skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You left out… whether you had fun? Because it sounds like you feel your teenage hobby should have been a productive and focused use of your time leading to some kind of useful product. Which seems like a pretty high bar to set, and, like, besides the point?
It was Yahoo.

But here's why there's confusion. Yahoo search at the time (or shortly before or after) switched to using Bing's search and ad engine.
Since 2015, we have built an entirely independent infrastructure that we run and operate ourselves, without relying on cloud providers. This has significantly reduced the risk of us being attacked via third parties.

With regards to abuse, we've invested heavily and improved the rigor of our anti-spam measures, which have been largely successful in combatting abuse.

One critical differentiator between ProtonMail and Fastmail is that we have zero access encryption, which means that we cannot read or access your inbox, providing a higher level of privacy.
Use Patreon, although I hope something better replaces it.
The floor is yours senator
Unless the US embraces nuclear fission (or renewables at a scale not yet seen) for ocean water desalination the arid deserts of the southwest (and they have always been arid, that's not new) might have to return to their natural state instead of the artificial state they've been irrigated to the last century.
Looking at where highcharts are today, I might have jumped the gun on that comment as they have come a long way. Three years ago we were using them. After I built our React Native version of the data dashboard I was giving the hard requirement to implement charts on mobile of which there weren't any out of the box solutions for at the time. Nonetheless, if you find yourself needing to implement custom charts especially if you have larger customers previously using Tableau or if you want custom branded charts, I do recommend considering visx.
On the other hand, Twitter may be one of the greatest evils with regard to social media, and is well populated with non-anonymous accounts.

And of course, HN stands at odds with this theory as well. No one "knows" me on HN. I don't have a reputation, or a real identity, and I'm cordial enough. (I hope) HN enforces conduct, and this enforcement is not defeated by anonymity.
This works really well, a simply effective tool.
Airy is a conversational platform, built mostly for businesses: most enterprises have a variety of conversational apps and channels they support (from Facebook Messenger & Instagram for Customer Service to their own livechat for sales, etc). Airy helps these businesses bundle these channels, store the conversations and power the different usecases.

It looks like Mixin is an open source cryptocurrency wallet that also has peer to peer chat and a desktop version. So the only common points I see is that both projects are Open Source and use chat as an interface.
In what way is the BBC at fault for this? Their title is objectively true. A _valid_ configuration setting that was used by a customer _did_ cause fastly to have an outage.

It's not limited to one specific customer (i.e this customer isn't the only customer who could have caused the issue, presumably), but it _was_ something the customer (legitimately) did. It wasn't a server outage. It wasn't a fire. It wasn't a cut cable.

"a customer quite legitimately changing their settings (BBC: one fastly customer) had exposed a bug (BBC: triggered internet meltdown) in a software update issued to customers (fastly admitting, when combined with 'legitimately', that fastly are at fault) in mid-May".
Ask HN: Money Transfer Services?
what services do you use for money transfer and international payments?
As a Scala programmer the tooling was an absolutely vital part of the story. First-class Eclipse support (funded by one particular deep-pocketed company that was using it) was a huge part of Scala's early success, and when Eclipse started losing popularity (in favour of IntelliJ which never really had first-class Scala support, and since started pushing Kotlin) and the plugin stopped being maintained, the language stagnated and hit a slump that it's still not really recovered from. Things like Takipi (now OverOps) were also a huge part of why it was such a good language to work with and a big reason to choose it over the likes of Haskell.
SMS is better than nothing, but you have a bunch of other better fallback alternatives before you should rely on it. You can support the enrollment of multiple hardware tokens (i.e., you keep one at home, and one on your person). You can have online push login approvals. You can have a TOTP code generator.
Seven seas, not seven oceans.

But much like the twelve Olympians or the seven wonders of the world, there have always been more individual seas than the collective count would imply.

In real terms, drawing a line through the middle of the ocean and calling the ocean by different names according to what side of the line it's on is pretty ridiculous. You want to name regions that are different in some important way from other regions.
Solving the mystery of the four-headed echidna
> the fact that it can actually reduce your security is very problematic.

The only way it can ever actively reduce your security is if it's used as a single factor, as it was for the OP.
Not the GP, but seems to me the assumption there is "companies will do everything in their power to make it hard for you to stop making their numbers go up", whether those numbers are actual money, user data, or just total user counts.

Alongside, of course, the assumption that "companies don't respect their users in any way, shape, or form."

These seem like assumptions which, while they certainly have exceptions, are well borne out by the available data.
Thanks - simplicity and focus is our aim!
I'm in eastern Europe, pay isn't too bad, rent isn't too bad, our city is getting developed, new buildings etc. We have lots of water, May was actually one of the coldest I've ever experienced. We had hardly any lockdowns because of covid, and we were fine.

