skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either the law forcing you to follow it no longer can force such a thing, or the thing it is forcing you to follow is free to examine and understand. Forced ignorance of the law sounds like an excuse to me.

If "codes" can be held in secret by corporations until you pay them, could any law be a such? Could the rules of the road be shifted from the law books to secret laws too?

Secret laws trouble me greatly. They go fundamentally against the rule of law.
simultaneously launching all those processors and peripherals is the opposite of today's doctrine of "start with a minimum viable product and expand from there"
Another article on the same topic without paywall: https://www.quantamagazine.org/caucher-birkar-who-fled-war-a...
Write your congress critter and have them delay implementing this until they do it as a simple online calculator instead. The first users should be congress critters and their staff.
If they had used the new technology available in other jets -- the pilots wouldn't have been sifting through paper manuals to find the problem. The would have an actual display.

And if they weren't trying so hard to purposely avoid modernizing the cockpit, the issue would have been avoided altogether.
That sort of feels like trying to justify poor choices via a belief in magical predetermination to me, though.

Al Qaeda being caused by whatever they were caused by has absolutely no bearing on the actual decisions made after their attacks on 9/11.

9/11 happening doesn't determine what the outcome of 9/11 will be in terms of policy response.

The response of the Bush administration was important, and led to many (I suspect intentional) negative outcomes for the American public in general.

To just wave it away and say - it comes from earlier in history - strikes me as a bad idea at best, and a way to avoid responsibility for your actions at worst.
I wonder what the lapse in design was. It'd be nice of Huawei disclosed what type of security vulnerability it was and how they fixed it.
What's the difference between a vulnerability shared with China's intelligence agencies and a bug?

Deniability I guess. I guess US intel yelling at the top of their lungs this has and will happen isn't enough for some.
That's what I'm not understanding, what are you skeptical about? At least from this data point, they got the time right!

I suppose "flight time" should technically be defined as "time in the air", but realistically, "time it will take you to get from airport A to airport B" is a much more useful metric to passengers.
Where they don't describe it as a "backdoor." Simply what it is: A local privilege escalation in a driver.

Privilege escalations aren't that rare unfortunately. Kind of cool that ATP might be able to detect some of them going forward, particularly in drivers that are often black-boxes.
You get there by giving back 40-50% to California. The more you give away, the more you earn :)

Joke aside, 5 years of experience get you $300k total compensation per year at a hot company in SF Bay Area.
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What's silly is to swoop in all Captain Pedantic-like, cape flapping in the breeze, at the slightest mention of "cryptocurrency". Thanks for the correction, Cap', but the title at the top of the page says "Bitcoin" and the topic I'm replying to has to do with energy use.

Now where did I put that Cryptonite...
Yep that could easily be possible, I would hope my reply hasn’t come across negatively. Certainly not my intention.

I do remember from the time that referring the Electron simply as The Acorn (due the prominent Acorn logo on the top) was very common so my reading it as such in the parent post didn’t seem unusual.

I always assumed it was because the BBC Micro had such strong branding that people didn’t realise it was an Acorn product. The logo was there on the back but very small.
Google’s primary revenue source is AdWords, meaning ads served on their own properties, the bulk of it being in Google Search and most if that is contextual, most ads being served based on the search you’re making.

Google doesn’t actually have a problem in serving contextual ads on their own properties, since they have plenty of context. The problem is with AdSense since there advertisers need some sort of user profile, plus in the EU bidding exchanges are in jeopardy due to the GDPR.
Speaking of Morrowind, one of the things I liked in the extremely long oral history just published the other day ( https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/27/18281082/elder-scrolls-mor... ) was that the Vivec sermons, among other things, are all conflicting and rival accounts because the dev team itself was internally divided and rooting for particular factions:

"It’s never dogmatic. We would tell the stories basically from a character’s point of view, and we were always very careful that anything that was presented was told from that specific viewpoint. So you had conflicting notions of what went on in the world: “What happened to the Dwemer?” Well, one group says this; another says that. “What happened in Red Mountain?”

What was great about that is you would actually have factions develop on the design team: “Vivec and his buddies were actually the bad guys, and they usurped their power.” And, you know, “Dagoth Ur — our main villain — he was the victim in all this.” You had the room to do that back-and-forth. So, whenever we would present any history, it was never quite like, “Well, the dwarves disappeared because of the following reasons.” Each race has their version. What’s the truth?

