skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure it does. Users fear warnings they don't understand, and some will not click past they warning. For those users, you might as well replace the page with a 404 for all the good it does them. Maybe there are not MANY such users; I don't know and would love to find out. But surely some.
Back in 2003, I had this happen to me in Florida. I was struggling financially, fell behind on a debt, had a collection agency file a lawsuit, and I took the default judgment. Didn't think much of it and honestly just figured they would garnish wages after that I ignored the judgment (big mistake). About a year later I got pulled over for speeding and they had filed for a warrant. After a night at the police station, I was released on bail, that was actually more than the original debt (prior to interest). I had a hearing scheduled with a magistrate judge to review the debt between myself and the creditor. I appeared for the hearing only to have had the debt sold to a different collection agency and no one showed up. The judge dismissed the judgment against me. The entire hassle cost me not only time but more money than the original debt (and at this point after attorney fees, etc... the amount was more than the original plus interest.

Rewinding a bit, when I went for my hearing though I was talking with my attorney and the magistrate that was handling the case. She expressed a great displeasure that this happens all too often and that most judges in civil cases will just rubber stamp what over a creditor files if there is no one there to oppose from the debtor side. Separately my attorney told me that Florida laws/courts make it very easy for creditors to do this.
The Clathrate Gun

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

Edit: also had to track down this video from the UN climate change conference. The Wikipedia article tends to down play it periodically.

https://youtu.be/QQkNxuQ0DoI
Blocking HTTP sites is a bit too far, but an insecure warning is perfectly reasonable as, let's be honest, it is not secure.
No. What he said is that Google says that https prevents MITM, but never mentions that they will still be able to do it. I don't see a dismissal, just a criticism of Google.
What qualifies something as underrated? Is it just personal opinion or is it metric based?
I blame it on the schools. Academia has a fetish for "dead shit", and the "enlightenment" was the most recent batch of dead shit within the average level of reading comprehension.

It's not just Pinker. Both mainstream ideologies have been circling up around nth-order regurgitations of enlightenment thought for as long as I've been alive.

"the best of all possible worlds"
Hrm. This sounds a lot like a certain city I just got away from. By chance, did your state legislation come down pretty much immediately and strip away the power of cities to regulate TNC's in their city limits?

That was a real fun session of The Lege.
I posted this [0] on you 2017 review post. Wish you would at least try it. For some reason I think it could work.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16015617
In the U.S., you'll usually get a notice of the issuance of the bench warrant sent to your last known address. Poor folks often don't have a reliable mailing address. And that's unfortunate. But do other countries handle notice any differently?
How many fiascos with CAs do you need, not to mention protocol issues, to stop believing in HTTPS guarantees?
Fun fact, the word "fine" means "the end" in Italian.
> Other than displacing a large number of people who live on coastlines, what's the big deal?

"Other than that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"

The displacement of large numbers of people will cause immense strife. Just look at the nasty reaction to the relatively small migration away from the Syrian civil war.

The problem is basically that all the land near populated coastlines is already owned, and those owners are not going to be inclined to let millions of their neighbors move in without some compensation.

But if those neighbors' coastal property just got swallowed by the sea, they probably don't have many assets left to pay.
Amazon for sure displays different prices to different people. They'd be foolish not to, considering they know so much about you and your shopping habits.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=119399&page=1
As I replied to another comment below:

I understand the distinction you're making but in my experience the words are interchangeable. Just because I treat a system as magic one moment does not mean that I can't later dive under the hood and fix it the next. It's just a matter of context switching.
Yp, your life might get ruined but for the judge it's just another day at the job. Need to clear the docket, meet Jeff for lunch and then plan his golfing weekend.

Oh, he owes $127 and he's not here?
Arrest warrant!
It makes it practically inaccessible if the target audience of the page are not savvy enough to go past the warning and access the content. Most of the people ll be scared away by the warning..and that is the whole point...
> It doesn't matter in practice if the content is still accessible when the browser tells people that accessing it is dangerous.

It certainly does matter. There's a fundamental different between people being discouraged from accessing a website, and said website being completely inaccessible.
You should be paying attention to North Carolina
I agree with you. The institutions should be held to a high standard, and there should be people to hold them accountable.

However there are many people, many people on HN who, if asked, would say that our institutions are fundamentally broken or, as a comment elsewhere on this post says, a "discriminatory clusterfuck".

