skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Works great in combination with multi-account + temporary containers extensions.

Grants the ability to regex match on domains & url paths for sites that do auth redirects or to isolate corporate & personal accounts on the same domain (github, google etc) - MAC should have this functionality built in, and there are several open issues requesting it.

Containerise does have builtin limited temporary container functionality, but I found the separate extension to have more useful configuration options for how temp containers are handled
1. A webpage form requires a server to be up and running, which requires an IT person to manage it, separate from the dept making the form. PDF forms can be created by a person given the right tools (I think Word does it)

2. IT person + webserver costs have to included in the budget somewhere. Which can be a big problem.

3. The webpage form can fail, and the support for it has to be provided by the IT dept. If the PDF form fails, dept can handle it on its own, and will often accept a filled+scanned print out of the PDF form.

4. Adding to the point above, PDF forms degrade gracefully, If they don't work, or internet doesn't work, or someone is on holiday, you can still print, fill and hand them in person. Webpages can degrade catastrophically where you whole dept grinds to halt while the IT person tries to fix the problem.
This is quite interesting way to frame that. To imply that Assange is willingly and knowingly crossed path of the most powerful entity in the world is to imply that he is extraordinary principled, brave.

Julian Assange does not seem that brave to me. Or the circumstances were not right for him to show that exceptional bravery.

I think rather he thought that what he is doing is lawful and protected activity. Nobody acting in good faith should be punished more than for honest mistake.

This is what happening here. Journalist is being punished for literally doing his job. In good faith. All while residing in countries where rule of law is declared, not in Turkey or Russia.
I read your entire comment history couple of weeks ago.

Great experience! Thank you for providing level headed and well articulated responses to the widely spread mass hysteria.

I also learned a lot, special thanks for pointing Thomas Howell's books. Reading now the 'A Conflict of Visions'.
There's plenty of accusations being thrown around, but generally no hard proof that they're directly controlled by the Chinese Government (read into that whichever way you want).

Off the top of my head, there's:

Shaoquett Moselmane, Australian state politician. Recently had her home raided by the Australian Federal Police in relation to Chinese espionage (details are scant, due to the ongoing investigation)

Sam Dastyari, Australian federal politician. Resigned due to donations from Chinese entities

Jian Yang, NZ member of parliament. Former member of the CCP and civilian member of the PLA.
> you can just rent a regular apartment directly with the owner, instead of doing it through Airbnb

AirBnB actually solves a lot of this problem, though. I can't imagine the difficulty of finding 20-30 different, independent, 1-month apartment stays directly with the apartment owners, dealing with security deposits and short-term leases, etc.

They're a directory/marketplace/availability clearinghouse. They're an intermediary. They're a payment processor. They provide ratings and reviews. They provide some miniscule level of support.

It might be the case that AirBnB is more bad than good, but I think it's at least a little unreasonable to suggest "you can just rent a regular apartment directly with the owner" for the digital nomad case.
TIL about the existence of OpenXCom, so I guess I know where my next weekend will go...
Paul Graham on the Bay Area tech companies have done the most good in the world
The current global financial infrastructure serves roughly six billion people. The current cryptocurrency infrastructure provides much more limited services to far fewer people, and still uses an incredible amount of energy to do it (e.g. possibly as much as 0.25% of world energy for Bitcoin alone). In terms of energy consumption relative to utility, that's not a net win.
Last year applying for jobs most places had a pdf form, if you were lucky it was an actual form too! So, filling the form and emailing it back is useful -- much better than trying to overwrite text with a PDF background; far better than printing the form, filling with a pen, scanning, then sending.
Browser fingerprinting is a problem, but the solution isn't to throw your hands up and spoonfeed them identifiers.

Blocking tracking scripts does thwart fingerprinting. I really hope we can figure out a decent access model for JavaScript someday.
You can usually drop off a mail-in ballot yourself too and avoid the mail.
Does anyone else dislike this terminology? I'm curious if there is any link at all to tensor analysis and co-variant and contra-variant vectors. (I found the terminology confusing there too)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariance_and_contravariance_...
As an Englishman, the consumer rights situation (or, uh, lack thereof) in the US boggles me regularly. It's not just the complete absence of consumer regulators ("we let the courts handle that") -- it's that even the courts have been neutered! The Supreme Court has basically ruled that consumer class action suits don't exist any more (https://www.fisherphillips.com/resources-alerts-supreme-cour...) -- everything can now be forced into binding arbitration.

This survey is from FairShake, whose whole schtick is that they can represent you in an arbitration proceeding so efficiently that you can actually afford to participate. They got written up in the NYT the other month: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/business/arbitration-over...

