skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's the same "root" cause but different kind of damage.

Let's say you burn down a concert hall _with the intention to prevent the concert_. Then you have two different kinds of damages:

- Destroyed Concert Hall => The owner of the hall suing you because you destroyed their property.

- Prevented Concert => The visitors (trying to) sue you for "preventing" the concert.

Sure, in case of the concert I would be surprised if the second case goes anywhere, but then the situation wrt. the app store is way more complex.
I mean that's kind of a narrow view isn't it? Sure these are not fun jobs to have. I worked ten hour shifts at an injection molding company when I was in my 20's. Ten hours of open the door, remove the part, close the door, put the part in the bin, repeat. I would welcome a world in which no human ever had to be part of a production line again. But you know what also sucks? Not being able to pay your bills, feed your kids, obtain medical care, feel even a shred of dignity. So until we have some idea of how to structurally handle this transition, and until we've developed a mindset where the people who run corporations take such things into account, such unbridled enthusiasm for the elimination of "bad" jobs rings hollow.
There's that, but far more.

Another Aeon article -- the best article I've read in the past decade -- explores the notion of random choice also: " How to choose? When your reasons are worse than useless, sometimes the most rational choice is a random stab in the dark "
https://aeon.co/essays/if-you-can-t-choose-wisely-choose-ran...

(I'd also submitted that, I think it's much the better essay.)

A key element is that if you elect by lot, as the Greeks did, voting is not a deterministic process. That is, the candidate(s) with more votes are more likely to win, but only on a probabalistic basis. Athens didn't count votes, it drew lots (or ballotta -- small clay balls with a candidate's name written on it). The candidate pool itself was qualified (and exclusionary, patriarchal, and discriminatory, yes), but given that 10-20% of the population were potential candidates, and the ruling cohort might be entirely different in the near future, getting along with whomever was, or was not, in power was good career- (and life-) extending move.

This in addition to bias, manipulation, and other problem elimination.

I've got issues with some of the suggestions here. The idea, for example of electing domain-specific single-issue legislatures, might tend to create other forms of ossified structures (think of domain specialisation, academic specialisation, and the like). Having generalist legislatures can be a very good thing.

But that's a detail. The notion of sortition should get more play.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. You aren't relying on just the ack semantics, you're building bidirectional communication on top of software, in a way that's potentially a little unnatural.

Here's an example of how you'd accomplish this with Kafka. Whenever a new instance launches, it could generate a UUID, and create a Kafka topic with a matching name. Any messages it sends that it expects a response to could include a "reply-to" field, with this UUID. When something processes the request, they publish a message to that Kafka topic.

Essentially when people are talking about "Service Bussses", they're talking about frameworks that implement this and other similar patterns on top of generic queues like rabbitmq, msmq and sqs. One such framework I've personally used is MassTransit.
Besides the distributed case, message bus is invaluable in building crash-proof applications. I've used lightweight message bus within the app itself, for better crash recovery on long running tasks. E.g. Need to generate lots of emails and send them out. I would create a small command object for each email and queue it to the message bus, and let the message handler to handle email generation one by one. The lightweight command objects can be queued up quickly and the UI can return to the user right the way. The slow running email generation can be run in the background. In the event of a system crash, the message bus will be restored automatically and continue on the remaining tasks in the queue.
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I find this "science can't be trusted" attitude incredibly worrying. Without science, all you have is a witch-hunt.
Actual title is “Why Apollo 10 Stopped Just 47,000 Feet From the Moon”.
Jury selection doesn't filter for intelligence, so your description doesn't seem applicable.
Shortened to "kliffs".
I think this is fine if the failure to success ratio is low for the parts. Especially given that the failure here refers to failing pixels and doesn't compromise safety.

Some quick math, if an industrial part costs $10, and an automotive part costs $20, then for ten cars you save $100. Assuming that 20% of all your cars are faulty, that's a $80 savings translation. With the remaining money, you could spend $40 on R&D for a screen at the same price point with higher reliability and still come out on top. However, at some point, you will reach a time where the number of replacements that don't justify the design. For a bootstrapped company, I don't think it's a bad bet, but it is time critical to find an alternative before they start losing money.
And, since every Unix command line tool inevitably gets mined and turned into a web service, you could always submit those urls to archive.org instead of or as well as curl-ing/wget-ing them.
Interesting approach; is your system low enough latency to avoid the delayed audio feedback problem?
Mine was replaced under warranty last week (after waiting several months) - 2017 Model S, AP 2.0.
Actual possibility? Yes.

Filtration is good enough that it could technically capture everything.

Technically you could plant enough trees to capture all the CO2 as well.

