skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lawyers have a responsibility to act ethically. You aren't necessarily going to get into trouble for what they do, if you're only following their instructions. This is shaky legal ground and a rarely successful defense that came up with all the Tump stuff. Here it seems it might be appropriate though.

"Advice of counsel defense", a Quote from Jens David Ohlin, a vice dean at Cornell Law School (taken from business insider article)

> The advice-of-counsel defense "doesn't apply if both the lawyer and the client are on the same page that what they are doing is illegal in some way," Ohlin said. "According to Cohen, both he and Trump understood that they were paying hush money to influence an election, and then covered it up to hide the illegality."

However, in this case, did both parties know that something illegal was going on? That's more of a stretch here. If I met with a lawyer and said "lets illegally commit extortion", obviously that's illegal. If my attorney just does it, as a part of an ongoing legal dispute, it's far less clear (lots of legal disputes can seem like extortion; eg. settle with us now or you'll have to pay even more to defend, is a standard strategy). That lack of clarity could be plenty of motivation to dissuade prosecutors from bringing charges; especially if they're on good terms with the party and happily using them in an ongoing investigation.
We're working on this for Fathom (I'm the cofounder of Fathom).
Although I haven't read Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine", Google categorizes it as Biography, so if you buy that then by the rule of thumb it would not be off limits. And thanks, I have added it to my to-read list!
Same idea as linux-rt "hard realtime": Reserve a processor (doesn't matter if it's the same chip or architecture or not).

The issue with this is precisely the shared memory. If Linux can interfere with the PRU, then there's no assurance. This breaks hard realtime: No assurance that the system will react timely in a certain way to a certain event.
Presumably you could. It is money granted to each person without strings. Not sure how you could avoid it. A better questions would be whether the courts could impose UBI garnishing similar to wage garnishing. I would presume not and hence giving a loan to someone would have to be with the knowledge that the government would not force repayment with UBI funds. It gets back to an issue of whether someone has a history of responsible payments, something which would be more in a person's control with a guaranteed flow of UBI.

I view UBI as a way to help ease the debt of many people, particularly those incurred because of lost wages (loss of job, illness). It could also ease the college debt issues because we could stop subsidizing college costs, leading to decreased tuition, and instead the colleges would have to compete with other uses of this money, something they do not have to do with direct college support programs.
The Simple Psychology Behind Apple's Fall
I'm very productive once in a while working weekends thanks to the empty office and being relaxed. I wish I could swap those 2 days but the team would suffer.
Yep, my headphones are only used with the lowest volume my phone allows, and I'd prefer them to be a little quieter.
Fathom has custom date periods now. And yes, Fathom is meant to give the basics that most non-pro users require. It's a one-page dashboard.
If you want to leave Google, but are not opposed to proprietary infrastructure, you could use something else with event tracking, like HEAP (https://heapanalytics.com/), which is very good. Or if you prefer open source, Matomo seems like a good alternative, with both hosted and self-hosted options (open source, https://matomo.org).
This is how I feel about my overscoped personal project as well. It'll never be done or turn into anything useful, but it's liberating and exciting to work on outside of the deadlines and scoping requirements of my day job (which actually involves working on a game engine).
Have you asked people who work at Ericsson today? From what I have heard it is hard to think that things are better today despite moving to things like agile.
Gdpr demands more of bigger organisations. Because those organizations have the capability and thus responsibility to make sure gdpr is followed. The same could be asked in this case. The big bank is better equipped to catch dirty transactions. Thus they should maybe be penalised according to size.
>realize that women don’t want dick pics.

This is more a funny generalization to use in a joke about the differences between men and women than it is a true statement. And shaming such tame sexual behavior between consenting adults comes off as prudish.
> Right, but with RISC-V you can actually have some competition to implement RISC-V between multiple vendors, hopefully driving prices down.

I am not convinced that competition is always a good thing here: lots of competitors lead to shrinking margins. This means less money that can be invested into innovating by the respective companies.
AIUI the plan is to merge the patchset itself into mainline to ease the maintenance burden, but to keep the changes that don't actually make sense for mainstream server use under a special config/#define flag, PREEMPT_RT_FULL or similar. It will then be up to users/distributors whether to enable it. I've only tried the current patchset casually, but IME, the throughput penalty is there but is barely perceptible for casual use, and the improved responsiveness due to kernel thread preemption and the priority inversion fix do make the system a lot more usable especially under load.
Previously posted two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19104044
I've had Fathom on my sites for almost a year, no difference in ranking that I've seen.
It's well-known amongst doctors that giving amoxicillin for infectious mononucleosis can lead to a crazy rash. Is this what you are referring to?