And that’s kind of the magic of it all."
Philip Tetlock on Superforecasting, on EconTalk podcast, for those interested:

http://www.econtalk.org/philip-tetlock-on-superforecasting/
Netlify has integration with FaunaDB for the database tier.
My HS used birthdate as account password, for both students and teachers, with no option to change! I hope they've updated since.
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I don't think it is intended to be a business or business model. I think its just about the technology. It aims to provide scalable distribution of video without a huge youtube-size infrastructure. Maybe you can build a business model on top... or maybe you just host your own videos and use the federation tools to share the files with others.
Right, following the fire laws when doing any work at home is not just a good idea, but required for safety of you and others in your vicinity.

You can be charged criminally for not following these laws that are behind paywalls.

In the ASTM v Public.Resource.Org case, I believe you are right, PRO agreed to voluntarily remove the laws while the case goes on. But that case has been going on since 2013 (https://ia801306.us.archive.org/33/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.16...). I suspect the law publishers are quite happy to have it drag on for another decade. The NFPA (publisher of NEC) makes over $80M a year, and the CEO is very well paid.
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Then why crush the option? Let the market determine it. If Intuit's product is so much better then it will win.
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I think it’s more interesting that if I load up a job-index site or search for techs on linked in, you get a significantly different picture of what is actually “wanted”.

Maybe that’s from being Scandinavian but 90% of our jobmarket is still .Net framework (not core), JAVA and PHP.
I think you are right, but these studies are still generally interesting I think the dynamics between GDP per capita, GINI and happiness/satisfaction are pretty interesting
The age is skewed heavily to younger programmers, so your hunch has merit.
No gRPC support means no server-side Firebase integration, right?
I mean I game a lot and overall their quality seems pretty average compared to other sites. Other sites have the same issues but don't get near the same amount of hate.

I get thinking it's quality is middling but I've ran into a lot of opinions that go beyond that quite frequently.
The actual law might not explicitly mandate upload filters but they are the only way to comply with the law other than just shutting down in the EU of course.
It looks like it may be an antiquated term?

From the National Accelerator Laboratory Groundbreaking press release:

"Groundbreaking will be held Sunday, December 1, 1968, near here for the first permanent building in the research complex of the National Accelerator Laboratory (NAL) where the 200 Billion Electron Volt (BeV) accelerator will be located."
[http://history.fnal.gov/groundbreaking.html]
How will a human moderation team know if something I post to for example HN is my original content? I assume text is covered by this bill?
Already exists.

https://apps.irs.gov/app/withholdingcalculator/
Yeah, I've always found it entertaining that their corporate culture is characterized by a unique multi-decade inability to stop those darn engineers from writing backdoor accounts.

It would be more entertaining if I thought other vendors were less likely to be compromised[1].

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/12/researchers-solve-the-juniper-...
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I'm saying that if it use to take 10 people to create 100 widgets that people want every time that you wanted to produce 100 more widgets you needed 10 more people.

With digital, 10 people can produce 100 virtual widgets, 1000, 10,000 or 10,000,000.

Those 10 people are going to get rich (i.e. FAANG software developers) while a lot of people are not going to have anything productive to do where they can make money.

You could say the same about manufacturing.
Windows LPE bugs tend to be quite cheap and plentiful, I just can't see much value in inserting a bug like this to possibly make it slightly cheaper on a few specific machines.
I had no idea code bodies have been doing this... incredible. Requiring private individuals to pay a private entity for access to the law under which they are bound is unconscionable, to say the least.

The ICC v. UpCodes lawsuit is clearly one important front in this battle. Another potential route to ending this would be for a licensed contractor to sue the government for failing to make freely available the building codes under which he/she is legally bound. The legal argument (and thus the government's legal duty) would be crystal clear in a case like that, especially because both civil and criminal law requires such adherence.
This is the approach that Safari is using, they call it "simplified system configuration."
Check out the photo of the obviously hand-made core memory -- the caption implies it was a production unit. I am not sure if that is correct but the photo above shows how manual the overall assembly was. It's true that back then people were still bonding wires to transistors by hand in Mountain View and Palo Alto, but that approach was already on its way out.

From those photos I can see how only 20 years before IBM had been able to retool its factories to make machine guns for WWII. Nowadays such a radical retooling seem inconceivable to me.
They probably get away with a lot since these sites are static. Static sites are a wonderful thing indeed.
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You are not correct. That is a logistical nightmare and would be impossible to keep secret.
Microsoft has a good write up on the flaw at least.

https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2019/03/25/from-aler...
Autodesk benefits from providing students CAD software in school so that they use it in the workplace. This benefits the students, who no longer have to buy a license during college, and benefits them (Autodesk) by making sure they have a "captive market". Gaming the system? Yes- it plays to the needs of poor college students, who then are comfortable with their development environment and don't want to learn another thing, too.

As long as Autodesk is providing this program, students are:

A) not pirating their software,

B) becoming used to their tools (being completely unfamiliar with CAD as an engineer is a bad start), and

C) starting in the Autodesk ecosystem.

