skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you're being sarcastic, but an Emacs beginner has no idea what 'CUA mode' is.

Jokes aside, Emacs UX is just completely different to anything modern. Computer users not enlightened by Emacsen try to press Esc to get out of trouble, assume scrolling doesn't move the cursor, etc. Chorded keybindings are a mind-blow, and they have their own further pitfalls too.

I either got used to Emacs behaviours, or find them superior (can't tell which one) but frankly I think they might be a big deterrent. For new users, it must be like getting into a car where all the controls are different. Brake and accelerator swapped, clutch is hand-operated (and woe to you if you've only driven automatic), stems are swapped, and some vital controls are operated by pressing buttons with the top of your head. Computer programs of the past 20 years have some basic common behaviours that are almost synonymous with basic IT skills, and Emacs diverges in many of them.

I adopted Emacs in the relative modernity of 2012, when I joined a mostly-airgapped Linux environment and needed a power editor. I persevered and grew to love Emacs, but frankly if I could have downloaded VS Code or Pycharm, I probably would have done.
Tagged union types [0] are very powerful and let you model most things in very robust ways.

type Response<Data, Error = string> =
| { type: "Loading" }
| { type: "Success", data: Data }
| { type: "Error", message: Error }

You won't have access to data unless type === "Success". You can model other mutually exclusive situations in the same way.

Then, Typescript comes with very handy utility types. [1]

And if you're having an especially good day, you can loose yourself in type level programming. Mapped types, for example. [2] Though this is only really necessary at a library level.

Back in reality, type narrowing [3] and function overloading [4] are good to know about.

And there's a lot more.

- 0 https://mariusschulz.com/blog/tagged-union-types-in-typescri...

- 1 https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/utility-types.h...

- 2 https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/mapped-types....

- 3 https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/narrowing.htm...

- 4 https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/functions.htm...
In Australia the authorities literally beg people not to travel in the outback without a Personal locator Beacon.

Just a few days ago a family was rescued after becoming stuck in the Simpson Desert and activating their beacon.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/travel-stories...
Sure, and in theory that should be the prime example of "free market" at work - merchant doesn't want to accept visa/mastercard? They will lose customers then, if that's acceptable to them then that's their choice.
Fully agree. To add to the list of "religious" mischief the CIA is involved with, let's take a look at the Tibetan situation and the current Dalai Lama:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program
And for every story like yours - and I know of a few of those - there are examples of people who were absolutely convinced that their child had 'x' or 'y' when it in fact wasn't the case. It is great that you had the perseverance to see this through, and unfortunately it isn't rare at all that local medical care is not up to speed with rare diseases or misdiagnosing a rare disease as a more common one.

I lost a sister (at the ripe old age of 23) to such a case so I'm quite familiar with the territory. In spite of that the default for me is to follow what my doctors tell me, and only if it doesn't work would I start to read up more and to try to come up with suggestions, but not with diagnosis.

Health authorities preferring you to stay sick rather than to get better should re-read the oath of the medical profession, that's despicable.

And agreed that there is a lot wrong in mixing business and health care, but those are the kind of setups that we apparently favor. I recall a doctor here in NL remarking to me that money and health are mutually exclusive, because if doctors have to make decisions based on finance they are immediately transgressing their oath. I can see his point, but I also understand basic resource allocation issues and the medical profession does not operate in a vacuum.

These are hard problems.
That's not correct that Sweden has done much worse than its neighbors. It's actually below the median for Europe.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111779/coronavirus-deat...
Where are you based out of? React devs are in high demand. If you're Boston-based shoot me an email ian at schwartz.world
My Experience as a Speaker in Angular-Up, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem [Vlog]
Thank you. I really wasn't sure if I missed something.
> And you're probably only hitting about 10% of your dependencies on the critical path you're using, meaning that a lot of potentially vulnerable code is never executed.

If a dependency has been compromised it doesn't matter if its code is actually used, since it can include a lifecycle script that's executed at install-time, which was apparently the mechanism for the recent ua-parser-js exploit.
I like the "password is the user's responsibility" bit. My favourite password was on the original youtube which was "x". Those were the days.
Brady violation over the prosecution giving defense only a low res drone video. At 1:41:45 in the PBS Day 9 video
Kreuz: Our version is much clearer

Binger: Yeah

Defense team aid: I have the advanced one I could play as well but that is exactly what we got from you. I got that one straight from the dropbox.

Judge: So what your showing me now is, cuz it doesn't show anything, this is what was provided to the defense?

Richards: Yes

Defense: So if your version is clearer, that means you didn't give us your version

Kreuz: Its just playing weird.

