skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the main issue that the product is marketing as a checking account? If robinhood marketed this as an investment bank account would they comply?
After watching a Defcon talk about the idea that transponders self-indicate their position without signature, so it would be possible to clutter ATC and make the panic, I was under the impression that rogue transponders couldn’t safely be dismissed, just in case it were actually the 747 it claims to be.
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Zina Lahr (2014)
For a very long time in the US (up to 1970's in Alaska) one had the homestead act that allowed people to claim a large amount of land (160 acres) if you lived on it for five years and improved it. There was a huge amount of land available and this "free" land would create a lot of rural population. People from all over the world came to get a chance to own land. Impossible in Europe basically for a person to be able to own land as just a laborer. Most of this land in the lower 48 was gone by 1900 or so and this is what people are referring to when they talk about the closing of the American frontier.
He repeatedly stated that did consumed large quantities of alcohol in late high school and in college. Maybe there is diagreement over the exact degree of inebriation, but I am not so sure it's correct to say he lied. Regardless, the two points after are where the problematic nature of the complaints against Kavanaugh surface:

> who sometimes shoved his penis in women’s faces,

Another allegation which he denies. As I predicted, the core complaint is that he denies the allegations made against him. This is effectively constructing a situation in which the accused is guilty of something no matter what. Either 1) the accused does not defend themselves and is guilty of the alleged crimes, or 2) the accused does defend themselves, but in the world view you've constructed this makes them guilty of hostility and disrespect.

> and demonstrated some contrition

Contrition for what? He denies said allegations. Again, when you get to the bottom of it this is essentially criticizing the fact that Kavanaugh maintained his innocence. This is what was so pernicious about the Kavanaugh hearings that bothered even me, a lifelong Democrat. The fact that merely trying to defend oneself against an allegations is grounds for negative character judgement is at odds with the core principles of justice.

> and sign of personal growth, I and many others would have some respect for it.

If going from a binge drinking teenager to Supreme Court nominee (let alone Justice) doesn't demonstrate personl growth I don't know what does. This is greater growth than most people on HN will likely achieve (myself included).

Update: It appears the above poster had since edited their comment. My response took a while to write, so it could be that their edit was made before my response was done. I urge commenters not to assume bad faith on their part.
>I was seriously asking if these small town communities can act as a sort of buffer during recessions because of their relative isolation, thereby limiting negative effects.

It goes both ways though, because they're small towns, they can have their own recessions that have little to do with national recessions. When a factory is shuttered, it can have devastating affects for a small town, much worse than a typical recession, but nobody outside that community would notice much.

This has been happening all over the rural US for the past 20 years. Everyone talks about the past 8 years of stock market booms, and low unemployment but there are a lot of small towns all over the US that are getting crushed by globalization. Nobody talks about because the problems are local to those towns, but for those that live there, the problems are very real and dire.
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You are going to have to define free-will.

I think that the same person put into the same situation makes the same choices. So it is the result of history. There is the chance that neurons fire semi-randomly, potentially meaning someone might connect a different thought given the same scenario.

Either way, does it matter? Are those things free will? I believe people can chose thier actions. They can choose to be better or worse or any of a million other things. This ability to choose is free will, and is independent of determinism. Even if it is an illusion (and you are just successive, deterministic events), it is important that people chose to be who they are. That is how society can exist.
Or you can open a Fidelity/Schwab account and buy U.S. Government T-Bills with no transaction costs or markup. 6-month T-Bills are currently yielding 2.54% and they're exempt from state taxes.
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological tangents. That leads to equal parts tedium and nastiness—just what we don't want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, Samuel Slater smuggling trade secrets was a consequence, not a reason, of the same sound logic that also makes China ignore the IP laws of other countries: if there's a group of other people with a mutually beneficial agreement, who expect you to play by their rules without getting any of the benefits, then fuck 'em.
As well as https://crossbrowsertesting.com
...for a certain value of 'active' (do they say how it's defined?) My experience of internet companies has generally been that user figures are somewhat exaggerated (to put it politely).
JFC it's because hair stylists use chemicals that can be dangerous if used incorrectly!!!
I see. I was hoping for suggestions on more local/individual approaches.
An example of this I heard once is:

For a given car, there is no correlation between whether or not a car battery is dead or a fuel pump is broken.

However if you have a car that does not start, if you test the battery and it is working, you can now consider it more likely that the fuel pump is broken (because you have ruled out one cause of the car not starting, all other causes are now more likely).

This means that if you were to gather statistics about batteries and fuel pumps of all cars taken into the auto shop, you would find that there is a negative correlation between broken batteries and broken fuel pumps, despite this being clearly nonsensical for the general population.
Yeah when I was skiing 3-5 days a week at Mammoth, I met a lot of physicians and business owners on the lifts. Some astounding conversations too, a middle aged group using a private jet to hop between resorts.

