skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not American, but isn't criminality in the U.S. like at about lowest point in history?

It's generally been declining since the trailing edge of the Baby Boomers got out of the prime criminality age range.

But the demographically (and possibly also lead-exposure) driven
“crime wave” was a boon to political support for law enforcement and authoritarian politicians, so both have learned that selling the idea of rampant crime is a good way to get what they want politically.
>PACER is a service that’s primarily used by litigants that’s value is primarily to litigants. Litigants who need PACER access but can’t afford it are given free access.

But everyone needs it, because everyone is a potential litigant. If that were not so, it wouldn't be "the legal system", but "a social club no one has to care about".
Most people who leave Google also do so silently, and for same reasons as people leave other companies -- retirement, health, politics, better pay.

It's those who choose to trumpet their cause get the most attention though, and it is representative only of their personalities, rather than the workplace.
Parent seems to be trying to encourage some real discussion on this topic. For those of us not well versed in crypto, could you elaborate on why this is problematic rather than being dismissive?

Why is this not possible? How could we improve the situation? What are the risks?
not sure if you're involved with this app, but I've tried 10 different selfies from multiple locations and the app doesn't accept any of them as a profile photo. Whatever algorithm you're using for determining if photos are acceptable does not work at all.
If this is the logic behind Waze Carpool, they are SERIOUSLY misguided. If I own a car and and I’m driving to work, my privacy and security during my commute is worth a lot more than $5. No way I’m picking up randos and sitting in silence with them for an hour for a measly coffee.
No, I believe they are trying to say that rule of law is breaking down, and the fabric of our society is at stake.
Much can be said about reading between the lines.
Most people seem to forget that adventures are not meant to be comfortable. Otherwise, it's just a vacation.
Not sure I agree with your points. If this were a fatter pipe situation, it'd be like $26 gets a Triple Whopper or something (is that a thing there? Don't know). Instead, it is a matter of getting access to it quicker. With ISPs, you're not paying for the data (it is owned/provided by someone else), you're paying for the capacity to access it. What it is saying is that you'd be prioritized in queue to get to the data (Whopper) based on paying extra with no direct impact to quality of the data (paying extra for fatter pipe does impact quality of streaming, download speed, etc. though, but again, they don't say that the $26 Whopper is any better than the $5 one).
I have expectation of any reasonable manager to agree to some form of this; at least to work on that feature you need and support it so that you get unblocked. This is at least practice at Facebook.
Maybe if they could say something like "until recently we over-estimated how close we were, but now we are approximately how close we previously thought we were" they could better emphasize problems by being able to correct recent hyperbole, and this could maybe help address the inconsistency you mention?
I learned a long time ago that the solution to a problem is never a blanket ban on a product or tech. All that does is punish well-intentioned or needy people.

Trade fees are a relic, and deserve to die. They do nothing but skim money from smalltime players. Yes that also increases risk of gambling behaviors, but the solution is better education and treatment, not depriving everyone of a fair and low friction system.
As one example on a physical rather than a chemical level, I read that marsupials are stuck for this reason. They need claws to climb into their mother's pouch after birth, so there are certain ecological niches closed off to them. You'll never see a hoofed marsupial, for example.
> I think he's really trying to say "lower your requirements to go live", and then from their do incremental improvements.

No, what he is saying is get your product working as soon a possible, then incrementally improve the components until you have the functionality to go live. That "go live" point (based on the smiley faces) is either the scooter (no longer unhappy) or the motorcycle (first happy face).
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

Both you and Yegge label things you like as "innovative" and dismiss others as "not innovative" while never clearly articulating what this means.

"cool but not R&D businesses"

Yegge complains that Android was not an innovation but then says "Jeff Bezos is an exception. He innovates all the time, and he doesn’t fear failure. Many of his innovation attempts fall flat, but he almost never throws the idea away."

So somehow Android isn't innovation but Fire tablets are. Seems inconsistent.
It's a mix yeah? Berkeley as a whole has a poverty rate 6% higher than the national average. .6% higher than Oakland.
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"Senator Demands FBI Director Explain His Encryption Backdoor Bullshit" is the main culprit.

The article is just a rewording of the letter; even the background information is just the Senator's first few paragraphs.
I feel like this clock has been asymptotically reaching midnight now for the last several decades and will do so for at least several more decades if not longer. In other words, it's about as accurate as predictions of the second coming of Jesus Christ.
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Website: https://targetarchive.com
Screen Shot: https://imgur.com/a/qlzuJ

I built this website initially for myself since I just wanted an easy way to track my progress as a new shooter. I'm curious if others will find it useful and I would love some feedback.

