skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As frightening as it was for the kids+coach, and as sad is it was to lose the SEAL trying to rescue them, situations like this are nice for the world once in a while.

For a moment we can stop paying so much attention to the maelstrom of politics we're in to focus on a cause we're all (globally) rooting for; shine a light on the stressed trials humans can overcome when actions and problem solving are needed in a snap.
zCash uses zk-SNARKs for secret transactions. Which are awesome. But homomorphic encryption allows general-purpose computation.
I had an HTC Incredible that had a little touch nipple thing at the bottom-middle of the screen. It functioned like a Thinkpad nub and was pressable for a click. So far that is the best text selection method I have seen on a cell phone.
Competitive debate is a performance for a self-selected audience. Voters and especially defendants are more interested in the results than the mechanics.
I find this pretty nice in D. You add unittest{} blocks which you compile into or out of your binary with a compiler flag. If you add some appropriately formatted comments, ddoc also turns those into docstrings with the test as example usage.

https://dlang.org/spec/unittest.html
Yeah I always thought this was weird. I haven't had much contact with the actual criminal system, but the way it's portrayed in popular culture makes it look all wrong.

Can it really be that you can trade punishment for efficiency (of the legal system)? Is that really why you're allowed to do that? It seems like a terrible time for people to be playing poker, yet that's what it looks like.

One interesting twist is helping the prosecution. If you turn in a fellow bad guy, by giving evidence that helps put him away, should you be allowed to trade in your own punishment for his? Presumably the same argument applies, right? Whatever you did was just as wrong, why should you get anything different? But you need some incentive...
Google Cloud

Amazon Cloud

Didn’t those sound like they’re nebulous like “the internet”? No one owns the internet!

But those clouds were proprietary.

A real cloud would be made up of thousands of computers all joining together to store info.

Same here. What good is a blockchain that Google owns? About as good as file storage by Amazon or email by google.
I had no idea a modestly equipped Fiat Punto was a higher-end car :-)
Thank you for sharing.

If I may ask, why are you on Hacker News? I'm curious. You don't seem like the typical type. I'm curious what draws you to it.
If you live in a society where money == power, then rising inequality does make your life worse.

Maybe today you get the benefits of new tech and it's and improvement, but tomorrow is a vote on if you get healthcare or not and you have less influence in society so you have less say in your destiny and things that affect you directly
I’ve always wondered this - why do internet comments have to explicitly say “I’m not a lawyer and this is not a legal advice”?

I think that it’s pretty obvious and needless. What’s the consequence of not having a disclaimer? Internet has a lot of noise and it is the responsibility of the reader. I never understood why people have to say this.

Same goes for “I am not a Doctor”.

Are there any legal ramifications to:

A) Comment has legal terminology and kind of sounds like legal advice but has no disclaimer.

B) What if someone falsefully claims they’re a Lawyer and puts out a comment on the internet?

I am bothered by this since the dawn of the internet and never understood it.
You're correct when you say that the difference isn't in diesel vs gasoline. But for better or for worse, US regulations (read: California Air Resource Board (CARB) regulations, not federal/EPA regulations) are much more stringent in terms of particulates and NOx, while EU laws focus more on CO2 emissions. California is primarily worried about smog in LA, while Europe is generally much more concerned with maintaining the North Atlantic Current.

As you said, the high efficiency gasoline engines generate more NOx and particulates, but these engines cannot pass a CARB smog test. Most cars have separate US vs EU specs, (or simply aren't available in one market) and the EU specs always have better power and gas milage. For instance, the 1.0L engine in my 2014 Ford Fiesta is rated for 123hp, but the same 1.0L engine in the 2014 EU spec Ford Fiesta gets 140. (EPA vs EU gas milage ratings aren't directly comparable) This is a direct result of the fact that the US version runs at a lower temperature, which necessarily results in lower power and efficiency, but also results in less NOx.

Incidentally, this is a large part of why the US response to the VW emissions scandal was so different than the EU response. The affected VW engines broke EU regulations by a little, but broke CARB regulations by a lot. It's like going 70mph in a 55mph zone vs a 35mph zone.
Also Freeswitch
> And it may sound old fashioned, but making things too easy for kids makes them less independent and less willing to put in the effort required for learning.

I wonder if this makes older programmers better learners. For instance, I learned BASIC and QBASIC before I had internet access. When I ran into problems I only had the provided language documentation to help me and I was largely on my own.