My point is that this is a skewed and biased understanding of reality produced by constantly being fed negative news. Are our institutions perfect? Obviously not. Is there room for improvement? Of course! But do most people who interact with our institutions get treated fairly and according to the letter of the law, a law that itself is for the most part fair and just? I believe so.
not only do the poor make affected decisions we also know that the poor (1) have a restricted set of feasible solutions (2) face higher uncertainty in outcomes due to the impaired ability to execute solutions (3) have limited ability to mitigate the consequences of a failed solution.

in addition, public policy tends to strip the poor of their agency, not to mention dignity: (1) their choices are dictated without the context of their situation (2) the actual risks they face are ignored or treated as if a wealthier person were to face these risks (3) their actual utility curve is discarded in place of the utility curve of the policymaker or the general public... and then should the poor continue to fail to make full use of these programs that are not only difficult for the target group to take up, but also humiliating and undermining confidence in helping themselves, they are chided for continuing to make poor decisions.

the article offers a few examples that overcame some problems affecting these people. but the story is very different between communities in which members are equally affected by limited resources and unequal communities. the separation of classes of people within a community with elevated inequality blinds the group to the myriad problems the poor face and leads to a caricature of the poor as incompetent - and it is this warped public perception and conversation that is holding back effective poverty programs.
What might the Amazon, Berkshire and JPM health care joint venture actually do?
I’d go as far as say that for the lower class, the difference the modern court system makes is negligible. Whether you want justice or mercy, you better bring cash.
Amazon is one of the few companies that has gone on the record and said they do not do this (as a naive 1st-order price discrimination where two people viewing the same item with the same ASIN from the same vendor see two different prices).

(I’m looking for the source link. It was in a different discussion here on HN about price discrimination.)
Rendering user input via a Vue template is gonna set off some mental alarms with most experienced Vue devs. (Rendering user input directly is something most devs are careful with)

Evan discusses some of these risks in the docs and I'm guessing this particular exploit can be patched.
Have you used a modern factory touchscreen head unit? They're pretty much unusable without looking either.
The product always needs to be good. But targeted ads such as on Google allow entire categories of businesses to exist. My company would have never been started without Google AdWords - there would have simply been no cost effective way to find the users who needed the product.
I know the feeling. Luckily my parents stayed together. We picked aluminum cans. Dad found some hard construction work and I did softball scoreboards in the summer. My brother and I still regard fish as poor people food. Commodity meat shouldn’t be feed to dogs much less people. Although the peanuts and cheese were good.

It affects your thinking forever. Even when doing consulting gigs, I still spent sparingly like it all could go away. Even after Dad got a decent job elsewhere, it took a few years to feel comfortable again.
I think you're being downvoted primarily by people who read this as an endorsement of a world without law.

That is, they're reading it as "since no institution has totally succeeded, I encourage you to imagine a better approach" rather than "while no institution has totally succeeded, I encourage you to imagine how much worse it could be".
"explaining" is a pretty good technique since Candy Japan is a service that people want, but might not know about. But the ad didn't need to be more than 10 seconds, "Candy Japan sends you different Japanese snacks twice a month. Try something new!". It felt like it repeated itself, and the high-pitched not-actually-japanese konnichiwa was very off-putting.
Seeing this appearing alongside "How poverty changes your mindset"[0] on the front page helps to explain why the issues covered in both articles are so problematic.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16461773
That's less about layers of abstraction and more to do with intellectual laziness in general.

Abstraction is a tool, and like all others it can be abused.

> All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection - except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
A lot of content which exists on the unmaintained web is going to be lost anyway, regardless of HTTP. Hosting sites shut down after a while. There's a ton of content that was on Geocities, for example, which is now inaccessible.

A migration of newer websites to HTTPS is no more a loss to data than deprecating old versions of HTML in newer versions of Chrome or upgrading newer servers to HTTP/2. The old ones will still exist. And if they cease to exist, it's almost certainly not going to be because a browser displays a "not secure" warning on the top left corner of the scene.

There are also entire websites and communities built upon the archival of data:

https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

https://archive.org
> So it's going to get warmer

The life cycle of countless animals and plants is finetuned to our current climate. Crops are also at the mercy of weather patterns. We have no idea whether our food sources will get through the changes. Example of unknown unknown: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/australia-green-...

> What's the big deal?

We are talking about hundreds of millions of starving people moving away from the coastlines AND the Equator. Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20180107084251/https://blogs.sci... Bangladesh alone has half the population of the US.
But there's a difference. That company wasting $50k is the equivalent of a poor person buying the brand name bread instead of store brand. Not a life altering decision. Make that a $5m purchase and the higher ups in the company will probably spend a great deal of time weighing the pros and cons.

