skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its actually even worse factually...its not just the coffee was hot and McD's had prior complaints, there are industry standards, which McDonald's knowingly and willfully violated.

It actually all relates to trucking/truckers who use their own special cups, but demand the coffee be scalding so it stays hot longer on the road. McDonald's catered to these truckers to grow their coffee business, they knew the risks and gave no warnings to customers. I think the employee was also negligent in securing the lid leading to the spill itself.

As you say the coffee was so hot it scalded this woman so badly through her jeans she needed skin grafts. And sure enough there was massive money spent to spin this in the media as "woman burned by coffee sues for millions, everything wrong with our litigious society." Where this should have read: giant corporation disregards safety standards to boost their bottom line to the detriment of its customers leading to boiling coffee that scalded a woman's privates requiring skin grafts, then in bad faith the insurer denies the woman's claim to pay her medical bills, drags her through court which they lose, then they drag her through the appeals process which she didn't want any part of either.
I'm a little confused about the title because the first paper is from 2014.

It's also too bad this doesn't mention any traditional HMM-based ASR techniques, as HMMs continue to be used on many SOTA systems, particularly those that can be reproduced publicly: https://github.com/syhw/wer_are_we
It's a risk we probably need to take. AdTech is monetizing hate and this is already effecting the real world in a very obvious way. We're talking about ads, not content. Removing the monetization incentive is one thing, the wastefulness another, but I'm not talking about legislation, rather giving users tools to deal with them. Google developed Chrome for obvious reasons. Microsoft has no interest in protecting users, and AdBuddy (Brave) is pure evil. Mozilla's raison d'etre is doing just that.
Show HN: Branch Bookkeeper – Here’s how we stopped racing to merge on master
Yes, thats what I was thinking too. For Google, being in the ad business itself necessitates that Google's trajectory will be on shaky ground w.r.t privacy.
I saw that happen to you when you pointed that out in the big Anthony Levandowski discussion a week ago--but I think a lot of that had to do with you posting essentially the same comment at three different places in the same thread. I don't think it started getting downvoted until then.
At work we use rebase to have a super clean, linear history of master. You can merge only if you are aligned with master, otherwise you must rebase first.
It worked perfectly for our small team at the time, but then growth came: with tens of developers working on the same repo it rapidly became a nightmare. With several devs ready to merge their work at the same time, races to be the first were the norm. When you lost you had to rebase, handle conflict maybe, and wait for CI again while staring at the GitHub page: a huge productivity killer.

That’s why we built Branch Bookkeeper: a simple queue management system to handle merge order. What started as a user script in our browsers is now a full fledged GitHub app, we used it internally for years already.

Today, we are opening it to everyone!

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The truth is that there is no gray zone. Marijuana, until otherwise classified by the FDA, is illegal.
Many states have decriminalized it, meaning that they have effectively nullified the federal regulations

The phrase for this situation where it's technically illegal but effectively okay is "gray zone".
Google owns hoards of personal data, including yours and mine. It’s nearly impossible to avoid, sans living life offline. Now that google has shown they are willing to share your personal information with advertisers without your permission, what do you think will happen when google becomes the arbiter of medical (and persoanal) information to health insurance companies? google will win. health insurance companies will win. individuals and families will suffer.
Mozilla's financials are public.
More like no morals. They only have "morals" when they might get sued, fined or just isn't profitable.
The Rules of Procedure[0] are available online.

The bill in question is now at the Second Reading stage, specifically at the "[Reading] may be resumed on notice by the Member or public officer in charge of the bill" step. The "House Committee" debate was basically skipped.

[0] https://www.legco.gov.hk/general/english/procedur/content/pa...
Nation states employ shills to attack other countries best companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon. There has been a sustained PR campaign against our companies.

Dictatorships use Whataboutism to help cover stuff like this... https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cz75gj/hong_kong_poli...
As much as I value privacy and think America needs a new constitutional amendment enshrining it in our rights, this title is clickbait and the entire article is designed to whip you into a panic. Here's the crux:

"Privacy International (PI) investigated more than 100 mental health websites in France, Germany and the UK.

It found many shared user data with third parties, including advertisers and large technology companies."

Yes. Mental health websites use third-party ads just like everyone else. Case closed.

They're not "selling mental-health information" as if they're violating HIPAA or something. They're just ordinary websites with ads and other tracking cookies.

