skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there is such a problem with homeless people that desperate, then perhaps it is a sign one should do something about helping the homeless.

I grew up in Norway, and while Norway certainly isn't free of homeless people, I never saw this despite a widespread bottle return system (in fact, the Norwegian company Tomra has a majority of the world "reverse vending machine" market, primarily focused on bottle returns).

Norway have had a return rate in the 95%+ range for years in large part because a variety of groups of people see empty bottles as an income source.

I think this to a large extent have also culturally solved the problem: while some people certainly throw their bottles in the bin, there's little reason not to instead put your bottle down next to it, because you know it will get picked up.
>Have one editor
And publish only 4 things a day at that rate. More editors = more edits per day = more publications per week = more eyes on ads.
Did you read the article?

> Ovia is pitching a paid version of its app to insurers and large employers who want a heads-up on how many of their members or employees want to conceive.

This is a WTF of epic proportions. How is this the business of either my insurance company or my employer?

Edit: Also consider that supposedly "harmless" targeted advertising becomes actively traumatizing if something goes wrong around the reproductive process: https://medium.com/the-establishment/when-targeted-marketing...
I'm not sure that's true; the 1%/10% dichotomy gets abused a lot, but there are some salient differences; most of my professional circles in their 20s are making up to half a million dollars in their 20s at a large tech co. Whether you consider it myopic or not, it's easy to see why they (and those aspiring to be them) would consider a labor movement to be against their interests. And it certainly represents a much larger (and more reasonable) group than those asusming that they're going to make billions from founding a startup.
If View 1 comes from you why can't you give it back to the user on refresh?
Htcap – A Web Application Scanner Able to Recursively Crawl SPA
I always wanted to read a book on the history of pigments and other artist supplies from a chemistry perspective. In particular, how they were found, isolated and used.
The fact that they're restricting this feature across the board suggests that they're more scared about SEO efforts. Malware-related searches would be easier to spot as an anomaly and filter out (and the article states that they do this in some cases).
>This is why we need more variety in search engines

While more variety in search engines would be great, they'd still be choke points.

What's really needed is a decentralized search engine.
I would amend this to say that modern woodwinds are supposed to be equal temperament, but this is more aspirational than reality. Some instruments better than others, and in general they are all vastly improved over their 18th- and 19th-century ancestors, but a lot of the burden of making the pitches "equal" is left to the player.

(Source: I play bassoon, probably the worst of the lot.)
Respectfully, I disagree. Being unwelcome towards comments about "the process" goes against what the site is about. It is a community forum designed to promote discussion and understanding.

Downvoting comments you disagree with or simply dislike, without any explanation, is harmful to the community and discussion in general.

Also, I made no appeal to up or down vote any comment. My appeal is simply to promote discussion.
Likewise. These days I give them to my housekeeper because she likes to redeem them. It adds about $15-25 to what we pay her every 2 weeks. I imagine if she does this with other clients she's making some nice extra cash!
If you really want a 'NASA' job, your best bet is one of their subcontractors that do most of the actual engineering.
That's definitely not the experience I have. Viagra, even generic, is over $1000 a month due to not being covered by an topped out health plan that even covers things like IVF. Doctor also said it's usually not covered for any of his patients. Meanwhile my wife's birth control is free from planned parenthood.
"Not supposed to" and "don't" are vastly different things, nor is an employer looking to discriminate illegally necessarily going to care if they fire a few false positives.

You'd just start seeing your performance evaluations come back with "needs improvement". Little mistakes or violations of policies that were previously ignored result in write-ups. Six months later, you're laid off with a couple other folks, with a hole in your income that makes it hard to hire a lawyer on a long-shot legal suit.

People get fired for being pregnant daily. As long as their boss doesn't do something abjectly idiotic like sending an email saying "you're fired because you're trying to get pregnant", there's very little recourse.
I certainly needed to pay rent and buy food when I was a student?
I should have clarified that when I say unstructured, I meant without any screens. Basically, you tell the kid they can do whatever they want without screens.

Be creative, play a sport, walk around, read a book, go explore.... whatever, as long as it isn't tech related.
Explanation gladly accepted sir - No that wasn't snark at all, just trying to remain vaguely hopeful :]
I am hard pressed to think of any policy enacted by the US government in the last 100 years which wasn't explicitly (and probably purposefully -people used to worry about over population) anti-natalist.
Currently running into this problem. I've gotten really frustrated trying to read the news lately, where washingtonpost especially will say that I've used up all my free articles for the month, and can't read anymore.