By the way, infectious mononucleosis is caused by a virus, so any antibiotic would be useless.
Fathom has a one-click on DO now too, for $5/mo. Although if countly is working for ya, I wouldn't switch either.
The ace that Bezos has is that he can like, Thiel and the gawker case, Bezos can drown the National Enquirer in legal battles until they’re bankrupt even if he gives half his fortune away to his soon-to-be ex-wife.
Poignant and touching story.

I met my wife on World of Warcraft 8 years ago, now we live together with our big family. We stopped playing a while ago but still have a close friend from our guild we see most years.

WoW has brought so many people together, sometimes in life changing ways.
Tangentially related, is there an open source game engine that's recommended for building games?

My experience in game development pretty much amount to an incomplete multiplayer tetris game.
Deleted my reddit account. They can take their $150 million, but freedom of speech and more specifically being able to criticize the state is more important than your daily dose of catpics.
A brisk but thorough checklist that fulfills the promise of the title.

My only objection would be this bit (below). Specifically, "demands." How many engineers are in a positiin to demand anything? The truth is, for the most part, it's not engineers who are ruining the internet with bloat and privacy infringements. It's designers and marketing. They're more likely to forget the end user and opt for so nasty excess.

> "Demand that someone take ownership of each tracking pixel and tag that's added to a page, then, make these stakeholders justify their tags every six months. If you don't, people will ask you to add junk to the page until your team gets blamed for a slow site."
Would be fun to see logs from RH back then.

[2003-10-14 02:51] <rizzou> hey moot - there's this cool website at http://www.4chan.net/ you should check it out. it's really looking like the next big thing, you know?
But where is the line drawn? Clearly drinking or smoking or doing drugs has the same problem, should all those things really be illegal? How about abortion? Or deciding to name your child "Dick Head Jr."? Or having kids?

If you take your line of reasoning to its natural conclusion, you end up in a society without any personal freedom or choice.

The problem isn't that fire escapes are bad. It's that regulation slowly and surely just inches forward, consuming everything in its path.

If your first assumption about people is that they are too stupid to make choices for themselves, the natural conclusion is despotism. Do you think you're too stupid to make decisions yourself as well?

Would you be fine with someone telling you that maybe you are too stupid to have kids? Or maybe too stupid to drive a car? Or too stupid to decide what profession you want in life (you would write terrible code, so it's in the public interest that you become a janitor where your stupidity can't hurt anyone else)? Or maybe you're so stupid that we should just take you off the street?

OR, maybe, just maybe, you and the market should decide these things for yourself.

Edit: In regard to the fire fighter thing. Individuals could just pay insurance for fire protection. It naturally would be cheaper in places with fire escapes. There's no reason why public services like fire fighters or ambulances have to be public, they would probably just function more efficiently as private entities.
Honestly I am amazed that anyone even tangentially related to tech thinks it's a good idea to digitize their genitalia and attach them to their name. Once something is in digital form, the information is 'free'. It's free to multiply and distribute. The odds of it never going away is asymptotic to the popularity of the individual. Bad, bad ideas all around.
> Imagine if they published a sex tape of an actress

I'm pretty sure this has been done. Normally, they get out in front of it, so they can at least cash in. Personally, I'm not thrilled with rich people being able to shut down publications that they don't like. That said, I don't know how to feel about the Gawker case. It's easy not to care, when the victim is so unsympathetic.
Why would a suppressed immune system increase risk of allergic reaction? I'd have thought it to be the opposite.
>I think you've completely missed my point here.

So can you reiterate your point?

>You comprise but a single datum — not enough upon which to base societal economic policy.

I'm just giving you one concrete example of why people would still want to work.
If you can take one of those boards off of build duty for long enough (maybe half an hour?), it would be interesting to see the results of a UnixBench [1] run.

[1]: https://github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbench
Tell us more (I love to hear things about the wares days).
I wouldn't do anything myself, too risky. Printing on somebody's else printer could get me sued.

What about a state level authority doing this scans, contacting owners, maybe even fining them? That would be like authorities for food safety, etc. It would put pressure on manufacturers because people don't want to buy things that get their owners fined.
When used properly the nested scope provided by lambda calculus allows shared variables accessible from outside a local function thereby accounting for the precondition of Hoare's triples without it being locally present or passed in. This is enough to satisfy both the functional nature of portablity/isolation and the imperative model by Hoare's logic.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoare_logic

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(computer_science)#Lexic...
The natural rate is hard to measure so this is a difficult one to answer. And right now, in the US, my argument probably no longer holds that well (I wrote the post a while back). It looks like the uncertainty surrounding the aftermath of the 2008 crisis finally dissipated and unprecedented government deficit spending has pushed the equilibrium up, making it easier to follow for the Fed. This means there is enough private investment to keep the economy running well and people employed.