This is more of the silly kind of half-truths that were used to put cookie warnings on nearly every site on the internet. Don't fall for it.
I don't recall having ever purchased an alcoholic beverage while at a gaming table, despite having consumed many. Want to guess why that is, and where casinos really make their money?
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An ISP won't really cut it these days, since more and more internet use, particularly in developing countries, is mobile. You need to start a small independent mobile carrier.
> There have been far fewer incidents of humans causing nuclear war by either following or disobeying orders

True - but if you add the words "nearly" and "allegedly", then it's not such a rosy picture.

The book "Red Star Rogue" proposes the idea that the Soviet submarine K-129 was commandeered and attempted to launch a first strike on the United States in 1968. She was very far off her expected course when sunk, and allegedly there was a fail-safe system that scuttled the boat when an unauthorized attempt was made to launch her missiles.[1]

The US's nuclear weapons were capable of being used by a single individual for quite some time, until the 1960s. Even with the advent of the Permissive Action Link, until 1977 the 8-digit arming code was - seriously - "00000000". They were worried they wouldn't have the code available if the weapons were needed.[2]

There are numerous "close calls" that occurred, but those two came to mind right away in the context of human beings causing or having nearly caused a nuclear attack by disobeying orders in particular.

1: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/red-star-rogue
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link#Develop...
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The Power to Judge Startup Ideas
> What should do they do, send a surveyor to your house?

Not use data from a mechanism that's controversial with some of the user base to drive decisions? Reach out and ask people, instead of asking their machines?

> Sound decision making requires metrics. If you opt-out of metrics, you don't get to participate in decisions.

Sound decision making requires some kind of metrics and also sound reasoning. It doesn't mean that metrics have to be widely-deployed telemetry. There are alternatives, like doing studies "the old way". Moreover, it can be argued that a lot of problems on today's Internet stem from people vacuuming up whatever data they can find and divining decisions out of it. It's not how you do science.
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Thank you! I guess that means Google’s client ID is lost, so attribution will be muddled. I wonder if each page view is treated as its own single-page session?
"Can you imagine listening to the stories of old people's photos 50 years from now? How terrible that experience is going to be?"

https://youtu.be/uSh5voSUhrs
Hate speech is illegal in the EU. They haven't taken such opinions lightly when announced publicly.

Edit: btw with held accountable I don't mean that is should be illegal. I meant that people have a right to react to "injustice"
It's the implication you and the headline are making. I have yet to see any evidence that Uber and Lyft are against public transport. They are competing with it, which is their right. That's massively different from attempting regulatory capture like the Kochs have done.
For me, a camera with exchangeable lenses and controls for everything relevant, with buttons and dials that are mapped to functions 1:1 and can be committed to muscle memory and used blindly, and to a degree without thinking, while you look through the viewfinder or the screen, is to a smartphones what being a fish is to driving a giant boat where you have the steering wheel on one end, the engine controls on another, and the anchor controlled by a genie you have to beat in rock paper scissors three times every time you want to come to a halt.

> With astronomy they say it's better to have a small cheap telescope you use all the time rather than a big expensive telescope you barely use.

True, but a camera bag also holds a book and other things, to me it's like a purse but better.

> it's super interesting to see these professional photographers take the cheapest cameras available, in some cases they're actually toys, and turn out some amazing pictures.

Compare it to the quality and the rate at which they produce amazing photos with their preferred gear. You can make amazing photos with anything, especially if you only show the keepers, but that doesn't really tell us much.
> No, a data processor is any entity that collected personal data gets passed on to and where it is processed as part of the business arrangement.

I'm relatively sure that there's another part: it's data processing for the client (here: Google) and the data cannot be used for other purposes. In this case, they don't process data for Google, they process it in cooperation with Google for the ad-buyers. Google also doesn't name them as data processors (which it would have to if that were their relationship).

If some contract was all it took, what would stop hospitals from selling patient info to insurance companies, saying "hey, they are processing the data, and we have a business agreement, this is all fine".
Balancing Organizations and Oneself
Extremely interesting idea. Sounds like many of the things they get rid of are some of the more problematic features of JS anyway. The end result is fairly Swift-y; a loosely OOP static language that has closures and really convenient hash-map syntax.
I wonder if people will pair these with LTE-enabled Apple Watches. That way you get Apple's Messages, maps (very important for some), calendar/to-do management, and Siri. Of course, you'd have to pay an extra 10 bucks monthly for the watch's LTE, and I'm not sure you could have both phones hooked to the phone number.

Actually, the more I think about this, perhaps people will just move to going watch-only. (I say this as someone who loves his Pebble but will probably get an Apple Watch 4 or 5 soon, as my battery is worsening and the feature gap is widening.)
> masticate

I haven't heard this word since my SAT-prep classes. It means "chew". In case there are English-2nd language people here.
They're mostly distributed on the App Store these days.
The old distribution channels are still available, but installation using these trigger a warning.
> They have the support of one carrier with roughly 20% market share, and about 3 - 5% of Android devices.