It's pretty simplistic right now but if you sign up and try it out I'll be happy to hear feedback and implement new ideas.
Just one of the many ways that Japan is just America 20 years in the future.
I’m banking on carbon capture being the obvious solution. Environmentalists (I do not count myself in their number) are resisting this because they’re worried it will lead to an attitude of complaisancy about human emissions. My point of view is that we already are grossly under shooting targets that bake in massive effects we haven’t begun to properly appreciate. Add in factors we can’t control like the feedback loop described in the parent and it literally isn’t going matter if we drop emissions to zero tomorrow. Therefore we need to start investing in remediation and carbon capture is the obvious best bet. I’m to the point where I’m literally building the case and background to chase this myself. Tech has been financially good to me and I plan to spend the rest of whatever time I have on the planet trying to make sure the same opportunities exist in the future for others.
We planetary protection directives, you know.
Seconded. Came here to post Computerphile. What is your favorite video, btw? Mine is the series on Turing and the Enigma.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzH6n4zXuckodsatCTEux...
Bitcoin can absolutely have a net positive return. People can simply keep buying it and holding it. Do you think gold cannot be an investment?
~40% of Americans get cancer.

This is food service delivery by web vs picking up the phone. It's hardly revolutionary.
This line of reasoning is disturbing to me. I don't want to live in a world where there's effectively a traffic camera pointed at the contents of my phone. Bandying apologetics regarding how limited it's used and how badly it's needed won't change my mind.

Would you consent to having a microphone embedded in your driver's license that the FBI could "only turn on if they really needed it"?

When the people with power get to define the meaning of the constraints on their power, their power is without constraints. It disgusts me when companies and individuals are press ganged into being enforcement arms of the government. In my opinion, it takes a certain blindness to history or a level of sociopathy to be fine with this.
I think it's because people think "morning person" is the default, and correct, way of being. And that not being a morning person makes you odd or lazy. So when someone comes in challenging late-friendly scheduling, they're assumed to be the correct one, and that the workplace has somehow been in error by allowing later schedules.
A scalable dataflow technique for your Redux apps
I contact Lyft and Uber support multiple times a year for various reasons, and I barely even use Line/Pool.

Shit happens. If a company is acting as facilitator and money-handler, they are going to get a lot of customer queries, and they are going to alienate most of them if they aren't prepared for it.
Best way to learn anything is by actually practicing it and doing it.
Maybe that's the problem? That they want more criminals?

I mean, it's always been a bit skewed. Example, Nixon targeting blacks, hippies, and the anti-war left:
https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich...

There's an intimidation factor behind the thought that the government can read any communication you make, if you give them cause, even if you aren't doing anything wrong.
I read this whole article and I'm still not sure if this is a real thing or a parody.
I don't think that angry Twitter comments are a sure sign of impending nuclear war. We'll become wary when there are border skirmishes and killing of diplomats.
First of all, yes they can. Proof of stake coins pay dividends. Second of all, dividends from companies don't show up 'from thin air'. They show up from the economic activity of the company. Which is facilitated by their capital investments. Just like staking in cryptos.
Someone already released an app making use of this exploit.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/sciencetech/video-1614014/V...
So, by your logic, gold is not an investment?
> Google can go a long way into making this significantly safer than random pick-up: you can select female only drivers or riders

This specific example will likely never happen. It's such a can of worms, even before you get to people purposefully misrepresenting themselves on their profiles and creeping people out.
When I worked in Zurich for a few months as an American student, I got pretty sick with mono. I went to an urgent care clinic, had multiple blood tests done, medication prescribed, and about a half hour consultation with a doctor (not to mention nurses). Walked out with about a $100 bill.

Blew my mind.
A person's papers and correspondence is similarly sacred under the US Constitution.

The problem is that digital paper isn't paper, and while you can be charged with a felony for bypassing a computer's access controls, the law doesn't respect those controls at all. Your electronic documents have to be in your home or in your direct control to be protected.
Out of curiosity, what do you do at Netflix? Jealous
The stock market and crypto are both gambles, one riskier than the other.
I can almost guarantee you that Scott Alexander is aware of who the Jacobites and the Jacobins were and what the difference is. The blog is constantly bringing up all manner of historical and political esoterica. He's making a joke based on the name resemblance.
Yes, the clock has been moved back several times.

There's a nice graph on Wikipedia that provides a nice overview that is worth taking a look at:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock#/media/File%3...

[edit: usage/grammar]
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I'd argue it's more comfort that you can be reached or reach someone than actual safety. But I don't really disagree with your broader point. This system doesn't seem very practical for a whole range of issues.

