skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and juniors like to make mistakes because that's how they turn into seniors.

The point is, and will continue to be, that a senior's opinion should be heeded or you disallow them from steering the ship away from the glacier that they know is there.

You can always justify everything with a reason. If your goal is to justify, then great, you did that. If your goal is to be effective, you need to stop trying to justify.
What can I say. Humour does not appear to be one of my talents. Thanks for the translation though. Spot on.
If they track me they are accessing my computer in a way I did not intend. I even provided them with a DNT header to make my wishes clear.
Using files is fraught with peril
[Speculation] This is interesting to me because Crohn’s Disease (and Inflammatory Bowel Disease in general) is known to respond to certain antibiotics such as Metronidazole and Ciprofloxacin [1]. Maybe a analogous action is at play here.

[1] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/inflammatory_bowel_disease_c...
Ones that are either not reasonably performant, don’t free resources as soon as they become unreachable, or are too restricting.

The fix you refer to is one, but it falls under ‘not reasonably performant’.

One could also make it illegal to have cycles (easy way to do that: make it illegal to update any references). For many, many, that will fall under ‘too restricting’, though.

Alternatively, allow updates to references, but give every allocated object a ‘bit’ that indicates whether, from it, a reference can be reached that contains such an updated reference that points to an object created later (maintaining that property is doable, but may not be ‘reasonably performant’)

You can use that later: when the reference count of an object goes to zero, and the object has a reference to an object O with that bit set, check whether the graph reachable from O can be reached from elsewhere. Again, that’s doable, but likely not performant.

It somewhat depends on how common circular references are in real world code, though. I’m not aware of any papers researching that.
Recycling plastic into hydrogen, methane and other gases
Arguably, if you connect a PS4 to that TV you are paying the Sony tax on every game you purchase, which would be a closer analogy. Sony selling the TV is identical to Google selling a Nexus phone, whereas when Sony sells a Playstation they are also selling a platform.

Edit: just reread grandparent, the tinder tax doesn't make sense and your example was valid. Apparently I haven't had enough coffee to read properly yet.
Conky: Free, light-weight system monitor for X / GNU screen / tmux
Notion raises $10M at an $800M valuation
There is more to employment relations than set hours.

Uber drivers absolutely have a boss to report too. Can they drive for other services? (I know that in Brazil they can, but Uber only started to allow it after a court ruled that exclusivity implies in employment.) Does Uber require a stable relationship? (Even the ranking system may imply in stability.)
No, I want to bootstrap this as the components are not expensive and with cheap labour I can run it for a few years without reaching break even.
Wittgenstein didn’t come come up with the idea of a “private language” but in his Philosophical Investigations he famously argued that the concept itself is nonsense (not via a single logical “proof” but using several thought experiments).

The idea that a private language exists (ie. ‘mentalese’) is taken for granted by a lot of authors. I recently read Stephen Pinker’s book The Language Instinct and he never seemed to doubt the concept for instance.
If automation improves productivity by two times, it means that people have to work half as much. Simple math. Why is this not happening with the glorious free market capitalism?

I once brought up the idea of automation tax and UBI here and was downvoted to oblivion by the HN conservatives. But that’s obviously the only way to avoid modern day slavery or else we end up in a local equilibrium where the owners of capital automate away every thing that gives the masses their edge and we put the final nail in the coffin of democracy. (Not that we are too far from that with the media, legislation, election laws and enforcement being massively biased towards capital controlled by a small minority)
Hey I’m the author of this piece, let me know if you all have any specific questions about AB5, the ABC test, and this gig economy business model!
Global level strategy suspicion, guess: The US has to try because China, Russia, even North Korea, are trying and it just MIGHT work, or something from it might work and be the basis of something serious eventually.

