skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
South and West Chicago (see HeyJackass.com), and it's very terrorizing, just not to white people. I live in Oak Park, just across the street from Austin. Oak Park is upper-income and heavily college educated, and hosts one of the best school districts in the area. Austin is solidly African American (due to historical redlining), has touch-and-go spots w/r/t poverty, sharply more crime, but also a sizable portion of middle class black families.

White kids in Oak Park have almost nothing to fear from Chicago gang violence.

The same is not true of black kids in Oak Park --- and we're well integrated --- and extremely not true of black kids in Austin. Kids in Oak Park have, for obvious geographical reasons, friends in Austin and vice versa. Oak Park kids have been shot and killed in parks across the street from Oak Park.

It is a huge problem, and one that is easy for policy-types to overlook and downplay because it isn't a problem for white people.
It's very hot in Florida where I live, but I have 0 expectations that the company I work at could have any measurable impact on a global issue of this magnitude, and Amazon doesn't get much closer.
>Then, on top of that, virtually skipping work so I can complain even further, I'm surprised no one gets fired on the spot.

I believe it would actually be illegal to fire employees for this. US employers generally cannot legally punish employees for striking.
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I suspect there big environmental impact will be any changes in the quantity of things we buy, moreso than if we drive to the store or not.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17690693

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17286770
Under GAAP, profitability for complex businesses can be highly subjective. In some cases it may only become clear in retrospect after many years whether the business was really profitable or not.
What does a CDN has to do with it?
The ol' DMCA trivial encryption switcharoo. I'd expect a lot more sites and their data to require a login now, to the detriment of the data being publicly indexed.
Rip the drive out and drop it in a strong degausser
I read somewhere this doesn't really work anymore on common distros for reasons I don't remember. Not that I'm gonna test it.
One very high cost to staying on 2 will be that the pool of 3rd party modules you can draw from will continue to shrink as projects drop support for it. Sure, you can stay on Requests v.whatever, but eventually the SSL certs that it includes will expire, and then you'll have to maintain your own patched Requests with the new certs you want to use. Or eventually someone will find security problems with Django 1.11 LTS, and will be on you to fix them. Also, every Django plugin will have migrated to Python 3, so you won't get to use the new tools for it that everyone else is using.

And at some point, say 10 years from now, you'll reach your breaking point where you'll get tired of maintaining backports for every. little. package. that you want to you use. And when that day comes, then you'll face the even more daunting task of porting your stuff to the new current version of Python.

I'm saying this as one techie to another: don't do this to yourself. Not long term, anyway. If you want to support your own ecosystem for six months or a year as an exercise, sure, I'll be the last one to tell you not to work on a personal project you enjoy. But for Pete's sake, don't engage in this as a long-term project. This isn't how you want to look back on your deathbed and see that you spent a decade.

As a practical matter, I'll say that everyone I've spoken to seems to have the experience that Python 3 seems like a pain in the neck for a very short while as you go through the process of finding all the bugs in your codebase that Python 2 was letting you ignore. But once you've done that, you're not going to want to go back and un-fix them even if you decided to stick with Python 2, and if you've already gone through that work, why not enjoy the new language features and 3rd party packages now available to you?
Man, this kind of B.S. wisdom from VC gets me pissed. Do you think in all the thousands of boards meetings he has sat on that he ever recommended getting cashflow positive? The whole VC model is burn baby burn until you can get big a flip of the asset.

This kind of articles come out during a down market when the VC go from 'we will make billions' to 'cut your burn rate so I can see sell the startup you worked on for the past few years for pennies on the dollar.'

Everything VCs write is warped by their capital distortion field. Beware
YNAB rolls over unspent budgets (I can only speak of the desktop version which I use, but I assume it’s the same for the modern one).
Currently it's also a bad idea because of the negative interest, at least in many parts of the world (Europe, Japan), and probably US soon.
The Law Was Aimed at Deadly Machinery. It Hit Her Washer
Lol really?

I'm not "on" your site when I browse there. I asked your server to send me some data and it did so.

Its real life equivalent to social engineering. Its so far not illegal for me to ask you things and for you to disclose them to me even if you weren't supposed to. I'm allowed to lie to you even to persuade you to tell me things.
A corporation's identity comes from someone's personal views. Many folks think that someone should be the workers at the company, rather than, say, the CEO or a PR dept.

Many times one works for a company whose values partially align with theirs. Maybe they have good charitable work, or they are engaged with open source. But they also have things that you disagree with -- maybe they don't treat their workers well in some way or another, maybe their parental leave policy is poor.

