skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no 1% of PR firms that have Reddit/Twitter bot armies, that's a crazy conspiracy theory.

There are also plenty of companies that are "doing things like SEO" but none of them run networks of interconnected websites that they all control or content farms because those tactics stopped fooling Google over a decade ago.
You don't "own" your own debt. The bank / other entity you are indebted to "owns" the debt, hence why they can sell it to a debt collector for pennies on the dollar. Instead of owning your debt, you are liable (or there's a better word than "liable") for your debt. Basically, you already "sold" your debt when you first became indebted.

It's not really a dumb question. I get why people might look at their debt as something they own, given the debt itself is tied to their identity and credit score until paid off.
Go can not be simple, because software itself is a complex beast, language really does not matter.

One thing that gophers say a lot is the count of Go's keywords is minimal. This is true literally, only 25 keywords as of Go 1.13. But it does not reduce the complexity of writing code, it just hides them.

For example, Go does not have the `new` keyword, but it has `make` function, which is so powerful that one of my friends actually thought `make` was a keyword of Go.
Simple solution: A limit.
Have you considered that the police may have been effective?
> You can say this, but I'm pretty sure my post history tells another story.

Having read many of your post in threads on similar topics and having replied to a few, I'm sorry to say that I must agree with others that your post history pretty clearly doesn't.
xwolfi mentioned having sex with his future wife when she was 17. it's a safe bet to say that he sees being staggeringly boring as a moral imperative, or the natural way of things, or something to that effect.

it would follow from there that he genuinely doesn't believe others are capable of holding to abstract values like free speech, that it's all just cover for petty self-interest all the time.
It's not as intangible as most people think. Executive compensation very often has bonuses and incentives tied to share price so the incentives don't even have to be business wide, they just have to be set up for the people ultimately in charge.
It seems insensitive to communicate an outage to a customer using an animated gif. If I’m paying for and/or depend on your service, i would like to know that you’re taking the issue seriously.
same. was mainly buying sony phones for the last few years but the xz1 compact was the last one. they just lost the plot after that. now I've moved to Samsung and the s10e which is too big for my liking but it's the only phone around today that ticks all the boxes I want
Half the pulsars we see could be this big, or even bigger. This is just a rare one they could measure.
> too cognitive-heavy

Don't underestimate people's intelligence! (Or overestimate your own.) I think people will get it. Javascript is also very cognitive heavy.
The lawsuit[1] itself gives a lot more details.

This is horrifying to think that Lyft does not even cooperate: "45. Throughout the investigation by the NYPD and the FBI, LYFT has been wholly
uncooperative."

[1]: https://www.levinsimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Levin-...
In case people are interested in the paper
https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/emergent-tool-use/paper/...
That pew global survey on china is not too far from the US attitude.

Homosexual conversion camps were invented and still exist legally in the US.
Dolby gets every other Friday off AFAIK.
I would be surprised if this doesn't get noticed for next year's Ig Nobels.
China is trying to steal military space tech.The US is running stings to stop it
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An “ideal” solution doesn’t really exist. Lyft is never going to be in a position to adjudicate these cases in a substantive way.

Nevertheless, they have no choice but to find a balance between the concerns of their customers, the rights of their drivers and their own business concerns. Completely ignoring the concerns and safety of their customers is probably not the right balance.

[edit: hit something by accident to post too early, still writing...]

They probably need something like:

- triage all customer complaints very quickly to establish the level of seriousness of the complaint. They might be something like: [4] - poor service (late, slow, dirty car, unnecessary stops); [3] - breach of professional behavior (like asking out a customer) [2] - incidental danger like speeding; [1] - allegations of serious crimes. This is off the top of my head. I’m sure a much better set could be generated.

- take immediate action on [1] - [3], based on the nature of the allegation. For [1] it might be immediate suspension because customer safety trumps the driver’s needs. Though the company could provide a kind of insurance that pays drivers while suspended but before a determination is made. That’s a balance that puts customers safety first, drivers second and company revenue third (assuming they are paying for the insurance). [2] and [3] would have lessor consequences.

