skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a big difference between "don't know" under specific set of circumstances and "can't know" ever.

There is obviously a difference between an apple and a potato (and in more aspects than just smell).
I'd be curious about some substantive examples.

I have seen that assertion frequently made, and even have attended multiple seminars on the topic (I have some friends very worried about this issue) as well as some FIRE meetings and fundraisers.

Yet I typically see the same few examples repeated and amplified. FIRE loves to talk about the cases it has challenged under Title IX -- and it always wins, because the law considers this an important issue! (https://www.thefire.org/issues/title-ix/)

Look at the recent (past couple of days) kerfuffle about Prof Wax, whose statements I consider abhorrent. Based on past practice I am pretty sure she'll keep her job.

There are issues around groups peripheral to universes (non-sponsored student groups and the like) but they pretty much by definition aren't part of universities.
Can you imagine if all stores worked this way?

Hey, the pricetag on the shirt at Walmart says $10, but you should really pay $13 because otherwise they'll just not pay their staff. But hey, your choice, you can (if you choose) cause their staff to have no money for food for their families.

The problem here isn't the person not tipping, it's the broken culture where ensuring a livable wage for the poorest in society is a choice the wealthy get to make based on how they feel today.
Drones and Crawling Robots Will Soon Be Inspecting Wind Turbines
Then, in the US, you have obstruction of justice and/or interference with police/peace/public officer.
> Wow there is so much more there than I realized at first.

The eternal cry of the hackernewser upon finding that other subjects as well as computer science exist.

(EDIT: To clarify, I'm not intending to dunk on the parent poster specifically, rather call out how many people in this community and in the hacker community continually ignore the fact that, not only do other subjects exist, but they also have a lot of knowledge that isn't necessarily self-evident, and the issue has different constraints and priorities. A lot of the posts on here feel like nobody learned anything from the idiots that set up Metamed).
Using AI to Predict Injuries from Car Accidents
I think more accurately, a business owner cannot pay less than minimum wage because actual compensation tips are coming, you MAY pay less than minimum wage IF wages + tips is at least minimum wage, otherwise employer is on the hook for the non-tipped amount.

However, even in the jurisdictions that don't have a minimum wage exemption for tipped positions (such as Oregon), you're still socially expected to tip.

At this point, the only thing tips are good for is letting business owners pay staff less than what they would normally have to, which the staff doesn't mind because they get to evade taxes on cash tips, and they sometimes make more money than if they were to be paid a wage and didn't get tipped. The customer gets the raw end of the deal as they frequently overpay.
Take a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging

It is designed for that, and more. In fact, it does not leave the theoretical "anyone could fake the logs", they created a tool to do so, so that you do not need an expert witness to explain to court that someone could doctor the logs - a tool exists for it. On purpose. They call it Deniable authentication:

> Messages in a conversation do not have digital signatures, and after a conversation is complete, anyone is able to forge a message to appear to have come from one of the participants in the conversation, assuring that it is impossible to prove that a specific message came from a specific person. Within the conversation the recipient can be sure that a message is coming from the person they have identified.
It isn't quite this. We have memories for only part of the day. We have no memories for other parts. We don't know whether we are conscious at these times. It isn't that we know we are unconscious when we are asleep except inasmuch as the term "unconscious" is sloppy and applies to whatever we are when we are asleep and the hypothetical state of existing without consciousness. These are two things we don't have direct experience with and which we assume are the same.
Memory Leaks in React Fiber
If you think that is a valley only thing you are highly mistaken. Its actually worse in other tech areas like Austin.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-09-17/colleg...

It's not a lie. Liberals own academia. 39% of colleges have no Republican professors. In many majors, the ratio is between 15 and 20 to one Democrats per Republican.

There is no world where ratios like that exist and discrimination doesn't occur.
Fame, Difficulty, and Usefulness
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. Nothing new will come of it, therefore nothing interesting, therefore nothing on-topic for HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I was replying specifically to you wondering why what you consider to be poor performance became the norm.

Generally as long as the feature is acceptably fast making it faster is likely a waste of time in most circumstances, especially when it comes to things like reports. Also it may come at the detriment of other considerations e.g cost, accuracy, code quality etc.

I used to work on high performance JavaScript and typically the things done in the name of performance make the code a lot harder to read and modify, this pushes up development costs of a feature quite substantially. I haven't seen the stats myself but I doubt it brings in enough extra revenue to justify the cost.