The energy required to make all the filters and plant and maintain all the trees might be greater than the energy produced by coal though, and that is the issue.
Maybe because it was considered too stressful to do two missions close like that?

Maybe because that's how the military do things - recce and offensive action are usually done by different units or subunits within a unit, with the recce briefing the other group.
I imagine both crews were pretty well set in stone years before 10 launched.
This was recommended in a blog post I read. I haven't read it myself but the table of content looks promising

https://www.educative.io/collection/5668639101419520/5649050...

Designing a URL Shortening service like TinyURL

Designing Pastebin

Designing Instagram

Designing Dropbox

...

Key Characteristics of Distributed Systems

Load Balancing

Caching

Sharding or Data Partitioning

...
Yes. Burn it inside building and capture CO2. As it stands, the gas waste is externalised.

Imagine if nuclear reactors were allowed to dump waste in air/river.
I remember when "spyware" was just malicious advertising programs designed to sell your browser history + replace ads.

(Eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoolWebSearch)

The MySpace era was a simpler time...
Cabin Overheat Protection is separate to Dog Mode.

If you want to express outrage about abdication of responsibility at least be talking about the relevant feature.

Cabin overheat protection is there to protect things left in the car like electronics, and theoretically requires no user interaction.

Dog Mode allows the user to dial up the desired temperature and then walk away. This is the actual dangerous feature, because the belief is that the air conditioner will keep the temperature at the level you want it. This despite a history of at least one police dog dying every month in the USA due to equipment failures, and theirs dog cars have specially modified environmental controls to maintain and monitor the temperature, including opening windows as a last ditch temperature control effort. Even those systems fail sometimes.

And here is Tesla setting people up for failure using a single air conditioner that is monitored remotely using an internet connection that is flakier than filo pastry.
No, you can't distribute apps directly to customers. That's why Facebook's certificate got revoked by Apple.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-...
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Normally I agree with you on almost everything in this realm, since, well, it's your field of expertise.

But XE/Blackwater/whatever has plenty of support staff enabling operators overseas. Just because you don't carry an M4 while you cash your check from the organization doesn't mean you aren't helping them in their missions.

If you sell vulns and tools to spyware firms, you know exactly who the most likely high bidders are. It ain't the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
My wife is a coal market analyst and says that Cloud Peak is just late to the chapter 11 game. The rest of them filed Chapter 11 in 2016.
Does pitch get lower with age? That would correlate with larger companies tending to choose more experienced CEOs.

That aside, there are other forms of biases, like people preferring better _looking_ leaders (based on socially perceived ideals on height, color, religion, hereditary status) and so too will they prefer better sounding CEOs.
> If lay people are not equipped to evaluate such credibility, that calls into question the very underpinnings of our policy-making institutions.

Yes and yes.
"Move fast and break things" works for software you deploy on your infrastructure since you can always make changes quickly at very little cost. Website 5 pixels off? Make a CSS change and roll it out to your systems.

To execute the same thing with hardware credibly, you have to accept the idea of a mass recall and replacement of faulty parts. That works for many companies like Anker, which goes out of their way and proactively replaces parts.

You can't apply the software deployment model and be nonchalant and brusque when customer issues arise. The combination just serves to turn off the masses.
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I wonder if iPads could hold up to all that vibration.
> Because of the mandate for backup cameras, and the dash space that the display for those takes up, I think I'm going to have to stick to pre-2018 model years for as long as they let me.

At least Toyota Avalons do it in a smart way: the display for the back-up camera is embedded in the rear-view mirror. You can only see it when you are backing up.
Factory ceiling wind was the large fad some 5 years ago. Since then people stopped talking about it because it ceased to be a newsworthy.

Factory ceiling solar it about as big as solar on any other ceiling, that is, everybody is looking into it right now. But solar is severally supply-limited, so you won't see it growing any faster or slower than residential or solar farms.
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Now I will tell my small children that they won’t have a box filling job waiting for them when they graduate middle school.
"if you don't like it then leave" is not helpful. There's no good reason a search engine couldn't provide an interface to let you choose how you want to rank and filter results. In fact there used to be an advanced interface in the past the provided a crude version of this.

A great benefit to Google would be that SEO would be hard to game because everyone has different filters. That is already sort of the case but it should be the user, not Google, deciding which narratives and aspects to filter.
Well if you read the research you would see that it actually boils down to choices people make. So that’s sort of like saying that the choices women make are de facto sexist because... they’re women?
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Yes, but HN's software sometimes takes out leading "Why" because it tends to be a clickbait device, and many titles work just fine without it.
That Reuters article by Kate Kelland came up during the trial because internal Monsanto emails show that they fed that story to that reporter. That was used by the plaintiffs to show Monsanto's multimillion dollar effort to deceive the news and scientific media about glyphosate.
Simple solution, provide a bond as condition to start.