As long as students keep using Autodesk's platform, Autodesk is:

A) strengthening its market share

B) able to continue development (because the now-working previously students are using their software)

C) Relevant in the college setting, where professors have a large say in what goes and what doesn't.

There are probably always going to be college students, there are probably always going to be engineering jobs, and engineers will always need to have a CAD package. As long as those two things exist, Autodesk (or any other company with a CAD package) can gain goodwill, ensure relevancy, and invest in their future by giving their software away for free now. This is "gaming" a market in a long-term symbiotic manner.

Full disclosure: I'm an engineering student, in high school, and really appreciate the free copies of Autodesk Inventor and Dassault Systemes' Solidworks that I've gotten.
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How many people do you work for?
i think a case can be made for a new, permanent status quo: America on top followed by China. Continued world peace. Continued dominance of US dollar. Contused low inflation in the US, continued tech innovation, continued dominance of Facebook, Amazon, and Google, etc.
You already can donate to Mozilla: https://donate.mozilla.org
> The restrictions of the Apache License obviously wouldn't apply in those countries.

How does this work? Can you 'dual license' with public domain?
Arch was what I had in mind as an OS that jumped the gun against the advice of the Python devs (at least that's a simplified history). I thought there was another distro, but I wasn't sure if they had rolled that back.

To the point of the comment thread, that would only be an issue if you're maintaining a Python 2 codebase and using modern Arch. If you're creating a Python 3 codebase you're likely calling `python3` and even calling `python` isn't a problem for you.
> Surely we are not arguing that there was no drought during that year, or that it's somehow not visible from remote sensing data?

We're arguing that there is a difference between thorough scientific methods and carefully picking out selected data points to show a dramatic situation that isn't.
Thanks a lot for this! I am really wanting to change my WordPress site to something more simple. Been fascinated for a while about different minimalist static sites, but never found a good way to get started. This looks like an easy way to start, with something that is close to what I am after.
Can anyone enlighten me as to why Heroku is the number 3 most dreaded platform (behind Wordpress and IBM Cloud/Watson)?

From my hobbyist exposure it's pretty awesome. I understand it's expensive for production... but why do people dread working on it?
It's basically Heroku for the static generated site ecosystem.

I'm currently building a Gatsby/React site for a small grocery store chain, Netlify makes the process easy with hooks, cli, and many things I found on Heroku. Sure, I could host it elsewhere that has an S3 service but then I have to worry about configuration.
Learn Python the Hard Way is often blasted for adhering to that sentiment. I think it has value. I think LPtHW perhaps attracts ire first for other things, like a now dated bias towards python 2 over 3, but whenever I recommend it to beginners, people always get mad over its emphasis on memorization.

I get what they're saying (probably from dealing with too much rote school work in the past), programming is more about critical thinking than memory, but it really helps to have the core constructs memorized in a language. If you have to google "loops in python" every time, it's not going to go well.
Maybe they named the key _NSAKEY which created a namespace collision with a totally non-NSA key that Microsoft added years ago.

Just in case you hadn't already seen this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
Enterprise customers have a very different idea of what crazy expensive is... if this means we have to hire one less person to run ops, this is a cost savings.
It isn't an either or question though. Chinese govt behavior being worse doesn't mean US govt behavior isn't bad, and shouldn't be called out. The current rash of scripted pearl clutching about Huawei etc. is nothing if not disingenuous... so it's fair to call that out too.

[edit] to clarify about the "disengenous" part. It's not about saying "This is bad", it's about saying "This is bad, we would never do anything like that, can you believe it, what evil people" when in fact it is something you do, or have done, and given the chance will probably do again. This obviously doesn't cover all of the bad behavior of Chinese govt, but it certainly does some.

Saying "we caught out country X doing something we don't like but also do to them" maybe doesn't have the same ring to it, but has the advantage of being honest.
Not sure what "it" is in this scenario, but if you owe too much in April, there's a penalty and you may need to pre-pay the following years' taxes; and if you are refunded too much, you have granted the government a large, zero-interest loan. I also believe that, however unlikely, lying on your W-4 is technically punishable by fines/jail/whatever.
I've worked for aluminum product manufacturer New Age Industrial, Inc., and the welds on this crossmember are nowhere near the quality NAI produced.
Targeted interdiction is a far cry from what the parent comment alleges. Targeting shipments to backdoor or bug an item quite obviously happens everywhere in the world and has since the dawn of time.

The Snowden files said nothing about Intel’s ME. That isn’t a backdoor either. It’s a great place to put one, but there are lots of great places to put backdoors, and that doesn’t mean that’s what the manufacturer is doing.
From that website:

"AI-Personalized, real-time UX interventions proven to rewire user behavior and drive your KPIs."