So, you try to change the company as step one -- let's get a better parental leave policy! Then, if you aren't getting traction, and your labor is valuable, you have leverage and can continue to try and invoke change. If change still won't happen, then you can walk.

It's better, I think, for people to provide a moral compass to the companies they work for, then to ignore it and hope that the behemoth will just make a good decision.
Language in Thought and Action, by S.I. Hayakawa. I read it in grad school and it opened my mind to how much of human language is subjective and made me think about the problems that arise because of that.
When the options are a) leave and have no job, or b) leave and go to another company also doing little to mitigate climate change, people are looking for option c.
I'm confused by this article presenting populism as not democratic. If people are freely voting directly, that's democracy (rule by the people). Whether or not their voting decisions are driven by populism doesn't mean it ceases to be democratic. Populism if anything is the pathological case of democracy. Democracy is essentially mob rule and one reason the US was set up as a republic using representative democracy instead of direct democracy.

Furthermore, this article only talks about right-wing populism and completely elides left-wing populism. The two go hand in hand, fueling one another because of reactionary-ism.
Are people routinely still purposefully writing new code in 20 year old versions of FORTRAN, or just maintaining existing stuff?
Digital vs. Paper To-Do Lists
You read my mind
Last I heard from some friends in YC when considering a position there, Wepay was handling less than 10^6 payments per day. Is that still the case and is something with such low requirements a good replacement for Kafka in the wild?
The existing customer base is an asset. If you can profit from taking a negative CF company, firing all the staff and collecting subscription fees from the existing customers until they all churn, then you have value that can be extracted from the company. These ”maintenance mode” acquisitions aren’t even that uncommon.

But that said, it’s not exactly obvious which funded companies will never be profitable. If it was then you’d expect it would be quite hard for them to secure funding. This is simply a conclusion that many HN commenters love to jump to when deriding a particular company, usually without a very good understanding of the company’s financials, or even of finance in general.
That's why TV frequencies got freed up (600MHz), and are also used in 5G: they travel great though walls. And one or two stations serviced a city.

The FR1 range is nothing new.

Yes, FR2 ranges (aka mmwave) has more potential for higher speeds partly _because_ it doesn't travel through walls, you need practically line of sight. (Spatial multiplexing).

And you cannot simply amp up the power, to get through it as reflections will drown you.

Different use-cases, different frequencies.

And those frequencies are still non-ionising, and at most heat your skin.

So why the qualifier of "safe" for frequencies? We are talking radio here, not UV, x-ray or gamma.
Eh... if you don't do business in Europe and don't target EU citizens, you don't need to worry about GDPR. It only applies if you sell to EU citizens or ship products to Europe or in some way advertise that your company does business in Europe. [1]

The regulation is definitely state-of-the-art in terms of end user privacy, even if some companies don't have a state-of-the-art response to the challenges it poses.

[1] https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/
Amazon definitely could. Silicon Valley, as a whole? Definitely absolutely could.
I don't see where you're going with that. Doesn't that definition apply to eBPF as well? I feel like you're trying to win a purely semantic argument which doesn't really advance the discussion.
I have played with OpenGPT-2 for a few hours, testing its capabilities for generating politically-motivated texts in particular.

Indeed, it fails at large sample sizes, but it is _quite_ capable of replying to tweets and writing e.g. comments on Hacker News, Reddit or elsewhere.

With some human assistance, it can produce believable text fragments that can be later copypasted and reassembled into genuine articles or blog posts. If your full-time job is shitposting and/or generating politically divisive content by megabytes, it increases your productivity by orders of magnitude.
The problem with most climate change activism is that it’s hyper-targeted against the offender du jour and all of the others are largely ignored. It’s a global-scale problem that demands global-scale solutions; the vigilantism isn’t doing anything other than providing a straw man for the opposition to knock down.
Protest at Amazon? fine .. but walk the walk first spend a week in winter without heaters in your home .. to show the damn commitment and then protest, you will have my respect!

Let the world see your personal sacrifice and prove your worth.. otherwise - another group of virtue signalers nothing more! #skininthegame
Yup. Also doesn't measure the fact that some people have multiple jobs, when wages go up they often ditch one. Not to mention things like labour participation rate, underemployment, etc...
Can you show where the US Government seized this Bitcoin?

What I seem to remember is that they plastered their logo on a website and the servers just launched another frontend under a different url

I saw that they imposed fines

I didn't see that they actually seized any
Ok, but what if the government says "anyone who accepts a payment from this wallet will have their assets seized"

At some point, someone will want to do something in the real world with this money, and the government can step in there.
> On modern operating systems you can generally mount and unmount virtual encrypted volumes that are open (ideally) only when you're actually using them to do work with their contents. There used to be a great macOS tool, called Knox, that did this graphically.

