skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's an SEC regulated company then they will likely fail regulatory requirements or audits. Or maybe be found negligent in the event of a breach. Maybe, but hard to say for sure depending on details.

Basically, anything short of fraud or negligence is "ok". The world is built on what things look like, not what they actually are. It's sad so much of the world is run on opinion instead of fact.

Interesting side story, I work for a large financial company. I brought up a vulnerability and wanted to have it addressed (too big for just me to fix). The system had SQL injection vulnerabilities throughout it with schema owner privileges. Luckily it was an internal app, so not as likely to be exploited. How did management respond? They said it's fine since we have a real time or near real time DB backup. My next question was if this has even been tested... nope. Is there even documentation on the steps to take? Nope. Insane...
Apparently they have too much money? I thought I donated to help them be a strong encrypted messaging app and survive for the long term. Not to tack on a bunch of social media features.
> If you actually work on a project of significant size I don't see how one can reason about code that's not encapsulated via classes.

I can: Modular code using modules, instead of shoe-horning everything into classes. There are way fewer cases, where classes have actual good reasons for existing in a program than people think. Classes should not be the first go-to solution for grouping things together. First one needs to think about behavior and state. Do I even have a state, that needs to live inside an object over the time, that the program runs? If I don't have state, no class. Done. Similarly for when I only have state and no behavior, that needs to be put together with that state. Often a module, which exports functions, which deal with that state, is more than sufficient and does not allow for inheritance nightmares.

> I used to contribute to RunUO, an emulator for Ultima Online, and it's near the 1000000-SLOC level. There's too much going on, too much state, too many corner cases, to consider functional as an architecture.

Sounds exactly like something, that should not be done in the typical OOP everything-calls-everything way, because then you will end up with lots of state changes mutation happening everywhere. It will not even be clear to the implementers of the system. Therefore you will not know what to test for and therefore it might run accidentally, but not in a way, that one can be approximately be sure to be correct. Every test of a complex scenario will require loads of setup test code, so that you can get some kind of environment, which might be similar to what happens in the system. Designing in a functional way would give you a sort of "entrypoint" at every function to test it, giving all required state as arguments.

I don't think OOP is a given in any big project, especially, when looking at how to write unit tests for mostly everything, and when looking at parallelizing stuff. I see OOP perhaps when it comes to building GUIs, but even in that area attempts are being made to use declarative approaches and functional approaches, so maybe in the future we will see OOP lose ground there as well.
There is a saying in Chinese that wealth does not last more than 3 generations.

I am 4 generations down from a successful businessman. Family is not wealthy, but I sometimes meet distantly related or socially related families, of different generations, descending from the circle of successful businessmen 4 generations ago.

While there are exceptions, I think the saying is broadly true, and my take is a bit simple and possibly offensive.

The first generation had fortunate circumstances, but were _incredibly capable_. Their spouses tended to be attractive.

Like it or not, many skills have hereditary components. As a kid you hear about your great grandfather doing insane things when they were young and wonder if you can do that too. As an adult, you read about those insane things and you realize _you still can't do those things_. Not only that, your parents can't, and their parents couldn't either. It's just alien.

It really isn't complicated. If you get wealthy from _outstanding ability_, and want to have kids that are capable of handling wealth _by capability_, then have capable kids.

People who are capable of handling wealth aren't drawing inspiration from a Nasdaq article. Maybe OP is seeing many clueless people who lucked into wealth recently. Well I certainly know that luck is not hereditary: it only takes one gambler to end a generational empire.

> we've been able to build upon education and constructive traditions passed on from generation to generation; this is kind of wealth that's much harder to take away.

I think this is the best way to think about wealth and wish this perspective has wider appreciation.
Its a major problem for armed forces have people with advanced skills are not going to work for NCO pay which is what the higher ups think we are.
This isn't directed at you at all, but "don't sugar coat it" may be my least favorite phrase in English. I get the theory, but, personally speaking, I have nigh exclusively seen it used to excuse aggressive negative emotion, rather than to encourage direct and honest communication.
Site renders fine for me in Safari on MacOS with JS disabled.
Interesting.

>taxing dividends

But even if the corporation reinvests that money back into the corporation instead of distributing dividends, wont shareholders have capital gains tax if they try to sell the stock after it increases in value from the reinvestment?
I would disagree. Most of the fingerprinting protection is enabled by the user.js, of which LibreWolf inherits the efforts made by arkenfox[1][2]. Many of the most significant preferences themselves made it into Firefox by the Tor uplift project[3].

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

[2] https://librewolf.net/license-disclaimers

[3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tor_Uplift
Hmmm, this brings to mind some favorite breakfast cereals of my youth. 'Super Sugar Crisp', 'Sugar Smacks', and so on.

