skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your question has no simple answer because Pai's reasoning is based on suspect premises.

The California bill merely controls which vendors that the State of California can purchases services from. This type of regulation is premised on a long-established limitation on the extent of Federal powers; namely, that the Federal Government has no power to directly regulate State policies, and in particular its choice of vendors. The logic is that a State is a sovereign political entity, and sovereignty means that there must be a bright line somewhere where the State is completely independent.

As that line stands today, the vast majority of legal scholars would tell you that California is well within its rights to control the contractual terms with its vendors, free from Federal constraints.[1] In fact, the original bill was pulled and amended so ensure it fit squarely within these allowances. (At least, that's the story of the committee members who delayed it.) The closest SCOTUS has allowed the Federal government to control contractual policies of the State involved employment, where SCOTUS permitted enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act against State government employers. But it was a close call, most of the conservatives were in dissent, and almost all conservatives have subsequently at least paid lip-service to criticisms of that decision.

That said, there may be strong legal arguments that permit the Federal government to interpose themselves between the State and municipalities without moving that bright line. There are many ways to distinguish and distance municipalities from the State itself.

Also, it's becoming difficult to deny at this point that as conservatives have come to dominate the Federal government, conservative policy arguments have become increasingly supportive of stronger Federal regulatory powers. It's excused as a necessary evil for defending laissez faire economic principles[2], but that's just face-saving. And these arguments are being adopted by conservatives across the spectrum, including (and especially?) among jurists.

[1] At least constraints flowing from Commerce Clause powers. Constraints flowing from the 14th Amendment are a different matter because the 14th Amendment imposes explicit limitations on States and explicitly gives Congress legislative powers to enforce those limitations. But even then there's a bright line Congress cannot cross, albeit a more narrowly circumscribed line.

[2] And don't even get me started on the fact that Net Neutrality is, IMHO, a very pro free market policy. It's no more restrictive of a "free market" than are crimes prohibiting fraud. There comes a point at which one's freedom impinges upon the freedom of others to the extent that there's a net loss of economic freedom. Furthermore, there are many examples of market legislation intended to overcome transactional inefficiencies that inhibit or prevent markets from reaching more optimal outcomes. Its why we even have laws at all, rather than relying upon everybody to explicitly contract with everybody else for every little interaction.
I could ask Amiga X5000 owners the same. :D
You know what's worse? I actually paid to become a member last week and I STILL see ads!

A HUGE banner ad up the top and two big ads along the right hand side. Guess who'll be cancelling his fledgeling subscription?
> My point in the first paragraph is more that Amazon is only able to pay that amount because the government steps in. If there were no government aid, then they would need to pay more or not hire people.

No, if there was no government aid then people would be even more desperate for whatever pittance Amazon was offering; government aid increases wage demands two ways:

(1) moving people's starting income up increases wage demands because the declining marginal utility of money means that it takes more money to offset the disutility of performing servile labor.

(2) Means testing of aid programs (loss of benefits for outside income) means that it takes more than $1 of take home pay to net whatever the utility of $1 is, since some utility is lost to lost aid.

It's possible the total (not just wage) cost for labor would be higher without government aid, because the aid provides increased stability which makes it easier to hire and easier to retain workers, by enough to offset the higher wage demands. But that's, at best, a non-obvious conclusion.
Privacy is their best feature and it seems like they are doubling down.

Indeed. Between that and the imminent arrival of dual-SIM iPhones, I may actually want to buy something here.

And yet, for all the information Apple provide about security and privacy, including much talk of end-to-end encryption in some cases, I have so far been unable to determine the fundamental way that all of their online services work and whether they have access to (for example) any photos I take or messages I send from the phone, if I choose to use iCloud services. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
A misdemeanor can still result in up to 12 months of jail time, though...
The bottom of page says last updated in 2013, but the name has been changed and the latest version does seem to be 0.10. This was previously called camlistore.

Is it still the case that you can't delete anything? Although rarely needed, that seems like a showstopper these days. Irreversible actions are bad UI.
This is basically what I think. Why traverse the universe when you can upload your brains into a matrix type simulation and place your hardware in orbit around a brown dwarf and then live basically forever. No one will ever find you.
InteriorNet: Mega-Scale Multi-Sensor Photo-Realistic Indoor Scenes Dataset
My Nokia N900 is 9 years in daily use now and still going strong.
If the police really wanted to deal with property crime, they'd go after the pawn shops and the fences, and the scrappers buying stolen copper.

No, that wouldn't stop people stealing things for their own use, but it would hit the professional thieves hard.
> So, just curious, how does filtering out spam work, if the email provider does not have access to the contents?

Much (most?) of spam filtering is done using DKIM/SPF/DMARC/ARC, domain reputation, and IP reputation, none of which require access to the contents.

