skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey there! Great service. Does CCC do anything to pull or scrape data from the browser plug-in and resell it or provide analysis back to Amazon or to other companies?

A cursory look at the privacy policies for it didn’t yield much either way for me.
> anecdotally, it feels like one side is a little more fact challenged and relies on them fairly heavily.

This is just filter bubbles and various cognitive biases. Stories from any cable news network are regularly full of major holes, which you overlook when they're on "your side" because you're not invested in finding fault with them.

Stephen Colbert's perception of reality has a known liberal bias.

> And homelessness is a weird metric to use as it is partially a by product of regional economic success, where a good job market coupled with an overheated housing market results in an increasing number of people willing to tough it out on the streets or in their cars.

But the overheated housing market is the criticism, and is completely valid. California is correctly criticized for letting housing costs get so bad that people who are making twice the US median income are nonetheless sleeping in their cars.

And California may be the worst, but it is actually a problem which is more severe in blue states than red states on average. Housing costs more in NYC than Austin, and more in Chicago than Charlotte, despite having a lower median income.

So sticking to the "narratives" doesn't get you there. It causes you to ignore the problems in your own back yard. You have to look at the facts, even when they're inconvenient, and admit it when it's your team making a mistake.
> As long as it does not impose significant costs to keep ftp support, they should keep it.

But it does. This is explained in the docs. The existing FTP support is bad and updating it to make it secure is a ton of work.

Fire Extinguishers and Spare Tires are safety features. When they are needed, they become absolutely critical. It is also very difficult to predict when they will be needed because they are the result of errors rather than intentional behavior.

In-browser FTP is nothing like that.
Employers fire people all the time for comments on social media and they are well within their right to do so. Any suggestion otherwise is a violation of the company's freedom of speech.
I assume it is the same crowd that screams for women rights, gay rights, freedom of speech that thinks we need most moslemic Staates
If you ask yourself this question, then 100%. You need to exist to even consider the unlikelihood of your existence.

But as far as I know the existence of naturally occurring superconductors is a completely independent probability, so it doesn't really make sense to use one to justify the other. Are there naturally occurring superconductors somewhere in the universe? I mean, without doing any calculations I'm tempted to say almost certainly yes. Do they exist somewhere in the Earth? As far as we know, extremely unlikely.
On the Catwalk
Yup. Best case scenario after spending tons of hours and money building a decent open source printer, is you match the abilities of a $50 off the shelf printer you can buy right now.
> I think FTP is being kept-alive only by legacy fintech (doesn’t the US ACH depend on banks exchanging CSV or TSV files over FTP?) and low-end shared webhosting services that are too afraid to offer SSH to their customers.

FTPS is still used in mainframe and minicomputer systems as well. This is because FTP has native support for transferring record-oriented files – STRU R and MODE B/C. Those features are generally not implemented by FTP clients or servers on Linux/macOS/Unix/Windows/etc. Unlike FTP, SFTP does not have native support for record-oriented file transfer.

I understand that GridFTP is still used in high-performance computing applications. GridFTP extends FTP with features such as parallel data transfers targeted at transferring massive data sets (terabytes, even petabytes in size) over very high bandwidth links. (Aspera performs better but is proprietary; GridFTP is an open standard with open source implementations.)
A similar approach, for both horizontally scaling your db and automatic read-only mode. Ensure you are following the rule to only attempt writes in POST requests. POST requests get their queries sent to the primary db. GET requests send db queries to a read-only standby, unless the client sent a POST request recently (storing the last POST timestamp in a cookie or a session db, and the value for 'recently' is the current database replication lag). Catch any connection failures for requests using the primary db, and retry on a read-only standby. Catch db write failure to a read-only standby and replace with a 'down for maintenance' page.

We retrofitted the above behavior to an ~400k line monolithic Python app with minimal changes a bit over 10 years ago (the web framework was thankfully agreeable), shed over half the load on the master day 1, and could happily bounce the master db or do schema updates at will without needing to touch the appservers. Plug it into your CI system and you can do both automatic deployments and database updates, often with unnoticeable downtime if you are clever about your database patches.
But no one has managed to execute it like we did.
Does C++ still deserve the bad rap it has had for so long?
This is great!

You should really emphasize this in your marketing.
There are two important concepts here - 'Abstraction'
and 'Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting'

A whole group of software development functions - hosting, payments, storage, analytics, communication are being abstracted by modern services such as AWS, Twilio, Stripe, and Segment.

A software developer can now focus on the core value of the product.

Werner Vogels, the CTO of AWS, coined 'Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting'.

He suggests that businesses should use resources on-demand and pay for what they use, leveraging each other competency.

