skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adtech could be, in a different world, the industry of finding out who needed a certain product so that they could be connected to companies selling that product.
What makes you think the hypothetical rewrite on a new technology is going to have any less technical debt?

By the time you get to feature parity with the old shitty system, your new system is also going to be shitty. In my experience, technical debt comes from three places.

1. The people who built the system didn't know how to do things right the first time.

Solution: Employ experienced people when you're building the system, the first time. If you didn't do that right the first time around, have experienced people rewrite the bad parts.

Non-solution: Rewrite the whole thing in a new technology that nobody is experienced with. (On average, your new team isn't any more skilled than the team that built the original system.) Waste time rewriting the parts that aren't bad.

2. The problem is actually incredibly complicated, and has no clean solution.

Solution: Don't do anything.

Non-solution: Rewrite the system, re-discovering all the reasons for why it was built the way it was.

3. Most of the system is actually fine, there's just a few bad parts.

Solution: Refactor the bad parts.

Non-solution: Rewrite the whole thing, even the parts that are maintainable.

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I have seen a lot of painful rewrites, but I've never actually seen any featurefull software project that did not have a lot of technical debt.
I think it is a telling commentary on the mores of the time that there is a specific, derogatory word for the act of pointing out someone's hypocrisy.
> Now, you may think of this what you want, but to the people of Iceland this is important.

I do think it's important. It's a beautiful country. But a disproportionate reaction might do more bad than good. Civilized tourists stop coming when they know a relatively small mistake can literally ruin their lives. And once someone knows they screwed up with witnesses they know they have nothing to lose by doing some additional stuff. And I'm pretty sure some would make the most of it.

Please don't get hung up on the interpretation of my words. The point is any kind of overreaction will without a doubt do more bad than good. It certainly sets a dangerous precedent on treating crimes that are only serious en masse rather than as individual occurrences.

P.S. My original comment was not actually addressed to you but to another fellow commenter who's comment builds on your idea. And the 3-strikes law has nothing to do with racism in my comment, not more that saying people should be banned from Iceland is xenophobic. It has everything to do with how people react when they are faced with disproportionate punishment, the topic at hand. I did add it later, probably when you were already composing your message. Contrary to your assumption it wasn't meant as "intellectual dishonesty". It was just an example to strengthen the point I was making that came to me later, before your comment was displayed on the page.

Edited for clarity and to add paragraph 2.
Interesting that you interrupted it in this way. Maybe that speaks more of your own biases than it does of those in the HN community? :)

Anyway, my immediate thought (before the article got to the teen) was that this attack might have be spillover from an attack by the US on Iranian systems. Or at least an hint at how exposed Iran's digital infrastructure might be to future attack from the US in light of recent events. Or maybe how this will get Iran to tighten up it's digital infrastructure before such an attack from the US could happen.

I also immediately didn't think that the origin of Cashdollar's attack had anything to do with the origin of the creator or perpetrator.
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how about do nothing? no one ever thinks of that
> apply a facial detection algorithm, then boost the energy for the regions where faces are detected.

Great intuition! The original paper actually goes into this, and they come up with that solution.

This solution is a special case of allowing the user to apply positive and negative penalties as they wish. The latter allows targeted object removal.
The authors of SPECTRE, Meltdown, Rowhammer (1-4),and whatever else is next would probably disagree with you. Running in cloud providers absolutely without doubt exposes your presence to hostile neighbors scheduled on the same hyoervisor.
The private actors are the ones who pay for the R&D, to the tune of $70 billion/year. That's on the same order as total annual venture capital spending nationwide ($70-$80 billion/year from 2014-2017, though 2018 was an outlier at $130 billion).

These amounts are small enough where the U.S. government could pretty easily cover the expenditures. So by your logic, why do we need Silicon Valley venture capital? Why not just have the government pay for the R&D and make the results freely available to everyone?

Either the government is good at allocating capital for high-tech R&D or its not. Whether you're talking about medical tech or computer tech doesn't make a difference.
Finally, it comes.
At $10/month it's really worth it, although you have to remember to cancel and resubscribe after a year.

