skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what he said at all, even remotely. He said "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place" and that was largely in the context that no matter what Google does, the American government can come in and take any information they want that is stored on Google's servers with very little recourse.
They don't have to. The NYS AG doesn't have standing.
Small UI complaint: I can't quickly open lots of links that are near each other due to the little popups.
Described more concisely here in “four simple steps to become a billionaire”:

http://longorshortcapital.com/four-simple-steps-to-becoming-...

1. Take outrageous risks with extremely high upside.

2. Be the 1 out of 500 million for whom it pans out. This one is key so focus on it.

3. Attribute your wealth creation to your own hard work, your own genius and the power of your business plan. Be sure to stress how your wealth was singularly made possible by your unique endowment of elbow grease, street smarts, common sense, all of which your competitors obviously lacked (proven by how poor they are compared to you).

4. Buy a mega yacht and/or athletic team.
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Sure, but why would they undercut them by 6-7 orders of magnitude in price? Seems silly to just leave money on the table.
What parent claims used to be true:

> There is no contractual right or other right or legal claim against us to redeem or exchange your Tethers for money. We do not guarantee any right of redemption or exchange of Tethers by us for money. There is no guarantee against losses when you buy, trade, sell, or redeem Tethers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171224172135/https://tether.to...

Currently:

> Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of any Reserves held by Tether to back the Tether Tokens, and Tether reserves the right to redeem Tether Tokens by in-kind redemptions of securities and other assets held in the Reserves.

> Any individual who is a U.S. Person and any entity that is a U.S. Person is prohibited from using the Site or any Services, including but not limited to using a Digital Tokens Wallet on the Site

[and we know that there is a limit on the Reserves]. I'd be _extremely_ wary about claiming they can be redeemed.

https://tether.to/legal/
>"After the Lion Air event, Southwest was notified by Boeing that the AOA disagree lights were inoperable without the optional AOA indicators on the MAX aircraft," a Southwest spokesman said on Tuesday.

…

>However, the company said following software modifications all new 737 MAX aircraft would have an activated and operable disagree alert and an optional angle-of-attack indicator, while current 737 MAX planes would have the ability to activate the disagree alert.
It is, in that police tactics can be aggressive, but being assertive about protecting yourself from aggressive police tactics is "radical" or "paranoid."
I believe the joke is that very few companies are the size of Microsoft, and as such very few would find this useful.
Genetic and Early-Life Environmental Influence on Dental Caries Risk: Twin Study
The USA gov can just print the money to pay off the backed cash. Everyone gets their money. It may not be worth much if everyone actually demanded they could hold the dollar amount of their accounts in their hands in paper money - indeed, I imagine, you'd cause severe privations on the government funds in order to produce the money.
Sure, terminals are likely to be different, but service is the same. I don't see enough differences between two.
Why isn't the obvious answer to do this change? https://github.com/pypa/packaging.python.org/issues/564#issu...
isn't "ethical" one of those subjective terms though?

so... no-one can say their product/service is "ethical" without getting into a semantic argument about what "ethical" means

or... anyone can call their product/service "ethical" and it's up to the buyer to work out if their definition of that agrees
"Quantity has a quality all its own!" :)
I'm unaware of all the drama everyone else is referring to and I'd like to remain ignorant, but I really prefer the naming scheme. It's more intuitive to folks like me for whom Homebrew is our first package manager, and it really helped me understand why things are how they are in package managers in general. I appreciate a little whimsey in software.
Can someone comment on how these compare to Ubuntu fonts?
I really like how Fender is shipping the schematic with their amp (I hope they still do it).

That being said, guitar amps, specially tube amps are indeed extremely dangerous, not only the caps, but also the 300, 400 and sometimes 500 volts DC around the tubes. You need to be extremely cautious when handling these, specially if they are powered and opened (to check voltages in various points of the circuit for example).

That being said, I've not seen a lot of guitarists actually opening and servicing their amp themselves, even if the circuits tend to be quite simple and easy to maintain/repair (few components, no SMD).
I think the GP is more taking a jab at MS's history of being anti-open source, which has taken an about face in the last 5 years or so.

I mean we had Ballmer under whom you'd likely never have seen anything (or only trivial, non monetizable things) open sourced and likely no Linux support.

Now under Satya, we have MS open sourcing lots of projects and embracing Linux as a first class citizen. Probably far a complete list of Linux support, off the top of my I can name: VS Code, building for Linux via VS proper, Cmake support, WSL, SQL Server on Linux, SQL server odbc drivers, .Net Core and Linux support in Azure.

Even if projects are completely open, such as WSL and connhost, they have github projects at least for bug tracking that allows end-users to directly interact with the teams responsible for those projects. Personally, I've filed several issues against WSL and I've gotten fairly quick responses and resolutions usually appear in a few weeks time (I'm in the Fast Insider's ring at home).
> The difference is that your runtime state is reset and you must architect your application to keep fast startup time which is not always a good thing.