- a determination is made on all allegations, where the driver could be fired, continue driving, be temporarily suspended, etc. For [4] that determination might be based on the number and frequency of complaints. [1] might be based on the creation of a police report or some other bar for credibility. In other words for [1], if the customer makes an allegation of a serious crime and follows through with a police report, the driver is fired. That’s could turn out to be unfair in some cases, but remember, no company is going to be in a position to make a determination of truth (think about it: the criminal justice system is a massive and complex system dedicated to this purpose and it’s not exactly great at the job).
Has anybody worked out yet how the polar "jets" work, or how they stay collimated over light years distant? How precisely would particle ejected need to be aimed to still be nearby other particles out that far? What could provide such precision?
You do that by increasing the physical size of the components
China is different. It's success has been around a lot longer then the USSR and it's growth is one that is not comparable. The rate of GDP growth is unpresendented not just in recent history... But in human history.
You're right, I'm wrong, it's a debt that counts against you, but also an asset that counts for you, cancelling each other out (assuming market value of the home == mortgage amount)
This paragraph is somewhere in the middle of the article so maybe it's easy to miss:

"The TJ100 however not only has much lower thrust than the original KH-55 engine but also is just your regular old turbojet. This leads to some questions about range. Both the missile’s smaller size and its more fuel-hungry engine make it seem unlikely it’s range would be anywhere close to the the Soumar’s/Hoveyzeh’s range of 1350km "

So no, the attacks did not happen with the Quds-1 missile, but rather with a much more advanced one. A missile in the same class as the Tomahawk, or the KH-55. These missiles are not garage-level technology.
Here's some more backstory on the police aspect: https://www.thedailybeast.com/assault-victims-sue-nypd-over-...

So yes, apparently/allegedly, the police did fail, and the FBI is (apparently?) looking into the claims.
It's not applied equally in the US either. Cops enjoy applying the law unequally to people of color. There's tons of examples in the US. Tons.
That's the author's allegation, but how would they even know about any communications between the police and Lyft?
> So where's your proof? Again, you are saying the same thing as your last, which is, I know better because I am Chinese.

As compared to you who's not even close to being familiar with the situation, who managed to read a whole Wikipedia article on the subject? You bet!

> Ad hominem

Ooh, fancy, I don't know what that means, you win that one there, automatically!

>> unless you intend to misinform and mislead

>Accusation with no proof. Just name calling.

Oops! Misquotation fail. You left the "unless" in there this time, which made it clear I wasn't making an accusation.
My point is that morality actually has a jurisdiction. It isn’t as well defined as legal jurisdiction, but it does exist.

China is a great example where the morals are very different. Barring a few extra territorial laws (corruption, child prostitution for Americans), the jurisdictions are disjoint.
https://www.coalfire.com/Solutions/Coalfire-Labs/Red-Team-Ex... does list physical testing, but who knows what the agreement was.

The case numbers are 05251 FECR042175 and 05251 FECR042176 if anyone's interested: https://www.iowacourts.state.ia.us/ESAWebApp/DefaultFrame. The latest appears to be that this guy is representing them: http://www.grllaw.com/blog/attorneys/Matthew-Lindholm-A3.asp...
I mean, they perhaps should focus instead on absolutely nailing it in their position, or acquiring skills to do so, or to study to find a better position, rather than trying to benefit random companies they have nothing to do with, because if you hit it out of the park at work that will actually be rewarded, generally, whereas there is no reason to expect open source work to pay off.
Why not create few architectural documents , start a project on github and let the people jump in ?
I couldn't of put it better myself. There's real ignorance in america, many people don't agree with you, simply because they've never been to china.
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> That's the author's allegation

That's a fair point.
Oh no, not this. Every new release means hours spent on rebasing patches, investigating why the new version won't compile and then create more patches. When Firefox finally builds, I now have to find out what they have removed/changed that worked fine before, and what new crap that should be disabled in about:conf. I need LESS of this, not more..
You don't understand the level of local corruption in Iowa. To be effective the State couldn't tip off County security.
You're not obliged to update every four weeks. Why not continue updating as often as you currently do?
For most people that's the wrong question. If you have capital that can be applied to long term resolute ideals you likely don't have to worry about capital in general. We all know fossil fuels have have an expiration date. We can easily state that money invested in building next generation power acquisition, delivery and storage will displace them. But again, you need a stack of chips to play.
It’s a pull “request,” i.e. a request for someone else to pull your changes. I don’t follow your argument.
when you are able to share your bt audio with someone sitting next to you like you can with 3.5mm (ie sharing one of the buds or using a splitter) then Bluetooth will be ready. when batteries are good enough to last a few weeks or can change up instantly then I could see myself switching.

for the moment I'm going to try out using a bt receiver (just bought a fiio btr3 a few days ago) and when the battery goes i can just switch back to 3.5mm instead of having to wait half an hour for bt headphones to charge back up which is such a daft idea when you consider the price of them
Well ya, but also TV.
The long term extended support release might be a suitable option for you in that case...

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/enterprise/
Very cool.

