skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Local utilities (water, trash, gas, electric) are often provided by municipalities, funded by users. There's no reason they must rely on subsidies from non-user-fee tax sources.

USPS is a government agency, and even has a legally protected monopoly on first-class mail pricing, and still gets plenty of competition.

What's the point of non-subsidies municipal utilities? Accountability. It uses the structure of government to facilitate cooperative ownership.
New Internet frontier: you can defame through your WiFi name
I believe it's typical for such clauses to last forever. Whether or not you're willing to sign it is an entirely personal choice. Consider whether it would ever be genuinely advantageous for you to speak negatively about the company in public. And also whether you can tolerate the existential oppression.
same here. I am straight, though have no children. it is indeed very satisfying for me to see my teammates grow with my help (Im a team lead)
Yes, but it rather matters in terms of how to keep it out.
I wouldn’t so sure. Microsoft owns enterprise, Apple owns enterprise mobility.

Microsoft needs a partner on mobile, Apple needs a partner for AI and services.
So much negativity on this discussion. I'm very surprised to see this from the HN crowd. Guess what? Computer Science, Engineering, etc... is getting more complicated and complex. So seeing a discipline (assuming this is CS) get broken down into more distinct groupings is actually a good phenomenon. Of course there's always foundational knowledge that is important to learn - but with time I feel like that information becomes de-emphasized to focus on higher-levels of understanding and knowledge.

On another note, CMU was always very good at cross-disciplinary studies. (Building Virtual Worlds comes to mind). As the article points out, this new degree bridges over to the humanities and ethics. With where we are today with AI, isn't it a good thing to train the AI developers of the future to think about the implications of their work?
Product liability disclaimers are often found to be unenforceable; is there a particular disclaimer strategy[1] you have in mind that would effectively shift liability to the presumed counter party?

[1] https://injury.findlaw.com/product-liability/are-product-lia...
tbh I think I might just switch to i3wm or some other twm. Seems to be my best option from what I have read.
Only referring to my experience as an undergrad: most students seemed to be turned away by the mathematics.
Slurs are not acceptable on HN.
I find it hard to believe that the post office would actually start forwarding somebody's mail.
That's in fact not an instance of the tu quoque fallacy.
The myth of outliving your retirement savings
s/impossible/harder/

One of the first adblock tools I used relied on thevstandard sizes of banner ads to blok them.

Names of selectors, XPATH, explicit element whitelisting, denying all image content, etc, all are possible options.

On desktop I apply a pretty rigorous set of CSS customisations against numerous sites.

Plus the usual adblocking.
It matters when you want to discuss blame and solutions.
Did they ever innovate? What other products has Facebook brought to the world outside of Facebook that changed the world?

Unless we consider acquisitions such as Instagram, WhatsApp & Oculus. Sure, they have released interesting tech such as React, Thrift, PyTorch, GraphQL but I don't consider these innovations in the sense some on here might.

When I think about innovations, I think in terms of consumer products, products that have changed the world. Outside of search, gmail is heavily used, google office is sufficiently used, Google pulled off amazing tech in terms of tech unlike anything anyone has ever seen. Borg, Spanner, etc.

Of all the Facebook tech I mentioned the only one that might be somewhat innovative is GraphQL. I'm not a windows/C# person, but it reminds of of "Linq" so it might not be that innovative.
>It's much like programming languages. We don't care much if you graduate knowing a particular language -- any CMU CS graduate should be able to pick up a new language in short order. We care greatly that you've been exposed to a mix of programming styles and thinking -- imperative, functional, and logical or declarative, and can successfully use those tools to reason about code, program structure, algorithms, and data structures.

I completely support this philosophy.

> Compilers can be more or less of a systems course depending on who teaches it

So what happens when it's less of a systems course? Do students taking that section lack a critical component of the CS major?
Another fallacy: relative privation.
Let's not worry about the bees and pesticides because of bigger problems.