Defense: That's not how that works.

https://youtu.be/lN9vwdEq0t0?t=6103
This is the reason i have a label next to my doorbell that says: "Donations only without subscription and to volunteers". Since then we've not have a lot of charities ring the bell, and the ones that do I actually want to give to.
Typing curried functions is hard. Ramda can't get it quite right.

https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/mast...
VAT evasion is widespread in certain countries (like Italy for instance), and pushing people to prefer electronic payments to cash is empirically the only realistic way to counter it, but there will always be resistance from small retailers until payment fees are low enough. The availability of electronic payments should be universal, I personally hate being forced to constantly carry cash on myself at all times.

In a cashless society, there's no point in mugging and robbing, because people don't have untraceable items of value on the at all times.
OK, I'll bite.

finger was conceived in a time and environment where you would reasonably assume a lot of things which stopped being true a long time ago.

many users per machine/users actually logged in to that machine/users being in walkable distance or in the same building/no compartmentalization, i.e. your demon has access to every users' home directory

and that's just the top of my head.

if you see finger as "everyone has a place to store a message and people can read it" then yes, you might say it wasn't worse than HTTP - but I think the plan feature wasn't even the original intention, it was more "is person X at their desk right now?".

So all features aside, it has so many assumptions baked in, I'd have to think hard how to replicate it in a modern way for a company and still fit the protocol.

I'm not sure I 100% agree with the protocol being silly (merely not great, BUT it's been years since I read the RFC - it's short, you should), it's kinda simply plain text with some wonky hostname shenanigans, but the whole concept hasn't aged well. But that is if you completely ignore anything about security (see what I wrote above) and privacy.
Buying is effectively a solved problem, the circuits will be de-facto nationalised across Europe very soon if they're not already, as an inevitable outcome of going cashless (which COVID19 accelerated). What will likely never be nationalised is credit, that's where VISA/MSC/AMEX/MBNA will hang around for the foreseeable - unless some of the "new banks" like Revolut and Starling explode on a level where they can afford to start their own thing.
Those people usually have a sympathetic wealthy dad too.

It's not real easy to be a maverick when you are barely getting by, and have 0 safety net.

Those two meathead sons of the president come to mind.

And every financially successful kid in my high school, and college, had a ton of unspoken family help.

I clench up when I hear these Type A traits are biological.
How come you don't count these 5 marriages this 1 person went through?

You have 5 stable marriages + 5 marriages that ended up in divorce = 10 marriages in total

So yes, 50% of marriages are 'unstable' in your example.

If you count people affected, (and even assuming that these failed marriages were with a partner who was never married either before or after), then you have:

10 people in 'stable' marriages + 6 people in 'unstable' marriages -> still not quite the 80/20 ratio
I reckon a situation like that is un-European, the Commission will probably step in at some point.
Thanks for your response.
1. I can't quantify exactly how many customers were lost because of them, but %-wise, our best customers are lower than it used to be, many went to competitors. Before them, we would get those "best customers". I would have been, yes.

2. Money is not a problem, we have enough cash in the bank to invest, the execution is the main problem. It's not as easy as just hire someone to build a team for you.

3. That's one of the options we're considering. Selling a % and keep working on it as a product manager, letting everything else to be handled by them.

4. Money is not the issue, we haven't reinvest a big portion of the earnings, we're a small team with a high profit margin. We can invest for ex. on building the team, but for me at least, that's something too stressful and takes my focus from the product.
Doom is less that 30 years old and was resource-intensive for the time.
Isn't the correct answer to wait for more reliable studies? Which is what most "anti-ivermectin" folks were saying to begin with? If your primary goal is to have a miracle cure in hand that would allow you to push back against vaccine mandates, then this approach probably won't sit well. But if you are interesting in actually finding truth, than waiting for larger, more robust studies was the answer.
Chick Tracts are quite literally Christian propaganda.

Why wouldn't they be relevant in a discussion involving persecution of other Christian groups?
Makes me wish the css filter feature hadn't fizzled. Would be much more performant to do this in a single pass by giving a gradient to a box distance formula in a shader!
Brady violation over the prosecution giving defense only a low res drone video. At 1:41:45 in the PBS Day 9 video

Kreuz: Our version is much clearer

Binger: Yeah

Defense team aid: I have the advanced one I could play as well but that is exactly what we got from you. I got that one straight from the dropbox.

Judge: So what your showing me now is, cuz it doesn't show anything, this is what was provided to the defense?

Richards: Yes

Defense: So if your version is clearer, that means you didn't give us your version

Kreuz: Its just playing weird.

Defense: That's not how that works.

https://youtu.be/lN9vwdEq0t0?t=6103
Don't most people do this with a credit card they pay off most months? This is what I do plus credit cards give more protection than debit cards.