But it won't get implemented, why? It would be in many billions because the bond needs to cover clean up costs, etc. Companies want this risk to be borne by government and indirectly, the population/environment.
$i is the variable i declared in the for loop. Quotes just wraps it, so that it's (somewhat) safe if the file has a space in the name
> Make sure to use mods too.

Which?
HN's software (or sometimes mods) abbreviate large numbers in this way because they are often used as attention-getting devices, a.k.a. bait, in titles.

It would be oxymoronically metric if the k attached to the unit, but it attaches to the number.
Makefiles are used for more than package management. In fact, it doesn't seem very common to use them for package management. Maybe I'm missing something?
Yes society sometimes gets things 'wrong' in retrospective
- The consumer needs to validate the incoming requests. Just like any input sources, the incoming data cannot be trusted until validated.

- You need coupling somewhere anyway. Moving the coupling to the bus let the consumer and producer evolve more freely.
Except that the Chinese person is a prisoner in their own country, and the American could move to China to have a higher quality of life outside of the polluted cities.
The Tesla Model S we've had since 2015 hasn't had any problems with its screen, despite being driven in California. This article's conclusion was strange. Without that Touch Screen, none of what makes Tesla a Tesla would have been a problem since it would have been controlled with un-upgradeable knobs, switches and buttons.

I agree with the comments here that Tesla should make it right for the customers though.
Have you seen numeric code (like SIMD intrinsics, BLAS, or LAPACK) in C or Fortran? It's all prefix function calls, anyway, even in those languages.
So much confusion :D
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the idea that prefix notation is some kind of serious hold up for anyone thats mastered, or is even semi-competent at the kind of mathematics you would use this for is so strange to me. Programming and math are (almost) nothing if not the ability to learn new rules of syntactical manipulation in all kinds of different domains. I say this as some one who is both a lisper and has severe dyslexia. It just seems like a totally made up hangup for a programmer to have. Its also weird to say "the world has spoken" when 60 years ago there were all of three or four non-assembly programming languages, and only 30 years ago prefix was still highly represented in serious industrial and research computing. Things change. Even five years ago doing "functional" programming in javascript was the fringe of the fringe of front end web development.
Ensures filenames with spaces in them get passed as a single argument, instead of being inadvertently expanded into several.

Quoting and expansion issues are a pain in shell languages...
Apologies: I meant, if one existed and someone recommended, I would like to purchase it
What if your process to generate the initial messages crashes halfway through?
You’d think if it was that important they have accepted visa by now then.

But I agree this is nice. convenient.
Propaganda works. People repeat soundbites drilled into their brains by ceaseless repetition.
I suspect you're giving them too big a benefit of a doubt. It's equally likely that the coal company's owners have decided they've milked the cow for as much as they could and can now shut it down before liabilities (clean-up costs + retirements) catch up with them.
I'm going to mention "Oxygen not included" which I believe is by the same people as "Don't Starve". Power, gas and liquid flow has to be regulated across your entire base and it always eventually gets out of hand a bit like Dwarf Fortress. Either you run out of oxygen or are drowning in CO2 or Natural Gas, or your power sources are consumed before you can harness another one and everything grinds to a halt.
Those people actually work for Blackwater. People who sell vulnerabilities by and large have only a vague idea of their customers. Many exploit developers would, for instance, draw a line between enablement of FVEY national SIGINT and shady spyware shops like NSO, and can rationalize that it's the good guys who are getting their bugs.

I'm not saying that makes it OK (I think the opposite thing, in fact, though I feel like I always need to add the disclaimer that the kinds of bugs that have commercial/operational relevance aren't the kind I develop). I'm saying that the dynamics are different than they are with Blackwater.
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There is also evidence that the gender pay gap is due to other circumstances:

-women not negotiating what they are actually worth in terms of pay
-women taking less risks and less demanding jobs after having children.
Me too. Mine is to the point that I no longer order soup in a restaurant.

Looking into Liftware's products tomorrow.
US fossil fuel subsidies are 3 billion according to wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies

This is different from your source which estimates US fuel subsidies at over half a trillion

A little reading reveals the source of the discrepancy, according to your article

>The largest contributor to fossil fuel subsidies is the under-pricing of local air pollution, as the impacts of smog and particulate emissions have significant health impacts and are a contributor to early deaths.

so they are looking at the social costs of smog and emissions and including that in the calculations - which I understand some people might argue is a subsidy but it seems a little underhanded for the IMF to call it a subsidy in an economic report because that's getting pretty far from the ordinary use of the word subsidy.

