skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem it lookes like is that apple locked the account because they were reviewing something, but didn't say what, and didn't say why, and didn't provide any more information other than "just sit tight, we'll eventually tell you why your account is locked, and maybe unlock it." They even acknowledge this screws over the end users, but that's life and quit complaining.

And then that's it, for months.

That is DEFINITELY Apple's fault.
I don't think "nerd" holds the negative connotation it once did. All these ultra-wealthy silicon valley types, the abundance of tech in our daily lives, etc. have shaved away the edges on that term, imo. I certainly don't take offense to being a called a nerd, at least.
Boeing did though - they decided unintentional trim was the same as a flight system that was deliberately hidden from the pilots was just a “trim” issue.

They needed to classify it as a ordinary trim problem because otherwise they would have needed to have testing for it, which would have meant acknowledging MCAS existed.

The evidence that it wasn’t just a normal trim issue is the second crash, which occurred when pilots already knew about the design fault. When it turned out that it wasn’t physically possible for a pilot to take the corrective actions.

Boeing is still trying to blame the pilots for their own decision to fraudulently sell an unsafe aircraft.
Instacart and DoorDash used to deduct tips from the money paid to drivers so drivers make the same regardless of whether they receive tips or not. Instacart changed their policy in February 2019 while DoorDash changed it in the last month. Other delivery services like UberEats, Postmates, and Grubhub did not engage in this practice.
What are you talking about? The long term Clojure users are probably still using Clojure, based on the activity observed on Github repos. I think Java people who do not like Clojure much more inclined to use Scala and more recently Kotlin.
I have downvoted your comment, because I believe it does more to obscure understanding than to enlighten.

> when 400 people die for a company to save money

Let me take a step back and ask: Why?

Is it because we're vindictive, and demand blood? Or is it because this actually does something to help keep people from dying in the future?

If the latter is more important than the former -- which I hope is the case -- how can we trust that we're pursuing a course that improves the future of society while also using rhetoric to the effect of "when 400 people die for a company to save money"?

Consider, for instance: Part of reason for the company "saving money" is that it results in lower costs for planes, and ultimately lower airfare for customers who pay airlines' capital expenses, potentially resulting in fewer miles driven and fewer accident. Is reducing this statistical danger more or less than the danger of the planes? Quite possibly, it's not -- but using this rhetoric certainly won't help us find out.

More broadly the "omg greed" narrative, which -- to me, at least -- just doesn't make too much sense. If the corner-cutting that led to 737 Max problems is to be understood as a "greed" move, it's a pretty incompetent one, because Boeing is almost certainly out billions over the mess. People who seek to maximize profits for their own self-interest also seek to mitigate risk, for the same reason. I would suggest that a "hubris" narrative, or something similar, is probably more appropriate here.

If this is so, the remedies are entirely different, and the assertion that we MUST jail people, because it fits our "greed" narrative and whatever cognitive bias we drag into the picture, ensures that we will not remedy the problem effectively. This means people may die.
It’s largely down to security economics. Boot ROMs can eventually be bypassed although difficult. But the real goal is actually to make it difficult enough such that you require physical access, specialised equipment and knowledge in order to pull it off - essentially making sure attacks are difficult to scale.
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USDS & 18F seem to have been huge steps in the right direction. A future administration that cares about getting this right should look to them as a model.
Is there any evidence Minsky was a pedophile? What I heard is that Minsky once attended an Epstein party where an underage woman came on to him (at Epstein's behest) and he refused. And Stallman's comments were about that, not defending Epstein.

But now you say "Stallman came out to defend the pedophiles", so you must have some evidence I haven't heard.
> I've said it many times before. Biometrics should be used as usernames and not as passwords. You should be able to change a password.

This guidance isn't unique, though it is certainly accurate. Case in point sourced from 1999 when the differences between identification v. authentication in a biometric context were being hammered out: https://web.archive.org/web/19990508102505/http://biometrics...
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At least the first link has a pretty crazy cutoff though, 2018. Once a lib is mature it can easily go years without updates, doesn't mean development has been abandoned, much less usage.

But trying to compare across languages by package manager traffic or something would obviously be a lot harder.

In any case apparent zero velocity, whatever it's actually tracking, definitely shows that general interest (which constantly seems high) isn't really translating to really wide adoption.
I had a project with three implementations of merge (including lodash) and they all worked differently. After I fixed a handful of other people’s bugs due to using one and expecting the behavior of another, I felt a lot less guilty.
Do You Have a Right to Privacy Online?
I mean, that was also the 90s - I’ll bet there are quite a few good programmers within government. Your point stands that salaries and the gov value proposition isn’t competitive - to me it’s almost like a charity job.
Who referred to them using pejoratives?
> Step out of the box, and imagine for a second

Well, what you said is entirely true...from the perspective of someone using their imagination to form their world view.

