skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tokentax.co has these out of the box
You keep raising the issue of bias, but the one piece of supporting “evidence” for that bias doesn’t support your claim. You brush that off by saying it changed “after the story settled” as if that meant something.

I’m thinking that a mirror might help you with your bias concerns.
When I attended Hack Reactor they did tell us not to push them. However since they didn't teach us git (they expected us to know it) many still pushed them up. You would know because they'd get an email from some random company/person letting them know that they found their secret keys and that they should enroll/buy their services if they don't know what they're doing. Luckily no one from my class got hosed, but others in the past had.
In context, my claim was clearly that Australia did not have access to fishing resources that had economic effects that were remotely comparable to its total exports.
You probably don't live in the US, right?

In the US, I've already payed thousands in after-premium medical expenses for my very healthy young children, just in copays and ER visit fees for normal accidents that kids get into, and that after having what in the US is considered amazing health insurance, so I'm a very lucky person.

I had to go to the ER in the UK as a tourist recently. They refused to take payment since I wasn't admitted to the hospital.

> [1] “after premiums” is roughly the same as “after taxes”, right?

For the purposes of comparison between the US and other OECD countries, yes.
https://caniuse.com/#feat=multicolumn

Even IE10, mobile safari, and the gingerbread android browser support it
Flatpak, Snap are not significant contributors to desktop fragmentation, unlike Gnome 3, Wayland, dropping Unity, all forcing people to try different distros. I switched to Lubuntu myself after Unity and probably going to switch again to Xfce-based Xubuntu, because they want to break Lubuntu too.
Oh nice! I've used Wireshark for TCP / UDP captures before but that's about it.

Maybe I can use a raspberry pi as burner device and check it out.
You can prob disable it by editing the CCF (Car Configuration File).
The death of general-purpose computing is well underway.

Just imagine the world in a decade or two: it'll be one of mandatory secure boot, remote attestation, and centralized app store distribution. Regular people just installing software? That's unthinkable. It'll put themselves and others at risk. Even browser extensions will be tightly restricted. If you want to write software, you'll have to get a developer's license and accreditation from an industry-wide professional association, who can remove your accreditation (and ability to get a run-your-own-code certificate) for any reason. Sure, you can find some 2019 laptop and run Linux on it, but your ISP won't forward your packets if they're not signed by a trusted kernel. Good luck running some tin-pot mesh network in whatever tiny sliver of unlicensed spectrum remains.

Think this scenario is unlikely? I wouldn't be so sure. All the bits of technical infrastructure we need for this dystopia already exist in one form or another. There's also significant social and political pressure to rein in the internet --- pick your favorite pretext --- and it's inevitable that platform vendors will respond to this pressure. I've heard a disturbing amount of talk lately of the need for centralized control in order to combat "disinformation", for example. Already, we've lost an amazing amount of ground on software freedom relative to what we had ten or fifteen years ago. Most people already use a primary computer that they can neither control nor inspect --- and they like it.

Mark my words: in ten or twenty years, policymakers and very serious establishment types will regard letting regular people just make their own software and connecting it to the public internet as unnecessary, dangerous, and suggestive of some kind of moral fault. It's starting already.
I dig it! Good job!
I'd hope the Secret Service is in the 1%.
There is no 'centralization of power' labeling slippery slope as a fallacy. It's a fallacy because it's a non-argument, it can be applied to anywhere at any time and does nothing to actually prove your point.

You're essentially arguing for the status quo, that nothing should ever change because otherwise you immediately slide down a slippery slope.
It also common that marketing material that says "Japanese caps" means capacitors made specifically by Nippon-ChemiCon or Nichicon which are brands known for selling good quality high end capacitors.
Chrome Extensions Work Flawlessly in Chromium-Based Microsoft Edge Browser
The idea that your phone's microphone isn't constantly parsing speech into text and then occasionally uploading certain keywords to whichever major advertising platform (FB, Google, Amazon, etc) has an active app on the phone doesn't seem so far fetched. We know Android and Apple phones are generally always listening for their keyword phrase (Siri, Hey Google, etc) for voice-based AI assistants and that their speech-to-text support is very robust. Uploading a text log is very data efficient and becomes even more efficient if it merely sends a positive for certain keywords it's told to listen for based on the individual's demographic profile and advertiser's interest in said demographics. I've had enough "coincidences" happen to believe this can be explained otherwise.
Mass necromancy, too!
I suggest they update the logo since it now looks very out of place.

Does anyone use J for anything aside from experimentation (and math)? I know the same question is asked of everything that deviates from the mainstream, but the APL (and by extension J) world seems really far out from my mental model of computers.
> tell users that something can't be done when the reality is it's entirely possible but the software won't do it

This bit really stands out to me, and it bothers me to no end when I encounter it in the wild.

