skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"She claims protection from the "First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendment, and other statutory rights", not the fifth amendment. I assume first because she would be under some sort of gag order about the proceedings."

IANAL, but from what I understand, grand jury witnesses are not bound to secrecy (though everyone else in a grand jury is). So I'm not sure where the First Amendment challenge would come from.
40 minutes at a time is enough to test it and if it works much better than skype it might be worth the money. Also video calls between two parties are unlimited and what I need most of the time.
Definitely! elisabeth.woodfield@gs.com
I don't think you intended your first remark to sound like this, but I'd imagine the same could be said of us from the perspective of a highly advanced interstellar species: how different can the experiences be between humans, right? However, given the level of complexity of a fruit fly I know this metaphor doesn't necessarily hold when analyzed from the perspective of a human. Yet, who is to say beings beyond our comprehension wouldn't think the same of us?

Unless of course that was your point this entire time and I just stupidly repeated it in a more garrulous manner.
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That doesn't make intuitive sense to me - I don't think humans have such a zone for (all) binary choices. An example that comes to my mind is the rotating Spinning Dancer Illusion[1] - I am 100% confident that she's spinning to the left, or 100% confident she's spinning to the right - there is no middle-ground where my brain tells me "it could be either direction".

Multistable/Bistable perception is not unique to Google Cloud vision - it afflicts humans too.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_Dancer
If someone has a delusional idea, is it still a lie? I don't think Musk 'lies' to earn more money. I think he is delusional for how long certain things take to do and at worst is trying to keep his companies afloat so he can continue with his ideas. I'd say his sins are less than the CEO of Enron for instance. It's hard to blame the guy when he successfully built a rocket company.
Naive question: why is that?
I've only skimmed it, but it smells a lot like Khaled Omar's "IPv10" draft: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-omar-ipv10-11.
I often use "None Of Your Business Street." Works every time.
There is Found object genre(?), style(?) of art so Starbucks coffee cup could be an art object/piece if presented in a specific context.
If rotation is the secret sauce, then the best strategy is to rotate after every use. In which case, why not just build that into the system:

1. Client holds key.

2. Client exchanges key with central agency for token. Token expires after a short time period, making long-term storage and leaks useless.

3. Client gives token to company.

4. Company validates token with central agency.

And now we've reinvented OpenID. And SecurID is nothing but a piece of hardware that can perform (2) in a decentralized manner. We could maybe modify (4) to potentially be more useful for this specific use-case:

4. Company exchanges client identity token with central agency for a validation token that can be stored long-term. Validation token signifies that an identity token was received and exchanged, for legal purposes.

What I don't know is how to protect this validation token from becoming valuable beyond the above use-case. If it's proof of something, then it becomes valuable for that proof... So it would would have to be scope-limited in ways that make it useless for proving anything other than that exact exchange. Off the top of my head, obvious scope limitations are: client, company, and timestamp.
You can filter by location. Also feel free to send me an email at elisabeth.woodfield@gs.com

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> my ex as one of the answers. This one baffled me because we never lived together and never had a bank account or loan together

Yikes. Where did they get that from? I wonder if they also collected tons of info from FaceBook like it seems everyone else has.
>> "Default trust" actually works in our economy. And because of that, friction can be low and things Just Work.

> Does it though? I think there's a reason we've stopped accepting cheques

That's a very specific issue but this is a pretty general fact. With respect to checks, people still write and accept checks, we just have more convenient payment methods. Also checks are still the easy way to transfer large sums of money at many banks. More generally though, just look at how much can be done with a signature under penalty of perjury, and how relatively rarely these are forged. The trust-based system really works decently well in the US.
One of my favorite visual stories about Orcas and Sperm whales

What makes it even more special is that I've been to the exact spot and seen pods of Sperm whales (sadly, no Orcas)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2017/mar/29/...
I was but a lowly intern when the verdict came down, but I can tell you I heard the term "consent decree" more times than I could count.
Oh, he's certainly sometimes observant (and indeed sometimes accurate), it's just that he's far from being particularly reliable.
That's all well and good, but what was the concrete result of the hearing? Nothing actually happened and Equifax continues merrily along doing what it's always done.
Perhaps actually funding and staffing the agencies that enforce it?
This is a great example of why it's irritating when people suggest antifeatures like telemetry or cumulative updates justify using old obsolete operating systems. (Aside from the fact both of those antifeatures have been backported to Windows 7, at this point.) The underlying platform of each successive Windows version is significantly more secure than the last.

Using a ten year old operating system just isn't justifiable in today's threat environment. Use Windows 10 or switch to Mac or Linux.
Commercial airplanes are usually able to safely glide under engine failures. A jetpack is going to drop out the sky. Just from glancing at this flying bike, if the power cuts above 10m, you're probably going to die.
That is, indeed, a beautiful piece of writing, but this bit here got me to thinking:

> You are here for her. She is his mother.