Broad observation: Physical science research was a sleepy area until The Bomb. Then supposedly Ike with J. Conant, et al., said, IRCC, "Never again will US academics operate independent of the US military." Then the US Congress via the NSF and DoD went to the leading US research universities and "made them an offer they couldn't refuse" -- accept the grant money or cease to be a leading research university. And, oh, BTW, you can take 60% or so as overhead for the English department, the string quartet concerts, the little theater production, the glossy alumni magazine, the new front gate to the campus with the big, round fountain just inside, the new art gallery, a new, on campus, 6000 square foot Georgian house for the president with, of course, a black limo. Or some such!!!!

Then the bio-medical sciences mentioned to Congress that a big fraction of Members of Congress are old and need medical care for heart disease, cancer, other diseases of aging, etc. so should have, say, the NIH to do for bio-medical what the NSF does for the STEM fields. Congress went along.
It killed 59% (20/34) women in an industry of with more women, I wouldn't call it "mostly women".
It all seems to work for a while only because self-driving cars are delayed...
What Is a Reverse Proxy?
Unlicensed “health coach” claims health advice is free speech–court disagrees
Kids were out on summer vacation and I started a Khanacademy style youtube video for Kids to get introduced to Data Science and AI. I am only introducing programming concepts on an as needed basis. Would love feedback and thoughts on how to improve this. My intent was 1. to get them used to other real environments than mit scratch 2. To start with Data Exploration first and then get into ML 3. Use simpler gaming concepts and techniques as it gets tougher to grasp these skills
Thanks, I've went through it some years ago, I will rewatch that lesson.
> GDPR compliance can be extremely expensive to implement...

Bullshit. It's trivial to implement. Don't store my personal data. Done.

It may be extremely expensive to store and process my personal data and remain GDPR compliant, if you insist on doing that. And admittedly it may be expensive to store and process others' personal data while excluding EU citizens from that mechanism. But the blanket statement "GDPR compliance can be extremely expensive to implement" is on its own extremely misleading in this context.

> And imagine working in an industry where data retention is legally mandated by other jurisdictions...

Perhaps, but this is not relevant to a news organisation publishing a general article online from the USA, where (AFAIK) there is no such data retention requirement in any jurisdiction within the USA.
Sigh. Mentioning the existence of women is not "gender war."

Have we really come to the point where it's impossible to mention women in any context without everyone being triggered by it?

Edit: apparently, yes we have. Congratulations, HN, for reaching peak misogyny.
I'm reading that now! It was suggested on another HN thread a few months ago. It's really given me a new appreciation of calculus. I run a data science department but there are parts of calculus that never really made sense before.
This is the most practical and compelling motivation for JS on the backend as I've ever read. I wonder if you could get away with using TypeScript in your ecosystem.
could it also improve athritic conditions? I have heard they are related to gut biome aswell
It does, but the competitors are having a hard time because Uber can keep undercutting them and staying unprofitable longer than the competitors can stay solvent.

> And why shouldn’t we consider investors part of the market?

We can, but there are rules of "fair play" to the market that are supposed to be followed. What Uber is doing with SV money is, in saner sectors, called dumping, and generally considered illegal. Somehow it isn't, and even if it was, it probably wouldn't do much, as Uber's whole "rideshare" operation is illegal almost everywhere they run it.
Not to oversimplify the complexities of cancer or anything, but for some reason, Peter Hintjens’ (creator of zeromq) suspicions about the primary cause of his own cancer came to mind after reading this [1].

”As for not getting cancer… the probable cause in my case was a parasite called a liver fluke, which attaches to the bile duct and produces carcinogens. Nature is nice like that. The parasite comes from farmed fresh-water fish. The cancer I had is a major cause of death in SE Asia. I think it was cheap sushi that almost killed me.”

[1] http://hintjens.com/blog:109
Unlikely, Kind of like Coca Cola becoming worthless because soda profits could come to an end.
Slack breach reveals security problems for companies that live inside Slack
Portuguese political parties challenged to hold referendum on euthanasia
F-droid has a method for serving upstream signed APKs along with F-droid signed APKs as well as a method for exclusively serving upstream signed APKs.
A fair amount of businesses were probably put out of business when we banned child labor.