Okay, that's fine, but then I'd rather not see them in my google results. If wapo wants to put their content behind a paywall, cool, but google should be an index of things I can read. So I've been experimenting with various search flags to exclude them. Started getting hit with captchas just now.
Interpreting your query in a particular way and delivering the results you personally would expect based in that query are not the same thing
> How does the Oregon program "know" if a returned bottle is bona fide or fraudulent (from out of state)?

The program doesn't on a per bottle bases, but the effectiveness at dealing with the problem the program aims to solve (local landfilling recyclable containers) is impacted by the substitution; in the context of the function served, imported bottles that would not otherwise be imported are not fungible with local bottles.
Part of me thinks it's not their responsibility to do this. It's pretty paternalistic behavior. It seems typical of Google these days, though. I don't understand why they seem to be actively opposed to power users, all across their products.
> This is why you should avoid waiving your right to a speedy trial when you have a public defender.

That makes sense, but there's a coordination problem. If everyone invoked their right to a speedy trial, the system would indeed collapse under its own weight. But the first set of people to use that strategy would be at a disadvantage since their own lawyers would have less time to prepare. Everyone wants to take advantage of this right but no one wants to be the sacrificial lamb, especially since there's not even a guarantee that enough other people will follow suit (your "sacrifice" might really be for naught).
Well, Detroit and Chicago gangs exist inside minority communities, i.e. not the vast majority of America, including in this particular story. SWATing is not a problem in the hood.
BART parking permit black market and urban planning failures
Is there any qualification to labeling people as "Journalists", or is it entirely a self-appointed title?
I'm sorry, I could have sworn the README used to have a snappy description.

Think of it like a Swiss Army knife of version managers that can handle all the languages you use, per-project. And it's all just bash scripts, and installs everything into a visible place on your drive.
Wealth is not zero sum.
Is there any compiler option or linter config that prevents the use of these extra features?
Any vaguely rational insurance plan which covers maternity will cover birth control, since it’s so much cheaper. But there were a lot of plans that didn’t cover maternity, and some people have irrational objections to covering birth control.
I think she is complaining about sex before marriage having a double standard, not cheating during marriage. Women are sometimes expected to "save themselves" by the religious, I think, although I've never met a fellow millennial who believed in that rot.
Truth and the Birth of Consciousness
You are not forced to do any of those things. You are able to find a new employer whenever you want.
Maybe some famous people will pen something like the 'Agile Manifesto' for unionized knowledge work, and it will slowly catch on. It could happen (though it would be risky for anyone who isn't self-employed to be an authors)
Sure.

Try Harold Budd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD7l5wod1-M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvUQmEqOAUQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_i7ycOJ6aM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2KaJnVs8N4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzm74jVr0Fs

Aphex Twin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeLuQ6X2ixI

Max Richter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITCcWPTIV2Q

Matt Baber:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3BBng-Bh0M

Phillip Glass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtQpSGyPCBE
We are, by some definition (!), intelligent life. Therefore we can reason about a parallel universe where humanity did not rise to become the dominant species; what the alternatives might be (or have been); and what the implications of that might be.

I guess it was sort of an "if a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound" sort of question. I am not a philosopher, so perhaps it was the wrong question, or poorly phrased. But I'm glad it sparked a brief discussion nonetheless.
"Do we know these filings were in response to a legal claim? It could have been in response to something more frivolous. (I am having trouble finding the filing.)"

Yes, it is in front of proceeding at the NLRB that they have to exhaust before they can file in court.

"Two, when criminal defense attorneys defend a murder suspect, they don't advocate overturning murder statute. There is a wide berth between arguing against the facts and circumstances of a case and arguing for overturning a law."

Oh come now. Every single lawyer worth his salt is going to argue the law should be overturned when it doesn't favor their client. I'm very surprised you are trying to claim otherwise.
Even in criminal proceedings there is almost always a "this statute is unconstitutional on its face" argument thrown in, even when that statute is something like "protect children from being run over by cars".
This is similarly true in the civil proceedings of the kind we are talking about - just about every regulatory action has arguments about the propriety of existing case law or statutes.

"Three, I've been in senior roles at companies in regulatory deliberations and litigation. Each time, company counsel briefed senior management on the arguments they were preparing. More than once, someone asked if an argument was essential. Once, it was. (It was maintained.) Another time, it wasn't. Concerned about a client relationship getting caught in the cross-fire, the argument was dropped and the case amended."

FWIW: I have been in multiple large companies in that role (for 8+ years), and nobody would ever brief senior management on a claim like this one. It's way too low level.

"When you give a shit about a constituency, you don't argue for overturning their rights."

I'm glad this is all very black and white to you and that you can easily reduce complex situations to quips and feel like it does it justice. I wish i could feel that way. It would actually make life a lot easier.

