving love to your kids leads to kids who want love from you.
Personally, I hate it when applications seemingly randomly alter the interface. It breaks my memory of where things are; I have to stop and stare at things to figure out what happened and where that icon went.

It is like having a "helper" who hides your tools.
Yeah, but most people are faster at talking than at typing on a smartphone.
This shit show started years and years before that and whether it's private or public seems to have no effect, it's large organisations in general who outsource, whether they answer to shareholders or the electorate seems to have no affect.
Same I’ve heard (but have no proof of) that clothing brands don’t mind knock offs of limited edition items, because that helps to spread the hype. But they do care very much about knock offs of their bread and butter inventory which is mass produced, because that hurts their bottom line.
Something similar happened with Sonic Mania and SEGA [0], hiring some people involved in various fan versions and ROM hacks. It worked out well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Mania#Development
Germany: DPAs issue statements on consent, cookies, and Google Analytics
On another note, in the list of top ten things that will add business value and either make the company money or save the company money where does “being cloud agnostic rate”?

What competent CTO would go through a migration from one provider to another on a whim? The chance of regression and business interruption is too high and the benefits too low to make it worth it if you’re at any type of scale.
> If we all started playing basketball at age 7 and all went to the same number of practices, by 18 there are just massive, massive differences between different players.

It may be explained by a dedication to a learning, by general abilities to learn, by nutrition, by inborn muscles properties (type I or type II), and probably by a dozen of other factors. I mean, what you'd said doesn't imply that differences in ability to play basketball are due to an amount of inborn athleticism received.
I use bartender, it's worked great. Will check this one out also. Hard to go back to clutter after using tools like these.

https://www.macbartender.com/
Submit your startup. Find your first users or build brand awareness
Same reason you see engine details mentioned when talking about cars at car forums.
TBF making tarballs and storing that was how many projects used to work. Linus did that until they got Bitkeeper & git, he refused to use any existing VCS before that.
> Because: in this scenario you need to drive adoption first ...

Be careful: that sort of behaviour can get you fired and potentially land your company in hot water from a legal and/or compliance standpoint, as well as lose them customers.

Compliance is often as much, or more, about having and following documented processes, as it is about having good processes. This can include an approved list of software and services. If you step outside this you are likely breaching your compliance regime.

In the specific case of passwords you may have policies and procedures around secret management that would be violated by storing this information in the cloud, even with a service specifically designed for this. As stupid as it is, the quality (or lack thereof) of your current solution is not the key point here.

If you decide to get all subversive and start using a cloud service then, at the very least, if discovered you're going to get into trouble. At worst, if customers become aware they might leave, and as I've already said, the company might find themselves in legal difficulties.
Given how broken VSS is, that might have been safer than using VSS as if it worked properly.
Yeah, I found about Asmongold on YouTube as well. Watched some clips, amusing stuff. But where that failed was that I didn't go on Twitch to watch his streams. I think an important question is what's the conversion rate from YouTube to Twitch. And what kind of an incentive is there for people to go on Twitch if the "best bits" go on YouTube anyways?
Not the only one that does, If you want a giggle at the insanity of large organisations look up NHS National Programme for IT.

That fuck up was 10bn pounds (+/- 2bn since no-one has definitely quantified the cost).
Bitwarden derives its keys using SHA256 on the passphrase and a hilariously low iteration count.

The developer refuses to acknowledge it as a security risk, and actually caps the max iterations you can configure, both on the client and the server.

https://github.com/bitwarden/jslib/issues/52

https://github.com/bitwarden/server/issues/589

“It was audited” is meaningless if the audit missed this, or reported this and the dev dismissed it. Either way, it is unsafe.
Most annoying is when it happens immediately.

The natural example in this context is of course the moving status items, in Windows 10, which might move just after you use them once or even on hover.

But even any list which is sorted by a volatile criteria works like this. Like the most recently used bookmarks. Maybe you want to open item 1 & 2, so you click item 2 first and then go for clicking item 1, only they have now already traded places because of the first click...
It is not the case where she wants to trade place with me. It is more of me whinging about my stress levels at my work. Her jobs at home are definitely much harder and more stressful than my work. Kudos to her for managing it and keeping the household in order.

