skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked into some of such cases in Germany, there the answer was definitely yes. Names and addresses, coupled with extremely sensitive medical information.
This is awesome! Can't believe it is still the purple Google Form in the backend.
Too risky for falling asleep.
How on earth would skipping the tie harm your ability to execute?
Well "logical" just leads us down a weird path here. Is it "logical" to hire disabled employees at all? It's a lot of work to make your office accessible, so the "logical" answer would be to only hire able bodied people.

Thankfully the world doesn't actually work that way. We make buildings accessible because it's the right thing to do, and because society has decided that excluding people (who are already greatly disadvantaged) is wrong.

Rules like ADA aren't designed to make the most logical sense, they're designed to work. If you don't mandate the shutdown of the inaccessible booths then the company has very little incentive to fix the problem.
It doesn't. I owned such a thing in an area where the reception was poor back in the 90s. It just meant that it wasn't very useful, because I usually didn't get the messages.
Indeed. The "lovable bumbling fool" image he puts across is a very conscious choice on his part. Despite what you think about his politics (and I'm personally not a fan) you can't deny that Johnson is much smarter than he wants us to think.
A warranty is a signal to the consumer about expected lifetime. And different manufacturers offer different warranties. For example, Kia/Hyundai offer 10 year, 100k mile warranties.
All I'm saying mate, is that we don't pronounce it Yiml now, do we. :D
And presumably you'd happily send your child to a pedophile's classroom as long as he only blogs about how pedophilia is completely fine?
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Is it? Proof to me means I can say "here's the answer" without saying how I found it, maybe I just tried a few random things, and just prove that it's correct.

For instance, for a polynomial I might show that my answer solves the equation, and that I have as many solutions as the degree.

Maybe that goes for "show your work" too? As I didn't study in the US, I don't know what a teacher would expect when saying that particular phrase.
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> Being a sick drug addict and winning tournaments was just raw ability.

And lots of luck. The variance in low sample sizes is ridiculously high, especially in tournaments.
A warranty isn't the same as a life expectancy, but it is a signal to consumers about life expectancy. As a general rule, a product with a longer warranty will have a longer life expectancy.
DuckDuckGo is Bing without the tracking. Bing is generally a very good search engine, to be fair.
Yeah you can lose your job if you say stupid things in public. This is how it works in the real world at least.
You argue as if protecting the environment was optional. And you start your argument with the hidden assumption that what consumers want should trump all other concerns.

I don't necessarily agree with downvoting your post, but your argument _is_ poorly constructed. It seems to come from a place of reflexively opposing regulation, rather than thinking about whether this makes sense. In other words, I think people downvote because it doesn't seem to be in good faith, but ideologically driven.
If anyone's curious this references the 8.3 filename shortening that windows was even still doing recently.

Amusingly, that tiny bit of backward compatibility can lead to vulnerabilities as outlined here: https://www.acunetix.com/blog/articles/windows-short-8-3-fil...
One day, when the vests run out, I’ll write an article about my time at AWS...

It’s not nearly this bad but there are some stories that are worth telling.
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I don't know about you, but I don't think forgetting that you believe sex with children can be fine is any better really.
> Every organization has whackadoo indoctrination.

Nope. Just whackaddo organizations. I'd argue the Marine Corps is included in that, but at least they have the excuse of needing soldiers to be able to depend on each other for their lives. Snap... not so much.
Being over-simplistic: Southern Europe lacks good management.

Southern Europeans workers are wanted everywhere - they are productive when working in a different environment - so the problem must be extrinsic. It's very common that they are more educated than their bosses in their home country.
No, I argue that protecting the environment should be based on facts and actual data, instead of being ideologically driven and that people's actual behaviour should not be ignored.

My argument isn't poorly constructed, I commented to promote discussion not to be lynched. You are trying to second guess what I wrote too much. It seems very common here for people to try to see implied meaning everywhere instead of reading what is actually written.

The sad reality is that it is not possible to think critically and to dissent on many topics these days. It is already decided what the correct opinion is, facts are irrelevant. Look at my comments in this thread: There are no reasoned replies to any of them...
High time, tech needs some desperately needs to diversify from the silicon valley culture.
The link is entirely of your making, I even explicitly stated that I'm using an extreme example.
No, you can definitely send a text message to them, they just don't have the ability to send anything back.
If it's just about information transparency, how do you enforce honesty? What's to stop me saying that my kettle is designed to last 1000 years?
The article says there are animations which “bring the story to life”. Normal adult readers don’t need pictures and animations to aid engagement/understanding - people who are more used to watching movies or reading series of tweets/reaction gifs might.
An argument only holds if its premises are true. "Scott Adams claims X" is very weak evidence for X. He's a cartoonist with a history of making flimsy, self-flattering pronouncements.