It's impossible to not notice the atmosphere of rich white people at any winter resort.
> "High-performance lightweight desktop email clients"

I hope the SublimeHQ gods are listening to this
The customer might not even see it without compatible software, or if using a different port number or protocol, or if not using DNS to access something, or using a different DNS. Or if you are using a web browser but with customized settings that make it incompatible.

Same with many hotels. If you are not even using HTTP(S), or DNS, then it won't work, and even if you are using HTTP but not with a web browser program, it won't work (there is a HTTP response code (511) defined for this purpose at least), using nonstandard port numbers, etc.

For terms of service requirements, one possibility to avoid these problem is to make the printed terms of service document with the wi-fi password mentioned in that document.
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I don't know if they do this (I no longer have them), but Comcast used to do this for DMCA notices. They'd inject an iframe with the message into the websites you were viewing.
There's a probability for picking up infections for every object you touch, which is proportional to the number of hands that touched it prior to your operation. If this is a significant problem compared to human cashiers, there's an easy fix that is the same with bathrooms and tables: require that janitors on duty sanitize them every X hours.

Also, I've used automatic ordering touch screens before and didn't have any difficulty. I feel that the employee's response "She sighed, looked me in the eye, and confessed “Everybody does.”" is exaggerated. What she meant was probably "It's super easy but some customers still can't get it, so I will sympathize with you because saying 'no, it's easy' would be rude."
It's like the 'non-racist capitalists will out compete racist capitalists due to the discriminated group being "cheaper"' principle applied to the entire government.
I think the reason moguls suck for snowboarders is because they're traditionally made from skiers carving.
> "I'd rather assume other people are incompetent than accept that maybe maintaining tens of thousands of components presents unique challenges that I could learn from."

Entirely disingenuous, and doesn't assume good faith by communicating experience.

> I am disagreeing with the idea that their failure comes from just the technology and not in anyway from the actions of a developer.

Exactly. More often than not, in fact a majority of the time, people are flawed when it comes to UI development. This underscores how greatly we undervalue good engineering. It's not some thing that's just commonplace.

As a barometer, not all of my coworkers are competent enough to build projects or products on their own that other engineers want to consume. In fact, especially when it comes to UI-related projects, almost none of them are competent enough to do so, and that's okay.

But it means I extend this criticism outside of the workplace, where I've worked at several companies where people could hardly take Photoshop renders and accurately replicate them in HTML and CSS, nor did many of them have an appropriate grasp of the visual formatting model.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18683814
Wow. If I were a user, I'd hate to have this dropped on me today. Christmas eve is in 10 days and your traffic is about to stop routing in 15 days.
> For me the strangest thing about their business is their zero-fee approach. Yes you can make money by getting interest from uninvested funds + premium subscriptions + trade arbitrage, but if it's such a good business why aren't the incumbents taking similar approaches?

They do, they just charge you extra commissions on top of what they make selling order flow, etc, etc. Commissions make up a miniscule portion of income for brokerages. I think that fees a) keep out the "riffraff" and b) brokerages know that it's a zero-sum game to compete on them.

Asking this question is like asking why Ally and Goldman Sachs can offer 2% APY savings accounts, but Bank of America and Chase can only offer 0.01% APY.

There are similarly low-cost brokerages which offer dangerous products, like $500 intraday futures margin (about 250x leverage), 400:1 leverage on Forex products, or more traditional low-cost stock trades. The difference between $5/trade, $1/trade, and $0/trade isn't that significant in reality.
SIPC insurance is entirely different from FDIC insurance.

FDIC insures the value of your deposits. SIPC covers the case where your broker or mutual fund cannot keep operating (eg. pay the help)

In a case like that all of your stocks and bonds are still there and have most of their value, but you can't get at them because there is nobody to process the transaction. Somehow the holdings need to be transferred to another brokerage or liquidated, and SIPC is there to make sure the resources exist for that happen.

Circa 1970 there was a crisis on "Wall Street" in the sense that many brokerages failed, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_Investor_Protection...

for a backgrounder on why we have the SIPC.

The danger that the FDIC protects us from is even more pernicious because fractional reserve banking is one of the most dangerous things people do. By design the assets and liabilities of a bank are very close to each other, in fact far larger than the equity of the bank. If the depositors want their money out, a bank might not be able to support the cash flow -- which means depositors REALLY want their money out.

