skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kangaroo is one hell of a pest in Australia. It's a native, which made it illegal for the general populace to hunt in the early 2000's (this doesn't apply to Australian Aboriginals). Non-Aboriginals who want to hunt them have to go through tedious multi-day "ethics" courses on about how you should and shouldn't hunt them, and even after that your options are limited and the process is ridiculous.

Unfortunately this has led to kangaroos reaching plague proportions. They destroy farms, tear down fences and generally be a nuisance. You can barely drive through rural roads without breaking a sweat in case a kangaroo jumps in the way of your car.

The problem here is multi-fold.

The location issue:-

1. Due to Australia's sharp weather, areas could suddenly fall under drought which would result in a sharp decline in kangaroo numbers.

2. As a result of this, kangaroo culling is disincentivized in other areas even though there is an uptick rather than a decline.

The species issue:-

1. There were originally about eight distinct breeds or so of kangaroo, but things like hunting and drought has reduced the numbers of those species dramatically.

2. The outcome was to limit the amount of kangaroo culling so as to not affect other breeds.

3. As a result, overall numbers haven't declined - rather they have sharply risen - and certain breeds have "muscled out" the at-risk breeds.

Firearms laws in Australia:-

1. The Australian government banned most firearms after a massacre in 1996.

2. The Australian public has since come to find guns "dirty" and Australian lawmakers (coincidentally, those belonging to the same parties that outlawed hunting of kangaroos) do not want to promote firearms (even in a licensed, limited fashion)

3. Promoting the culling of these species would run counter to their political discourse for the last couple of decades.
When you ban speech, you don't convince people they were wrong. If anything, you convince them they're right.

The only thing censorship achieves is sweeping problems under the rug and pretending they've been solved.
Applications become increasingly bloated when they need to support lots of different environments and runtimes.

To give a modern example: if I want a web app to run on a wide range of browsers, I have to include shims and polyfills to handle missing functionality, API differences, and implementation bugs.

But it's not a problem limited to the web, it exists with native applications as well. This is why Electron apps are huge energy and memory hogs. It abstracts every native layer in order for the application to run pretty much everywhere.

IMO, it's not such a horrible thing in some cases. I usually prefer native applications for anything that I'll be using regularly... But electron apps can be incredibly handy for one-off utilities. To give an example I'm personally familiar with: I occasionally use Etcher [0] to burn images to USB and SD cards. I've used it on macOS 10.12, Windows 10, and Ubuntu 17.04 without any issues! The most famous native alternative I'm familiar with is UNetbootin, which didn't seem to work on macOS when I last tried it. Of course, on macOS and Ubuntu I also have the option of using the terminal, which requires me to look up or remember the platform-specific way of listing all disks, identifying the target, unmounting it, and copying the image.

[0] https://etcher.io
For Houston or Louisiana? The map I linked (and the bulk of my comment) are about what we did in Louisiana last year. I'm not completely in the know regarding Houston.
The claim at hand: "colleges are restricting conservative speech".

I make two counter-points:

1. Writ large, Colleges remain some of the most liberal institutions when it comes to free speech.

2. The emphasis on "liberal" is misplaced since all the best exemplars are religious universities. (I think we agree on at least the second part of this claim).

Regarding 1, I'm not sure what a "preponderance of evidence" looks like for this claim, but I'd eat a shoe if even 0.001% of controversial speech acts that happen on college campuses result in any action, let alone something that actually effects anyone's life in any material way.

Combining FIRE's cases and disinvitations lists, I have something far south of 1000 total data points. People talk about controversial things a lot at colleges and universities.
Very true.

I'm just here to spy on what the well-to-do and techno-utopianists are up to and want to inflict on the rest of us in the future. ;-)
Intro is taught assuming perfect markets, with caveats. You are one of the rare outstanding students who remembers the caveats! This book's approach is to introduce a general model of strategic interactions, and then discusses perfect competition as a special case (much later in the book). This is big part of what makes the book more realistic than the conventional approach.
Well, conceivably that could happen in the case where you pick up a rock and change it's shape.
The person who set it up: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lq1w4/is_it_ille...
>If you haven't, the attack vector still exists, and if you are traveling with a trusted laptop with fingerprint unlock, the attack vector still exists with one level of indirection.

You can't setup TouchID without a passcode. The "attack vector" only exists if you 0 security on your iPhone to begin with. (So , yes, technically the attack vector exists if you choose to use no locks at all).
> It really is a delicious meat

Honestly, I've never really liked it. Every few years I convince myself to give it another try, and each time I'll spend a week or two cooking it every other day in different ways and I'm yet to find something I like.