I think the problem here is that over-emphasis, bluster and hyperbole are so normalised and frequent now that the use of emphasis to try and draw attention to an issue is now practically useless (maybe it was never useful...).

Perhaps we shouldn't worry about any of these 'small problems' because we're working hard to destroy the Earth anyway...
Here is the money quote that these articles seem to be based off of. From an email detailing progress on developing testing methods:

>"I spiked a batch of broccoli at 0.002 ug/g and could detect the glyphosate pretty well but I did need to manually integrate some of the peaks. I used broccoli because it’s the only thing I have on hand that does not have glyphosate in it. I have brought wheat crackers,
granola cereal, and corn meal from home and there’s a fair amount in all of them.”

There is another email talking about the one corn sample being 6.5ppm, above the 5.0 threshold, also in the context of testing methods.

So the corn sample could be an issue, but the headlines about it being everywhere, in implied high concentrations, seems premature unless I missed something in these emails. The tester used the broccoli because it had none and he could test detection down to 0.002 ppm, FAR below the 5.0 threshold. When he says there was a fair amount in everything else he had, we still don't know what that means. Was it .02ppm, .2ppm, 2.0ppm or what? The tone of the email and it's reply (not quoted above) doesn't suggest worry about a high rate to me.
How do you figure C&P as the cynical work and the idiot as the optimistic one? Wouldn't it be the other way around
> i can with zero effort and 100% confidence run any old Go code i have lying around. that's pretty awesome.

I think you can do that in Rust too (post 1.0). What's more impressive is that canonical go code from five years ago is still canonical.
I mean, there’s no promise of it being good though. It could just as soon become a tedious geek-out of unfunny, yet adroitly obedient jerk-ass homer simpson manatee jokes, produced by a cookie cutter assembly line that provides enough quips to be merchandisable.
The idiot is darker than crime and punishment...
Looks like several higher fleet officers were fired or 'retired early' in the wake of this, so I'm not certain it's just throwing people under the bus.

Scant details on what made them 'derelict in their duty'. Was it being negligence or was it mistakes caused by lack of training.
Ads, per se, are harmful and dangerous, individually and collectively.

There's an ample literature, in media studies and elsewheere, to this effect.

Mentioned in TFA:

Among other things, the online advertising business model has incentivized clickbait—and worse—at enormous scale. Facebook Inc. and YouTube LLC figure out how to make people spend more time on their sites to maximize ad inventory. This has abetted the spread of fake news, violent children’s content, and Logan Paul.
Ps1583

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...
well, not sure about others, but for myself, I know what makes me happy after paying attention to my feelings I have after doing various stuff and reflecting on the circumstances in which I have had them. I do it pretty often.

Sometimes, though, I do fall into a trap of mixing up causality and correlation.

I may feel happy after talking to someone... and only after concluding a thorough analysis of my feeling and the timeline, I may realize that the fact of _finishing_ the talk with that person makes me happy and not the talk itself 8-( )
Are the bee sources still the same? Bees are often imported from other regions to meet supply.
The usual solution to self reporting systems is audits. The entire tax system works this way. It won't catch everything, but does manage to put some teeth in the process and can catch systematic cheating.

In this case, occasional random (and where warranted, targeted) sampling and testing by the agency would detect whether provided samples are routinely doctored.
Not providing persistence is setting people up to lose data. It is the wrong move.
I love finding gold like this deep in a thread.
This isn't a big deal really. However Microsoft wants the real secret sauce. They either want A: Apple to build a client in Windows with C#. Or possibly B: wants to able to allow swift compilation on Windows thus opening the door wide open for app ecosystem. You think probably not but then again WSL.
Cool. Just as a side note - I was first introduced to the upsert concept in kdb. Similar behaviour to the SQLite one..
Android Chrome, specifically.

It's maddening.
Ground Zero: Part 1 – Reverse Engineering Basics – Linux X64
Klout Is Shutting Down Just in Time to Not Reveal How Much It Knew About Us
No commissions on any stocks or ETFs. No commissions is huge when you want to create a diversified portfolio, buying only a few shares of each at a time. No other brokerage has even come close to trying to provide this. Robinhood earned a lot of brand reputation with this move.