Then I see all the news from California, the whole economy got closed up, there's a massive drought. Rents have been insane for years in most cities. Huge homeless and drugs problem in LA, San Francisco.
And on top of this, some of the highest tax rates in the US. For what?

What is happening to this paradise state?

And what worries me a lot is, a lot of the culture worldwide is set by people living in these conditions. Not just film, but tech now. I mean I can see why everyone in california is frustrated with capitalism and all the rest of it, but that's california... The conditions of which I've just listed.
Them pointing to customer as a source of issue is not OK. This reminds me of that Chase scandal, when they transferred huge amount of money to pay of full loan instead of installment, then they blamed on some guy in India for alleged mistake, where his 2 or 3 superiors that approved that and really horrific interface, but they decided to pin the blame on that guy.

So, I am glad things are OK, but it definitely is not that one customer who is to blame for this outage.
It would of course be nice if they also reduced their reliance on Android and ChromeOS... :)
> I wonder if the fastmail protocol could be hidden in AWS-like data streams to take an approach like telegram. If they try to block it, they shut down their entire digital business infrastructure.

As long as server name sent in cleartext in SNI, blocking any website is trivial. Telegram uses a different approach with multitude of proxy servers and dynamic proxy changes via Apple/Google push messages. It's not applicable to an ordinary website.

If/when encrypted SNI is widely implemented, it might work.
Too bad there are those that still only allow SMS, e.g. Sony. Patreon used to be the same.
Still to settle btc transactions you need an L2 network right. Which is basically just a smaller and more arbitrary collection of nodes, aka less decentralized.

Decentralization and processing speed + gas fee is inversely correlated it seems like. L2 is just a fancy way to reduce decentralization and thus gas fees.
And here in TX we’re getting Noahic levels of rain.
> Life exists here on Earth, and our standard best theories say that this was not a miracle, nor was Earth the only place such things could happen. Furthermore, our universe also seems very large (perhaps infinite). Thus our standard best theories predict that advanced life has appeared and will appear many times out there.

I'm no expert on abiogenesis, but my understanding was that we're nowhere near being able to estimate its probability like this.

Sure it could be that life commonly emerges from Earth-like conditions when given enough time, but it could also be that life requires such an extraordinarily unlikely sequence of events (to get started and then thrive) that it only occurs on one planet in every googolplex universes.

> [10% chance that] A sibling star gave rise to a long-lived advanced civ long before now

I'd like to see the reasoning behind this estimate (or any of the other numbers given).
Fastmail offers a VPN? I can't find anything about that.
SMS will remain vulnerable as long as the mobile accounts that hold them upstream remain vulnerable.

One option I’ve heard might be different is to not your your mobile sms on accounts, but to get a voip based sms number. It might leave things at the mercy of a different system but the footprint might be different.
To echo the above sentiments, no pricing is also synonymous with enterprise for me and I don't give any consideration to products without transparent pricing at all.
I lost my Microsoft account years ago. I still get emails from Microsoft stating that there's suspicious activity on the account. I got two just yesterday.

Despite that, despite still having access to the email the account is on, I cannot recover the Microsoft account. Despite Microsoft notifying me that the account is still, years later to this day, being abused, cannot use any form of recovery. I cannot access the account with help from support or even after visiting a brick-and-mortar store.

It's one big reason that I've long since refused to purchase anything more from Microsoft and have ditched Windows.

Good luck recovering your stuff.
Extreme liberal thinking has destroyed it.
They're literally using Lightning for payments right now in El Salvador. They didn't do this without having local projects already. Bitcoin Beach (https://twitter.com/Bitcoinbeach) made a lot of this happen.
Even without climate change, pumping more water than the amount refilling the aquifers is not sustainable.

I understand why dry climates with artificial irrigation produce the best outcomes for many types of crops. But that's just not sustainable.
How harm reduction advocates and the tobacco industry capitalised the pandemic
After reading this I feel a little better buying the cheapest new car possible and keeping if for years rather than go the Zipcar route.
Not only not really a name, but also used by other countries in the area, like the United Mexican States (full name to this day) of the Republic of the United States of Brazil (full name in the First Republic era, 1880s to 1930)
Both fair points. Hard real-time is absolutely doable with GC if it is deterministic. It has throughput and memory penalties to get low and predictable latencies but it is regularly done. I have written soft real time java myself. And other than avoiding garbage like you would do with any low latency code with GC, it was idiomatic. But that one change does increase cognitive burden to the point I didnt find it any more productive than C++. If I had needed reflection I might have felt differently.
iCloud is part of the operating system, and, most importantly, it is not downloaded through the App Store.

