skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will now but I don't think it'll do much in the grand scheme of things.

Even if you bought 1 bag every day for a year that'll be $18.25. Most people won't care enough to reuse bags and will continue doing business as usual pre-tax.

Then of course, there's the ~7.4 billion other people on Earth who never even heard of a plastic bag tax so their habits won't change either.

I would rather see them just stop manufacturing plastic bags and also make them illegal. If their goal is to cut down on people using them that would be the way to do it. Instead, they tax it to an amount where they are hoping more than enough people won't care enough, so they can profit off laziness while they care nothing about the environment.
I'm hoping that pedestrian collisions will be reduced to nearly zero thanks to the rise of autonomous braking(don't they have to be installed in every new car by 2020?), long before anything reassembling self-driving cars is available. My own car has already given me a solid scare when a toy ball rolled onto the road from in between the parked cars and my car has stopped before I could even react - surely enough, there were kids playing behind the cars and they went out to get their toy.
Almost ten years ago I worked on a reverse engineering project. It was very tedious work. Is it worth it to be good at reverse engineering, I mean are there good paying jobs for it now?

I often have trouble explaining reverse engineering to people without raising eyebrows. People think its hacking
same ... I can't watch movies and tv shows (cop dramas and such) in which a child is victimized. When such an episode comes on, I just get really uncomfortable, and nope out to do something else.
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I can totally relate to your feeling. I became a father about 4 years ago and all of a sudden stories like this one, or a sick child, took on extra meaning. I either couldn't read them or I did and it would touch me deeply and affect my mood for a long time. It's unimaginable.

Since then, two close friends have lost their children under tragic circumstances. You can't really put it into words what you'll feel for them. The only thing I try to take out of it is to be kind to others (you never know what they are going through or have gone through) and to live in the present, because you never know what can happen in the future.
It's not available to me yet.

Besides the old 3-month limit, the other annoyance was the search terms they provided would cut in and out. So sometimes they'd give you SERP info on certain keywords and then a few months later, they'd eliminate reporting on those keywords.
but as a parent I see such obvious patterns

Birth order is real and parenting is not data science.

Remember the easy birth order question? How many pictures of you do your parents have (pr take)? If u r a FB many! Less and less as kids continue
Not exactly a shortening, per se. "oft-", not "oft", is the prefix[0] form of "often".

I'd guess "oft" on it's own would probably be archaic.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oft-
"office robots" is a generalization you're making, and weakening your point with an insult.

That said, without actually describing in more detail how they measure it, yes, it's very, very circumspect. I'd wager even more so than just asking people "hey, when do you feel most productive?" Because the time I mark something done in JIRA, say, is barely correlated to when I spent the most time and focus on it (and even that correlation is not being picked up here. That is, I'd say "The time I spent the most effort on a problem is within 4 working hours of the time I marked it done, unless I completed it first thing in the morning, as I might wait until the end of the day to mark it done, and also barring a whole flurry of initial effort, it not getting me anywhere, I take a break, realized I was thinking about it wrong, go back and get it done in minutes").
> The paper was written by a journalist, proof read by another one, reviewed by the editor.

This used to be the norm, I agree. Modern technology did wonders to streamline the publishing process. :)
You're right, I should do the math on trxn costs in my next update - the main ones are stamp duty on purchase and broker fees on sale. The minor ones are moving costs and legal fees on buying and selling. Capex I'll have to ignore because I have no data on this.

Still, if you assume the broker got paid say 1.5%-2.0%, the stamp duty was 3.5-4.0%, there's still a sizeable margin in between.
It's odd to have to point this out in this forum; the tech community has female participation rates around 25%. That doesn't somehow make statistics about this community suspicious.

Sure, if you didn't know that the base rate was skewed, you'd want to check your numbers the first time you made that measurement. But it's well-known (I suppose only by regular readers of SSC) that the SSC community is significantly above the population base rate on a whole host of metrics (self-reported IQ, transgender, % of males, autistic spectrum, etc).

Edit: to clarify which point I was referring to
The US is 22 times the size of Sweden. And you're not going to convince me that it's any where near as diverse, even with the new immigrants. I'm agreeing with you that I would love such an initiative, just that it only makes sense to carry it out at the state level. But I will say it's pretty arrogant to claim it's our situation is criminal.

http://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/unite...
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Well, people had to be careful before the automobile too, you know. People could by killed by horses or wagons. The introduction of the automobile didn't make it suddenly unsafe to be in the street.
I guess the authors would opt for suspended animation and be considered alive for ever... simples!
Not if they can help it, apparently :/
Source of the story: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/12/randomness-key-sprea...
It seems to mostly match the edited version.
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> You either have free press or you don't. It's a binary value, one or zero, there is nothing in between.