Plenty of other live events have policies against recording and cell phone use and don't seem to have any serious problems enforcing those policies (or, indeed, need to do much "enforcement" at all). Perhaps rock concerts are different because of the type of crowd.
Never read about "tiny circular magnets". What are you referring to?
I'd argue that the difference between investing and gambling is that gambling has known negative expected value, whereas investing is uncertain. If it is not known that the outcome of a gamble has negative EV, then a reasonable case can be made that it is an investment.
You can also ignore React's built-in 'state' object and just store stuff directly in variables using MobX, which will force update components for you.

That said, it is best used as you describe it: a store that holds all the application state and manages API requests, and then any time it updates, any components observing this store will be forceUpdated
From your link:

"And so the public policy debate around encryption has been framed as a binary choice between two absolutist positions: either we allow law enforcement no access at all to encrypted data, or we must effectively give them complete, unrestricted access to all our communications"

Most people support giving some level of data access to law enforcement, but the problem is that there's no way to restrict it to just law enforcement. As soon as we give one person or group access to the data, then we've effectively given everyone access to that data.

Perhaps there was more in the presentation, but this is the only idea I see in the slides:

"Idea: Make brute force key recovery possible but very expensive"

Again, that assumes governments that actually follow rule of law, but any criminal is going to use stolen credit cards to rent for servers in the cloud (or a hacked bot farm) and crack that encryption at no cost to themselves.
I can't remember where but I read that Nest initially wanted to build the Echo competitor but was blocked by Alphabet because another team wanted to create it. That's the kind of stuff that would infuriate me.
Original poster (emphasis mine):

> I have never met anyone who understands what cryptography is, and supports the FBI.

Your reply:

> I think (some of) what the FBI is asking for lately is actually not that unreasonable -- assuming we could do it right. ... suppose we could construct a truly limited mechanism that would give them the ability to recover only a small amount of encrypted data.

One precludes the other...
Found a source: https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-marsupials-cant-f...
..doesn't bitfenix already facilitate margin trading for cryptocurrencies, which (even worse) uses Tether?
What difference made the search bars in IE if you never clicked on them?

Mozilla should never have added Pocket by default, and should remove it. But they won't, just like they set a default search engine for you: they need money. They might be a non-profit, but they do pay wages and have other costs and therefore they need a business model. They choose cooperating with advertisment companies.

Sometimes I think Mozilla's FireFox acts as an supposedly user-focused advertisement for the web whereas the web is abhorrent. When thinking along these lines, it is beneficial for Google to give Mozilla money so there is atleast someone that pretends to make the web work only for the user. After all, Google wants the web in its current state to appear like a good thing.

We really need new browsers that do not play along with advertizers. But I think with the hype train that FireFox has it is difficult to get people to stop and think if things are really going well with it.
How much of that is a result of success as the former, and not the later?
It's a very good app for buying up small (50-500 dollar) blocks of ETFs to hold, which is what I do. Thanks for the free trades, VC guys.
Too many to count, basically anything, even text.

You can hide command and control instructions in text-only instagram posts.

https://boingboing.net/2017/06/07/watering-holes.html
Some researchers have addressed energy decadence in a similar way, calculating a maximum acceptable standard of living. For example, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology proposed the 2,000 watt society, which implies a worldwide energy use per capita of per 1,500 kgoe per year, while the Global Commons Institute’s Contraction and Convergence proposal limits energy use to 1,255 kgoe per person per year. These levels of energy use per capita correspond to a reduction of 20-35% below the world average today.

This article repeatedly conflates emissions reduction with energy use reduction. Yes, emissions and energy are intimately linked as long as energy comes primarily from fossil combustion. But cutting global fossil combustion by 35% is not sufficient to stabilize atmospheric CO2 levels. And if we can manage the necessary work to deeply reduce use of fossil combustion for energy, cutting energy use itself is not necessary. Cutting global energy use by 35% is neither sufficient nor necessary to reach the goal of sustainable anthropogenic greenhouse gas net emissions.

It's an interesting article but it is either a pure academic exercise or predicated on outdated assumptions that non-fossil energy will be very expensive, forcing energy use cuts over source-substitution. It's like an article about reducing lead exposure, written circa 1960, that presumes we must cut gasoline consumption to cut lead exposure, because cars that run without any lead in gasoline are unthinkable.
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True. But that is irrelevant to the original point: Cryptos are as much investments as any stock or commodity. And anyway, that future expectation of profit ought to go into risk-free treasuries unless you want to gamble on a specific, higher risk asset.
One thing that used to make Google special was that the last step in that exchange almost never happened. A more typical ending was:

- Fine, I did it for you in my 20% time. Will you review the code?