I think we like to imagine that there is all this money floating around in fuel company subsidies that we could redirect to alleviating the economic effects of climate change. And that's the impression that this IMF report creates. And when we look at it this way then we don't have to face the reality that we in the West spend our lives ignoring. The reality that not everyone lives in the comfortable west where an economic downturn is an inconvenience. The reality that we live in a world where people are literally starving to death, and taking on these kinds of enormous economic burdens on a global scale would mean that even more people have to starve to death.

When we pretend that economic effects means the same thing to the 3rd world that it means to us in the west, when we pretend carbon neutrality is just an inconvenience and not life or death: Then we don't have to really struggle with questions like how certain are we that it's human activity that is causing these warnings. We can just say it's indisputable scientific consensus without worrying about who the scientists are and what they are actually saying or whether their continued funding is dependent on the veracity of global warming.
When all you want is the text, disregarding any further markup, just use `.textContent`. Otherwise, look through `childNodes` for any with nodeType 3 (Node.TEXT_NODE).
And nobody was surprised.
Why use AdBlock Plus (an advertising industry product) instead of uBlock Origin? It's compatible but massively more efficient.
Would be psyched to live in a world where Bush II got to appoint the entire Supreme Court after 9/11.
You return the error to the user.

Crash handling is a matter of managing user expectation. If the user hits a button and the UI shows the command as success, the system better ensures the command will complete eventually. If the user hits a button and the UI shows an error, well the user can try again when the system is up.
He should definitely be extradited, but they described it as sex with a sleeping person not non-consensual condom removal. Both are awful and he should face penalties for his actions but the victims claimed he committed one form of sexual assault and not the other.

Also I don't think non-consensual condom removal is illegal in the U.S. though it definitely should be.
Are the main maintainers French-Canadian? I noticed that a lot of demos were filmed in the province of Québec.
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No way to delete account or at least randomize the name
This kind of story in particular sure reads like digital mercenaries to me. It's not quite the same as what Hacking Group does! But a shady corporation hired former NSA hackers and partnered closely with the UAE to the point that the hackers themselves get cold feet because they learn exactly what their consulting was being used for.

I don't know enough about Hacking Group to know how closely they work with the people they sell to.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spyi...
> Is this a cultural thing

Israelis in general are very blunt and perfectly willing to question superiors and voice opinions and questions in situations where Americans never would. This includes the military where subordinates would question a superior in a way that would never fly in an American military (and probably others).

Israelis on the street will voice opinions to strangers in a way that would be perceived as incredibly rude elsewhere, but is normal in Israel.
Well, I've read an enormous body of evidence demonstrating the opposite, and neither of us are providing citations.

I've read that at most a couple percent of the earnings gap is due to gender, and most is due to number of hours worked, chosen profession, etc.
It likely costs 10k at an average. The point isn’t that it costs $0 to upgrade software. It is that Deere gives a lower price on high spec bc they under price the low spec. They get higher volumes on engine technology bc they use software to meet many customer’s power needs. If Deere made made a perfectly sized engine for every make and model with no software variation they would be idiots and have even higher priced machines. I have no love for the monopoly these companies have on the farmers of the world but the people against Deere here are drastically simplifying agriculture’s OEM business model.

The simple part of this argument is the right to repair part. Deere should just sell their service tool at a profit and provide software updates to the customer and not just dealers. Then we would be done with this right to repair argument.
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Left and right should listen to Bill Gates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xe3BWPsBTU
On Windows, it's not up to me to decide where users will keep my stuff, and where it will work. Users decide.

For a software to work fine on Windows, it must support spaces in files and paths. Also Unicode in files and paths.

VBScript does, GNU Make doesn't.

> which is a terrible idea for many other reasons

If you use make to setup stuff, it's very possible you'll need to access "c:\Users\All Users" which does contain space in username. Also "c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files" which contain more than one.
I mean Dota and LoL got away with the same thing. Hell, you can even point at chess as an example of how it's possible for a game to remain engaging despite staying the same.
There's a free O'Reilly book from last year: https://www.datascienceatthecommandline.com/

awk is pure magic.
Would make sense. If something happened to the original crew, you need to have more crews ready and already trained.
Apple can legitimately claim that the App Store protect users as well.

And it's not extraordinary at all. These days any device with apps/games has their own store e.g. Nintendo, PS, XBox, Fitbit, Thermomix etc.
I hope this does something about battery usage that seems to have increased since the last update.
Over 25k Linksys routers vulnerable to sensitive information disclosure flaw
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