skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
English here, and yes counting starts with the thumb but going direct to two or three is just fingers. Middle three for three, not pinky and the next two or the shocker. This isn't universal, but in my experience by far the most common way.

Our spoken and written language is a mess of inconsistencies, why shouldn't our numeracy be!
> I'd rather spend my money on a network of competing private protection companies if I didn't have to pay taxes for the police.

I'd prefer to fix the cops rather than sign up for a MetaCops subscription in my burbclave.
> The Trump crowd is made up of bullies, trolls, middle class frat boys and other antisocials

And millions of others who don't fit a single one of those othering statements

> And horse medicine.

Also human medicine for several decades, with perfectly safe dosages and formulations.

Please don't spread misinformation.
Some days I spend 5 hours on the phone with my Bluetooth headset, I have no issues with it at all.
> because our ops team didn't have the capacity at that point in their schedule or team size to handle it

Lol, I get your point, but that was also true for the dev organisation. Hence what you ended up with.

I doubt the needs of the application included a rewrite in MSSQL.
Deleting cookies for a group of sites is essential, though, and they're removing that.

Think facebook.com, fbcdn.net, etc.

I end up having to delete cookies for Cars.com every other week, because sometimes the search function would corrupt something and every page would return a blank white screen.
Let's remain serious. It is entirely within the capability of modern computers to admit a dialogue which would let the user view their cookies without magically exposing them to websites. There is no non-nefarious reason for this.
I'll pile on to the Mochi lovefest as a former Anki user: the ease of noting cards using Markdown is a blessing. I usually use org-mode for just about everything but I made an exception for Mochi. Cross-linking cards really makes you feel like you're building an interconnected web of tiny thoughts.

And if you're a Linux user, Mochi has you covered too!
> without compromising encryption.

Apple holds the keys to all iCloud backups and regularly uses them in order to serve customers' data in response to data requests from the government.

Apple gives up US customer data for about 150,000 users/accounts a year[1].

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html
> A site that explicitly encourages people to narc on their neighbors by revealing privileged medical information seems to be in pretty clear violation of those standards, one might think, which is exactly what prolifewhistleblower.com did.

How delightful if HIPPA played a part in removing this law. The essence of the law is those ability of anyone, anywhere in the US, to bring a lawsuit. The theory is that since law enforcement is not involved current law like Roe v Wade is not violated.
Even in the ultra-liberal Bay Area my Walgreens, Target and Best Buy employ armed security. I find it doubtful that Texas of all places doesn’t have armed security.

(Oddly I’ve only seen unarmed, tired looking security in CVS. Perhaps they’re too cheap to pay for armed gaurds.)
I can honestly say that in recent times (last 2 years) I never had to fiddle with Fedora to get it working.

It just works.
Knowing your local species is super important. Apparently lots of poisoning cases in the (western?) US is because one of the toxic species looks a lot like an edible species in Asia.
If your QA team is a "thing" that gets features at the end of a sprint and churns out bugs or releases you're doing it wrong. They should be involved on a feature by feature basis working alongside the developer with QA time incorporated into every task. All unit/integration/system tests should be automated during the cycle so there is no "hand-off to QA". There should be less latency because you have a test expert speeding up implementing tests or being a force multiplier to developers by acting as an internal consultant who can advise on bits where needed.
GoDaddy? Their first choice was GoDaddy?
The parent said the plants will absorb more fertilisers
Show HN: A pattern for SSR JavaScript pages from non-JS frameworks like Rails
C and C++ are awful for business logic. You will be outcompeted by teams using JS or TypeScript.
How do you explain, among many other things, for example, the Digg fiasco? Could they not have seen it coming?

People make mistakes everywhere. Teams make mistakes everywhere.

Of course it's much more likely that they know what they are doing and that they have weighed the pros and cons. But, then again, even if they still go forward with it, they have changed their course slightly. Do you believe it was part of their plan? (genuine question)

Do you trust that the code written by experts has no flaws? How about teams of experts? Do rockets not sometimes have bugs which cause them to fail? If a team of highly skilled programmers in N-version controlled critical systems can fail, why can't someone or some team in such unpredictable topics such as market analysis and brand perception fail as well?

Again: I share your sentiment that surely they have thought about this. It's just that I'm not so sure that they were as competent as you might think -- maybe because fundamentally it's a very reactive and unpredictable market!
I wonder how do you solve the technical problem if there was driver issue in Windows.

When I am facing issue in Windows, I google it, then I got some regedit trick to perform. If that works, that's great. If not, then I need to search for another trick until it works. Since windows command line sucks, I have to hop through different configuration windows to try solving the issue. A very frustrating experience.

Could an average Windows user could able to diagnostic their problem and confidently perform an action knowing it will work? My experience is they just ask their friend, family or ask for immediate solution on social media. If they can't solve it, then maybe just buy a new one.