The only reason I found out about this at all is that FairShake are a customer of ours (their whole dispute-resolution process runs on https://anvil.works), so I talked to them for our podcast (https://anvil.works/blog/podcast-fairshake). Even with the profanities edited out, I'm pretty sure you can hear the incredulity in my voice.
Because they can't. Most places have a single choice for for ISP, so they can charge what they like and treat customers in a way that minimizes cost. Telecom is a usually a regional monopoly or duopoly, and they act accordingly.
SimpleBeanFactoryAwareAspectInstanceFactory
Firefox is my browser of choice and I gladly appreciate much of the improvement the devs put in it. However under Linux an improvement would be to get rid of Pulseaudio and to directly interface with ALSA. The benefit would be that installing FF wouldn't require unwanted dependencies and audio quality would be improved.
I think that's the equivalent of abstraction/encapsulation in programming languages. Sometimes even one liners can be encapsulated in something else as the implementation might change but the purpose/role doesn't.
Boy, AirBnbs (or vacationrentalbyowner, as I've used that in Rome a couple times) are fantastic in Rome.

For less than the hotel 2 blocks away from the Pantheon I got a rental with an actual view of the Pantheon.
Bay area has plenty of density. What it lacks is the ability to get enough momentum that transit works. If we waved a magic wand and suddenly there was a great system (trains, buses...) running around routes that are not hard to design they could have in total lower costs for most people who no longer need to pay for a car.

Even if you waved that magic wand, beware that it will take two years to even have more than a trivial increase in ridership - trivial - not enough to make it wroth the investment. In 20 years you will see a difference, but who can wait 20 years? And this is a full system up and running at once - in the real world things go incrementally which means it is years before the system can even take you enough of the places you want to go fast enough that you would consider selling the car.

Which is why transport is hard to add. It takes upfront investment and then years of hoping people change their living style.

Though I will point out that if California had any notion of cost control they could have their current high speed rail idea actually running the full route. I'm not sure where the problem is but I know by best in world standards they are spending something like 4x as much as it costs. This only makes it harder for any system to get started and self-reinforces the idea that the bay area doesn't have enough density.
The main reason for WWI is usually given as German's unrestricted submarine warfare. The sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 (note the year!) prompted US complaints, which caused the Germans to make major changes in their submarine warfare rules. In 1917, Germany changed the rules again to resume unrestricted submarine warfare, and this was the casus belli that Wilson cited.

Germany's move to resume unrestricted submarine warfare was a calculated gambit to try to push Britain, and then France, out of the war before the US could join the European theater. As part of this gambit, they tried to enlist Mexico as an ally to distract the US, hence the Zimmerman telegram--which was such a perfect note to enrage the US public that it was actually widely suspected to be a British intelligence plant.

And we did cover all of this in both 7th and 11th grade US history in my school district.
Clicked on the article to post the same thing. I haven’t really had this issue any more since using Julia.
That's basically how lobste.rs works. The invite graph is also public (see https://lobste.rs/u). It works fine, but I wouldn't derive too much data from it, since it is a small community, and spammers / vote rings are rare enough that a manual approach works.

Another feature that I wish other places adopted is a public moderation log (https://lobste.rs/moderations) where users can see all the actions by the mod team. This helps keep the mods accountable.
Yes, Julia has multimethods. This is called out in the article:

> Open functions (functions that can be extended with new pattern-matches), open data-types (data types that can be extended with new patterns), and MultiMethods ('open' specialized polymorphic functions with 'open' set of classes), and PredicateDispatching, are all viable approaches.
Yep that's true. Though I have stayed in some really bad aparthotels, that are just not livable when you stay in them for a month (tiny studios, with barely a kitchen).

As far as renting from a regular owner, I think the hard thing about that is discovery.
Dark web drugs raid leads to 179 arrests
The Broad Institute:

https://www.broadinstitute.org/about-us

https://broadinstitute.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/broad_institute

I work there. My group builds scalable tools for genomic data analysis:

https://hail.is

We're about to post two job reqs, for an SRE and front-end/design position. Email in my profile. Get in touch if you're interested.

gnomAD is the largest public dataset of human genetic variation:

https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/

They recently a 7 paper collection in Nature: https://www.nature.com/collections/afbgiddede. They're also hiring an SRE:

https://broadinstitute.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/broad_ins...

Lots of other jobs at various levels throughout the institute. Biology knowledge generally note required (I had none), although it helps (but be prepared to learn).
> The books you mentioned are heavy in style and heavy in insights and facts.

For dummies series are not heavy in insights and facts. You have to put non-zero effort and it takes more time to read, but they do good job as introduction for someone who knows nothing. For writing skill, I liked how "Style Toward Clarity" is written. Each chapter contains a rule. You can read the chapter and then try to incorporate that rule into your writing. Once you feel confident, you can move to another chapter. It is not window into genius, but it is readable and rules are easy to apply.

