skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think canceling your digital subscription makes sense and doesn't really feel like cancel culture to me.

I'm not a fan of cancel culture, but I am a fan of canceling. I've got similar feelings about boycotts.

If you want to tell someone about how a company is bad, then do that. If you don't want to give money to someone who does things you disagree with, then don't give them money. There are a lot of other options for your time and money.

Where I think it gets a little ridiculous is when you (uh, not you, but like the general person) tell other people that you canceled something because it's bad. You're trying to make yourself look like the good guy/hero when all you did was decide to spend your time and money elsewhere.

And it gets really ridiculous when you go right back to what was canceled when they provide some other thing that you like OR when it turns out nobody else cares about your virtuous canceling and you want to fit back in with the group.

"Hey, we're all going to go see Avengers 10! It will be a huge party and it's going to be great. Oh, hey Josh, I forgot that you swore a blood oath to never see another movie owned by Disney after Walt Disney's zombie ate your dog."

"Uh, I guess it's okay. It was kind of a silly blood oath anyway. And fluffy had a good life I guess. I suppose I can come."

Of course you might also write a letter explaining why you canceled your subscription and say that you'll come back on the condition that they don't continue to pull shenanigans like this and that they take responsibility and apologize. Who knows it might actually change their policy if they see enough of this sort of thing.
>What is the part of "calculates the value of all benefits to be paid out in the future, due to past and future service" that you don't understand?

Because pensions go up with years of service you have to account for the worker continuing to work when calculating pension liability. As an example, say a pension vests after 5 years. What should the pension cost be for an employee in year 2? The best answer is something like 1/5 of the NPV of their pension.

That's what they mean by "benefits to be paid out... due to .. future service".

>That means the postal service is now paying for the future health care of retirees it has not yet hired,

Did you not see the part of my cite where that is specifically called a myth?
Pfizer Gets $1.95B to Produce Coronavirus Vaccine by Year’s End
I see the same thing, but in people who primarily work in statically typed languages. I don't think there's much of a pattern in wrt types, but people who don't think about data.
> If I remember right its not the first time he has gotten such things wrong,

I must have missed that. Could you find that article for me?
So write HTML and push that directly to your webserver.. what do you want from the world haha

Forgive me for suggesting the first thing that popped into mind, could you run the generator script locally and also push the /public dir which your server then serves directly?
I think that to succeed in your business you should poll on management, because I think every developer on earth would roll eyes (and probably hate you) when proposed insistently* into participating on giving such feedback by some wanky manager.

*should read: "participate or it will impact negatively in your performance review".

> did tell users to give us HN feedback

I am not an admin or police of this place, but be careful because it might be against the guidelines[0].

>> Can I ask people to upvote my submission?
>> No...

>> Can I ask people to comment on my submission?
>> No....

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Russia is a very, very big country and economic unit. It may have been sanctioned into oblivion by its Western enemies, but its collapse before the USA devolves into civil war is anything but certain.

>Russia has 8 times the population of Syria, and people can't live on a big part of its territory without artificial heating, or completely reliant for on long range freight for essential supplies.

What part of this makes you think Russia is dependent on the Wests' criminal sanctions being lifted?
I didn't claim you made up the bankruptcy numbers. I just pointed out the economies are different. We are discussing a strategy for dealing with the virus, not who has the most money. If you've been to Scandinavia you will know who has the most money.

Exaggerating is a strong word. I don't think any two countries count deaths in the same way however.
> A few companies had interview processes that were equivalent to Google. They wanted a coding bootcamp graduate to be able to solve complex algorithms that even a software engineer with a CS degree and years of experience would have struggled to complete.

Is this article satire? It seems like this diva wanted to stroll into software development after a 2 week course and have everything handed to her.
Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft
> The real killer app for Bloomberg is mortgage backed securities

I guarantee you that 98% of the users paying loadsamoney for Bloomberg have never and will never trade or analyse MBSs.

I agree with you on the IM - it's one of the lock-in factors but would have been killed by Symphony if it were even close to the largest one.
Leak Exposes Private Data of Genealogy Service Users
Medium and YouTube killed RSS and blogging – my experience
If the therapist doesn't have its shit together it undermines trust that they can help other people get their shit together.
Insurtech Unicorn Hippo Raises $150M
From that article:

> A report from the research firm Capital Economics published on Tuesday found that the Swedish economy was the least harmed in Europe, describing it as the "best of a bad bunch."

> Though Sweden was not immune to the pandemic's economic impact, it was the only major economy to grow in the first quarter of the year, the report noted.

Can you explain how Sweden's performance in the first quarter has anything to do with Covid?

Most of the lockdowns happened at the end of the first quarter and lasted for most of the second quarter.