It's really not. Or, if it is, since the US clearly does not have a perfectly free press (and thus, if it's a binary value, has a zero not a one), nothing can be the price we pay for a free press, because we aren't getting a free press.

Now, if you say “its the price we pay for the degree of press freedom we have, and the loss of freedom necessary to avoid that cost is to high a price to pay for the cost avoided, that's an argument that can, at least, be reasonably discussed.
Yeah. I have thought about it. They're just a lot more expensive than the big guys, at least when you factor in cashback etc, and with data caps.
Hmmm paywall, though the first 2 paragraphs give most of the information.
This Is Water [pdf]
> Currently, urban infrastructure is increasingly getting more complex as we face many social challenges, such as complicated crimes and unexpected natural disasters. This situation requires that the establishment of a safe and secure society become a global concern.

Where to begin... if you're looking for social challenges, don't look further than people who can't think on an adult level being fed marketing materials by people who are just as lost, and no longer seem to even feel the need to hide it.
I know this is sarcastic but the answer is that this system is complete broken and should be replaced by something that is made for authentication. Maybe something that is somewhat secure and allows you to change your “secret number” ones it has been compromised.
Looking at the numbers here in Sweden, it is interesting how close the numbers really are. About 55% of people get asylum, and of those about 66% are refugees from wars.

So according to this government, that majority of people coming in are not refugees, or at least not refugees that qualify for asylum. The majority of people that get to legally stay is however refugees. Naturally people from both side of the political spectrum disagree with how the government assess applications, and it should be noted that party in power is currently the social democratic party.
> Why can't Chrome just prefetch shit from the actual servers

The linked article explains this. Do you really want third party sites to know what you're searching for without you actively deciding to click on their page?

> and let ISPs handle the caching

ISPs can't cache the contents of HTTPS pages.
Sweden has about as many people as singular metro areas in the US (smaller than some). Talking about reducing road fatalities in Chicago would be a similar scale.
If the US has more cars per capita and more fatalities per capita, that increases the denominator, meaning that these policies would be cheaper per fatality and per car than they are in Sweden.
"The lead officer came and told me that they were not arresting me - there was no indication that I was negligent or distracted or impaired in any way - but he gave me a little lecture saying, "This child died, that's a terrible thing, you need to make sure that you never do this again.""

Was I the only one shocked by this? I mean, a little kid died and she's not arrested at least to conduct an investigation? How did they know she wasn't going to fast?

"never do this again"? What kind of BS closure is that?

I'm not saying she deserved to be convicted or something based on her side of the story, but taking the time for a basic investigation would have been nice.
I'm not 100% sure it was intended, but to me it's in the category of "films that contain dizzying genre shifts". Other examples would be From Dusk Till Dawn or Kill List. I actually really enjoy this trope, I think the fact it starts off looking like "conventional" sci-fi and then goes somewhere unexpected is a plus-point (although maybe not for people who really like sci-fi).
Your easy proof is completely wrong. There's discrimination against white men if the hiring bar is higher for them. To check this using workforce statistics you'd need to compare the fraction of white men in the workforce to what it would be with the same hiring bar for everyone. Comparing the fraction to the magic number 50% is irrelevant.
Any OS from the era of cooperative multitasking should have much the same behavior, iirc.

Heck, even DOS with a few TSRs could come close.
> Remember, the opinion might be highly offensive and make working with others, on a team, more difficult.

I'm no lawyer, but I don't see how this would make any difference.

Consider that a black man in rural Mississippi in the 1960s would have had a very difficult time serving white patrons at a restaurant; I don't think "people didn't like him working for us" is a viable defense here.
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The argument against copyright sounds too simplistic to me.

A lot of things that are subject to copyright are not as simple as scratching out a poem on a rainy afternoon.

If I was to spend my resources to design and build a building, most reasonable people would not argue that my estate should be forced to give up its rights to the building when I die. There may be an estate tax, but the estate can choose to keep the building and its income, decide to sell it, or whatever. Seems logical. In fact, the very reason I may have deployed my resources into a building was because it would outlast me and provide economic benefits to those I love after I die.

Are not many (if not most) works subject to copyright just another type of developed asset, like a building? Sure, there are no sticks and bricks, but valuable time, resources and money went into developing the asset. Is that irrelevant because the developed asset is intellectual rather than tangible? Should my estate be denied of benefits based on the type of asset I spent my time and resources creating?

As a society, we have decided to limit the scope in which certain works are protected, for the greater good. I support this. But to abolish copyright or to truncate benefits based on death of the creator doesn’t seem to make economic sense to me.
Save for the interstate highway infrastructure, most roads are done at the state or county level anyway. If you simply start doing this stuff a roads are upgraded (some can be done now and might bring in money), you aren't really spending lots more.