There are no right answers in these situations, only shitty tradeoffs.

(It's not even as simple as:

Don't make argument, allow/pay out frivolous claim which hurts current constituents.

vs

Make argument, destroy constituent rights
)
GPUs Helped One Parent Conquer His Child's Lego Pile
As the author puts it, it's not about genetic mutations. Sapiens have the ability to share fictions, stories, in which we can all agree in order to live in a functioning society. So, in this sense, mathematics, laws and private companies are all 'fictions'. It only works if people believe in it.
To Paris for the Talent, to San Francisco for the Energy
What was evil about this?
Looks like you need to know a tiny little bit about manifolds, measure theory/probability theory, topology and more importantly have the requisite "math maturity".

For very easy intro to manifolds and measure you could probably take a look into [0] A Visual Introduction to Differential Forms and Calculus on Manifolds by Fortney and [1] The Lebesgue Integral for Undergraduates by Johnston.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Introduction-Differential-Calc...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Lebesgue-Integral-Undergraduates-MAA-...
I feel like you’re telling me (and others) I’m wrong in this comment but agreeing with me in others.

As far as I can tell, the reporter made rather public denigrating statements against the authors for a total non-issue that has no attack. As in, doesn’t know what he is talking about. So I’m not sure why you want me to apologize instead of him.

You seem to be taking issue with how I worded my comment in that I made an unqualified statement about CBC IVs, which is true in applications like this, but not true broadly. Is that accurate?

The only security risk of relevance here is that if a password is reused, and any blocks are the same in multiple files, this will be evident. This is defeated so long as an IV is not reused, which can’t happen (I’m comfortable rounding “unless a user makes a 7zip archive with the same password at the exact same time on multiple machines and manages to get the same PID” down to “can’t”, to be clear) even though the IV is reasonably predictable.

In other applications, like TLS, or IPSEC, yes, the OP would have had a legit bug finding.

There is no bug here, just a bad crypto code smell. It’s like pointing to a strcpy and saying “this code has buffer overflows!” when all call sites have bounds checking or fixed size inputs.

If you think I’m still wrong about this, I’m inclined to believe you, but I think you’re only saying predictable IVs are a problem in other, unrelated applications, which I am not disagreeing with.

It’s a completely dick move even if he were correct (but he isn’t). That’s not how you report issues. The author of this (free!) software obviously isn’t a cryptographer, but he thanklessly wrote an otherwise good piece of software that millions benefit from.

If you’re going to publicly shit on his code to get points from security twitter, at least nake sure you have a real finding. But better yet, don’t be that guy.

Appsec people need to learn that they aren’t better than developers because they found the one narrow domain that they know more about than the author. It’s extremely likely that the author could teach you way more than you can teach them, so if you have a leg up somewhere, be humble about it.

Edited to add: Igor, the author, appears to be having a civil and receptive dialog with the reporter on the 7z mailing list after the fact, discussing alternatives and tradeoffs and trying to validate a potential attack. So, this isn’t even a case where someone gave a well-meaning researcher the middle finger and motivated them to go public. OP just started shitting on the guy for public praise right out of the gate (even saying he wanted to vomit over how bad this is), completely unnecessarily.

I encourage him to apologize to Igor, who sounds like he is going to fix it regardless.
I never understand employees who don't want to unionize. It just shows what a sorry state the labor movement is in.
Programming historically involved access to expensive equipment and intellectual property, and involved pretty heavy math education. Once the industry professionalized (meaning here that the professional was expected to provide his own qualifications rather than being trained), the previous workforce of largely women was replaced by people drawn from privileged classes. Those people ultimately became management, established a culture, and replicated that culture by hiring people who came from the same backgrounds; so the effect lasted long after programming became far more accessible (although still requiring large amounts of leisure time.)

Those groups of people from a non-indigenous, non-minority, never-enslaved, non-female background have always been conservative, consisting largely of 1) white men, and 2) immigrant professionals (generally drawn from more privileged groups in their country of origin and statistically more conservative than the average for their country of origin.)

These same demographics, no matter what profession they're in, are conservative. Their world has generally treated them well, and changes in their world are dangerous for them. If the world were to change for the better (for them), they imagine themselves, or somebody who looks like them, making those changes.
They didn't pay the 10 cents if they bought the bottle in a state with a smaller deposit.
> According to the NPR article, there was separation under the Obama administration, but the policy was changed to allow families to stay together.

I don't know where you got that from, but it's not in the article I linked. The article specifically states:

> The Obama administration established family detention centers that kept families together while their cases were processed.