I have seen people in fire situations get a one time windfall of $8,000 dollars and spend all of it for a down payment on an expensive car. That's the kind of decision making that keeps you poor.
https://vkcoin.biz/?ref=13673785130504668199
I edited my post before your response to change it to "flagged," but failed to call out the change initially. Sorry, it's fixed now.

For a lot of people, a big scary warning page that says that a page is insecure is essentially a block. Yeah, you can still access it, but a lot fewer people will.

> let's be honest, it is not secure.

My original post is asking for an explanation of how it isn't secure. I would totally understand a browser warning if a user tries to submit a form over http, but for a page like the one I linked I don't see how it can adversely affect the user.
I Agree. It really is debilitating for those that have it in its truest form. From the ridiculous amount of time it takes to do simple tasks to the amount of anxiety you get when you know what you have is good enough and there's a deadline approaching and/or you have a ton of other things to do, but you just can't call it quits because of all those little details that aren't up to standard.

And it makes it even worse when you're spending this extra time to go that extra mile and you're fully aware how nonsensical and irrelevant it all is but still can't let it go.
I had a CS degree but was working outside the field in pharmaceuticals. I was having the problem myself and wrote a crazy Excel spreadsheet with tens of thousands of lines of poorly written copy pasted code to do it. I knew that there would be a market for it so I contacted an old classmate of mine who rewrote it much better as a web service.

That is why I think CS and software engineering should be part of every college degree, so that people can see the opportunity for software where it exists. I wasn’t good enough to be a programmer but I had enough knowledge to see an opportunity whereas most people thought “hm, this is just how this is done.”
All of this modulo American healthcare means a lot of people who follow this script still end up with nothing. This is especially the case for entry-level jobs and other careers that are more available to the newly arrived.

If you work in a median-income job and are miserly for a long time and save up a year's income, you will have around $60k in the bank. Since you don't have a pension, materially all of this will be in mutual funds or the like if retirement is in your plans. But great, you have savings!

Now let anything happen that requires you to visit a hospital unexpectedly. Let's say your appendix bursts, so you couldn't meaningfully have avoided this calamity.

The average cost for an appendectomy in the US is $33k[1]. That's just the surgery, so assume you'll be out $40k or more. Now let your boss be a miser (like yourself) who decides to fire you because you can't come in. Depending on how quickly you find another job, how much it pays, and your ability to avoid another unexpected disaster (car trouble, sick kid, etc.) you could quite easily burn through the entire $60k of your savings from this one incident. So the very next time this happens, you're no better off than the folks who saved nothing.

But wait, it gets worse! Since your $60k was primarily in retirement savings, you will likely end up paying penalties and taxes for early withdrawal. So you will end up spending thousands of dollars to access your money. The rules are designed to kick you while you're down in this respect. And now you have no retirement savings, so people can talk about what a freeloader you are in your dotage.

(The probabilities get worse as you get older. For an example of how bad, check pricing for long-term care coverage or long-term disability coverage. Basically -- you can't reliably out-grasshopper biology.)

Our healthcare system in general makes the grasshopper approach more about luck than is apparent at first glance.

1 - Obviously, insurance currently will pay a large portion of the $33k, as the ACA mandates that health insurers sell a useful product. But this has not been the case except for the last 7ish years, and may not be the case again in the near future. It would be foolish to expect health insurance to function as "health insurance" in America for any extended period of time.
Does it use closed-source firmware in the radio baseband? And is there a physical switch between the baseband and main system board?
Maybe everyone should use HTTPS, or maybe it's a bad idea. But Google shouldn't unilaterally decide what is good for the rest of us. I'm with the author on that.

This also applies to AMP. Its bad enough they have so much control of the web based on how the rank pages in search results, but there is not much we can do about that.
>His arguments are also legitimately absurd...

I think you arguments are absurd. May be give it somethought before lashing out? And what does "legitimately absurd" mean anyway?

>But right now I can host my own blog on services like Netlify...

Again, if you have given it somethought, you might have noticed that the author is talking about old, in-frequently maintained content that was created decades before, and the authors have moved on...

So again, next time, give it some thought before crying "LEGITIAMATLEY ABSURD!!!"
Let's not pretend things are any different in California.
I kind of randomly implemented Newton's method in Go once, just because it looks so pretty: https://github.com/aybabtme/newtonmethod#newtons-method
Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment
I’m really sorry this happened to you. I’m glad it ended up working out eventually (it seems). I wonder how much time, money, and tears we could save if there were an easier way to simply reach people in these situations to let them know of their options. Of course, a better solution is legislation like that proposed by the ACLU. Hope all is still well with you.