I guess it's a wonder we accomplished anything at all.
That is such a non comment, dollar is the currency used to buy and sell because is the easiest one trade in the international market, not because it has some mystical power. They can sell it for euros, pounds or whatever.

Oil is currently being used to keep dictatorships and regimes afloat within the OPEC.

The United States does not control how many barrels of oil SA, UAE or other countries can push to the market.
One small improvement might be to make it so that it creates a url which the user can go back to without entering the data again.

That way they can bookmark it / share if they want.
I wonder if having less structural adhesive between metal components makes it more easily recyclable.
I made a bad dynamic programming joke.
> Or reverse the time fields during indexing (slower, but still not as slow as an unnecessary disk read!).

When you're IO bound, I'm not sure it actually is slower in practice.
Yeah, I had to buy one or two really shitty homemade-looking books the prof wrote. On the other side, I had professors that wrote their own curriculum and did their best to enjoy we didn't waste money on unnecessary books.
As I understand they got rid of the option to log in with your Apple ID in the newest versions of mac OS.
Yes, of course. Austria is doing that starting Feb 1.
I'm an atheist, but I disagree. Religion is needed by some, imo. This is how I view it:

There are ethical frameworks, secular moral frameworks, and religious moral frameworks. In my observation people love moral frameworks, because moral frameworks have the output of righteousness. They're useful for hegemony, they provide some sense of justice through outcasting, and they allow people to see themselves compared to others. They're also quite dynamic and can have modified interpretation by an individual.

Ethical frameworks are a little less fulfilling because their intended outcome is fairness. Users may have to sacrifice their own perspectives for the ethical framework to remain fair.

The issue is unregulated moral communities. We, as humans, think freedom to moral communities, whether they be religious or secular, is the right thing to do because of generations of religious warring. There are some amount of moral community people that will never switch to an ethical framework because of that strive for righteousness. While it'd probably be healthier to get away from morals altogether, the mean time would be filled with a lot of strife, imo, where righteous people would act on their righteousness.
You still didn't present any arguments why you need to know specifically my income and not just aggregated data (that can be arbitrary fine-grained like per-company or even per-grade per-company), which makes it very hard for me not to consider whole discussion to be primary ideologically-motivated from your side.

BTW I assume we are both not from US, so I don't understand why you are acting offended after being called leftist as a reply to explicitly leftist statement ("exposing inequality in society in undeniable fashion...").
Haha, I thought that seemed like a good idea, then remembered I'm using it and have been for at least a year...
It's a pretty seemless mobile browser
CAVEATS:
Downloaded files are renamed generically... to "asset.pdf" or similar
Bookmark handling is terrible and this could kill it for many users
That puts it at an energy return on energy invested of around 9, which is pretty damn bad.

Wind is at 18 right now, solar at something like 15. These will only go up as they become cheaper and cheaper. Given how frequently renewables are critiqued for low energy return on energy investment, 11% is a pretty pathetic stat. I think it's pretty clear that these industries are the walking dead. I should have switched my total market index funds to exclude the fossil fuel companies a few years ago, before they lost so much of their value recently.
Tesla is one of those cars which gets BETTER with time. I have a 2018 Model 3, it is a MUCH better car than it was 3 years back. Not just cosmetic changes, they UPGRADED my CPU to handle more advance calculations (for free), constant software updates to make it better every 2 weeks. I reminds me of iOS updates, but more frequent & more consequential (added features which let me monitor the parking lot remotely/visually before reaching the car etc)

Our Battery packs are good for 400,000-1million miles depending on model. What more could u ask for? 420,000 mile? 1.1m miles? The point is, it is already as good as it gets as of TODAY, future efficiencies will always be there. But that is out in the future. Also, these are MANUFACTURING efficiencies , the end result for consumer is same/almost same.

I was an exclusive BMW driver for 15 years before moved to Model 3 - I enjoy every bit of it. Never ever had buyers remorse.
This fact became viscerally true to me when I tried chanterelle for the first time a few days ago. Texture and flavor was so close to chicken that my partner and I (both vegans) had the weird uncomfortable sensation of accidentally eating meat!
I believe there’s an option on the account sign in page (under sign-in options or something) to allow you to create a local account. I agree it should be more clear, but at least it exists.
I'd like there to be a "Report blogspam / SEO spam / plagiarism" button in DDG.

Step 1: Click the result...

