skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a previous employer I once received a company-wide email from their operations manager about "fixing" their TrustPilot score (which was low and totally justified) and how he was encouraging us to leave reviews with our opinions "as a user" despite us being employees (I raised concerns but those fell on deaf ears).

I don't understand how an e-mail like that can even be written. Even if they don't follow through with the action, if that email were to leak it will become a (justified) PR disaster for the company (said company already had a PR disaster a few months before). I might expect a clueless intern to send it out, but not an experienced operations manager. Worse, none of the CS & marketing employees saw anything wrong with that and actually went ahead and posted reviews in their name.
Hear hear. Racism and other forms of idpol have been critical tools of the political establishment in oppressing the working classes throughout American history (see 1700s Virginia Slave Codes for an early example).

While bashing "bad" racism is politically correct, bashing "good" racism is almost universally seen as taboo. Hence racism is immortal in America.
You approach any system with thoughts of how to cheat/game it in your favor.

If you look at any large social media platform's most prominent users you will find common patterns. On Reddit you'll find a sort of roving cabal of interconnected people who control the largest subs. On Instagram you'll find paid follower counts and paid engagements from third world social media sweatshops to be the norm. On twitter you'll find gangs of journos amplifying each other similar to the Reddit moderator scenario.
Hello, Developer of Startomatic here (Automated Insights previously). I know Stripe Atlas is popular with the HN crowd, but we think they didn't go far enough. Our goal is to include EVERYTHING you need to get a company launched, not just legal formation. Right now we include name suggestions, domain name registration, logo creation, legal formation, email/calendar set up, a "coming soon" website, SEO set up, and social media account creation. And all within 48 hours. We've got more coming soon. I'd love your feedback.

Thanks!
Robbie Allen (robbie@startomatic.com)
> There are people who would loudly insist that there should be nothing but a kernel and Stallman's FAQ.

Literally nobody says that. Not even RMS says that.
Would be nice to see a sorted list and the count for each color. Could even bucket very similar colors so we get a sense for the general HN taste for colors, though I don't know the first thing about bucketing colors.

I use #93a1a1, personally (i.e. $base1 from solarized https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/)
I'm thinking in terms of equity, and it still seems pretty unfair that my local Mexican restaurants are being discriminated against.
Perhaps they can point a particular host to a malicious IP rather than "0.0.0.0". In a list of several hundred thousand domains, you wouldn't be able to notice this manually.

ex., make Bank of America resolve to a phishing site rather than the real BoA IP.

Pi-Hole and others might check for this though, I don't know.
"Irrational" is becoming something of a synonym for "I don't agree". Also, that's an awfully dramatic analogy.
I wanted to love snaps. I really did. I like the idea of a self-contained program that doesn't get into DLL hell, and can't stomp all over my system if it misbehaves, and can be cleanly uninstalled.

Unfortunately, snap comes with all of these extra issues that happen when the developer isn't empathizing with the user. Also, much to my chagrin, snaps don't actually uninstall cleanly, and can really hoop your system. I now install snaps INSIDE of an LXC container so that snap can't misbehave and break my system, or else if I can I just use apt with a custom repo (for docker because the snap is awful). Ubuntu 20.04 will probably be my last Ubuntu system, and that's a shame... I really liked it.
Can we keep the throwaway punny comments on Reddit?
That's not true. You can talk to any other origin with ws. Simple example:

index.html:

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div id="message"></div>
<script>
let ws = new WebSocket("ws://localhost:5000/");
ws.onopen = () => ws.send("hello server!");
ws.onmessage = ev => {
const $message = document.getElementById("message");
$message.textContent = `ws://localhost:5000/ response: ${ev.data}`;
};
</script>
</body>
</html>

server.js:

const express = require("express");
const http = require("http");
const WebSocket = require("ws");

const app = express();
const server = http.createServer(app);
const wss = new WebSocket.Server({ server });

wss.on("connection", ws => {
ws.on("message", message => {
console.log(`received: ${message}`);
ws.send("hello client");
});
});

server.listen(5000, () => console.log("ws server listening on localhost:5000"));

Server runs on localhost:5000. Now serve index.html from any other origin and see it talk to the server without any problem.
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Seems like Uber is thinks black businesses are not capable of competing in a free market without a handout. Based on your definition, it is explicit racism.
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Is there a similar list to /leaders but with "active" accounts ranked by age?
This feels a bit too vague still though, because from all we know about the restaurant/delivery ecosystem it'd be fair to describe Uber Eats as a system of power over all involved restaurants, right?
insulting. Just wow. The nerve to exploit. That's why black people are killed by cops, delivery fees from UberEats. Good thing that is solved now
Uber has been sending me invalid coupons through SMS for over a year now. A couple months ago I got fed up with it and decided to contact support, and they refused to even engage with the subject. I think it takes a lot to provide customer service worse than Google's, and they somehow managed to do it.
The OP is awfully ironic. The answer, I think, is read more books and less posts. So yes, there is a book on being a better thinker.