Doing anything to restrict any business will reduce profitability and make their balance sheets redder, but as a society we can define the minimum standards that a company is expected to meet; otherwise they'll just feel free to dump the externalities of treating their workers poorly onto society and the general taxpayer will have to pay for it.
Exclusionary zoning is an even worse form of institutionalized privilege that benefits the wealthy and middle class rather than the poor and middle class.
Unions are a universal good, because all they are in essence is collective bargaining.

Just because bad things happen within and around all human organizations has no bearing on the concept of collective bargaining or working class unity, which itself is sorely lacking in the US specifically. Which means your examples amount to propaganda in favor of the investment class in the end.
Every single driver I've seen in the us has both uber and lyft installed and picks between them at will.
This URL also returns “Not found” in the EU.
Liver flukes have an outsized impact on Americans as well, specifically Vietnam vets:

https://www.livescience.com/61057-liver-flukes-vietnam-veter...

To avoid them, make sure freshwater fish in SE Asia is fully cooked.
Meanwhile the site is down (503)
Or is it the network they won’t pass laws requiring backdoors for? Literally segment society into those with power and privacy, and those with neither?

Why on earth would they need separate infrastructure and the rest of us do not?
Diabetes was historically a rich person disease
Thank you for your kind words - appreciated.

I hope that it will be useful and interesting to note that we have added 'rclone'[1] to our platform[2] which means that your rsync.net account is truly a swiss army knife for cloud storage organization.

This is very much like our 'borg' support - we actually have the binary executable installed on our end so you can run it properly. There is also a discounted signup for these two use-cases.[3][4]

[1] https://rclone.org/

[2] https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/3254

[3] https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html

[4] https://www.rsync.net/products/rclone.html
Lost Alan Turing Letters found, shows he hated America (2017)
At the end of the day these poor people died for no reason at the hands of a mentally ill person. Why can't we just take it at what it is instead of trying to put a spin on it? I know woman in Japan are not treated fairly in many industries, but to try and connect this incident to that narrative is wrong.

NYT's should be ashamed of themselves trying to politicize such an abhorrent event.

Junk away....
I'm not sure that it entirely matters. 8x minimum wage is already higher than most h1b make. It's about establishing a floor for not abusing the class for cheaper labor. Some companies will still be organised and pay less than others. Nothing would change that without a huge bureaucracy.
That's all fine and good on paper, but what do you think really happens when an employer fires an at-will employee, without cause, who doesn't like what happened?
AMD is leaving Intel in the dust on die size, with no 7nm Intel chips until 2021
Pretentious doesn't seem to fit.
>I honestly can't believe we're even having this conversation. It is theft, period. Not only is it illegal, it's blatantly immoral.

It's not theft. It's not immoral either. Open wlan means exactly that, so where is the sign? You are on HN, so using something like a VPN is not uncommon, regardless of what network you are using.
…"at a Studio Known for Hiring Them", as if that was the reason this particular studio was chosen.
Thanks James! What's your email?
Why cant you be held responsible? It seems as if determinism has already aligned and demands I hold you responsible.
What is the risk of hosting an exit node? I have heard that you can be liable for facilitating illegal actions if yours gets used for it
Special probably just means nitrile.
> you know your browser has adblock, you know authorization to use their server is conditional on not using adblock, and you choose to access it anyway

Meanwhile the website publisher knows that authorization to run javascript may not include performing surveillance, yet includes circumvention code to perform surveillance anyway. So everybody is violating the law, which is why the CFAA is terrible legislation - it relies completely on selective persecution.

Pontificating about abstract "intent" is not actually useful in the digital realm. Protocols [0] are what ultimately mediate between parties with different desires. The CFAA is merely a relic that gets invoked when some powerful entity gets upset at the outcome of a protocol.