In the world I can observe, business is neither inherently good or inherently evil. It tends to take on the morality or immorality of its owners and directors. I'll leave it to the reader to decide what kind of people tend to rise into those positions, and thus what kind of morality their businesses assume. Business is motivated by all kinds of incentives not necessarily related to "lower prices". Left unchecked, without guidance from the general public, those incentives will always converge on "profiting and growing" to the exclusion of everything else. I don't think this view requires imagination, but happy to be shown otherwise.
Oracle only got its grubby on Sun, because no one else saw any value doing a counter offer, including Google after doing their Java curved ball to Sun's licensing.
I think the trope that Americans are categorically right-wing compared to Europe is false. Just in 2017, the party that came in second in the Dutch elections proposed to ban the Quran and shut down all mosques. Le Pen, whose party is the offshoot of an actual Nazi party, won a third of the French vote. In the US, the idea of making English the national language is not something even Republicans push these days. In France, the idea of French as the national language is nearly universally supported. New Zealand and Ireland recently got rid of birthright citizenship. Attitudes that are part of the "mainstream right" in much of Europe would get you labeled a white supremacist in the U.S.

On the economic front, U.S. Democrats are to the left of the European (and Canadian and Australian) center in many respects. Macron is a "socialist" that is trying to privatize SNCF. Sweden is extremely market oriented, has school vouchers, etc. The EU keeps pressing forward on privatization efforts in various sectors like rail and utilities. Trump was late to the game compared to France, Germany, Sweden, etc., in terms of cutting corporate taxes.
But — after reading the article - do you believe the benefits outweigh the risks?
Redirect the urge. Reaching for your phone? Instead of going to your go-to porn site, send a love note to your wife, go pick some flowers for her, or otherwise find a way to express desire for her.
> It seems silly that a small team of government hired employees would know better than tens of thousands of Google, Amazon or Facebook experts.

Those tens of thousands of Google/Amazon/Facebook experts are not going to provide the government with objective recommendations, they're going to provide the government with recommendations that favor them. The idea of the government office of experts is to help make decisions that are objectively in the best interests of the people, not the corporations that are going to be affected by those decisions.

I work for a government office that, fortunately, is not hated by Republicans because it supports the military. But in this office our job is to ensure that private companies are giving the government good value and not feeding us a bunch of crap. I see the kind of shoddy workmanship they try to sneak past us all the time.

Is the libertarian perspective really that the government should just de facto trust all private companies and not try to provide oversight?

> Do you personally believe the Government can do a better job than the people?

The government is made up of people too.
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how is it different from those "function as service" platforms?
I don't get why you'd stop contributing to a software project because of the spokesperson of a related org. Was stallman a jerk to you personally? How would contributing to gcc be different with a different spokesperson for the fsf?
The official way America calculates poverty is deeply flawed
No, I'm sorry but your ideas don't line up with facts and data. It has less to do with the professionals and more to do with the sophistication of the multiple types of technology tracking the craft. Check out exactly how these crafts (and they are ET craft) were tracked over course of multiple days and then see if your comment still makes sense.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21013316
Also reminded me of an article (I'm having trouble finding it) about a master key for an apartment complex that had been stolen. The article published a picture of the master key itself and then more people were able to copy the master key...
What risks make that extraordinary cost worthwhile?
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> Opportunity cost is a property of time, not culture.

I'm aware, I have a degree in economics. I'm talking about cultural values that force constant optimization onto individuals as being deeply sick.

Regardless of if every action has some minmax strategy, it's not healthy to have individuals constantly running Bayesian analysis into if they should spend time with their family, or take a second job.
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Sure, but establishing this office includes setting out staffing procedures, so there exists a mechanism for this issue to be addressed. Whether it will be or not is another question.
Wow, your comment plus that link is a treasure trove of information! I have very little formal poetry education so I really appreciate your insight here. I'd love to make Versepad smart enough to handle these variations (similar to how it currently handles catalexis, for example). Thanks!
Almost everything winds up as a department under the executive branch, headed by a political appointee. But exceptions exist, like the Post Office and TVA.
> The onus is on those seeking change to explain why its necessary not on those for the status quo.

The issue is that those who listen to the arguments and make the decision may not know enough to counter the arguments.

Any tech company can come up with some argument to explain why a given change is necessary.
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I’m considering jail breaking to be able to force my phone to stay on 4G.