'Excitement' doesn't exactly describe my response.
Karma aspersions aside :-) It does sound like "manufacturer driver has an exploit", gets reported, exploit gets fixed. Wrapped around a completely different narrative where an intelligence service 'diverts' a delivery and installs an exploit.

Reminding us once again that as far as has been documented in the open media the US is the only country that has been identified as having done this.

Sadly this is Tony Morbin's modus operandi.[1]

That said, two nice takeaways, one the standard tools that Microsoft shipts found a problem, and the vendor quickly patched it. Both of those things are good news.

[1] https://www.scmagazine.com/author/tony-morbin/
I would guess in absolute terms it must be dreaded by a lot of people simply because of it's extremely large user base. Any product is bound to rub someone the wrong way.
Midway to building a much larger project that I may never finish, I decided to extract all of the simple stuff that I was implementing, strip the complexities like authentication and query languages, etc.

So here is a simple, free, non-tracking, and hopefully _stable_ HTTP form handler that emails you each time you get a new submission.
I am wondering if Shopify were testing it. Cloudrun seems to be exactly what Shopify were doing by themselves, and they were hosting on GCP.
Not in good paying jobs..
It has nothing to do with race. Stop throwing around that word.
Generalizing a bit, it's fascinating that it's possible to break the law without being able to afford knowing the law.

You guys are definitely doing something that is innovative and a win for everyone (except ICC). Best of luck on the lawsuit!
Since it seems that he used Ruby throughout the book, I wonder if that's the right choice or it will limit the book's audience.

I'm contemplating writing a long "from scratch" style book on another topic and I'm still not sure which language I should use. Using more than one (Java, Python,...) and generating multiple flavours of the book could be a good idea I think.
Not only is it covered under copyright, the vast majority of ours is the intellectual property of UNIDROIT and it's merely licensed to member countries. Our legislators merely approve with the weight of authority, or disapprove, on behalf of their constituents. See Uniform Commercial Code et al.
But consider all the legitimate benefits of having these (optional) defaults. I can give a Mac to my grandmother and be reasonably confident she won't download a keylogger that steals her bank password or some such. Meanwhile, I can also give my coworker instructions for running the video downloader Applescript I made.

The problem with "slippery slope" arguments is that in many aspects of life, the optimal solution is a balance between two extremes. You can't reach that midpoint unless you're willing to venture down the slope partway.

Here's another way to prevent this eventuality—teach everyone how to disable these checks, when they have a legitimate reason to do so. I feel like I keep getting blowback for saying this, but I'm pretty frustrated at how strongly much of the Apple community advises against disabling Gatekeeper and SIP. If you want to theme your Mac's UI or modify UI sounds or some such, and you're savvy enough to boot into recovery mode, go ahead and turn SIP off, and don't feel like you're constantly putting your data at risk, because it's really not that big a deal.
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If you have a single source of income and don't mind over-withholding (and getting a refund come tax time), yes.

If you want to reduce the amount you're withholding (so you pay less during the year, and receive less of a refund), you have to claim allowances. And the way those connect to the amount actually withheld isn't entirely straightforward (it's the tables starting on Page 48 at [1]).

And then it gets way more complicated if you have multiple sources of income, because the withholding calculations don't work in that case (underestimates your withholding, and you end up owing the IRS money at the end of the year).

I haven't seen the new form and can't say whether or not it's actually any better, but it can't be much worse; the current W-4 is one of those forms that looks simple ("just" two numbers to punch in) but turns out to be a fair bit more complicated.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15.pdf
You're referring to a type of supply curve that rises sharply to the right as demand increases and where that supply curve has limited ability to react in a new equilibrium. Small increases in demand result in large increases in price but extra supply cannot be brought to the market to push pricing down.

This is mostly true in cases with artificially limited supply. You mention real estate, which is a good example in cities where (1) large employers are moving in, (2) zoning is constrained, and optionally (3) extra land is difficult to get, either because of geography or sprawl.

Most goods are not like this. Food, for example, does not typically have permanently higher prices after an increase in demand, because the supply curve will also change (additional supply is provided).

Same with televisions, cars, refrigerators, computers, household consumables, etc.

Therefore, I don't think it makes sense to throw out the baby with the bathwater: yes, real estate is not a normal market for a variety of reasons, but that doesn't mean that spreading dollars around doesn't work for everything else.

Real estate may need some special solutions, such as relaxing zoning laws, housing subsidies, evaluating code impact on construction costs, mass transit investment to increase travel efficiency, property tax on vacant properties, etc.