Pick one.
Thanks for the feedback. This is something I've been thinking about a bit since launching it. I don't think SF necessarily does anything new or hooks users and I'm okay with that. I actually intended the site be more focused around the lists, but people really seem to enjoy logging their day-to-day lives. Personally, I like reading these automatic thoughts from strangers. Many people talk about quarantine routines, life goals, and ongoing projects. It's cool to see all this overlap in how people are thinking right now. So again, nothing new here, just a slightly different approach to a community website.

I totally understand your hesitance on registering an account. There are so many ways of blogging/journaling on the web already. I actually think it's a good site to browse without ever needing an account. I'm looking at added RSS soon so you won't even need to really visit and can use something like Fraidycat to check in.

Also, SF was mentioned on Kicks Condor recently [1]. I like how they talked about the site... "but it hadn’t even occurred to me to make a social network that is just a directory". I hadn't really thought of SF as just a directory either, but I like the idea that its only purpose is to be a directory of people doing DIY stuff on the web.

[1] https://www.kickscondor.com/special.fish/
"Human rights lawyer?" That's an "interesting" euphemism for a tax lawyer.
> Where is that in the patent document?

The new parts are necessarily included in the claims at the end of patent document. However, there's nothing that requires an applicant to specify which elements of a claim are new over the prior art.
I don't think their move here is illegal. I think it's ill-advised, bad PR, will backfire and probably predatory on the group they are ostensibly trying to help. (Maybe even without them even understanding why.)

That all said, I was almost going to downvote your comment, but it made remember how much Uber actually has made a business model out of breaking the law in every country they are active in. Move fast and break things became move fast and break the law.
This can't be overstated. The mockery and negativity is overwhelming and monstrous. My first instinct was to call it "cynicism", but cynicism isn't usually expressed as such an active attack on a person.
The reason you think that is because you're assuming the free market is 1) free and 2) treats everyone equally, which is not the case.
Pure speculation on my part, but it sounds like an organizational case of ADHD or Magpie driven development. A new project is started and everyone jumps ship before it is ready, leaving some other team to come in and continue before jumping. Repeat this over a few times in a product and you end up with an unusable mess. This might explain it.
Unless 51% of any city is minorities, any PD polls well.
Using the money to "pay vendors and employees" does not hide the source of the money. Laundering typically involves inflating
reported income so that you can slip the dirty money into your income stream. If you run a pizza business, you sell one pizza for $10, but in your receipts you claim you sold two pizzas for $20. Now you've laundered $10; it's hard for the government to prove that you didn't sell two pizzas that day, and the income will seem legit.
> At one point, her husband used my fiance's email to register a bank account. We called the bank and after explaining the situation were able to CORRECT the email address for her (we decided that a bank account was serious enough to fix it rather than just be annoyed).

Heh, someone else managed to attach their PayPal account to my email address, and there's no way for me to disavow or remove it.

Thankfully, I've never been able to recover their password because PayPal requires more user information that I don't know.

Unfortunately that also means that I'll never be able to create a PayPal account with that email address.
Reasoning is HN’s goal, per dang, is to promote substantially new information — unless the tutorial fits this meaning, it’s less of a priority to feature than those posts that do meet it.

Worth noting there’s nothing stopping you from building custom HN searches like this to find tutorials posts, though this would not solve the likelihood of the community posting related comments:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Yips
In my case, the sleep study was done at home. I just have to wear some gear at night for a week or something.

Then a week of CPAP machine for free to feel if it's helping (I feel no improvement, although wife said there was no snoring with the machine).
I've always found it kind of ironic (or at least funny) that the code for HN isn't open source.
Is there reason to believe that their foray into the financial sector will be treated differently under a democratic president/legislators vs republican ones?

Basically do they have a dog in this fight?
I think this official page covers all of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Being a person of color in the US absolutely means you are confronting systemic racism throughout your life. So absolutely, yes, compared to white restaurant owners. Example: If you are black, you are less likely to get a small business loan, and if so you are likely to get worse rates [1]. They also are encountering more resistance to accessing COVID-19 bailout funds [2]. These are just two examples specific to being a business owner, not to mention the systemic racism they face as individuals.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/16/black-owned...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/business/minority-busines...
Sure, but it would be quite a coincidence that these defaults happen to two people who happen to be friends.
Well, it could have been unrelated to radio emissions: resonant sounds caused by wind blowing through the tall towers, for example.
The obvious use case is stations, stadiums, and plazas, where there's a huge number of people in a single 4g cell who get terrible service.