Also, if you're into this sort of thing here's the first in a seven video series on a very different mechanical computer - Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer which does Fourier Analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAsM30MAHLg
Other articles have pointed out that she hadn't immediately reported the rape to Lyft. The medium article makes it sound like Lyft were completely indifferent to the kidnapping and rape, but the related articles seem to agree that the first contact Lyft had was a complaint regarding her charge.
Lyft themselves claim that the police had not given them a subpoena for information until six months after the incident had taken place. I'm very sympathetic towards Ms Turkos and feel for what she's been through, but the way this article is written is very disingenuous.
If you ever been to China, in general, you are safer from my anecdotal experience.
We built a tool around this essay to help better coordinate across maker and manager time: https://www.getclockwise.com/

At the core, it defragments your calendar, but it also provides a suite of utilities to help you better organize your time (color coding, Slack status, personal calendar sync, auto travel time, etc.). PG's essay has been a consistent point of inspiration for us.

Engineering teams at teams from 5 – 1000 use us. Give it a try and let me know what you think.
A Thinkpad W520 in a fire at a local Lenovo dealer back in 2013 still works
I wish it was possible... as of now Darklang is mostly a language that only runs inside of Dark; that will be a problem in the future, but I understand that it's early days, and this was the sound decision to do now. Godspeed!
This also changed fairly recently. Cost of living and cost of tuition have skyrocketed over a generation or two, while wages have not (outside of tech, anyway). My parents generation could take out modest student loans and pay them along with a mortgage payment on a starter home with a single income. So what worked out just fine for them is setting kids up for disaster these days.
They "did not intend, or anticipate, those efforts to include the forced entry into a building"

Isn't that the point of the test? If you thought you were properly anticipated all attack vectors you wouldn't need the test. Or if you did, it would be to find out if you were right.

It will be interesting to see what the actual RFP or statement of work said on the matter though. If it was specific in mentioning only electronic methods, that's a problem. It doesn't seem like it should be a "Charge them with felony burglary" problem though. More like "make them pay damages" (if any)
Made me think of the Tarahumara[0].

>> The Tarahumara word for themselves, Rarámuri, means "runners on foot" or "those who run fast" in their native tongue according to some early ethnographers like Norwegian Carl Lumholtz, though this interpretation has not been fully agreed upon. With widely dispersed settlements, these people developed a tradition of long-distance running up to 200 miles (320 km) in one session, over a period of two days through their homeland of rough canyon country, for inter-village communication, transportation, and hunting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rar%C3%A1muri
No worries. It is rather the date that you compare it to that changed (filing rather than invention). I could have expressed that more clearly.

It actually does change the dates for when patent documents are considered prior art (as described in the first paragraph I referenced), so it is easy to get the issues confused.

The effects of first to file on how prior art works are, in my opinion, way more important than the litigation edge condition it eliminated.
Thank you I think I was confused on that point.
That's quite a bit for this world. How about $1 for a nice island?
If he's squeaky clean, why is he scared shitless of people seeing his finance records
You seem to be familiar with these things, so I hope you don't mind if I ask a tangential question: if dark matter is WIMPs, then there's a change that under sufficiently extreme conditions the WIMPs produce interactions with detectable outcomes. Maybe neutron stars offer just such conditions. Is anyone looking at neutron stars in search for evidence for dark matter?
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Divestment or investment due to ESG score goals is effective. Internal decisions at F500 oil & gas companies are being made with ESG in mind due to the amount of capital increased scores open up.

Source: work for an oil & gas company
I wish they pushed harder to explain the real linchpin of this mans fall from riches and success. I wonder if it was not knowing what “enough” really was or if the pursuit of a facade of high class living did him in? Business “troubles” leaves a lot to be desired.

Sometimes I think I’m too frugal, but stories like this still scare the hell out of me (even though I’m only in my mid twenties). Any older HN members have thoughts on this?
The court is claiming it wasn't a prearranged part of the test that they were aware of. It will be up to the company to prove that it was.

> But it added that the administration “did not intend, or anticipate, those efforts to include the forced entry into a building.”

It's possible they misunderstood something in the contract such as what physical entry means and the scope of red teaming.

In the article it said they were aware of a forced entry made at another court house, but I'm assuming it was after the fact and the security company told them they did it before? If it was before the test then that changes the story but I dont know why they'd admit it to the press otherwise.

> Iowa’s State Court Administration also said in the statement that it had been made aware of a break-in at the Polk County Historic Courthouse in nearby Polk County on Sept. 9 that was similar in nature to the break-in at the Dallas County Courthouse.

The fact they courts aren't fully supporting the guys raises a lot of questions.

It's not like the guys were caught doing anything for personal gain. But there's a small possibility they wanted to show off their ability and keep it hyper realistic, and crossed a lined that should have been better communicated.
It's crazy that conventional cabs have established means to get around this in lieu of very unstable work (stable as in yearly income but not as in consistent demand curve). There's so many employment laws that harm companies without a consistent demand curve, this just seems to guarantee more money will pour into self driving tech and people will lose this earning option sooner.
> They only real negative in my view is the startup time which is noticeably worse than vim for me.

