skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The carrot to get you to sign up for the loyalty card is the promise of discount prices. The shelf price says $X, but "Members pay just $Y". Of course $Y is closer to the true price. Sometimes they'll send out a mailer with extra coupons, usually somewhat customized based on your past purchases. But now they get to track all your activity. This is not nefarious to the extent it's used to plan inventory and purchasing, but to the extent that your store profile is sold to other companies, it becomes nefarious.

A casual reading of the terms and conditions might lead a person to object, that it says they don't sell your data. A close reading notes that it says they don't sell to "third parties". But they leave out the fact that any other company the store does business with is not a third party. They technically don't sell your data to them, they provide your data to other companies during the normal course of transacting business with them. Thus, your data flows through the system, unchecked.
Safe DOM Manipulation with the Sanitizer API
I wonder how much one buys from AliExpress is made of toxic chemicals? All that clone lego and other cheap goods. I really am curious.

These ultra low cost goods are also showing up more and more on Amazon these days as well.
One could also read this as a cautionary tale in not running as root if you can help it: `date -s` will fail out with a nice error message if run as an unprivileged user. Of course, that won't save you if you were intentionally running as root (one could easily imagine a shell script running as root and needing to convert dates), but it makes it harder to unintentionally break things.
"Hey, Jeff, what's that weird thumb-drive over there that keeps texting me `I'm in your datacenter downloading your datas'?"
Ay one level, obtaining knowledge was different. You went to libraries--assuming you had access to a good university or city one--and good bookstores, which were also somewhat limited outside of major cities. You called people or wrote them letters. Etc.

It was however also just harder and more limited. I definitely had projects in school that required looking through the library stacks and probably ended up with more "winging it" and depending on one or two old sources than would be the case today.
How does Big Data expand the education sector?
Being amenable to delayed gratification comes way before allowances become a thing. It may even be innate and not a learned behavior.
Well, yes. I mean, it's a very shitty thing to happen, but how the fuck is the seller to blame here?
Yeah most people here have just one.
Build the moat then break up the corps involved as needed.
It's only unclear if you are unable to disregard your preconceptions and simply read and understand this simple algorithm.
Won't be surprised if AWS counters this sooner or later in terms of reducing egress fee, but the fact that S3 is core to AWS's eco system and ties in well, is another blocker for migration
I can definitely sympathize with this. I've been in a situation before where I was employee #1, hired an entire team of developers and built a complete product all the while being baited along with promises of "we'll discuss equity later", "we'll incorporate later" etc. Originally our understanding was I'd be a co-founder with double-digit equity (this was the main motivation for being OK with taking a salary 30% below my typical market value, even though we supposedly had "millions in the bank"). All the while this was intermixed with the most toxic micromanagement, gaslighting, and unrealistic expectations disguised as performance shaming that I've ever seen at any company ever (though strictly speaking this was not a company -- we were all self-employed because the guy was too lazy to incorporate or provide benefits). Eventually I left when none of these promises panned out and morale was at an all-time low because of the constant negativity and direction changes from the CEO.
OVH storage is $0.0112/GB and egress is just $0.01/GB. Having egressed priced out is handy because then you can just use it directly.

With Cloudflare you'd have to pay for the CDN separately for any real traffic amount.
Why? I know we live in a world of $0.99 apps, $12 training courses, and $15 web templates, but their pricing is still many times less than what you pay developer(s) to build the same.
If the bulk of it is a git repo, it's probably expected that every engineer will download it regularly.
The "dawn phenomenon" (predictable early morning hormone and blood glucose changes) is definitely a thing. But the implication/interpretation that therefore morning/breakfast is the most dangerous time to eat, is wrong. Those papers directly test that hypothetical implication.
define "complete".

Because I bet you fucking money you aren't modeling the actual behavior of any modern x86_64 cpu in your head.
I don't think that list is good enough. I've had adapters work fine for months with UAS and then have errors. I went through a few rounds of that, disabled UAS, and haven't had problems with the same adapters for a couple years since. So I believe there are adapters out there that more or less work with UAS on Linux but under some infrequent condition (likely load-related) cause these sorts of errors. So a table of "Known Working Adapters" with notes like "Reported as working with UASP support by pierro78 in the comments" doesn't address my concern.
But why won't anyone think of the poor paparazzi that need to be able to take awful photos of people in public so they can destroy people's reputation?

It might be nice if we gave public figures a bit more privacy through this whole process.
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Lol the US has a really weird credit rating system.

Here having no credit cards is best. Because not having to loan shows having the ability of being responsible financially.

Note: here in Europe we get no rewards or anything on credit cards. It's viewed more as a liability, not a virtue.