I am obviously not saying you shouldn't care about it, but it has to be taken with consideration of the bigger picture.
It absolutely is true, according to a grad student I know. Who was persecuted for being Christian and, generally, non-liberal.
Maybe they don’t have great labor laws. Would your boss really believe you if you said you don’t have a cell phone? If you didn’t have legal protection (or a shit ton of other employment options) would you just tell him to fuck off?
Facebook Blew It (2018)
Surely a car only has 1 ECU (Engine control unit). It may well have 100+ micro controllers on board.
My understanding is that nuclear deterrence is not based on the idea that you would survive using your own nuclear weapons, rather it is to insure that an enemy cannot survive using nuclear weapons on you. Therefore, I don't see how reducing the number of weapons would make a difference.

In addition, my understanding is that the reason for having so many is to prevent a scenario where an enemy decides that they can shoot down enough of your missiles to survive a counter attack.
Yes, that's where I have stayed quite long stretches of time. I love it there. I stayed on the 'wrong side', so the non-foreigner side which was even better than the other side which I visited a lot. Excellent nature; made good friends there; if you want to go out, just run over the mountain (good exercise!) and if you want real parties, get on the ferry for 30 minutes... And then back to ultimate peace and quiet.
But in the case of the potato and apple, one has the ability to unplug the nose and tell the difference. If no one had any senses that could distinguish them under any circumstances, then it would be different.

This comes down to something akin to Einstein's problem with quantum physics, that it didn't make aesthetic sense to have something be fundamentally random. That it is the same, and philosophically preferable, to say that something is fixed, but cannot be measured, than to say it is actually random.

Now, I hear that with quantum stuff they somehow have proved it to be fundamentally random, but the point is that if you really can't tell in any way, the difference doesn't matter at all. At least to a reductionist viewpoint. I feel that philosophies about "what if reality is a simulation or a dream?" are dumb for the same reason. Unless there's a way to wake up, who cares?
Build a better exceptional access encryption system that solves human and technological shortcomings.

Removing strong encryption at scale would have far more effect than what you’ve described.
Pretentious putzes playing parlor games
Just one example of many why this is different: Our hearing sons learn our Signed Language at home. Then when they go to school they suddenly have a different language. They are in the same situation as Mexican children in an American school.

Did you see my careful use of the capital letter?
>Normally, if your food does not meet expectations, the best recourse is to let the server know what the problem is. The server can then either have the kitchen resolve the problem or talk to a manager, who can intervene to make things right.

Have you eaten in many low-quality restaurants lately? And complained about the food to the server?

The last time I had a problem with my food (the vegetarian pasta that my partner ordered... who has been vegetarian for decades because of strong personal beliefs against harming animals... had chicken in it which she ended up eating and feeling terrible about)...

I brought that to the attention of our server, who just said "oh sorry, I'll bring out another one".

There's one example of a server who didn't get a tip.

Another time we were eating pizza with olives on it and the olive had a pit in it that almost broke my tooth... am I supposed to ask that the server please inspect every olive on my pizza and make me a new one?

Or ask the server to take back my stir fry that has almost as many ants in it as there is rice, and ask them for another one?

No, I wouldn't think so...

A restaurant is a team (who typically share tips amongst everybody in the restaurant in my experience), and if the team screws up, the team doesn't get tipped.

When I worked at a restaurant and served food, it was on me to make sure that everything that was served to the customers was perfect. If it wasn't, I would send it back to the kitchen.

I don't care what people think of me and my levels of compassion for restaurant staff.

If I am not enjoying my time in your restaurant, I am not going to submit to the gauntlet and tip on the way out the door.
These kinds of errors are going to happen in production, whether you inject them or let them occur naturally. Any release process that doesn't go perfectly with a drain / rebalance / start new version / rebalance per (backend, proxy) combo is going to have a timeout or broken connection between the proxy and the backend as it restarts. Should you return 502 to your users when that happens? Nope, just retry on a different backend. This lets you test that.
All: please don't post unsubstantive comments or ideological flamebait in this thread or any other HN thread.

Please do follow the site guidelines. They include "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How suitable is it for a support email inbox? I've used intercom in the past but their pricing is annoying and their entire tooling is … problematic. I could get into it but point is they don't fit the bill for mid-to-large b2c businesses with free support inboxes.
It's not theft. It's the exact same way that it works for waiters. From a post elsewhere

In a restaurant

- The waiter is guaranteed normal minimum wage.

- The owner guarantees they will pay a minimum of <whatever waiter minimum wage is; less than normal minimum wage>

- The waiter gets tips from patrons, which generally brings them over normal minimum wage

- If the waiter's tips do not bring them above minimum wage, then the owner is required to pay them an amount that would bring them up to minimum wage.

With DD, it works more or less the same way, with the difference being that the minimums (upper and lower) are per delivery, not per hour.