These are good things for serverless, which is what the article is about -- runtime state in a serverless application is bad, and fast startup is good.

Serverless instances are intended to be interchangeable and ephemeral. You should be able to start new instances and they should be able to do the same work as the existing instances -- that only works well if they are stateless. Any necessary state should be stored in a database or blob store or some other external state management system.
I'd say it's 80% woo, 1% of what you call interesting and 19% is solving real user problems with breaking the law. Mostly transactions that you can't depend on banks for - like buying drugs.
Backdoors Found in Huawei-Supplied Vodafone Equipment
JG here. Will look into this.
A weather tech startup wants to do forecasts based on cell phone signals
If you've taken VC, then surely there's an exit in about 5 years?
What strikes me from this article is that they spend so much time on the batteries and less time on the fact that Amazon is untrustworthy. At this point, I don't buy anything from Amazon that is more complicated than a spatula, and even then I'm not 100% confident I won't get one made of lead and covered in asbestos. When they say that 50% of Amazon sales come from the marketplace, I take that to mean 50% of Amazon's sales are of fake or counterfeit products.
>>> In Tampa, FL the a basic metabolic panel could cost you either $11 or $440 [paraphrased from a graphic in the article]

No properly functioning market behaves like this.
Raising a bunch of money at a high valuation isn't enough to make a company "very successful" either.
>grass-finished prime ribeye.

>the high-margin condiments, etc. they would eat alongside the meat.

The horror!
The issue for the OA author is she has her family in France so she can speak English.

I am not trying to suggest it is not a good idea to learn to speak the language well in the country you live, just that the effort can be out of proportion to the benefit if you are surrounded by people who speak your native language.
Once again, people here are ranting about Tether, while the market price is re-converging to parity. I wonder who's right, the people yelling in the comments section, or the people with skin in the game? What's been established here is that Tether is 74% collateralized by cash and short term securities. The other 26% is in the form of a loan to Bitfinex. Bitfinex is a cash-generation machine, and should not have any trouble making payments on that loan. Your local bank has a much, much lower reserve ratio than this.
Parent's point, I suspect, is about this:

> “If information is identified from your device that suggests the commission of a separate criminal offense, other than the offense(s) under investigation, the relevant data may be retained and investigated by the police,” according to written statement to victims and witnesses that will accompany the consent form.

> Anything the police find, it says, will be handed over to prosecutors. And in some cases, devices might not be given back to their owners for weeks or even months.

That sounds a lot like "fishing expeditions".
Except some were unlisted. Then it's like installing 2RU when they only wanted you to install 1RU.

Then you increased their fuel/energy/etc costs and increased the lives of others as there are now unvetted things in space/your rack.
A bit of meta-advice: don’t take advice from people that don’t have any context on you, don’t align with your values and priorities, or may have misaligned incentives.
Kinda. The first sentence of the first claim greatly reduces the scope, though:

> one or more graphs associated with a social-networking system

The rest is gobbledigook that would take too long to grok (for me anyway). It is some sort of interactive user query, I think.

In any case, at least it isn't so broad that it means just any graph.
Isn't Vancouver Airport a government entity? Owned by the Canadian government?
Princess Booette – Boobs
> SSL is useless for static content.

No it ain't. The cert is at least some assurance that the static content was not altered in transit between the original server and some MITM. Non-HTTPS sites absolutely suck to browse on less-scrupulous public wi-fi hotspots that try to inject their own ads into your browsing sessions (cough cough Greyhound cough cough).

> It raises barrier for ordinary people

Let's Encrypt has existed for multiple years now. There's certainly an effort-related barrier to entry, but not a financial one.

> 20 years ago most office buildings had a caching proxy like Squid or MS ISA Server.

And they can still have that by setting up their own internal CA and installing their own root cert on company-owned machines. Hell, running an internal CA is pretty standard practice for large enterprises (and even some medium ones) specifically so that Intranet applications can use TLS without browsers whining about self-signed certs.
Lot of people use the 'golden hammer or nothing argument'

Meaning if a proposed solution is partial then we shouldn't do anything. It flies in the face of the reality that most solutions to complex problems involve chipping away at them.

Currently there is a host of technologies which emit to much CO2. Personal transportation is just one of them.
I have this feeling that three-wheelers with the lone wheel at the back must be more stable. The ones with the lone wheel at the front and to the side are utterly bizzare.
It's really hard to tell what in this book is based in fact. It's almost entirely based off of hearsay and gossip. There are interviews with people recalling minute details of conversations they had ~5 years in the past. You can call bullshit on a lot of it.
I think this article just reflects the worldview of a 40something career DC bureaucrat, I'm sure much or all of this advice is relevant to someone living that life. I personally just have little in common with the author, other than living in a major city. I'm guessing much of HN doesn't have much in common with him either.