[0] to be clear, I'm talking about de facto protocols as executed, not de jure protocols as written into RFC.
> GDPR compliance can be extremely expensive to implement

I always find this argument a bit skewed.

Yes, it is expensive if your site has more js than content and if your business model is to overtrack and overprofile your readers

On the other hand a static page is GDPR compliant. Doesn't seem to be too expensive to implement.
sorry about the edits, my kid crawled on me when I was in the middle of it.
I clicked through to the "Dead Media Project" looking for other kinds of dead media.

The dead media list is, appropriately, a 404:
https://www.deadmedia.org/mailman/listinfo/deadmedia
Govts have almost unlimited resources and willpower. They could easily just detect the tor nodes running, then spin up n /2 + 1 to compensate, giving them majority control. This could be automated.
Yep - existential crises (e.g. a lot of Silicon Valley right now)
>…"at a Studio Known for Hiring Them", as if that was the reason this particular studio was chosen.

That's not an implication made by the article, nor is it a conclusion any reasonable person would reach, reading the title or the article itself.

You're the one injecting "gender war" into the narrative because you have an agenda. You saw an article with "women" in the title, rolled up a green account and had to concern troll about it.
If you assume (big ask) that your browser is trustworthy and your computer won’t be compromised, it’s nice to have bookmarks, history, and a password manager built in.
Better to use brave maybe? Or Firefox?
"I always thought of Dropbox quite UNIX-like in a sense, do one thing, but really well."

From our platform page[1]:

"We believe in the UNIX philosophy and we want rsync.net to be a simple primitive that you can quickly plug into your workflow."

We would be very happy to have you.

[1] https://www.rsync.net/platform.html
Except, those regulatory or business requirements also have business continuity and disaster recovery requirements from those same regulators, and Azure's region design is far inferior than alternatives.
This is an extremely naïve, baseless argument- if you could even call it an argument at all.

So let us turn to the ‘proposed’ argument itself: “Software doesn’t commit crimes; people do” The first thing to notice is that the argument has no stated conclusion. What follows? That there should be no software regulation at all? That there should not be any more software regulation than there already is? That the increase in cybercrimes done with ‘software’ is irrelevant to whether or not there should be cyber regulations? Who knows? An argument without a conclusion is by technical basis, not an argument at all.

The statement under consideration clarifies that, when it comes to crimes committed with software , people are the ultimate cause and software is merely a proximate cause—the end of a causal chain that started with a person deciding to commit cyber crimes. But nothing follows from these facts about whether or not software should be regulated. Such facts are true for all criminal activity, and even noncriminal activity that harms others: The ultimate cause is found in some decision that a person made; the event, activity, or object that most directly did the harming was only a proximate cause. But this tells us nothing about whether or not the proximate cause in question should be regulated or made illegal. For example, consider the following argument:

"Bazookas don't kill people; people kill people."

Although it is obviously true that bazookas are only proximate causes, it clearly does not follow that bazookas should be legal. Yes, bazookas don't kill people, people do—but bazookas make it a lot easier for people to kill people, and in great numbers. Further, a bazooka would not be useful for much else besides mass murders. Bazookas clearly should be illegal and the fact that they would only be proximate causes to mass murders does not change this. In fact, it is totally irrelevant to the issue; it has nothing to do the fact that they should be illegal. Why? Because other things are proximate causes to people’s demise, but obviously shouldn’t be illegal. For example, consider this argument (given in the aftermath of a bad car accident):

"Cars don't kill people; people kill people."

Obviously cars should not be illegal, but notice that this has nothing to do with the fact that they are proximate causes. Of course, they should be regulated; I shouldn't be allowed to go onto the highway in a car with no brakes. But all of that has to do what cars are for (they are not made for killing people), what role they play in society (it couldn't function without them) and so on. It's a complicated issue—one to which pointing out that cars are merely proximate causes to some deaths contributes nothing.