- Sure, thanks! And here's a nice peer bonus too.

But maybe that's a thing of the past? It's been many years since I worked there.
Part of the problem is how complex the web stanards are these days.

Try building a browser from the ground up today. Part of the issue is the stanards committees keep adding onto what was supposed to be a document format. We have added onto the spec so much that its a mess. Ironically, it was netscape that probably screwed up the web the most by adding javascript. That boat has sailed, but we keep adding more and more features to the specs.
gamble: To wager a stake on an uncertain outcome.

gambol: A playful skipping or frolicking about.
The doomsday clock is somewhat silly, but I disagree in general. I think "appeal to authority" fallacy is misunderstood. How is it illogical to listen to qualified authorities? It only breaks when one uses authority in one field to claim credibility in something else.
Folks from Silicon Valley should ask VCs to sponsor them trip to Europe, where what they are essentially to solve is addressed. It's called public transportation.
It's a good thing to keep elephants on their toes. Then they can dance.
Evolving Government: Why goal alignment is the no. 1 factor in eng velocity
Margaret: You’ve perhaps coined one of my favorite one-line descriptions of what an anarchist is: “One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.” Would you describe yourself as an anarchist?

Ursula: I don’t, because I entirely lack the activist element, and so it seems phony or too easy. Like white people who say they are “part Cherokee.”

Margaret: I hope you don’t mind that a lot of us claim you, in approximately the same way that we claim Tolstoy. (Who I believe can be quoted as saying “The anarchists are right … in everything except their belief that anarchism can be reached through revolution” although I’ve only read this quote, and not his original essay.)

Ursula: Of course I don’t mind! I am touched and feel unworthy.

Margaret: What were your first interactions with anarchism?

Ursula: When I got the idea for The Dispossessed, the story I sketched out was all wrong, and I had to figure out what it really was about and what it needed. What it needed was first about a year of reading all the Utopias, and then another year or two of reading all the Anarchist writers. That was my main interaction with anarchism. I was lucky: that stuff was hard to come by in the Seventies — shadows of Sacco and Vanzetti! — but there was a very-far-left bookstore here in Portland, and if you got to know him he let you see his fine collection of all the old Anarchist writings, and some of the newer people like Bookchin too. So I got a good education.

I felt totally at home with (pacifist, not violent) anarchism, just as I always had with Taoism (they are related, at least by affinity.) It is the only mode of political thinking that I do feel at home with. It also links up more and more interestingly, these days, with behavioral biology and animal psychology (as Kropotkin knew it would.)

http://www.anarchogeekreview.com/interview/mythmakers-and-la...
No.

Hitchhiking is technically illegal in 4 states and rarely enforced even there.

http://hitchwiki.org/en/United_States_of_America#Police.2FLa...
I'd love to hear the justification for this.
BK pandering to the ever increasing socialist millennial. Which my generation has been unfortunately tricked into. And despite all the
down-votes from all my socialist friends on this site, you are absolutely correct. The BK depicted in this ad would fail and fail spectacularly. It would take 1 company making burgers at a flat predictable cost/speed and this BK would have to change it's policy to survive. In the end, the consumer always wins in the free market. But these socialists think more government is the answer to all of societies ills. They will just create more stagnation and problems they claim to fight.
React Agent actually removes the need to use REST -- that's one of the big features of the library. Instead, communication between the client and server is accomplished through WebSockets and keys. The client can run('getMessages'), which triggers the server to run 'getMessages' and return a response to the client.
I like the idea of a "discussion forum where people could continue the conversations that start here" (at HN).

Some discussions (not all :) that arise on HN are rich and deep, with intelligent people exploring the topic, often someone with expertise/experience/domain knowledge will pitch in to inform the rest - and I haven't found many places on the Web where such discussions happen regularly.

It's a pity sometimes when such a discussion gets swept away in the timeline, simply archived, rather than continuing it over a longer-term, to really have a chance to think deeply and collectively.
Article should be titled “Try being a wealthy business owner to work less.” Most people don’t have the luxury of choosing their hours and only working 4 hours a day, remotely from a cafe or hotel. It’s not as if everyone is getting up and going to work for 8 hours because they want to...
I think you’re being too cynical. I grew up in Ohio. Mostly I knew white people who also were born there and mostly knew white people themselves. This is 180* from the Bay Area.

Sure, the enormous tech economy makes for a bit of an industrial monoculture. But if you start talking to people about things other than what they do for a living you’ll hear a lot of interesting stories.
Yep. No argument from me there. Most mainstream stocks are safer investments than cryptos, along a number of axes (volatility, counterparty risk, regulatory risk, etc..). But cryptos are still very much investments.