These rules are for apps on the App Store.

Edit to add: There may be a reasonable debate to be had over whether there should be some visible component of iCloud that has to be downloaded from the App Store before it can be used on an iDevice—or whether the App Store rules should be, by some means, applied to the entirety of what can/does run on an iDevice. But right now, neither of those are the case, and thus, though some may find the difference between "iOS" and "application running on iOS" frustratingly slim, Apple is not, in this instance, applying its rules inconsistently.
মুসলিম শিশুদের অপছন্দীয় বা মাকরুহ নাম অর্থসহ
I'm aware of that approach for Python, and Bundler can be configured to do a similar thing for Ruby. Those are good approaches for development environments (though I generally prefer Docker for those these days), but for system tools I think that's just kind of a hassle and I don't want to do it.

For a tool I install & use, my happy path is "install it with my package manager, and then stop thinking about it". Upgrades will happen whenever I decide to ask my package manager to upgrade everything. (I use Arch Linux, so that's usually once or twice a week.)

Needing to hand-setup an installation or deal with multiple package managers like that for a program makes me cranky. I've certainly done it when there wasn't a good alternative (and also occasionally wrap programs in docker containers as well if it's easier - https://github.com/wfleming/dockerfiles), but it's the kind of thing that makes me pause and reconsider whether I really care enough to use whatever the program is.
Food for thought: The Skytrain in Vancouver was "GoA 4" grade in 1986.
Doesn't matter that much, but of particular interest is Rust and Python
I have and like ProtonMail - but until it supports calendar in its iOS app it’s an incomplete solution / non-starter.
Some more information for anyone interested:

The latest IHO standard S-23 is edition 3 from 1953 [1] and identifies the waters around Antarctica as either the South Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean or South Atlantic Ocean. Boundaries between the three oceans in the vicinity of Antarctica are approximately [2] the lines south of Cape Agulhas (southern point of the African continent), South East Cape (southern point of Tasmania, Australia) and Cape Horn (southern point of the South American continent).

In addition to the political disputes of more modern times about names and geographic limits, there have historically been problems with determining the real geographic location referred to in historical maps, and problems with naming of points in maps. The first point of the Australian mainland which the Captain James Cook expedition attempted to name as "Point Hicks" was found by later navigators to be over 20km offshore from the mainland in the middle of the ocean[3]. The government in 1970 in celebration of the bicentenary of the Captain James Cook expedition to Australia decided to rename "Cape Everard" to "Point Hicks".

[1] https://iho.int/uploads/user/pubs/standards/s-23/S-23_Ed3_19...

[2] The standard notes that Argentina and Chile were in dispute regarding the southwest limit of the South Atlantic Ocean and eastern limit of the South Pacific Ocean.

[3] https://www.anps.org.au/upload/Sept_2013.pdf
What is the benefit of using both? I only use uBlock Origin and never see ads or the skip message on YouTube.
I don’t understand this internet obsession with bottling water. Surely under the worst drought conditions bottling water has to be the very last thing to stop. Literally water for humans to drink has to be a top priority.
"We’re just getting more and more hypothetical in a complete vacuum of real information though right?"

Not really. Both of us were counting on current human knowledge, that our galaxy is this (light years) large, that the maximum speed is that of light and that an exponential amounts of energy is needed for each logarithmic increment of relativistic speed, that there is a working model for life based on what we call organic chemistry, that an atmosphere rich in a highly reactant element that is oxygen can not exist without something continuously producing it and what that could mean for an alien observer, all because, in the slim chance that we are the ones with technological head-start, that should serve as base ingredients for thinking about our long-term future external policy. I'm thinking if we are to become Kardashev type II (and above) civilization, what ought to be the best approach in dealing with an evolving galaxy? But yes, there are also aspects which are hard to think of now in more than hypothetical terms, like what would mean in practical terms to have access to (at least) a star's amount of energy and what it would be worth spending it on. To me, "to check out what could just be a puddle full of gooey algae" looks like a very important objective, and finding something underwhelming should be the desired result, safety wise.
Yep. They've been planning that for awhile, hopefully a case of "leading by example". For me hardware keys (U2F) with TOTP as a backup are really essential. I've purged SMS where I can. Unfortunately, too many (like banks) have stopped at SMS and email as options -- and that only recently. My (insert name of wildly popular open source password manager here) vault is secured by U2F with TOTP as a fallback, and I use its TOTP feature to secure logins for less sensitive services. Someone mentioned building in delays for resets: that's actually how both the US IRS and Social Security roll. Last time I reset SSA I had to wait for a physical letter with further instructions. Inconvenient, but probably a step in the right direction. If government intel agencies weren't so uptight about crypto, we could all have our own officially issued crypto keys by now. But no. The prols can't be trusted -- and don't deserve it anyway.
It reminds me of that ancient joke:
A QA engineer walks into a bar.
He orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicbksjdhd.

