skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a strange sentiment. Do you ever hear people talk about states this way. Is New York, West Virginia, or Washington ever "not responsible enough" to have control over their roads, electricity, or water supply? Is any country every said to be "not responsible enough."

But this sentiment comes up quite frequently in regards to Puerto Rico.

I live in Illinois. The budget/financial situation is a mess. People may have opinions about what went wrong. They might say "Illinois really needs to do X." But to my knowledge no one is seriously calling for a national intervention or strong-arming Illinois into privatization.

Can you elaborate on why you think the people of Puerto Rico are not to to be trusted taking care of their home?
Not exactly, if you would blow the whistle with internal comms and there's evidence to suggest it's commonplace, the company can be fined without your just cause, as per pro-bono suit. Of course, there has to be some goodwill on prosecutor's side.
Came here to post this. Instead let me give this choice quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPA_controversy:

"For example, in 2010, General Mills announced it had found a "BPA-free alternative" can liner that works with tomatoes. It said it would begin using the BPA-free alternative in tomato products sold by its organic foods subsidiary Muir Glen with that year's tomato harvest. As of 2014, General Mills has refused to state which alternative chemical it uses, and whether it uses it on any of its other canned products."

It boggles the mind that a company is allowed to keep secret which chemicals it uses in food/food packaging.
> "after taking refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden to face rape charges in 2012."

Oh BBC, still with the smearing. Can't you at least pretend to be objective. Assange/Wikileaks have always maintained that he was taking refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid extradition to the US for Wikileaks activities. i.e. exactly this thing that is happening right now.
Isn’t that kind of hypocritical? The GPL3 came out because of the “tivoization” of open source code where theoretically you could see the code and modify it but you couldn’t run it on the device that it was meant for.

How is it any different that you want to release “free” software and not let the user run it where they desire?
Lidel has written a lot about this in issues (nice index here: https://github.com/ipfs/in-web-browsers/issues/147), but I think the live (recorded) demo will have to wait. =]
HSTS prevents the first of these if the client has connected to the server previously.

Chrome also hasn't trusted certs with MD5 since version 65.
The number of people for whom this is true is probably so low its not worth bending our laws, ethics, and souls into knots to try to get these people.
Not really. 16 bit addresses with a kludge to get to 20 bits, but not in a straightforward way.
Some states and counties make carry permits "may issue" so they are free to deny them for any reason. In practice the most liberal areas deny all permit applications except for well connected people. Infamously Diane Feinstein (a prominent gun control advocate) at one point held one of 4 carry permits in San Francisco county, a de-facto no-issue county. I suppose it's more elitist than racist, but membership of the elite varies by race.
That must mean there are few options to earn income (with an acceptable level of risk) in order for employers to have that much negotiating power over the employee.

The acceptable level of risk is, of course, subjective and what is unacceptable in certain societies might be fine in other societies.
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Vegetarian doesn't mean low-protein. The "Beyond Burger," for example, has the same amount of complete protein as 80/20 ground beef, as does a half cup of red lentils.
Also worth noting that even if you put them underground, you could flood your tunnels, or have an earthquake, or a giant rabid mole attack, etc...

I don't read your comment as ignoring this, but I want to point out for everyone that reliability always has tradeoffs about what events you want to be able to handle and how much preparation you want to do / pay someone to do for you.
I've never experienced one that wouldn't let me read it before I signed it.

I thought it was particularly interesting that I was referred to another doctor inside the same medical system sharing an EHR (ie they already HAD my data)and I still had to sign aa new HIPAA form less than a week later. That was the single time I didn't insist on reading the whole thing, I asked them if they were the exact forms used across the entire hospital system, I double checked one of them, and then just signed the rest.

My real fun experience with this was when I bought a house, one thing said I had to move in within 30 days, another 60 days, and another 15 days. There were also various other date discrepancies on when certain things had been completed and, they had used my full name (first, middle, last) in some places and just first/last in others. Man everyone was mad I was reading everything before I signed it though.
Check out a site I made called http://levels.fyi for a comparison of career ladders and compensation ranges. It should give you a good idea of what to negotiate for and what part of the breakdown (base, stock, bonus) to nudge on
The problem was that this stance was used to justify claims like "the free market allocates resources in the most efficient way" and "all taxes incur a deadweight loss" which are big statements to make based on such basic coursework. If the class is going to make claims like these, it needs to start with realistic assumptions.
I'm sure you also write "hi's" and "her's" because, if not, you are advocating for making English more irregular and not less.
Minor point, which always frustrates me when people say it. "proven through scientifical consensus". Nothing in the history of science has ever been "proven" by consensus. We get proof when observation matches theoretical prediction.
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Yes, that is insane. Is this allowed in the EU? I'm guessing not. What does GM use there? Anyone know?
The things we forget on the inside looking out: why I’m leaving Medium
>“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich” - Outliers

