skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Are there any APIs to get verified public safety alerts?
To know about situations like
a.) Natural Disaster
b.) Man-Made Disaster
c.) A serial killer on the loose. etc
It wouldn’t be something provided by the CI tool, you’d have to write the test yourself. At the end of the day it’s just another test, albeit a more complex one than a standard unit test.
JavaScript is indeed a very good example of this. Not just in the ecosystem, but even just the standard itself. People are pushing for more and more stuff. People on the committee can say "no", but there's an infinite amount of bullshit to push, and only a limited amount of time to push back. So sooner or later, bullshit makes it in.
Ask HN: Should HN fix “code” formatting for mobile?
From the formatting docs [0]: Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)

Text formatted for code is super annoying to read on mobile as it puts everything in line so you have to scroll a ton back and forth to read anything.

Do you guys agree that it should be fixed? Here is a recent example that annoyed me [1] and it seems to be annoying for many others [2].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20649743

[2]: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Please%20don%27t%20use%20code%20formatting&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=comment
The patent office actually received many challenges and claims of prior art for this, however the submitters in question were shadow banned so were not aware that their complaints were not received.
Yes, it's an obvious joke. "You couch alluder" is the wink.
Someone else essentially patented data lineage, processing a dataset and tracking which records passed/failed a set of validations and storing a code for each validation that failed. Thanks Obama and your first to file change.
Just noting:

This isn't nearly enough money to stop North Korea, Israel, Russia, US, UK, France etc. Pretty sure a zero-day would be 10-100x more valuable to them than this $1 million reward. (Why is this even controversial?)
A "remote hack" generally relies on a stack of exploits. From what I recall when the last jailbreaks came about, that stack was at least 5 or so exploits deep.

So $1M/exploit is priced significantly ahead of the $2M/hack.

Interesting this also means that an entire exploitable stack now becomes worth a lot more, while any given exploit is worth a lot less. And any stack of exploits becomes much more brittle, as a patch of a single one of N exploits can knock out the use of the stack.
Thanks, that does make things clearer.
That works for things you want to DO, but is hard for things you DON'T want to do.

As I mentioned in another post, as your org grows, there's going to be an infinite amount of things people push, and pushing back is hard. If you have to stop and write a consensus document for every single one, you'll be doing nothing else.
I admit that when I joined Hacker News, I viewed it to some extent as an anthropology experiment, since discussions I encountered reflected some of the issues cited in the article, specifically that some discussions seemed to reflect a myopia that suggested participants were likely rarely exposed to people outside their bubble, and often a lack of respect for views that were outside that paradigm. However, I've seen discussions become more tempered, and a great influence from Dan and Scott as moderators (thank you!). At this point, I do read and contribute to Hacker News in lieu of most other social media, though sometimes I still read comments that feel arrogant or dismissive of outside views, especially when topics that are cultural enter the picture. My general approach is to just ignore them and move on to more productive discussions, and sometimes to feel like it might be time for a break for me, though I'm not sure there are any online communities I think do a much better job of having civil discourse.
vBulletin (a forum package like phpBB, but not open source and you had to pay for it) had a shadowban feature they called "Tachy Goes to Coventry" and there are references to it as far back as 2003.

https://forum.vbulletin.com/forum/general/chit-chat/75468-ta...
If Natalie Silvanovich finds a vulnerability that meets Apple's high-payout bounty criteria, they will pay her; nobody is going to mess with Silvanovich, least of all Apple ProdSec, who I have to assume exists in a relatively constant state of trying to recruit her out of P0 (good luck, ivan).
For performance purposes, is there something especially important about zipping the two arrays into one array of tuples before adding them?
Does this fact invalidate Facebook's patent, from legal point of view? (Imho it should)
Let's say I fully agree with you, now what?

Ban K-Nearest-Neighbor?
This is possible in the US as well, but depending on where you live this might take a long time, be expensive, or both. Plus, you get no sense of where the cab is. And sometimes cab drivers refuse to go to your neighborhood.

Uber solves that.
Every company really, really, really....really needs someone like that.

Imagine how much better the Star Wars prequels could have been if only Lucasfilm had a strong No Person to stop them from doing stupid shit.
It is a pretty common way to setup these stories, to play into stereotypes to disarm the reader (basically acknowledging their fears) and open them up to something else. It just isn't written for this audience or from its perspective.
So it's not that they've endangered the public, or maybe even the environment. It's that they deceived shareholders.
> You have to realize how small the group of people is who can regularly afford to hire other people to perform services for them (which is what a taxi is).

You will note that I picked a specific use case: going to the airport.

For anyone who flies (and lots of people fly for one off events--so you aren't automatically "well-off" just because you have a plane ticket), transportation to the airport is particularly painful because you have a fixed time deadline.