I think Windows is just as accessible as how many friends and family using Windows.
>You can work like a dog to release a feature, and if the feature does what it was meant to do, and you get recognized for your contribution, how hard you worked doesn't matter as much. You are energized, excited to be part of a great team, ready to move on to the next stunning victory.

Gross. All that overtime is systematically stamping all the things that are good for the soul out of life. I'm not going to cheer it on because a feature works.
The website is means by which the operators and their collaborators conspire to injure other persons on account of their having exercised rights guaranteed by the Constitution, and by threat of such injury intimidate others in the exercise of the same Constitutionally guaranteed rights, all of which is done under color of law and with the active collusion of State authorities (namely, the State legislature) with the intent of depriving persons of their federal Constitutionally protected rights, in criminal violation of 18 USC § 241 and 18 USC § 242, and civil violation of 42 USC § 1983.

After the Texas Legislature’s tactic in crafting the law to evade standing and jurisdictional requirements for review before attempted enforcement by the federal courts, so that the blatantly, brazenly unconstitutional law could nevertheless have the maximum chilling effect on protected conduct, the federal executive brance announced a “whole of government” effort to rectify the issue.

GoDaddy is wisely choosing to be out of the crosshairs of that effort by not actively participating and knowingly profiting from that criminal conspiracy.
If you can't afford to take a day off, then that's on you my friend. The people on your team can take up your slack if you let them. I work for someone just like you. He hoards all of the meetings and knowledge and "power" (for lack of a better word). When he goes on PTO, things halt when they shouldn't. Me and others on my squad can pick up the slack. But gatekeeping and knowledge-hoarding prevent us from helping out. Not a big deal for me, but I'm sure my squad-lead will get burned out eventually. I have warned him about that in our 1:1's, but nothings changed...
Not really. QA is functional. We have a product security team doing pentests on new and updated applications.
lol. Because it's such an unimaginable hassle having to keep this code lying around in the codebase.
I think the way LinkLonk works will support the scenarios you are talking about.

If you read every issue of the Money Stuff newsletter and upvote 5 out of 10 that are most informative and then if I upvote 2 of those 5 that you upvoted then I would get connected to you and to the feed of the newsletter (if such feed existed, I don't seem to find an RSS feed for it). But because your signal to noise ratio is "2 out of 5" and the feeds ratio is "2 out of 10", then my connection to you will be stronger. And so I will see your recommendations first. That is, I will get a prioritized view of Money Stuff issues and I will benefit from you work as a curator.

To get a sense of what recommendations you would get if you upvote a given item, you can go to the items detail page (three vertical dot button in bottom right of every item -> Item page). There you will see recommendations from the users and feeds that upvoted/posted that content. For example, if you go to https://linklonk.com/item/7470250776832704512 (a page for https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/08/please-stop-adding-more...) then you will see what else was recommended by 6 users and 2 feeds that upvoted/posted that article from Ars Technica.
Snappy phrases move culture.
While us nerds were having our Long honest and nuanced conversation the world moved on
The ad-block thing is where I first saw it, that and DRM for less-than-legal sites to prevent downloading (stops streaming if the dev console is open)

I mean more specifically taking advantage of the awkward UI to cover up your tracks on local storage, it's something that's just devious enough that if you get caught (which is not difficult) it'll be hard to explain what you were doing, and you'll be trying to explain it to technical people
It would obviously be easier for GNOME to ship an apparently more refined experience when customization possibilities are negligible and basic features are missing.

One can't even change the fonts of GNOME out of the box without first installing Tweak Tool and even then, you can't change the font of GNOME Shell itself. If you dare customize the CSS to change it, you're implementing "hacks". I wouldn't be surprised if the ability to change fonts was removed from GNOME and GTK.

Not to mention that GNOME devs seem to think that volume control slider isn't required in their music app and GNOME file picker still doesn't have thumbnails. So yeah, basic features are missing.

https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna...

Then again, it's probably a useless debate at this point since everything is subjective. I'm confident that one could come up with a desktop environment with windows turned upside down and inside out with colors changing randomly every second and many people would still like it and call it "polished" and "refined".
That's a description of the early Macintosh Division relative to the rest of the company (which at the time was being kept afloat by the Apple II).

I'm sure there are groups within Apple that think the rest of the company revolves around them, as there are in most companies.
Ah, yes, those red state rednecks and their COVID-19 death rates barely better than backwaters like... (checks notes)... Belgium (2,180 deaths/1,000,000 people).

Sorry for the sarcasm, but I don't know how better to express my frustration at this kind of stereotyping. Americans and the world should be in this together, rather than making this another divisive culture war political shibboleth.