Check that this is not e.g. due to Python host detection/setup - you might have plugins that trigger both py2/py3 hosts to load for example. (hosts can be configured explicitly to skip it)
Also check `nvim --startuptime /tmp/nvimlog`.
> but IMO (criminal?) negligence to not protect other passengers from this person

So, what's your suggested fix? We should let any unproven accusation be enough to deny someone their income?

As far as I can see, the only reasonable course of action is to provide as much data as you can about the driver and location of the vehicle to police and let them sort it out before acting against the driver.
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> I was surprised that Lyft quickly gave her the reimbursed fee, but without doing any extra follow up with her.

I consider that amazing customer service tbh, and it has solved many of my grievances with trips.

I am contributing to this conversation to let you know what some others users like me do, and what Lyft sees.
This lawsuit is mostly about paragraph five of the NDA:

> 5. I hereby assign to the United States Government all royalties, remunerations, and emoluments that have resulted, will result or may
result from any disclosure, publication, or revelation of classified information not consistent with the terms of this Agreement.

https://www.gsa.gov/forms-library/classified-information-non...

Download SF312-13.pdf.
Well, it may be necessary to tell them, but there needs to be a backstop in place, a contract to wave around, proper identification, a live phone number to call to get confirmation, etc. The cops will still be pissed, if you weren't careful in following their instructions when they caught you then you might find yourself tasered and soaked in someone's urine (hopefully your own, I guess) But you wouldn't be, as these two are, getting charged with felony burglary.
Isn't that the job of the SIM card, not an app? SIM cards have been able to support roaming and multiple networks since day 1.
While nice in principal... that adds friction to your ability to be promoted.

Usually someone promoted someone into a role to fill a specific need. If you need x months before you can cut over, that decreases your ability to fill any but the longest term needs.

If however you can leave almost at a “drop of a hat” because you have someone that can fill your spot, then the moment the org has a need you can fill, BAM you fill the need. Much lower friction.
You can just try with reporting them as an issue on GitHub.. :)
You're attributing that he's scared, when he is simply exercising his right to conduct his personal business privately.
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There's a lack of substance in this article. Why is it that this alleged rapist, kidnapper, and his associates are not in prison? I don't see why Lyft is responsible for criminal acts performed by their contractors/employees. Even if they didn't do background checks, which they do, why should they be responsible?

That said, Lyft insisting she pay for the ride is an incredibly strange twist. Maybe it's a legal maneuver? They've refunded a ride to me for something as simple as a dirty car that caused me to need to dry clean my clothing.

edit: From another article, it becomes clear. Lyft didn't know it was an alleged rape.

>Lyft says that when Alison Turkos originally reported the incident to them, she didn’t mention the rape and only sent a message to support asking them to look into the ride. They argue that they basically had no way of knowing she had been raped. We’ve read the messages she sent.

>We first became aware that this was a safety incident when the Wall Street Journal published an article on May 8, 2018. We received a subpoena from law enforcement on May 14, 2018, six months after the ride took place. We complied with the subpoena and worked with law enforcement for over a year as they investigated.

Something about this stinks.
An Intermediate Representation for Optimizing Machine Learning Pipelines [pdf]
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Most, if not all, of the code samples allow selecting Kotlin or Java.
They added reader mode to firefox for android in 2012 it took them 3 years to add this to desktop firefox and almost a year to actually add a hotkey that you can't configure.

Firefox 38 for reader 50 for a hotkey.
Lyft claims it's because she didn't tell them, and neither did the police.

>Lyft says that when Alison Turkos originally reported the incident to them, she didn’t mention the rape and only sent a message to support asking them to look into the ride. They argue that they basically had no way of knowing she had been raped. We’ve read the messages she sent.

>We first became aware that this was a safety incident when the Wall Street Journal published an article on May 8, 2018. We received a subpoena from law enforcement on May 14, 2018, six months after the ride took place. We complied with the subpoena and worked with law enforcement for over a year as they investigated.
This kind of situation is what "paid leave" is for. Ride-share companies have the extra employee/contractor divide, but in this case, getting the driver off the road is probably worth the cost in both damages and reputation while the issue is sorted out.
+1 for the narrator using the traditional "Los-an-guh-lus" pronunciation instead of today's "Los-an-ju-less," popularized by The Brady Bunch and other 70's television programs.

I prefer "Los-an-ju-leez," as that was a common style among radio announcers. But all three are officially correct, according to an LA Times article I read years ago.
It seems odd. A halligan bar is basically a hybrid between a large crow bar and a pick axe. Seems strange for a sort of multi-tool to be illegal when its individual components are just fine (and equally up to the breaking -> entering job)
Just got an Office 365 update. Suddenly all icons are different for no good reason and without warning.