Maybe I'm missing something but it sounds like they are grasping at straws there when more accurate data shows the opposite picture.
Couldn't agree more. Moreover, given that a huge part of the value of the degree is related to the prestige of the University, bad-mouthing your own institution only serves to reduce the value of your own degree. Who cares if I write an honest and bad review about a restaurant that I have no stake in. I just can't envision a scenario where people try to devalue their own diploma.
Just as a counterexample to this, my last gig (I got out after 4 months thankfully) was written with some of these "do copy and paste" and "write a big lump of code" principle and it was an absolute nightmare to work with. Most functions were hundreds of lines long and files were huge. The code had no architecture and was very hard to reason with or modify. Most of the work was to fix a steady inflow of bugs which had no concrete repro steps and happened sporadicly.

People rag on premature optimization but I will take it over no optimization at all. Someone who prematurely optimizes at least has good intentions in their heart and is trying to do better.

At the end of the day, every day, even every hour as a developer you constantly have a choice - be lazy or be good. If you are lazy you will add one more if then statement to the already huge function. If you are good, you will refactor it. Its OK to be lazy every once in a while, but thats a very slippery slope and years of laziness will crush a codebase in its own eight.
I did some strategy work for a very large UK fashion retailer who's at the complete opposite end of the "don't chase fashion" market. Everyone in that industry is trying to emulate Uniqlo's margins and unit economics.

This article talks about how they produce their fabric, but the thing they realised super early is how valuable _vertical integration_ can be in fashion retail. They own the end to end process, from raw material purchase upwards.

They can do this BECAUSE of how limited their selection is, if you're a fast fashion retailer you always needs new materials and new patterns and new tooling so it's incredibly hard to chase vertical integration and strong unit economics. They get savings by pushing that risk and RnD onto dedicated manufacturers in places like Bangladesh. It's 'just in time' manufacturing in a pretty extreme sense. Because Uniqlo have so much less cardinality in their stock they can focus and optimise for it. It also enables them to control quality in a way few others can.
He was a self-critical upper class twit who continued to evolve and transform his view of the world and himself over the course of his entire life.
Or just use grep? Are there people building systems that keep logs that are not easily grepable? I've never seen one, and I have seen some very poorly designed systems. I do work outside of traditional environments though (embedded, robotics, avionics).
where does this 40% come from, do you have the source?
I think my overall point is that symbols can significantly make things simpler, not that they always do. It's very much like the analogy with diagrams that I made in that comment: making things visual can help enormously, but a bad diagram or equation can be as unclear, or worse, than some descriptive text.

Communication is hard, and unfortunately doing it well requires experience and thought rather than simplistic rules like "always use symbols rather than words" or vice-versa.
> I assume you mean JWT

Yes.

> JWT/cookie page rendered stuff is fine

Please could you elaborate on this?

> And use HTTPS for all traffic.

Yes, that is done.

> unless this is a comp-sci quiz question testing your understanding of sessions/security, haha

No it is not :)
> the violence

The left certainly is committing more acts of violence and riots than the right. 4 people murdered in the ultra-left zone, the Chaz in 2 weeks. Scores murdered in Democrat-led cities across America (Baltimore, Chicago, etc.). Murders on the rise in NYC. Large group of officers attacked in Grant Park in chicago by a mob.

Somehow that's Trump's fault?
Yes. Of course the same applies not just to resellers, but also to companies properly located in the UK. I order quite frequently from Rapha and Wiggle and hope they'll have EU-based fulfilling in place.
I like the idea of design documentation, but in 30 years of software development experience, I've never seen one done well. TFA does a reasonably good job of outlining what you'd want from an ideal design document but doesn't offer any advice on creating one that actually meets these criteria.
>>so they clearly weren't too bothered about this at the time.

I dont know if that is true, simply because they did not rant and rave like it common with cancel culture today does not mean they were not bothered

It almost never results in a good outcome to tell your current service provider your intentions to leave before you are actually ready to pull the trigger to leave

Stoicism is a virtue in these situations
WGU is accredited. If you are sufficiently motivated, it is fast and cheap. It doesn't require you to move or to quit your existing job.

I can't speak to the motivations of the person considering it, but perhaps s/he only needs to check a "do you have an MBA?" box on an application to be able to move forward in their career.
because it simply not true,

their economy did not do worse their people are happier and pretty much looks like they would agree to do it again the same way

that is the real test of measures, would you do the exact same thing again?

which country would want to take the same type of measures once more
Same here. I order quite frequently from Rapha and Wiggle and hope they'll have EU-based fulfilling in place.
Give Students UserFreedom – FSF
Why was this comment killed? It was just about the only sane comment in this thread.
There's a bunch of long-winded replies in this thread, but the point I made was that the B-17 simply couldn't defend itself.