In fact my credit cards cost money in stamp duty, they don't ever gain me any.
Because then you have to explain why it works for them and not for you and that it’s not your fault, straight in your marketing.
Apparently people disagree.

How about you go fucking live in the middle of nowhere without Internet, you'll be safe there.
There are a few. But they're good for a vastly smaller range of use cases than they're applied to.

You're writing Google Docs? Good for you, you can use an SPA. You're writing a social networking site? That should be a regular HTML page, with a sprinkling of JS. Blog? HTML page. Issue tracker? HTML page.

Every site I've used that's been plain HTML and CSS, with maybe minor supplements in Javascript, is much nicer to use than any SPA. People claim they load faster, but I've never experienced that in practice - a plain HTML page loads in milliseconds, but downloading a giant gzip of Javascript and waiting for it to make a zillion API calls takes seconds.

GMail's HTML-only interface fully loads and renders in ~630ms for me. The SPA version takes 11.69 seconds.

lite.cnn.com loads in 287ms. CNN.com takes 4.25 seconds.

thin.npr.org loads in 112ms. NPR.org takes 1.47 seconds.

Need I go on? Even for the lightest one, NPR, if you assume loading an article on the SPA version is instantaneous, you'd need to load 14 articles to make up for the slowness of the initial SPA load. The others are all much worse. And this is with an adblocker enabled - this will only get worse with one disabled.

Using SPAs when they aren't strictly necessary is a great way to shoot your site's performance, usability, and accessibility in the foot. You can fix the usability and accessibility problems, but you need to devote substantial engineering resources to doing so, and those are free if you just use the damn plain HTML.
Dynamic Shared Object (in this context, probably a .so file).
Half of my AWS spend every month is egress...
> I'm guessing you don't live in the U.S.?

I do, and I live in the country now and have lived in major cities. I also am familiar with history.

Most people have no idea what they’re talking about. The bubble is real.
The algorithm is essentially just inserting the i + 1 th element into the sorted subarray from 0 to i, and it inserts in the correct place. I’ll be teaching this next week or the one after, I’ll try to record a video and share if I remember. It’s harder to explain with just words.
I work in a small nation state.

That doesn't stop CV-hungry engineers from finding ways to overcomplicate it.

(I do agree with you on this topic in general)
I thought parent meant payment via android phones. Is there a difference between that and watches? NFC (Google pay) should work the same across the Android ecosystem, no?
Love the demo! Its so cool each project is modeled as a DAG and can be visualized in a graph view!
Top Twitch streamers payouts from leaked data
I use my banks own android app to add my cards and pay via nfc on android. I live in an EU country where android pay is not available. Therefore yes android allows it.
I think it would be great if you could use screen time as a proxy for money. Give kids a screen time allowance, but let them earn interest on unused screen time. Let them do chores for extra time. Let them trade it with their siblings/friends.

Kids don’t have that much use for money, and some families can’t afford to hand over any cash to them. Screen time on the other hand can be unlimited, but it something you do want to limit, and can be a useful tool for teaching delayed gratification.
https://xkcd.com/2501/ (Average Familiarity) is very funny, in part because it is 100% real.
Case against monorepos?
Risk can take many forms. Going to college at all can be considered a risk versus going into a trade depending on your socioeconomic status.
Responsibility? The horror!
Well, and in the same vein, that Congress has essentially become a zero-sum game, where one party attempts to cut taxes, slash regulation, and prevent the government from paying for anything except for a larger military. The idea that the government doing anything except for defending the country is socialism is patently absurd, and the fact that so-called respectable people, in large numbers, keep parroting the idea is toxic for democracy.

Marco Rubio, for instance, has called Biden's policy agenda Marxist -- this coming from a man who has spent his political career agitating against normalizing diplomatic relations with Cuba. Conflating the two makes Cuba's government look more benign than it is, and makes the American government look more extreme than it is.
Natural immunity is better than the vaccine. There is a risk of adverse reactions to the vaccine. You are arguing that people who already have superior immunity take additional risk. This is as unethical as demanding the vaccinated get infected with COVID.
I think you two agree (as do I). So much of this thread is focused on stuff like interest, but spending less than you earn and knowing how to calculate risk over time are massively more general and useful skills to learn.
Never got as far as Remote Play or Game Streaming but would have been trivial for us to do so given the backend infrastructure we had already written.

Game overlays and capture were working fine, and the controller API was designed to support any number of controllers (Steam's support is great but their interfaces are subpar, in our opinion). We were also able to pull from a well known database of controller configurations and device IDs, which really made this a non-issue.

Linux compatibility was fine as far as the client went (all of our code was cross-platform and not webkit frames or the like). The client even ran on Android and iOS.