UX. Try out a few other brokerage experiences, and then try Robinhood, and you’ll see that the market was ripe for the taking for a team with design sensibilities.
Lack of sleep makes it a bad time for me to read this. But if the client generates the key does it mean it's stored on the browser or something like that? It means that I will need a sync/copy procedure if I'm going to use it in another machine/browser?
> The change of address form at USPS is laughably unsecure.

Well, yes, but it's insecure in the same way that the average bank branch is insecure:

- you're not going to get away with a lot (important stuff is sent using something more secure than first-class mail)

- you're automatically committing a felony

- your crime will automatically be investigated by federal law enforcement, not just the local donut patrol
That's only because they're a pain in the neck to deal with. If we're talking about an AI so good that you can barely even tell it's not human, I think that'd be much less of a problem.
But it's tempting to assume the information is false, and if you do that, you could be making a big mistake. I assume by "zero weight" you mean you don't assume it's true or false, which is quite distinct.

One way to look at it is that every statement is true, given sufficient context. The question is, how should it be interpreted, and what is it a true statement about? Generally, when a liar says something, it is intended to either make you believe it is true, or make you believe it is false, or confuse you. So there is true information being provided, it's just not the face value of the statement.
These guys operate as legal monopolies, have received huge tax breaks, and provide bad service.
Is there some reason that EV’s can’t till? If you’re farming there’s lots of sunlight for solar, and nuclear is a good option too.
I completely agree. CS started often from the Math department, sometimes from the Engineering department. Further specialization is to be not only expected, but welcome, as complexity increases. Is there a better way?
Are mac users kidding themselves?
I've recently started using a macbook pro and everything about it is bad.

The keys are positioned in a stupid way on the laptop. That is, a slab of plastic with thin keys in the middle. So your wrists have to always be at attention, angled down, and feeling for the right spot.

The OS looks like it was designed in the 90's. The mouse doesn't right click or maybe it does but you have to go and configure it but there still isn't an actual button. Scrolling up and down is backwards. The OS itself is just really terrible.

Contrast this with windows 10. It's clean and only displays the information you need. It has beautiful coding environments. I would assume it's just as good (probably better) at graphics programs than a mac. I'm not going to go on but like literally every single thing about the UX is better on windows than it is on mac.

I've always thought macs were just about making a statement and this seems to confirm it. It's harder and clumsier to use. It's heavier. It sucks.

Tell me I'm wrong. The mac os looks like it was designed before computers were ubiquitous.
Skype is flat out a bad user experience so much so it’s downright hostile to its once rabid user base.

I used it daily from 2004 to about 2016 when I lost my password. Trying to reset it somehow got me into a loop where the only way I could was to enter my credit card. Umm nope and see Skype. I now use Facebook messenger for the same VOIP calls I was making thru Skype.

I guess Microsoft is going to jack the crap out of LinkedIn next as they are making lots of money but in the long run their focus on $$$ vs. UX is going to bite them in the ass.
Actually there are public registries of known incidences of harm from vaccines (i.e. VAERS etc). This again goes to people arguing in Black and White and refusing to rationally engage the middle grounds:

I don't believe there is research (at least verified/mainstream) that has determined widespread harmful effects of vaccines. I.e. the risk of issue from vaccines is lower than the risk of disease being caught (sorry don't have exact odds here to verify this). There are also no (that I'm aware of) long term generational studies of the effects of vaccines other than obvious observation that disease incidence has reduced.
A (long overdue) interview with the author of “Reinventing Organizations”
Hey now. Putting strategically-located campus printers in my own /etc/printcap was how I JIT-printed my college assignments back in the day.
Goldman Sachs has a consumer presence: https://www.marcus.com/us/en
Here's an explanation I saw once before of how the wealthy save money by donating to their alma mater:

'So what an individual can do is offer to donate, say, 10% of his company to a charity. Let's say that the company did really well last year so that guy can easily find an accountant to say that 10% is worth $10M. So the guy has a $10M tax deduction he can use as he sees fit (subject to AMT and other shit, but you get the point). The guy also knows that last year's performance was a blip and if he repeated that 10% donation this year, he'd only get a valuation of $5M. In effect he's got an extra $5M from the valuation.