You can change the driving culture and mindset, starting by designing roads that generally cause folks to drive slower, implemented at next upgrade. You can more strictly enforce driving laws, especially things like speeding or being distracted. Revamp curves that have lots of accidents. Offer larger access to public transportation.
Same boat. I used to not care more than that - I would tell myself it's awful and move on. but now that I have kids I can't read stories like that without feeling sick.
The idea is that instinct has in itself an unconscious bias. By making the reasoning part conscious we hope to eliminate some of it.
There's a link to the issue tracker right there at the top of the page.
> Based on an excellent short story.

The short story "The Story of Your Life" almost brought me to tears I loved it so much. I highly, highly recommend it to everyone.
I would love if WhatsApp made a commodity phone.

An Android, that wasn't even Google Android, and may even look like candy bar.

All it would do would be:

1. Phone

2. Contacts

3. WhatsApp

4. Brave Browser (or Firefox Focus)

Perhaps it would have a camera, but only sufficient for WhatsApp.

Perhaps GPS/Maps would be built in, but only accessible for WhatsApp "share my location".

The browser would open links and allow browsing, but would not integrate too deeply and would focus on security and battery life where updates may not be applied and signal is sometimes terrible.

Just the simplest phone, dirt cheap, durable, capable of communication in an age of WhatsApp.

It would also be a near perfect travel/emergency phone for people in the West, and would likely have a huge market amongst outdoor types.
The original commenter was saying the US is criminally liable for not being as amazing as Sweden. So it sounded like they were saying the fed needs to swoop in and fix their mess. That's where I was coming from anyways.
>> In front of us is a huge display that stretches out across almost the entire dashboard.

One thing all these tech people keep forgetting is that the driver is supposed to look out the window. I like to use flying as an analogy. Legally you only need 3 instruments to fly a plane in VRF conditions, you're eyes are supposed to be looking out the window. I think the same is true of cars - you primarily need a speedometer and gas gauge. Everything else is optional and distracting. This idea of an expansive touchscreen spanning the whole dashboard seems absurd. It looks cool, but what's it for?
Writing down a high-level version of the assembly instructions in C is one of the best tricks when reverse engineering disassembled code.

When I started trying to interpret assembly instructions by keeping track of the registers, stack, and branches, but that ended up being way too much bookkeeping and didn't really give any more insight on what the code actually does.

Keeping a text file of C code though and adding lines as you go through the instructions is really fitting and practical. C is abstract enough to not care about most bookkeeping of registers and stack management, and branches can be written in nice nested if-else blocks that are familiar to most programmers and provide a visual structure that is compact and practical. On the other hand, C is low enough to deal with memory addresses almost directly, allowing you to easily transcribe any address arithmetic that happens, and if you're familiar with what stucts get compiled into, you can very nicely spot them in disassembled code and keep your high-level reverse engineered code structured and nice.

Very nice guide and a very good starting point in reverse engineering, especially if you have at least some experience with assembly.
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when information is passed between peers ?
Still down as of 9:44 EST.

https://status.bitbucket.org/

Shows "Degraded Performance" on most things.
Well, in some sense, yeah, you probably can rest easy.

If you've been fucked since forever and nothing bad happened, why do you think anything bad will happen now?
> but hopefully self-driving cars

Think more boldly: public transportation.
"Investigating - We are presently investigating service issues with Bitbucket resulting in degraded performance on the website and via SSH & Git via HTTPS. Next update in 60 minutes
Jan 9, 13:47 UTC"
I understand your scepticism about my ability to grasp basic differences, considering that we have never met nor interacted before.

Hence, this clarification...

As per my understanding, there is plenty of Drama in the security vulnerability incident - Intel CEO selling a large chunk of stock after the company was informed of the vulnerability; the differing views on the actual performance impact of the patches, the discussions on whether it was a genuine oversight error or corporate greed that led to the situation in the first place, etc.

The reason I mentioned this along with the original article is simply because I was trying to clarify that there have always been dramatic posts/comments on HN.

Therefore, sharing an article from r/Drama sub-reddit didn't seem sacrilegious to me.

I apologise if I have offended your sensibilities...
Ask HN: Good resources for legal requirements for developers
Hi HN!

Throwaway account because I don't want this question linked to me personally.

I'll be moving to a new country/job, and while I generally have high moral standards/understanding of ethics, I don't want to accidentally run afoul of legal requirements.

Countries I've worked in until now have generally been very lax in terms of legal frameworks around software development (especially regarding handling user data), so my mental model of legality/illegality/morality is really based on 'feel' rather than laws.