Most of the options really suck--ridesharing is actually the most cost effective of the bunch.

If you take your own car, you have expensive parking and get the joy of the shuttle from long-term parking (often longer than a ridesharing ride). If you order a shuttle, it will be slow and have multiple people and tends not to be well time controlled. If you call a taxi, it may not show up as you don't have tracking or the ability to penalize them. Limos work well but are ferociously expensive if you can't split the cost.
QAnon – A New Kind of Conspiracy
Businesses only care about fraud losses they have to pay. SIMs only exist because cellphone companies wanted to cut off free riders. The efficiency gain from online transaction versus teller asissted far exceeds fraud losses. Passwords remain the default authenticator, which are often Password1, Linkedin2009, 123456. Password reset questions are added to minimize tech support costs or just check an audit box. SMS is the band-aid over guessable passwords. Not everyone has a smartphone. If businesses don't want to pay for password reset calls, they certainly aren't going to issue customer smartcards or open retail locations where they check two forms of ID.
2018 was quite the year:

> After closing at an all-time high on September 20, the S&P 500 entered a bear market on Christmas Eve. The technical definition is a 20% peak-to-trough drawdown, but I’m willing to give this 19.8% fall the benefit of the doubt.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/12/the-forgotten-bear-...

The S&P 500 then hit another all-time high this year (2019), before dropping back down recently. The US/Trump sabre rattling and introducing tariffs/trade wars isn't helping with confidence either:

* https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/opinion/tariff-tantrums-a...

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y3M

Various other stock markets are experiencing drama as well:

* https://www.starcapital.de/en/research/stock-market-valuatio...
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Well, sort of. They ask that the bounties be donated to charity.
That seems... like first amendment protected activity to me. Let’s suppose scabby is outlawed by the NLRB. What’s to stop me, a third party libertarian whackadoodle, from bringing my own rat to other peoples’ strike?

Speaking of which, is this how Scabbers, in Harry Potter, got its name?
> Most of your costs with a car are fixed.

A lot, but typically not most - I drive about 12k km per year (16 km commute 2-3 days per week) and over the past six years my fixed costs have been around $7k. My variable costs have averaged $0.26/km for about $16k total. (All CAD)
Interesting, is this based on a testnet? Are the validator nodes run by some single entity or are they run by the companies selected to participate?
What laws is Uber breaking, or has it broke? Can you provide a citation? As far as I've been able to determine through research, the claim that Uber was breaking the law is largely a myth.

Most cities have historically not regulated transportation providers where the customer contracts with the provider ahead of time, or they are regulated in a different class and much more leniently than taxis. "Black car" aka livery and limousine services have existed long before Uber, and were not breaking the law in cities where they operated.

Most cities consider taxis to be vehicles that can be hailed by riders at the curb, where the trip is not pre-arranged and the customer has no prior business relationship with the transportation provider. Although Uber now has the ability to book actual taxis in some cities, this is not the category in which Uber historically operated.

Uber was able to grow quickly in part because it tapped into the large established base of private car services. These services existed in cities all over the world, but there was no unified interface to book cars with them. That's the niche that Uber filled. If you talk to many drivers today, they work for these companies (or own their own small company) and use Uber to fill their downtime.

For more information on this, see: "How does Uber overcome taxi medallion regulations?" on Quora: https://www.quora.com/How-does-Uber-overcome-taxi-medallion-...

> Before Uber and ride sharing, not all cars with personal driver for hires were taxis. You also had livery cars (such as limousine or black cabs) and various other systems. In cities that enforce a medallion system, taxis have more rights than livery cars; specifically, they are authorized to respond to street hails, ie to pick a passenger that waves at them from the street. Livery cars only can take a pre-arranged trip. As the number of medallions is limited, the right to take street hails is exclusive to taxis.

> Uber can be used to book taxis in certain markets but the vast majority of Uber trips are not taxi rides. Originally, the Uber service was what is Uber Black today, bringing business to livery cars. The cars were already licensed, insured and authorized to operate. They weren’t allowed to pick up a person on the street (still aren’t) but if a trip was booked to the app, it’s considered pre-arranged. So this didn’t change much from a legal perspective.
As a consumer, I love that a company more reliable than taxis exists. My mom has mobility because of Uber and Lyft. If they exploit folks, the drivers should get other jobs. (When it’s automated, there won’t be jobs in which people would be exploited)

For me the issue is unreliability of Services like UberEats.
In addition, real exploits often involve exploiting multiple bugs in order to be really useful
A lot of people would say that is the exception that proves the rule. And in any case, ultimately Apple will stand behind the repair, making it right. I've had two acquaintances get brand new MacBooks after the Genius Bar couldn't get their machine fixed correctly.
Ah, you must be talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20258509. I don't remember that post, and it's possible I didn't see it. I try to read all the replies, but miss a few, especially when they are posted later. If you want to be sure we see something, the only way is to email hn@ycombinator.com.