It even afflicts FLOSS software! Without meaning to single out any one project in particular, a concrete example that's fresh on my mind is KDE's Dolphin. Lately "sudo dolphin" results in the flat-out lie that "Executing Dolphin as root is not possible.", rather than a much more informative statement such as "Doing this would make an entire class of otherwise impossible exploits possible, so the maintainer has made a personal judgment call to disallow this behavior."

I think all software everywhere ought to conform to KDE's Human Interface Guidelines of "simple by default, powerful when needed" but would also like to see something added along the lines of:

* Don't lie to users - be as transparent as reasonably possible.

* Don't make value judgments or be (needlessly) authoritarian - software should restrict itself to doing its job and doing it well.

Another (historical) example that comes to mind: https://github.com/tpope/heroku-fucking-console
That's already a risk with any keyboard you use.
Next up: blood samples. Then chips (optional of course!;).
Uber driver suspected of burglarizing home of his passenger
You should go to a his doctor's walk-in clinic instead (it cost $100 here). But yeah I completely agree.. it is a lot cheaper if you don't have money and are not insured (they cut you a huge break).
Not sure where I stand on the issue, but the response to

>There are lots of marketing plays on existing, well-established technology. That's like half the things Silicon Valley develops. So what?

The "what" is that here, peoples' health is at stake, and simply taking a market-driven approach may not be to the benefit of society.
I think you could look at the value of an influencer as providing an aesthetic, much like an artist, but the kicker is that the influencer is driving ads and is part of a consumerist architecture. While true art is nourishing, influencing is about depriving someone of contentment by making them want something they don't have.

I also think when we see people who are paid a lot, we want to like them, and feel as though they are contributing proportional to their pay. We want to know that they're working hard, and making a difference on society, not just for themselves, in a positive way.

The influencer culture is weird, and I would feel weird making so much money essentially being an ad-person.
A human cannot vet an electronic device. We can only interface to it from another electronic device.

The same argument applies to the Internet -- we don't say that it's the human's responsibility to vet every website or email message before we let our computer connect to it. We expect our computer to do that. That's why it was wrong for Outlook to automatically execute every program sent to you via email.
I'm not really a fan of that guy at the party who pulls out a guitar, but I'm always down to play some Guitar Hero with other skilled rhythm gamers.
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The trust fund is an accounting fiction that doesn't hold any economically productive assets. Congress spent social security's surplus in the general budget and issued special obligation bonds in return that accumulate "interest" on paper but do not ever collect from the government. They cannot be sold on the market. Taxes or debt needs to be raised or benefits need to be cut effectively now.

This is from a 1999 OMB report:

``These [trust fund] balances are available to finance future benefit payments and other trust fund expenditures–but only in a bookkeeping sense. These funds are not set up to be pension funds, like the funds of private pension plans. They do not consist of real economic assets that can be drawn down in the future to fund benefits. Instead, they are claims on the Treasury, that, when redeemed, will have to be financed by raising taxes, borrowing from the public, or reducing benefits or other expenditures.``
Correction -- China went all in on solar AND coal.[1] These stories that China is going through some kind of environmental renaissance are fiction.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45640706
This model needs to evolve from “you must sign with Apple” to “you must sign with one of $TRUSTED_LIST”. There should be a (non-trivial) way to set this, and if I decide all software signed by my best friend is OK then I should have that option. Grandmas should be able to trust software from their IT-expert grandsons and so forth.

There is value in requiring all software to be validated by somebody but it’s a slippery slope to have ONE. The main reason is, even if I trust “Apple” now, what is “Apple” in 10 years? (Heck I thought I “trusted” them to always make desirable hardware, got burned on that one.) Things change. I want another signatory.
That argument was not dominant (though it existed) within the world of people who cared. It was primarily pushed by people who felt that ethics were in the way of business goals.

For point of reference, Linus Torvalds only half cares about ethics. He likes all the value of collaboration from a developer perspective and doesn't care so much about whether software treats people well and gives end users any freedom.
Chinese Woman Arrested at Mar-a-Lago Had Hidden Camera Detector Prosecutors Say
The article assumes (or at least implies) the secret service member was plugging it into his own personal laptop or something. Why? It may very well be a computer specifically setup to screen devices, including USB drives. It may be a sandboxed and sanitized environment. Or not, but we just don't know, and this article seems a little sensationalist in casting a negative light in the secret service absent details.
The primary reason that some people push back against this notion of health care as a "basic human right" is that it is an example of a "right" that can only be provided by force. And by force I mean that the only way it can be "guaranteed" by the government is for the government to forcibly collect taxes to pay for the services. Forceable redistribution is required. Perhaps even forcible job assignments (nurses, doctors, technicians, etc) if you really want to make sure the right is provided equally to everyone (ratio of patients to doctors, etc.).