Let's see some actual research supporting the notion that a third of the population reads and interprets satirical content as straight fact.
> Greta Thunberg is not always there to tell you what to think...

Oh, you aren't actually interested in arguments? Why didn't you tell us earlier!
The forgotten 90s JavaScript... I wonder who created this terrible API in the first place:

window.open("about:blank", null,
"height=500,width=500,top=100,left=100");

i.e. this argument list as string. It looks like a workaround for language limitations, such as passing an object/dictionary. Why was it done with the string in the 90s?
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I don't think it is a different issue. The object of the exercise is to allow disabled people to participate on an equal footing. A few nominal concessions that aren't sufficient to achieve this does not do that.

I don't think blocked cycle lanes are a good point of comparison as they don't fulfil their intended function when blocked.
Yes, his actions and words had consequences. Is this a new idea to you?
Social media == bad. Therefore this == bad?
Cultural attachment to cars impeding driverless vehicle adoption
Wow, that's damn impressive. It makes me consider to start following politics, I wonder what other fantastic moves this guy (or somebody else) routinely uses that I never heard of.
I've noticed quality of ordinary things has been declining for a long time now. Some things are better due to new technologies. Lot of stuff has just regressed.
That's a rather extreme generalization, isn't it? Not all humans are equally remorseless and prone to carelessly harm others, whatever the entities they interact with and the acculturated categorizations they project on them.

Now we can certainly come with statistics of tendencies, but to my mind they seem to be condemned with cultural biases. Not only the human brain plasticity is molded by the culture where it is immersed, so any data will tell us more about the result of such a culture than about "human inherent tendencies", but even the way we will decide to analyze them and consider/interpret the outcomes will depend on our culture (and our current mood or other more "local" psychological factors).

With that in mind, it's hard to categorically conclude that humans are fundamentally "psychopaths in [their] relation to animals". Dominant cultures, offspring of predatory cultures, surely help to foster such a behavior. That doesn't require it to be an intractable instinctive trait.
This may be controversial view, but I'm with Bret Victor on this. Of course, we should do as much as possible to make everything accessible to everyone. But we should not strive for a single universal interface that's accessible to all, because that's sacrificing both the best and the average case for the worst case.

Consider books and vision loss. The tried-and-true solution to make books accessible is printing them in Braille. But nobody in their right mind would be suggesting we should only ever print books in Braille, because then it's equally accessible. It would be more "fair", but it would also be a ridiculous waste for the 99.5% of the world's population[0].

If we were to equalize all our technology and processes across all accessibility issues, our civilization would collapse - it would mean nothing depending on body motion, on body sensitivity, sight, sound, speech, taste, pain. The union of all existing disabilities is a life of a rock.

So since we can't really have a truly universal interface[1], we may as well give up on trying to design technology to the lowest common denominator, losing most of the benefits it gives, and instead design it to play to the strengths of human body. Fallback options should be available where possible, but at some point we have to understand that until medical technology homogenizes our bodies, not everyone will be equally suitable to every task.

(And I say that as someone who has always dreamed of being a pilot or an astronaut, but for whom that career path was cut off by large nearsightedness early in teenage years.)

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[0] - "36 million people are blind" according to https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/blindness-a...

[1] - At least not until a proper brain-computer interface exists, and we all interact with everything using our thoughts.
There are certainly a lot of cheaply/poorly build appliances covered in some shiny stainless or whatever the fashionable appliance sheathing of the moment is. New luxury developments have been pretty notorious for doing that sort of thing with the household appliances.
> is a lowering in standard of living

Eh, what if we need to lower our living standards ? The earth is a finite space with finite resources. Do you really think we can get 8b people live like the average US/EU citizen ? We can barely do it with < 2b and it's already too much pressure on the environment.