According to Google (in the articles I read and shared here), whether the network provider supports it is irrelevant because they are supplying their own server in those cases, so it should just work. If you're in that region I'm interested to hear what you experience is if you have access to an Android phone and test.
A lot of online roleplaying is exactly that: two or more people cooperatively telling a story. (Disclosure: been roleplaying online for over 15 years.)

I am actually in the process of writing a tool that facilitates that process and allows one to edit, manage, reorder individual posts and paragraphs, and spatially order them on a timeline. I'll throw it at HN when it's ready enough.
Respectfully, that's not a good reason to use public cloud providers like AWS. They provide features and tooling that make building redundancy into your services easier but for many of these redundancy features you must integrate them into your infrastructure design to take advantage of them.
The more high-level the target, the more that target bleeds through and the more you have to deal with it.
I think the discussion is valuable.
I think adding those insights to a wiki 'Pitfalls' page or whatever is valuable.

From the top of my head, the cases where I'm looking at Git logs are:

1. Code Review. Most of the time I'm reviewing code is looking at a diff. But obviously one of "fix" and "actually fix" is redundant. A clean history also benefits if I want to focus in on one of the commits.

2. Annotation/Blame. If I'm debugging through some issue and looking at older changes, it's nice if coupled changes are in the same commit.

A warts-and-all history has some advantages over rewriting git history (e.g. you could find patterns of where "actually fix" happens and try and improve those), but rewriting history makes the log a better communication tool.
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It doesn't mean that at all. The President can (and did, in this case) unilaterally declassify anything. It's not classified.
One aspect of the clarity that an NPR article [0] mentioned yesterday was the sensor design and software required to take non-blurry and non-distorted images. The size of the satellite is impressive, but I didn't think about the challenges due to orbiting speed and light refraction in the stratosphere.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2019/09/02/756673481/amateurs-identify-u...
Q2'19 Revenue was 39.7 Billion. Income was 9.2 Billion.
> ride-hailing companies would be responsible for half (6.2%) of employees' Social Security and Medicare (1.45%) tax, as well as the costs for administering any employee benefits (e.g., health care and 401ks)

The changes described in the bill seem surprisingly minor. As long as Uber isn't expected to pay its drivers a fixed salary, or control their work hours, I don't see how "better benefits" will fundamentally destroy their business model. It is fundamentally no different than raising the rates paid by riders, and passing those increased rates along to drivers in the form of better benefits.

As long as it is applied consistently to both Uber and Lyft, neither of them will lose market share. Ridership will decline incrementally when rates are raised incrementally, but the majority of Uber riders aren't going to take buses instead just because prices went up 15%.

I've long been a fan of the gig economy and of companies like Uber/Lyft, but the new regulations described above sound pretty reasonable. Saying they will devastate Uber's business model sounds like clickbait on the part of BI, and FUD on the part of Uber.
How to get the team to search for more productive ideas
If you merge assets, marriage is a useful legal vehicle covering a common societal practice.

One could also establish an LLC for the purpose, or not merge assets, of course.
Combining Coverage-Guided and Generation-Based Fuzzing
Thanks! If you were building that early music learning app/tool, what form would you want it to take? Is it like a blog post, illustrated with embedded videos/audio of the relevant passages?
I bought a Canon M100 mirrorless in that price range and I have to disagree. Maybe a $1000 phone can come close, but you can't change lenses on a phone so I don't see how a phone camera can match what you can do with a $500 camera.
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YouTube Faces $170M Record Fine from the FTC
Ah yes, the dingbat vs 8D chess debate.
You've got to understand that the military-industrial viewpoint which considers total surveillance to be a "Good Thing" has included the subversion of human intelligence in its own purposes for hundreds of years already..

The same way that the Generals have defeated the western peace movement, big corporations are defeating the resistance.

It should come as no surprise. Those of us who believe in true freedom, need to incorporate a counter-plan into our own purposes, too. Keep getting up and doing what you do.
> Encryption should be feature #1.

Well, you're free to travel back in time to 2008 and propose it to the working group that was making the spec...

> If I could choose which back end I want to be on, I would choose Google's, especially if that meant messages would be end-to-end encrypted within that sphere.

I agree, but it appears the way the protocol is federated means that there isn't specifically one back end. Also, since it does some discovery with a "hidden" sms to the other end to ask if it supports RCS, I imagine end-to-end encryption might not be that hard to tack on...
That's true. I'm sure that the perverse incentive could be resolved with some system for self-reporting and fixing.
I was interested in Pi-Hole, but didn't really want to modify my existing DNS setup.