I'm not saying that you should go and make all your email subjects "Free herbal viagra" or whatever, but modern spam filtering algorithms revolve somewhat less around those kinds of trigger phrases than they used to.

Also, spam is by definition sent in bulk, so as long as the emails are hitting either some accounts on other email providers or else are hitting some honeypots on ProtonMail then you still get the benefit of being able to have the sender blacklisted based on the contents.
> Since you're accessing IPFS files over their proxy they can modify the response you receive, since at that point it's just like any other website.

Correct, but gateways aren't intended to be final solutions. They're compromises targeted at increasing adoption. You wouldn't try and reinvent the internet - you'd make the interoperable where possible, such that adopters can still send normal links, etc.
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I'd rather have a three-day weekend and work 10 hours in a day.
I'm guessing the JVM not being implemented for it
Not so much a question, but I wanted to thank you for the project. It's hit a sweet spot of configurability, stability, and performance for me, all without the baggage or caveats alternatives have. It's been my terminal of choice for a while now. Keep up the good work.
Its not the technical part. Overall i even think that technically, IPFS has a superior model. I understand it works, and how it works.

What im saying is the control of whats important in a organic form is no there yet. The protocol controls what blocks the peers serve and people dont have much of a saying into it.

But given IPFS its layered in a good design, this could be changed and the block scheduling/routing could be binded more to this organic page-rank by letting people control more which blocks they serve, being more content aware.

This could be even done in a topic level, say you are ok to serve "free software". I guess that if you guys implemented something like that, giving some control to the peers of what they serve, it will be much more easy to sell the concept to everybody.
Stripe might be taking 30% of that 3% and passes 70% to payment networks. please look at adeyn balance sheet(https://www.adyen.com/investor-relations)
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I know it is mostly a bunch of boring kids who like to be edgy to piss people off, but for me 4chan is an example of a successful community on what it does. I really think they far surpass HN in many areas : creativity, being in touch with popular culture/trends, willingness to take action,self-censorship, etc.
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it’s not in waze beta yet either though
That seems awfully cynical to me. What about weekends? Why not work those? Seems like you're quite the freeloader yourself!

The reality is that the work day is based on an arbitrary factory schedule. There's no reason to maintain it. Moving to 6 hours or 4 days absolutely works. Its just going to be less people padding their time on reddit and facebook.
I've been on the beta with my SE for a few months, you should be fine.
Shortening the work day by 25% is an interesting idea in theory though unfortunately it is a pretty big leap for most companies to actually implement.

A smaller and more manageable idea which I am trying to instill in my company is to create a culture where it is not necessary to check in while on vacation or once you are off the clock.
Property crimes are not punished in California and the problem is acute when Gun ownership is also discouraged. While techies in bay area might only see an occasional car break-ins or theft the problem in Central and northern California is of theft of copper wires, fence wires, illegal dumping etc.

I worked with lot of self help groups in California and learned that the cops and prosecutors would rather go after soft targets than real criminals. For example catching those kids stealing $1000 worth of stuff from store requires a cop to run after them fight with those kids (which sometimes might turn fatal). The cop would rather catch a normal kid in wrong place at wrong time because that kid will not fight back.

While compassionate criminal justice reform is needed I think we should also pay attention to the fact that law obedience does not wither away.
Contiki used to run on the Commodore 64 and have a desktop UI. Someone even used it to make a Twitter client for the C64, called Breadbox64.

http://www.c-64.org/pics/os/contiki1.html

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Contiki-C64.png

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Contiki
Challenges of Context and Time in RL: Introducing Space Fortress as a Benchmark
As far as I know (and can see on my 7+) there are no visisble improvements. But 3rd party apps e.g. like Halide can use the new APIs for more accurate background blur.
British Cave Rescuer Is Officially Suing Elon Musk for Calling Him a Pedophile
Does it really matter what a company talks about when they interview employees? Prevailing culture that is shaped by what the organization rewards seems way more important.
CAN: Generating Art by Learning About Styles and Deviating from Style Norms
Mt. Gox Creditor: Payouts May “Completely Crash the Market”
Medicine is famous for 12+ hour shifts. However, it's demonstrable that this costs peoples lives as people make more mistakes in hours 8-12+. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4629843/
Yeah I assumed I'd need to use Testflight, but it's not even there yet.
Can someone clarify what the use-case is for this new functionality? I've regularly used POS stripe devices based on iPads, is the idea this allows Stripe to be used on proprietary POS devices?
Marijuana and Tobacco are not cool anymore for kids. Part of the reason why Vaping became a fad is because the youngsters did not bother with all kinds of smoking.