Shared some slides on my Tweet here - https://twitter.com/ankitpansari_/status/1314915795433000960
>> It's a terrible ad network

It's a $70bn ad network. All that revenue comes from highly liquid ad budgets. It's naive to conclude that fb ads "don't work" from anecdote... Not working most of the time is the norm for advertising, but the scale comes from the cases where it does work.
I disagree; but that doesn't mean there's only one category of retro games. What you say is true for some, less true for others, and will never be true for some others still.

Which is true for any artistic medium.
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i suggest asking yourself a theoretical question: is a vote to end democracy democratic?

then look up cases in history when such a vote took place.

free speech here is used as a tool to convince people to vote against democracy (and/or free speech itself).
> Peptides are just short proteins

This is very misleading. Proteins are defined by a minimum level of complexity, being strictly higher than peptides.
That’s actually surprisingly cheap. If I had more space I might be tempted to get one.
All of the above, of course.

Modern advertising is technology deployed for the purpose of exploiting psychology to effect persuasion.

Marketing is not the same thing as advertising, but it can frequently be described identically.
These kinds of posts always leave me wondering "what are they selling and for how much?" If you're selling a $12 ebook does Google work for you? Does Facebook? I feel like none of these platforms work very well for small-ticket items but Facebook seems to allow a lower-cost entry IMHO.
Anyone know if a lifts API exists for the tube and DLR? Can’t find anything obvious on the TfL site.
I liked Ramani until I realized that every other day she posts videos where she repeats the same material she's covered countless times in the past. I became convinced that you could watch her whole YouTube channel and conclude that everyone around you is a narcissist. This isn't to say that she hasn't made lots of good and valid content, but I find it ironic that she uses her own apparent charisma to exploit a topic and turn it into a catch-all for describing any cancerous individual. I wouldn't have much objection to this in isolation, except I presume her channel is monetized, which inherently changes my perception of her intention.

By contrast, Dr. Grande's channel has more varied psychological content and comes off as more neutral than Ramani. Although recently he's been doing a lot more analyses of individuals than of broader subjects.

Someone who wants to understand narcissistic personality disorder should probably look up its commonly accepted definition, then watch Dr. Ramani's videos and decide which ones matter and which ones really don't. That's just my opinion.
I think it’s risky to believe something is a war. It’s too often this line of thinking that is used to remove civil liberties.

I take a different view. We are actively having an open debate and that is a good thing.

YouTube is not part of our government, they are like a magazine or tv station of the past and they can and IMO have the right to choose what content they allow or disallow and this is totally fine and has nothing to do with free speech (in the legal sense)

Now if we past a law that stated I can not speak my mind about covid that would be a law that IMO violates the 1st amendment.

But what is happening today is not bad it’s just one company making a decision on it’s own.

A separate question for the legal system to probably decide is whether YouTube as part of Google is acting as a monopoly to abuse its power. But I do not think anything about YouTubes decision as a business to not allow certain content published is anyway a matter of our 1st amendment rights... hopefully my perspective isn’t too poorly received - but thankfully you can down vote me, or up vote me and I don’t have to worry about being throw in jail for posting - happy hacking
We don't have something natively, but you can control the address via BOUNDARY_ADDR env var or the -addr flag per-call, and you can use -token-name with the CLI to switch between named tokens, which can be sourced from different accounts. Together it'd be pretty easy to write a shell alias to do what you're looking for.
Exhaustive list of valid complaints about ChaCha (and CSPRNGs in general):

* too slow (for a scant few applications)

* too much state & code (for a scant few applications)

* can’t find a nice implementation (there are some, though)

Everything else written there is FUD. And this whole "statistical tests" thing is a red herring anyway. There’s a field that concerns itself with "statistical quality"—it’s called cryptography. They have plenty sophisticated mathematical analysis.
XyWrite, WordStar (word processing)

Forth, Tcl/Tk programming

ARCNET token-bus networking

Wire-wrap technique for electronic circuit boards
People who don't write code should not dictate what the dev experience in a company should be. Kludging up some YAML that you run directly in Prod from your laptop is not writing code, Im sorry to say. The problem is that SREs are tasked with solving these problems and they have horrible taste and sensibilities around dev experience because they are not devs.

All these remote dev Kubernetes solutions sound good in theory, but suck royally in practice. Remote debugging just isn't as good and the idea that I have to be online to get any work done is such a step back that it's baffling that anyone could even propose this.
Cant be worse than Mailchimp and mandrill. Mailchimp acquired Mandrill and it's essentially abandonware - no updates for years - and when it goes down its often an hr before they even realize, during which they have just silently discarded messasges* and they never follow up with affected customers. (* sometimes they will show as errored in activity log but no retry, no notification). I hope Twilio doesnt do a Mailchimp
Thanks Jmarchello!
Utilities don't work that way since we've made laws that say they don't work that day. That's the point of the article.