The stock market on the other hand is "risky" because stocks can go up and down, but it is not dangerous systemically because if your stocks went down you have to accept that they went down. The bank is legally required to pay you back what you put in and promising to do that 100% of the time is a big promise. If people don't trust banks and banks don't trust each other then you can't cash your paycheck, get money out of the ATM, buy groceries, and then you really have a problem...
But I'm not talking about isolated examples, which you keeping trying to pull the discussion back to, I'm talking about widespread, 'good style' usage. What S&W recommend is simply bad style, and I (like Pullum) wish people would stop recommending it.
This is not correct, Calcutta was some villages where it happened to be convenient for the east india company to set up shop:
"The area where the city is now located was originally inhabited by the people of three villages: Kalikata, Sutanuti and Gobindapur."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Kolkata

Delhi on the other hand was a great city, many times over (and sacked, and re-built, by rules of many tongues).

But it's also important to know that when we say an ancient place was rich, we mean that the kings were rich & built big palaces etc. Peasants were poor everywhere in the pre-industrial world, with variations but not enormous ones, like the difference between 500 and 1000 USD/year.

When we say that a modern place is rich, we mean the average guy instead. And, sometimes, that their city is well-run and finds money to spend on public services etc. Which, in my understanding, Calcutta has not been in the last 50 years, compared to other Indian cities. However I would still bet that the median income has increased monotonically.
> I think one of the biggest misconceptions that anti-mob people have is that there is no cost to letting people go un-shamed.

You're conflating "shaming" and "mobbing". Mobbing includes shaming, but it also includes violence, threats, harassment, or the facilitation thereof. We should oppose mobbing, but shaming serves a useful social function and you can be "anti-mob" and "pro-shaming"; however, the anti-mob group probably does oppose the new trend in slandering overtly innocent people and then mobbing (including shaming) them on the basis of the slander.
It wasn't the case for me, however I'm not exactly sure how they've implemented this DNS hijacking and if I was just an exception or the rule. Other people using custom DNS seemed to have a similar experience from what I read on reddit though.
I'd be curious to hear some mentioned, in case there are examples I missed.
What? You get fined under GDPR for a breach. If you don’t report it, the fine will be a lot higher if they find out.

We will see how this plays out, but there should be a fine nevertheless (because others have been fined and they reported it).
ESNI also can't come soon enough.
> It’s so much easier to order my Egg McMuffin and black coffee from a human behind the counter than to poke my index finger through a decision tree on the self-order kiosk.

I disagree. When I've been to McDonald's (a few times a year), I find the kiosks easier.

1. There's rarely a line, even when there's a line to order at the counter.

2. Things are more discoverable. If you already know exactly what you want, it is probably faster to order with a human. But if you're not sure, the overhead menu boards are not so easy to work with; they are now screens that move and don't show all the menu at one time. It also isn't always obvious what prices are.

3. Things are easier to customize. The kiosk says exactly what you can add or remove. For example, recently I found out through a Shake Shack kiosk that you can add lettuce to a spicy chicken sandwich, or make it extra spicy and remove pickles. A human cashier might suggest one of those things, but not all of them.

4. There's no pressure to move along. You're not bothering anyone by looking through the options in the kiosk. However, if you stop for ten seconds while ordering at the counter to try to figure out if you're in a quarter pounder or a crispy chicken sandwich mood, it feels like you're bothering the cashier.
ITER will be an actual tokamak fusion reactor producing energy. Wendelstein 7-X is a plasma containment experiment based on the stellarator design. There will be no fusion.

Technology for magnetic enclosure was advanced significantly by both. In this regard, they profit from each other.

Tokamak reactors require a pulsed operation mode. There is no way to sustain fusion for longer time.

The Stellarators design allows continuous operation, putting less stress on the structure. The calculation of the winded enclosure structure is quite complex and it has only become possible to design and implement with sufficient precision recently.

If I'd have to "bet" on a design, it would be Stellarator. If you understand German, listen to this podcast. You won't regret it: https://alternativlos.org/36/
I'm forever put off Adobe as a company because of their past treatment of markets outside the US.

There was a point where Adobe were selling the same products in the UK as the US, with no localisation or other changes, downloaded from the same servers, for about twice the price.

There's many reasons why the market tolerated this at the time but now there are good enough competitors for what I do I know I don't want to rely on Adobe as a supplier ever again.
I suspect we will transition to PV before fusion actually becomes viable. Even if we had a working net-positive-energy-balance fusion plant today, it would be incredibly complicated and expensive to build and maintain. The temperatures and energies involved are simply massive. On the other hand, we already have a giant self-sustaining fusion reaction happening in our sky. We can throw down some solid state and increasingly cheap panels to collect that energy. Regardless, we should continue to invest in fusion, but we should also invest in PV research, especially into ways to decrease cost and complexity of manufacturing solar cells.
Regardless of what you think the public sphere should include, restricting religious opinions from it is discrimination and should be condemned.
Reminds me of Context Free Art https://www.contextfreeart.org/

They developed their own declarative language for generating art.
"I deposited $250k with the intention to buy into securities when the market declines by a substantial amount determined by me. Just because I did not purchase stocks does not mean these funds aren't slated for future investment."
This is useless blog spam & buries the lead.