They do an awful lot of important investigative journalism, and I don't want to see what a society without such work looks like.
The Ur example of a bottom up computer would be the brain. It works on disparate unformatted inputs and can translate to a context appropriate output and while there's no programming language for the mind (unless you want to stretch a bit and say speech) you can instruct one in the particular ways you want input manipulated into outputs.
Dynamic Documentation for Senator Warren’s Wealth Tax Policy Analysis
Referring to USB-C connections as "alternate mode" makes me wonder if Thunderbolt 3 will be inferior, signal-wise, to whatever physical port is being considered (was designed?) for DisplayPort 2.
But to be creative you need to do lots of hard work. For example being able to do a creative task like playing or creating a new song on an instrument requires practicing many hours on with different chords and positions to get good at the instrument.
Problem being that tourism is one of Iceland's biggest sources of income. Selling out sucks, but starving is worse
This happens at Shopify as well.
I think it is a mix of both, but I also feel that we are much better at nurturing than we used to be.
When the diagnostic accuracy of coronary CT angiography matches the catheter
For the ASD-B traffic I use the FlightAware USB dongles - https://flightaware.com/adsb/prostick/

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My take is; everything will always get more complicated and you can write your nice simple articles but it will not help.
The Party would like a word with you.
Seriously, who are the people writing these features? As 'software is eating the world' I think we'll need an ethics board/bar association or something soon.
We did not write angry letters to end nazi concentration camps. Any particular reasons we shouldn't all march on the camps and dismantle them?
On our site, we show inventory on hand (when the data's available, we don't always know).

We didn't put it there to create urgency. The feature is there due to customer demand for it. Customers do not want to be surprised and disappointed when something turns out to be back ordered. They've made it very clear that they want this transparency.

Perhaps some sites misrepresent this (or just make it up). But the fact that inventory information is shown isn't in itself a dark pattern.
I enjoyed this fiction book that covers a story of a business professional learning the Toyota business system from a mentor. It's a quick worthwhile read. Non-affiliate Amazon link here: https://www.amazon.com/Andy-Me-Crisis-Transformation-Journey...
Don't eat Datura every day. Got it.
I've been sensitive to loud noises (still can't drive with my windows down) since I was a kid, and I've been diagnosed by a doctor to be on the spectrum (albeit high functioning) for various other reasons as well.

It's obviously different for everyone, but for me it comes down to a few things:

* Generally the higher pitch noises are way worse then a low deep "growl"

* Sudden, high decibel noises, especially if they're unexpected are BAD

* High decibel repetitive noises (ever have only one window open in your car on the highway and hear a WOMPH WOMPH WOMPH sound?) are unbearable.

* Restaurant buzzers, alarms, etc. Even the alarms coming from inside McDonalds while I'm in the drive through make me uncomfortable/

* Anything shrilly, no matter the decibel.

Sounds that are lower pitch, and continuous are much easier to get used to. The AC kicking on is uncomfortable, but after ~30 seconds the fan noise doesn't bother me.

For me public places have an "ambient sound" that seems to get filtered
out okay. Mostly only the occasional small child skrill bothers me. I also have social anxiety so I'll get uncomfortable anyway however.

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This seems to align with your observation that bowling alleys/swimming pools being okay. Most of the sounds are lower pitch, continuous, and most of the sudden noises are expected (kids splashing, bowling ball rolling, etc.)

The biggest difference is the decibel level though. Hand dryers. Leaf blowers. Hair dryers. Hoovers, are all LOUD.

Imagine your parents SCREAMING AS LOUD AS THEY CAN AT YOU. That's how those feel.

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I have a feeling my observations will apply to most people on the spectrum, but you'd have to multiply it by 10x/100x depending on the severity of the individual.
At some point the technology and physics described are so far from our levels that I don't think the author could go into much detail. Really though just when you thought the story's scale has reached its maximum the next one comes up.
>MANY games relied on CRT pixel "bleed" and fuzzyness of analog systems to create special effects, a notorious one is the waterfalls in sonic

But handheld systems with sharp pixels used the same art techniques, and many pieces of official artwork showed game art drawn with sharp pixels (think early NES game cover art). The Sonic waterfalls even use distinct vertical lines to represent falling water, instead of a checkerboard dither pattern, which would be the natural choice if you assumed it would be blurred. Arcade games used the same art techniques too, and they used high quality monitors and RGB connections, so pixels were clearly visible.
800k email records and passwords in plain text when breached. I don't know how big Knuddels are, so I don't know if that fine sounds lenient, right or high. Yet as it's a large breach it seems fitting of no warning first, considering the scale of negligence, mitigated by their "exemplary cooperation" afterwards.

Which goes to show why the regulators get the discretion to decide appropriate action from warning only to maximum fine. Without context and aggravating and mitigating factors we can't know, which was my point. If a penalty is disproportionate there's well worn appeal tracks.

Other comments seem to point to the small case in OP comment being some guy running a list to harass people, which seems like a huge aggravating factor to me. Maybe he got one warning, maybe in context he didn't deserve even that.
Actually, housing seems to be the lowest priority. No one is building west of 280 (for a number of reasons, including environmental ones). Attempts to build up instead of expand are thwarted by NIMBYs. They’ll complain about the streets being filled with parked cars (because 10 people live in a house) while railing against building large residential apartments in downtown areas because of “lack of infrastructure.” Infrastructure which they also oppose.

