skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's sort of a chicken-and-egg scenario. Once someone tells you that there's an active recording device it's no longer a "confidential communication" because you no longer have an "objectively reasonable expectation that no one is listening in or overhearing the conversation". You don't have to stop recording just because someone wants you to stop, you just can't do it without being upfront about it. Home assistant devices are common enough (ads in the superbowl!) that I imagine a judge would consider the physical presence of the device as being reasonable indication that there is no "objectively reasonable expectation that no one is listening in or overhearing the conversation".
Again I have to ask- who is this "we"?

Apologies if my question sounds too contrarian, but I think you are making some very big assumptions about the computability of the laws of physics that are not really based on anything concrete, like a strong knowledge of the mathematics of modern physics.
I think that you can recognise that there would be key differences though. It would be less conspicuous, easier to put on, and not an all or nothing proposition.
one thing everyone so far is missing: often the product being sold is vapor ware
If everybody I send messages to have decided to install the facebook app on their phones, then the decision is taken out of my hands. Facebook will receive and store messages that I wrote, even though Facebook and I do not have a consensual relationship.
An update: it looks like all stores are back online. This is the official message from corporate:

“Target’s registers are fully back online and guests are able to purchase their merchandise again in all stores. The temporary outage earlier today was the result of an internal technology issue that lasted for approximately two hours. Our technology team worked quickly to identify and fix the issue, and we apologize for the inconvenience and frustration this caused for our guests. After an initial but thorough review, we can confirm that this was not a data breach or security-related issue, and no guest information was compromised at any time. We appreciate all of our store team members who worked quickly to assist guests and thank everyone involved for their patience.”

https://corporate.target.com/press/releases/2019/06/target-a...
No.. the early internet was pretty much all free to read, the only thing that's ever really been able to charge is porn. For everything else if it looks like a website, acts like a website then people expect it to be free. Try to charge and people will move on.
Even better: Show your displeasure to companies advertising on or doing business with Facebook. Start boycotts.

This will hit them in their wallet to a much greater extent than any individual quitting Facebook can.
Okay, to make it clear: I think HN's main issue at large is that the mission statement ('to post things that gratify intellectual curiosity') is too broad. Forums and sites that are established with a broad mission statement means that as it grows, the site loses identity because it results in a sort of race to the bottom.

And to call back to my original examples: The Katie Bouman thread(s) [1] [2] and the Women: Learn To Program [3] threads should give you quite a lot of pause. The fact that such benign incidents resulted in large flamewars is specifically an issue because it indicates a greater rot growing inside HN's culture.

There's obviously more examples (such as anything politically related almost immediately devolving into flamewars or whataboutism) which indicates that the mission statement simply isn't working. And the greater problem of flagging only works if the community as a whole agrees in a positive direction; if suddenly tomorrow HN was filled with people who held highly negative beliefs, then the flagging system fails.

When I look at other forums such as SomethingAwful, Penny Arcade etc I see them as surviving because they have much stronger moderation while maintaining a sustainable community size. And right now I don't see HN outlasting either of those communities. Without some sort of cohesion guiding the community, the end result is that the site will eventually be pulled away from its original purpose.

To sum up what I think would be necessary:

1. Long time contributors would need to be emphasized more. Especially the high quality contributors, because they serve as a way of keeping a community united.

2. The mission statement of HN needs to be less vague and more to the point. Keep a focus solely on things that happen with the tech community and issuing harsher but smaller punishments to people that cause issues. You issued a warning to me a while ago because I was being an ass, and on other sites a warning like that would've resulted in a harsher punishment like a temporary probation.

3. Politics is inescapable as was found out during the 'political detox' week. But other forums can help moderate and control political debates and inflammation by keeping them solely inline with the site's mission statement (ie: a gaming site focuses on politics as it relates to games).

That said, implementing a lot of this might be almost impossible at this point because people would decry censorship almost immediately, resulting in a large reactionary wave. Which unfortunately I think also says a lot about the overall lassiez-faire moderation style HN employs for everything but the most egregious and repeat of offenses.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19653120

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19464269
downvotes? laughable. i guess it’s also fine if texas steals copyright and can’t be touched because “sovereign”. it’s the same justification here. don’t worry about copyright because “history”.

thievery plain and simple.
How can the said switch have “failed in a small number of instances” and “no engine fires for a 787 have been recorded” both be true?
A Literary Tube Map of London
This is a great initiative.It should not be limited to software: research papers, databases and many other things that are currently either not available at all or are behind pay walls should be released.
Do you mean a brand new car?