Just read the original article:
https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/28/poo-found-on-every-mcdonalds-...
I've been developing mostly web apps for a long time too, 17 years, and I disagree. Well, I agree that a single, massive stylesheet file becomes difficult to maintain very quickly, but that or component based CSS that eschews inheritance are not the only ways to go.

Personally, I prefer to use Sass, logically separated into files - one with variables, another with global and general styles that are inherited, and then one for all buttons, one for all forms, one for all modals etc.

I find this middle ground works well, keeps styles consistent, is DRY 'enough', and is easily maintainable.
WhatsApp: Because the market share outside the US is insane. Germany has 70% Android users and they don’t use iMessage. Nor any of the other ones unfortunately.
Is this state law? Federal law or regulation?
They are still claiming it is SIPC insured- which is false, regardless of what you call it.
What do you mean this information is not so reliable? Just because someone mis-attributed true information on wikipedia has no bearing on the truthiness of the matter. And the information about the rejected plea deal is directly from Aaron's lawyer.
Religious flamewar isn't allowed on HN. Please don't post like this here.
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No matter how you define “active”, there is no indication that in the aggregate people are fleeing Facebook - no matter if a few anecdotes are posted on HN.
What different people regard as big and small is always amusing to me.

The town I grew up in was ~3k people, and was the biggest in the county. The biggest city in the area was 30k. You had to drive at least an hour and a half to find anything bigger.

The place I live now has a population ~60k, and seems quite big to me. But to a lot of people that is still just a little spot in the middle of nowhere.
This is not about making your experience "more enjoyable" it is a direct response to wage increases that directly target these workers and the company responding. Same with the grocery store. Or mobile ordering from Starbucks, or using an ATM. The experience ranges from much better (ATMs) to much, much worse (grocery stores) , but the only way they will "fail" is if everyone forgoes their big mac to go somewhere else and pay more for human cashiers. That is not going to happen.
Do you mean this in an ironic way or in an actual "construction of a Boeing 737" way? Because while larger airplanes do have seats directly in the front of the plane (with the cockpit being on a higher floor) the Boeing 737 doesn't.
So cause of death is "Eaten by Amzn"?
> It is largely a national pride project

It's much less a pride than a survival instinct. Just think about it, Beijing was under siege of heavy smog for over a decade by now. If Washington D.C. was like that for since Trump became the president, would he still advocate coal?
The subject of the linked article wasn't forced to resign because he was accused (but not convicted) of sexual misconduct, but because he didn't immediately and passionately _condemn_ somebody else who was. If this can happen to him, it can happen to you or me - the only difference is that our reputations are, for the moment, inconsequential and not worth destroying.
This was at the Tijuana airport which is right next to the US border. While drones have been know to be used to smuggle contraband across the border, looking at this flight path for landing [1], the plane actually circles around over the US and then back into Mexico. It's possibly that the the strike occurred in US airspace. yikes

Note: I'm not certain that this is the flight in question. The other approach is solely in Mexico airspace. I'm also not trying to rope in drones/contraband to an already unclear situation.

[1] https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AMX770/history/20181213/...
It's a meme that pokes fun at callous personas. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-studied-the-blade
Why Are NASA Scientists Tracking Penguin Poop from Space?
That's really not a very accurate description of events, in any particular. In addition to the linked article, you may want to read Dolnick's The Clockwork Universe.
Matthew Prince hosted a Q&A that I was invited to a few years ago where he openly acknowledged this... It made my skin crawl.
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Australia passes controversial encryption law
I just had a discussion about this with my physical therapist yesterday. In Texas, only three types of people are allowed to touch patients for healing purposes: doctors, certified therapists, and priests.

In many cases, the certification process for therapy is such a time and money sink that people will become priests in small "religions" as a legal workaround to taking 1yr+ of archaic training.
The quickest way to resolve all of these billing shenanigans: file a consumer complaint with the FCC. Magically, you'll almost immediately get a phone call from someone fairly high up in the company (typically executive relations or similar) that has the power to fix things and will make it right.

The sad truth is that these telcos will systematically screw millions of customers with shady fees and fraudulent billing practices, but when the FCC gets involved, they are facing potential fines of tens of thousands for each infraction, so they'll bend over backwards to get you to drop the complaint.

Try it sometime, it sucks that it's necessary, but you'd be amazed at the results.
I stopped reading at "The Blaze reports..."