skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were on the receiving end of that when the debtor in question registered our phone number when she signed up for a CVS card. It took awhile to figure it out, but every time we picked up something there, we would get increasingly crazy calls from debt collectors and insurance subrogation people.

It got worse over time as the collection agencies sell bad debts at a discount, and the bottom feeders when the debt is close to aging out are awful.
Yeah WhatsApp, Facebook, Reddit, Google Hangouts all banned in China. Pretty much anything not owned by a Chinese company, or anything that didn't go through all sorts of hoops to meet Chinese censorship criteria (and even then it's not a guarantee), is banned. Even github was banned until Chinese developers complained that it made their jobs impossible
>> is Neiman-Marcus to blame for going further upscale

You made one purchase at N-M 25 years ago, and from that single experience, you're generalizing the entire merchandising strategy of the brand ever since then?

And your premise is false anyway. The 1 and only Valentino suit currently available at neimanmarcus.com costs $1173, which is less than $1200:

https://www.neimanmarcus.com/search.jsp?aq=valenti&dq=valent...
you could look at a dll plugin.

javascript has a eval function.
I consider it part of my neighbourhood. I am glad this is over. There are so many issues, but essentially the city is in over its head on this entire concept from the beginning. Further, I think Waterfront Toronto overstepped it's mandate. At the time, Google love was high, and politicians were enamoured with the attention and jumped into bed without even a thought.

In the end, Google is an ad tech company, so no thank you. The scorpion and the frog...
There's a petition for them to open source the backend, much as that seems hopeless we should do something (and this is preferable to going back to gpg for everything:)

https://www.change.org/p/zoom-video-communications-inc-relea...
Never Worry About Slow Queries Again
Can you define the characteristics of a communist dictatorship that are relevant here? Not the economic ones per se, but the ones that make you nervous about spying and media control.
The documentation that you link to states that there is an "occasional misinterpretation", that sometimes people don't understand how to apply max and min correctly in certain situations. That is thankfully, not "most people" nor do I believe it is even some significant number of people most of the time.

People who can't understand max() probably can't see that -10 is less than -9 either. That does not make the "<" operator counter intuitive. This actually has nothing to do with CSS and to me demonstrates a crazy fundamental mis-understanding of math and logic.

For someone confused about what max() might do, you should be clearly stating that it does exactly what is expected, however you might caution a particularity novice coder that they might want to double check that they truly want the greatest of two numbers rather than the least of two numbers. Framing these functions as counter intuitive when they are crystal clear makes it more likely that a novice gets it wrong.

"That person on hacker news told me that max does not work like I expect. I should use it to get the least of two numbers"

With advice like that I guess I can see where novices might be confused. I'm sure you believe at this point that I am some sort of ass, but truthfully I would never hire someone who could not intuit what max() did.
FYI, the billboard lag time was true until a few years ago, even for digital boards.

But now you can turn on a national campaign in a few days. (Disclosure: I work with Blip Billboards who are one of the major drivers of this change.)
Please fix the spelling mistake in the title. "Contract-tracing" is a lot less topical right now than contact-tracing.
If you’re a Californian be sure to send your CCPA notice to privacy@keybase.io
Lenovo frequently runs significant sales on their own site, often focused around holidays. I'd expect to see a significant sale for Memorial Day up next.
Nah, its not common.
She's a "cool" science communicator complete with pink hair to appeal to the kids.

(That's not to undermine her at all, she's fantastic.)
No, it stays on side because it's either not transportable (see Asse) or, as I said: there is no space for it.

FYI: Finland is not like an US state only because it's part of Europe. It's an independent country and they will not take foreign nuclear waste.

PS. those 17.000 tons are just the highly radioactive material. All together it will be 280.000 cubic meters when we're finished decommissioning.
Nuxt works fine for all the uses case that I have come across, even for ERP projects. With Nuxt you can have real redirects, real 404 pages, and a well-established project structure. The only hard thing is that server-side error is more difficult to inspect
Fast Fashion is the nightmare. If we are waking up, all the better.
A lot of those are still applies, but these days you can ignore those bad parts and only use the new good parts just like how you would use javascript. Still, I only use php occasionally but I wish it's not as eager in treating string as number in many cases.
> The only reason to use Python for anything more than few hundreds lines worth of utility is if you're working on a codebase that's already in Python, and even then it's debatable.

One important reason for using Python is that it almost always forces people and companies to release the source code.

I will take a shitty Python script over shitty C/Rust/Go/Java code any day for that reason ALONE.