If fact, odds are the DD deliverers are going to be worse off now, because DD isn't going to guarantee them a minimum amount; rather, they'll present "we pay you X + you get the tip which is likely around Y". And if the tip isn't enough, the deliverer winds up making less. Unlike before where they got the minimum.
Equifax Data Breach Settlement – Federal Trade Commission
Stingray manuals and law enforcement license agreements are strongly worded to require parallel construction. Start googling from there and discover a whole world of tinfoil.
I think the basic idea of investigatory journalism is that the journalist is not necessarily an expert in the topic they write about, but is good at finding informed sources, getting overlapping information from all of them, and determining who can be trusted on which facts.
Right. As I mentioned, you're just moving the signature from the blob itself to HTTPS, and if all you care about is validating a file you'd just make that a hash. Analogously to a SHASUM file, but the authentication coming from HTTPS/WebPKI instead of something ending in .asc.

One critical point is that the two servers do not have to be the same. You might distribute your files via a CDN like CloudFront (or if you're in the 90s and a Linux distribution, a ragtag team of servers that don't generally implement https). The server responsible for delivery can lie all it wants; the server responding if something is valid is what actually matters.
it used to be way worse when waymo had they had those tiny electric cars driving similar routes but below 30mph
Sounds like California
Florida Crocodiles Are Thriving Outside a Nuclear Power Plant
This statement reminds me the scene from the Deathproof: https://youtu.be/hBqzCXlG7Sg?t=120 (warning: violence, language).
Has Bert Been Cheating? Researchers Say It Exploits ‘Spurious Statistical Cues’
A very conservative lower bound is that every day we don't have self-driving cars costs the country $1 billion in lost value. Every single day.
Yes this is a beautiful word.
What do you mean? That's my point exactly. While Haskell has that now, they didn't always have it.

If a programming language is created in 2019 they can certainly instantly incorporate insights from existing technology in their design an plans. However, that doesn't mean that any programming language/compiler project started today will instantly have all of those features. Things take time in each new framework.
No different than the broad immunity granted to legislators and top executives in government who authorize and oversee the worst abuses of government.
Speed is important for me too. BUT only for the software that I use daily. I could find faster alternatives for some software that I use. But what's the point when I rarely use them.
This issue is that it takes time and effort by good people to get there. No one prevents you from writing fast queries at BigCo. Mostly they end up being slow because the person writing them doesn't know any better, and there is no motivation by BigCo. to push back and have the developer spend time learning optimizations.

Nothing is free. Developers with more skills tend to cost more. BigCo. probably has some, but they are probably tasked with something else that BigCo. finds of greater value.
Lock in and information loss is something important to consider with any SaaS solution, especially if you're going to use the free tier. Migration with data and history is often very difficult or impossible. If you think a SaaS platform would be worth paying for in the future across the different pricing tiers, then go for the free or lowest tier and move up as your needs increase. If not, there's always email and local spreadsheets to take care of whatever you'd need, though it would be cumbersome. But you'd at least have the data with you in formats that everyone can understand and improve.
You're absolutely right. We're not saying that companies starting out should just go for the free plan no matter what and not think about it at all. That's why we added the entry level pricing as a side note, as well as a link to the pricing page and reviews for further investigation. The added calculation sheet also helps to see potential costs based on any plan, not just the free ones, to see how it would affect the total money spent. We also very much held back on including free, yet very low quality/limited tools. And yes—awesome point about the familiarity aspect!
Bad guys already do use such schemes and more.

If the government can’t crack strong encryption as-is, the problem is that strong encryption is deployed at scale.
Am I conscious? How would I know?

If I'm capable of fooling everyone else, can I be fooling myself?
Tesla is planning on selling insurance and I'm guessing it is to cover their self driving features [0].

[0]: https://electrek.co/2019/05/02/details-of-teslas-new-insuran...
Isn't kernel header availability a solved problem on any linux system that isn't busy pretending not to be built on linux?
I see it as a way for business owners and successful tipped employees to get away with tax evasion at the expense of customers who overpay on their share of the purchase and the rest of society which loses taxes. Unsuccessful tipped employees who don't get a fair share of tips are also losers.
Thanks for pointing that out, I think I might remove it. Will cause more trouble down the road. Do you have any ideas to make it more safe?
Occasionally I'll send the most relentless phishermen the number of a local FBI office
I wonder how may of those tools could just be self-hosted on a $100-$200/month dedicated server.
Same reasons as the lgbt pronouns. It’s confusing and distracting, that’s all.

+it’s almost 100 degrees here
Which would be a factor if the sole reason for picking a particular restaurant is lowest price. That's virtually never - if it is, go home and cook. It's cheaper.

The whole tipping system is insane: I'll allow you to provide services in my restaurant and if the customers like you, perhaps you'll earn some money.

I'm still waiting for the restaurant holders to come up with the idea of charging for this unique opportunity.
"Don't think of it as paying to be allowed to work, think of it as investing in your revenue-generating activities! !"
Mithril.js 2.0 Released
It is an option but it is neither particularly breathable, nor flexible, nor inexpensive.