If you're referring to Steam's Proton, we really didn't want to touch that area for a while. But we had much better systems for searching for new titles, including those that worked well on the system and also matched all of the criteria (tags and whatnot).

Our social system was also designed to support "cross-talk" between different marketplaces (Steam, GoG Universe and Epic) but we never got as far as building out any client functionality - just the initial blackbox proof of concepts.

The store aspect was indeed just a smaller part of it, though it was complicated in its own right.

The project was a great idea and we were executing well on it. Lots of cool new tech was developed for it. But nobody we talked to wanted it - including publishers, users, investors, or even friends. It didn't matter how compatible we made it, the fact that we didn't push you to re-buy games, etc.

We wanted to make an non-shitty experience for gaming and the market simply said "no".
I used to lightly kid about how Runescape taught me the basics of personal finance and economics.

I suppose a better way to describe my experiences would be to say that Runescape fostered a scenario where I was able to learn and experiment how to handle money without many of the risks involved.

Many of the lessons I learned during my time playing the game include supply/demand economics, price vs. value, 'marketing' (the term coined for day-trading items in the game), bartering/haggling, patience, discipline with money, detecting/avoiding scams, etc..

I probably could have spent my time playing that game doing something more productive and beneficial, but at least I learned some important lessons along the way.
"640k of memory should be enough for anybody"
Exactly this! with https://reason.fm I am going to try and see if I can migrate our services to R2, right now it's pretty doable with S3 or GCloud storage at scale but we can definitely get our costs down with R2!
Adding to your pet theory I think that WFH has led to a lot of people being casual about their workplace security. For example, leaving a laptop unattended at a Starbucks.

This is just a guess but I wouldn't be surprised if companies have to start taking stricter precautions with their security in a WFH world.
At that point I'd just use a self-signed certificate. Although browsers hate it, it's secure in every way I generally care about.
For drywall/plaster, I'd much rather patch a simple hole than need to clean off the crap left behind by an adhesive strip. I can't speak to the Command brand specifically, but I've found that products touting features that run contrary to their nature ("no damage") generally fail to live up to those claims. And you won't know until it's time to move out.
I'd be interested if someone could get their own instance of Twitch up and running from this leak. Someone mentioned internal API's, which would have to be reworked to avoid detection, but it'd be interesting to host it on AWS just to see how long it takes to get shut down.

How would current AWS policies hold up? Obviously the code would be illegally acquired, but do they have detection mechanisms in place?
I wonder what fraction of AWS revenue is providers of complementary services that are forced to host at AWS so their AWS-using customers don’t have to pay for egress.
> It's disturbing how readily this community wishes to access, analyze, copy, and redistribute this stolen information

I know right. Panama papers too.
/s
> I have no doubt that while their UI might pretend that your account has been "deleted", all the data still exists for their use.

They don't even have to pretend to delete your account, they can actually delete it. But through some linguistic slight-of-hand (i.e., lying) they obscure the fact that your account is not all the data they have on you. Your "account", in a strict sense might just be your username and password. It happens to also be associated with the entire pile of data that is a profile. Once a user no longer has an account, it's what you call a "shadow profile".
Give them an allowance, wage for various tasks and make them pay for screen time with actual money.
The FBI’s FISA Mess
"The research by the British Toy and Hobby Association (BTHA) identified toys that...."

https://www.btha.co.uk/about-us/

The British Toy & Hobby Association represents specialty retailers, local manufacturers, and a few (large) international toy brands.

All of these groups lose out when a British parent buys cheap Chinese generic toys for their kid on eBay.
not according to the wikipedia dyslexia defintion:
"is a disorder characterized by difficulty reading in individuals with otherwise unaffected intelligence"
From the title I was expecting something about Op Sec, but the article is actually about “show, don’t tell” i.e. that it’s really hard to have people “get it” without letting them experience “it” for themselves
I assume it is because at the moment the usability is identical across all devices and bank versions. Enabling a feature on a device and not on the other which has more users will cause support headaches.
There's a difference between "it's done now, before Thanksgiving, let's bet the farm on it" and "it might be ready two days before Thanksgiving, let's bet the farm on that"...

Ed: that said, given gp quote about working with bozos, there's always that anecdote from the introduction of (2nd éd) of Peopleware, about the deadline being moved, because the project was on track for meeting the original deadline... (March meeting: we can deliver as planned in June - project leader called back; we've moved the deadline to April - paraphrased).
That's an interesting idea. The only thing that would give me pause is I know I'd get a lot of "Oh, look, dad is being weird and not eating dinner with the family all week again". The 48 hours is basically "hey I'm skipping dinner tonight".
In a sense, this kind of confirms some of the instinctive, "left wing" suspicion that Yang's a naive "enlightened centrist" type. Inclination to bring in experts and consultants to run things via "best practices" and such. The equivalent of hiring Deloitte to tell you how to restructure your operations.