By history from historians I mean for example "Third Reich Trilogy" by Richard Evans or "The Rebelious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks". Both were quite readable. They contained stories that helped me remember what was written in them. I do not remember all the details from them, but apparently I remember enough to catch quite a lot of myths and untruths that are thrown around in forums. I generally remember how Third Reich functioned as a system. I expected the books by historians to be heavy, but they turned out to not be. I read online reviews before buying.

Another group of books that I think made me learn reasonably well were memoirs of (say Jewish survivors), the narratives of escaped slaves like Frederick Douglass and so on. You do end up remembering how the system functioned, probably because human brain is good at remembering stories. You wont remember exact name of this or that character, but it does not matter.
Are you suggesting Yahoo getting rid of WFH wasn't an effort to boost employee performance? Or just objecting to the idea that "it wasn't working" suggests absolute performance was poor? Rereading the announcement memo[0], it seems pretty clear that the change flowed from a belief that being physically present would yield better work outcomes:

"Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home. We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together."

[0] http://allthingsd.com/20130222/physically-together-heres-the...
The Japanese were interned during WWII, illegals are in camps now, and the Chinese will likely be soon. Puerto Ricans STILL can't vote.

Its important to build your argument from sturdy facts, so that big bad reality can't huff and puff and blow it all down!
Perhaps not a perfect example but Reply by Google seemingly got integrated into Android itself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_(Google)
I've never known anyone who got a job on my team because they had a reference, and I am generally doing the hiring. The closest is someone did an internal transfer because of a reference. Never once for an outside hire.
"I’ve come to an uneasy acceptance of the fact that we’re all the conquerors and the conquered."

We all have to accept the past. We don't need to accept that the future will be the same.

There are many ways that different areas and cultures can share an assimilate. Trade, travel, multilingualism, federations, mutually-agreed democratic annexation, shared constitutions, diplomacy, immigration, intermarriage, etc.

Coercion is not the only option.
I totally understand this. I am not saying we (as Indians of xyz caste) haven't done anything wrong in the past.

It's like all the education was only for earning $$ not expanding the mindset (realising your privilege, giving back and at the very least be nice to people agnostic of their race/gender/nationality etc).
We didn't think about signup being a barrier, I'll bring this up in our next sprint at the possibility of removing signup / signin altogether. Thank you for the feedback!
I love how personal responsibility always gets down-voted.
A fun website idea: curated refractors, where commits and design decisions are laid out for readers to skim and enjoy.
All meaningful choices are driven by motives. What makes life interesting is that, pressured by unpredictable stimuli from the outside world, we can understand ourselves better and find new ways to move toward our goals. The control we have over our destiny comes from our ability to adapt and grow that way, not from the fact that our brain can somehow flip random coins.

The answer to this possibly ill-posed question about "free will" doesn't need to make us gloomy; it doesn't need to have any bearing on how we feel about our life.
Airtable is more than just a time-tracker, though? Obviously you could use it for that, but it doesn't seem to be its intended use-case, it's a more free-form db with a friendly UI?
I too go to great lengths to avoid purchasing Chinese made products. It seems that manufacturers and sellers are now trying to hide country of origin labeling, which is absolutely infuriating.
Anyone can create a PDF form to capture data and signatures, email it to someone who can then fill it out offline, and then email it back. That's not something easily done with a webpage, and it's not something my mom can do.

PDFs are easy to make and easy to work with. Web pages aren't.

Your work is impressive, and why would anyone want that? Do you envision lawyers putting all their legal contracts into fancy flippy books?
>> if you go back far enough we all have a great^N parent who was in this situation.

'Everyone is a victim' is a cop out. The fact that some ancestor of mine was probably conquered by vikings doesn't mean that I shouldn't criticize china for doing the same thing today. Nor do I feel like a conqueror because some other ancestor was one of those vikings. Look to the deep past for lessons. Don't point to the deep past as justification for horrible actions today.
oh I didn't know that was the default though I can't imagine using a keyboard without key repeat!
Well, no... WSL runs Linux inside Windows. DSL runs Linux inside DOS. So there's no stacking that makes sense here.

(I think we're seeing just how confusing the "Subsystem for Linux" naming is. "Foo Subsystem for Linux" sounds like a way to run Foo under Linux, but it's the opposite...)
Our arrangements with the House of Saud include the extremely sensitive matter of reserve status of US Dollar. Control over Persian Gulf — a matter that includes other parties not included in the US-Saudi strategic agreements — is energy related: it is not USA who is dependent on Persian Gulf energy, but near peer challengers, such as China, Japan, and possibly EU.
>Books aren’t supposed to teach you something to know, they’re meant to teach you how much you don’t know.

