skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand they are extremely easy to clean. Just get some cloth and ceramic stove cleaner and you're good to go.

The knobs are more convenient to operate, but they tend to accumulate grease in the joints and other parts where you cannot reach. And if you want to clean them thoroughly you need to disassemble the knobs and that's annoying as hell. For me being easier to clean compensates everything.
In France it's pretty good.
Sorry, I'm not familiar with Microsoft's internal structure, but do they have (I assume over) 67 different salary bands?

Wow...
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I have thrown quite a lot of work at it.

Reading into it, looking up the legalese, building a solution that shows a cookie banner and prevents ads to load before users agreed to it etc.

I only gave up after all of that failed.

It just became unjustifiable to throw more time at it.
CrowdSec
Unless your 1) execution environment (CPU, dlls) or 2) Python source code files change, you can use “unexec” strategies like Emacs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21394916
CrowdSec is a free, open-source and collaborative IPS.
Analyze behaviors, respond to attacks & share signals across the community.
> have ideas and values that are fundamentally incompatible with other swaths of the population.

Do they though? If you have a system making another party practically impossible, and make it in the interest of the parties to create division whenever needed (bathrooms...), it's not really clear how incompatible the views are. We could find that a lot of the division was manufactured so that people are strongly against something because they don't have good reasons to be for the other group.
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> It was 4 years old in the dot.com era, and insulated from the effects of the recession by a steady stream of VC money

Google received its last funding round 1999, after that they were profitable every single year. Modern start-ups aren't anything like Google back then. Google survived the dotcom bust since they made money, if they depended on VC funding they would have gone bust then as well.
Everything seems to be done for looks rather than utility these days. Appliances have to 'look good' and 'fit' in the kitchen scheme. Knobs are apparently too 'protrudy'.
> trying to maximize my credit score for the sake of keeping it high.

Just being a deadbeat will do exactly that. It takes 0 effort. Put your purchases on a credit card, and settle it in full every month.
It is more like:

(caller_capabilities[WHATEVER_CAPABILITY])(...);

when the capability is not present, then you get no_method_found or something similar.
Yeah, if you read the intro to Volume 1, he specifically calls this out as an issue. I personally think he's taking a subtle dig at Numerical Recipes here, which did take the "modern" language approach.
We can't convince them.

People will spend a lot of money to convince them of the opposite. I wonder where they get the ROI from that? Presumably they steal it from the voters they successfully disenfranchise.

The same team that convinced the UK that cutting trade links with the EU was a price worth paying for liberty, also convinced them that changing to a more representative voting system was too expensive. Children will die in hospital as a result of wasting money on more democracy was one actual argument advanced.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/14641/production...
“Daves I know” is a good one for everyone:
https://youtu.be/VVzDIE0mr6A

I tried to find my actual favorite sketch which is called “men don’t pee through their nipples” or at least that was the punchline. Couldn’t find it though.
'at least once every 24 hours' would be valid.

'at most every 24 hours' would imply reboots_per_day < 1 is bad and reboots_per_day >= 1 is good; i.e. that the standard was focused on preventing unnecessary reboots, but didn't care if the reader didn't reboot regularly, which I think is contrary to the comment's meaning.

'at least every 24 hours' is correct.
The credit score system benefits the ones who have the most power to change it. That's why there's no real motivation to remove it.
The interview stats for the company and candidates should be available to the matchmakers. If matchmakers see that a company never hires, then they will stop wagering on matches for that company.

As for crypto adoption, I would treat it as an API and not expose it to users, or hide it behind advanced settings.

Charge your customers USD, convert it to USDCa, build the actual market as an Algorand smart contract, manage the users wallets behind the scenes, and when they want to withdraw, convert the USDCa back to USD.

Then you could allow advanced users to swap out the managed wallet for their own wallet, if they’re so inclined.
I was at a friends' and they had touch buttons on the hotplate. Nothing really hard to understand, but it would not register touches with my index finger. After fighting, I figured I would try to use my thumb and that worked.

One vote for the physical buttons. If you want to act quickly, tactile buttons are really annoying.
Not sure how WinMX works, but back in the old DC++ days, you not only searched for things but could navigate directory structures directly from users connected to the same hub. It was uncommon for me to browse through some of the biggest/interesting users and see what they were sharing.

By doing that, I'm sure I stumbled upon my fair share of sketchy stuff unintentionally, so it's not hard to imagine the same for others :)
Yes, it is useful for inline positioning, ex. a menu, but for the rest of the things mostly css does solve it without having to do much.
Note that these are not computer virii by the definition, as they cannot spread independently. User always need to download the application somewhere and install it themself. The closest analogue would be Remote Access Trojan (RAT) infected Windows PC pirated software.
Flex and grid are 2 different domains.