It’s a stupid omission by Apple to not have a “4G only” toggle. 3G connectivity really sucks and it’s annoying to randomly be downgraded when you have perfectly fine 4G coverage.
ah, no I got it: "They live", by John Carpenter

(great that https://www.adbusters.org/ thanks!)
We're arguing different things. I was responding to a criticism that implied the "remember your settings" feature has no value when compared to a vehicle where all settings are set with physical buttons.

The point you're arguing boils down to a difference of preferences and philosophy, which is of course perfectly fine. Not everyone has the same preferences.
There's no such thing as a legit "Dank Vapes" cartridge. The "brand" only exists as packaging for black-market cartridges. You can buy the cartridges and "branded" boxes by the hundreds on AliExpress.
> As someone who grew up in D.C. I disagree with this. Federal government employees try not to be overtly political, but they have a world view that is not necessarily representative of the country as a whole.

That's not what the comment was referring to in the slightest. You're disagreeing that water is wet because fire is hot. They aren't completely different things.
<rant>

As an aside, I find it interesting that we are still contained by the limitations of our surfaces, specifically paper and screens. Hell, one could throw stairs and ladders into that.

The result seems to be a mindset that the holy grail of software excellence is distilling our work down to a tree-based structure that will result in us experiencing some Thanos-like post-snap rest.

Yet, at the risk of mass downvotes, I dare say it doesn't particularly matter in 99% of our work. Unless you are working on software that could take/give life or increase/decrease suffering.

Does that mean we should just throw our hands up and build slop? No, it just means that perhaps we would all be better off if we embraced the ideal that our software is more like an organism than a space shuttle. Birth it, mold it, shape it, feed it. Let it grow into a robust, complex thing. Eventually, it will grow old and you can let it die. It will have been both beautiful and disgusting depending on whom you ask.

The point was to say software is at the very least three dimensional. Reducing it to anything less and applying a handful of labels that all end in "ability" will not have made your life worth living.

</rant>

Go outside today.
>> So every male at MIT is creepy then.
>Well, yes.

This is exactly the problem here. You, and many like you, are basically demonizing all men in MIT. For you, all men are guilty of being men and thus they should be removed.

Its incredible that society tolerates such discrimination. This is beyond fascism.
In the presence of a black market producing toxic products, prohibition is a reasonable response. Advocating prohibition right now, at the same time that you advocate for legalization & regulation, are not incompatible with each other.
React doesn't have some intricate patterns. It mostly advocates for a functional-style UI, where you do computation in the render cycle and keep state localized to a component.

Svelte gives you the exact same tools. I've been building React-based applications for years now and have been using Svelte for some projects on the side and in my opinion both are decent tools. Some of the Svelte "sugar" is easily replicated in React, it's just that React doesn't provide those out of the box; on the other hand, Svelte has some "gotchas" that don't appear in React.
> In fact when your DNA is taken for the military database it is explicitly stated that it will not be used for criminal cases. If anyone managed to search the database, that would certainly get thrown out by a court.

I wouldn't be so sure. Evidence observed during the execution of a warrant against the incorrect property is still valid and admissable, for example. Not saying this kind of thing applies in this specific case but thought the idea worth mentioning.
No, of course not. All numbers texted do, when you start a new conversation thread (to check if the number is enrolled in iMessage), though.
Market forces work where there is a market.

When the nature of the problem is such that rational customer behavior leads to one player taking all, the market deteriorates, and customers lose the benefits of competition.

This is a problem that the anti-monopoly laws exist to solve.

Another body of law prevents the federal government from seizing all the power, and to keep different branches on power competing without mergers and acquisitions of each other.

An anarchist / libertarian approach would work if minting your own interoperable coin was possible and reasonable. With gold coins, it is (was) technically trivial. Digital currency has still to solve this.
Combine that with physical keys copied from photos, audio surveillance by recording vibrations with a standard Web cam, movement detection through WiFi signals, first steps towards mind reading, and other creepy tech breakthroughs, it is certainly an interesting time to be alive.
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> Folks in D.C.--on both sides of the aisle--tend to be predisposed to believing in the superiority of the educated upper middle class, seeing government as the solution to various problems, etc.

This is spot-on. They also tend to think that their high level of visibility into their highly focused sector of government bureaucracy (wherever it is they happen to work) has granted them broad and trenchant insight into the right answers for domestic and foreign policy. This attitude tends to come with a healthy side portion of disdain for the ability of non-DC people to comprehend any degree of political nuance.
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If "open ecosystems" thrive, where are all of the products making money directly from selling products on their websites?

