skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the flip side, increased awareness of the little buggers is probably better for bite victims.

The mother of one of my childhood friends in chilly New Hampshire went to the hospital with a rash a few years back and several visits emerged missing a chunk of her back about the size of a tennis ball. Having never seen one, the doctors never even considered she might have a dangerous spider bite.
I think it’s less suggesting a conspiracy and more suggesting media hysteria and lack of fact checking. It relates to the Gell-Mann: a lot of the media, and especially local TV news, is really terrible and careless about their coverage of technical subjects
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Or using distortion in WiFi signals to record keystrokes.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/keystroke_rec...
I think it's safe to say that bugs are way more predominant in software that used to be reliable. It's not that the software was completely bug free, it's the quantity and quality of the bugs now being presented.
I'm surprised how many people crave some sort of grade or score like an insurance appraisal when it comes to their footprint. I guess so if it's high, they can guilt themselves into reducing it, and if it's low, they can guilt others into reducing theirs (good luck with the second part).

There's also a big "cosmo-quiz" element here, where certain aspects involve a temptation to lie to yourself in order to get the score you feel you "deserve".

If I told you a cross-section of passengers on the RMS Titanic was comparing their relative contributions to the momentum of the ship toward the iceberg, you'd probably gain a different perspective on the question you asked.

A few nits here:

•I work from home

In what country, what kind of industry, and what kind of home? A coal commodities trader in Australia vs. a wind turbine designer in Denmark might make for a huge swing.

•drive 10k miles a year

Bumper-to-bumper or wide open high-speed driving? There's at least a threefold difference in those two numbers, with bumper-to-bumper using far less carbon.

•eat beef once a month

What about chicken? almonds? grapes? corn? Coca-Cola? The relative carbon footprints of each food would be necessary to know. Beef itself has a radically different footprint whether consumed in say, Texas, Brazil, or Japan.

•16 flights a year

On your own personal GulfStream V, or crammed in to full-up Spirit A321's? The former is a huge use of fuel whereas the latter uses fewer gallons of fuel per mile per person than driving an SUV alone.

•I buy little stuff

Wait until you reproduce, move, or your government expands. This is not a place you can commit savings and I think a lot of people struggle to accept this. Further, the stuff you buy can almost be inversely proportional in terms of transportation infrastructure requirements. Someone who gets one small Amazon package a month living on an Alaskan island with millions of dollars of bridge-to-nowhere infrastructure would be far bigger a carbon producer than a shopaholic clothes-horse living on a major Manhattan thoroughfare.
You do have to find noncritical work to silo those who have proven themselves useless or actively harmful into, if you can't remedy their deficiencies or get rid of them.
Is there a problem in what we might call a meta-framework like agile in that it requires the "good people" that Martin Fowler talks about when the reality is that most of our teams are at least partially average?

People have to learn examples of its implementation but are either not knowledgable enough or trusted enough to start doing things their own way, which causes the rigidity that everyone is talking about.

That and the fact that tooling is not something that most people can knock up in a few days so we relay on the software and its somewhat rigid processes which means we aren't free to innovate fully anyway.

It's a bit like complaining that most musicians only do music the way they learned at college and do not adapt to the "principles of music".
I would like it if laptops had a semi-persistent storage area that you could only flash after authenticating, and then you could enter a password if you needed to unlock your persistent data. It's a great way to ensure you don't get any viruses, but it seems a bit too inconvenient for everyday use.
Apple sells a walled garden that controls what software you can use, forces upgrades by forbidding repairs and slowing down old phones with software updates, and sells more dongles by eliminating features and changing ports in every generation of their products.

I admit they are better than Google on the privacy issue, but should we be grateful for having an alternative that abuses us in different ways?
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I doubt many are worse off, and of the stories about lost fringe benefits there was a telling lack of details. In reality people got a raise and thought "Why not both?"

However I think Amazon gave raises simply because they needed to recruit and retain. In my area Amazon runs "we're hiring...if you're alive you get a job, no resume no interview" constantly year round, so they clearly have a pressing need. At some point running the ads and constantly hiring is more expensive than just paying a more competitive rate.
I believe it. My three-year-old was in my lap when I was mousing around and did something that didn't work. But my older son had been messing with the settings and instead of a Bing! got a dog growling.

He was out the door in like 2 seconds. And he'd never met a dog in his life at that point. Yet he knew.
Growing up in California, I was always fearful of black widows. I had no idea the availability of antivenom was so great.
> insertion and deletion can be done purely top-down, with O(1) expected restructuring time and exponentially infrequent occurrences of expensive restructuring. Certain kinds of deterministic balanced search trees, in particular weak AVL trees and red-black trees achieve these bounds in the amortized sense [3], but at the cost of somewhat complicated update algorithms.