Yeah, billions of hard working people would disagree. Tons of factory workers woke before dawn (and worked 10 hours or more) and never got anywhere...
I think that's exactly correct. It's more than inertia; they are being paid to not update their polices, so they're incentivized to not do so... even though their policies inhibit the use of standards (their purported goal).
Yes. It shouldn't be illegal to have music playing in your store if the music isn't the attraction.
> he's guilt of publishing video showing US armed forces murdering unarmed journalists and civilians

Another view is that he published evidence of alleged American war crimes. Then he published a bunch of other stuff of zero public interest, but damaging to innocent people (e.g. medical records of gay Saudis, rape victims, et cetera [1]).

The former should be clearly held as being First Amendment protected. The latter is reasonably questionable. The merit of the former does not automatically absolve the harms of the latter.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/new-report-highl...
In my state the process is definitely "racist" because you need to get the discretionary approval of the police, a group not known for being colorblind (to put it mildly), simply to posses in your own home(!!) anything that's magazine fed (i.e. anything reasonably modern).

The laws are also structured to make it legal minefield anyone who can't just get everyone in the household licensed (which ain't happening if anyone in the household has a record) and chuck all their guns in a safe. Sure, it's not overtly racist but there's s lot of less racist things that people complain about being racist.

It's all basically a poll tax on something that's supposedly a constitutionally protected right.
> There is no evidence of this that you are aware of.

Then if the prosecutors are unable to present said evidence, should he be free to go?
>WeChat knows what I am reading. It would discover I am doing research for this article.

Hate to say it, but this is the same with Facebook. The only difference is the government aspect. I think all social products ultimately aim for this. I can definitely see Facebook heading this direction very soon.
You might not have identified the really hard part.

Which is this: reams of application code is hard-coded to the AF_INET address family, and its binary sockaddr_in structure, and related data types and functions.

But that's a problem facing any proposed or actual IP facelift.
There is a line between a public performance and background noise.
I'm old enough to remember there was a simple fix. Badges of honor you might even say!

"This website supports Netscape Navigator 4."
Making it more general would make it less aggressive - empty by default blacklist.
it is but i want to write code that will run on a linux system but not run on a WSL or any other type of system that is a "fake" linux installed on something else that is not linux. Is this physically possible, impossible or simply non trivial.

I would add, that win10 is not FOSS and breaks FOSS GPL3 considerations so i am not interested in developing FOSS for microsoft by fiat.
> Usually the life responds by getting extinct, as seen in so many species lately.

Do you have a count of how many have gone extinct in the past decade?

> What makes you think humans are special?

Our brains. And yes, technology and science. Humans are extremely adaptable. Our ancestors survived an ice age with stone aged tech and spread around the world to live in all sorts of environments.

> Not even going underground en masse will work

LOL, what? Who is saying that the Earth will become so hot that we won't be able to survive on the surface? You think 3-4°C is going to have that effect?
Does there need to be? No. An E-3 isn't in the position to know whether it will or won't and its pretty fucking arrogant to assume that risk. Do you know that it saved lives? No you don't. You couldnt, and whether it did or did not, it wasn't Manning's call to make.
I'm not sure how they can restrict you from lending such things, unless you've signed a contract specifically saying so. Copyright cannot be used that way, at least in the US.
One thing parents do has a huge effect on outcomes and that is controlling their child's environment. For example, children that attend school with more children with an incarcerated parent are more likely to get in trouble with the law[1].

Similarly, sending a child to a school with a culture of academic achievement, where doing well increases their social status, will have better outcomes.

Simply put, childrens' peers influence their development more than their parents, but parents do have some control over who those peers are.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w25730?sy=730
"1. layers are a thing (and while any given piece of hardware or software can be serving as an amalgam of any contiguous sequence of layers, you can still analyze the behavior of such a component as if it were N separate abstract components, one for each layer it embodies);"

* Path MTU discovery: For proper operation, TCP needs to know a link-layer property for each of the links between a source and destination.

This bypasses the IP layer, because IP fragmentation does not play well with TCP. On the other hand, TCP does not even see the concept of a "path" between the source and destination; IP may route each segment uniquely.