I have a server running BIND that has forwarders set to external DNS and has views setup so I can reach servers within my network with the same DNS names as externally.

I found this - https://www.pitt-pladdy.com/blog/_20170407-105402_0100_DNS_F... - and it takes the same blocklists Pi-Hole uses and generates BIND RPZ files. It accomplishes the same thing but integrated nicely into my setup. I have it updating weekly.

I mention this to say that I would consider using my ISP's DNS servers if they were Pi-Hole RPZ enabled. And since you can use any DNS you want I can't see why that would create legal issues.
The Register often uses snarky or tongue-in-cheek headlines, I like it tbh
No, a Google account shouldn’t be required.
How to Get Better at Embracing Unknowns
Yes, we can do contextual targeting, but after that, what are the ways to improve upon the outcomes (from an advertisers standpoint) without violating privacy?
> In a similar way, I've wondered how many times someone discovered how to make cheese, and failed to sell the idea to others. "You left milk in a sheepskin bladder for how long, and you want us to eat it? No thanks, pass the chicken"

I used to think about cheese and yogurts as strange, but honestly the "discovery" that mold is edible is more fundamental.

Anyone who has eaten a good sourdough bread knows that the secret to good sourdough is... to leave it out until the good tasting natural molds start to grow on it.

I think it is a relatively natural leap to go from natural-mold bread (wheat + sugar + water + time) to natural-mold cheese and yogurts (milk + time).
It's not clear to me if Xi and Co wants this or not at this point.

It's possible Lam going rouge would allow Xi and Co to possibly save some face ... while giving them time to subvert the protester's cause in less obvious ways.

It is possible they simply want to back away for a bit, and deal with things more quietly.
Yeah, I'd say you have to implement your own tracking system instead of using an off-the-shelf one. Either from your logs, or from code that you write, server- or client-side.
The Microsoft v. Novell case documented numerous examples and instances of a specific FUD campaign.

The book Merchants of Doubt highlights the practice across decades and industries.

Ralph Nader was subject to corporate smear tactics and surveillance in the 1970s.

The idea that companies would suddenly stop using these tactics the moment they become divinely powerful defies all reason.

Reddit's /r/shills and /r/HailCorporate highlight some modern instances.
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Oh boy, I didn't realize this and will need to check about this. I thought that filtering would help, but if those folks that I've shared my calendar with are seeing this weirdness....

Between this and the fact any joker can share a document with one's drive... Making google hard to use for business.

I'm now deathly afraid to have any of these products opened when connected to a projector/presenting...
A Story of Stories
The fine might be paid to a different country than the tax. It depends on the other country whether to allow the fine to be deductible.
One problem with people selling ReasonML's type inference is that it's not depicting the actual developer experience.

The first thing to note is that you do interact with types to build a mental model! The editor will show them to you as you move your cursor around the code. It will do that for every single value. Just move the cursor over that `requestContext` argument and voilà, it'll show you the type.

Another important aspect is that you still have to define types. Have a person object with a bunch of fields? You do have to type annotate every single field. Have multiple actions to handle in reducers? You need to tell ReasonML in advance what those are using a variant type.

And finally, if you care about composition/abstraction you should provide interfaces for modules. This requires writing types for all functions explicitly to ensure that you are exposing a correct protocol. This is optional, but it helps both the author of the code and the consumers.

Type-inference is just a nice to have feature for the low-level implementation details.
This makes no sense. Brave's a browser, not a search engine. Are you claiming they manipulate search results? How would they even do that?
Work culture in the western world is broken.

We face so many issues because when it comes down to it, humans spend most of their time in very cold, disconnected working environments that are designed to break your soul and turn you into a drone.

I think what should be remembered is that swdev is a high demand job, and you should have high demands and standards of yourself and your needs.

The author admits to hiding away her flaws as to not show weakness, this is the wrong approach. Admit your weaknesses, be honest with yourself, your colleagues and your boss. If they don't understand or reciprocate, tell them to go get fucked.

Become a freelancer or consultant.
not being an accountant as I understand it in my country fines to the tax ministry are not tax deductible. So if this is the case in other countries there would be some legal precedence for saying "fines for this type of offense are not tax deductible"
Companies come first in the US, in politics and individual rights
Also, curious to see how an ad network can guarantee that its creatives don’t misbehave, this is brand safety played on “godlike” (sorry for bad Unreal reference).
Sounds like it's on life support.

Nobody should be using Flow.