In contrast rights such as freedom of speech, assembly, press, religion and so on can be guaranteed through inaction of the government. Nothing needs to be taken away from anyone to guarantee these rights. Basically this is the difference between positive rights and negative rights.

One large problem with bucketing positive and negative rights together as "basic rights" and insisting that the government must guarantee these basic rights is that it becomes difficult to identify a limiting principle. If health care is a "basic right", then why isn't "food" or "shelter" or "clothing"? How would we go about guaranteeing those things?

Please don't interpret my comments as suggesting that reasonably priced health insurance and accessible health care services aren't important. They are, but there are ways of structuring those services and socializing some of the costs that don't require that they be considered "basic rights".

It is interesting that you qualify your claim that health care is a "basic human right" to the "developed world". Does that mean that it is not a "basic human right" in other parts of the world? Why not? If it is a basic human right, shouldn't it be protected universally? And if you think it should be provided universally who should be responsible for providing that right outside the developed world? And if it there is some complex economic conditions that are pre-requisites then is it really a "basic human right"?
Good to know! What a strange little icon... (Oh, I guess it's like a physical inbox tray?)
That's the new go-to for asking embarassing questions.

"How do I fix my computer after I plug in a malware USB device? I meant, I didn't do that, I'm asking for a f-- another agent."
Curious if there can be Amazon for healthcare..
>Roukes, who is a professor of physics, applied physics and biological engineering at Caltech, is most interested in what the ring of NEMs suggests about huge networks like the brain. “This is very, very primordial compared to the complexity of the brain,” he said. “If we already see this explosion in complexity [in a network of 8 NEM oscillators], then it seems feasible to me that a network of 200 billion nodes and 2,000 trillion [connections] would have enough complexity to sustain consciousness.”

I wonder if there's a good way to integrate something about oscillation into neural networks.
At Long Last, a Glimpse of a Black Hole
pretty much none. your day to day life has not and will not change.
>"Mistakes" can also be just lack of sufficient evidence, or even evidence that is not collected properly. Mistakes do not always mean the party is innocent, just that we take them to be on a legal basis regardless of the truth.

I am extremely worried by China's panopticism, especially in Xinjiang[1]. But violating the rights of Chinese students so egregiously that you're unable to secure a conviction because your evidence is "fruit of the poisonous tree"[2] harms American interests by handing a propaganda victory to the PRC.

The FBI needs to ensure they follow the law when they investigate espionage so that offenders can be changed and convicted.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/04/world/asia/xi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
The reason why some states put the level so low is because you shouldn't be driving after any drinks, period. Your argument that 'being slightly over the limit is often safe' does not work, because it relies on people being able to rationally judge how good they are at driving while drunk. Which, as it turns out, generally does not work and leads to accidents.

And even if there's 'no one around', that relies on a judgment call made while drunk and impaired. If you told a lawyer 'Sorry, I didn't think anyone was around when I drunkenly drove into them', you'd be laughed out of court and straight to jail.

Which is why they're illegal. If you drink and drive, you've established that you're putting yourself and others at danger while driving. The same can be true of driving sleepy, but that also happens at a far less rate statistically than driving drunk in the US.
This is literally how code signing worked for Windows. Unsurprisingly signed malware has been far from uncommon
How to Release Your Music on Spotify
Or a high-level agent. There are many dimensions where level is independent of tech savvy. I'm sure >50% of Fortune 500 CEOs could be tricked in the same way -- at least among the ones who use a computer.
I read "expect" in the sense of "Do you expect vehicle drivers to hit you, when you're crossing the road?" It's basically a question about what you believe is moral.

"Are you aware..." is totally different.
Does this one end with you saying 'The Aristocrats!' because I really don't follow at all.
Military yes, that's millions of jobs for people that would struggle to be employed otherwise.

The health insurance industry, however, needs to die. The sooner the better. The resulting boom in people actually receiving healthcare in the US will cover the job losses over time.
Citation? This is a very significant claim if true, it would be a clear violation of FAR 25.173. I don't see how a plane is certified to be airworthy by software work around, in particular one that can be disabled instantly rendering the plane not airworthy.
There's a difference between "activities" and "search activities". People expect Google to track search data, but "activities" is so broad that many people may not understand Google is tracking nearly as much as they actually are.
> How does Apple check against malicious software? What is even considered "malicious" software?