Edit: just read your profile. I think you’re doing fantastic work!
Some factory jobs are that repetitive, but most factories are increasingly automated and the skills needed to maintain that automation are every bit as technical as programming.
Does anyone else sort of enjoy some tenets of perfectionism? I write songs and often drive myself nearly insane trying to get every detail right.

But there is a nice feeling knowing that what you’ve finished is as good as it can be, because you’ve exhausted every damn option.
There is no institutional inertia or political organizing involved in walking, riding your bike, or taking the bus for your next trip.

The real challenge is in building out the transit infrastructure and dense transit-oriented development that would make these options genuinely preferable to most people. Not in declaring that they're preferable or forcing people into them today.
> I was struggling financially, fell behind on a debt, had a collection agency file a lawsuit, and I took the default judgment.

> most judges in civil cases will just rubber stamp what over a creditor files if there is no one there to oppose from the debtor side.

Maybe we should teach this better in school, but you gotta show up to court, even if you have to do it without a lawyer. This isn't something that only happens to poor people--even big corporations can have huge default judgments entered against them if they don't show up to defend themselves. (This typically happens with foreign companies who blow off U.S. legal process because they have no U.S. assets.)
One option is considering moving. Regardless of your eng. skills if you are able to discuss requirements and communicate well you would be an asset for any smaller consulting company in eastern europe.
I'd like to propose the following: public-private ride share. In short, US Federal Gov't buys or finances the development of ride-sharing software and licenses it to cities. Cities act as Uber does now, skimming a (much smaller) percentage of their revenue as a tax, adjusting the variables in favor of local interests (e.g. incentivizing carpooling or service in lower-income areas), and studying the ways that ride sharing can complement existing transit options.

I know that's a socialist longshot in capitalist America, but I really think that going forward the government is going to have to take a larger stake in tech in order to avoid the types of conflicts we've been seeing between private companies and public interests.
I get, very often, ‘this flight is no longer available at this price’ after filling all pages. That is the same thing but presented in an infuriating manner.
My belief is that the Operating System designers of tomorrow should read books and academic papers like this and take these subjects very seriously...
What's interesting is Uber does this exactly already. They charge what they think each person "is willing to pay", and then pay the driver standard fees per mile.
> [WebOS] had such a natural interface for multitasking too.

On the MeeGo OS used on the Nokia N9, it requires swiping in one direction a couple of times to get to the open tasks screen. You can then press and hold on the screen to allow for closing any app(s) you want and click on the done button after you're finished.

Closing an app requires just swiping from the top to the bottom. IIRC, WebOS required you to swipe upward to get to the task screen and then swipe upward again to close the app.
Sounds like your town should consider following the example of Houston's recent reimagining[1] of their bus system.

"The old system, like many bus routes in the United States, expended a lot of resources on very low-ridership routes for the sake of saying there's 'a bus that goes there.' The new plan says the focus should be to provide reasonably frequent service on routes where reasonably frequent service will attract riders. That does mean that some people are further than ever from a transit stop. But it means that many more Houstonians will find themselves near a useful transit stop."

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/2/18/8056039/houston-transit-reimag...
The Productivity Gain: Where Is It Coming from and Where Is It Going To?
> 20 years ago people thought buying computers on which you can't install software some central authority didn't approve of was preposterous, and yet here we are today with walled gardens and the like.

I can install whatever operating system and software I like on almost every single consumer-available computer today. The only prominent "walled garden" is the iPhone, which has < 15% market share. And frankly, I don't mind Apple's iOS. I certainly don't mind the fact that I know that any kernel space software that runs on my phone is cryptographically signed by a trusted party in a chain from the bootloader.
Resistance (creativity)
The Danish meteorological report I linked to explicitly states that the temperature spike was caused by a foehn-like wind, and that the same phenomenon has already been recorded at the same weather station in past years.
NYC has fantastic transit. Maybe not as good as Paris, but that is an extremely high bar to meet.

Poor people already don't drive in NYC because it is already too expensive for them, so it is disingenuous to suggest that they are being shafted by making it more expensive.
Google Books wins case against authors over putting works online
you are better put that value out of stocks while you can ;)
As CTO of my last company I tried to optimize for developer productivity. This goal requires careful sheapording of the team and choices along the way. I find this attention to detail is often lost or never strives for in favor of other priorities. After a while, the team loses site of what productive feels like.

TL;DR These lisp machine articles are interesting, in part, because they remind us what productive feels like.
That's boilerplate for positions that can't legally require a degree. They'll still ask and filter on CS questions.