I have the majority of my net worth invested at one of my brokers and I tend to hold minimal cash in my bank account...better to be invested than hold cash these days.
Amex grants significantly higher credit limits than most banks. Londoners like to live an aspirational lifestyle in a hugely-overpriced city.
> is both reasonable and moderately convincing

No it isn't, it's full of obvious fraud! That's what the entire rest of the article points out. And they put an unwarranted warning against one of the few non-fraudulent studies because it doesn't go their way:

[re: Lopez-Medina et al]

> "I’m making a big deal of this because ivmmeta.com - the really impressive meta-analysis site I’ve been going off of - puts a special warning letter underneath their discussion of this study, urging us not to trust it. They don’t do this for any of the other ones we’ve addressed so far - not the one by the guy whose other studies were all frauds, not the one where 50% of 21 people had headaches, not the unrandomized one where the groups were completely different before the experiment started, not even the one by the guy accused of crimes against humanity. Only this one. This makes me a lot less charitable to ivmmeta than I would otherwise be; I think it’s hard to choose this particular warning letter strategy out of well-intentioned commitment to truth. They just really don’t like this big study that shows ivermectin doesn’t work."

That's the nearest Scott gets to directly accusing ivmmeta of fraud.
Don't subscribe again. You can read all these articles for free via archive. If they're going to be doing abusive things to you like that, you have a duty to pirate their content.
Employing people to handle phone cancellations is way more money and effort than a cancellation script.

I’ve never encountered a small startup that relies on call to cancel—only big companies that actively know they’re making it hard to leave.
You do need to trust somebody (such as your Linux distribution of choice) but with NPM you're trusting thousands of somebodies and your system's security depends directly on all of them being secure and trustworthy.
That's dependent on a world region. It is a question to regulations in this area your country employs.

Also, there are different payment systems (non US). It is up to sellers to support them.
https://www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/principles

Right there at the top...

Customer Obsession

Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.

Nothing about this is customer obsession. This is Amazon throwing their weight around and putting customers in the firing line.
Is it so shady to mask your identity when so many people have been crucified for even hinting ivermectin might be beneficial?
This doesn't in practice limit scaling though as it's linear and small in absolute terms vs what you can put in a server.
Proofs, Arguments, and Zero-Knowledge [pdf]
Wow, I can't type. "The long tail is really long".

Who would want these addresses?

This also applies to 240/4. It's much less work to fix the networks to support IPv6 than it is to fix them to support class E. And so much easier to know that it works.
Budibase is for creating internal applications. So if you are simply building an internal app for a customer, then yes.

If you are building a SaaS platform, then Budibase is not the right platform.
Interesting it was transferred in May 2019 and they bought Streamlabs in September 2019. I had not seen that.
> VAT evasion is widespread in certain countries (like Italy for instance), and pushing people to prefer electronic payments to cash is empirically the only realistic way to counter it

The only realist way to counter it is to stop charging VAT.

> In a cashless society, there's no point in mugging and robbing, because people don't have untraceable items of value on the at all times.

Because all the valuable items are digital and hackers can steal your money without meeting you in person.
Multiple bank accounts, each with it's own associated debit card
I'm in the UK and always prefer to use a credit card whenever possible. It automatically gets paid off every month so I never get charged any interest, I get points worth minimum 0.5% back for all purchases, and benefit from the fairly strong UK consumer protection laws here.

The only exception where I'd prefer a debit card is in very rare cases when there's an additional fee for using a credit card. That's usually for large sums and/or international payments though, in which case I tend to use a specialised FX company or Revolut. My normal debit card is literally the last card I ever use, when all else fails or is more expensive.
I was there the other week and they refused my work Amex but accepted my personal MasterCard credit card. Not sure your statement is accurate.
online payment transaction costs are huge, and completely unnecessary, and they will keep eating up on the value of the economy because they're a monopoly.

at least all b2b transactions should move out of card payments, and hopefully with crepto or modern digital banks the b2c will follow, but right now too many banks are holding people's money and too many of them are consolidated / act as a cartel.
My understanding is this is only available in certain jurisdictions which mandate symmetry between subscribe and unsubscribe options. Others direct you to phone or Web chat.
In pass-the-hash, the password doesn't matter. If you don't know the hash, it's equivalent to online brute-forcing a password of a fixed length, but since that length is usually more than the password itself, it's usually better breaking that. An NTML hash for example has >3× the entropy of a 6-word diceware password, but in an insane situation like 10-word diceware vs md5, brute-forcing the hash would be faster.
In Finland cancelling rental contract can be fun, if you don't manage to contact your landlord. Your regular certified letter technically isn't enough. You need even more expensive version "registered with advice of receipt". Which is probably only way to prove in court that person received it...