Grid is good for making grids.

Flex is good for creating flows of content, like a <div> where all childs has display:inline-block. It supports wrapping when content can't be on a single line.
But you could put the knob back on, right? I mean, it slides off to make it easier to clean or replace, and you just need to slide it back on...?
If it produces results that more people are ok with, then they will be less likely to need convincing in the first place. Pretty much the only reason we have the fiasco we do is because things have become so extreme and polarized.
I know we are seeing more Teslas in Europe but there is a really big problem with the availability of features. You are just not buying then same car in Europe as you are in the US and a lot of people give them back because of it.
Well explained.

Erlang seems to also follow this kind of philosophy, although on a more granular level. The point seems to be in separation of "worker" code and "supervisor" code - where "worker" represents a well-behaved function without any (unexpected-)error checks, and "supervisor" represents error-handling code that will catch and resolve any errors that happens in the worker code, expected or not.

Joe Armstrong's "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors" contains more information on the topic.
> Open a lending institution that will lend money to anyone with no credit checking? Hope that you don’t get adverse selected out of business, but if you don’t and can compete without it, demand for credit scoring will plummet.

This seems unlikely to succeed. You'd wind up having to give the same rates to everyone, because you have no real way to assess risk individually. As such, you wouldn't be able to compete on rates for people with good credit.
> Is there really no way to monetise an audience with ads without collecting their personal info?

There sure is: Contextual ads. DuckDuckGo does it, various documentation sites do it (https://www.ethicalads.io/), a dutch broadcaster does it (https://archive.ph/Zk4Pv). It's how newspapers used to work and TV channels still do, as well as YouTube sponsorships (and probably many more).

It improves the UX over personalized ads because

a) you don't have to invade your users' privacy (including asking them for permission to do it, obviously) and

b) the ad is actually relevant to the context the user is thinking about, instead of something completely unrelated from some other part of their life (or, more often than not, something completely random).
Interesting. Is this in practice implemented as just capabilities being large numbers so it's impractical to guess them, or does the kernel have a table with all of a process's capabilities and when a message is sent to a process with capabilities the kernel adds them to the table?

That is -- are capabilities just pieces of data in a message you can detect and try to use, or do they have to be added explicitly to a message to send them
Sounds like about 5 minutes of work to me: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/7670013?hl=en
This link gets posted all the time but if you compare the total amount fined across all companies and all countries it's laughable compared to the profits a single big offender (see Google, Facebook, etc) makes in just a year.
I think the next challenge would be to have a native "masonry" grid feature. That would cover several usecases.
It is expressly illegal in Florida.
The two biggest problems in US politics are the two-party system and unproprotional representation.

I mean, even in European countries it's hard to say you support a specific party (e.g. the Greens in Germany), because you'll never agree with 100% of their politics. Just having two parties and needing to commit to one? That's fucking insane.
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Every stove knob I've ever interacted with easily pulls / slides off its peg and can be hand washed if it gets too dirty. Changing a lightbulb is an order of magnitude harder.
I'm not native and I absolutely do this. 500 grams of flower...
Crypto is - depending on who you ask - either an investment or a currency.

If we say this is a currency as that seems to be the way you are treating it, then if we replace that word a few times...

"I think if done right, linkedin/indeed would mail people checks to use their platform to apply for jobs" - I think that statement obviously fails the gutcheck. If the use of cash payments is not appropriate for this particular use case, then adding "... but with crypto" isn't going to change it.

Like I said, not throwing hate, I really think people trying to invent things / change things / make things better is amazing. I think this one may need some more baking.
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I apologize for my defensiveness. I tend to get defensive and emotional when under stress. I don't like that about myself.
These ideas aren't born in the actual product design teams, where "don't put touch control near things that get hot" or "no unprotected touch controls on surfaces where spilling can occur" are not concepts that need to be explained. The way this usually happens is that product management hands down the requirement from down top, either on their own or after contracting some expensive industrial design agency (i.e. a mixed team of engineering and art majors who never had to sell, service and especially provide tech support for, any of the products whose outside they designed) to help "refresh" their product line.

Then, when in a shocking twist of events it's absolutely miserable, the tests are slightly mangled to highlight the usability gains ("easier to wipe", "looks modern and integrates well in a modern kitchen") and ensure no one's yearly bonus is endangered.

Surprisingly, it works out really well despite competition because everyone's doing it pretty similarly.