Europe and Japan are still very problematic however.

The simple fact that people, businesses and banks hoard cash and government bonds instead of doing sufficient investment to keep people employed is strong evidence to me that the returns on government paper is above market. Excess reserves are high into these parts of the world.

A more widely recognized sign is that they keep undershooting their inflation target.

For arguments from real economists, look around these parts https://www.davidbeckworth.com/popular, https://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/nic... or https://faculty.insead.edu/fatas/

One thing you can't rely on is the fact that central bank rates are zero in the problematic places. Zero is a high, above market rate when the equilibrium is negative. As I tried to emphasize in my medium post, negative rates can be quite normal and natural. If marginal private assets don't have a positive real rate on a risk adjusted, liquidity adjusted basis, the government shouldn't provide an artificial substitute. If they do, it puts a gridlock in large parts of the economy.
tencent on the dollar is the worth of any company with their stain on the brand.
> These challenges are going away as chipmakers and innovators collectively leverage open-source to develop better solutions and reduce time-to-market. The open source RISC-V architecture is particularly notable for its availability of unencumbered reference implementations and compiler/software support. As a result, RISC-V greatly reduces the amount of ancillary work required for a processor security project, allowing design teams to move more quickly and focus on areas of innovation – including security.

Is this a thing? I have not heard of anyone working on trying to replace x86 with RISC-V because of Spectre…
Because your false equivalency is complete bullshit
I smiled on the inside when I noticed this -- people posting all kinds of content exposing China -- earlier in my r/all feed. Great effort by the community.
The interesting one for me was measuring error rates (if your JS heavy web page calls the server 100 times, if two users try to load and one gets 500 that should be 50% error rate but it looks like <1%

So it feels like a piece of JS that says I have seen everything that should load load ok, then reports home with the page seems a good idea.

Probably quite doable - can JS see the network load like web developer tools ?
> The cases you see at Bloomberg are well evidence, lack of tech is not a problem here.

From TFA "From about 2007 until 2012, Banamex USA, a Citi subsidiary, processed more than $8.8 billion in transactions with almost no oversight.".

> The cases you see at Bloomberg are well evidence
> the crimes were recorded Blockchain or not

imglorp suggested "Anyone can audit the complete trail of funds from source to holding to destination.". Was this evidence you mention publically auditable (i.e. what imglorp's suggesting would help)?

> Blockchain isn't going to help with that

It's at least plausible that a publically auditable log would have helped spot these issues.
At least some of the books you mention arguably can be (and are by Google) classified as biography, so they would not be removed by the rule of thumb. But perhaps a better way of phrasing the rule would be "Don't read books by journalists on technical subject matter if your intention is gaining an understanding of that subject". If you want to read journalistic works like Bad Blood because it's a heck of a story, then that's a different matter. I am still failing to find a succinct way to express this thought though :)
> How can web projects be taken seriously when they won't even take the platforms they supposedly support seriously?

That's a pretty extreme reaction to someone not capitalizing the name correctly. Don't forget that they changed the name in the last few years, and not everyone is in the Apple orbit enough to absorb all of those shifts in branding.
I'm pretty happy to prescribe a medication if a patient wants to give it a go, as long as the previous reaction wasn't anaphylaxis.
Office standups where I work are of the form: New faces, helps, interestings and events. It's not the same as a team standup. You can get through both in 20 minutes flat.
What about a "Feedback" link, in the header or footer, which leads to a page with a text box, and a "Submit" button? That's what we had back in the 1990's, and it worked perfectly well. It can be anonymous, or you can ask them to leave an email address so you can respond to them individually.

Also: how about a feedback@ or support@ email address, and link to it on your webpage? (The form mentioned above can work by sending email to this address, even, so everything goes to the same place.)

RFC 2142 defines "webmaster@" (alias: "www@") as the standard email contact. I think it was a good idea, but I don't know how common it is any more.

I like to report bugs whenever I find them, but it's surprisingly difficult to find any sort of feedback mechanism for most webpages. Half the time, "tweet sarcastically in frustration" is actually the best option.
I dunno, I think I violate all those rules. I just try to write badass JS[1] purely for client-side rendering to make people's lives just work better.

[1] see an example at https://linuxontheweb.org/desk.os
This is far more moving and touching than my own experience with WoW, but I did get my job through WoW - https://ckluis.com/wow-landed-me-a-job-hobby-networking-work....
Twitter declined to appear before the committee.