First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone.
> There are over 100 metro systems in the world built before 2000. Of those, why have only four been converted to full automation?

Because the retrofits that the article details, no matter if installing platform doors, re-wiring infrastructure or replacing old carriages to actually enable consistent door positions, costs a lot of money, and public transport isn't at the top of public spending priority - car infrastructure is sucking up all the funds. Everywhere.

You want automated trains? Lobby your politicians to redistribute funding.
I thought the parent was referring to North, South, and Central Americas
These sorts of funding measures should come with strings like that any company receiving funds cannot do any stock buybacks for a certain period of time (a few years).
Perhaps she's pairing the trazodone with something else and not telling you. Like a Magic Wand.
Drowning in Austin the past weeks
are ACs not already electric?

I guess furnaces are still largely gas, oil or wood burning... that doesn't seem like a technological problem though.
It's probably a bit late to bother replying to this, but hey, here goes anyway.

Believe it or not, I wasn't arguing against you. My main point was to agree with you, and to inform: markets exist for lessons. The prices are quite reasonable. Some are free. I hear free lessons are typically lower quality.

I also (indirectly) pointed out that lessons are necessarily different from one another. What I've observed is that some work needs to be done even when plans are obtained from another party. Though, from what I've seen, much less. Purchasing lesson plans is a big time-saver.

Perhaps next time someone complains to you about spending too long lesson planning, you should propose they purchase some lesson plans, and see what they say. To me, that's the interesting question. Do they know these are available? Do they find the cost reasonable? Are they opposed to purchasing these lessons in principle, because they already spend their own money for the benefit of their students?

> They might do cost-benefit check on whether they might be way ahead taking a second job, using part of the wages to buy plans, and spend the rest on a vacation.

This statement is completely ludicrous to me. Humans should be given the resources they require to perform their jobs effectively. You might be strictly correct that individual teachers might be better off taking another job and buying these resources. But I think you should direct your ire at the employer of the teachers if you acknowledge that this is a problem. Consider the analogous statement:

> [Programmers] might do cost-benefit check on whether they might be way ahead taking a second job, using part of the wages to buy existing libraries, and spend the rest on a vacation.
> unless they want to be changed

Yes, I agree. And, sometimes people would want to change/do-things-differently, but they don't yet know that there are alternatives? ... Anyway, leading by example seems like a good idea.

Maybe saying "I just read this book ... Did you hear about it?" to indirectly helping someone start thinking about reading books -- instead of giving a lecture about problems with FB

> I've had some questionable looking people asking for help in the past. And they turned out to genuinely need help

I like the things you're doing :-)

> My car broke down and ...

Makes me wonder, how did you and the car get back home in the end :-)
Aliens trolling us could be a viable intention. Billion year old von-neumann probes probably get bored. Or perhaps alien societies are ideologically split and one sect wants to provoke a good or bad response from us per some agenda. Or we’re being subject to CentauriU’s Delta Tau Chi pledge week prank.

And so far they’ve just been lucky and some complex conspiracy requiring they have a fuzzy polaroid filter on all our systems is not required.
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Sailors have referred to this region as the Southern Ocean for hundreds of years if I’m not mistaken.
Long time emacs user. I have been enjoying vscodium with some Emacs and markdown plugins for almost all writing and note taking. Been using PyCharm for Python dev. Just felt I didn’t have time to fiddle with my lisp code and Emacs setup the last few years. I still hop in for org mode once in a while, otherwise, I have moved on. VS code is kind of this generations Emacs. I think it does most things better for most people.
>We have made the decision to block signups for all IP addresses we identify as coming from within Russia. We have also removed our app from the Apple and Google app stores for customers in Russia.

WTF? Why would you ever do that? You said you have no legal presence in Russia, why f*ck over the users? Instead of ignoring hostile stupidity you're helping it, this is mind boggling. Sorry, I can't "feel good" about your services anymore.
Are there any possible observations which would disprove the anthropocentric climate change theory?

If not, is the theory unfalsifiable?
I mean I am not sure that is a downside, just a limitation. Sometimes yes you have to specify if there is an ambiguity. I guess usually on input, but then that is not a huge price to pay.