It's also possible that I saw it and was too exhausted to look back through all the flagged comments in the thread, identify which ones were explaining how AMP works, and see if they had been flagged correctly. That takes a ton of energy, which is not always available when the rest of the site is clamoring for attention and in varying degrees of onfireness. One thing you can do to increase the odds of getting a specific response is to include specific links to the post(s) you're worried about—that makes it an order of magnitude easier. I certainly appreciate your intention to defend fellow users who are being mistreated.

But I think if I had seen your comment I would have replied at least to say that I believe you that your intention wasn't to downvote-bait.
It depends a lot on how much you are paying for your internet service, and/or how fast it is.

If you're paying nothing or just a little, and/or it's very fast then the extra time/cost of the ad content is negligible.

On the other hand, if your internet connection is slow, expensive or you have a small monthly quota, then any time or cost involved in downloading largish volumes of ad content becomes a huge fraction of your costs.

I once had a monthly quota of two gigabytes when travelling. An average of only 60 megabytes per day. It doesn't take many two-three megabyte webpages full of ads to soak up that 60MB daily quota.
Why? The bank could loan that money to the US Government for 2%-3% over that same lock-up period. What does the funds rate have to do with it?
Thank you for writing this! One-on-one styles indeed vary heavily depending on who you're talking to and how they value their time. This sheet helps condense some of those styles down.

Thank you!
Yes, that's life in the modern world. My taxes go to pay for all sorts of government programs that I don't use. This is mostly fine.
Thank you for citing the rules. Most of the comments here are based on assumptions.
Elect sane and involved policy makers to keep a watch on the market. Impose regulations that make it harder to exploit the consumer, and hold those who break these policies accountable.

I suppose the whole ban vs regulate issue is a matter of granularity. Regulation does impose a set of banned practices, but it's not like you make it out to be, where all 3rd party code would have to be banned.

The main issue is that we need to agree on what we are actually capable and interested in protecting, in an insanely fast moving industry. This is why motivated and educated policy makers are crucial to the problem. There's still to this day no where near the level of discourse on this subject that's needed happening in places with power to make a difference. Just like in the early days of the gold rush, I'm sure you could find countless cases of criminal shovel sellers.

But given the current ecosystem, this doesn't surprise me sadly. We (in the US) are locking kids up without parents for crimes they didn't commit. I suppose abusive or illegal ads aren't my biggest concern.
For me, it's a question of scale. When many "terrible things" are rooted in the same cause, it behooves us to recognize and address that upstream phenomenon.

The hours in a day are, as it happens, zero sum. It's cliché, but we must pick our battles. Leaf nodes are ill-advised opponents.
Failure/corruption of the patent office. There is so much prior art.
1. Anything that drives consolidation of land towards a few large landlords hurts farming. This is a story as old as time, as wealthy land-owners end up buying out small farmers (Or, in older days, driving them off at sword-point and gunpoint.) In today's day and age, fiscal policy is often a culprit for this.

2. Enforcing compliance with basic laws hurts farmers. It's not clear to me that it's currently possible to operate an American farm both legally, and profitably. Laws that farmers are likely breaking have to do with employment, immigration, animal cruelty, and pollution. Compliance with all of this will drive your expenses up, and you out of business. This is a classic case of a prisoner's dillema - your competitors, who break the law, will undercut you, if you comply with it.

3. Larger farms with better access to capital are often better suited to take advantage of government subsidies.

4. Farming is incredibly risky. Your margins are razor-thin, and your yields and revenues are entirely at the mercy of the weather, and the capriciousness of your incredibly expensive equipment. Large, well-capitalized mega-farms are better suited to weather runs of bad luck, then smaller, family-ran ones.[1]

[1] Not to mention that many family farms rely on family members to operate. And if uncle Bill ruins his back on the job, in June, he's not going to be in shape to work at harvest time...
> That's inserting bias.

Are you implying that this article was trying to be bias-free? The author spent entire paragraphs just cherry-picking "toxic" things that have been said on HN to make discussion here look bad.
Here's a primer on the 1980s farm crisis under Reagan, which Nixon teed up in the early 70s.

http://www.iptv.org/mtom/classroom/module/13999/farm-crisis
What a horribly biased article, typical of Microsoft at that time. Two examples:

"Because the Intel 8080 was the first chip, everyone wrote software for it. When the Motorola 6800 came out years later". Yeah, 1974 vs. ... 1974.