With source code, I can fix your shitty program (and all programs are shitty--even mine). If it's compiled, that path is blocked.
Last updated 2012.
exactly, they counterbalance. you can either have huge weights balancing each other or small ones. it’s better then to have small ones because power corrupts. it’s why we share power among 3 branches, 50 states and myriad local jurisdictions. civilizations are more resilient against small corruptions of power than large ones.

we do it by rolling back the advantages businesses have amassed over the last half century (or providing residents with all of the same advantages). we institute transparency in labor markets, nullify tax advantages and liability shields, equalize the political voice of the populace, hold companies accountable for (excessive) risk-taking, and rectify thousands, maybe millions, more such injustices. is it that hard to imagine?
Powering down Bitcoin with silicon photonics: Low power PoW algo and HW
> Three international airports

5 :) 3 of them are limited in destinations, only Christchurch and Auckland go direct to places other than Australia or the Pacific islands (Wellington Airport's runway isn't long enough for the bigger planes), but a lot of people coming here will fly via Aussie anyway.

But I agree, we're definitely better placed in that regard, except we initially relied on self-isolation and well, that didn't work very well for us.

If we'd actually implemented stringent testing at the airports, or mandatory and enforced quarantine (not that we had the facilities to do so), then we possibly could have avoided the lockdowns altogether.

We closed the borders to all but citizens and permanent residents when we realised a fair proportion of tourists were ignoring the self-isolation requirements. One helicopter pilot at Franz Josef Glacier flew his passengers to the Police when they told him they'd just arrived in the country.
ctrl + f: modules

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i guess clang and msvc won the fight
I’ve dropped my 2018 MacBook Pro 13 at least 3 times, twice with the lid open, from a height of more than a meter (though onto a vinyl floor). It developed only a hardly noticeable dent.
I see it all around, like "housing should be around 30% if income" or a budgeting system like 50/30/20 (needs/wants/savings&debt).

I just think the concept of decoupling them isn't something people quite appreciate until you get really into personal finance. When going from college into a career your salary can double quite a few times and if you can keep you living expenses restrained it's a lot easier than a decade later trying to pull back and pay down debt.
All browser processes 100KB of scripts just fine. And they process the scripts in the background. The HTML is already parsed and displayed.
> FIRE is about reducing spending.

NO.

Sure, people can achieve FIRE by being frugal, but hoarding money won't get you anywhere.

It's how you use it that's important.

For example, you can also achieve FIRE by setting up cashflow sources so that you are net positive cashflow.

FIRE is about learning that your life depends on net positive cashflow and figuring out ways to achieve that.
Ask HN: How I can delete KeyBase account?
That’s a cool project and a nice effort. It renders pretty well on my iPhone too. Not able to edit on the phone, but still.

I see some other good ideas here too that could maybe give emacs a fresh breath in the new world of IDEs in the browser/cloud.
A state that is not above its own law.
Outside of China, we're pretty lucky that we can just register for random sites like HN with nothing more than a username and password and start talking.

Every Chinese site I've ever used requires phone number or ID verification. Most of them only allow Chinese-registered phones, meaning it's absolutely impossible to communicate with Chinese people from the outside world, aside from a very small number of carefully vetted services like WeChat.

But I fear the rest of the world looked at China and thought, "Wow, we should've done that a long time ago!" Accounts I registered about a decade ago now demand I confirm an email and sometimes a phone number. Email accounts I've had half my life lock me out unless I link it to my phone number and prove my identity. Some services ask for a fucking ID card scan, which prompts me to just drop the service. Some things I've used in the past only accept US phone area codes, which having left the US, means those services are now completely inaccessible to me.

China says it's for state security. They're at least kind of honest that their intention is to keep the population in check and watch their every movement. The rest of the world says it's for personal security. Then another day passes and another heap of phone numbers, names, SSNs, and addresses leak and another identity is stolen.
Testing VSCode Extensions with Cypress and code-server
People might've mistaken it for pedantry/condescension? I certainly didn't take it that way (gave it an upvote) -- though I have read that paper, and was thinking of it when I wrote my original comment :)
Angular 2 Form Generator
Finally my first repo for the greater good !
liquidity would be one.

The returns aren't that great.
I wouldn't trust anything coming from Israel ever. Their government appears to have a mandate for installing backdoors, evidenced by the scrapped Iron Dome project which they wouldn't hand the source code over for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22512674
Ahh ok, I see where you’re coming from though Disneyland has a similar list https://disneyland.disney.go.com/events-tours/ and pricing structures. That park is apparently more dependent on locals.
I've been studying Chinese for 6 years. I probably know a thing or two about Chinese government. But obviously you've decided what you believe I know. Good for you.
I think he probably got it used, used it for a couple years, then resold it for ~$200 less than he originally paid which is entirely believable.
> Their flight might have been a bit more expensive,

So they weren't free. They were just priced into your ticket.

