skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's not the mere existence of software bugs that is at issue here. Everyone's first attempt at solving a problem in software is going to have bugs. Everyone's last attempt at solving a problem in software is likely to have bugs -- that's why we design systems with safelocks in place.

There is risk in any human endeavour that touches upon someone else's life, in every domain. But, for example, only some of the deaths that occur in a hospital are the result of malpractice. That is the type of mistake for which we hold others accountable: not the mere act of providing insufficient care, but the act of providing insufficient care as a result of a dereliction of professional duty or a failure to exercise an ordinary degree of professional skill or learning.

IMHO:

1. If this was a novel, or very complicated breach, that Facebook did everything possible to avoid, but avoiding it was beyond the knowledge and skills of their security, engineering and QA teams, who otherwise did their absolute best, then it's at the very least defensible. One could argue that you shouldn't handle private data if you can't do it securely, but risk is inherent to anything, and perhaps worth it under the right circumstances.

2. If this was just "move fast and break things" policy, then a big fine is in order, and if no insurance is in place, whoever approved it should get to pay it out of their own pocket. This is the equivalent of a civil engineering company designing a collapsing bridge because everyone showed up at work hungover, or skipped safety calculations because they just take too damn long and time to market is critical.

If you think gee, this was just a bunch of photos, man, it's not like a bridge collapsed, how certain are you they didn't end up traded on the black market, or used for blackmail? Bet-your-company's-profits certain they weren't?

3. If this was deliberate policy -- not just accident, but a conscious business decision that was then reverted and declared a breach -- then whoever came up with it and/or approved it should be facing jail time.

Edit: also, it pisses me off that people are trying to decide how responsible we should about what we do based on other fields. They don't fine companies that write crashing firwmares for planes or cars or they fine it X amount, clearly we're only doing computer stuff so we should be fined less, no?

What the hell? First, they are fined (see, for instance, Toyota, who were fined 1.2B for their infamous acceleration firmware bug). And second, even if they weren't, we shouldn't be aspiring to do the worst thing that's still acceptable! We should be striving for better than anything else, not for well, at least we're not worse than civil engineers...
Canada recently passed a law that adds fines to data breach incidents iirc. A professor mentioned it and its why I'm researching auth on my winter break.

Come to think of it, does anyone know of good auth resources for a mean stack that isn't a copy paste blog? I'm trying the udacity auth course as a starting point (uses oauth2)
Last year I bought a copy of Steep for my son (he was 7). First day in our Christmas vacation, he thought he could to a 360, just like in the video game, he landed on his nose. We stayed for a week in the resort watching snowboard on youtube. :)
> the city environment undeniably makes many people less happy. Studies have shown a link between urban living and mental illness.

Do you have a link for these claims? Genuinely curious, I've always wondered about this.
House calls for government to end fetal tissue research funding in fiery hearing
"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." -- Cardinal Richelieu
Laser-pointing system could help tiny satellites transmit data to Earth
So what's your preferred language? Can you suggest something that covers all cases without introducing undue limitations?
So rather than debate the content of the article, you go for argumentum ad hominem instead?

You should give pg's Hierarchy of Disagreement a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#/media/File:Graham%...
> When you 'rent' access (eg, streaming service), aside from obviously losing access if you stop paying rent, the actual content owner can decide to stop licensing the content and it will just completely disappear.

There's also the shitty hybrid model where even though you own a physical copy of digital goods (say, Grand Theft Auto), the content owner can still revoke all or part of the content-- as happens with the soundtrack of every GTA title after about ten years.
Easy for you to say as an outsider with a comfortable salaried job. A lot of people in these rural communities aren't educated and live paycheck-to-paycheck. Putting them in larger cities for jobs they aren't qualified and wouldn't be hired for probably isn't the solution.
This would be great if we also committed to having a reasonable cost of living in major cities by limiting space per family, doing (at the minimum) townhomes only within a 20 mile radius of the city, and working to give everyone affordable and reasonable housing.

I think it's probably easier just to promote remote work.
What countries are they?
More than half of America is really, horribly bad at investing their money.
If your ISP is doing netflow analysis and DPI on your connection (like the Chinese GFW), with malicious intent specifically aimed at you, you're pretty much screwed anyhow. If they decide to start blocking traffic to VPN endpoints and such. This can be seen if you try running a non-obfuscated openvpn link into and out of China.
> Security is important but it this was the standard I'm not sure that any company would still exist.