For some PPE all you are looking for is no-melt (which would leave molten goo on your skin that would increase the damage)or provides a minimal level of protection, e.g. NFPA 70E PPE level 1 for arc flash, suitable to your expected risk exposure.
We had something like this in 1968 in Poland with communist propaganda condemning intelectuals and cosmpolitans and workers activists beating students on the streets (like they do in HK these days).

Sztoptanski called that Dictatorship of Dishrags. Generally the best weapon against such times is irony and a sense of humor and grotesque.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Szpota%C5%84ski
It's worse. They will use the exact same backdoors.
Evidentally, I am a hypocrite.
>There is no reason that quality shoes cannot be built in countries with poor labor conditions.

I disagree.

when all your workers are thinking about is how they will feed their kids tonight and if they will have enough food or medicine next week - they could care less about your product quality.

to produce high quality items, CONSISTENTLY, you have to have multiple factors in place. Certainly, poor labor conditions are working strongly against product quality.
> But given that it's HTTP now, maybe this this is running in a production environment that's hostile to good ideas?

How did you know! ;)

I’ll probably hit you up on the side, but there are multiple clients each with their own technical debt, and it’s an old solution, but I’m putting things in place now to make changes more possible, maybe per client app using separate hostnames, for example, so that we can transition to the new without breaking the old.

I think most of the client apps actually hit a manifest API first that gives out signed urls. This already happens over https in most cases. Some may generate their own, but I’m not sure all the usage scenarios.

I can’t give more details on the clients here, but let’s just assume they are diverse and difficult but not impossible to upgrade. It’s the kind of thing we want to get right the first time and has to work for a decade.
> If you look at historical political machines (Tammany Hall, Kansas City), it seems that there used to be more corruption.

Tammany Hall still exists. My own local Democratic club, for example, literally compares itself to Tammany Hall.

> It's still possible to get on a democratic primary ballot without the support of Dem machine, you just need to get the required number of signatures by registered Dems and file the paperwork

The laws around which signatures are considered valid are absurdly stringent, to the point of disenfranchising actual registered Democrats, with the intention of making right-to-ballot petitions infeasible in most districts.

> NY's rule allowing candidates to run on multiple parties helps with this.

Fusion voting is a way for major parties to exert control over third parties, not a way for voters registered with a party to exert political pressure against the party establishment.
>You say you "worked in restaurants for years".

Yes, I did.

>If a customer stiffed you on a tip would that encourage YOU to give them better service next time they come in?

You shouldn't need any encouragement to do your job properly and professionally the first time imho.

And I wouldn't consider it being stiffed.

The couple who I poured an entire pitcher of water onto just as they sat down to dinner one night didn't tip me, and I am not confused or upset as to why.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
That's true if you have the luxury of a traditional tag on the outside, but falls apart when you have systems where signatures are in-band, like SAML, which is where canonicalization shows up. (Both for UTF-8 itself, which isn't canonical, but especially for your serialization format e.g. XML/JSON, which is usually far hairier.)
Sorry, lost track. Doesn't change my point though.
I would like to design planets : like earth, but 1.2 times the mass... And see what the atmosphere and oceans are like. Are there any engines that would let me do that?
Why is REPL a cause of a coupled codebase and lack of tests?

Surely those are programming practices that don't need to go hand-in-hand.
Any Windows recommendations for something with the speed and elegance of nvALT?
I always forget that this is possible to look up - ty
Anaconda guide. How to install and use Anaconda
One of our primary goals is to create a AAA email client that behaves like you expect an email client to. A second goal is to inject collaboration in the email experience. Those two goals make Missive a perfect candidate for email support.
Sure, but in assessing risk, it pays to not overestimate our ability to predict the world. Some model subjects, such as the stock market and the weather, exhibit chaotic behavior. Those who try to ignore that fact get burned.
Also presumably land acquisition/NIMBYism is easier to deal with.
I don't think self-hosted versions of many of these tools exist. Are you suggesting you build them yourself? It'd take years and your time is worth far more than the money you'd save.
RFC 822 is plaintext. That's a reference document. Don't see why HTML would be an argument for a reference document. In fact, tex is a good format for reference documents, it diff's well and can produce .ps/.pdf outputs among others.
From my conversations with people who worked on HSR - a lot of the problem was we outsourced the decisions to expensive consulting agencies, and those agencies saw the project as a place to stash their most useless staff members.

So basically we had a bunch of very expensive idiots running an outsourced project.

If they had kept the whole project in house, we'd have the initial operating segment already.

See also, CEQA is a terrible law that mostly blocks good things and rarely blocks bad things.