Step 2: Ugh, swipe back

Step 3: Click "Report poor result" > "SEO spam"

Step 4: Click next relevant link
I guess there's a bit of NYS between NYC and CT, but not much unless you dump onto the parkways
Glad to see any alternatives to confluence (or Atlassian in general). I've used Confluence for a good 4 years or so and for the life of me, I can not fathom why anyone would use this for storing documentation for code etc, as opposed to storing things direct in a repo. I can understand it's use somewhat for business folks, but even then, the way of organising things is abysmal, every solution (such as rich text editing) feels very off the shelf/MVP, uninspiring UI, the list goes on. It feels like most companies that use it already use the Atlassian stack of JIRA/Bitbucket, then feel the need to tack Confluence onto the end because it's there.
What speaks against riot+matrix?
It's sad. COVID discussion has ruined multiple online forums I (used to) participate in. Well-moderated forums that I used to love and respect, all turn into the YouTube Comment Section whenever the topic comes up. Something about the COVID, even moreso than politics, draws the trolls like a lightning rod and is astonishingly resistant to effective site moderation. I think mods (not just here) have gotten really good at nuking obvious flamewars, spam, and left-vs-right political threads, but for whatever reason hesitate when it comes to misinformation. HN has a guideline about "political or ideological battles" but what do you do when the entire topic has become ideological?
What SRS software do you recommend?
I'd say that updating any version of anything, without reading the changelog, is irresponsible. Why are you updating a gem if you have no idea what has changed?
This is one of many solutions to the framing problem. John Vervaeke discusses it and the theoretical background in his awakening from the meaning crisis lecture series.

Lecture 13 especially https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkWNBdBDyoE

Meditation, therapy, exercise, certain religious practices, etc. Also break people out when they are stuck in loops of vicious cycles. Different people have different combinations of what practices work for them. And there's no way to know what works before you try it.

In OPs article, he mentions the distinction between knowledge and information. He means self-knowledge, the stuff Socrates talked about
The author seems to have forgotten the obvious alternative of using ints for database primary keys and uuids externally.
> How is this not ripe for disruption?

It’s called a Brother laser printer
> They are simply not anywhere near the same thing, and attempts to brand them as the more or less same thing just comes across as denial.

They are the same thing specifically when it comes to:

* Downloading, verifying, and storing every transaction that has ever happened on the network

* Maintaining a tamper-proof, data-complete copy of the blockchain

* Interacting with the blockchain in a maximally verified, maximally secure way

I never said that they were exactly the same thing or that they should be branded as the same thing, I said that they store the same data (by which I mean from an information-theoretic standpoint), which is true.

> What I take issue with is attempts to classify ethereum "Full Nodes" as more than what they are.

I take issue with the attempts to classify them as less than what they are.

What needs to be squashed is the common idea in the OP that "full nodes are not actually full" because there's a "fuller" "archive" node that has the states indexed on-disk. The difference between a full node and an archive node is perfomant historical queryability, not security or data-completeness.

OP says that "access to Ethereum is effectively gate-kept by two centralized entities", which is untrue because you don't need an archive node to access Ethereum, only a full node. OP's idea that an archive node is the only "true Ethereum full-node" is common baloney that pops up often in the cryptocurrency community.
I'm pretty sure you could read this exact kind of article already in april 2020.

> Workers cannot permanently be kept away from their offices.

And yet, I keep reading about companies that postpone their "back to office" dates again and again because workers have adapted to home office and are refusing to come back.
I'm not a JS developer, I'm just someone who has shipped enough software to know that the fraction of people reading change logs is vanishingly small.

Maybe you are a very careful developer, but the vast majority out there is not.

Shipping an udate that will corrupt data if you don't read the changelog is very very dangerous.

I see why they did it. Having a method with the same name as in Active Record but with different behavior is also dangerous.

But they really could have handled this better.
Yes, the UK in general is not forcing anything, and for a lot of purposes a negative test is as good as a vaccine passport.

And in general it seems to have worked pretty well in the UK, as the country is now around 85% double vaccinated and 60% triple vaccinated (in people over 12).

This could be down to the fact that while we British love to complain about the NHS, people trust the motives those who work for it and the motives of the health system as a whole, even if we don't always trust the way the system is set up or that it will always give the best outcomes.
Yeah but it kinda defeats the purpose. I mean, I'll give it a try on my private PC but at work where I only google technical stuff I don't see myself switching.

Generally I want my tools to "just work".
Yeah, it's one of the top 5. Notice there are no numbers there.

It's hard to find numbers, most places basically ignore the usage as a direct fertilizer. It seems to be much more popular on the US than anywhere else, for the US I was able to find this (it's old, but it's what I have):

> Urea is the most popular source of dry N fertilizer, accounting for 79% of the
total dry N used. Ammonium sulfate has risen in popularity. In 1988 it constituted 14% of the dry N market. (https://www.canr.msu.edu/field_crops/uploads/archive/E0896.p...)

Most countries just equate nitrogen fertilizer with urea.
Hardly.

OP is complaining about inconveniences that are standard everywhere I've worked for years.

I noticed it immediately and pointed it out.

Open your mind a little and you too may notice interesting parallels between the lines of code.