There are older cars available that are in better condition than when they were new - but they won't meet today's safety and economy standards.
Unless you get an ATM in there, getting pure paper registers won't fix everyone needing to pay via card.
Spent an hour in line today, which would've been longer but the person in front of me gave up, and the person in front of her only rung up ~25% of her items. I had about 10 items and it took about 20 minutes to get everything scanned completely. I'm guessing a bad config pushed out that borked networking code so some poor router or server was doing all the work. Looking forward to the post mortem (yeah right).
> The results couldn't be related to the real world, and no one was really able to get over the inherent [1] influence of the author in the data.

Wait. Do I understand you correctly that an objective approach failed and your conclusion is to be more subjective?
Citing the appropriation of Pepe or the hand gesture as moral panics reads as if you're putting those things in the 80% box.

You know, when a kid walks into the house holding a dog turd the details of where they found it or what sort of dog left it there are not very compelling.
Interesting. Is your definition of legacy code “code that was written <x> time period ago”?

Wikipedia defines legacy code in several ways. So sure, that term has multiple meanings. Code without tests is a definition mentioned in the “modern representations” section.

Wikipedia indicates the original meaning was code that was dependent on a deprecated underlying foundation such as on os / framework / etc.

This is a snippet from the “modern representations” section of the Wikipedia entry. Basically the idea is legacy code is code that is hard to change:

“Eli Lopian, CEO of Typemock, has defined it as "code that developers are afraid to change".[1] Michael Feathers[2] introduced a definition of legacy code as code without tests, which reflects the perspective of legacy code being difficult to work with in part due to a lack of automated regression tests. He also defined characterization tests to start putting legacy code under test.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_code
Really, the only thing now that could restore trust in Boeing would be for the entire top tier of management to resign. Probably the board should eject them, and then follow.
Completely agree. What makes these old arcade machines (Western games included) are the uniqueness of the controls. Trackballs, Spinners, 360 joysticks, thrusters, yokes all added to the immersion. These are the things that connected players to arcade cabinets and the games. Today's androgynous joypads just don't do that.
That is the plan.

"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" is the mantra, after all.
Internet connected or not they'll always be vulnerable.
Ha-ha I had to check whether this was the place where I served in 87-88. No, my unit work location was about 10 miles south along the same road. Also a bunch truck based radio stations, buildings, huge antenna fields, etc. We did radio surveillance on NATO countries in northern Europe, Unit 75752. Our transmitters were yet a few miles south of that location (you normally want to separate the transmitting and receiving as far as practical).
I have a few years older model Mazda 3 that has a similar system, although much less stylish. I like it for two reasons. I don't glance down when adjusting the radio or checking GPS and my eyes stay more or less on the road. The knob in the center console is a very intuitive control system that doesn't require very much attention or reaching to operate. The whole system is clearly designed to offer the full functionality of Android Auto or Apple Car while minimizing the possibilities distraction.
U.S. Cities Are Seeing a Big Drop in Tourism from China
I've always found it uneasy that much of the data in social science studies comprise 5-point scale answers by volunteers to questionnaires, or observations of microcosmic situations that do not really represent reality (e.g. attempting to prove a hypothesis about generosity by giving participants $20 each and observing how they spend/gift it under a specially designed situation).

I wonder whether questionnaires should be replaced by more objective metrics, such as heart rate, pupil dilation, blood hormone levels, EEGs of the participants.

The other problem I see is the lack of predictive models in the social sciences, especially psychology. The type of models we have today are akin to 'celestial spheres' in ancient physics and the boiler theory of fever in medieval medicine (which led to blood-letting).
I believe that a job is waiting for you, not necessarily your old job, and the job that is waiting does not need to be at the same level or salary.
Being a tech-oritented online community, I assumed that the average HN readers at least care about basic facts. Little did I know about all the ignorant and arrogant comments I was about to see.
The West needs a new enemy. Until China folds and become a puppy state like Japan, or get turned into a mess like the Middle East, this propaganda wagon will go stronger and stronger.
> It's possible to combine good business or operational strategy with a value system that manages to include things beyond just dollars alone.

Sure it is, and that's fine. But the moral framing of the issue (recycling/reusing as a "good thing to do", as opposed to an economic opportunity waiting to be tapped) has the perverse effect of negating (in our head) the actual market value of the things we throw away.