Does it really make sense that the person whose job is operating on physical trauma victims is also the person who deals with emotional trauma victims? Seems to me that those are two entirely different skill sets, and even mindsets.

On a human level, yes I'd want to hear the news from the surgeon who operated on my loved one. But on a practical level, I think I'd rather my loved one be operated on by the surgical equivalent of House than by someone less talented at surgery but with a greater capacity for empathy.
Wait you can get more than 95k in Berlin as a developer?!

As a fellow developer in Berlin, that sounds pretty outrageous! I'm making half of that.
Thanks for mentioning "chappals" - In my experience (currently month 21 in India over the last 14 years) this term usually refers to a generic type of open-ish, often plastic or rubber, shoe - anything between a "flip-flop" ("thong" for Aussies), "slides", "sandals", or more like "crocs", etc whereas (to a Brit) at least, a "slipper" is quite different (usually softer materials, though some might be similar in style to slides or crocs or moccasins), and intended for indoor use only.
Ahh, thank you. That makes much more sense. So it's not that ETFs are specifically prohibited from purchasing them. Rather, if index providers exclude issuers who have a dual-share structure from their indices then any funds that track to an index wouldn't be purchasing stock in those issuers.

I think it's important to note that many ETFs aren't index-tracking so even though index providers may exclude the issuers with several share classes that doesn't mean the stock will be shunned by all ETFs.
IIRC there was a post here awhile ago about how you could refresh the pages and the options would change. Except, of course, the correct answer. Maybe someone else remembers and has the link.
You lost all credibility when you wrote that first sentence.

But you carry on using empty interface with runtime type assertions and reflection if you think that's faster.
Even owning 1% of a $15B company still makes you worth $150 million.

Dumping even 2% of that $150M would give you enough to retire.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Also, personal attacks will get you banned here, so please don't.)
> If a company controls a certain % of marketshare, that behavior crosses into anti-competitive.

That's just incorrect. There's nothing wrong with controlling 100% of the market share, as long as you don't use your position to illegally prevent competition.

> Amazon's behavior is a textbook anti-competition.

That completely counters the point you just made. Amazon accounts for maybe 5% of retail sales, and Walmart is closer to 15%. Even in the eCommerce market their share is around 50%. Vastly lower than the 90% you threw out there.

> They literally build copies of products offered by other merchants on their site

Every retail company does this through suppliers. It's called "white label" and it's an industry standard. And Amazon does not build them, they license another companies product.

> then rank them higher in search results,

Citation needed.

> often times, driving the merchants out of business.

Again, citation needed. Particularly the "often times".
Cashless transactions (including credit card, debit card, NFC, etc) may include fees of around 2%, but those can be easily exceeded by all the fees and costs of using cash. This is the extra time and training required of employees, hardware and space for big registers, risk of robbery, employee error, cash handling fees by financial institutions - no mode of payment is free. Why not let businesses decide which payment methods are more economical and competitive for their own needs?

Businesses that offer customers a discount for paying in cash are more likely to be saving that money because they're dodging taxes, not because they're dodging CC fees.
I can't really argue with #1 or #2, but I've found that flights in and out of Austin aren't drastically more expensive than elsewhere. Directs to Seattle, SF, LA, NYC, Boston, Atlanta, Miami are all $200-300 round trip, and there's a lot of flights that are just a quick hop to Dallas or Houston and then on to fill in the gaps.

You'll find some weird one-offs - Louisville KY was a $700 round trip last time I checked, for some reason, and there's no way to get to Vancouver that doesn't take like... 8 hours, but in general, I haven't had serious problems.

You also have the advantage of it being a smaller airport, so you can pretty reliably get to the airport with only an hour or so before your flight, since the gate is at most 5 mins from security.
Lived in Austin 17 years. It's traffic surpassed NYC back in 2014 as 4th worse in the USA; however, it looks like its dropped back down to #8 based on INRIX Global Traffic score card.

http://inrix.com/scorecard/

Humidity does not equal heat. I grew up in SE Louisiana and agree with you. I'll take a drier heat of 113F in ATX over 95 and 100% humidity any day. It's oppressive.

That said, ATX is the only place I lived where I had to walk my dogs very early or late at night b/c the heat on the roads would melt their paw pads.
Doesn't this boil down to an even more specific version of an 'anthropic principle' argument with a good deal of sampling bias added and easier-to-spot problems? For instance, there's no reason to assume the only way to get a long-term, stable-enough environment for the development of intelligent life is precisely a planetary system with a gas giant (why does it have to be a gas giant?) and a rocky inner planet with a chonker of a satellite.
Whenever I see mentions of go links, I think "How are you handling TLS?" which there's not a great answer for* so I think it's neat that the extension model solves this problem.