Whoa. You just repeated what I said while pretending I didn't say it. (A bit of partisan bias?) If they established family detention centers, that means there was a need for such new facilities. Unless the establishment happened at the oath of office, this would corroborate what I said.

https://www.factcheck.org/2018/06/did-the-obama-administrati...

Jeh Johnson, DHS secretary under the Obama administration, told NPR earlier this month that he couldn’t say that family separations “never happened” during his tenure. “There may have been some exigent situation, some emergency. There may have been some doubt about whether the adult accompanying the child was in fact the parent of the child. I can’t say it never happened but not as a matter of policy or practice.

Brown told us that while the Obama administration “did separate some families,” it also tried to detain families together. In 2016, a court ruling limited how long children with their parents could be in family detention centers. That ruling confirmed that a 1997 settlement applied to both unaccompanied and accompanied minors, as we’ve explained before.

“At that point,” Brown said, “family detention dwindled and most families were released into the US, either on their own with a notice to appear or under Alternatives to Detention, which could be an ankle bracelet or a supervised monitoring provision where they had to check in with ICE regularly until their immigration court hearing.”

From the original NPR article cited:

Child immigrant shelters. Within three days, children are supposed to be transferred from immigration detention to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services.

For 15 years, ORR has handled the "care and placement" of unaccompanied migrant children. Until recently, that usually meant minors who crossed into the U.S. alone. Now it also includes children who have been separated from their families by authorities, including much younger children.

On a call with reporters on Tuesday, a Border Patrol official said that it's a matter of "discretion" how young is too young for a child to be separated from their parents. In general, he said, the age of 5 has been used as a benchmark, with children younger than that called "tender-aged."

The CEO of Southwest Key, which operates 26 ORR shelters, tells NPR the children at his facilities range from ages "zero to 17."

I never said that under the Obama administration that there was mass separation. Evidently, practices of separation existed in some situations under previous administrations, evidently going back at least 15 years, and there were policy changes to have less separation. This is what I stated.
> Giant media corporations owned by billionaires, run by millionaires, and overwhelmingly staffed by members/partisans of a single political party pump out propaganda on all of their mediums 24/7 and totally dominate and saturate public opinion but we are supposed to understand that "bots" are a threat to democracy?

Yes? At least if we're talking about hostile nation-state sponsored bot networks and influence campaigns. Domestic media companies and personalities are perversely incentivized to polarize us, in order to make a buck, but still have vested interests in the stability and health of the nation, at the end of the day. The social harm resulting from that dynamic is just a side-effect of plain old greed or agendas. Its a problem that also needs addressing.

But hostile nation-states are something else entirely, they have very different motivations - social harm and instability are direct goals, not simply side-effects - and these actors are out of reach of our legal system and domestic regulation.

> Yet we saw this past week that social media users were able to win a rare victory in bringing the "official" media to heel for their lies and manipulation in setting upon a group of innocent schoolchildren. The official media hates it when their marks push back and thus we get propaganda like this study.

I mean.. social media (twitter, in this case) is where the video was shared and then amplified. We'll see how things develop, but some investigative reporting so far is suggesting that it may have come from an "inauthentic" account and amplified by a bot network. If that's the case, it will be interesting to find out if it was a foreign or domestic network.
> The point of the program is you pay 10 cents and get it back if you recycle.

The point of program is to recycle bottles. Exchanging money is means to an end not an end itself.
I think the usual argument is that the program costs something to run, and was designed with the assumption that returns would not actually be 100%. Any returns beyond the planned level mean that the program is underfunded, and thus potentially unsustainable. It's also generally considered bad for illegal activity to be allowed to continue.

Separately, it's not clear the bottles illegally being returned for deposit are increasing the recycling rate. The article I linked suggests that they are being scavenged from recycling bins, and that (possibly as a result) collected glass recycling in an Oregon-adjacent county in Washington was down 9% after the deposit went up.
> Maybe they are just obvious from the outside looking in when you know how the black hats operate these endeavors.

Or, they are just obvious from the outside when you haven't actually tried to solve that problem, but that solution actually don't work. I've seen a lot of "why don't you just do X" in my career questions, where X is something that looks good on first attempt, but in fact is really easy to circumvent by any blackhat (or it was even tried and it didn't work).

I am not saying that your solution don't work, but without you saying which it is, it's impossible to judge.
This interview should be held up as a definitive educational material for anyone working around social media platforms. Really shines an important spotlight on how bad actors manipulate digital information, and how to adjust business and mental models towards mitigating platform manipulation into the future.

Really pleased to hear how much research and thought is being done in this area now. Looking forward to hearing more from this team.