Both of us knows what we are good at and how we can help contribute to our family life.
I guess there isn't such excess of easy money, VC nor govt spending?

ECB recently joined quantitative easing however (printing money), it is buying corporate bonds en masse, so unicorn-scale VC may happen too.
Thanks so much for your comment. I've read the original blog post (https://blog.webrecorder.io/2019/08/29/desktop-app.html) and it sounds like a very effective mean of capturing web content. I was not aware there's a standard for web archiving purposes, that sounds like something that would kept being supported in the future. And from what I read it's better than PDF as it captures interactive elements, as well. I will give it a try.
I'm also from Perth, lived around the world, including some years in Germany .. had the same set of observations. On this:

>I always wonder why Australia seems such an angry place after travelling abroad.

I think Australia has a lot of deep pain in its history, and in its culture, and this manifests in a hostility.

Every time I go back, I wonder why its such an angry shithole. Australians just seem to be getting madder and madder...

EDIT: Germany does have deep pain in its history. Germans are aware of that, and overt about it. Australians not so much.
Please note that https://raku.org is now the main landing page for Raku, and that #rakulang is the tag to be used in social media.
While working in a large private sector ERP project that was going off the rails a wise colleague commented that "Companies get the suppliers they deserve"....
Updates are written in present tense as actions being undertaken so this seems to be an ongoing trash fire.
Well I mean, yea... Modern tech is the result of scientific progress...
The problem is not that you shipped on Friday
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Hello, author here. Thanks a lot for reading my post!

A few things to clarify:

- indeed I am now in London, but have very fond memories of life in Germany and still enjoy practicing my German

- I took a US keyboard layout to work, which made things fine except for when I was on the laptop only (some keys are different shapes as well)

- I found it amusing the comments about the German trains. I will confirm that the standard was pretty low in Australia :P (hopefully that's going to get better)

- the impracticality of 4 seats and 2 doors in the car was meant to imply that it means it's more difficult to put people in the rear seats in this configuration

- thanks for the corrections on train speeds and naming of the ground floor, I'll fix that

Let me know if there's any other corrections I should make, anything I missed or should expand on.
Can confirm.

St George Botanica is tremendously good.

If you enjoy that, and want something just like it but even more so -- hunt down a bottle of the Poltergeist Unfiltered, and thank me later.

I'd suggest the Botanica is on a par, quality and complexity wise, with the Poltergeist 'True Spirit'.
Agreed. Couple that with knowing machine learning is probabilistic and not so much deterministic in the decision processes. As "correctness" gets close to 100% but never fully 100%, somewhere along the line that might be lost, everyone thinks it is perfect, and the edge cases will suffer greatly.
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Forgive my municipal ignorance but how does one city "annex" another? It's not like they have an army to do it with? Are there legal maneuverings to accomplish this?
Don’t know if he reads HN, but a guy I knew long ago did the Beastie Boy fan website. Beastie at the time just went with his vs their own since it was better and had a lot of traffic. Would have expected lawsuits for branding, etc. Was a fun guy and wicked smart. Dude passed crazy comp sci classes without studying much.
Same idea but slightly different trick was being used when I was at university. Aberystwyth-Birmingham New Street was regularly terminated at Wolverhampton, so that it has gone far enough to count as “not cancelled” and because it didn’t get to BNS late it also “wasn’t late”.
The book "Plundering the Public Sector" by David Craig gives a good account (simultaneously entertaining and appalling) of the the expensive antics of the NHS project.

I vaguely knew people who worked on it and they made a pile of money - medics being the absolute dream customers for consultants to rip-off.
The innate sense of where you are in relation to yourself is proprioception.

The innate sense of where you are in relation to your environment is... spatial frequency?

That doesn't sound right.
TBF the author is pretty clear in their introduction:

> our code will be dependent on the Linux kernel […] 32-bit and not one bit more […] Please don't use this code. I did not intend for it to be wholly correct and there may be subtle bugs I did not catch.

because the use of sbrk also seems like a pretty bad idea.
This is different. I just tried it and the assistant translation isn't turn based. It auto detects the language after each pause and translates it to the other language. No chimes either. Just talk normally as you would.
see
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=424202 for the end of the paper version

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8758915 for the end of web version
Not disagreeing, but the data invalidates even the much weaker hypothesis that "the differences are a combination of cultural and inherent causes", at least in the usual reading of both components contributing to the differences.