To the point where Western consumers see a vast portion of the economy as intrinsically unviable and in need of support to sustain itself, when in fact (much of the time) it is not.

TBH, when it comes to this topic, I think Westerners would benefit from putting on the Homo economicus hat a lot more often. That's how most of the rest of the world thinks about it.
>Though you should watch your own posts because they're the type that gets you banned.

Easy there - you're talking to the one who likely does the banning around here.
"Hey guys, I think I just broke Production..."
I haven’t seen it lately, but there was a time where it was common for latex systems to not use space characters and instead add extra spacing after the last character in every word, because apparently that looked better ...
That's easy to suggest and hard do. How are you going to change the behavior of entire populations? We are already trying education.
> Well in the simplest case how about something like \bf versus \bfseries versus \textbf?

Use any of them.

> thousands of blog posts, each telling you which is the One True Way™

When I don't know how to do something in LaTeX, here is my flowchart for figuring out how:

1. Google

2. Look at any of the thousands of blog posts

3. Try the proposed solution, while ignoring any "One True Way" crap

4. Are the results what I wanted? If yes then done; if no go to Step 1.
I'm the wrong generation for most of these games. But I did play a significant amount of pinball back in the day.

Never been there but if I ever get to Las Vegas the Pinball museum will be on my list of places to visit.

http://pinballmuseum.org/
Let's try a different question.

How crazy is Putin?

He's getting old, maybe he wants to go out with a bang? A really big global nuclear bang.

Just a thought.
>That is possible, but would require first having a security breach with access to the completed assembly to know _what traces_ first.

that's not true.

one can design a pcb to pass conformity tests but fail in a more discrete manner, even without total knowledge of the system. This is made even more possible if the manufacture has knowledge of what conformity tests must be made, and how. This is quite often common knowledge for such manufacturers as they are trying to keep costs to the minimum required to pass the testing needed for the product to be bought by the contractor.
It goes further than that though. People mostly don't have a requirement to police each other's behavior, and by extension companies mostly don't either. It's reasonable to assume that your users use your product in compliance with the law. A cloud storage provider isn't required to ensure that their users aren't storing illegal data like stolen government secrets or child porn. It's certainly within their power to check if the stored data is illegal to possess, but they don't have to, and they're not on the hook to do anything more than turn it over to authorities if the user gets busted.
What Does a Packet Look Like?
I know you're just being humourous, but your joke highlights a challenge with people and safety equipment. People resist using safety stuff for a variety of reasons. E.g. not looking cool, convenience, anti-authoritarism etc.

We could make cars significantly more "death-proof" with rollcages, harnesses, helmets, speed-limitors etc. But we don't, and for many good reasons.

My (somewhat drawnout) point is that design of these features matters not just from a safety result pov.
Likert scale is the term of art
If everything is operated through the touch screen you lose a lot when the screen fails. With knobs only the function of the knob fails.
Going to costco near closing time seems to help avoid crowd.
This article conflates all research in the "social sciences", when in fact methodological practices vary widely within disciplines and sub-disciplines. Within each field, there is a "qualitative" literature, much less successful and popular than it once was, and probably not very useful, although I like some ethnographic and anthropoligical studies. Mainstream economics and political science is incredibly mathematically sophisticated, in fact people are coming around to the idea that there may have been too much emphasis on quantitative gymnastics above things like formulating simpler hypotheses or more descriptive work. Sociology has a bit of both. Psychology was the main culprit in the replication crisis, but even the behavioural psychology work cited approvingly in the article (Kahneman) is, I think, somewhat speculative in relating its hypotheses to experiment.

Without doubt, in economics and political science at least the problem is that the research questions are infinitely more complex than in 19C medicine; not that the methods are not quantitatively rigorous. The questions are obviously also of a more normative and moral nature than in medicine.
Article provides zero evidence or any other kind of corroboration to the claims made. NYT is fake news.
Sometimes, anyway. The company wants to gauge interest before committing to development. Availability: 6 months' lead time. Still interested?
Why Marine Exhaust Scrubbers Are Cheaper Than LNG Conversion
I'm not the only person I know who would like a newer vehicle, and could afford one, but has opted for something made in the mid 90's. I can maintain it myself, it doesn't have all the distracting BS, and comes with a full size spare. The car you describe is the only new car I could be convinced to buy. Until then, I'll be keeping the 90's alive.
Not all of them do that. My 2017 A4 mmi system is fixed to the dash and does not move. No touch controls in the car though. The 2020 model is unfortunately getting touch controls for some things.
Funny because lately I've seen way more people posting Second Life stuff than say Spider-Man or GTAV, but then again most of my online socializing is with furries.
> Humans still have an edge over non-Hollywood AI in several key areas that are essential to journalism, including complex communication, expert thinking, adaptability and creativity.