* I don't trust most enterprise IT teams to be able to set-up and administer a secure CA with the appropriate critical nameConstraint that limits the CA to signing certificates for `go`.

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OP: You should probably mention the TLS problem on https://www.golinks.io/support.php#technical since right now I assume the CNAME approach will only work with HTTP.
For someone who works in finance, you should understand that the market for software engineers in Switzerland simply doesn't pay this kind of money. The average salary of an ETHZ new grad is 80-85k CHF. You can be the top of your class from MIT or whatnot, companies aren't going to triple their entry-level range to hire someone with zero experience, just because they put a lot of effort through university.

I know top 1% students from ETHZ and EPFL who then did PhDs and postdocs under world class professors. They'll probably never get close to 250k if they stay in Switzerland. Even after 20 years on the job.
Maybe "Hang the DJ" [0]?

Had a more upbeat twist at the end vs the GP comment above though.

Pretty good episode. One of my favorites.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_the_DJ_(Black_Mirror)
TBH it’s not the banks fault. Our governments stance on taxes, terrorism and drugs has caused this. Due to the need to verify citizenship, verify that you aren’t a terrorist and verify that you are a drug lord laundering money the banks are forced to jump through all of these hoops to give you an account.
I've had Chase call me, text messages requesting that I call Chase, e-mail messages requesting that I call Chase, and both e-mail and text messages asking me to reply with a specific letter or number to verify a purchase.

I have multiple Chase accounts in multiple tiers (business, etc...), so my guess is what kind of contact you get depends on the nature of the account.
> your numbers are somewhat off

I used the McDonald's calorie calculator on their website. I picked the hamburger 250 calories (it's their main item and I guess most people get it), medium fries 337 calories (so not even picking the smallest items), and Diet Coke 1 calorie (maybe that one is bending over backwards to be low calorie) = just 588 calories. A very light lunch!
it really sickens me how much pain humans bring to the world through selfishness. i had heard of the cooperation story and old tom before, but not the conditions of this particular incident and his death. it seems the orcas in his pod disappeared after being hunted by whalers soon after, according to the wiki article.
This hypertrending feature is very similar to how Google Maps tracks traffic. Everyone using Google Maps is constantly uploading position information which makes it possible for Google to infer traffic jams, among other things.

Of course, Google has a more plausible argument that it's users have opted in even if very few realize their anonymized and aggregated position information is being broadcast to the world.
Eventually this will self correct.

Snap was valued around $20b in its F round in 2016. And it's valued now around $12.5b.

For a long time the public market has been viewed as the dumb money -- but for some of these companies it may actually be the late round investors that are caught standing when the music stops.
Note that rich white people witholding medical care =/= white people. It is a huge distinction, and seemingly refers to how more and more treatments and cures are being priced to extract the most money possible, heavily restricting who has access.

Hepatitis C is curable, but it is purposefully priced out of reach for much of the affected population, hoping that the local government will pick up the tab. Epi Pens have skyrocketed in price over the past few years, and the manufacturer that makes them has claimed that there is a shortage of the generic version, while plentiful supplies of the on brand version.

This is Late Stage Capitalism.
Is there a twitter "feed"?
That's right everyone, we live at a pivotal moment in history where trading algos are making wild-arsed guesses at the market value of low-sales-volume prerecorded compact cassettes.
Honest question: if the source of the data was anonymous (as in gdpr anonymous, not “we use UUID instead of your name + SSN” anonymous) would you find it cooler? Because we have the tech, but struggling to properly monetize. Throwaway bc not sure if boss is OK with disclosure
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2 is a trend. 3 or more and it's a craze.
> Why does the Hill Country not count as amazing geography?

The hill country is amazing geography, but Austin (as a city and not as the surrounding area) is on the fringes and doesn't get the hills. I lived there for a year, after having grown up in hill country, and it always felt like the hill country was an hour away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis
People are in general have a very bad handle on fundamental parts of life, like death. (And personal finances, metacognition and so on.) And sure, doctors can play the emergency psychologist while delivering the news, but people don't just go to the hospital and get a random death sentence. They knew there was a very significant chance that the news will be bad. Yes, when the uncertainty evaporates together with the favorable outcome, that's fucking harsh, and there's a process for dealing with that (the good old Kübler-Ross stages come to mind). People should be better prepared for these eventualities. (And I'm not saying it's easy, and people must be perfect stoics, but these theatrics we assign to conveying a few bits of information coupled with the human touch is just a psychology theater.)
This is a bad article. It presents rational uncertainty about the phenomenon as debunking and equates the distance and rate of future events with a decrease in severity. I've never seen an article or news report on methane release that didn't point out the idea of a bomb was a metaphor and referred to the suddenness on geological timescales, while also describing it as a continuous process that would take place some decades int he future.