Indeed, I submit the hypothesis that this disdain makes it more likely that rural America will distrust you when you try to tell them what's in their best interest.
> once they made it to the authorities, would then be reviewed in detail and shown as a false positive, and then ignored in the future / whitelisted

Which typically will be a court case, or at least questioning by police. This can be quite a destructive event on someone's life. Also, there's no mechanism for whitelisting outlined in the paper, nor can I imagine a mechanism that would work (i.e. now you've got a way to distribute CP by abusing the whitelisting fingerprint mechanism or you only match exact cryptographic hashes which is an expensive CPU operation & doesn't scale as every whitelisted image would have to be in there).

Also, your entire premise is predicated on careful and fair review by authorities. At scale, I've not seen this actually play out. Instead either the police will be underworked & not investigate legitimate cases (too many false positives) or they'll aggressively police all cases to avoid missing any.
I bet if I trained an AI on some vocalist and released an album I'd get some legal mayhem. I do concede it might go differently for code, but none of these issues are crystal clear for me.
"you clearly know very little about burnout"

You may disagree with my statement about the cause of burnout, and you may be correct about that.

But it's unlikely you know enough about me to judge how much I know (or don't know) about burnout.
Depending who you ask, Clojure provides some benefits over other Lisps unrelated to its ability to leverage the JVM.

Some of those are:

- Default efficient immutable collections
- Good support for safe concurrency and multi-core programming
- Extended homoiconicity to include maps, vectors and sets as well as lists
- Convenient short lambda syntax
- Extensible data representation
- Distinguishes between nil and empty list
- Distinguishes between keywords and symbols
- Real boolean types
- Function arity overloading
- Well thought out abstractions and set of standard functions: collections are abstractions, lazy sequences, transducers, relational set manipulation, etc.
- Only two kinds of equality: by value or by reference, with the former being the default
- Is a lisp-1 like Scheme, but also with more batteries included like Common Lisp
- Slightly different visual appearance in its syntax, due to support for literal maps and vectors as well as lists, which can make things easier to visually parse.
As do all the competitors… but they can also access your photos for random data mining. Which no one has shown Apple do that. We know 100% google do it…
Or Sway, which is more or less i3-upon-Wayland.
Exactly - someone looked at the September vs. August iCloud numbers, and went, "oh shit!"...
Ha ha ha ha.

I put the New York Times font in my PocketBook eReader.

Its name is "FB Web Use Only".

I don't care.
I was just thinking today that there should be a government agency devoted to maintaining a list of forbidden dark patterns, reported by consumers or employees. The precise system of warnings and punishments available would be up to the legislature to determine.

I think the specific examples that prompted me to think of this were 1) remembering that companies temporarily over-price their goods so that they can later advertise a price reduction, and 2) remembering how packaging uses words like "ultimate" subjectively.

Many countries probably have laws that already regulate pricing and advertising, and these aren't dark patterns in the same sense as the linked article, but I think that there should be stronger incentives for product managers to avoid manipulating potential customers.
There had also been quite a few Swiss volunteers that fought in the army and the Waffen-SS.[1]

In the context of the special interest that the film devotes to the subject of language, locating the birthplace of the character near Piz Palü is also a very clever move. It is located in the canton of Graubünden (canton of the Grisons), which is the only trilingual Swiss canton (German, Italian and Romansh).

Another side-note: "White Hell of Piz Palü" is also directly quoted in the film: it is shown in the cinema where the finale takes place. And this again is an hommage to (among others) Leni Riefenstahl, who Tarantino admired very much. She played one of the main roles in "Piz Palü".

[1] https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=sol-003:1994:69::643 (In German)
Low Earth Orbit Satellites: Potential to Address the Broadband Digital Divide
> where I'm not sure it really ever made sense to include in the first place.

So move it somewhere where it makes more sense.

> Truly, editing/deleting individual cookies isn't something any regular user ever needs to do

No true Scotsman? If the user needs to do this, they're automatically not a regular user, or what?

Anyway, hard disagree.
Basic stats and basic vocab/terms. The most basic stats related stuff is used pretty often and sometimes it's misunderstood (median vs mean). If you know basic terms, you can look up appropriate algorithms.
I absolutely do not want this on any devices I own.

I'm preparing to destroy any Apple devices in my possession (thankfully old and due for replacement) when my pine64 arrives. Don't care about any details. How's that for nuanced?
In practice most contractors end up hiring a bunch of former users to act as stand-ins for the real operators. These former users then get to engage in continual pissing matches with the acquisition office over how things really get done. Hilarity ensues.
Whose playbook involves taking a $4B bath?
I run https://4dayweek.io and during the time I spent researching companies, it blew my mind how awful the vacation policy is in some companies (especially the US)

i.e. 10 days vacation shouldn't be celebrated as a benefit.

Vacation isn't everything though; there have been some studies which show the positive effect of a vacation quickly disappears when work resumes.