When I was younger, I was on the young alumni board for the university I went to for undergrad and we used to see this all the time. Someone would donate property/illiquid securities/art/etc with an 'assessed' value of (say) $10M, but when the school went to sell it, they'd only realize (say) $3M in cash. But the guy would still get to keep the $10M tax deduction. To a guy like that, a $10M tax deduction could be worth $4m to $5M easily.

I'm sure you're wondering, and yes this is in that 'gray zone' that's just millimeters from being tax fraud. However, the IRS rarely pursues these cases 1) because they are really hard to win, 2) the school doesn't really care b/c they still just got a $3M donation, and 3) the school isn't going to 'help' the IRS (beyond bare minimum compliance) b/c the school would have to give up the $3M.'
> I can't help but always be skeptical with these rulings, as if someone's always just being thrown under the bus to protect the higher ranking career military persons.

Keep a few things in mind:

(1) By my count from reading the article, at least four admirals have been fired, and one has retired early. That's pretty much the entire chain of command in the Pacific fleet above the ships that had incidents. I don't know if any of them will face courts martial (I would expect not), but their careers are over, and they're not going out in a good light.

(2) The captains of the ships involved are all facing possible courts martial (and I would expect that "possible" will become "actual" within the next few weeks, from the dates given in the article), even though none of them were on the bridge at the time of the incidents. That's standard procedure for a Navy ship: if you're the captain, everything that happens is your responsibility. The executive officer and command master chief of at least one of the ships are also receiving punishment. (The command master chief, btw, is the senior enlisted aboard the ship, whose primary job is to make sure all of the sailors aboard are being properly taken care of by their officers. So it's expected that the CMC will suffer consequences when that doesn't happen.)

(3) I understand the whole "culture" thing, but at the end of the day, if you're a military officer, you're in charge, and it's your job to do what's necessary, culture notwithstanding. The officers who were operating those ships did not do their jobs, and sailors died as a result. That deserves punishment regardless of anything else.
Ground Zero of Amphibian 'Apocalypse' Finally Found
Glyphosate is an herbicide, not a pesticide.
Although not scientifically proven(?), it is believed that the chronic kidney disease (CKD) is caused by Glyphosate. CKD is largely present in North Central, North Western, Uva and Eastern Provinces in Sri Lanka.

https://www.news.lk/news/political-current-affairs/item/8198...
Net neutrality rules will end June 11 with the FCC's final say-so
Well, probably not, at least for document storage. Although you could take the thing apart and use a bus pirate and interrogate the flash chips onboard, to see what goodies are there. My guess is its just firmeware. Storage is still too expensive for a junk consumer model, to dump TBs of storage.

Now on an office copier, of course they do that. But that's what the target here is.

If you have a printer, it likely puts the yellow dots on it.
8 New Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities (Spectre-NG) Found in Intel CPUs
What's so creepy about that? If I can get the same quality of service talking to a bot as I can to a person, why should I care what it is I'm talking to?

Unless you mean impersonating a _specific_ human (e.g. if my personal assistant were pretending to be me) I don't really see the issue.
Again, I don't see why that's obvious. Why is it necessary that humans be made aware up front that they're talking to a bot? (So necessary that you think not disclosing that information actually needs to be made illegal.)
Several of these kinds of initiatives, in various forms, have been tried. They never really caught on. (The biggest was stdx)
I hate to repeat myself, but it bears repeating: glyphosate is an herbicide and not a pesticide. It’s significant, because pesticides organic or otherwise are something designed to kill animals, not plants. We’re animals, not plants, so herbicides are generally far less toxic than pesticides to us. While we’re quite different in many ways to insects, we share a lot of metabolic machinery; the same is not true of us and plants.
Playing without the intention of treating it as a sport, but as an excuse to drink outdoors.
It is. You're implying that the other commenter's post is invalid as 'blind opposition' because 'their side' of the argument behaves the same.