It's the kind of thing that stings a lot of left wing movements, which is now why they are now all crazy paranoid of being "co-opted."

It might be interesting to see if forward learns, or repeats the error.

Andrew is a smart guy, and he seems to come up with smart ideas when he focuses on them. OTOH, he seems to overlook other things and then default to a generic. A party is not a corporation or even a non profit, at least a democratic party can't be. You can't just hire employees, appoint executives and run it like that.

I think americans have difficulty envisioning a party. You have so few. Republicans and Democrats are so old, big and established that it's impossible to imagine them without a ton of power. The libertarians & whatnot are so quirky that they seem more like a convention than a political party.

Ultimately though, a party is a political club. There are members. They interact with one another, nominate candidates, develop policies & such. There's always/usually a two tier system. Actual candidates, campaign managers and whatnot obviously have more power, are more engaged, etc. But, at least the concept of membership exists. It's not supposed to operate as a fan club. It isn't the Foo Fighters.

I heard some of his interview. He has policy ideas. I didn't hear him say anything about the party itself, or got the impression that he has thought about it much.
Apple is nearly 50 years old, is the world's largest tech company and the most valuable company on Earth. They are the "traditional power centers".
What do you mean "spread out"? Aren't there the same amount of even numbers as natural numbers?, because they both are countable sets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countable_set
I know how enantiomeres work (chemistry background), I just found the quoted sentence really confusing to read for some reason.

I think the original press release already expressed it well in an easy to understand way with the classic hand example:

> where two different molecules can form, which – just like our hands – are each other’s mirror image
Yeah but making money off ~55% of the mobile userbase seems better than 100% of nothing.
The free games on prime accounts is probably exactly what will happen, and will probably be what needs to happen for it to be any amount of successful.

Look at Epic which offers free games but sees pretty slow growth outside of their flagships. Further, look at Amazon's lumberyard engine, which gathers dust for the most part.

I'm not convinced that their 'weight' will automatically guarantee wide adoption.
Just upload some bannable content. That is way faster then regular process.
I think a not-so-small-part of the success of JS/CSS linting was that large companies like AirBnB, GitHub, and Google made their rules public and helped with sane defaults. Almost every project I came across used one of these "defaults" and added custom rules as needed.

Sqlfluff seems to ship with 48 "built-in" rules and opinions on spacing and capitalization. If it catches on, I think the larger community will mostly benefit after other companies "doing work" with it release their own collection of rules.
It just got disconnected.

The chat had a few Amazon insiders, which was interesting to read their perspectives.
I lament the fact that we need hacks like these to know who makes how much money.

In countries like Norway, that kind of data is publicly available. It makes for less second-guessing and less suspiciousness.

It always struck me as weird that the American Dream can best be lived in Scandinavia
Sadly, Reddit stopped updating the public repo for their main application in 2017:

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
got banned
Most localities in the US are dominated by one of the major parties to the point where the primary becomes the election. That doesn't leave any room for a third party to break in either. Too many people never learn about local candidates and end up just pulling a straight ticket lever.

This is the end result of decades of gerrymandering.
Git Add -p
If you can ban public deployment of facial recognition, you can also ban public deployment of engagement maximizers.

It’s time to start regulating algorithms.
And banned
ICPC 2020 Final Results
Channel is gone, banned?
How often do devs delete and re-clone?
You'll see a lot of advice, and my suggestion is to try a bit of everything until you start to see the right framework for your family. Whether this is allowance, family contribution, piece-work, incentives, etc really depends on how your family operates.

One thing that I believe my kids has responded well to is the re-assurnace that when they have earned money it is theirs to do with as they wish. It won't be confiscated for punishment, and we don't force our children to make specific purchases.
Further while both parents will often advise on purchases, we don't stand in the way of kids making bad decisions (quality, quantity, utility, etc).
How are they going to keep spending then? That's why they need to raise the debt limit in the first place. If they retire their old debt, they would have to issue new debt. In both cases the end result is the same; new money in circulation, and the Fed has platinum coins instead of government bonds.
Note that it was code that was leaked. Preventing developers from leaking the codebase they are working with is outright impossible. Now combine that with a "monorepo" and even the most junior developer has access to practically the entire company codebase and version control history.

And you can try to prevent them from accessing live/real customer data, but the cost is that they will never be able to debug issues in production. Most companies, even very large ones, are just not able to pay that cost. Not to mention that once you have access to the codebase there are a million ways to leak customer data anyway -- it is a lost battle.