Now when I run into problems I have many resources to help me, but sometimes there is no answer on StackOverflow or anywhere else I can find and I have to rely on myself to find a solution.
That much is true, Jobs was good at getting people in a room and "smooth talking" (to read manipulating) them until he got what he wanted.
I've seen the discount being more like 25%. Hell, pretty much any product at Safeway has a "Safeway price" that practically forces you to use the discount card.
How to combine tab navigation with side menu in Ionic
God yes! For the apps that I maintain (and which have users outside my team), I enforce high-quality release notes like you describe. Representative example: https://github.com/sapcc/swift-http-import/blob/master/CHANG... (note that this also takes SemVer seriously)
I just realized that growing up computers were basically only for research and creating content. Now that bandwidth is so cheap computers are only for consumption.
Another unfortunate factor is.... if you take the plea for 2, case closed. If you don't take the plea, then that makes a lot more work for everyone involved (justice department) to take it to trial.
Code prediction using neural network
My Dad is in his early 70's and has never used the Internet. In fact, he never even had a cellphone until this year when I bought him a flip-phone and convinced him to accept it. I think he's plenty capable of learning such technology, he just doesn't see any compelling reason. And I think that's a perfectly reasonable choice -- I'm certainly not going to tell a senior citizen what they need to be happy.

He is starting to run into some practical problems. For example, the local library apparently stopped stocking all the paper IRS forms.
"Ask yourself: Suppose you needed to hire someone to fix your lawn sprinklers, or hire an emply to work at your start up, or invest in a business. What role would personal connections and the trusted endorsements play?"

I've always been curious why people like you feel the need to write comments like this. What is the gender neutral phrase for mansplaining, or mansplaining done to a mostly male audience? Do you really think we don't understand all the various reasons why the system is unfair? We can all easily point out why the system is unfair, without having to remind ourselves of how the unfairness of the system perpetuates itself. The question we need to answer is, how to make this system more fair? Because we can all easily think of a few ways the system could be made more fair, if the will existed to make it more fair.
At least we have stopped burning coal in our major (western) cities. Despite car exhausts, our city air has cleared tremendously in the past 50ish years. I don't expect to see smog clouds settling on London, killing thousands anymore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London
As someone who's been reading Reason for 25 years, I agree they have an agenda, but it's not a right-wing agenda. Even though plenty of their positions do coincide with those of the right wing, they function more as a gadfly than a cheerleader for either "wing".

Since the rise of Trump I find the majority of Reason articles aligned with liberal positions. They have been highly critical of him and his administration's authoritarian actions and policies.
There may be more than one airline, but quite often there is just a single airline that meets the criteria for the flight and service quality you require.

Even when there are competing companies, being able to accurately quantify how much are you willing to pay, would allow companies to always charge max price, just by setting their "normal prices" much higher and then offering you personalized "discounts".

With multiple companies buying your data from intermediary brokers, it would effectively become a way of per-customer price fixing, while at the same time reducing competition when only a single company gets your data and presents you with an offer you can (barely) accept.
That's when they raise the list price to $4.29 for a box of Triscuits rather than the $2.99 they are most of the rest of the time.
If we've been left with the impression that no one else is doing it, then for sure, we should move quickly to try and do it without letting anyone else (who may or may not be) out there know what we're up to.
>however, idling is as (or almost as) effective as low-speeding driving at warming the passenger area.

Again, twenty years of turning the car on, going inside for 15 mins, and coming out and sliding into a warm car.

I'm not anywhere near knowledgeable enough to explain the details. I am fairly certain however that I was not hallucinating this throughout my entire childhood and young adult years.
While it is a good example, you could also use the same example and conclude that the problem was inadequate tests. SemVer is great, but you can't count on dependencies that you do not control actually adhering to it, either intentionally or unintentionally.

The only thing that could have prevented something like this for sure was mentioned:

> And while nothing in our early testing sent messages larger than 256k, there were plenty of production instances that did.

To me, this was the clear failure; not the fact that some dependency broke semver. Their production system relied on being able to send messages larger than 256k, and their tests did not.
Doc tests are their own thing, right? When I do `cargo test`, it looks like it's doing two passes: one for unit tests (like described in the article), and one for doc tests.
I think you're confused. Google generates the majority of their revenue from ad targeting. Snooping and spying are performed by your government and paid for by your tax dollars.
Prosecutors: "Eh, I'm sure he's guilty of something."
>Do I Even Need a Network?

My first thought was a Markov chain.
Acronym Decoder
>The system makes it impossible for phishing sites to log in to your account using your credentials.