The numbers show that teenage drinking and smoking has been going down year on year since the 90s. Vaping changed at but I think that trend is a short lived too.
Thanks, this is good advice. I'll try it.
That's the joke basically... they took the Amiga approach at simplicity. Amazingly, Amiga's UI primitives were nothing but that. Maybe have programmers get a general idea about what the UI needs to feel like and what events are being handled. The simplicity of it is what makes it useful, and these concepts, if you put them into C directly translate to modern systems.

The variables never moved in 30 years. Stop adding visual effects if all you aim for is operational swiftness.
there already is one for Visual Studio!

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/development-kit

It's actually a reasonable way to play around with simulations of quantum algorithms, much nicer than multiplying huge matrices which is typically what you'd otherwise do when learning. But it is a little silly that we have a quantum IDE before a usable quantum computer has been built.
There are a dozen gaskets along your car's power train that will set you back multiple times that amount if they fail, yet they don't and you trust them not to.

Of course, if you let your kid reassemble either your power train or your $1500 iPhone without supervision, the results will be exactly as you describe, but also entirely your own damn fault.
It's got zero (0) new features that interest me.
>where leisure is doled out to peasants for productivity reasons.

This also pisses me off. We can only have things to be "more productive." If we always had this attitude then we'd never have the weekend.

I imagine its the most politically acceptable way to sell this argument. "Sure, we're all going home at 3, but hey, the businesses still make money so why not?"

I suspect management's ancient ideas of "meetings" and "face time" are killing this little revolution. A lot of middle managers are little more than meetings bullshitters and cutting their main value is going to scare them.
It's incredible how organic it feels for something so compact. The interaction with the grass is just so right. You never cease to amaze at turning code into, just exquisite design. Thanks for all your work.
Also, our society is set up so that once you are labeled a criminal, that label sticks with you for the rest of your life. Many aspects of legitimate law-abiding life, particularly employment and housing, get harder once you’ve been convicted of something, even after you’ve served your time. Every application that asks for your criminal history or “have you ever been convicted” cements this class distinction.

If we want fewer repeat offenders, maybe we should stop punishing them after they fulfill their punishment.
Many of Aaple’s privacy and encryption efforts have come in response to the US government’s demand for data. If they don’t have access to data or never stored it, the government can’t seize it. Note that the US government’s response to this is to demand encryption back doors.

Best case scenario for the future is that these demands will be made publicly so we’ll know it’s not secure.
In EU I work for company taking 0.3% on debit cards and 0.9% for CC. Additional 0.02€ per transaction.
How to be alone.

Not all the time, of course. But solo reading, solo building-stuff, and solo walking/cycling are my fondest childhood memories and on the whole I think they've stood me in pretty good stead. It's worth making some space and time for solitude.
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It's not ideal, but one flow I end up using at some points is tmux-as-grep. Basically, something either gets dumped to terminal, and I use tmux's search. So then, for a combo of reasons (some good, some bad) I cat files to terminal on occasion, and I use tmux's search to find something in it.

The idea isn't that the I'm processing at the throughput rate of the emulator - it's more that a low throughput rate delays when I can start actually looking for something useful.
Try instagram
>> Its on the http://vanishingradient.net/ (now defunct), with the small "i"

Ah - thanks, its amazing how I tend to become "blind" to errors in my own writing!

Great point about the "cto" suffix! I once applied for a CTO position, and saved the tailored version of my resume at that time with a "cto" suffix. Since then I have been using modified versions of that resume, but I must get rid of the suffix now.

I held the top 1% rank in 2014. I'm not active on Kaggle anymore. They have since changed the way they calculate rankings, and you lose your rank if you don't stay active. As a result, while I still have my Kaggle profile, its now unranked. I figure its easier to explain this when asked, rather than link to a profile page that seems to contradict the claimed achievement.
I think the issue is being a bank vs owning a bank.
Ok, rigging a polling place in a well-designed system under rule of law is not viable.

Consider the Minnesota example. In MN, all physical ballot handling, whether marked or unmarked, sealed or unsealed, must be done in the presence of members of at least two different political parties. Since the only ways to rig an election at the polling place are to either add, remove, or substitute ballots, this makes such fraud extremely difficult to do, especially at scale.
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I think you should, it is the best iOS release since the original iOS.

The SE has the internal of 6s, and I was originally planning to upgrade my 6s Plus to Xr, but after iOS 12 update I am convinced this phone will last me another year if not more, assuming subsequent iOS update don't slow my phone again. It just felt as if it was new when it came with iOS 9.
Canopy brings real‐time notifications to GitHub
And it is also hard to miss that the racial distribution of the prisoners is very skewed. HN likes customer acquisition probability funnels, you can apply a similar technique looking at how poorer and more minority schools have more police presence on campus, causing those juvenile populations to experience harsher consequences for the same crimes as more wealthy schools, leading to more detention sentences for a subgroup, leading to "crime college" and onward until we arrive at one input to the wealth gap between minority families and others.
Exactly. I signed up with stripe maybe 5 years ago. At that time, I was trying to find a processor, and came close to signing with a bank. The bank wanted me to sign a long-term agreement, the agreement had disadvantageous and confusing terms with unclear costs, and it was more expensive than stripe at baseline. The sales process was really sleezy: I only discovered all those terms because I read the contract carefully before signing.