This is true and it's also the reason why there are more software vulnerabilities than necessary. Software could be a lot more secure. There will always be bugs, but its is possible to build software and platforms with many fewer vulnerabilities. But it's expensive, so we don't, and users suffer the consequences while the companies shrug their shoulders and count their money.
Birds are a lot smarter than most people give them credit for. I think most people just have more experience dealing with mammals.
Are "we" trying to keep small towns alive?

Also, I don't see why remote workers can't live in small towns. They offer a certain quality of life many desire.
The offered the buyout to 44K people and 10.4K got the deal, but they said the declined the application of about 10% of the people who applied. Interesting.
Let’s not forget to include Belkin among the companies that have attempted variations of this. In this case, it was their wireless router which would grab a random out-going request and serve up advertisements instead. Imagine being in the middle of buying plane tickets and suddenly finding yourself at a random advertisement.

https://www.geek.com/news/belkin-routers-misdirect-users-to-...
So what happens if a CenturyLink customer is not using their DNS, and using for example Google's DNS. They will suddenly have their internet disabled and will never see this page, where they have to click "OK" to reconnect their internet.
These are great!

Also reminds me of the Forth Haiku Salon: https://forthsalon.appspot.com/
I also give it a +1. There's a lot of debate presently around what I call the "Little Red Hen" problem. Everyone wants to "eat the bread" when y'all are done, but very few people want to help grind the grain or knead the dough.

There's a document gathering people's thoughts on the current state of Open Source here, started by Jesse Anderson (formerly Cloudera):

"Viewpoints on Open Source Interview Responses"
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tLNerYJ5ce8PjGjGgRFfzKha...
The parent was establishing precedent.
Hey hey! I run workshops for engineers who want to develop leadership skills. Shoot me an email at jesse@20bits.com if you want to chat.

Honestly, it's up to you. There is no "right" answer here, although there might be a "right" answer for the company (i.e., they need you to step into a leadership position or else they need to find someone to be your new lead).

It seems like you're confusing "tech lead" with "engineering manager," because most tech leads spend a significant amount of time coding. The tech lead on a project is the person who shapes the technical direction of the project, knows all the ins and outs, and helps other people on their team from a technical perspective.

At many companies they might have 1-2 reports, often junior people who need active mentorship, but most of their time is spent on technical + project management work.

I recommend the book _Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager_: https://www.amazon.com/Project-Management-Unofficial-Manager...

A very coarse generalization is that tech leads own the "how", engineering managers own the "who", product managers own the "what", and project managers own the "when".

At smaller companies these responsibilities naturally blur together. It also depends on the nature of the business. If the company has a big client services component with lots of custom integrations, then project management will almost certainly be its own dedicated function.

Give it a shot and see how you like it! Speak with your boss and say you're unsure of whether this is for you, but you'll give it a college try. The worst that happens is you learn you don't enjoy that type of work.
Study Reveals U.S. Consumers and Economy Lose Billions to Occupational Licensing
This is extremely concerning:

>> “I disagree with the statement that these funds are protected by SIPC,” Stephen Harbeck, president and chief executive officer of SIPC

As a result, I will not be signing up for Robinhood, that's for sure. I get the sense, It's not the place to park your money, if you're just trying to save up without investing.
I work in information systems in a manufacturing company in a small town. The power of agglomeration is quite apparent in its absence.

Most everyone in this company has only ever worked there and accepts the status quo of how things are done. Typically, “the worst way that works.”

It would be nice to be in an area where we could have some turnover and occasionally get people from more mature/professional companies.
That’s a theory, but in practice that’s not what you see happen. Companies build a lot of really bad roads when they need them to get from A - B for example logging.

But, individual roads fit into a larger context. If you want to get from A to B and there is a road from A to C and from C to B then the utility is limited to time saved. Companies rarely build such roads and it’s even rarer to see them turned into public toll roads.

The US interstate highway system for example provides minimal individual benefit over existing roads, but massive collective benefit. Worldwide you don’t see companies building such things even when the demand is there.
I'm literally debating the content of the article in the comment you replied to.
It's like a cold war on technology advancement here... wait. that's just the cold war, except this time more politics, fewer submarines.
that's not even what a 'hub' is

Exactly, they're called "economic clusters" for a reason. It's like these municipalities are merely play-acting.
I have this perspective.