The data, however, indicate that, at least in sum, culture contributes negatively to differences, that is it makes men and women less different than they would otherwise be.

That apparently was expected by no-one.
I'd guess, for a large example, military spending.

It's not the only one, but that's one huge investor that drives many others.

In the US, or China, you have one _huge_ budget, compared to what can be compared in terms of integration across european countries (each with their own politics, armies, capabilities, budgets, priorities; even if they do integrate & collaborate with each other).
As an Aussie who's lived around the world with stints in California and Germany, I really miss my American friends' ability to just show up when they figured I'd be around, unannounced, and hang out for an afternoon - or not, no worries, nobody home - compared to my German friends who literally needed a weeks notice to come over and have a couple of beers, even in this mobile-phone era. Or, my Australian pals who would come over, let themselves in, do the dishes, have a beer, and wait until I got home.

Then again, there are the Austrians. Never, ever be even a minute late to an event involving Austrian friends.

Strange how things are more and more rigid, the further from the frontier one gets ..
>There were many jews that, more or less sincerely, converted to stay. We that have a family name that references an animal, like Lobo, León or Aguilar, are probably descendents of jews.

That's Jewish propaganda. Lobo (López) is one of the most common surnames in Spain. León is the name of one of the biggest kingdoms of Spain, and currently a province. If we took that at face value, most Spaniards would be descendants of Jews, which is ludicrous. Not sure about Aguilar though.
I've seen that, first of a trilogy I think. I'll give it a go, thanks.
They will only refund you for the taxi if the scheduled arrival is after midnight and the expected delay at your destination is >60 minutes OR if it’s the last connection for the day and there is no other means of public transport that will allow you to reach the destination before midnight, and only up to EUR 80,00 [1] which wouldn’t even cover Cologne—Aachen (that is one intercity stop).

For regional tickets, some states or transport systems offer additional voluntary compensations. In NRW, you would be refunded up to EUR 25,00 before 8pm and up to EUR 50,00 after 8pm if your train or bus departs more than 20 minutes behind schedule. [2]

Obviously, there are edge cases like acts of God where voluntary compensations won’t apply (and legally binding compensations won’t apply either in a few years if a pending legislative initiative is successful). Since passenger information is less-than-ideal, it might be hard to tell if you will be compensated even if you know about the basic rules.

[1] https://www.bahn.com/en/view/booking-information/passenger-r...

[2] https://www.mobil.nrw/service/mobigarantie.html – I couldn’t find an official English version on my phone
Thanks, I'll look out for those.
> All extensions in this field are very limited by all major browsers' security policies which prohibit, for example, user-defined keybindings on a blank tab

This is the correct answer. Attempts like these futile.

You can not properly control the UI while a page is loading which makes the UX godawful. Try closing a tab or switch while the current tab is loading. Sometimes it works, other times not. With legacy VimFX you coulf also access all buttons in the browser UI toolbar.

Was a VimFX user and the switch to WebExtensions was the greatest step back in browsing I've ever experienced. Tried to remedy this by running legacy extensions in Pale Moon. But that's not a way forward as these alt browsers are not secure. Actually, I'm toying with the idea of sandboxing alt browsers to be able to browse fast with my fingers on the keyboard again.
People around the world see China and how their attitudes have changed
Food lovers in Germany don't buy at supermarkets, they go to proper bakeries, butchers, shops for vegetables (many of which are owned by Germans of Turkish descendant) and fish, or specialty shops (Asian, Oriental, bio, etc.), or to the "market" - a place where regional and quality food sellers come once or twice a week with trailers. Discounters are only visited for buying really cheap stuff (Aldi, Lidl, Netto), or for time-saving one-stop shopping (Rewe and others) or close-by shopping (Edeka). It's true, though, that German food doesn't quite live up to French and Italian food traditions - because nothing does.
True, thanks. It was not obvious for me from the styling that I should click that.
What's the end game of all of this corruption with governments picking winners and losers?

I mean there is a difference between reasonable regulations and just outright picking 1-2 cheaters who bribed you for the right to offer a service that supposedly free people are willing to pay for out of pocket.

We get stories about this in Russia and China and call it Putinism and Corruption all the time.