Before that I used two other processors, both of which had a confusing mix of monthly and per-transaction fees.

If you are a very, very large business, maybe you can do better than stripe. But if you are small or even medium size, I am skeptical there is a better deal out there.
No, Asian food isn't going to be much better. It's the Western food that is by a lot.
Nvidia researchers generate synthetic brain MRI images for AI research
Is it? have you read the average nodeJS application?
Wait, so California made if very hard to put a youngster in juvenile detention, and the number of youngsters juvenile detention plummeted. Is there some deep meaning behind this that I am missing? It's like saying "we reclassified most crimes from felony to misdemeanor and the number of felonies decreased dramatically!" Well, duh!

The thing to check would be what happened to crime/reoffense rates. And then making conclusions. But that didn't happen in the article.
Hmmm how is this different from Box/Dropbox etc?
Yeah there's NO feedback. Even rejection emails were rare. All I got was "ghosting" from recruiters... even those I met in person.
There is an iPhone Time Capsule... it's called iTunes and it has support full, encrypted device backups via home Wifi for years...
> To get the protections, you’ll have to break your habit of using Google’s Chrome browser, which by some estimates has more than half of the worldwide browser usage. Safari and Firefox have less than 20 percent combined.

This point is key here. I switched to FF about 6 months ago and every time I'm showing something to co-workers they will usually remark how unusual it is that I'm not using Chrome. Chrome is the de facto engineer's browser and for good reasons to boot. Here's hoping FF catches up and becomes that some day.
Where does it store the data?
eval() is a pretty opt-in security vuln, and there are ways of doing the equivalent in statically typed languages.

Logic errors are pretty hard to quantify, but if there're stats on vulnerabilities caused by logical errors that could only happen in languages without strong types I'd love to see them.

Meanwhile there's a whole class of vulnerabilities attributable to lack of memory safety that are pretty easily distinguished, including some of the most notorious (cloudbleed, heartbleed).
Show HN: Kinese, an aid for immersive Chinese Reading
"Limited" is relative, and in this new world you can have perfectly successful product while not being "affordable". But ofcourse you have to have other things, like brand awareness or a good value/dollar
22 years ago I worked for company that gave us Friday afternoons off. We worked 8-5pm and on Friday 8-1pm. That gave employees time to schedule doctors or dental appointments, leave early for the weekend, or run errands. Best job schedule I ever had. This kept employees at work and not taking time off mid week. Working with his schedule insured a very productive group of employees.
You can now link your RH account (and many other brokers) directly to Yahoo Finance and trade and track your portfolio in real-time, so really it's even better than them becoming a broker.
This isn't about American vs. non-American workers. It can be hard/impossible for most humans to do quality mental work for extended stretches of time.
You’ll find Apple’s best AI in its camera
The number 1 reason is that you're operating an older, insecure version of iOS and you could get your entire device compromised just by getting a malicious text message or visiting the wrong web page.
The hand of one is the hand of all. If they come as a group and together steal $500 x 5 it isn't merely 5 misdemeanors its 5 participants in one felony.
Most phone perform the best with their original release of iOS. So 6 with iOS8, and 6s with iOS 9 etc....

So far I think iOS 12 brings back some of the original performance if not more. So I think it may not be faster, but shouldn't be any slower.
Amazon confirms investigation into suspected employee bribery and data leaks
is this article written with a US person being the one storing their mail?

Because as a non US citizen, not having to touch US providers is quite a big plus in my book.
Almost half of US cellphone calls will be scams by next year
We could bring back large-scale public executions.

Make the punishment for shoplifting being tortured to death in a public square, and the cost of prison will go down. Sounds shocking to you? It used to be the standard in the Western world, until just a couple of centuries ago.
https://sessionbox.io/discover
Feynman wrote about simulating physics with quantum computers: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~christos/classics/Feynman....
I can see no source claiming that Gell-Mann ever experienced this effect first hand. In which case Chrichton's may have nothing to do with the physicist and the effect is merely a fabrication of the writer's imagination. In any case, we should really ask 'is science journalism really that bad?'- do experts in the field find it to be incorrect.
New-style TripAdvisor aims to be the world's first ‘travel feed’
In some countries that could make them vulnerable to huge lawsuits

In some countries it could be leveraged to put government-sponsored spyware on everyone's phones.

And by "some" I mean "all."