So my question is does anybody have good/required reading for legal and ethical software development in the EU? I know of the basic laws that exist and intend to read those up (not sure if mere developers can understand them).

I don't want to be working on something only to accidentally find out that what i'm doing is illegal is my main concern.

Thanks
I think you can make decent money in it.

However like a lot of other similar jobs you will fairly quickly hit a ceiling in terms of career progression at which point the only way up is becoming a manager of sorts.
I have 4 boys under the age of 12. I would say I think about one of them dying (accident, sickness, murder...so many ways it can happen...) multiple times a day. I know that sounds morbid, and it probably is, but my brain does it on its own...not a lot of control over it.

Nothing on earth scares me more than the idea of having to go on living without one of them. Having 4 increases my odds that I might have to. It terrifies me on a daily basis! Yay, Parenthood!

I can’t watch movies that involve kids being sick, hurt, etc. which is fine,,,,not the reason I watch movies, but I literally cannot. I will turn off the tv or leave the room. I’m a giant baby, basically!
> I really wish there were state initiatives to work on infrastructure that makes sense for their territory and people.

That's, like, a huge part of what state governments do. Well, except perhaps the “makes sense” part, but that's largely do to the same political problems that affect federal governance, not some particular failure of the states.
He needs all the compassion and exposure to legitimate people as possible. His worldview is warped by 13 year olds who think racism is edgy and fun. Posting it HERE isn't the tragedy, trust me, as there are entire armies of trolls that collaborate to torture Terry. It's messed up.
America has more fatal pedestrian crashes because everyone lives further apart?

That's exactly the mindset. Nobody cares enough to change their routine even an iota, and it makes all these words ring rather hollow.
...How many families with kids streaming 2 different shows to their ipads/phones/laptops do you know? + Parents streaming video? Maybe one of them streaming a game on twitch?

It adds up. Copper is far less reliable at distance than fiber (the amount of people able to get 80mbps is < 10%).

And government is totally incentivized to spend money on a natural monopoly with an immense RoI. Rural areas are basically disconnected from high end internet activities. If you build a fast national network, it will pay off.

And for the record, the cost to full fiber the UK is less than the government plans to spend on HS2, a single rail link between birmingham and london.
This mirror of a Purism blog post to his personal blog looks pretty interesting but I'm having trouble accessing it on homelinux or puri.sm domains due to reputation.

Here's G cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dH0AFM8...

The OP, afaict:
https://puri.sm/posts/primer-to-reverse-engineering-intel-fs...

Thanks for sharing!
Yes, that is so fascinating. In my little town - somewhat further up north in Europe - the oldest known map is from somewhere in sixteen hundreds. Except for the church, there isn't a single house left from that time today, but you could navigate blind, relying on the old map alone. Tiny details of topography have survived the centuries: One house protruding half a meter further into the street than its neighbor, the street itself bending and narrowing and widening just so - everything is faithfully preserved, often over several iterations of build-fire/teardown-rebuild. The layout is clearly medieval, so lots undoubtedly go back much further than four hundred years.
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What investigation? They measured the tire tracks. Unless there was an eyewitness, there is nothing else to do.
This article made it easier for me to understand how various independent researchers could have arrived at the same discovery around the same time. It seems like Fogh was informally pushing the idea in private discussions, and then after Horn found the first PoC and notified Intel, other researchers got suspicious by the patches being submitted and put 2 and 2 together.
That's fine, though. Subcultures can invent their own hierarchies and enjoy feeling superior to one another without harming each other.

Maybe you look down on me because I don't even have a HAM radio license, maybe somebody else considers himself superior because he knows a lot about wines, maybe other person thinks she's cooler because she knows everything about 80s punk bands...
Re -Charitable interpretations

I use a modified model of this called the 'Forgiving Copycat' model. Basically, I assume there is some chance people accidentally do rude/inconsiderate things. At the same time, someone who consistently does rude or inconsiderate things is probably rude or inconsiderate.

To that end, I ignore rude behavior the first time, address it the second time, and return it the third.
On the other hand, having more of them decreases your odds that you will face losing all of them. Imagine how parents live who had just one child, who died.
I like this way of approaching the problem, but I don't think it convincingly contradicts the GP's point; if participants were just entering invalid data to skip the question, then I think they would enter a similar type of number in both "# older siblings" and "# younger siblings", e.g. 0 and 0, or 100000 and 100000, or `rand(10)`.

The key observation is that I'd expect the same RNG to be used for each of the four fields.

I think you'd see much more `0`s in the fake data as well (it's a Schelling point). But if the fake-data population was disproportionately recorded as only children, that would have reduced the first-child effect, not attenuated it.
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