It's a neat, novel data structure with O(1) typical insert and delete times. Very cool!
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Looks like this study is about people with mild vision problems. As I said before, I know some people with more limited vision (myopia with more than 10 diopters, optical nerve damage, etc), and all of them prefer light letters on dark background. Myself I can hardly read on paper or a paper-white screen. Whatever science may say, this is how I experience it! :)
How silly of you to assume one can deliver 2kb of text without running thousands of lines of blackbox-javascript on your device and contacting dozens of servers. Besides, do you have anything to hide? Not running JS would suggest so, and possible help identify you online as the one guy that doen't run JS from your IP range. Welcome to the future.
Cool - I love them and have several, but did not investigate much beyond hunting around to snag them for way less than retail. IIRC one was being advertised as Stokke.
And Chicago and all over Illinois highways where road construction is underway (though I doubt they actually use them on the highways).
Oh yeah, THAT "most impacting" guy in human history..
I don't get Tim Cook and especially the PR style love of him and apple here.

1. Tim Cook accepts billions to make google the default search on apple products.

2. Tim Cook works with/colludes with the chinese government to sell apple products ( god knows what info they are sharing with the chinese government )

3. Tim Cook loves exploiting near-slave chinese labor ( some who commit suicide ).

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-30532463

4. Apple intentionally avoids taxes via offshoring loopholes and tax shelters.

5. Apple itself is one of the largest "data industrial complex". Just because apple doesn't sell data at the moment, doesn't mean they don't collect it.

In the pantheon of evil corporate enterprises, Apple is right up there with everyone else. If Tim Cook is serious about what he says rather than just playing the PR game, then fix Apple.
funny how neuroscientists use terms such as "computation" and "(more) computing power", with no proper definition
The quietus does a lot of charts that are worth checking out, my music consumption spikes a lot around their releases. It's heavily focused on contemporary music and often read from a very left-wing political view. Another good hub is the /mu/ archive and their charts although it's kind of oblique by design, so ymmv. (A favorite of mine is the How do I into Jazz archive)
It must be difficult to uphold such strong principles for the free world while routing all your Chinese customer data through government surveillance servers. I guess it's better than the alternative- not selling in your (2nd?) largest market.
Oh yeah, I'd have zero problem not knowing about cultures that were already living their own live minding their own business. You know researchers today have a rule to not pollute or disrupt ecosystems they study. Constrating.
I don't see it advocating leaving out details at all. I see it suggesting that if you know the necessary steps or figure them out when you wonder why things are taking time, they become easy mechanisms for identifying if there's a communications problem (that again may reflect other problems). Whether or not you expressly communicates the next step at the start is incidental to that (at some point you stop breaking things down in further detail; no matter how detailed your plans are) - the only point is the existence of a required step that can be verified independently of a team or team member that is not being open with you about the real progress.

> Perhaps I've been blessed with excellent team members, but I've only encountered a handful of truly lazy people.

But it's not necessarily about being lazy, but about people juggling multiple priorities, and finding it easier to fob people off with a "working on it" than explaining why their likely totally legitimate reasons have prevented them from getting further. Yes, this signals organisational issues with communication, but being aware this implies a problem does not make it go away - people don't like being the bearers of bad news, so it typically takes a lot of work to get visibility in these type of situations.

Often this is people trying hard to do their best, and delivering as fast as they can, just doing it by sacrificing taking time for feedback to stakeholders.

> Engineering tasks to have hidden canaries is trying to solve the uncommon problem (lazy professionals), by exacerbating the more common problem (ambiguity during a coordinated effort).

You don't need to engineer tasks to have hidden canaries. For most tasks there will be canaries all over the place. The article even explicitly makes the point she has not set anything like this up intentionally, but have seen them when wondering why tasks take a long time.

And this would also reveal ambiguities: Maybe the cause is that the team is building something, but it's different from what you expect and so doesn't affect the canary. In which case that is still a valuable indicator of a problem you may not have caught as quickly otherwise.
I would wager they think it's confusing and possibly dangerous.

How many people would leave it on as they drive away from home, and then struggle with their phones as they're driving?

Apple doesn't generally expose more options than it thinks a substantial number of people need. That's a UX decision, not a "Apple wants to track you forever" evil business decision.