So it's an additional factor for authentication, not a way of identifying fraudulent sites to the user? Okay, but you also said:

>Entering 'secret information' that isn't user credentials just plain isn't part of it.

Which is it?

>Entering 'secret information' that isn't user credentials just plain isn't part of it. Though wouldn't anyone phished by e.g. FakeGmail already get suspicious if they don't see any of their actual emails that they remember from the last time they logged in to Gmail?

You would think, but people have definitely entered information in similar circumstances. Also, there's always "sorry, server problem showing your emails, feel free to send in the mean time".
totally agree that (1) is ridiculously gratuitous nerdiness.
I think it's over-simplifying the issue to blame children for that.

I mean, when I was 12 we built a little fort in the woods. My parents didn't mind letting us disappear with hammer, nails, saw and sandwiches for the weekend, as long as they knew we weren't going alone.

Now there's places where the parent can get in trouble just for letting their kid walk to school. So the kids end up building their fort in minecraft instead of the woods, but I don't think the kids can take 100% of the blame for it.
Not sure if he is wrong, per se, as his arguments do have some merit.

Re: "marketers and advertisers simply recognize what already exists."

Yes, but they encourage consumption, purchasing and/or commercial activities. They are not doing it for the sake of a 'good cause' or because they believe in it (although they may), their incentive is to make money.

That's what I believe Bill Hicks was attacking in this segment. Their unrelenting ability to turn anything into a commercial endeavour - even when it is not present.
Why are you assuming it will be used nefariously to price gouge? What if an air-plane taxi startup bought the data and offered you a ticket for cheaper than a normal airline ticket?
We've built an acronym decoder at Capital One to demystify and make sense of the alphabet soup of terms found in large organizations. This repo contains the skeleton for a chrome extension written in angular that can be used with a backend or bundled JSON file containing terms and definitions. Feedback is welcome!
That's absolutely detrimental to your mental health and well-being man. But if it's the case that no one likes working and that one usually works to only eat, then you throw a rachet into the mix and start eating just enough to work. That solves the money part, if you want to be part of something bigger, try and join a volunteer mentorship helping the much-needed segment of the youth from underserved denomination upskill in their paths to becoming financially stable. Write a book, sing, dance, throw it all away, do it again, make sure no one's watching, then be sure to have everyone watching. You can go on learning for the rest of your life, start with a vacation, do it for a weekend, then go for a year, figure out how you can work while you play. I'm 40, and I do all of the above. You're slackin' man --but so was I -at 23. Gluck, & God-speed! :-)
"to end the UK’s reputation as a high-risk jurisdiction for money laundering" hm, shouldn't it be "low-risk"?
Why? It's a legitimate criticism of these 2 companies. They essentially hold an oligopoly in the ad space and have openly committed to the destruction of any concept of privacy.

New account because you two continually ban me for this type of thing. I get this is mostly a site for the cult of the founder, but this is still a pretty lame response to one of the bigger issues in this industry.
also agree that best practices are presumptious nonsense.
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i saw a Dad the other day on a playground with his kid. The Dad stood there staring at his phone the entire time while "playing" with his kid.

Kinda sad to see this...
They need some address to register you at, and I guess they need consent from the owner of place where you are staying.
Don't know when you grew up, but computer games were already a thing before the internet became widely available.

(Of course, a video game is vastly more engaging and interactive than a random YouTube video.)
It's amazing to me that CNBC was able to pull such a long piece out of this. The image they used of Bezos is funny too, as if he was ashamed or something. I'm guessing he has a particularly good prime day since Amazon stock hit a new high.
It has the "everybody is an idiot except me" tone I associate with cranks.
Because its surprisingly easy to empathize with. The fundemental pattern of choosing between doing the right thing and doing the easy thing is all it really comes down to. The right thing isn't nearly as difficult to do as it sounds.
I don't remember it ever being said about radio. TV certainly, but mainly it became a common theme after the arrival of Sky in UK. Now the kids had 13 channels of shit on the TV to choose from, and even dedicated channels for effortless excess consumption.

For the early part of our kid's lives there was only an hour or two of kids TV a day - between end of school and around 5:30pm in time for the evening news. Limiting consumption was far easier.

Course there'd still be opportunity to watch soaps etc with parents
This isn't the government though, it's the legislation, isn't it?
TOTP != HOTP
Then someone else would be price-gouged. No company is putting effort into harvesting or mining personal data without an expectation of ROI, and that comes by increasing revenue and decreasing costs. Perhaps costs would go down for some individuals, but there would be an increase in others’ costs to more than compensate.