From https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/twitter-ceo-top-offic...

>Twitter CEO and top officials have declined to appear before the Parliamentary Committee on IT that had summoned them over the issue of safeguarding citizens’ rights on social media platforms, sources in the panel said on Saturday.

From https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/bjp-war...

>The BJP Saturday warned Twitter of "repercussions" after the social network company's CEO and top officials declined to appear before the parliamentary committee on information technology, saying no agency has the right to disrespect institutions of the country. The parliamentary panel had summoned Twitter CEO and officials over the issue of safeguarding citizens' rights on social media platforms.

>"In any country, no agency has the right to disrespect the institutions of that country. In this situation, if Twitter is disrespecting the established institution of Parliament, then there are repercussions," BJP spokesperson and New Delhi MP Meenakshi Lekhi told reporters.
Fatty acids are not hydrocarbons as they all contain a carboxyl group. Fats have distinctly lower free energy than hydrocarbons.

Also, animal fat is a tissue, not an organic molecule, so there's a little bit more complexity here.
One of the tenets from Agile is "People before Process". Bad managers will micromanage no matter what processes or tools they have at hand.

So, no. Bad managers should not be empowered by Agile. They should be weeded out, by other people first and, failing that, results second.
Pass the things returned from useReducer() hook (state object + dispatch function) down via context. Then useContext() in child components.
Found the Libertarian!
I like the distributed spirit of this, but it only works where there is another layer holding the ISPs accountable - whether it's other ISPs or a government body. Right now their incentives are only to satisfy customers' perceived needs, which leaves nobody incentivized to prevent endpoint-to-endpoint harm.
It does work well enough to, for example, drive large LED display boards, emulate old video cards, processing audio, etc. Things that don't work well with traditional soft rt-linux. I'm sure, as you say, that it isn't good for all use cases.
Reddit has long been plagued with censorship. The CEO edited the post of a user because they criticized him or something. I can't believe how quickly that's been forgotten.

The Reddit situation reminds me of the post about failing to build a billion dollar company a few days ago. Reddit is trying to make VCs happy and continue to grow the business, but a platform like Reddit is best as a less reliant on growth, but stable platform. That allows the most ideas to be shared and the most natural interaction between users. I really think there is space for a competitor, but the switching costs will be high.
Because relative importance is different. Comments like yours show more frequently because people get confused and can't separate different shades of gray.

"It's all the same" is the main message in modern propaganda. Consistent counternarrative is not important. Just muddle things up.
This might not be responsive because spare time isn't something I can count on filling with other than sleep. If you don't mind a more general response, what I do is keep a list and when the next paying project comes along I'll try to use something off the list to realize the product. As a ferinstance, right now I have Elixir, Rust and FreeRTOS on the list. Two days ago a project came down from on high where even though I can't demonstrate that I need an o/s (it's not internetworked) I'll implement over freertos and get that off of my list.
No company at all.

My best work I've done between 5:30AM and 7:00AM on my home machine before I got ready for work. The code I have created there runs hundreds of websites and causes me less than 5 trouble tickets a year.

My home computer sits in a mud room full of boots and heavy coats where no one bothers me first thing in the morning. It's a littler cooler than the house. I drink tea and espresso. There is no phone, or IM, or anything too distracting (the occasional woodpecker on the gutters).

My home computer is from 2009, only the video-card is upgraded. I run Windows 7. I take a long time and tinker to figure out how things are going to work. No rush. I build logging and error handling first, then functionality. No users requests or specs from management. No influence on direction from management. Management gets (mostly) finished code. In every case so far they didn't know what I was doing and I presented the solution once I felt it was solid.

Somehow I get away with writing no documentation.

I target good. Perfect is truly the enemy of the good. I write code I can hand to juniors with a hour or two of explanation or that seniors can pick up and use and ask minimal questions. No rocket science. This has made it so I don't have to support developers, either.

My one mistake, or maybe, regret, is writing things for me then giving to my employer for free (I do take company time to integrate it into the stack). These solutions have made my professional life invaluably better, but I sometimes wonder if if there was money to be made. But then, I have enough money to live okay, so I'm not too worried about past opportunities lost.
Using Redux at work, looking forward to trying out the newly released React Hooks for less sophisticated needs
Your "free-market oriented solutions" sound like regulations...
A totally free market would be one without any regulations or laws, that can't have "dirty" money.

But nearly all actual markets have some kind of regulation, and thus the potential for dirty money.
I've heard good things about Godot, MIT license written in Go I think.

I've seen it's praises on HN, but I'm not a game dev so YMMV.
I feel uneasy giving up general purpose computing in the name of security. Can't we have both?