* TCP over wireless links: TCP makes the assumption that segment loss implies congestion; wireless links have the propensity to drop packets for a plethora of reasons that have nothing to do with congestion. Hey, it's a bad assumption, and there's work on congestion controls that don't make that assumption, but maybe we ought to ask Van Jacobson if life mightn't be easier if the link could tell the transport protocol, "My bad! That was me, I did that?"
You don't need to completely vaporise a city to effectively "end the civilisation" within it.
Does that HTML parser follow all the HTML5 parsing/error-handling rules, so that it conforms to the spec's behavior for random tag soup full of broken markup? Or are you assuming "clean" HTML?
> ...it can do the job with nearly zero risk of knocking over the school on the other side of the block and it is a dirt cheap way of doing that.

Sadly, if only this were true. The gun's published accuracy numbers have 80% of rounds landing within a ~40ft diameter circle at 4,000ft engagement distance. When the gun is fired—typically in one-second bursts—the nose of the plane lifts noticeably by several degrees and so the gun is always employed in a strafing run: you aim a bit below the target, pull the trigger, and let the target pipper rise up across the target. To make matters even worse, its targeting system is the Mk-1 Human Eyeball.

Even in the best possible scenario, you're firing the gun in a high-angle strafe (30º of dive) from 1.2–0.8nm, where you're talking about something closer to a 60ft circle of death that traverses 50ft across the ground while narrowing to 40ft in diameter. Not to mention the 20% of bullets that fall outside this area.

All this is to say that if you fire the Warthog's gun at a target across the block from a school, there's going to be a very serious press conference happening back at home the next day.

You'll see a lot of videos online where the gun seems to perform better than this, but it's always at static target practice ranges where the pilot is flying extremely low and has the benefit of doing multiple practice runs. In real combat footage, the plane is much farther out and the spread is correspondingly much wider. This video does a pretty good job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvIJvPj_pjE
I’m not “compensated” financially when I pick up litter I encounter when walking around but that doesn’t dissuade me from doing so.
A better one is to insist you have not seen the document and have been forced to sign it to consent to a procedure that was time limited.

Now the onus is on the defense to show that it is not a common practice and who was responsible for that. Pretty excellent line to pursuit, hard to defend.
Depending on scale, its usually easier to spin a new server than prevent malware.
Here's a podcast where one of the authors of that study goes into more detail, especially on your second point:

http://www.econtalk.org/leonard-wong-on-honesty-and-ethics-i...
> [Catalyst/SwiftUI] provides iOS developers with a familiar set of tools and access to an entirely new platform

Rather think that's the wrong way round. Whilst it might be true in the short term, it's really part of the MacBook/MacOS obsolescence plan. The next generation of MacBooks - whatever they're called - will be an evolution of ipad, using ARM hardware and running an iOS-derived OS. The recent creation of ipadOS is another symptom of that transition.

Not that it changes the central thrust of the piece: that Apple does slow, sustained, steady evolution well. But Catalyst/Swift aren't primarily about giving developers access to an extra platform; it's to make sure there's a ready-made market of apps and developers when the macbook range as we know it goes away.
Because VB.NET is like VB(5|6) in name alone. If an enterprise is going to move to .NET they might as well move to c#.
QuickTime Player was Carbon for a long time, too, and if I recall correctly so was iMovie.
Chrome OS 78 will used Files to restore containers
>> I wouldn't. Traditional NNs are widely called funciton approximators, or function induction. That's because they're not Turing-complete, and in this case don't even have memory. This makes them decidedly not programs, just functions.

But what the article describes is not function approximation anymore. Their system doesn't optimise a set of parameters. The search for an optimal set of parameters has been replaced entirely with a search for an optimal architecture with a single, shared parameter.

Note also that you don't need something to be Turing-complete for it to be a program. For instance, a regular automaton is a program, but it's not Turing complete. Turing completeness makes something, well, a Universal Turing Machine, which can compute any program. But a program is just a set of instructions.
Ask HN: Tools of the Trade, 2019 Edition
Almost a decade ago, Joshua Schachter started this thread on HN for discussing hosted useful services: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1769910

> When I first started delicious, we had to host most of the services ourselves. CVS, mail, mailing lists, etc etc etc.

> These days, lots of that stuff is available as SaaS. What are the tools and services people use instead of hosting their own?