Maybe mince is the thing to try next.
Because a half-baked product is dangerous (re: handover to human) and unsatisfying. You really want the version with no steering wheel. I’ll take the intermediate one, but let’s work toward the good one.
From experience working with them, sloppy is an excellent way to describe Comodo.
I notice people talking about untrained ad hoc groups VS professional and paraprofessionals.

There is no competition here, there is only lives saved. Untrained ad hoc groups had smaller boats, had more boats, and were able to help people who would have died otherwise.

I do think it is worthwhile to talk about problems that occurred. Get a list of them, prioritize them, find solutions. Though they have to be solutions that don't make things worse, preferably ones that get tested during a mock disaster, not during the next real one.

One thing to note: Most people involved in these efforts were good intentioned and did their best. There are a few reports of bad actors, but they were rare.
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I've ordered the natural/grass-fed (not sure if it was locally source, probably not since it is encased in plastic, making it last longer) beef from Amazon Fresh and I'm pretty happy with it (I'm probably not thinking sustainably, sorry) because it doesn't spoil as quickly as the beef I buy from my butcher counter. Side effect is that it is usually less, by weight, than the stuff I buy in person, so I end up eating less, which is just fine. (Steak is, for me, hard to portion into leftovers, it is a mind thing).
So is every other phone on the market.
And he has come to the conclusion that he is making an optimizing compiler.

Perhaps the reason he thinks web frameworks will help us 'approach native performance' is because he doesn't know what native performance is? Could you really understand web performance if you don't understand native performance?
Why can't they do that ANYWAY?
> I like eating. Which means I like getting paid.

I'd love to pay you (by buying your app), but because everyone was focused on things that generate a "substantive effect on consumer response" I simply don't have the space on my phone to install your app.
Chatbot lets you print lawsuit forms for suing Equifax for up to $25k
With prices for some iPhones reaching $1,000, is security based on iPhones still a realistic solution for the general public? Should privacy depend on wealth?
THIS! CSS-in-JS just makes so much sense to me and it's a joy to use. Especially solutions such as Glamourous and Styled Components. I have a hard time relating to people who don't see its obvious advantages.
It would be nice if people actually owned all their own data (credit, medical, etc.) instead of for-profit corporations. A valid service would be to authenticate/notarize the data, perhaps, and then you'd have actual competition.
Random fact, not all kanagroos are a pest some are endangered.

Most of their meat is not for the western taste buds. The steak part is on par with beef. But then it gets pretty gameie pretty quick.

Environmentalists have eaten kangaroos (often without eating any other meats) for years so this is not a new idea. It's in most supermarkets.

Camel is another pest that was sold commonly for a while, but seems to have stopped.

Horses and cats are other meats that should be added in.
Surprised I didn't find this comment up higher. This is my first thought every time. Good observation!
It seems that as I am getting more experienced (older :) its easier to think about all possible things that can go wrong and build up a bigger than necessary model of the problem. Cant recall how many times the problem turned out to be smaller than I originally thought it'd be.
That would not be possible. Credit card companies enforce this fee, i.e. Venmo has no choice.

Meanwhile, most credit cards give points on dollars spent. If the fees are waived, you and a friend can make a lot of free points. Basically crazy arbitrage would ensue and the program would be ended instantly.
Protip: Copy syntax highlighted code from VSCode and paste it straight into MS Word. Retains coloring and formatting, looks great.
So how can I stop using Equifax? Or at the very least how can I find banks or other agencies that don't use Equifax? Is there any way to stop them from hoarding all my data without my explicit consent?
The artist in this case hiked into a south-east asian jungle for the purpose of taking wildlife pictures, and spent days gaining the monkeys' trust in order to get close to them. Sounds more like the photographer defined a hell of a lot about the picture.
I'm still bitter that they killed off their API. They were basically the only popular individual-to-individual payments system with a public API (now there are none). So many cool apps could have been built with it, but instead they decided to divert their resources to their API for vendor payments (which, of course, is _not_ why people use Venmo).
HN is my favorite UI. I guess what makes some people happy makes others unhappy. For me personally "mobile" UI's suck on mobile. HN works great on mobile, for me at least. HN works great on a desktop too.

One vote for the UI being great just as it is. Mobile and desktop.
What are you TALKING about?

The user controls their device to the exact same extent now. You have to trust the apps and OS you use. And iOS isn't exactly open source either.