With that being said, some of the advice (like about not trading time for money) is pretty relevant for upper middle-class tech professionals too
No. The short term securities would be things like treasuries. The loan to Bitfinex represents the 26% shortfall in the reserves.
> Avoid spending time to earn or save money. I now see time as my most valuable resource, and I’m willing to spend money to save time. I pay for ridesharing so that I can work during transit, I frequently buy meals so that I can save time spent cooking, I pay higher rent to have a shorter commute, and I don’t spend time searching for bargains.

This is stupid. If you're an engineer in the Bay area making good but not FAANG money, this can easily lead you to save absolutely nothing and have nothing to show for years of your life. If you live elsewhere, it's a bit easier, but eating out all the time and spending money when you could do the work yourself, including looking for bargains is going to limit the amount of savings you have significantly.

Let's face it, time is NOT money. That's fucking absurd. No one works around the clock. It's impossible. Even the people that pretend to are not actually efficient or effective. They're just wasting most of that time. Especially in something like software engineering. Time is not fucking money. That's just a dumb saying. The only time this advice might apply is if you're making millions easily and you don't need to budget. Time is still not money and it won't make your pretend work worth anything, but at that point you can afford it. For 99.999% of people, this is just terrible advice. I say this from experience having spent years working in the bay area as a software engineer and then leaving in debt. And that was years ago when rent/prices weren't so high. Stupid advice.
You'd be surprised at the volume of code a smaller company can produce.

Former employer was a big C++ shop in finance. Of around 1000 employees, roughly 3/4 of those were developers. They definitely could take advantage of something like this. I dont know how many 100s of million of LOC they have between C++ and later C#, but I was responsible for around 3 million alone (largely generated). A full coordinated firm wide rebuild could take weeks.
Do you think Google would have attracted the talent it did with a culture like oracle's?
Seems like you're just doing the same as the article author ("I did X and you should do the same"); why should a young person follow your advice instead?

> You don't need these crutches, you either got it or you don't.

On what do you base this? Have you "got it"?
> Banks still need their books to balance. That means that their liabilities can not exceed their assets.

Tether's books do balance. They've made a loan to Bitfinex. That loan is an asset equal in value to the missing funds.

Now, you could make the case that Bitfinex is insolvent, and therefore you ought to mark down the value of that loan. However, Bitfinex is generating a ton of revenue, and should have no trouble making payments on that loan. So, your argument pretty much falls apart, unless you have some other reason to expect Bitfinex to miss payments.
Keep a journal would be the bit of advice I'd give.
Sensitivity and recall are two names for the same thing, Mr Stats 101 :)

Also, please explain the problem with using ROC here. The probabilistic interpretation of ROC's AUC is the probability of correctly ranking a random mixed pair (i.e. ranking the positive example higher than a negative one). How is that metric affected by the 80/20 split of the test data? Genuinely curios here...
I have to say as an outsider that the USA healthcare system is a monument to US ingenuity. I doubt there is another peoples in the world that could construct and keep partly working such a complex, inefficient, and byzantine apparatus.
It is literally impossible for the US to be "insolvent" when it comes to US dollars.

They just print more money.
It’s also fraught with Survivorship Bias. Look at successes and try to find a common thing they do or attribute they have, ignoring the failures that also did that thing or had that attribute. It’s basically the plot of every business self help book out there.
We stick to DockerHub because it's extremely low-cost and relatively reliable. I think they will learn from their mistakes tbh.
Why did you cut off the quote there? OP also mentioned Instagram and WhatsApp. Most people under 30 are on Instagram.
most of pagerank predates larry; several people were already looking at using centrality measures for page ranking before him. And I think Brin contributed a lot more of the math and theory than Page ever did.
Alphabet's CFO blamed the ad revenue drop primarily on Youtube and specifically recent changes in their Youtube algorithm (which paradoxically now favors advertiser-friendly, sanitized mainstream media channels). Apparently "cleaning things up for advertisers" leads to less money from advertisers.
Every job is a stepping stone to retirement.
If someone spent 80000 hours on their mental health 8 hours a day, they would be 30 years older having contributed nothing to the world.
PyTorch 1.1
"was a near 50/50 split on support for telephonic surveillance"

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/05/29/what-americ...

> A majority of Americans (54%) disapprove of the U.S. government’s collection of telephone and internet data as part of anti-terrorism efforts, while 42% approve of the program.