A false accusation can essentially shutdown a lifetime's worth of work into a business. That's not right and that should be illegal
> All of these points sound like macos apart from 4, possibly 6 and definitely 7.

MacOS has some good ideas. 1 and 2 actually apply to a lot of OSs from the 90s. Good luck finding a spacial file manager today though.

> Your home directory is your profile/account (what's the difference on a single computer?).

The difference is that there is no OS concept of an "account". Right now, you can't take your home directory between systems and have it just work because the OS needs you to have a user account. If your user ID on the new system is different from the old one then your file permissions will be broken.

The idea is, that the OS doesn't really care about protecting the machine from the user in a personal computing scenario. It does, however, care about protecting the system and the user's data from malicious applications, so that's where the permissions should be.
Some people believe that open borders to all countries are a human right.
With that tagline, an obvious comparison would be to buildbot. Any specific points in regard to that?
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Yes. Yes there is.
A bit more than ten years ago I worked for Ricoh on an embedded software that was reporting the state of printer.
Had a lot of fun trying to fold papers in different ways to try to trigger jams at different place of the printer to test that we were reporting jams accurately :)
Exactly. California not the only Democrat-led place with major homelessness problems. Just look at Austin, Texas, for an example of exactly what not to do. And these bleeding heart liberals want to elect Biden... it breaks my heart what the toxic Democrat-led media are doing to this country.
We did think of call centers as potential customers! Happy to hear from you about audio quality, etc!
That clip where Anno is asked why the Evangelions are named that way is always relevant.

https://youtu.be/rGJ_Kq8qifQ?t=379
No, I shouldn't just pick up the phone more. I dislike talking on the phone. I'm happy we have instant text communication. It doensn't require me (in general) to stop what I'm doing and talk to someone and I can have a private conversation - well, at least private to anyone sitting around me. I'm truly don't want to give it up.

And go out.. where, exactly?
I think that we should have a third DE with the same level of UX for configuration and simple customization as Gnome and KDE. But focused in Tiling WM. Pick something like Awesome or Sway and creating the whole ecosystem. Pick a OS that suits it like Manjaro (look to the logo, its tiling wm for sure!) and offers the DE as an initial option in the installation.

But considering the "natural selection" that happens here, it may be the way that is because only technical people care about this kind of thing… Idk…
Another critical work here: https://github.com/tibru/tibru
Tibru is Urbit spelled backwards.

But these are implementation concerns. How about the user experience: is there any substance there to learn from or improve?
I wonder if Facebook has done some good support/bad support A/B tests.

Maybe customers receiving bad support spend just as much, or possibly even more, than those receiving good support.
The republicans have gone too far right for this to work and have left many moderate republicans in no-mans land.

Nikki Haley is not as popular as republicans think she is - she's largely irrelevant right now.
Not even the Biden campaign disputes the emails being real.

They just said they checked his calendar and could find no such meeting, then later backpedaled and said they couldn't discount the possibly that it happened and just wasn't on the official schedule.
> modern Mac application bundles

I just want to say that OLD Mac applications were exactly that, too -- even the OS was basically just "Finder" and "System", that was it. Dragging those two files to a different floppy (and swapping them 12 times to complete the copy) gave you a bootable disk. Meanwhile Windows apps were hundreds of files ... then eventually Mac apps went the same way, although not as wildly.
I think it's a strong signal that they are a monopoly that they can treat their paying customers this badly yet still have them come back for more.
When people say things like "Obvious bullshit is fooling huge chunks of the population", they * mean* "views that I find disagreeable are becoming popular". Tough luck: that's how democracy works.

Anyone who wants to get in the way of strangers talking to each other is someone who thinks he's your king.
I once used it to plot the entire globe and didn't get much else done that day!
+1. Had they limited themselves to the critique of Trump, it would be fine. But they actually take the step forward and bathe Biden in glory.

He may be a good guy, all I know is he isn't Trump, and says some of the right things, ahead of an election. This could translate to absolutely anything.
Muffled sound is one of my pet peeves; so no, ours, don't block out sound. Do you have any thoughts on what men might want in largish earrings?
A social network for fans, Currently looking for a cofounder
fanzentral.net

I have developed a social network for fans, where fans get upvotes on their trivia posts from other fans.

The posts are limited to 280 characters, thus making it easy to read. The users with most upvotes receive badges based on their contribution.

Currently i am looking for a cofounder, the ability to code would be a plus for the candidate.

I would appreciate it if people give me a feedback what they felt about the website. Cheers.
Let’s not forget charismatic (but ultimately unsympathetic) leaders like Castro and the Che. They were by any measure charismatic. They leveraged that to further their visions to an end.

But, not all charismatic people use their charisma for the bad. Some use it to form friendships and to climb social ladders, some to be productive in their role (salespeople), etc.

