skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2-3% sounds reasonable to bootstrap taking into account risk, but the question is why hasn't it gotten lower (and processors seem to want it to go higher) as technology has improved? Probably not enough competition and incentive to make improvements and pass on savings.
Anyone with access to a public library (photo ID will get you a free library card) can access eLibrary services that get updated daily. No need to pay for NYT, for WSJ, or any major national newspaper. By paying taxes, you're already paying for digital access to this media.

I applaud the FTC's decision but I wish people realized there's more practical means for accessing media that is more frequently locked behind paywalls these days. You fight it with a library card.
Belarusian hackers claim to have accessed full database of those crossing the
Just to address those points.

1) I've been able to dispute payments on my debit cards without any issue, they were always reversed instantly by the bank. Maybe I've been lucky, I don't know. And for the "bank is liable for your purchases" thing - that doesn't apply to anything under £100 either.

2) That is a stupid limitation of UK banks, not debit cards in general. I have a bank account in Poland and for the debit cards with that bank I can set individual limits for internet transactions, terminal payments, CNP(card not present) transactions as well as ATM withdrawals - with separate daily/monthly/temporary limits. Why British banks don't implement this is unfathomable to me.

3) I suppose, I have no comment on this really.

4) yes, but then you need to remember to pay it off and how much exactly, which is a bit of a pain if you have your daily spending mixed in with bigger purchases that you want to pay off over a longer period of time.

5) Again, personal experience - other than 0% interest on purchases, never had a credit card in the UK with any rewards whatsoever.

And yeah, it's not about downsides of CCs - it's just that when I pay for my daily shopping with my debit card it's out of my account, I know how much I have to work with at any given time, done. As I said elsewhere, I can't be arsed to work out it if my spending is spread across multiple accounts and different forms of credit.
Yes and no.

Before the current conventions (I am old enough to have studied in those times) pressure on soil would have been expressed in (still metric) in kgf/m2 or kgf/cm2 or - simplified - in kg/m2 that way (IMHO) it is easier to "visualize" pressure.

The 5 kpa would have been (roughly) 500 kg/m2, i.e. 5-6 people standing very near to each other within 1 square meter (to give you a quick term of comparison slabs in buildings are calculated to bear between 250 and 400 kg/m2, some particular ones up to 600 kg/m2).

If you imagine the soil as a liquid, with a density of around 2,000 kg/m3, double that of water, when you remove (dig) 1 meter of soil the surface below can surely carry (as it had done undisturbed for years) some 2,000 kg/m2 (usually much more), if you dig some 3 meters, you have surely 6,000 kg/m2 (that is the typical depth if digging for any "ordinary" building with a basement or underground garage).

The 11,000 pounds per square foot correspond to (roughly) 54,000 kg/m2.

This is a lot but seemingly not 100 times the "average" house, or - maybe better - the average house has a very high safety factor impolied.
>>It’s really hard to be a Catholic, or a Christian, and not lean left

I think these guys might disagree: https://www.churchmilitant.com/
Heya, you have the exact same issue as I am. I needed to deploy our apps back then (we're in a team of 2) after developing for 1.5 years in small company. Boss decided to suddenly go with GCP, then I decided that I want to use K8s (which paid off finally!).

Things I started doing was to follow tutorial in k8s, it is a LOT to take in. Install minikube, start with simple Deployment sets and deploy with apply instead of helm. Then you can go from there.

I reckon after you learn k8s all you need to do is to spin up GKE which you should learn after. Depends on what you need, you might need to setup external LB from GCP. I started with nginx-ingress, works amazing, setup the LB automatically and everything.

In summary, k8s docs is your best shot, start slow from tutorial, practice practice and you have to read what's the problem when something fails

Rather than looking how to debug, these 2 commands cover my needs most of the time:
kubectl logs <resource-name>
kubectl describe <resource-type> <resource-name>
Hi,

I'll be honest, I have misgivings about this one.

Mainly:
1. Old Operating system configurations -> if this is solved with routing changes well great!
2. Poorly coded programs leaking data -> this one is the main point why I think this is a bad idea: 127.X.X.X has always been the bastion of inside MY computer and nowhere else.

I get why this is an idea, but shouldn't we create a new IP system that people actually want to use?

And for the record, yes I know IPv6 is a thing, but it has been a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time and we still aren't using it.

Maybe we should make IPv8 which is compatible with IPv4, and has sane notation that I can actually make sense of.

Anyway good luck with your proposal.
This happened to me (for clarity: in the UK) and I had to get a credit card and use it for a year.