Is 2019 the "year of the Linux desktop"? Where are all of the apps on Android that does allow alternative app stores that are making any significant amount of money without being in the Play store?
>>No one says "I want to be a nerd!"

No, we do at this point. There's plenty of people who like it, but I will also accept that there's plenty of people who don't. I consider myself a nerd, and use the term "nerd" to or "nerdy" to describe myself and many of my hobbies. I mean there's websites out there like Nerdarchy that are clearly owning the phrase.

Similar to how plenty of LGBTQ+ people use "queer" and there's no chance in hell you would ever here me self identify as that personally, despite fitting the commonly usage of it.
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Of course they are "connected." I was explaining the confusion. However, "connected" is not the same as meaning the same thing.

1. idiom: a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).

2. idiomatic: using, containing, or denoting expressions that are natural to a native speaker.

Also "connected" is "idiosyncratic," and that means yet a third thing. "Idiosyncratic programming" would be the opposite of what you want!

(Definitions from Oxford University Press / https://www.lexico.com/en)
It seems like everyone who owns affected phones has to carry a "usb condom" from now on.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=usb+condom&t=h_&ia=web
Please see exactly how these objects were tracked before you degrade these researchers work. They're using the scientific method but you are not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21013316
I believe the distinction you’re looking for is Civil Service vs Appointed positions. The Civil Service is composed of employees who are hired and managed competitively (to the extent allowable by the unions and massive red tape...). Appointed positions are executive roles filled by the whim of the president, or the whim of someone the president delegates to. The most powerful appointed positions require Senate confirmation.
As someone who grew up in DC and lived there for an adult I cannot disagree with this more.
> Business is motivated by all kinds of incentives not necessarily related to "lower prices"

I would posit that business is virtually never motivated by "lower prices" and always motivated by "profiting and growing". Not that profiting and growing is inherently evil, but I think the idea that businesses strive to lower prices for consumers is truly fantasy.
Best I can tell, methane from fecal matter, environmental impacts from grazing and irrigation of grazing land, and sheep dip is some nasty stuff.

OTOH, I would argue my wool items (t-shirts, underwear, as well as larger items) don't need to be washed nearly as often, and especially in comparison to cotton (an environmental disaster in most ways) t-shirts, they last a lot longer.

I dunno, I try to avoid cotton, rayon (et. al.), "bamboo" (mmm, not really), and the see-through shit you get at the mall. But I've got to wear something, so that's about the limit of effort I'm willing to put into it.
Great point. I upvoted it
Are there no facts, only interpretations?
You seem to be sarcastically suggesting that it'd be dumb to dismiss such sightings because we have those planes today. It'd still be correct to dismiss the stone age sighting of something like a modern airplane, since they weren't around yet.
I'm 47, and finally stopped daydreaming about a different life when I was around your age. You need to make the life you have better instead of fantasizing about escape. Work less, spend more time with your wife, spend more time with your friends. It worked for me
How do MMOs maintain and update state for tens of thousands of players and then push those updates from the server back to clients efficiently?
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Great analysis. Interesting side effect of devs hobby projects scrapping off the HN has created pbns like impact on seo.
Argh, that should be "there's more to Twitter than Trump," not the reverse.
> > Anything that guides an investigation is supposed to be admissable evidence or else you get into fruit of the poisonous tree territory, which is illegal.

> Slight correction here.

> The FPT doctrine makes it so most[0] evidence obtained illegally cannot be admitted. It doesn't work in reverse, it does not imply that all inadmissible evidence is illegal.

> For example, the first half of many investigations is full of inadmissible hearsay, before you narrow in on what happened and find the people who actually saw something and can testify. There's nothing wrong with talking to people to figure out who knows things, and see how stories changed when they were told to different people, so you can more fully understand what happened.

> How this applies to your main question --

> It might be very difficult to use a DNA database company results in a US court because you might have to involve a ton of witnesses to vouch for every part of the process. Suppose the defense asked, "But how do we know the post office didn't mix up different samples that day!?" You would be forced to either (a) have the USPS provide testimony establishing a full chain of custody, or (b) just test the defendant now to verify the match. It will always be easier to do (b), so I'd guess[1] everyone just skips to that step.

I never thought of this but it would be surprising if the USPS _didn't_ maintain some sort of chain of custody of mail items, at least at the bag level or whatever unit they use.
It'd be hilarious if the EU hit them with GDPR violations, just to rub some salt in the wounds.
I don't know about these videos but when I called my neighborhood locksmith to deal with a lock I'd misplaced the key to, it took about 20s to pick... It would seem to make sense to me if you were trying not to call attention
Why bad scientific theories live for so long