note: I'm not saying they didn't generate good will. Just say if the flight was more expensive then a competitor then you were actually paying for those things and it was just fiction that they were free.
It does depend on the medium though, for example painting is pretty forgiving while glass blowing is not at all.
putting minorities in concentration camps and state sanctioned ip theft are probably worth considering
So much for my keybase accounts. RIP
On an ordinary PC keyboard with sufficient travel, you can use your palm instead of your pinky, and I highly recommend it.
That's a web framework, you need a WSGI server to run it.
There’s a local effect that creates a feedback loop across the region which would then in turn change global weather patterns.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2014-05-excess-ai...
It does (or at least did, when I was using it). It only requires it for registration, so you could even use a disposable phone number, but regardless it is a nonsensical choice for something that could aspire to be a general-purpose chat application.

The server is open-source so you could host your own server -though that's not very practical due to the client situation (not really a variety of configurable ones, so you'd probably need to change/package/distribute the official).
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Today's numbers if anyone cares

https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/gfjby8/coronavi...
> it's incredibly difficult

Right. I see this point ignored very frequently (sometimes because it's obvious and sometimes because people are being dumb).

A lot of the things that would make emacs more like other editors are extremely difficult to retrofit. I expect there is still SOME low-hanging fruit, but a lot of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked, and a lot of the remaining changes that people would like are a lot of work.
True. There are three main aspects from the military's side to consider when a candidate tests positive for IgM anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies:

0. Immunity - Possibility of not lifelong immunity.

1. Carriers - Possibility of continuing to shed viruses and infect other personnel. (It costs too much to conduct rtPCR tests, it's worth just playing it safe and hoping determined candidates reapply or ask for waivers when more scientific evidence is available.)

2. Organ damage - Potential for permanently-reduced lung capacity due to damage from COVID-19, which reduces operational effectiveness. Also, the potential for kidney, liver, and heart damage.. this raises potential ongoing healtcare liabilities (TRICARE).
When I get "there" what would that be like? You are funny. But you don't know me.
And the bonds! That’s the amazing thing, he wanted the cash but knew it was at risk, so he made a financial instrument to extract that value before the market could price the risk. Brilliant!
And what is the best solution? Client Side Rendering is worse, because users see a blank page until the script is parsed. 100KB is actually desirable, because it's included Vue and Vuex out of the box.
It does not. That's the same as doing a normal mv followed by git add. It does not record the fact that you moved it. You can verify this by moving a file and making big changes to it in the same commit. Git will forget that you moved it.
Ask HN: What are some Amazon alternatives?
While I don’t know that I’m ready to cancel my Prime account just yet, I do find it less and less used as time goes on. I know one area of struggle is that while I don’t mind paying more off Amazon, paying more and then $10+ for shipping kinda sucks. With that in mind, what are some good (online) alternatives for books, household stuff, games, etc?
Do you guys provide bug bounty?
Read the book "Millionaire Fastlane" by M.J. DeMarco. You need to create massive value that is automatable and scalable to make millions in < 10 years.
When dealing with large tables with searching + sorting + paginating capabilities, I always use query params and let the API do the heavy lifting
>Don’t know the tech behind it

If you can assume constant lighting it would seem pretty easy? ask the user to move out of frame, take an image, and that's your "green screen" - difference current input fromt the camera vs the reference image of the users room, and overlay whatever doesn't match (e.g. the user) against their choice of background.

This is an entirely naive approach with no research into the problem done, and I can see big problems (such as "assume constant lighting"), but it doesn't seem too complex at a distance. I'm sure there's a video editor out there somewhere fuming at my ignorance though.
Holidays. Memorial Day next, July 4th, Labor Day, then probably not much until Black Friday sales.

Could also watch or set up relevant alerts with model numbers on Slickdeals.
This sort of comment is so tiring to see. There is an obvious difference.
> But the key question is -- do you live in or have any connection to China? If not, then I would go with the CCP surveillance because there is no obvious mechanism for such surveillance to harm you directly.

they can spy on your business dealings and potentially find material to blackmail you
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Yes, it really is getting out of hand. If there was a reasonable equivalent that was an alternate (like an email address used to be), that would be one thing but even with a US phone all of a sudden your phone dies and you are completely stranded and even sites you used to be able to access are now no longer accessible because they are asking for phone numbers and confirmation of said numbers. It feels really awful.
Yes, but in this case it isnt a trend
We'll I don't know about the US, but I imagine it would be pretty hard to make somebody "disappear" here in Australia. I imagine out independent media would help get the word out.

Although we do have the "Witness K" indecent here in Australia. The media can't tell us much of that, but we do know about it. Sort of.
I’ll go first and say Libro.fm[0] is a pretty compelling alternative to Audible.