It's as if someone looking at footage of the California town destroyed in the wildfires said it looked like the impact of a bomb, and then this author showed to say 'actually it just burned to the ground.'
These are so called "security questions" for that account; the great grandparent is talking about "knowledge-based authentication," which is a different thing entirely.

The "security questions" you choose your answers, in "knowledge-based authentication" the questions and answers are generated based on the information on your credit reports and other databases, such as insurance databases. You don't make up answers, they already know the answers.
No, a lot of very good folks are shed by Elon's companies all the time. He's just not an effective manager, Tesla is in great measure successful despite Elon, not because of him, and his limitations as a manager are becoming more and more of an obstacle. I have first hand knowledge of that.
Is it just me, or does Scott Adams always seem like he is running a mindgame on you? I like him and he is funny, but there is something off about him.
Since users get tokens for interactions with their content, I wonder if the content on sites like this will be worse. You have that incentive everywhere else (the positive feeling of likes, +1s, etc.), but here it's a kind of direct financial reward.

It almost seems like "gamifying" content causes it's quality to go down. HN hides upvote/downvote counts for comments, which seems to help.
Reminds me of this post by Richard Stallman, [1].

> Amazon has so much market share that its sheer size distorts the market.

> We should not allow a company to have a share over around 10% of any market. If in a certain field a single dominant company is beneficial for society, that means it is a natural monopoly, and should be served by a regulated utility.

[1] https://stallman.org/amazon.html
> those minority examples

The problem is that those aren't the minority. Comments are like lawyers; there are plenty of good and necessary ones, but 90% of them give the rest a bad name.
Interesting. I would have suggested to XOR a few sequences, which would improve the result a bit, but this method works better.
I try to live by a few simple rules regarding code vs comments. Here are ten of them. Some of these are already in other comments, in a different form.

1. Code should show not tell. That means the comments I write are typically at the beginning of a class or function rather than scattered throughout on separate lines.

2. Code shows how, comments instruct why. A good comment includes the reasoning behind the algorithms and tradeoff choices chosen by the coder.

3. Good comments include an example of usage

4. Good comments are compatible with an automated documentation framework, such as Javadoc, Doxygen, Rustdoc, and Pydoc

5. Good comments do not include a modification history. Version control and changelogs can handle that.

6. Kill your darlings - Good code follows the KISS principle, and is easily understood, as well as easily maintained

7. Good code is SOLID - This is part of Kill Your Darlings, in a way. To be easily maintained, in many cases, you need to follow SOLID. Here's a good article on SOLID: https://scotch.io/bar-talk/s-o-l-i-d-the-first-five-principl...

8. Good code is short - I don't have a firm line count, because it's different based on domain, language, etc. I do try to keep each method/function to no more than a quarter of a screen of code at a reasonable resolution, so that's maybe around 15 lines. With modern optimizing compilers and VMs this will not be a large performance hit, if it's a hit at all, assuming you are following suggested practices. Martinn Fowler follows the same approach, as he explains here: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FunctionLength.html

9. Good code has simple, but thought out, names. For the love of Bunnies and Bears everywhere, please do not make a function named similarly to GetFoobarEffectBarIndexFromFoobarSourceBarIndex ( a real function name changed to protect the ~innocent ). Btw, Bunnies and Bears reference is from a Microsoft practice, see https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030818-00/?p=....

10. Good code breaks the rules it needs to in order to get the job done, so apply the above rules in context. In other words - make it work, make it fast, then make it elegant. You are the only one who can choose where to stand on any given trade-off line, and that is fine (as long as you know why you are standing there and can explain your reasoning). The surely wrong person is the person who says their way is the only right way in all situations.
The IRS is pretty awesome and incredibly underfunded, yes.

But we could simplify the tax code... The bigger the surface area, the easier it is to find a vulnerability / loophole. And anymore, the tax code is basically being written by BigCos to protect their interests and provide breaks for themselves.

Enforcing a tax code that's 20-feet tall when printed out when companies are as complicated as they are -- it's a wonder anyone pays taxes. It would take years in court to figure out what a company honestly owes.

If it's simple -- you make x profit or y revenue -- then you pay z dollars -- for any public company, good luck grossly cheating that.
But it doesn't instantly flip the decision in a way that can oscillate, it recognizes the similarity in specific positions where humans would also recognize it, and doesn't recognize anything in between (again the same as humans would). Isn't that the goal, to mimic how us humans do it? Imagine recognizing numbers 6 and 9, you want AI to recognize it with high certainty depending on what part of the digit is up, you don't want 45% certainty that it might be 9 or 6. Or am I missing something?