Cryptomator [1], cross-platform as well.

[1] https://cryptomator.org/
Is that after they went up because the US markets have been pretty decent the last few years...
Stuff like this simply shouldn’t happen in a developed country. It’s insane that this can’t get solved.
In the opinion they specifically discuss DOS attacks: "Internet companies and the public do have a substantial
interest in thwarting denial-of-service attacks and blocking
abusive users, identity thieves, and other ill-intentioned
actors. But we do not view the district court’s injunction as
opening the door to such malicious activity"
This is a nice addendum to the "Let Us Identify Your Stack" style web services tho I guess some of them might already provide this.

It does have the somewhat negative effect of making potentially vulnerable websites more visible to lower order hackers (I'm assuming more proficient ones have automated discovery tools like this anyway).
Any Darwinian theory should clearly explain the mechanism for selection.

The selection mechanism for quantum darwinism is usually said to be "those states that agree with classical mechanics". This seems like extreme circular reasoning when the goal of the theory is to explain why/how QM experiments result in classical observations.
okay then. domestic wire transfer. we done yet?
If you want to make an arbitrary categorization of what is mathematics (or computer science) to divorce it of perspectives of ethics, beauty, etc, then go for it. But those perspectives are there (and valid), and good luck coming up with a robust definition that successfully divides them without dramatically limiting your ability to say things about math/csc. (e.g. you may not be able to favor any representation of one formula/program over another without creating a definition of beauty, which leads you down the rabbit hole again).

Point being: categorization is fuzzy. Ethics, beauty, etc are fuzzy but foundational and applicable to pretty much everything - like any other perspective. Denying them a place in CSC/Math/etc because they're seen as too "hard science" is a dead end road, because meeting your own bar of using only logical truth while still expressing anything useful about a subject is (probably) impossible - which is the general consensus in modern philosophy (as I understand it).
And how, exactly, are you differentiating a "Basecamp-like" startup from a "non-Basecamp" startup?
> My goal was that the co-workers solve it under 10 minutes

do you have an example of this? I have hard time imagining solving algortihm qs under 10 mins.
Windows Phone came out a year after iTunes dropped the use of DRM, so any native Windows Phone music app would work.

This was not true of YouTube, where Google actively blocked Microsoft from building a native client.
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This is certainly a reasonable idea, and the OpenAI release statement did include a risk assessment attempting to determine who would be able to replicate their work.

It's sort of hard for me to understand how this lead to the decision they made, though. OpenAI's original aim was democratizing access to AI tools so they wouldn't be abused by a handful of players, but releasing a scaled-down model seemed to primarily limit its utility for hobbyists. Assembling and training on a larger corpus is precisely the sort of step that's out of reach for individuals, but extremely approachable for governments or corporations with lots of computing power and expert-hours.

That said, OpenAI also noted that their staged-release model was something of an experiment, so it's not entirely clear to me how much danger they thought GPT-2 actually posed. It seems to have been a useful experiment in gradual release and collaboration with other researchers, and a test of 'inoculating' people via a weak model. GPT-2 isn't a great tool for tricking people or disrupting conversations, but publicizing awareness of AI text generation before turning it loose has probably further decreased that risk.
You didn't "ask my server". You used a tool to extract data from my server.

It's more akin to you standing just outside my property border and using a fishing pole to pull fish from a pond that is inside my property border. You're still trespassing even if your two feet aren't physically on my land.

The common legal argument (see the second link in my above comment) is that accessing a web server actually does constitute being "on" the server because you are sending signals to my server in order to interact with it, and this satisfies the "physical contact" part of trespassing.

From Wikipedia:

> The courts that imported this common law doctrine into the digital world reasoned that electrical signals traveling across networks and through proprietary servers may constitute the contact necessary to support a trespass claim.

>Its real life equivalent to social engineering. Its so far not illegal for me to ask you things and for you to disclose them to me even if you weren't supposed to. I'm allowed to lie to you even to persuade you to tell me things.

This absolutely would be illegal and I'm not sure why you think otherwise. Misrepresenting yourself in order for me to reveal to you private information is fraud and is illegal in pretty much every jurisdiction I can think of.
My understanding is at Google it's counted as 33.3% time for every hour you are on-call with a 30 minute response time.

And 66.6% time for every hour you are on-call with a 5 minute response time.
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They could prevent you from spending the coins, though, by threatening anyone who accepts a transfer of the 'seized' coins.
Negligence only applies I'm situations where a reasonable person should have known. You're only able to be charged with trespassing whilst being unaware if you were to so ridiculously unaware of your surroundings that any reasonable person in the same situation _would_ have known that they were trespassing.