It's way better that your reptilian "Most Snarky of the Year" response.
happy they're adding this. one more important feature to replace whatsapp and instagram for normal people.

stories is a great feature by letting you post however much you want and letting the viewer choose to view/skip/ignore the content easily. plus its ephemeral by default which is another good feature imo.

everything should be e2ee. anything which helps convince your mom/sister/dad/friends to use signal is a good thing.
this reminds me of Bitbucket…
> Ether will move to PoS within the coming 2 years.

Did you mean to agree with the poster? Because you just perfectly proved how even ether has kicked the can down the road to avoid upsetting the apple cart.
You get weighed and measured every year as part of the medical but there are no consequences for being fat. There may be a few notes on the report if your BMI is abnormal (by Japanese standards) but these are for you alone.
Google's extremely annoying Cookie selection is a UX nightmare: scrolling past two pages before you can press a button. I'd rather go to the library than use Google Search ever again. (An occasional !g bang in DDG is allowed though.)
I somehow lost access to an AppleID. I dont even know how. I have the password, it's saved in a Password Manager, and an old Mac is still logged in. But the new Mac would not accept my authentication (I do not recall the specific error message).

I gave up and created a new one, but lost all my old purchases.
That's putting things pretty charitably for a society that pushes conformity to the point of it being fairly unhealthy.

Japanese peoples' trust in govt for 2020 was actually less than that of the US's. Their vaccination rates are more likely due to their community-oriented culture rather than their trust in government officials.

https://data.oecd.org/gga/trust-in-government.htm
My mom just got one and it was nice to setup, but I read somewhere recently that people were discovering the hard way that the standard ink fades very easily. I think you can find archival inks though.

I have never heard of Wilhelm Research, but this pdf has a comparison of fade times, and the EcoTank is listed around ~2 years under glass, at least dark storage rating is >100 years for all of them

Edit; oops, forgot the link: http://www.wilhelm-research.com/hp/WIR_Ink_Tank_Printer_Comp...
And.... It's been hugged to death.
>>> They look according to the viewer's browser settings. This reveals the belief of the early 1990es that any visual design should be left at the discretion of the user.

I remember first reading about HTML in Byte Magazine. The idea was that the tags were supposed to reflect the organization of the text, but not much more, so that your browser could render it according to your preferences. This included the possibility of special browsers for the blind, etc. When I finally got a chance to create a personal web page, that's how I designed it, and I still do so today. On the one hand, it looks great nowhere, but never fails to be intelligible on any browser, device, OS revision, etc. I never have to test it on more than one platform.

Today, web design treats the browser as a general purpose graphical display, which means you have to consider every possible corner case of every browser and display size. It means that web pages can be as bad as software, because they are software. It means that making good web pages requires sweating the details to the same extent as good software, which is phenomenally labor intensive and consequently, rare.
Your internet startup is actually more meta than Meta's!
These really need context or better explanations.

For instance I clicked on the Blob line and the code looks to fetch and URL with a Blob encoded and fetches it again? There is so little context to say what is really wrong... or if there is anything really wrong.

I looked up Blobs myself and read through the specs on MDN and I just dont see a problem.
Have you visited your Gmail inbox lately...

WTF happened? When Google bought Postini, the spam filter got awesome...

Somehow, in the last 12 months - google has been infecting my inbox with spam...

Whats funny is that MANY people used to have yahoo or hotmail dumpsters for spam/sign-ups etc... but now gmail is my spam dumpster, and protonmail is my pref.

---

EDIt: After thinking on it a sec.. I think I know whats up: Inboxing.

Recall how Friendster, HI5, tagged, etc "scaled" -- by being a stupid platform for you to effectively give your details and contacts to so they could scale. Lets not forget what v.01 social media was -- They were all spammers only harvesting email databases... which for ad rev is what built them

Clearly, Google is trying to harvest more ad-rev through killing their spam filter.

Do no evil, much?
See also the glorious 1990s web design aesthetic of the "Slide Rule Universe!":

* https://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/sruniverse.html
I moved to the tropics and have been learning a whole new fauna. Some stuff that will do well in the understory includes: jaboticaba, caimito, acerola (aka nanking cherry), borojo, biriba, pitanga and, believe it or not, a lot of citrus (we have wild limes on the jungle edges, and are planting more cultured varieties). I have a very early stage fruit blog going at http://fruitytropics.com, in case anybody's interested.
Same here (on just using tweaked Thunderbird). I have used i think it was gvault or gmvault years ago, and it worked fine...But then I started using Thunderbird for actually managing my email (as a desktop email client).,..and then learned that one can set up maildir (so it is not a single mbox file), plus there are some offline settings within thunderbird...and it effectively did the trick of many of these automated methods...but i get the benefit of having a pretty good desktop client too. All i then have to do is ensure that the folder hierarchy of the maildir (as thunderbird saves the files and directories locally) is copied and backed up to a different location (per the ol' 3-2-1 backup strategy)...and i'm good; Thunderbird for the win!