It's an automated check that Apple has not disclosed.
How do you prevent a user who is not aware of the consequences from throwing their a computer into a lake, we better ensure that all computers are Safe-T-Locked into desks so the user cant hurt themselves.
The text just becomes harder and harder to read the more it progresses.
Not sure that's the question when you already have edge... I think it turns into...

question is, why use chrome when edge is basically chrome but already installed on windows out of the box?
Raising the retirement age is probably the only way to keep things going. People used to retire in their 60s and died in their 70s. Now they live up to 90 and more. Simple math tells us that this is not sustainable.
Microsoft says its data shows FCC reports overstate broadband adoption
> The actual CMYK needed is only known to the printer driver or even just internal to the printer. You'll need to convert. Since you are converting anyway, there is no need to start from a color space as awkward as CMYK.

Note that this rarely applies to professional printers - as there is no "driver" as such. It's a several stage process, which relies heavily on the person involved. The 4 colours are mostly for cost reasons, otherwise you have to resort to spot colours.

The Pantone colourset is well-defined, and transfers to process printing well, but it is CMYK.

The average person has no need of it, but the professional will find it essential.
There are lesson to learn here for documentation, slack conversations, and even code itself.
If it were set up for this purpose, they wouldn’t have ripped it out in a panic.
For a second I thought this was the return of J Sharp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp
You are forgetting pc gamers :)
> he points out that 'computer people' will routinely tell users that something can't be done when the reality is it's entirely possible but the software won't do it

This is not the full equation though. Usually, "it can't be done for the price that users want to pay and the reality is it's entirely possible but I will not do it for free for you".
Sure. In any country without a concept of releasing something into public domain the fact that you did so would be irrelevant and the Apache License would apply, in any country where you successfully released it into public domain that already gives all the rights granted by the Apache License. The restrictions of the Apache License obviously wouldn't apply in those countries.

Though if you try such legal tricks you may as well use the CC0 [1], it's designed to emulate public domain as closely as possible in a way that's valid everywhere.

1: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...
In 2009 Google was amazing for diagnosing Linux issues. I would just copy the error from the console and I'd have links to the issue tracker, a work around and the version in which the bug was fixed. Today I get a link to some github project that has nothing to do with what I'm working on and was closed as being an upstream issue.
Ask HN: Hiring Mentors for Junior Developers
My team and I, we’re working in HR-Tech area. We found out that there’s a big problem on the market — hiring developers. Although companies feel a lack of tech-related people, they are not ready to hire junior developers. We see the second problem here - juniors are struggling to land a job. So why companies do not employ junior developers?

During several interviews with recruiters, founders and CTO's, we realized that the main problem is that there are no people in companies who are ready to teach juniors. Experienced team members don’t have enough time for mentoring as they have to perform their tasks. It made us think that maybe there is an opportunity to create a service that can provide remote mentors to these companies. These distant mentors could teach juniors, review their code, answer some basic questions, help with dev tools and frameworks, etc.

Maybe you have experience of hiring a mentor for junior developers at your company? I've heard only from one company that they did that.
You keep adressing my secondary point. The one that seems to personally hurt you.

Stories evolve. Top voted comments change. The replies to those are also part of the discussion, and some are highly voted too.

My top comment in this discussion has started being downvoted. This might change, but it will still be the case that a big part of the HN audience disagrees with me.
True. One thing I have noticed about dental though is that they give reasonable upfront estimates which is something most other doctors don’t do.
The Zig language has a great premise, it's worth reading the above link or watching a bit of this video https://youtu.be/Z4oYSByyRak?t=150 just to question our assumptions that certain language features need exist at all.
It's a very different form of insurance, though, with a very different cure: tort reform.
> The overall findings showed that low-need-for-cognition individuals were more physically active

"Need for cognition" may translate into the vernacular as "easily bored." So easily bored people find exercise more tedious and do less of it. It has that effect on me. And consistent with their conclusion, cogitating via wildlife tracking, orienteering, audiobooks, podcasts or conversation makes exercise more tolerable for me.

Being chased by a bear would also result in decreased boredom, increased cognition and a sudden interest in vigorous exercise, but it would probably not be as long lasting. Being chased by an imaginary bear is likely more sustainable.
I assume this will eventually gain enough support. The interesting question to me is how much longer that will have to take before the pact will affect the 2020 elections but not give one or both of the candidates enough time to adjust their strategy. It’s not simply a matter of a different flight schedule since campaign platforms/promises are crafted to appeal to voters in states where the vote outcome is unknowable.
It's not that hard to pick some standard class, like CDC and have a userspace app that uses it just like a serial device. You can get info on which serial device to use via sysfs on Linux.

The rest is just making up a serial protocol.

No need for a special driver.