What we really need (imo) is a shorter, more focused work week (with less fluff + meetings) i.e. a 4 day work week
> they object to it based on its value proposition to the user, and on principle.

Not sure everybody is on the same page what the value proposition to the user is. That's intimately tied on the "how the system works" which is not merely an implementation detail.

I'd like to talk about that. Most of the threads about this topic I found are full of flames without much content. Hopefully I found somebody who can help me clarify what is it that bothers so much.
I don't want any functionality capable of scanning photos on my device for "illegal" content; I simply don't want that code living on my device no matter how restricted its (initially planned) use is.
Unlimited PTO means there's nothing to cash out at the end of the year if you took 0 days of PTO.

It also reminds me of the old negotiating tactic - never be the first one to offer up a number.
If your QA team is a "thing" that gets features at the end of a sprint and churns out bugs or releases you're doing it wrong. They should be involved on a feature by feature basis working alongside the developer with QA time incorporated into every task. All unit/integration/system tests should be automated during the cycle so there is no "hand-off to QA". There should be less latency because you have a test expert speeding up implementing tests or being a force multiplier to developers by acting as an internal consultant who can advise on bits where needed.

QA as a discipline has evolved but from the sounds of it, it's not been widespread enough.
This manifesto could do with some readability tweaks. The low contrast is not a great "design" decision.
> No fonts actually include emoji to any significant extent, and definitely not in colour.

You're mistaken, that does not reflect reality.

https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/emoji/

https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji

I have specifically installed this font in my X/Linux system to get colourful emoji.
So tired of these types of articles. It isn't a problem with C.

It's a problem with pack of due diligence, shoddy specification, opaque HW/software boundaries, and not checking one's assumptions.

The abscence of analyzers, or implementation quirks of different compilers are eschewed as a non-concern to the programmer by the mainstream professional tech community. Abstraction, they say, is the key and solver of all problems.

I happen to reject this view. It's taken me well over a decade to even approach being able to take a stab at knowing what is up with an executing program from the top, down to the hardware. When I lament that this is not a more common phenomena (knowing all/most of your abstraction layers such that you can make well grounded statements in the physical sciences sense), I get looked at by peers like a nut. I thought we were all here to make things we can all reasonably say we understand how it works... That's what I thought Engineers did...
I'm not crazy! I had to reinstall Windows last night, extremely frustrating.
This is great.

Just to be clear: the TLS integration and 20 bytes of random stuff was definitely a smoking gun; nobody thinks anything but that Dual EC is a backdoor after learning about it.

EAY is Eric A. Young? I didn't realize he'd worked on BSafe.
My apologies, I hear it so much I just assume everyone on HN does too.
>"Inventories are taxed as property which is, in general, about 1% of the cost (to the company) of the item."

Most jurisdictions don't have the asset taxes you're describing. Some do, in which case inventories cost extra to hold each and every year.

>"You're conflating income and property taxes. What your describing in your previous posts is an income tax, which is the tax paid on the net income associated with an asset. However, you have to dispose of the asset to pay that tax. Until then the asset is property and it's only subject to property tax."

No, when a company uses its revenues to buy stuff and hold onto it, the government counts the value of that stuff as profits, and taxes are paid on that 'income' in the fiscal year of acquisition. The assets are then gradually depreciated (with the depreciation treated as a loss). If the assets are sold off, income taxes are assessed against sales in excess of the depreciated value, and losses are assessed (along with corresponding write-offs) against sale values below the depreciated value of the asset.

>"Normal accounting disclaimer applies. Definitely get an accountant and don't take accounting advice from the internet. "

I completely agree with this, especially since tax law varies widely, even between Canada and the USA.
Yep, I did too, and set up a local+remote self hosted solution instead. Probably not going back now, it was very convenient for the iPhone upgrade program with a new phone each year, but I no longer really want use Apple services...
I'm outraged that I can't live in your house or apartment with you, and that you have the legal right to kick me out of your home.

Private property is one of the main reasons for what the USA stands for. GoDaddy is a private company.

Conservatives are ALWAYS outraged when something like this goes against them, but when they want it the other way it is perfectly ok - like the bakery where the owners didn't want to create a wedding cake for two homosexuals. Then it was all, "A private business can do what they want, which means not working for the gay."

As far as the religious freedom law goes, it is supposed to acknowledge deeply held religious beliefs. For example, Satanic Temple just cites Religious Freedom Restoration Act to request access to abortion drugs in aftermath of Texas ban. But, I'm SURE that the religious freaks that support the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, WON'T support it because they are hell-bent (pun intended) on violated the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America allowing the freedom of religion, with some lame-ass excuse like saying that the Satanic Temple is not a religion. To them it isn't. But for those who belong to it, it sure is.
Windows 98 had the Channel Bar enabled by default, which was ostensibly just advertising.