They shouldn't have threatened him to the extent they did, I definitely concede, and I wish he didn't feel so pressured to commit suicide - but I'm not convinced he was the perfect person everyone seems to claim.
this is, in my opinion, a dishonest argument. Obviously a burnout pot-dealer isn't out murdering people, but guerrilla growers growing on land that is not theirs are definitely just as territorial as moonshiners doing the same. There's a difference between drug producers and Steve who lives down the street and usually has an ounce or two to spare.
There is a reason why the EVP that engineered the deal got fired.
This is an interesting parallel to what's been happening across America (and possibly other countries) since the late 80's.

The fraction of people who hold leadership roles or at least actively engage in local civil groups is smaller than ever since the boom of the 40-60's.

Less and less people are participating in these groups, yet ironically, group membership around the nation is at an all-time high because of the rise of the mail-order activism group. Americans may be involved in 2x or 3x as many social groups, but the chances of this involvement growing past a recurring donation is increasingly small.

Now, group membership means donating a few dollars in the mail every few months while other people make decisions for you, instead of being involved in the decision-making process yourself.
Boy dies after being electrocuted by his earphones!
How would you expect moving everyone to cities to solve our political problems? When you say that, this is what I hear: "People who have different economic interests from me are not worth an ounce of my empathy, and this would finally shut them up." Sorry to be harsh, but it needs to be said -- that is how rural residents hear you.

Our political problems stem from each group having little empathy for other groups. Empathy == deep understanding without judgement. The thing that put an erratic man-child in the Whitehouse is half the population having utter disdain instead of empathy for the other half, resulting in a highly predictable reaction.
For anyone interested about this kind of things, I did something a bit similar for 3d voxel rendering:
https://voxeltoy.com/, also inspired by shadertoy.
I am going to take the controversial stance and say BS to this one.

With Americans marrying later and often times dual income even then this has left most individuals doing 1.5 jobs (house work and their actual job)

Additionally the time required to access to the basics has also gone up. Super markets are more crowded. Traffic is much worse.

This has left Americans with a drastic reduction in time and created large amounts of time pressure stress.

The major advantage of eating out is a massive reduction in stress related to food prep, particularly around time savings and mental energy expenditure.

Now eating out is not on average healthy, but not all meals that are prepared at home are either. When faced with equivalently unhealthy meals, dining out has the advantage of automatic portion control.

The REAL reason American's are broke is cost of living. Rent and housing costs have skyrocketed and wages have stagnated.

Coupled with a reduction in time and increased time-stress taking care of every day chores, health goes out the window.

In short, there is a direct correlation between health and wealth. Specifically, if one partner earns enough to support a relatively unstressed house mom/dad, the family unit is healthy.

Otherwise if an individual earns a large sum of money with sufficient few hours, they have compound time benefits in other aspects of their lives allow for health considerations.
I never assume that “settings” guarantee what they claim. It’s just not practical even with good intentions, for a single non-public code base.

As a developer, I know it is hard to implement something once, harder to implement consistently across multiple interfaces, and damn near impossible to keep correct years later after employee turnover and other twists.

The sad thing is that it costs a ton more money to do things really well, and companies can basically take advantage of the low price of doing things poorly until finally forced. And by then, they have tons of money so they can comply but any startup is screwed because now it costs more for everyone, even those entering the game.
Because platforms are businesses, and businesses are run by humans, some of whom manage to preserve their humanity, and don’t want to see their work being used by lowlifes spreading mindless hate.
What Makes a Platform, or How Do We Recreate Old Blue
I laughed out loud when I read this..kind of bad I know
Verizon and others of its ilk have worked hard to convince people that cutting its taxes would help its employees and the country as a whole, not just (or not even!) its shareholders. This was obviously (and now more obviously) bullshit in pursuit of that same profit maximization, but given how they lobbied for it, I think it's entirely fair to criticize them on this basis.
> my response to this is always in the vein of, "how exactly should customers show they care?"

The answer is the same with any other foul business practice you oppose. The problem is not unique to digital businesses and I really hope those demanding justice don't request something more brash than they otherwise would in a non-digital situation.

And yes they can leave. There are real things you can't leave like your only ISP (internet is essential in modern society and no alternatives), then there are websites you can choose not to leave like FB (not essential in modern society). Your misuse of the word "can't" instead of "won't" just discourages any level of consumer responsibility.
Getting a franchise license can be easy
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This is no longer true. You can now export .fig files to save locally on linux/mac/windows
Cheaper and faster internet in the remote locations.