Bizarre sentence. The phrase 'non-Hollywood AI' reads as if the author were blithely suggesting that humans don't have such an edge over 'Hollywood AI'...
Disclaimer: it's your project :P
You can't wave away the remaining challenges of a molten salt reactor. It is a legitimately difficult materials science problem to operate a liquid salt pump loop operating at ~1000K and under high neutron flux.

It's also not a super-great explanation that a major accident will just cause the salt to flow into the holding tank. What if the holding tank is full of water? Why would it be full of water? I don't know but the planet is absolutely filthy with water and "the basement is unexpectedly full of water" has happened to almost every building humans have ever built. These are supposed to be installed _entirely_ underground, enhancing the danger of water intrusion.

Finally there is still the challenge of continuous processing of the liquid fuel, to remove ash, add fissile materials, and separate gases. Nobody knows how to do this. Nobody has explained what to do with all the radioactive krypton etc.
I think there's something here, just like how you stop liking new music.

There were a bunch of articles in the 70s talking about the potential of an ice age. So much so that I remember my dad (69yo) talking to me and my brother about global cooling/ice age when we were kids in the 80s.

He bought the articles in his 20s but now can't be bothered by climate change, because "it was just cooling 40 years ago..."
> I complained to the hospitals’ privacy officer and the state regulator and found that everything was legal.

Both of those are the wrong venue for complaint on this issue; the hospital privacy officer exist to protect the hospital from liability and will never confirm to an outside party, especially a complaining party, that an act is a violation of the hospital’s legal duty, and the state regulator isn't responsible for enforcing federal law.

The right place for complaint is the federal Department of Health and Human Services Office or Civil Rights, which is actually responsible for enforcing the privacy provisions of HIPAA. Or getting your own attorney.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_dhUv_CrI&t=14s

<seeing myself out>
Donating money toward researchers. All of the following situations below may or may not have a useful outcome but direct investment would be the easiest one and one you can leverage.
Environmentalists are fighting an uphill battle so long as business, whose packaging decision are practically unilateral, aren't held accountable for their contributions.

The "education" that gets the most funding is simple mis-direction away from supply-side pollution to consumer-blaming "solutions".
In the Tesla Model 3 you can manually reboot the entire infotainment system while driving with no ill effects. You lose all visuals, ability to change settings like the a/c, and even audio like the clicking of the turn signal. You do not lose any driving, safety, or even autopilot functionality. I'm sure there are many regulations around this too.
Nuclear waste produced per person is on the order of kilograms versus the volume and mass of carbon dioxide which is in the tonnes.

As long as the volume of nuclear waste is easy to manage, it is more likely we will bury nuclear waste than use it, as opposed to carbon dioxide which is far less likely to be injected into the Earth.
It seems to be proportional to class in my experience. The more privileged a student is, the more outspoken they are when criticizing what they perceive to be injustices holding them back.

If we are being charitable, perhaps this is because the more privileged students have fewer repercussions from society to fear?
I don't understand a single bit from this article.
That's a fair point, though I'll say in my experience, it's not been the case. If it were, I wouldn't do it as I agree with you that it outweighs the benefits I mentioned.
In the article it states that visitors to the museum get 15 kopeks to operate the machines. 100 kopeks is one ruble. 1 dollar is 64 rubles. Therefore it costs something on the order of 0.001 cents to operate one of the machines. That’s some crazy inflation!
Correct, because the Turbo Pascal program can be safely modified and extended. If the need arises you can port it to a more modern environment. Code without any tests can't be modified without risk of unexpected breakage, so it is basically legacy the moment it is written.
If you can find a problem, and solve it, a business is a fantastic way to make an impact!
Convenience will trump security at the first opportunity unless extraordinarily stringent procedures and checks of those procedures are in place. "Well it was costing us an extra ten minutes every day so we just brought a router from home and hooked it up" is a situation I run into almost constantly.
Its an Ouya type scam. Current Atari brand owners have been running around for almost 2 years now doing fake demos and accusing journalists of lying, while avoiding to answer basic questions like where would the games come from. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/21/atari_interview_in_...