German fighters could attack head-on without return fire, and were fast enough to attack at will at any other angle.

The B-29 only operated offensively in the Japan theater, and since Japan often has clouds at 5,000', dropping bombs through an overcast was pointless.

(A couple B-29s did an "airshow" over England once to intimidate observers. See Mark Felton's Youtube channel.)
> That kind of uncensored hatred and racism will push India right into the arms of Russia and China.

Russia is already India's old friend and China is India's old enemy.
Are conspiracy theories a crime?
Should they be censured? This seems short-sighted. How much power should corporate social media giants assume?
You're better using Postman for this case: https://learning.postman.com/docs/designing-and-developing-y...
it's what media are doing all the time. Comparisons are quite meaningless in general (different populations, climate, density, conditions, behaviours, healthcare systems, genes, luck), more so if the pandemic is far from over
This will only serve to enfore QAnon fans belief that they're being censored, and that there's a huge conspiracy against them.
That editor (in the gif) is really cool. Does anyone know if it's homebuilt, or if they used a library for that?
It’s time to stop listening to this guy. He’s got a history of doxxing people he doesn’t like, for trivial things like bad reviews even.

Please don’t promote or link Krebs.
There are two issues to consider here: whether he is correctly identifying the people he doxxes and the ethical implications of his decision to do so. He received a fair bit of backfire for doxxing security researchers a few years ago (including @notdan) https://itwire.com/security/infosec-researchers-slam-ex-wapo...

For me (and I'd imagine most folks coming to a board called "Hacker News"), doxxing independent security researchers for the crime of port scanning is highly unethical behavior, and this vigilante crusade to doxx hackers is appearing to generate yet more collateral damage in the reckless pursuit of clout.
Chris Vickery: AI Will Drive Tomorrow’s Data Breaches
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Unix Domain Socket Forwarding with OpenSSH
My wife is the one who does this for a living - but my understanding is that, for example, 1) disorganized attachment is not predictive of later social, emotional, educational and mental health problems but is a moderate to significant risk factor, 2) infant disorganized attachment expression should not be used to assume parental abuse, but has a strong correlation with parent-child relationships featuring abuse, neglect, emotional dependency, etc., 3) while a risk factor, other safe/stable/nuturing relationships early in life can mitigate the negative potential effects.

I don’t have specific citations, and I’m not arguing it’s rock solid, settled science, but suggesting parent-child relationships may have no effect at all is out on the edge of reasonable.
University of York discloses data breach, staff and student records stolen
None of are indicative of what happened in Sweden. Nor are indicative to what happens after a lockdown is imposed.

It boggles my mind that you are still arguing that restaurant reservations would drop the same (and stay the same for months) with or without a lockdown.

Why is the lockdown necessary then? You are just pushing a preconceived notion here.
Any good examplars of docs that use this format?
We call on school administrators at all levels to drop requirements for students to use proprietary software to participate in a course, and to adopt a free software replacement for every nonfree program being used. As students, teachers, parents, and concerned citizens, we stand together for the following principles:

* It is an injustice to require students to sacrifice their freedom to proprietary software in pursuit of an education.

* Using free software in the classroom communicates the importance of values key to a free society: sharing, social responsibility, and independence.

* With its focus on study and collaboration, free software is far more suited to the spirit of pedagogy than the dependence and abuse caused by proprietary software.
For those unacquainted with mountain beavers, they are only distantly related to the beavers that build dams. They are also the host to the world's largest species of flea, which can reach sizes of ~1/4"!

Here is a surprisingly hilarious account of the search for a live mountain beaver flea specimen: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/science/the-great-giant-f...
Companies to Notch Big Win over Activists in SEC Proxy Overhaul
Congrats on the launch! Curious about your coding journey. You mentioned that it took you 1.5 years of coding on weekends, but would you also share the courses/tools/communities you used?
NMAP – A Guide to the Greatest Scanning Tool of All Time
Network-Mapper (NMap), is the most famous scanning tool used by penetration testers. In this article, we will look at some core features of Nmap along with a few useful commands.
Wow I could not disagree more. Unlike parking spaces, this is at least providing some positive value to a city.

And what makes these fake restaurants? These are cheap spaces where entrepreneurial chefs who could never afford to start a full restaurant can open a delivery restaurant and start selling food quickly. They can still develop a name and a brand for themselves via delivery just like any restaurant could. Why does it have to be mediocre food? Surely some amazing food will come out of spaces like this.
Microsoft Double Key Encryption enters public preview
"Anything that can be made hard to delete, will be made harder to delete, even when we try to make that specific part of code easier to delete."
Great article, generating consistent design docs that are both useful and not too time-consuming to create is something I am constantly working on. One thing I struggle with is finding examples of what others are doing in the industry. Does anyone have any resources they've found that provide examples of real-world design documents? Obviously each project is different but I'd be curious if others out there are publishing their templates/outlines of what they typically start with similar to this article.