I think SpaceX Starlink could be a game changer here.
Of all the way to inform customers of something, Centurylink picked the most obnoxious and intrusive way they could think of. wow.
I fear the method I used here will be really inefficient on a pen plotter though: https://turtletoy.net/turtle/63b170ed47

(Lots of useless moves happen while the pen is up)
So your small town has now several small tech companies? Or one that grew and employs now a considerable percentage of the workforce?
Isn't Robinhood's Checking & Savings service about the same as non-invested cash in an E*Trade account? That would mean there are a lot of consumers assuming the same risk if they invest with the many brokerages covered by SIPC, since its impossible to not have cash floating around after you fund your account or take profits.
Sure. Let’s blame economic disparity on trivial individual choices while the public coffers are being plundered to the advantage of the already wealthy.

Injustice is stressful. When I’m under stress, I know I am liable to make decisions that I wouldn’t otherwise make. I’m liable to use material means to assuage the feelings of despair. After all, isn’t this the messaging reinforced in advertising and media? Am I able to ignore advertising when it intrudes upon me at every turn? In the subway, on billboards, in my apps, in news papers, in news headlines, on TV, in movies, in books, in stores, between songs, in songs, from our friends, from our families, starting from birth.

There’s really no escaping from environmental stressors anymore. Not short of leaving society entirely. But billions of people lack the financial independence to do so. And I’m not talking about wealth. I’m talking about a lack of debt and enough money to abscond after taking care of ones obligations.
You aren't debating their points, you're debating their motives, as does your top post. This is literally textbook ad hominem here.
I think a main problem is that not everybody moving at some velocity >v is driving a vehicle.

You won’t want to disable the phones of passengers as collateral damage.

Another, likely smaller, problem is that drivers may use their phone for routing, gps recording, playing music, etc.
The Open Chaos Initiative
Sort of off topic - but I was a math major in college and I always had a broad, casual categorization of the types of classes I took.

Linear Algebra - felt like it required you to be able to hold really long trains of thought in your head

Probability - felt like you had to be clever

Analysis - felt like you just had to think critically and approach things from all angles

I always preferred Algebra - felt like I was writing essays not doing math
As if not letting people out is better than letting them out at a haircut. Need to maintain the illusion of safety I suppose.
> Price is a good way find people who see a value in the trip being self-driving. The worst demographic they can find are people whose main criteria are price

I think that's a better way of thinking about it than what I came up with.
I started skiing as a kid, switched to snowboarding as a teenager, then started skiing again now in my mid-30s. Picking up skiing again after ~20 years was a lot of fun; nice to feel like I'm learning something new again but still know how snow feels and mountains work.

From my own experience, and watching a number of other friends, the first 2-3 days of skiing is easier than the first 2-3 days of snowboarding.

These days I'll happily ski/board most places on most mountains (in-resort, at least) but if I'm getting into technical terrain will vastly prefer a snowboard.. much quicker recovery time if you fall, often you can just bounce back up w/out fully stopping. I'd argue that snowboards are more fun in the pow as well.. skis are great for the hard-and-fast groomer days!

If you're a nerd, and you like skiing / boarding, then check out ski touring / splitboarding. Add backcountry travel, navigation, skin track setting, & most importantly avalanche / snow safety, and you've got a sport that is almost endless in terms of things to learn & keep in mind while you're out and about. And it's excellent exercise while you're at it!
Hasn't there been similar work to this in the past?

I don't see a "related work" section in your paper.
I hate how the conversation goes when I ask them why they are adding fees to my bills that don't make any sense. (I intentionally own all my own equipment, why would I ever have an "equipment return fee" show up other than them trying to screw me over and see if I notice?) I complained to some friends that are very low on the totem pole and they agreed with me that DNS hijacking is extremely wrong but had zero power to do anything.

We need strong Regulatory Commissions to hold these sorts of Monopolists accountable, and right now the political climate in states like mine remains that "Regulations are Bad" and "Profit/Greed are Good".
"Rural Americans" own neither the energy nor the food production located near them.

By and large, rural America is subsidized by the rest of America, be they urbanites or large companies. And to be frank, that's fine; I support generally allowing people to find the best way for them to live, within reason. (Where people like me start getting snippy--and we do, we aren't saints--is when that's not acknowledged. "Real Americans" and the like.)
Iceland is not a member-state in the EU but they have close economic and political ties. They are a part of the European Economic Area (EEA) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).

They once applied for membership after the financial crisis but it didn't go through; currently most citizens are opposed to the idea.

Becoming a full EU member would require them to accept the EU's fishing limitations, potentially hurting their economy. There are also other factors involved:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland%E2%80%93European_Union...
similar to LLVM linker? I mean, both of them work on abstraction representations(LLMV IR and IL) instead of working on native code directly.