In conclusion- people who make the feeble argument “software doesn’t commit crime; people do” have mistaken the relevance of proximate causation
Mozilla's add-on reviewers do. I know because our build wasn't totally reproducible and they made us make it so.
Reading an article in the form of a twitter storm is not something I'd blame someone complaining about.

She paced it well and really made it work and who knows, that may have been the perfect place.

I have to believe there is some consensus on a twitter stream exceeding a certain length being better off as a blog and this would qualify in those numbers
I'd be interested to see a source about comparative pedestrian safety. I'd be literally shocked if small suburban streets weren't safer than almost any other option.
Latin words mostly came to English through Norman French after William the Conqueror and his followers became ruling class in 1066. In the intervening thousand years there was a lot of time for the meanings to diverge and invert.

English is particularly rich in false friends and loanwords because of its hybrid origins. Only recently has it begun to export words back out to other languages (eg. "le weekend").
@threadreaderapp is your friend:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1152277166996017152.html
The Difference Between Conventional and Planar Switching Power Transformers?
The idea of a system to which causality doesn't apply is interesting. My intuition is that that doesn't make sense, and my secondary intuition is that the first intuition is unjustified.

I'd say that the way I conceived of it, I was making a distinction between events that were determined by antecedents (physical or otherwise) on the one hand and events whose outcome was uncaused, or random, on the other. In my mind the two are dichotomous and exhaustive.
Im guessing that the .gov doesnt run 'many' of the nodes -- but im guessing they have MAPPED them all out and are 0-day exploiting as many as possible.

THIS is what I would guess a state entitiy would be training an AI to do as a function...
You’re correct, the above poster is more enthusiastic than accurate. I knew Carl Woese, who discovered Archaea through this analysis, during my time at UIUC.
It's not just heat waves. This year, during February in Indiana (and across the Midwest US) we had severe long term polar winds. Absolute temps were around -5F (-20.5c) with dips down to -10f(-23c). And we're talking south-central Indiana here.

And now, we're talking about the hottest June in history. Anchorage Alaska hit 90f(32c). And now, we have deadly heat waves across the Midwest and up the eastern seabed. We're losing the buffer of milder summers and milder winters, and gaining worsening extremes each year.

The weather and climate is going to be the thing that kills people, more than wars, disease, and other selectors. And those with money can buy protection from it. The rest of us... well...
Cuts to higher education. Rent control. Contraction of high-paid knowledge work labor markets like tech and finance.
That blows my mind; I never would have considered people would focus on the actors or the director. Until you said it I don't once thing I ever even considered the possibility! I'm kinda floored right now.
Name the victim, please.

Because it looks like it causes a infinitesimal harm to a corporation whereby no person is harmed to any noticeable extent, aka a victimless crime.

"Victimless crime" doesn't mean there are no negative effects, it means no _person_ is a victim.
What do people appreciate most about Remote Work?
Well whatever you want to call it, it's what we've got. Pure free market can't work because of externalities (dumping chemicals upstream of your town), so we have regulation, and yeah it gets captured.

I think people would get more value out of work if they had a stake and a voice, instead of being peons for a super rich board of investors. I suspect we'd make longer term decisions, instead of cutting corners. We elect our leaders (antipathy aside), why can't democracy extend to the workplace? It can and does work already, so let's have more of it. More experiments, more critical thinking about the way things are. Subsidize co-ops the same as incorporations (or just get rid of subsidies entirely) so it's an even playing field.
Private plane crashes, risky Instagram selfies in exotic locations, populist coups, malfunctioning automated systems in Bond-villain-style underground lairs.
> GDPR compliance can be extremely expensive to implement, especially for complex software comprised of thousands of microservices that handle customer data. And imagine working in an industry where data retention is legally mandated by other jurisdictions...

I only know of the broad strokes of GDPR, but wouldn't the costs be mostly mitigated if one just decided to not collect data? I thought the cost was really only borne if an entity decided to collect and retain data.