I feel like blog posts seem to serve this niche for a lot of open source projects but it would be interesting to see if anyone has found more structured examples.
Ah, that's something I would very much like to implement. Probably only in '21... More pressing stuff first.

Until then, have a look at Jexcel, it implements numerous pickers/editors (not all of them mobile-friendly I believe).
There's a staggering amount of endangered wildlife trade occurring openly on facebook in developing countries. Monitoring groups have a tough time breaking into these things due to the gated nature of the platform and after that paranoid private groups.

Do hope FB one day tries to take this seriously as they are the only people who can realistically access this content completely, law enforcement is more reactionary than proactive on these events and tend to miss the small windows of opportunity, there's plenty of people happy to offer up tooling for autodetection of illegal wildlife trade activities.
> It's just hard for me to take a any positive feedback from a person I pay to listen to the said feedback.

If someone is crying, you are getting emotional feedback from that person that they need help. They could cry for any number of reasons but the feedback they provide you by crying remains the same until you discuss it more. Paid feedback or not - outsiders will provide you similar feedback that will be relevant to you because they are able to empathize (that is if you are honest).

But I get you. if you think of paid feedback as fake reviews on playstore, you will get discouraged. It's hard to give a fake plausible review and it's quick to spot for human interaction though.
Does anyone know where to find real examples of design docs, possibly following this guide? I don't mean toy examples but something that's actually used by real people/orgs. My workplace has design docs but they're full of made-up words, so I'm pretty burned out by this kind of thing.
Global authorities ask video conferencing platforms revisit privacy obligations
uh, indeed, sounds like thermodynamics.
Slack files competition complaint against Microsoft in the EU
>Are there people building systems that keep logs that are not easily grepable?

Yeah, I've seen ELK stacks, Splunk, or even RDBMS tables for log entries
The fact that you, young liberals, are praising censorship whenever it suits your agenda, amuses me. It’s only a matter of time before you start burning books. You already do that, in fact.
I am not sure what the fuss is about. The NYT hasn't actually published anything yet, Alexander self-cancelled himself in a fit of _something_ and managed to drum up quite a bit of publicity for himself and his blog in the process. Clever.

I must admit I am somewhat on the side of the NYT being able to use his real name. Alexander's blog is related to his work, by staying anonymous (but not really) he is trying to have it both ways: "Hear my words, for I am an experienced psychiatrist with insights and stuff. I'm just not going to tell you which one. I will bask in the glow of accolades but am anonymous to critical articles."

I think it is in the public interest for the NYT to state that Alexander is who he says he is, especially since some of his comments have attracted controversy.

It would be different if this was some underground blog about model trains or something, but Alexander is a licensed professional. He likes that his words carry weight based on that or else he would go by AnonMemberOfThePublic375.
Jeremy Howard had a good post about this earlier this year. I haven't tried it yet, but it seems like a reasonable way to setup your own blog.

https://www.fast.ai/2020/01/16/fast_template/
Schools still have a very large proportion of their fixed costs to cover. Schools and their lecturers need to invest in perfecting onlive delivery.

Therefore it's not particularly realistic to expect schools to chop their top-line so soon.

This is clearly a transitory and uncertain period. With time, possibly less time than schools hope, they will be forced to adjust prices downward.
It’s linked in the original article here. :)

> In March 2018, he came under fire from users of a German image board pr0gramm.com after he revealed details about several admins and moderators in an article which claimed to identify who was behind the cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive.

https://itwire.com/security/image-board-admins,-mods-doxxed-...

> In April last year, Krebs was again slammed by security researchers after he doxxed two of them on Twitter, apparently because he disagreed with them about the operations of Spamhaus.

https://itwire.com/security/infosec-researchers-slam-ex-wapo...
Agreed, this was great.
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I was at a social event and got to talking with a professor at an Ivy League school. He had a really insightful take on this. He said that the only fair way to present a doctoral program to prospective students is to compare it to trying to become a rockstar.

Every day tons of people form garage bands and have dreams of becoming rock stars. But...they do so knowing they almost certainly won't make it.

This professor said that starting a doctoral program should be viewed the same way, as a sort of moon-shoot that will take a lot of time and resources from other pursuits. If you're okay with that, go for it, and if you're not, find a path that works better for you.

Unfortunately, the administration of the school he worked for told him he would be removed from his position if he shared this philosophy with prospective students.
Sure, but we're not talking about differences within a margin of error here.