"The operating system is now evolving to include graphics, as in the Microsoft Windows system" - which didn't appear on the market until about a year after the publication of that article.
I love watching Louis diagnose and fix laptops. He can make good money charging $300 to fix a motherboard in an hour or two because he has done it for years but I can imagine even a very smart technician it takes 2-3x time starting out and I doubt he pays much more than $25-30hr, though maybe the business would be more viable if not in NYC thats borderline living wage here.
Are we sure this actually occurred? If anything this is going to make it easier for american banks to exploit students and side-step legislation that would actually fix the root of the student debt bubble in America.

By this I mean people will now just point to Canada and demand a bailout without really committing effort to passing laws that will prevent exploitative interest rates and pricing schemes by private universities.
This comment is excellent and needs to be emphasized more.

> Besides, it doesn't have to be perfect. It's enough that it renders a good chunk (say 20-60%) of the population useless job wise to have adverse effects.

Ya - within the US at least (current unemployment around 3%?), it does not even have to be at 20 - 60%. My feeling is that even 10 - 15% unemployment or below living wages would lead to revolts, especially if the unemployment is somewhat geographically concentrated.
The regulated taxi medallion system wasn't good for drivers either. It was good for medallion owners.

Before Uber, taxi medallions in New York were selling for around $1 million. These pricey medallions tended to get bought up by large companies that could afford the investment. Your driver likely couldn't afford one, so instead, drivers would rent a cab and medallion for about $100 per 12-hour shift, on top of the dispatcher fees.

This system was supposed to restrict the supply of cabs to ensure drivers earned a decent wage. Instead, all the value is extracted by the medallion holders.
Yeh the euro isn't catching up anytime soon. They don't have a strong central government or a single equity market. Until they fix that they are boned
Agreed I would argue that this patent probably wouldn't go through today now that the USPTO is more adjusted to Alice V CLS.

I think that anyone hit with this could argue for dismissal under Alice.
Try swimming anywhere near a gas-powered boat and you'll instantly taste and smell how gross it is.
I chose it because it was first initial - last name, although I did have a tall German speaking friend who would always say "Nicht lang, aber ganz kurz" every time he'd see me. It took me a while to figure out what he meant. So depending on what you are into, maybe.
I more of lack of desire to be a full time programmer, mainly due to my health issues.
Does that USB drive stick trick still work?
Oops. I apologise. Indeed I framed that statement backwards.

If non-interactive use makes attacks "harder" then terms and conditions should not seek to prohibit non-interactive use.

That is the argument in one sentence.

Another phrasing is that if interactive use makes attacks easier then users should not be discouraged or prohibited from engaging in non-interactive use.
That's kind of ambiguous. He could mean original spec, as opposed to some junk using completely different components which is merely electrically compatible.

The fact that he's then comparing "original" with "counterfeit" goes against that a little, but it feels more like confusion than malice, or using the same word in two different contexts. Saying these are original-spec components without Apple logos and not counterfeit might be true even if the reason they're not counterfeit is that they don't have Apple logos rather than because they followed the spec.
Now that other people have tried it out, the Fed is likely to consider negative rates as an available tool. See, e.g.:

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...
Interpreting Binary Machine Code
Honestly saying no is one of the most important things either a startup or large company can have. Saying no gracefully, respectfully, and having the receiving person understand the rational is the hard part. This is one of the function of "fellows", "Senior Members of the Technical Staff", "Principal Architects" or whatever your org calls it and the people selected for that should be excellent at it. I guess the problem the author points out is that is the only thing a person might do and that is not good. Folks in this position should also know how to say yes and build buyin from business people/exec/program management.

Most organizations fail horribly at saying no. Instead they try to silo things to cope. This works to some extent, and you will always have silos as a company grows up, but you really should never end up with 12 programming languages, 5 RDBMS, 4 NoSQL DBs, 3 Javascript frameworks, 3 CIs, 3 cluster schedulers and then all the aforementioned also duplexed across organization units. That level of sprawl reduces margins, increases onboarding time, stresses even the most experienced staff, and makes adaption and business decision making murky at best.
In my country (Oz) it's the same story. Families who've owned properties for generations can't keep up with the mega-corp style of farming, particularly when drought, or other semi regular calamity hits. A mega Corp can go into 'the negative' during these times, but only really experience a 'blip' on the balance sheets. A family farmer will have a 2nd/ 3rd mortgage rejected, when only a generation or two previously they had no debt whatsoever.

Governmental help comes in the form of lacklustre subsidies, or too small and too delayed financial aid, while at the same time providing massive grants to companies that are in the agri business system.

One example is the legislation of allocating "water rights" to the main river systems here, all of which has caused farms to go bankrupt, the middle men to get rich and we now have increased rice (!! Rice in Australia) production.