There was a gap of twelve percentage points between approval and disapproval.
If you are not already using C++, learn Rust instead.
Ordinary joes are already finding loopholes in the medical system, such as this article from yesterday about the popularity of old insulin pumps with an exploitable security flaw:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781118

Eventually one or more of the ultra wealthy is going to survive a disease that government sanctioned healthcare says is incurable.

I knew a woman who used chelation to resolve issues in a child diagnosed as autistic. The world did not clamor for her story. She began finding more socially acceptable ways to describe the child that didn't ask the world to believe that a lawyer and mom had fixed the unfixable.

I have a similar story for a different condition. Nope, no one is clamoring to hear my story. Quite the contrary.

So you may find that it doesn't quite go like you think it will. A rich person might just sweep their miracle cure under the rug, claim they were "misdiagnosed" and mysteriously got better while on vacation and not admit that it was really a case of medical tourism.

There is a long history of, for example, American women from wealthy families just flying to Europe for an abortion if if it is too hard to get one here. Then poor women get back alley coat hanger abortions that leave them scarred for life because they can't afford to fly to Europe for excellent care.

Rich people who do things like that probably have the good sense to not say too much about it lest some nutjob bureaucrat try to interfere with their ability to do things like that.
TFA basically says that they won't work on the case unless the victim complies.
Any particular reason for not just fixing the current situation by declaring by fiat either

- It costs exactly $20

- It costs not more than $30 allowing negotiation

- You may only charge one price for all customers

- You may not charge more than some n percentage over the national average in the last business quarter
Eric Schmidt was the anti-privacy leader who dismissed privacy concerns.

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmid...

Keep in mind this is the same guy who blackballed CNET reporters for finding personal information on him through google search.

https://money.cnn.com/2005/08/05/technology/google_cnet/

The guy represents every wrong with tech. Privacy for him, but none for thee. And that's not even including on his shady ties to government.
I kind of want these issues to continue and get worse. Because then we will have a healthcare revolution, rather than more bandaid policy fixes.

It seems like the US healthcare system is too far gone, and we need to hard reset it. Anyone who lives in another developed nation would be absolutely outraged if they had to deal with half the things Americans do when it comes to healthcare and the respective insurance.
Wow. The US ban seems... unbelievable considering it’s USD based. Surely this breaks some sort of commercial law that the government can swoop in on?
When I read about these schemes to produce gasoline from CO2 and water or whatever I can't help but think someone needs a couple of semesters of thermodynamics beat into them.
I imagine you could load something from an endpoint like s3 or an API in one format, load it into sqlite, then begin processing it using SQL. Results could be posted back to another API or S3 in any format.
You completely misunderstood; no effort was put into it. There was no active learning, just recognized patterns from prior tests.
On solving burnout through rapping
The trouble with 737 is not that Mcas kills people, it is that the 737 does not represent the best new tech.

Modern narrowbodies such as the A220 and E195-gen 2 are quieter, use less fuel, better comfort, less global warming, lower cost per seat mile.

Boeing did not just kill people for a buck they killed people to squash competition that applies 50 years of experience to improve flying in every way.
Is this more efficient and different compared to biofuel production using corn?

Both convert carbon in the air to carbon in a liquid fuel. Biofuels require the production of fertilizers etc. This membrane would require some energy source. The membrane would have to consume less energy than corn fertilizer / unit fuel produced to be effective.

I wonder how this is less a gimmick compared to biofuel.
Stolen classified material, data used to commit/coordinate criminal activity, child pornography off the top of my head.
> If you already have electricity, that is all the energy you need

If you can store and transport it better than gasoline can be stored and transported, which ... so far you can’t.
> Whether this is "unconstitutional" is, of course, a hotly contested legal issue.

The EFF is arguing that US law enforcement agencies are using warrantless search at the border as a loop hole to circumvent the need to get a warrant in cases that have nothing to do with "contraband or dutiable goods" or any other border security need.

The press release says:
> The evidence includes ICE and CBP policies and practices that authorize border officers to conduct warrantless and suspicionless device searches for purposes beyond the enforcement of immigration and customs laws.

These "non border security" searches are clearly unconstitutional, I don't frankly see how that can be contested. These searches are not about the "right of a soveign to police its borders" but about the policing of the interior through bypassing constitutional protection with border searches. My guess is the the actually contested part of this is if there are ANY warrantless searches of electronic devices for the purposes of border security that are constitutionally authorized.

edit: differentiated quoted sources
Yeah, it‘s irrelevant because it in the negative context. If it was towards something positive, it would be then relevant. Seen so many examples of this here. But hey, I‘m doing „whataboutism“ again. Meh.
> It's almost insulting that this is even spun as an advantage: "Onboarding may be less stressful socially"

Going to a new office and meeting a bunch of new people all at once can be overwhelming for some people. Familiar surroundings can help make the transition to a new job less stressful.