[0] https://www.libro.fm
Is jsdelivr cheating on requests served number?
in the page, there is one section show the requests served since user opened the page. the number seems dynamic updated, while when check the network in developer console, there is no requests was fired to get the data. Have any idea?
"Masters of A/B testing" is, in my opinion, a gross overstatement. However what is true, is that a large number of people will automatically choose the lowest available option among airfares, without considering comfort or amenities. When your product is efficiently lined up against your competitors, sorted by price alone, (i.e. Expedia, Kayak...), then being second-place by $3 is enough to impact sales volume.

It's one of the primary reason airlines have moved so much of the total cost out of the ticket price, and on to additional fees: luggage, food, seat selection, printing a boarding pass, etc.
It’s just a (mostly) simple bash script a co-worker wrote.

It relies on Amazon’s Session Manager plugin, importing the user’s public key with aws ec2 import-key-pair, and firing up a new instance on the relevant subnet with the appropriate role, security group, etc.

I rather doubt the company would allow even something this simple to be distributed, unfortunately, at least without lawyers getting involved, hardly worth it for a 100 line bash script.
> my first ex-wife

Now you have me wondering how many ex-wives you got! Sorry but couldn't resist.
Wow, I have a very different experience than you. I've noticed vast differences in airlines, how cramped they are, the cleanliness of their planes, the amenities inside the plane, the quality of the food offerings, even the attitude of the staff . And, having experienced all these different airlines, when I'm on a route i've been before I'm apt to pick the airline that gave me the best experience if other things are relatively comparable (price/time)

Even on the same airline, often there are partnerships. For example JAL/American and ANA/United I'm make sure to book the fight run by the Japanese partner not the American partner and the experience will be night and day. The Japanese plane will be clean the USA plane will be less clean. The Japanese staff will be friendly and service oriented. The USA staff will make me feel like I'm a burden on them and they'd rather be doing anything than their job. The food, even though it's airplane food, will be higher quality on the Japanese airline. Etc...
The Right and Wrong Ways to Play the Film Finance Game
https://www.wdrb.com/news/belknap-neighborhood-residents-con...

https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/google-fiber-to-pay-nearly-4-m...

Google Fiber prepares to pull the plug on Louisville customers tonight, the tech company has agreed to pay Metro government $3.84 million to fix damage to city streets, Mayor Greg Fischer’s said Monday.

The payments, to be made over 20 months, will cover removing fiber cables and sealant from roads, milling and paving streets “where needed” and removing Google’s above-ground infrastructure, according to a news release from Fischer's office.
Are you now or have you ever been funded by a corporate front for the Chinese Communist Party?
An American tells a Russian that the United States is so free that he can stand in front of the White House and yell, “To hell with Ronald Reagan.” The Russian replies: “This is nothing. I can stand in front of the Kremlin and yell, ‘To hell with Ronald Reagan,’ too.
The just get disappeared into Belmarsh and extradited to who knows where for telling the truth about the US military murdering civilians including journalists from a helicopter gunship.
Give him 6-9 months. He'll disappear, all of a sudden.

We all do this. Once. When we grow up, at ~23.
Very nice. I don't like the API with arrays, but hey, seems to get the job done.
Yep. I guess a lot of people don't realize how intrusive and prevalent Chinese surveillance and censorship is.
There is a very wide gulf between sniffing and companies explicitly building tools to facilitate government censorship and suppression.
> That's not what the parent post said, or inferred. Don't put words in others' mouths please.

I thought it was clear those words came from my mouth.
Cisco Jabber also embeds a browser engine.

I think of Electron as Gresham's law in action.
Why? Because there are often other dependencies going on. Most software in this paradigm is at a company. When companies roll out new things, change management has to happen. Marketing needs to make a splash (they want at least 6-12 weeks lead time). Sales starts making promises. Account managers and support need to be trained. Change management has to to happen. So then missing a date by weeks/months screws up the business. Most companies aren't writing software for fun.
It's absurd to compare the US to China because:

1: It's not the topic

2: it's a blatant falacy

3: it distracts from the main point adding unneeded emotionalism

and 4: Even with it's current slide toward Eastern European style strongman state, it's not remotely as bad to it's people.
The history and development of batteries (2015)
CDC guide to reopening was trashed by the Trump admin. It just leaked
Maybe not the appropriate forum but does anyone have a sane setup for the insane javascript setup of modern times?

I love emacs and am willing to put the time into tooling and configuration. But despite several hopeful attempts, I’ve been unable to manage anything comparable to vscode for this environment.

That is, support for all versions of ecmascript, but also jsx, typescript, et al.
My main problem with docker/Kubernetes for small projects is automated patching.

With Ubuntu, I can set up automated upgrades/restarts pretty easily but with docker/k8s I end up having to write my own script to handle it, or at least that was the case last time I looked.