We can “easily” have all three things you’ve suggested there, but a huge swathe of the public seems to want their personal neck of the Bay Area to be as it was in 1973.
My employer uses PhishMe. Every "phishing attempt" I see is from my own employer. It is not adaptive. They don't scale up the apparent sophistication of the attack if previous attempt didn't work. So I am continually getting e-mails from "HR" asking me to update my contact info, or from "Expense Reports" asking me to verify some info to get reimbursed for my travel expenses.

It's annoying.
Oh, interesting!

Makes me think that their original plan could still work if they just put a bit more effort into crafting that algorithm.

For example, the main criticism brought up is that things that you dislike that your peers like keep getting recommended. Why not add a de-ranking aspect into it and try adding downvote-peers in addition to upvote peers.

I imagine you could create this interesting query language that could answer questions like: what things do you like if you like X and Y but not Z? (I kind of remember that something akin to this have been hacked together using subreddit overlap.)
> And yet you are commenting as if these results aren't invisible to you? The machinery behind Google search results aren't invisible?

Because of my unique and fortunate work history I understand the internals of these systems better than many people do. I'm objecting to the distinction you're drawing, not suggesting an alternative order of transparency. There really isn't much difference between the two companies output in the regard we're discussing.
I've had instances where I get told that "our lines are unfortunately very busy at the moment. If you do not wish to wait, you can find more information at our website or you can send an email at bla@bla.com. We expect the average waiting time to be 20 minutes."

If you wait past that discouraging message, you get transfered to their support centre, and your call gets picked up in ~2-3 minutes.

That message is a blatant attempt to reduce the load on their customer support by discouraging callers and making it a painful to use channel.
Getting a good feel for both stationarity and ergodicity in systems is worthwhile; assuming them is a common way to “intuitively” infer incorrect behaviour.
Because you've literally just described what a <button> is.
Spoiler alert: most things people buy they don't actually need.
Peterson is a hack, and 12 rules is trash. Don't get taken in by that crap.
You would need to have the data of how high the sun is in the sky, plus to be accurate you would need to have cloud data as well.
Powerful countries have the ability to apply their law extrateritorially, especially law concerning companies... e.g. UK stipulates that bribery is illegal everywhere in the world, so a UK company employing people in China and those Chinese employees bribing Chinese officials is illegal (in the UK), so the UK parent company could be responsible...

Easy to do the same thing here, as long as the company has (and wants to keep having) presence in the EU that's enough to enforce standards worldwide.
But there's no such thing as "intrinsic worth"... It's all about supply and demand!
I'd love to use this as a clock pane in my window manager. If you added the local time and removed some of the large text, it would be a great background.
The entire decades-long overseas diversion saga surrounding American Toyota pickups has always fascinated me.

Top Gear did an episode [0] trying to destroy a Toyota Hilux (similar to the Land Cruiser) and literally couldn't, which explains why it's so popular with terrorists. It's a worthwhile watch if you want to see truck survive after being drowned in water, fire, and the rubble of a demolished skyscraper. Say what you want about Toyotas, but that's quite the engineering feat in my opinion!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk
Reddit really did a good job of moving the masses away from site-specific forums.
Previous discussion, 5 Whys: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11656575
>>> More importantly, they quote "Peters coin game" which has no results in Google whatsoever.

Maybe a reference to this paper [1] ?

[1] The time resolution of the St. Petersburg paradox, by Ole Peters

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1011.4404.pdf
I think the real potential game changer here is platinum group metals. The total world supply (of platinum alone) is a mere 8 million ounces https://www.statista.com/statistics/418212/global-platinum-s...
Investors long on platinum would not like it, but a significant increase in supply would open economic activity using platinum group metals in catalysts and other industrial uses. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/platinum-ca...
I really enjoyed this.

That said, The Godfather of fractal theory, Benoit Mandelbrot, wrote a book entitled “the Misbehavior of Markets” which is a deep dive into why markets exhibit fractal behavior (he even goes so far as to do the coastline zoom for stock market data).
Yeah, that just seems like bad UI more than Dark UI.
That is assuming that people actually wash their hands effectively, and also that the dryers themselves are not breeding areas for microbes.
At this point there's little to no difference between con, dark pattern and fraud. I'd like to see them prosecuted as such.
Yeah...I'm inclined to say the hardest working people are the ones that are juggling two minimum wage jobs, driving for Uber on the side, and a family to take care of. The idea that working "harder" correlates positively with income or wealth is a myth that needs to go away.
It feels like we can have a balanced approach - show appreciation if someone really went out of their way to do something, but acknowledge that it's not sustainable for everyone to put in 150%.