I read about a similar concept few years ago. https://fs.blog/2013/06/the-antilibrary/
I must be misunderstanding what you mean by "Truncate the last 300M lines from the temporary file" because it sounds like it would remove the only copy of the 1 kiB chunk on the first iteration.
It's 100% race war out there. HR women and execs are fighting against white males. Indian and chinese managers are fighting against non-Indian, wrong caste, and non-Chinese.

Why is this flagged and downvoted? Censorship is not going to change what everyone can see as reality.
sure, but that doesn't mean the things they brad about will attract me.

Of course my degree is in human/machine interaction. I automatically look past pretty and see how awful some buildings are for actual use. I'm weird that way.
At least for Indians, names can be an effective signal for caste.
Watching live-streaming coding sessions can be a real eye-opener. Everything from how to use revision control systems to keyboard shortcuts to labor-saving technologies will be on display. It's extremely hard to figure that kind of stuff out because it's rarely clear there's a problem or concept to search for.

You might try to find some prerecorded sessions in your field.
The sad truth is that the United States has a severe access to justice problem. Most people don't know which regulator to contact, and the process requires a certain amount of time, effort, and knowledge that's out of reach of most people.
That same multiple dispatch approach is in Common Lisp, though not used to as great an extent as in Julia (that is, things like + aren't open to extension without shadowing the main definition and creating your own).
Not to fight over terminology, but in most of the US, cable companies are given an explicit monopoly "franchise" from the local municipality.

There are some areas that might be a natural monopoly anyway due to low density population, but only way you could know is open things up. That's a tough pill to swallow since the franchise "fees" (taxes) are guaranteed so long as the cable company has a guaranteed monopoly. Yes they could pass a generic tax on cable service, but that would be a new tax.

I focus on cable companies because that seems to be the most common way to get broadband to many parts of the US.
That's some good context, and I am absolutely privileged to be able to travel, though it's not some unobtainable goal, it is very possible to keep to a budget similar to renting at home (in Australia).

The important thing is actually to be able to work remotely, which has become much more common this year.
Nothing will ever beat finding a skilled engineer at your workplace and asking them “can you help me become better?”

That relationship can be something simple. You can bounce design ideas by them, ask them to glance over your PR before you open it to the team, or ask them general workplace questions.

You’d be surprised at how willing people are to take you under their wing. It’s ingrained in us, and I find that the better engineers are more likely to accept these requests than the bad ones.
> Credit card saving and PDF filling will both be very useful for me

How is the credit card saving thing from a security perspective?

Seems on the one hand like a weird thing to let a browser keep track of for me, but maybe it's adequately protected to not be an issue.
From a human perspective, caste discrimination is really the same thing as race discrimination, discrimination based on your ancestry.

I'm pretty sure caste discrimination is unlawful in India (other than their reservation system of affirmative action). However, I don't believe caste is in legislation as a protected class in California or at the US federal level, nor do I believe there is judicial action on this. To me, that says, caste discrimination in the US is lawful and reprehensible. A lawyer should not be disbarred for making a determination that seems to be accurate.
If there are problems with the place, like that it looks like shit you are going to ultimately win the chargeback dispute, but it's annoying regardless. And of course the Airbnb dispute resolution process is complete garbage designed to annoy the user enough so that they give up. Gotta get those numbers up, right?
Mea culpa. Read "regional", mixed with the Pocket and german-speaking countries announcement and the rest is history.
Privacy is real simple:

Control over my public persona.

Property rights is real simple:

Pay me. If you're making a buck off my data, I want my cut.
Fair point. Don't get me wrong, I'm not under any illusion that America is a completely free, do-gooder country - I think Snowden has proven our government will stoop to the same levels as any other authoritarian regime, and those articles you provided on police violence prediction and crime prediction algorithms in general are incredibly worrisome. Nonetheless, I can actually write this comment here and not worry about either going to jail without explanation, harassment of my family, seizure of my business, or being locked out of my bank account. For now, at least, anyway.
Can a Windows wallpaper hijack your Microsoft account password?
Actually, it depends.
This seems something that would happen only when using friggin old devices, but it happened with me using a brand new bluetooth headphone.

Everytime I had an online meeting, my broadband would go down. After the third time I called the telco, the tech guy who was inspecting the cables asked me about my bluetooth devices. He seemed really short of knowledge about computer networks and was just trying to fool me, so I told him I had nothing at home. Later I decided to turn off my headphone and the problem never showed up again.

Turns out you can't ignore empirical knowledge.
Consider the task of doing anything with your software a program in a very specific DSL. Then the scripts are your verbs. What you also need are your nouns.

For instance, deploying to a specific target could be "./scripts/deploy.sh stage", backporting a patch could be "./scripts/patch_release.sh 1.1.0 dbcde45", and creating a database migration script could be "./scripts/db_changed.sh 'add new field for model'"

IMO thinking about the verbs is the first important step, but one should also always specify the nouns explicitly.