No idea where the card is now, but the credit systems seemed to become aware of me after that.
I don't think this concept is new. I mean look at the gym/fitness market. It is largely defined by gyms looking to onboard members with special discounted entry rates and then largely leaving them be and milking the monthly payments.
They have, but it only applies in the same jurisdiction. So it still applies to intra-UK transactions and to intra-EU transactions. But not to transactions between the two.
I also wouldn't call debit cards "the norm". They are in majority (1 to 5?), true, maybe also because many are issued for free by the bank where you have the account (which doesn't mean they are also used). But still not really "the norm".
The stuff microsoft got hated for in the 90s is now standard operating procedure for giant tech companies. Not to defend MS, but perhaps 'create a monopoly and then agressively expand sideways into other areas to extinguish competitors" is the default behaviour of these behemoths and it wasn't anything specific about MS apart from them being the first one.
> Use IPv6 and stop with the NAT. It makes all the split-horizon DNS pain go away.

\s

Sure. Just give me a week or two(or several months) to shut down whole network and reconfigure all the servers, devices,
and services.

Also all our business partners and vendors who integrate with our services, will be glad to switch to our new setup, exactly when we need them to.

\s

If you are building new site/network ipv6 is way to go. Migrating existing ones is next to impossible due to all of the dependencies out of your control
A diet that draws from the ancient past
For k8s, look into https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way - I did it using GCP, which would expose you to a little bit of that, too.
I agree. My jump was from Windows 7, when MS announced requirements for Windows 11 that seemed to try the trusted computing thing again. I have Windows 10 in a VM. It is not horrible once debloated, but my daily driver at this point is PopOS, which I can happily recommend.

If only we could now get linux phone done ( and no, mobile ubuntu does not count ) to where desktop is today, I think I would be content.
It's called Azure Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer Edge, not Edgium. Edgium would be way too short for a Microsoft product name of the 2020s.
Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards in UK
"That's not a given"

I never said it was a given. You're using another definition of the word "given" in order to argue.

"You are in no position"

Who said I was in a position to be making that decision? That's completely irrelevant.
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I'm actually ok with this, and I don't use Edge.

This is only for links using the microsoft-edge protocol, which is used by internal things like whatever this "News and Interests" widget is they have on the taskbar now. Regular web links will open in your default browser, Firefox or otherwise.

I'm ok with that. I doubt Microsoft wants support calls about how someone clicked on their widget and the resulting page didn't render properly because user was on X browser. As long as this is redirection for built-in OS things only, I'll give them a pass.
https://archive.ph/Yo4Ks
That's so crazy, there seems to be a lot of scary government overreach in that story and people should be fired. I will be able to account for all them items I am planning on storing from recipts, transaction records etc. My main reason for using a box would be to protect the items from fire and flood loss and also to have a place for my Last Will and Testiment that I know my benificiaries will find. The problem is I live in a small town and don't particularly want the contents, regardless of value being known though the grapevine by snoops.

You do bring up a good point though, a blanket seizure of all the boxes is a possibility I should consider. It almost seems like guilt by association but having dealt with government entities in the past I know how obtuse they can be.
If you don't trust the scripts, you don't trust the code. Although this limits one attack vector, the issue is just kicked down the road to `import`/`require` time.
> Do they really expect people who go through the effort of installing a third party browser and setting it as default to switch back to Edge because of the grand experience they had with it when Windows opened some help article in it?

A lot of people don't understand what different browsers are, for them there is just "the Internet". I can tell my parents to just install and use Firefox. But they will then happily use a random Edge screen that was last visible to do their next search and be none the wiser. Meanwhile Microsoft will be raking in all their user data and advertisement space.
You can basically just sign up for an account with Revolut, Monzo, or Starling and use it purely for spending.

Keep your primary account for getting paid, and for covering bills, then load up the second account with play money for the month.

I know a few people who do this.

I just use an AmEx account but it's a little frustrating that you can't set a spending limit on the card.
https://ryf.fsf.org/categories/routers
You equate those values with the systemic regulation of them.

Id argue that Christianity is inherently conservative. Christianity finds the root cause of the imperfection of our world (and the systems it contains) in original sin. One doesn’t endlessly seek an answer for why systems eventually fail or bad things happen, because one recognizes that ultimately everything in this world suffers imperfection. For progressivism, original sin is open-ended, thereby allowing for any particular powerful entity to control what is considered the source of evil.