I don't imagine the network as a whole will upgrade to 5g-only.

As for radio safety: anyone talking about the towers is underinformed. If there is a risk it's from the high power TX next to your head - see EU "SAR" limits.
I think this should be permanent for Native Americans.

White Europeans stole their land and killed many millions (often unintentionally with Smallpox).

Manhattan where I live for example, if the Native American tribes retained ownership they would be very wealthy from the leases.
> Helm charts are declarative way of deploying app(s) and their accompanying resources.

How do you make helm chart deployment declarative? `helm install` is not declarative (in my understanding `kubectl apply` is declarative and `kubectl create` is not. Let me know if my understanding of declarative is wrong). Thanks.
Isn't that how research is done? If a tobacco company publishes research explaining how tobacco promotes lung health and people start reporting their "research" as fact wouldn't that be a problem?

There is opposing research with different conclusions that 5G may not be so safe, which I am sure many people choose to ignore since they contradict the WHO, and TV media reports.

Its about sources and authority. Finding the truth is difficult.
After "fight fire with fire", through awful virtue signalling comes "fight racism with racism".

Nice move, Uber!
Documenting with MediaWiki
Hi from Argentina too!

Congratulations for the kid. Remember to sleep now, the next 18 years are more difficult.

Never invest more than you can afford to lose. It's difficult to invest unless you understand how the market work and there are no zero risk, high gain investment. Perhaps invest a small part like 10% or 20%, assuming there is a real chance you will loose it.

For my situation, I prefer an stable job, but I don't have too much savings. Each one has it's own bias.

I think a startup may cause family problems. You will be at home during the quarantine drinking mate and chatting with your friends, and not taking care of the baby. I think your SO will understand that this is your work, but after a few night of sleep deprivation and changing too many diapers ...

The advantage of a consulting/freelancing job is that you will get a paycheck and that makes your job real. With some luck you can get the same dollars with less work time. I'd recommend to read whatever patio11 wrote about consulting like https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick... or https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick... . Also, there is a monthly freelance thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23379195
Because they are officially sponsored YC related ADs.
> existing things with maybe a new twist somewhere.

To be valid, a claim must be novel (new) and non-obvious over the prior art. So there absolutely must be a new twist somewhere.
Billionaire Space Race
https://xkcd.com/1590/
> Ten years ago helium recycling in cryogenics was unheard of.

That depends on both time period and location.

In the late 80's I worked in a physics lab in the US that had an old helium recuperation system installed (as gas, I don't think they had a liquifier) but it wasn't in use, we just boiled off 100's to 1000's of liters each week. I assume it must have been used at some point in time though.

In Europe helium has traditionally been much more expensive than in the US (not sure about the situation currently) and I think many labs recovered it. At CERN all the helium was reliquified, except for one time when the liquifier broke down and they boiled off about 20000 liters testing LEP superconducting RF cavities.
Wasn't AppArmor already doing this though? If I remember correctly (and I never properly read up on it, so please correct me if I'm wrong) it limits which syscalls you can do and with which parameters, like opening only certain files. I think apparmor rules/profiles were becoming more common to be delivered with their respective packages (I'm using Debian), and it sounds like that already solves your exact concern without deviating from apt:

> it is plain weird for every app I install to have so much file system and system access

A quick glance at Wikipedia to make sure I'm not talking out of my ass seems to confirm that:

> is a Linux kernel security module that allows the system administrator to restrict programs' capabilities with per-program profiles. Profiles can allow capabilities like network access, raw socket access, and the permission to read, write, or execute files on matching paths. [...] AppArmor is enabled by default in Debian 10 (Buster) [from July 2019].

(Also, I'm not a fan of claiming "devil's advocate" when you're saying something that you know everyone will agree with. It's similar to saying "downvote me all you want but [insert popular HN opinion]". Of course the principle of lease privilege for software is something lauded by every logically thinking person.)
That’s quite interesting combination.

How did you charge the marketing contractor?

I wanted to reached out to marketing contractor but haven’t had much information

Thank you!
How do companies find out personal details like race about who runs a business (and actually do it accurately)?

Can they also find out things like religion or ethnicity?

Whether it’s corporate data collection or users checking a box, it seems like a good intention that is primed for manipulation - which I guess some companies might gloss over as long as it benefits them.
It's neat, but probably needs a bit more features for it to be more useful than pastebin.
Yes, sign me up please! You don't necessarily need to go all the way down to statically linking libc, but if just about everything else could be included in the binary, that would be lovely.