I'll admit I wouldn't mind an option like this, but I'm fine with three levels of location service controls for apps.
Afraid to use the lanai, Blanche?

(sincerest apologies, I just couldn't resist) :D
Ehm. I never said that Apple sells your data. No idea what your point is.
Police departments do not rely on ticket revenue. Cities do. In many cases, a step up in traffic violations is done by a request by a town councilman who may have been pressured by constituents complaining and not revenue.

Source: business contacts with police and relative who is an officer.
Given the age of software industry we are quite late to the party, hence relearning history.

I still look forward to proper quality assessment and responsibility like in other industries.
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A lot of them are probably shrugging because they have 0 interest in Perl, and you telling them more about Perl is not going to change their mind.

I personally could not care less about Perl 6’s speed, I will never use it anyways.
I agree with you in that that's how things would go nowadays, but maybe we should scrutinize more what Wall Street is contributing to, instead of taking it as "something that happens and there's nothing we can do about it".
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Frustration comes from laws and punishments that are optimized for less than 100% enforcement (i.e., harsh punishments for those who actually get caught) being enforced 100% of the time. Laws and punishments should be updated to account for the likelihood of enforcement.
There are dozens of Scheme implementations. Are they all obsolete now that Racket exists and Chez Scheme is free? I don't think so! There are lots of sweet spots and lots of implementation to fill the niches. This is something I really like about Scheme!

Scheme 9 is small, super-portable (it only requires a C89 compiler, no libraries, no language extensions), and quite easy to grok if you are into studying the internals.

Edit: typos. This is what you get for replying right after your afternoon nap. :)
I don’t think that’s safe to say at all. I’d love to see research that backed that up.

If anything I’d say we might be exposed to more bugs because the quantity of software has gone up, not that quality has gone down.
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What has AlephOne been up to since?
So much better, cooler, more romantic than 'Ask again later'. We settle for so little. Sigh.
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It puts it more in the range of plane crashes. They're not good, but they are rare, even if you're flying on a plane regularly.

And then you have California, which is terrified of plane crashes, either that they might be in one or that they're in the middle of one right now, even though they never fly and have no need or intention of ever flying.
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Apparently that's not the case, since a lot of skilled third party repair shops can charge you less by disassembling and fixing the issue instead of swapping out parts.
Living the american dream as in being self employed and attempting to make your mark. America reveres the self starter and the entrepreneur. Unfortunately for small business owners that can often mean not being able to afford insurance. They did not choose to have no insurance, they were poor. Perhaps life choices led them to being poor but to suggest it was a cognizant choice is a little disingenuous.
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Each of your complaints is because of a well-designed compromise (app quality/safety; preventing abrupt phone shutdown; removing a common failure point). You may disagree with the compromises, sure.

PS: I own zero Apple devices (partly because of the reasons you have, not for the way you are misrepresenting those reasons).
> Apple really do seem to be trying to do right by their customers in most cases

Another possibility is that they don't have to take advantage of their users' data because their business is largely a hardware business, with the software a loss-leader.

It might seem like a distinction without a difference but one has to consider intent when scoring individuals and companies' moral high ground.
People already don’t care about carbon emissions. Those on the right think it’s a hoax or humans aren’t causing climate change, those on the left largely pay lip service, but still do very little.
That's a very good question. The answer is, "it depends".

For the 80% case, on x86_64, I consider them more or less equivalent. KVM is used daily in anger to provide isolation (e.g. GCE, and now ChromeOS) and has been around much longer but you need to trust hardware virtualization which is a large attack surface on the CPU itself. Given what we've learned about CPU vulnerabilities over the last year, I wouldn't be surprised to find some lurking in the VT-x/SVM implementations.

Seccomp OTOH is difficult to use correctly for arbitrary/existing applications but exposes less of the kernel (depending on your metric, see our paper) and does not need hardware virtualization.

For the 20% case, where the stakes are higher (e.g. High Assurance), I would use something like Muen or SeL4 and run a disaggregated system on top of that.
I don't want to sound rude, but if you don't know how this works perhaps you'd like to hire legal and accounting professional services from the country where your company is registered. HN comments won't shield you from thousands of euros in fines, double taxation, possibly tax evasion charges and other issues you really should know about before trying to manage a business.
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I don't disagree with you, that was deceptive, but man, I could so see myself making that blunder; the developer meant they won't be stored by the Location History tool, whereas the users reasonably read it as meaning by Google.
> I'm zero'ing in on your use of the word 'extremism' because it's a loaded term meant to paint your target as outrageous and unreasonable.