If your next question is "but why on Earth is it done like that!?", well, there are many reasons for that. But the tl;dr is that making kitchen appliances with universal, "boring" features, which last for 20 years, would spell disaster for a lot of companies in a lot of industries, from home appliances to furniture, and for smaller, specialized suppliers in these fields. The market has fine-tuned itself for frequently replaceable junk that's just good enough to that someone can plausibly say "well ackshually" when I refer to it as junk. Anything better would inherently result in much longer growth cycles, which Western management and stakeholders are not capable of handling anymore, and would disrupt "fashionable" trends, which would further prolong growth cycles in both home appliances and connected industries (furniture, home decor, cooking vessels believe it or not, and so on). It would also make it difficult to outsource mass production to cheap factories with poor quality control processes, thus driving prices up even more than the better materials and design would warrant, but that's more of a second-order effect than a cause by now.

Sauce: I used to work on consumer products years ago -- not kitchen appliances specifically but I know people who did those, too. Attending meetings was a lesson in cognitive dissonance and doublespeak and it's one of the least rewarding tech jobs you can imagine.
So my mouse is _very_ right handed. I have some smaller symmetrical mice that are less comfortable. I'm curious how this change worked for you - Did you get a leftie mouse? Did you swap the buttons?
Some korean brand was moving to physical buttons again, but I can't find which.
Thanks.

In a way it was good, we'd been planning for a long, slow decline into immobile sinility due to alzheimers and vascular dementia, but in the end he died at home in his sleep, two days after seeing all his kids. He was already getting quite distressed by his memory loss, and would have hated being dependent on carers for everything or ending up in a home.

Go see you parents everyone, you might not have as much time as you think.
When I tried to go to the domain, it loads the speed of a turtle and warns me about it using HTTP (I set to use HTTPS by default), then it loads for a long amount of time until my browser says the connection is timed out. So yeah, likely that the domain is either dead, or being hijacked with huge traffic.
We can (and do) build reactors to withstand these types of events. Objectively, the number of human casualties from nuclear plant disasters is comparatively very low, not even considering advances in safety technology.
> touchscreens done right besides the iPhone

I prefer devices with qwerty to be honest, and if you already have a qwerty input plus sensor "joystick" w/ pressable button under it - I am talking about Blackberry - you quickly realize that you don't need sensor input except of for apps w/o proper support of joystick and webpages w/ GDPR.

> Signature pads? This should not even exist.

Drawing pads?

> I wish designers would not try to stick them in everything.

I wish designers and MARKETINGers stop to place them in anything, except of mentioned higher.

> Vending machines? I think they're more confusing with buttons jumping on screen and changing their labels than without

I have a vending machine from Porsche auto salon and buttons doesn't jump. Sensor is needed for adding kind of luxury mood if you already have a display which is needed for jumping Porsche logo.
>I just got four new to me toolboxes, from my neighbor who was a diesel mechanic. Perfectly good after a bit of sanding and oiling. They're awesome, from the 80s, well made, and they'll keep me going for a long time.

They'll keep you going until you get a "real" toolbox (just like he did) at which point they will be relegated to holding your assortment of flare fittings or electrical connectors or something and then 40yr later when that stuff too is in a cabinet and the boxes has sat empty for 20yr you'll give it to your neighbor who'll say "wow this thing must be well made, look how long it's lasted" when in reality it only has like 5-10yr of being used for tools on it.
Exactly. But we came from using Flex as the defacto system to do layouts and more, now with CSS-Grid it does make sense to use flex for what it was meant for.
Yeah that's not why I trust Elon less than VW but go on. Tell me why I, me, have this opinion. Since you know me.
I'd rather have some physical knob that I can use to turn something off, even if I have to bust out the pliers. Good luck shutting off some touch control that's on the fritz.

The stove at my parents place has some touch control to activate another heating ring(?). Not only is that hard to activate with wet or greasy fingers, but after a couple of years of use it keeps turning itself off now. Thank god that thing fails "closed" and does not (yet?) spontaneously activate effectively doubling the heating power.
Commercial heavy-duty microwaves and the cheapest plastic microwaves share the same interface: two dials. One is time, the other is power cycle. Sometimes it's just one dial for time.
I was looking at new models lately and they have way more refined range, you could even do succesful bain-marie and butter caramel risk free of burning. Still don't know why they won't do a touch knob for quick actuation of the temperature (when you wanna make fry rice or things like that.)
Amazing! Even has the snake game!
I'm not going to do the job of Tether's accountants. There is no compelling reason to hold it given this risk. Nevertheless people do, and the reason is what I said + they additionally believe the claims about it being redeemable 1:1 for USD + it's easier to buy and sell crypto with it than actual USD.
Not trolling, I genuinely think it's a lot of money for a simple database though. Maybe yours isn't, but I don't know any provider that charges less than 300 for a hosted db.