* Edit on below: On re-reading you're correct, you were categorising their comment. My apologies!
When I made this comment the top comments on the article were about how opening up the iMessage protocol would cause it to become riddled with security vulnerabilities.
I love that trick. Here is a variation I use frequently to format json or javascript.

pbpaste | jq . | pbcopy
I wish it were that simple. Self-hosted ads still get blocked.
Sure. It's the conclusion I'm tempted to draw too. But I'm trying to avoid walking into the grand conspiracy, too soon. I think the influence of Monsanto and others on the actions of the FDA are way out of whack, but there are many moments of innocent misunderstanding in this kind of report. I think it's most likely the classic incompetence/malice thing, or a misunderstanding of some kind. Like, FDA testing US farm produce, the shops selling unlabelled, imported, 'US origin' but actually sourced from somewhere else, and re-bagged...
To each their own.
I just prefer the familiarity of the terminal. I heard that windows is getting a bash shell... but idk.
There is no right or wrong. Computers are tools. Use the tools that work for you.
To your first point, all I can say is that I doubt it. I see a lot of moderate liberals becoming more conservative. It's anecdotal, of course, but it's everywhere.

> the best way to describe what you call conversion of liberals is radicalization of the youth

That might be accurate if Shapiro or Peterson were radical conservatives. Both fall squarely into the "social liberal" category.
Whoever is the officer of the deck at the time is responsible. That's what the position means, if it means anything at all. The sailors could be poorly trained, but the buck has to stop somewhere. How else can a command-structure organization work? At the very least, she'd have to effectively lose her job through loss of confidence in ability to command, even if she weren't court-martialed.

Blaming higher leadership (which has also happened in these navy accident cases) in the military has the same problem. They're just products of their environment, too, put there ultimately by a chain of appointments ending with the President, Congress, and ultimately the voters.

It's much better to focus on process improvement than on assigning blame. But command-authority organizations like the military don't really work that way, and it's difficult to improve the culture of the military when that culture is shaped by unwise demands — excessive operational demands, fiscal constraints, and directives that end up micro-managing and constraining what commanders do — from above. Even navy admirals have their hands tied in many ways, and they're just trying to do the best they can do with a bad hand.
> Scant details on what made them 'derelict in their duty'. Was it being negligence or was it mistakes caused by lack of training.

Both. The article doesn't say that, but from my own experience as a Naval officer, I'm pretty sure. Lack of training means higher ups were also at fault, and that's why they're also being punished. But lack of training does not remove your responsibility if you're the officer on watch. Nothing does. Those who don't like that should not become officers.
Yes, which is why I said "facts" and not "the facts." There is the point of this situation, and the point of ignoring a person's informed opinion. I was discussing the latter.
Equifax admits passport numbers involved in data breach
serious question so why doesn't everyone have cancer?
As a 27 year old I'll tell you what I want: the ability to invest in REITs. There's no way I'll ever be able to afford a home, especially with values going up by $800/day in San Francisco. From my experience the only way I can do this is via my brokerage account, but I really want to do it from a tax-protected account like a 401(k).
It also requires you to self-host an ad server (and most open source ad servers are terrible) and it requires the advertiser to completely trust your numbers since they'll have no way to verify how many impressions you served. That's tough right now even for people who sell ads directly.
You said it yourself "these aren't fancy hotels" - that's the point. The better and fancier the hotel, the more you pay for the room, the less likely you are to get free wifi.

I've stayed in some nice hotels in the U.S. and in a wide variety of hotels internationally. The best "nice U.S. hotel wifi" would often rank around the average 3rd world "acceptable" hotel.
Leveraging IoT Data in the Cloud