What do we have now in 2019?
There's more to an organizations overhead than just the web servers. There's staff, reviewers, publishers, editors, etc. Of course, it's probably still most likely over-priced, and I have no insight into ISO's operational funding or internals.
Only if he wants you fired and to then have to pay you unemployment.
Are they actually blocking outgoing packets to the IPs or injecting RSTs or blocking incoming packets from those IPs? I don't have a Chinese connection to test from right now.
There's only ONE way to validate an email address
44100Hz is sufficient to store any audio signal audible to every human studied to date (not dogs).
A Duke study recorded thousands of students’ faces. Now they’re used all over
Why does that matter? Is there any effective negative consequence to me from admitting that?
Right? This is the best way to make the story a non-issue.
My original title as submitted here was "A letter to a young poet" — Virginia Woolf (1932)
"improving our lifestyles and environments would be more realistic in the short term"

Unfortunately not realistic but it would be very desirable. For some reason it's accepted that people live very unhealthy lives and have big medical expenses but it's not accepted to change things like exercise and eating habits which would be very cheap and simple.
Thank you for this. Seems miles better than Glassdoor or any purported salary website. Do you have any idea what is the most effective part of compensation to negotiate or does it change too much company to company? Having the data is one thing. Leveraging it is another.
And even now, there are few tools where it's easier to make complex LOB CRUD UIs than in VB6.
"(7a) (corollary). Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three)."

Hell, you're exceptionally lucky to have one.
We've talked before- I really enjoyed your earlier HN posts on Surreal CMS and the experiences/challenges you've faced (and overcame).

My really big questions are when it comes to the taxes. I know I'll need some provider to take in payments, but then how do I report this properly to the IRS. Your explanation gives me some insight how it can be done for one-man shows. So you say the CPA helps you file all of this? Or do you do the quarterlies by yourself and go to the CPA with this?

What about all the legal? As a one-person business, I imagine it's too much to understand all the legal rules w/o consulting with an expert.
Those leaks were in coordination with the Russian government.
Is your point that I shouldn't be surprised because they've always been hypocrites in this regard?
Why Housing Policy Feels Like Generational Warfare
Oh, don't misunderstand me. Their understanding is alllllll full of false negatives and false positives, absolutely.

But I was specifically referring, as a pain point, to how often offices use HIPAA as an excuse to not do things patients want them to do.

I'm a physician that has worked in health policy. I get very, very volubly angry when a front desk puts me off with "that's a HIPAA violation" and it isn't. It's "we don't want to be bothered doing things that convenience the patient, and here's an excuse that sounds like it's out of our hands."

When they share information they're not supposed to, it's often - not always, but often - at least with the underlying intention of doing right by the patient, as opposed to just trying to get rid of them.
We did the timeout when our 2 yr old first hit new baby and it reduce the behavior short term, but we also had our 2 year old start holding the newborn (with assistance) while giving a lot of praise. That replacement of the negative behavior with the positive really helped the 2yr old's attitude towards new baby.
Keep another accurate record of your hours and then when you are ready to quit, sue them for the overtime.
So you tell the boss that you need to see everything to sign it. Regardless of my relationship with my managers, they know that hiring a replacement is expensive and it's not worth being down a team member for a while, recruiting / interviewing, and training someone new over something silly.

(This might be legitimately less true for more entry-level jobs, which is why we have unions. Pushing back against unreasonable transfers of burden from the company to individually-low-power workers is basically the entire point of unions.)
Blender is quite a centralised project, which has lots of usage (and therefore support) in industry. Gimp isn't like that at all, it's miles away from being an industry standard.
> Assange was covertly acting as an agent of a hostile foreign government with the intention of interfering in U.S. domestic politics.

You're gonna need proof for that, staunch.
Yeah. It's not a binary where you've done the right or the wrong thing. If they enumerated every disclosure, they could find him not guilty on some of them and guilty on others.
And that's how it should work, no?
This is called "regrettable substitution".

"This tactic—which researchers call “regrettable substitution”—has been used in the formulation of products such as pesticides, flame-retardant furniture, non-stick pans, and nail polish. The chemical replacements need only be different enough to be considered distinct by regulators. They don't have to be proven safer."
Absolutely, and to me this is a more reasonable framework to understand how technology-enabled surveillance works in China and elsewhere.
I don't know if I'm just lucky, but I've always had good results just not presenting my compliance with the law as something I have a choice in. "Oh, gosh, I really want to sign this, but I need X to fulfill the legal requirements. Please help me resolve this so I can do the thing we both want."
Maybe that's just a personal thing, I eat tons of carbs and I'm never hungry again shortly afterwards.

I only eat once a day M-F, fwiw.
During my MSc, I was implementing, validating, and comparing multiple numerical methods for a certain field of Aeroacoustics. Most (peer-reviewed!) papers had errors, some glaring, some subtle. The cynic in me thought those were done on purpose so that results were harder to reproduce.

There was one specific signal change (a + to a - in an equation) that took me almost a month of hitting my head against a wall to figure out...