It's not. I'm using it the same way far-left journalists use it. If sargon and dankula are extremists, so are they.

> That said you also mentioned protests as a form of extremism. That's worrying.

I mention antifa and protests for a reason. Seeing as how invested you seem to be, it's obvious to me you already know what I am talking about. As I said, if you truly don't know what I'm talking about, you could easily google it yourself. There are plenty of evidence of violence by the lunatic extremist left supported by the far left media.

I normally would never link to a washingtonpost article but I suspect it's the only one you'd accept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/2...
Even better, do so in person and then follow up with an email summarizing what was discussed and what clarification you expect in order to proceed.
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That’s not civil disobedience. In civil disobedience you blatantly and publicly violate an unjust law with the intention of being punished so that the public will be repulsed by the injustice of it. I don’t think anyone is going to cry for you if you get a ticket for not having a front plate. You’re doing it to avoid the consequences of a separate illegal act.
I agree, that "health tourism" isn't really a thing, however my use of the term "open-borders" was in reference to how detractors of universal healthcare, (mostly on the right), in the U.S. straw man it as meaning that it means the entire Latin America moving to the U.S. Putting aside the implied supremacy of the U.S. etc., I just wanted to point out that this is not what people like Bernie are arguing for and is therefore a total strawman.
If the "It's broke here is a new one" is accompanied by a bill for another $1500 I'm not so sure, I as a customer will be happy...
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There's a old reddit post about how to win the lottery well. It's one of the most fascinating things I've read. https://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/whats_the_...
While I suspect the same thing (why wouldn’t FB access at least the meta data from all photos), I wonder if you have a source or proof for that.

Also, how does that work with GDPR compliance if the UI clearly doesn’t ask for my consent that all photos are somehow accessed and maybe even uploaded?
> “If you have reason on your side don’t fear to challenge Google.”

I like this. People forget that just because you agreed to a contract, it doesn't mean you have to put up with everything in it as a court might disagree with the facts and circumstances.
Hm. The amount of starvation, disease and hardship in the old days are not to be wished on anyone. The world coming into communication has its upside too.

Granted, the New World suffered grievously by contact - an estimate 100M dead from diseases they were unequipped to handle. So there's that.
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>We need to get between grams and a count of molecules, that's the number.

I think that number is only true for carbon-12.

>but then we would have some other arbitrary constant we would have to memorize to go from grams to a count of molecules.

I think we already have to do that, hence molar mass.
Perhaps it is cynicism, but I'm pretty sure this is just Apple exploiting a competitive edge, and does not necessarily reflect his own opinion, he is speaking to benefit the company.

Of course, it's very nice that Apple made the decision to pick this edge, but they did it because they could not compete with Google on web services. So now they're publicly speaking to try and take the sting out of Google's edge. And that's healthy competition, the direct result will be that the consumer benefits, and I can agree we can be grateful to have these powerhouses fighting for our satisfaction.
Apple's App Store policies are about far more than app quality or safety. Apple has banned many apps for political or financial reasons.

Slowing down old phones without notice or permission wasn't the best response to aging batteries. Even Apple didn't deny it was wrong. They apologized, once they were caught.

And the MagSafe connector was not a common failure point.
You’re seeing those spikey looking egg sacs? I’d address that somehow. That’s terrifying.
Just because you like them, should that trump significant threats to the environment or or civilisation?

I rather like spending money, but I know I only have a certain budget. Consequently I only spend what money is available rather than only depending on how much I want things.

I feel we should look at the environment in the same way; decide our carbon budget, and work within what's possible according to that, rather than start with what is palatable to the individual and working backwards.

Keeping our environment habitable seems like something we have to do rather than a nice-to-have.
The only problem is that Apple is the Mercedes of mobile devices. We really need a Honda and Kia version, a more affordable device that doesn’t track you.

Apple is never going to give up their premium position.
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The author actually has to clarify what they meant in the paper, as RAM carries state as well.

> state-carrying (persistence-carrying)

So what would be more accurate, I think, is "Persistence considered harmful".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(computer_science)#Progr...
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I used to work at a place where we had to do retros at the end of every sprint. But people would try to theme them?

e.g. World Cup themed retro, describe how the sprint went for you as one of the World Cup teams.

Christ, really? What nonsense.

It just ended up with cringey comments as people try to shoehorn something into being world cup related (or whatever the theme was). Just silly.
I would like a phone/laptop where you can take sexy pictures and be sure they stay on the phone, and be sure they get deleted when you delete them.

Think I can get VC money for this idea?