If a public park blends into somebodies private lawn you can't be charged with tresspassing for stepping over the line.
Doesn't it also paint an incomplete picture to present Apple's reassurances as backed by penalty of perjury when the most significant developments took place long after those statements in question? The fact that the iCloud China controversy happened years after those court filings was not disclosed in the original comment.

The concerns expressed by human rights groups such as Amnesty International are nothing so blatant as a direct backdoor, but the erosion of layers of protection that extend beyond technical measures. As the previously cited report notes:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/02/5-things-you-...

> Apple says it has control over encryption keys and that it won't allow backdoors. Won't that protect users in China?

> It all depends on the circumstances under which the company will allow GCBD – and the Chinese authorities – access to intelligible decrypted data on iCloud users. When users accept [the terms of service for iCloud in China](https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/icloud/en/gcbd...), they agree to allow their information and content to be turned over to law enforcement “if legally required to do so”. Significantly, from now on Apple will store the encryption keys for Chinese users in China, not in the US – making it all but inevitable that the company will be forced to hand over decrypted data so long as the request complies with Chinese law.

> Given that many provisions of Chinese law offer inadequate protection to privacy, freedom of expression and other rights, simply checking whether government information requests comply with Chinese law doesn’t address whether complying with the request might contribute to human rights violations. Apple hasn’t confirmed whether or how it will assess whether government information requests might violate users’ human rights. We won't really know how Apple will respond until it's put to the test, and unfortunately that’s probably just a matter of time.

> As for “backdoors”, or technical measures that would allow law enforcement or other government agencies to access unencrypted user data without having to ask for it, Apple’s commitment to prevent their use is admirable. But the commitment is meaningless if law enforcement can get the companies to decrypt user information simply by saying that it is for a criminal investigation.
That would just drop the BTC price to zero, making their rigs and own-held BTC worth absolutely nothing.
Because you can't use CL libs in EmacsLisp due to the incompatibility. And vice versa.
Two plain clothes FBI officers followed him into the Glen Park public library. A third, undercover, agent contacted Ross online and asked him to log into the silk road backend to fix something. The plainclothes engaged in a fake lover's tiff right behind Ross' chair, who then turned around to see what the commotion was. When he did so, the male officer pushed the laptop to the female officer, who took it and began extracting evidence. Ross stood up, and then was arrested without resistance. Evidence gathering happened in the library.
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If everything is 'Darwinism,' what's the point of the theory? What does it tell us? What explanatory power does it have? What possibilities does it exclude?

Darwin's original theory was groundbreaking because it could explain how you can get a large variety of species from one or a few simple organisms. But, if all one has to do to have a brilliant insight is to prefix 'Darwinian' to any process of change, then it all seems exceedingly pointless. I can write an app where you give it a name, and it prefixes 'Darwinian' and now you have a brilliant insight. I can replace a whole host of researchers with a Python script. It just seems ridiculous.
What, then, is your comprehensive alternative?

We probably, at this stage, need to approach this issue with a certainly level of moderated-panic, and attempt to address it on al lines across all levels.

It stands to reason that if the general population can influence corporate decision making that might have a knock-on effect to cause companies to influence government decision making.

I'd hazard a guess that Jeff Bezos ability to influence government policy far exceeds mine by orders of magnitude.
I've been reading comp.lang.c, comp.unix.programmer, comp.unix.shell, and several others for many years. They've all been quite active, though the past year there seems to be some turnover, with some older members seemingly disappearing and a few newer ones coming aboard. Newbies tend to lower the signal-noise ratio, but it'll pick back up some.

Those groups have been on a long-term decline, but it's been very slow, and there's still the occasional thread with substantive content as good or better than you'll find anywhere else.

I'm still subscribed to sci.crypt but that group sadly succumbed to crackpots and spam several years ago. There may still be some experts lurking but it's hard to see through the noise.

I absolutely hate web-based forums, so you can pry Usenet (and tin) from my cold, dead hands. HN would be awesome with NNTP access.
Note that you didn't actually defend Django, but just complained that a user pointed out a bunch of flaws of Django compared to Rails.

Ironically, the OP you're replying to is much more substantive than your own attack.
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> I've found the "what keeps you up at night" question has the most diverse responses.

> In general, I've been pretty surprised at the amount of apparent honesty I get. It's hard to verify the responses, of course, but any time I get a response that's not completely positive or 'canned' in some way, it seems pretty legit.

Could you please give a few high-level examples?