You can't just completely take out the human element here.
> in the emissions process most states in the USA perform

I'm not sure how accurate that is. From what I can tell, only about half of states have some region that requires emissions testing for some vehicles.

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

For example, Washington requires testing in part of 5 counties (out of 39), for non-hybrid, 4-wheeled vehicles older than 2009. But even that is misleading, as the emissions testing program is being discontinued entirely at the end of the year.

So even if they wanted to just add noise testing (it sounds so simple!), most cars don't get annual testing, and in another 6 months, none will. The state won't even have facilities for it.

The bigger issue I see is that emissions is generally seen as bad by everyone. Most people don't spend money to mod their car to pollute more, so if you test cars once a year, it's probably going to be OK the rest of the year. People do mod their cars to make more noise, though, so if you test once a year, they're going to fix the noise for the test, and then put it back the next day.

To fix this problem, you need to be able to catch people on the road.
Nerds have been trying to seem edgy railing the "work smart not hard" mantra for decades. It's a nice way to seem clever and enlightened, but it doesn't really make any sense.

> Why am I celebrating mere effort? Celebrate creativity, insights, breakthroughs, rebellions, anything but mere effort

Uh, why not do both? You know who really succeeds? the person who has creative breakthroughs AND works harder than everyone else.
You can not host your own mail... at this time, at least. Good call out on that.
The formulation I'm used to is "2 seats left (at this price)", the parenthesized text generally being a smaller font. I'm assuming that's how the "legal" accuracy is coming into play here.
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This reminded me of a moving city on Mercury called Terminator from Kim Stanley Robinson‘s novel 2312. The city slides along metal tracks propelled by the expansion and contraction of the metal as the terminator of the sunlight shifts. There’s even a sun cult that chases perpetual dawn. It’s a pretty good science novel.
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I think even this should be regulated in panes which provide control or information about sensitive user data. If there is overflow, there should be a scroll bar or other visual indicator.
Only twice? That happens to me all the time. Maybe I will start covering up the sensor.
So better (as said) is to use a separate VM to access trusted domains (and yes, also VMs aren't these days so trustable).

I would use the VM for accessing untrusted domains. If an exploit has your host system, then it also has the trusted VM.

ciphering on-disk sensitive info

If an exploit has root-kitted your system, encryption does not help much. Presumably you have the unencrypted volume mounted, moreover, the attacker could log keystrokes.

If your machine is compromized, it is basically game over. Change all your bank accounts, e-mail, etc. credentials immediately, wipe the disk. By suspicious about any file the malware may have touched.
I guess that depends on the type of business you in. You can be successful being a professional and putting in your 40 hours a week. It's very hard to have a startup working 40 hours a week, in fact, I'd love to know who's done that, ever.

Successful startups are successful because the founders obsess about them, they think about them when they are going to bed and when they wake up; it consumes their lives. That leads to more than 40 hours a week.

There's something to be said for the quality of work too. For Jeff Bezos, like Steve Jobs, the value wasn't in long hours, but in quality decisions. That said, I'm sure they both worked very hard to build Amazon and Apple early on.
Can you point to a source or resource on that?
This is a good tip thanks!

I'm sensitive to loud noises and some public bathrooms have really, really, really loud and honestly just flat out aggressive toilets.
I like how this links to the same site that the currently trending HN post "I was 7 words away from being spear-phished" involved :P

(note: no reason to believe THIS post is phishing, just funny to see the same url)
> Because such classes did not develop in every area where humans passed through this keyhole?

But they did in many areas, and the article specifically states "that's how the world was" (not "that's how some parts of the world were").

> I think the author is using this term in a very broad and perhaps imprecise context compared to you, who appear to be locking it down to a very specific geographical and chronological region.

To be fair, that's what the term was invented for. It's not supposed to be just a fancy alternative to "state", "country" or "polity".
There's no way a platform can provide accessibility for arbitrary pixels you throw onto a screen. You could, by yourself, using the low-level accessibility APIs, but you likely won't since it's a lot of work. Hence the push for using platform UI components: they inform the framework of your intention, and in return this information helps it provide you with better accessibility.
You get buried with copies saved to glass discs in 5D!
What if we just took the whole patent troll industry, and had them target corporations for their false advertising instead of for their legitimate inventions?
> The case study also describes a couple of examples of assembly line workers pulling the stop levers and how management runs over asap (every minute of stoppage is much money lost) to ask the question "why" five times in order to understand the root issue of the process breakdown.

More than that, when the manager approaches the employee who stopped the line, she is not supposed to ask, "why did you stop the line?" She instead asks, "how can I help?"
FDA releases millions of records of incidents involving medical devices
As you likely suspect, it's just meant to get people to actually listen closely.
Might make for a cool bit of a music video

I was thinking the same!
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You may be overestimating the writing ability of native English speakers.