For some people it comes naturally. For some it’s forced (practiced). Not sure which ones do better, though intuitively I’d say the naturals would come across better.
Censoring content like this is pure bullshit that will have little effect on the positive side, but complaining about a measures that may safe lives is also not really enlightened in any way.

My country made masks for protests mandatory. Now people are complaining too. I would say that you should enjoy this new freedom. In normal times you meet the water cannon if you show up with a mask to a protest.

The problem is that many outlets lied directly in their readers faces with a reference to intelligence agencies. Turns out it was all a bunch of bullshit too.
My 2 cents from running Linux for 13 years (on / off, mostly on) and windowz / macOS. Full disclosure, I run Xfce / Xubuntu now with ZERO modifications.

I have to agree with @wraptile and say that we don't need a desktop revolution. In the open source / *nix world, there is a desktop for EVERYONE. Gnome is the corporate DE, then you have folks who run Firefox and everything else in a terminal. I think the desktop is akin to a car. Things have obviously changed, but the base will _always_ be there. Cars have 4 wheels, a steering wheel, and cockpit tools. Desktops need to open applications, field graphics, and navigate you through your computing tasks. And those are different for everyone. Someone driving their kids to school has different needs than a forktruck driver in a factory.

One thing that always interests me (I don't work in "tech") is that everyone is always trying to make things "new" or "revolutionize" it. I think the DE world is fine. We have the 2000 Toyota Tacoma (Xfce), The Teslas (macOS), and the Honda Civic (windowz). I'm not sure revolutions are needed. Tweaks and changes here and there to make things more stable or better tech (akin from x11 to wayland) but large overalls have already been tested and came and went.
You are fortunate to consider unnecessary walking an "inconvenience" rather than an impediment. My partner, while recovering from a spinal cord injury, would regularly come home from work raging about a closed sidewalk that had required her to cross the street or a bus that missed its stop, adding an extra 2 blocks of walking (or navigating a wheelchair over ice and slush) to her commute.
The thing is narcissism in and of itself is not necessarily negative. We're all the stars of our own shows/lives.

Some people want attention and do all the right things to get it: pursue the right goals, get people together to do stuff that's good for humanity. You'd better believe that many people whom we view very positively might have been narcissists: Ghandi, Mother Teresa, etc. But the difference is they did GOOD things to get the attention and power they thought they deserved.

I think it has to do with the values you absorb as a very young person. We all have a drive for attention, for power, for comfort, for security. For some the drive, and the talent or "charisma" to achieve those goals is higher.

The decisions made along the way, the considerations of the side effects, and what you DO with that power are what distinguish people like Donald Trump and Hitler from people like Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela. And let's not get it wrong; even the latter two have a few spots on their records. No one is perfect.
Moyer's Law - when you can reliably print any document on any printer there will be no more computer science problems left to solve.

Corollary to Moyer's Law - The timestamps will still be wrong.
I think the quotes are meant to suggest that while paper is not really indestructible, it's failure mode in poor weather is much more graceful than an electronic device. Put the paper in a plastic bag and I know from experience that it will out last your touchscreen device in a down pour in the middle of the woods :)

Plus you've eliminated battery anxiety when the last thing you need is more things to be anxious about.
In most cases I'd agree. Many games I absolutely adored years ago really have not aged gracefully. I find classic RPGs especially a huge grind now.

Some game have proven timeless though. I'm currently hooked on Super Mario Bros. 35 and since it launched have been playing it exclusively. Mind you it does have a few quality of life improvements compared to the original, and the online competitive component makes it extremely fun.
Firms like Dow bet big on plastics.  Now there’s a glut
> Each time you reply, a new rep is assigned the ticket

I recently had to open a support ticket with Paypal, they are exactly the same, unfortunately

I understand the incentives that led to this, but it's still crazy to think about it, since it's obviously a worse use of time for everyone (both me and their agents) just to get some metrics to go up
The first sentence was so horribly written, I skipped reading the article. As usual, reading the comments here was a better use of my time.
What is being amended? Use terms that people understand, please. This is an international forum.
Inbox Zero on a Budget: How to Create Superhuman in Gmail
A fun little exercise in deconstructing expensive software.
> I wouldn't be suprised if they put their less important employees working on the providers.

No, that is not the case from what I saw when I worked there. At least one provider was supported by a product team so there was a tension between working on the product or working on the provider and it was easy to lose context on the latest changes another team may have contributed. Contrast that with, say, the dedicated provider developers for AWS where they aren’t pulled in multiple directions.
This would be great in a universe where it was possible to know the truth with absolute certainty.

Scientists disagree about this stuff, so how is YouTube in a position to determine what's misinformation and what isn't?

Why is censorship suddenly so in vogue now?
When it's done by stealing opportunities from the poor it is.