I am saying the user can choose to select beacons to unlock their phone during a trip somewhere. The user CHOOSES to lock their phone in a way that requires things additional to the password, things that represent having made it safely past the security lol.
i tried kangaroo (steak, medium rare) when i visited australia and it was a very lean meat. it was good, but tacos or burgers definitely sound like the way to go. i also felt very guilty eating it because they are very cute animals (at least as a tourist, the locals talked about them being pests and wanting to shoot them).
On a Mac you can use pstopdf (or just open the PS file in Preview).
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"Also?" I was only bringing the subject up for discussion - I think it would be ridiculous to suggest that facial features could actually predict a person's musical tastes. These tastes change in some people from day to day or even minute to minute. People also subjectively evaluate music very differently, even when it's music they enjoy listening to.

As for those patents, I would caution against interpreting them to mean a person's musical preferences can be inferred or exploited in this way. Merely evoking a physical response is not the same as satisfying a person's preference or desire. Particularly, a physical response can happen in the absence of a person's consent to receive the stimulus, and in rape trials this is legally recognized to exclude evidence of such a physical response from being used by the defense.
Free State Project
Redox is looking pretty good now...

https://www.redox-os.org/
Discovered via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15223581
This is useful too:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
> She's blaming the software industry and software failure. That's Apache, and Struts.

I interpret her differently:

> There are technical factors that explain why cybersecurity is so weak, but the underlying reason is political, and it’s pretty simple: Big corporations have poured large amounts of money into our political system, helping to create a regulatory environment in which consumers shoulder more and more of the risk, and companies less and less.

> This is a general feature of our lopsided world, but software businesses (and the technology sides of other companies) have acquired perhaps the greatest degree of impunity. Information technology arrived on the scene only recently, so it has faced fewer of the kinds of regulations that consumers and citizens, in more progressive eras, managed to impose on other industries.

To me, that reads as taking corporate interests and business motives to task, not software practices. Software development (like any other work) is a cost, and businesses need to balance those costs against business revenues. I'd argue who's chosen for C-level positions is a business decision, not a software practice one. If the costs of failure in production due to bugs were higher, businesses would make different decisions in hiring and how much time was dedicated to security and bug fixing. Do you disagree? Testing and quality control is expensive. If we can roll out a feature (or just continue business) spending as little as possible on testing and QA, it can certainly be an understandable decision (whether or not you agree) to do as little QA and testing as possible: you're not providing any new features (which may increase revenues): you're just increasing cost.

> It's never the leadership's fault when there's a failure in the US, but they happily take credit when there is success.

It's not clear to me which leadership you're referring to here. The government? The corporate leadership? Someone else? If the corporate leadership, I think that's entirely the point Tufekci is making.
I don't think you understand how this works in real life. I worked in the treasury department of a large bank 12 years ago and saw first hand...

1. mortgages are pooled, usually around 10,000 per pool.

2. the pool is divided up into tranches by the bank. This means that out of 10k loans, x% are supposedly AAA, y% are AA, and so on down to junk ratings (usually a small portion of the pool).

3. the bank has their treasury department "validate" the tranches, but this is really just "spot checking" and not fully investigating the details of every single mortgage and its associated paperwork

4. the bank sends the pool to the ratings agency

5. the ratings agency sends it back approved, never even spot checking whether the bank's review was accurate or not

6. the bank creates "securities" or "paper" based on the tranches

7. investment entities purchase the paper...this is usually municipal bonds and other organizations expecting the AAA rating to be a "guarantee" (though it's really a gamble)

So ... in 2008 when the financial industry figured out that years of securities with false AAA ratings had been sold throughout the world, well, we know what happened...

None of this has changed except they expect the banks to maintain enough cash to handle any wobbliness in the financial markets....but the core problems still exist and has nothing to do with prime or sub-prime mortgages....

It's about accurate and clear information and an industry that literally banks on the lack thereof...
What's with all these stories of a younger age... if you screwed up at 17 or 25 it's unfortunate, but you have tons of life ahead of you to make it right (and *everybody" screws up something in their 20s :) Let's hear the post age-40 stories...
I'd imagine that the photographer just gave up and didn't want to pay the legal costs.
Whether you want give support and maintain the project or just throw the code, it's important to make it clear so people can have reasonable expectations. Also if you want provide paid support, make it clear too.

I've recently saw a license that make the author intentions of not giving support clear: DILLIGASPL (Do I Look Like I Give A Shit Public License)[1]. Sounds like a joke, but it's a way to show what are you up for.

https://github.com/samlev/DILLIGASPL
Yeah, and memory is a fickle thing. I want to say "job X" but then as I really think about it, I realize I am disregarding some bad times there, too.
LucidChart (https://www.lucidchart.com/) is better than draw.io IMO
Only time will tell, but right now I would bet on wind, solar, storage, imports, exports, etc. Eventually those existing reactors are going to age and need to be decommissioned, the median age is now more than 30 years old. Every year, construction of the EPR design is proving to be more and more expensive than they thought.