The Christian, by embracing the absurd belief of original sin, recognizes that ultimately even formal thought becomes informal. His belief protects him from the hubris of thinking that he has the power to fix what cannot ever be fixed. The progressive, by definition, must always be seeking a way “forward”, and in doing so tends to believe in other, more harmful absurd beliefs.
If Elon Musk Is Modern Day Henry Ford, He’ll Have to Prove It in Germany
> with Google Chrome handling clicks to URLs inside apps instead of opening the default browser

Are you sure about that? On Android my default browser is Firefox. If I email myself https://detectmybrowser.com/ and then open it in the Fastmail app on Android, it says I'm using Firefox.
> Lack of credentials doesn't mean lack of knowledge, but their presence is at least some signal.

Why not just hear what I say on the merits? Think about it on your own?

>the culture is rooted in misery and suffering.

Misery and suffering are NOT a diagnosis for clinical depression. Psychologists take culture into account when diagnosing depression.

> And the consensus is universal: depression lies.

No, depression tells the truths no on wants to hear. The truth is that is ok to be worthless. Do you get that? That is what the therapists I had taught me. And it relieves the pressure of my mood disorder. I have dismantled the cultural imagined hierarchy of worth that existed in my head.

>That pain is not why people with depression suffer.

I would say pain is the only reason why anyone suffers.

>Externalizing depression as an entity that's not speaking truthfully is a way to start pulling yourself out of it.

Please, I have tried it, it does not last. Sadnees is the ego fighting against the truth of our worthlessness. Once you accept that you are worthless and are ok with it, what is there to be sad about?

I'll stop there because this is what the problem is with the whole thread. No one understands the clinical definition of depression and they keep conflating sadness with depression.

And thanks for your thoughts.
https://archive.md/T4ZtX
This is probably what I will do, sometimes the simplest answers are the best.
This started with Windows 10 only allowing Microsoft programs to automatically pin themselves to the Taskbar.

As an experiment I left Edge on the Taskbar for my users, with Chrome on the Desktop. Chrome is 3x more popular even though Edge is a) default, b) pinned to Taskbar, and c) Syncs automatically
>I think when using words like 'leftist' among non-American company, we can agree that the current Presidential adminstration doesn't fit that label.

Absolutely. But the US doesn't really have a true Left in its political spectrum, it has a far right and center right, represented by the Republicans and Democrats respectively, so the scale is skewed. Also, hyperbole seems to be dominating the discourse at the moment, and not just from the commentariat. Everyone I know who would describe themselves as Conservative or Republican considers Biden a leftist.
So true, i totally agree with the UX degradation point.
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The main difference is that Microsoft literally had a massive anti-trust action taken against them in 2001 on exactly this issue.

I agree that Apple and Google are also guilty here, but MS is repeating actions which there is not only a direct legal precedent against, but one which involved them as the defendant.
> Can we buy reputation from money?

Yes, apparently they can. There used to be huge threads here on HN on how today's MS has nothing to do with its past, that it's ridiculous to believe that the company will always stay the same, that the Ballmer epoch is all over. I mean yes, these people are right, MS is a different company - but will still do grayish stuff on the verge of legality, as long as they can go unpunished. And because corporations are not people, apparently we can only speak about the legal aspect, not the moral one (as if nobody was personally responsible for these decisions).
If there's a minimum term/commitment it can be considered morally wrong (as you're depriving them of revenue you've agreed to pay in advance) and there might be more incentive to collect that amount.

If there's no minimum commitment (or it's expired already) there's basically no problem. Yes, they can in theory send that debt to collections and litigate. Both of these are expensive and are unlikely.

If you've made reasonable efforts to cancel you can indeed block future payments and let them sort it out. If they want to litigate they'd have to explain why those reasonable efforts were ignored (and have the court rule in their favour).
Especially in a field in which you are not trained, do not have the background knowledge required to understand the various qualifications and established best practices in. That gap can be absolutely enormous, even for fields that are peripherally related. Specialization is there for a reason, the body of knowledge that we now command is way too large for any single individual to absorb to a substantial depth.
I don't think we adopted handwashing because of him.

Actually, the reason people didn't believe him is interesting because they were using an earlier scientific method - he didn't have a good explanation for the mechanism, so they dismissed it with "correlation is not causation". We're better at using things whose mechanism we don't understand now, like Tylenol.
Fake news, unvacinated people pose no inherent danger to anyone.

A person with the sars-cov-2 contagion spreads the virus.

Unfortunately both vacinated and unvacinated people are at risk of contracting spreading sars-cov-2, we have a staggering number of break through cases, even in highly vacinated areas.

I am not a mortal danger to myself or anyone becuase I dont have the virus. this is the 5th endemic Corona virus.

I AM healthy and strong.

not sick, not unclean, not unhygenic, not uncaring, not part of the untouchable caste, I will not obey.

people with the virus spread the virus, not any arbitrary list that the government keeps on injection status or religion.
That danger has been present for a while now.