Btw Sqlite can go a long way:

https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/

https://blog.expensify.com/2018/01/08/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-q...
Putting $150k down is like standard since you need to put down 20% anyway. Are you paying like significantly higher interest rate like a jumbo loan? If you don't have a credit score, the government won't back it so its more risk on the bank and you're paying a much higher interest rate. Banks also don't keep the loans and package them up and sell them. If you don't have a credit score, not sure how they would do that. No score would qualify as subprime.
Approval voting is very sensitive to strategic voting. Outside of toy elections where people are altruistically trying to find the best candidate, it reverts to similar dynamics as First-Past-the-Post.
The son in the article, nine months into the process of clearing his parents' house, estimated he is one-third done. That's a lot of mental and physical work he inherited, or alternatively signed up for.
> Put your purchases on a credit card, and settle it in full every month.

If you don't need credit then taking on credit is an extra thing to manage. I personally like all my spending being on my debit card and coming out of my account so I have a single balance that reflects how much money I have. I don't want to deal with an extra company especially when their business model ultimately relies on trying to get me to miss a payment so they can charge fees/interest.
Seems like there's no ISA slot.

Other than nostalgia, XT/AT compatibility, DOS and ISA slot is still one of the major reasons to do this, to still use old expensive hardware that requires an ISA card and DOS software for interfacing.
Yeah. Although I didn't explicitly state it, this is what I was implying. For example, could plastic-eating-bacteria "super bloom" in a plastic rich localized area of the ocean - suck up all the oxygen with it's bloom and kill off competing species of fish, plankton, etc... causing food chain disruptions? Could a localized super bloom acidify a localized coral reef with the C02 byproduct?

I'm no ecologist or scientist, so I am not saying that it necessarily would happen, but we should think through these things as a matter of due-diligence before proposing that we toss this stuff in the ocean at scale.
My dinosaur 5 Star Range cannot be beat. Despite the large knobs, it does everything I want it to do, how I want it done. No UX getting in the way to "assist" in deviating me from my intended settings.
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I went to a storage shed once with my wife. Her father put a bunch of stuff in a shed including hers. The storage shed manager:

"Yep. Parents store a bunch of shit the kids don't want. The parents die off, then the kids empty it, then add a bunch of shit
their kids don't want into it. The cycle continues. "
Lick your finger and then try. It usually helps.
Has this been demonstrated?
Isn't this only relevant for fixed gear bikes, where you can skid the rear wheel to brake, and you want maximize the number of possible "skid patches", or orientations of the rear wheel while the pedals are in a fixed position?
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Jeez, At least y'all have someone giving. You could have noone and nothing and have to do it all from scratch by yourself.
> any restriction on voting

What kind of restriction do you propose?
> Your ability to obtain credit is based on the past several years of income, with a penalty for instances over the past ~7 years in which you didn't pay back debts.

Okay, and using these inputs, what function is applied to determine whether or not to grant the loan? How does that system differ from a "credit scoring" system, apart from that your perceived ability to repay isn't explicitly mapped to a single variable?
This article is excessively negative on the effectiveness of the law.

I would say the biggest issue is inconsistent enforcement by DPAs. The other problems are overstated.

Believe me, as someone who sees things from the inside of european companies, compliance is still taken very seriously.
You can love a parent without loving their gigantic pile of useless junk
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I bet house price inflation is a factor. Pianos, china cabinets, and grandfather clocks are all a major pain to move and aren't worth owning until you have purchased your forever home.
I was about to point out the obscene creditor friendliness of Norway when I saw you extolling the virtues of our credit system, so I'm glad you did it first. The part of fairly tracking poor payment history is good, the rest, not so much.

We effectively have a form of wage slavery by law. If a person has debts that are unpayably big and is not (or no longer) eligible for the once-each-lifetime-only "personal bankruptcy", where one signs a contract to pay all property and incomes for five years towards one's debts before the remaining is erased, one is on the hook for the remaining debt for the rest of one's life.

No recourse. Economic damage judgements in court do not qualify even for the five-year 100% garnishment contract. Someone impacted by this has no incentive to work ever again, because everything they earn above the survival minimum will be garnished. I'd hazard a guess that most of them end up on welfare.

So it's not all good, unfortunately. I mentioned social unity punishments in our culture in a different thread the other day; this is another example of that.
How do you class action "my specific credit report is false because of this specific information."

There needs to be a third party regulatory agency with real teeth where you don't need a pile of money to refute claims, just a little time for the regulatory agency to pressure them on your behalf. The courts aren't it although they probably should be.

The problem with our legal system is that in large part pointed out by GP, there's often a financial correlation in just how much you can utilize it which makes it ripe for exploitation by those with piles of capital laying around.
The absurd part is the one where I have to set the clock on the oven in the first place