We have come up with such convoluted solutions to this problem—Docker, nix, Snap, etc—when the simple option is sitting in front of us. And it works! On my Mac, I don't want to install homebrew or MacPorts—Package managers make me feel like I never know the state of my system—so when I need a command line tool, I try to either track down or otherwise compile (in a VM) a static binary. When I can find them, they work perfectly!
Treated equally in a food ordering service? Show me where it says “restaurant owned by a black person” in the Uber app allowing people to discriminate when ordering food.
A lot of the lines are like that, especially once it’s summer and you can barely survive without having the windows down. Dangerously loud.

Although I also have sensitive ears. :/
No. Don't do it.
Take one simple example: urban redlining. Urban redlining wasn't that long ago. Many white boomers (and hence their children) so clearly benefited from it at the expense of black people. So it's a bit rich to put in place blatantly racist policies, which allowed enormous wealth accumulation at the expense of another group, and then quite literally within the same lifetime when those policies have been banned, and the wealth accumulation has already happened, shout "Why is it so hard to fathom we all deserve to be treated as equal??"

I think this Uber Eats policy is both bad policy and dumb, but I also think that pretending legal racism that only ended in my parents' (still alive) lifetime doesn't have a huge effect on society, not to mention ongoing institutionalized racism the current protests are meant to address.
Toronto without question. There are some company's in Waterloo as well, Google has a presence there for example, because of the University of Waterloo. But it is not as bustling as it was when RIM was still a big thing.
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> I don't imagine the network as a whole will upgrade to 5g-only.

5G only is fine, as it encompasses more modes of operation than just the millimetre-wave model.
Connecting to a different domain is fine, that's what CORS is for. Letting any origin connect by default -- that's a problem.

> Browsers set the "Origin" header for ws:// calls, and the websocket servers are expected to check that.

I know that, but as always insecure by default protocols are terrible, and are guaranteed to be exploited beyond recognition... The question is why not be secure by default and force servers to whitelist origins they expect to talk to?
Was going to read the first link, but can't be bothered to sign up / sign in to medium.com. Screw that platform.
I never followed the matter closely, but from the parts that I did follow or investigate, your comment doesn’t feel particularly accurate.

• I don’t believe there was any organised team; it arose organically.

• In each case the complaints were of concrete problems that incorrect usage of unsafe caused. After that, people did then tend to pile on and baulk at other unsafe code that was probably OK, because the author had been proven untrustworthy in using unsafe code. (“Unsafe” says “trust me, it’s OK”, and that trust had been broken.) And there were one or two people that made it more direct personal attacks—but probably only one or two.

• Your final paragraph just seems completely wrong. Various of those that complained did offer alternatives, some of which were turned down. And people did go with viable alternatives, switching to competitors to Actix. Even apart from all that, if you can prove that by some metric a piece of software is bad, why would the burden lie with you to fix it? (Especially if your patches are rejected.) If the problem won’t be fixed, recommending that others avoid it seems perfectly reasonable. You’re presenting a common logical fallacies, that you can’t criticise something unless you can provide an alternative. I don’t need to be able to build a better bridge to be able to point out that it’s falling down.

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but I intend to engage no further on this. The points have been hashed out before and there is nothing new to say; things just tend to get heated. Have an enjoyable day. :)
It makes me very interested as to what his address is, is it "123 Main St" or some other common name? I mean at a past company we had a ton of data pointing to our old office, places close by to our office, or home addresses of employees for testing.

That said unless all these places (it appears to not just be 1) have the same backend and the tests are run against each location I'm not sure if CI/CD is the right answer.

It gave me a laugh for sure and reminded me the terror around kicking off a job in our production clone (the only way to fully test some queries/processes due to size and real-world data needed). We had scripts that wiped things like phone numbers, emails, SSN, etc before it hit the clone but not all developers where diligent about adding to the cleaning script when adding new fields to the DB. My nightmare was sending out a batch of SMS/Emails to people alerting them to an issue (the staleness of the data would fire off false alarms) that didn't exist.
Funny, I thought jsonnet was an even worse experience than templating yaml
Pretty interesting hypothesis! I don't think so, though. It was a fairly electronic sounding boop, almost like a low sine wave. A fog horn sound has more acoustic qualities to it. Also, if it was a fog horn, I don't know why it would only be audible in Nob Hill and no where else I've been in SF.
> Apart from the fact that Canada has closed its border with the US because of COVID, of course.

I believe it's still open for work, it is in the other direction.
In case you are unsure what the sibling means: Debian is primarily a server OS (one of the best). When people talk about Debian, they mostly think about server use.

(That's why your question sounds like a joke :) Or maybe it was a joke?)