However, and as a thought exercise, say we did not go down the Citizens United path after Reagan repealed the Fairness Doctrine, and Clinton Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Social media viewed through that lens, one where both the public interest is a thing we recognize must at least compete with profit, and the public trust is recognized and maintained as the high value part of our Democracy it is.

I do not disagree with you about tech and the law being behind. And right now we remain in a particularly difficult time due to so many legislators not understanding tech well enough to perform their role as well as it needs to be performed.

That said, our difficulty right now is greatly exacerbated by basic policy priority shifts that happened well in advance of tech.

Owning that is particularly difficult too. Money and markets are a higher priority than the public interest is, and that is true for government as well as big media.

The vacuum was there and significant, leaving tech, social media to rapidly expand into it.

Had that time been one of more robust public trust, social media would have to compete much harder, and regulation may well have both been more effective as well as earlier, more robust in its positive impact.
Vonage is notorious for not only preventing people from canceling online but making it hell to cancel over the phone. They frustrate people trying to port numbers and charge ludicrous cancellation and other fees. Totally extortionate and predatory behavior. I hope all customers become aware of these practices.
Not for nothing, it seems that various governing bodies are slowly waking up to the idea some of those giants have really gotten a little too big, so there is a chance of some real action similar to action taken on MS.
Maybe they confused it with detention.
That's exactly the cost-benefit equation which anti-trust regulation is supposed to correct. That's why it's a shame it's not currently working.
That's not how it works in the UK though. You need to be having credit in order to build up credit score.
I can't think of any other reason than incompetence for not requiring signed packages.
This is how life works (biology). At every "explosion" many different solutions appear, and then fewer and fewer survive at each generation.
Nope, that also applies in the UK.
I have to agree stop using companies with shitty ethics. It's hard at first but over time most of the issues will be resolved.
I feel the same about Facebook, people bitch about them endlessly but won't stop using WhatsApp or Instagram.
Except for -really- big projects, like the linux kernel. Its indexing is.. not fun.
> “At the same time, Windows also offers certain end-to-end customer experiences in both Windows 10, and Windows 11, the search experience from the taskbar is one such example of an end-to-end experience that is not designed to be redirected. When we become aware of improper redirection, we issue a fix.”

Hey team at MS who implements stuff like that: How does it feel working on this? Genuinely interested.
As a matter of documenting potential conflict of interest, the paper should indicate the caffeine addiction status of the authors.
The phrase "offers certain end-to-end customer experiences" could be applied to anything that happens while you're using Windows – so it doesn't mean anything.

For Microsoft to label what Firefox and Edge are doing "improper redirection" is just rubbing it in. A problem of propriety is just one of failing to meet some conventional standard. But there's no community here whose mores are being violated, the convention is no more than whatever some VP wants.
Sorry wait- is Edge seriously collecting usage data from it's users for advertising purposes?

Shudder good God, we live in a terrible future.
The model I have:

* https://openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ac68u

Also:

* https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net
Nuances of whether "engineer" is a protected title aside, I think feeling comfortable considering yourself an SE is less about whether you're doing frontend work and more about your confidence level and potential impostor syndrome.

It took me a while, too, to feel like I could honestly put "Software Engineer" in my LinkedIn profile. I'm self taught like you; went from build, to tools and engine, to backend, to frontend now. A few years in I just realized: that is what my literal title is in my contract and I am doing equivalent work of all the other formally and non-formally educated SEs on my team. So now, after over ten years of this, I feel no hesitation about calling myself a Software Engineer in relevant channels (although sometimes I just prefer the sound of "programmer").
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We feared communists, and socialism, while creating the corporate demigods that puppet our governments, control our communications and by extension control everything anyone can aspire or achieve.
So far, I believe it is allowed in the US, Saudi Arabia, and a few other places.

The rest of the world considers it as illegal it is harmful / unethical.
This is the FTC, not the EU (as far as I'm aware theres no EU legislation planned or in place for this).

Of course you could argue that the EU might do it one day, but you could say the same about the UK.

That being said I thought it already was against UK law. Maybe I got that wrong, or there are loopholes around it, or its just not heavily enforced. Who knows
Mac is way too expensive for most of the world.

Hardware support for most linux distros still suck.

This year I've used Ubuntu, NixOS, Arch and Zorin OS. My issues:

- Dell dock station won't work properly.

- Hibernation on Lenovo laptop won't work properly.

- Bluetooth won't work properly.

I'm using currently Zorin OS and it has the best user experience so far. That said, it still requires leg work to setup stuff compared to Windows 10 (I use it at $JOB). Ironically, I think using Linux in Windows is actually easier for many use cases as you can just wipe your distro clean if gets to a broken state.