Of course, if somebody in the Western world can figure out how to build a nuclear reactor on time with a competitive budget, nuclear may enter that mix of new construction. But right now, with the past decades' trends, it is not looking good for nuclear.
when a criminal bribes a cop we blame them both we don't blame the notion of law enforcement
because all news outlets advertised the bs price drops at wholefoods even if a recent article said prices were down by just 1% on average.
EV shows (in the address bar and in the cert details) the legal entity that the certificate is for.

Eg anyone could register "bankofanerica.com" and get a DV cert issued for it.

Only Bank of America can get a cert that shows their legal/trading company name.

Well, that's the idea. I'm not aware of any ev misissuance but I don't follow this stuff like a hawk either.
so we would be looking for something dated September 11th, 2017

not 2015 and 2016
Really? Why? Here in Australia the meat isn't very popular despite supply, gets used mostly in pet food (and the leather is used as well). I'm sure we'd happily export it to anyone interested, why would Cali ban it?
Awesome, that sounds like the perfect place to share it. Would you be willing to share the beta pages with your group and see if they have any input/feedback? I'll be sending out more pages to the mailing list soon too so they can have more than just Selection Sort to try out. Let me know (levi -at- coderscoloringbook.com) Cheers!
Seafood at my local Kroger is almost all labeled "Product of China" which I refuse to buy due to concerns about not only the fishing but also the handling and packing after the catch.

Edit: I'm mostly referring to the frozen seafood. Fresh is too expensive for my wallet.
If that's the case then I'd suggest every software developer on this forum immediately switch careers, this one is doomed.
Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics[1] is a superb book on the subject. It's lengthy but very readable, especially for its real-world examples. Particularly excellent are the explanations for the unintended consequences from price controls.

The first edition came out many years ago. Since then, the world has provided a few case studies on the matter. For example we've been been watching the slow-motion train wreck that is Venezuela's economy, as first Chavez and then Maduro gripped prices tighter and tighter. The horrible consequences Sowell describes have shown up inexorably, predictably, just like clockwork. It's grim to watch; but my point is that his book and other writings give a real intuition about economic fundamentals that you can see every day.

[1]: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Basic_Economics_(Thomas_Sowell...
What would've happened if your reports were frozen? Would you have been denied the car?
OP's article says

> But appeal judges at a court in San Francisco ruled in Mr Slater's favour after a two-year legal fight.

but maybe this was just a denial of PETA's motion to dismiss.
While I agree with your second statement, losing SSN and financial information is vastly different from losing credit card numbers. If my credit card number is stolen, I have to get a new one, and call the bank if any transactions show up before the new card comes.

If my SSN and financial history is stolen, someone can impersonate me. They can sign up for bank accounts, loans, credit cards, etc.
This data is far more valuable and damaging than a credit card. Credit cards are easily canceled and the public has zero liability.
Yes, that is much better. Thanks.
I like the idea of sparklines and I have used them myself on occasion. But now that I think about it, I'm not sure I've actually ever found a sparklines plot insightful or useful.
By the way, they also recently changed the license on ZSTD compression codec to dual BSD / GPL v2, after complaints by
user community.
I Absolutely have.

Though with rampant censorship these days, few people have to build up any kind of argument to counter these bigots. It's a lot easier to hit a downvote button, or a ban button, than to present a reasoned argument at all.

What a fantastic place the internet is evolving into. A haven for, well, some kind of speech. Not free of course. Restricted and safe speech. Perhaps speech licenses and internet ID's soon? If you say something bigoted we can throw you in jail and fire you. Harass your friends and family too. It's the only way to protect a free and open society.
Aren't there two other very recognizable and very rich people trying to reduce space costs? I'm not sure if the other 2 want to go to Mars first (before other profitable space ventures), of course.
Yes.

Imagine if you hand it to a renowned cinematographer who films something incredibly artistically.

The person composing the shot and choosing what is "fixed in a tangible medium of expression" owns the copyright.

The owner of the camera doesn't automatically own copyright.
Maybe this will finally be the "Three Mile Island Incident of Data" that Maciej Cegłowski talks about? If not, I don't know what will.

http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm
Not OP, but my employer's internal websites are still stuck in the early 2000s
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> Burgers with it are decent too

I agree. The steak is bit gamey. The burger mince has enough herbs and ingredients to mask that taste. The sausages "kanga bangas" aren't too bad either. Obviously plenty of tomato sauce (not ketchup mate!) is a must.