Otherwise, the company is wasting money.
They're "socially liberal" often more liberal even than the US Democratic party on issues of personal freedom like sex and drugs.
This is disabled by default because it doesn't entirely work. WebAuthn is fully implemented in Firefox, and on by default, but U2F is so far still much more common, and the U2F enabled by this feature switch is only kinda-sorta compatible.

Sites need to move to WebAuthn, which works with the same tokens and browsers (well, Chrome, Firefox, Edge) have either shipped or demo'd with a promise to ship. But right now today U2F works in a lot of places if you have Chrome whereas WebAuthn is mostly tech demos. The most notable website that has WebAuthn working today is Dropbox, seamless in Chrome or Firefox, any mainstream platform (including Linux) and all the tokens I have work. That's what everybody needs to be doing.
Yeah, and face 'liquidation' himself.
Unauthorized Access to or Acquisition of Chili’s Grill and Bar Guest Data
I generally agree with Weyl and Posner's position here in that we need to completely change people's perspective on the value of their data and how easily they give it away. So I don't want to distract from that point. However, I do want to also point out that data itself functions more like capital than it does like labour (although the act of providing data may be more similar to labour).

Capital is always the source of financial asymmetry between the labourers and the wealthy capital-owners. So instead of "selling" our data to companies for a fixed price, allowing them to exploit it forever, maybe we should be only renting companies the temporary right to use our data -- keeping the wealth asymmetry from growing.
The quality of content on TV is way better than YouTube. Thankfully my kids really like the learning series on Netflix (Umizoomi, True etc) instead of the horrible 'daddy finger' to cheap animation of babies which qualifies as 'child content' on YouTube.
Your comment sounds like a plug. You provide no value in your comments as to why certain advice worked and other didn’t. It seems that the purpose was to link your business on HN and then find a way to make it relevant to the discussion.

Audience loses at the expense of your company’s promotion.
Right, then set the fines at double that. With a minimum.

DO wish US regulators would wake up at some point, but their bribes (sorry, lobbying dollars) are paid on time.
They dont call us "consumers" for nothing....

soon they'll take away the keyboards and other ways/inputs to mess with the "insides" of a computer ... and all you'll have is a touch screen to choose this or that.. while consuming...actually thats happening already with iPad etc..
well, having just aborted a new job run by a person who pushed implicits, I came to realize the use of implicits essentially kept him one step ahead of others in understanding what explicitly his code was meant to do. Like a primal nerd turf war, for no group benefit.
As a PhD dropout myself, I understand entirely the decision of these students to distance themselves from what were obviously negative experiences for them.

Unlike those listed in this article, I actually ended up staying in my field of study for work, but psychologically it has been very difficult. When I'm confronted with situations that reminded of what could have been if I had finished my degree, I sincerely wish I could find a new career like these people, so different from my current one that I could finally leave behind those feelings of failure and inadequacy that grad school left me with.
I don't have to do any of that. I start with --inspect-brk, I open chrome devtools and click the nodejs icon that's automatically added.
My son has been able to keep in touch with friends and play video games with them online that he hasn’t seen in person in years.

They live in the same metro area but being an hour and half away in traffic they might as well be in different parts of the country.
One of the revelations of the VW scandal is that, when they actually comply with emissions standards, diesel engines are not cost- or efficiency-competitive; one interpretation of the events is the result of a failed overinvestment in a technology that didn't pan out.

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-looks-to-electric-car...
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Was that a store or a package manager ?
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Another similar project was Hashcash which would have a hard computing problem (inversing a sha256 hash) to be performed on each email sent. It also didn't catch on in its original purpose but it is famously used with cryptocurrencies. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
> The system of medicine (in the US, at least) is totally geared toward treating symptoms with a prescription.

Based on the anecdotes you provided here, it seems like your doctor is geared towards treating symptoms rather than conditions. They're not all like that - my doc won't give me an ambien perscription for sleeping while I travel, she won't put wy wife on BP meds until she tries 6 months of changes in diet and exercise, and is very very picky about perscribing antibiotics for most illnesses.

It sucks that your doctor isn't a good one, but the nice thing about the US system is that you generally have a choice in docs, so I'd suggest you go shopping!
What's stopping that company from offsetting the cost by selling the data to less scrupulous third parties?
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I am less likely to lose both at the same time as I am to lose just one, and you'd need both of them to get access to accounts.