Though I haven't had issues in cancelling stuff. Online services work nicely for all other stuff.
That's great, thank you! Does it check recursive dependencies, and could you make it work against a package you haven't installed yet, by specifying the package name as an argument, rather than it only looking at what's already installed?

If that's possible, it would be really good to then run it against a list of popular packages, like [1] or [2], and report back which packages are the highest priority for getting version bumps (or at least for having someone manually check that the code in the package matches the code in its repo, which we assume an attacker didn't have control over).

[1] https://libraries.io/search?order=desc&page=1&per_page=100&p...

[2] https://gist.github.com/anvaka/8e8fa57c7ee1350e3491
Open Source NoSQL Key-Value GUI Tool
Here's some data:

https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/data-and-research/data/cards/ca...

£16.9bn on credit, £61bn on debit.

I suspect credit card spending is much more popular than you are suggesting due to consumer credit act protections and cashback offers.
Bootstrapping a worldwide payment system is very, very expensive.
But you have no war yet.

If you really want to know how to manufacture consent for war, you should study Goebbels works, or Russian propaganda (Putin likes Goebbels).
The way you have responded is a perfect illustration of the crowd we are talking about.

You are trying to make a personal offence and claims without any references. That sounds like a blind repeating of the narrative, even if it wasn't intended to be so.
I am not surprised at all.
Is it?

True, most finger implementations are trivial. But there is nothing stopping to create a finger daemon which does something dynamic based on the query the user sends. The same set of vulnerabilities is possible. It is also possible to write a simple web server for a single purpose without scripting, which is similarly secure to a finger daemon. Also finger clients are relatively secure as they don't do any interpretation of the data, (which might mean that they don't do any validation, which would allow console injections with escape sequences....) but there isn't anything stopping to send the response in HTML. Also you can write an as secure HTTP client for that tight use case.

In addition we have tons of tools to work with HTTP for debugging, proxying, caching, filtering, ... none of those for finger (which of course is a responds to nobody using finger and everybody using HTTP) which allow better handling.
Little Bobby Tables is quite active in these corners of the internet.

https://xkcd.com/327/
Ask HN: What is the fastest way to ramp up on DevOps, k8 and GCP?
I have a limited time and need to quickly ramp up on these skills. I need hands-on experience as that's how I learn best. What would be your go-to resource/workshop for that?

Is there some standard "here are existing 10 services and in this guide we'll go through deploying them, securing them, installing service mesh, provisioning database..." kind of thing?
I said neighbors, not all of Europe.

Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland all did considerably better, and have demographics and local conditions that are closer together than comparing Sweden with the rest of Europe. It's a thinly populated Nordic country, so the comparison material should be countries that match those criteria, not the average of the EU, which runs the gamut of high density extremely interconnected countries with major airline hubs all the way to vast emptiness with the occasional city.

It's an easy mistake to make though.
I think parent OP used "we" very much correctly, don't try to isolate some people's impact on society.

We all enjoyed when Jeff Bezos delivered our products faster to our homes. We enjoyed when our food is delivered from any restaurant we asked, we enjoyed traveling to other places and generating CO2 along the way.

And do you know why we enjoyed them? Because those people who strive for achievements worked really hard to create these conveniences for us, for some of them there was no personal life, working nights, no family, just career! And they achieved what they wanted. Now they demand from everyone such dedication. Hence some companies (employees to be exact) are creating hidden rules not to promote people with kids, because at some point they might not be as productive as 21 years who just graduated, with lots of energy to burn and cheap to employ. People don't want to have kids because they might distract from their career.

Now our society has problems, pollution, low wages, homelessness, burned out people, because not everyone can perform on their peers level without kids, without personal life and so on

And "we" who don't strive for achievement didn't stop them.
You could email them in English. Der Spiegel is large and international enough that it's reasonable to expect them to cope with that.
> Rock, rock, rock solid no matter what I through at it.

The main reason why I don't like Emacs is that it feels very fragile to me. The first time I tried to use Emacs seriously - granted, that was many years ago and probably things have improved - I wanted to change the font because it was using an old X11 pixel font. So I went to the settings, and accidentially deleted the combobox that allows you to choose the font. I tried to configure it with the command line or REPL or what it is called and managed to mess it up even further. Later, as I got more familiar, I regularly managed to get it into a state that required restarting. It seems in Emacs, everything is a mode and everything is an editor, and there is no separation between content and UI (except for things like the menu bar, which uses a different toolkit and is bolted on). I've learned to appriciate less configurable editors because there is less to screw up, and you have the same good experience on any PC without your special config.
I've been double vaxxed, but I'm not unsympathetic to some of your arguments.

I have this in my reading list: "A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic "

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08ZSYN14J