What's the end goal ? We all have cars, amazon same day drone delivery, eat meat 3 times per day and go on vacation every 3 months ? Is that humanity's endgame ? Most intelligent specie on earth, intelligent enough to comprehend the issue, too primitive to act on it, if that's humanity's fate it's kind of ironic, I like it in some way. "I want it all today even if it means I won't have anything tomorrow"

> Yeah, fuck that. I'm not giving up on any of it. Now what? What are you gonna do about it? Remember, I'm billions of people.

I'll be long dead before it starts having real world impacts. But at least I can sleep at night knowing I'm not actively trying to make things worse for future generations. Earth will be fine even if we fuck it up, life will most likely survive and thrive. All in all it wouldn't be that bad, just like when dinosaurs went extinct, but instead of a natural disaster it's mass suicide.
Allow me to substitute autism for a different handicap and see if you still agree:

If you have a condition where you have trouble not swearing, while also running an influential organization and acting as its figurehead, you need to be able to mitigate these issues. If this means you have an assistant who you run emails by before sending them, so be it. If female colleagues are putting plants in their offices because they know you don't like plants and it will deter you from visiting them, you either need to recognize that on your own and do something about it, or allow a trusted someone to help you fix the situation.
tourettes isn't an excuse for bad behavior. It can explain some bad behavior, but that bad behavior cannot continue over decades; it must be dealt with in some manner.
Does this mean I can now repair the OS of my phone?
I'm glad you brought this specific quote from this specific author, because to me it presents some very interesting questions.

On one hand, I used to follow Scott Adams' blog when he made that assertion and a couple other ones. His point, if I remember correctly, boiled down to "I'm going to present an obviously wrong idea, argue in favor of it, and see where it takes us". In this context, his assertion about people not "getting" humor referred to people taking his hypotheticals for a fact even though he clearly labeled them as "but what if...?". The example that comes to mind is when he argued "What if we assumed that men are rapists by nature, and modeled society around this fact?" and people attacked him for "affirming" that all men are rapists.

On the other hand, he has become one of the stronger Trump supporters I've ever seen (which is not necessarily bad), pointing out how everything he does is a great calculated move to what I consider a delusional extent (which is kind of bad - his POV currently seems to be "by asking Ukraine to investigate his opponent, Trump was doing the country a service"). By reading his blog, I got more and more the feeling that his "what if" questions were not an academic thought exercise, but rather a way to push some toxic beliefs he holds while having the plausible deniability of "it's just a hypotetical".

So my point being: this quote by Scott Adams can go both ways. Maybe he's right and humans are very bad at understanding humor and/or satire, and my two points are in no way related. But I wouldn't rule out the other possibility: that humans are actually very good at spotting what's behind the mask, and that those 30% of people are those who didn't fall for his trick and rightfully called him out for it.
One one hand some might think that there's no "model case" if top 3 results don't mention anything on the subject. On the other hand, Android and Chrome mobile keeps suggesting articles based on my interest. If I follow brexit then this might pop up more so it could be used for subconscious manipulation even if I don't click just read the headline.
Nevertheless the same issue applies. You can't build everything from standard components.
It's almost as if they're aimed at completely different audiences!
How on earth can this be changed, though? Culture is extremely resistant to being changed by fiat, and the governance and leadership of Italy isn't up to achieving a national transformation either.
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Electric cars give away fuel that ships can now use. Of course there’s nowhere to put fuel which shops used to use
Not gonna lie, I read the title as

Facebook to Exempt The Onion and Satire from Fact-Checking
I can see the security benefit of a virtualized desktop, and in some industries I understand that that's enough to justify this kind of solution.

Aside from that, I don't see so many benefits. The company still needs to provide to each employee a device, and training. I don't see many savings on this side. Companies going for cheap devices will still go for cheap devices, while those looking for higher end devices won't settle for cheap alternatives. Besides, SSD and CPU are now very cheap, so you can get very good configurations for cheap. On the other hand, batteries are still expensive, and virtualization might drain them more than using the local CPU depending on the use case.

If the added value is the easier configuration phase and maintenance for IT (software side, as devices still need maintenance), then ChromeOS seems like a much better approach. Instead of delegating to a third party the whole OS (virtualized), the customer only transfers the management of the services. And to be fair, if security here is the main concern, then ChromeOS seems still better positioned, both because data is on the cloud, and because of how the OS is "restricted".

At the end of the day, WVD seems like a way to sell (also) azure services on top of windows. So I wouldn't be surprised if companies evaluating this option will see an increment in costs.

At this point I wonder if it's really worth, especially considering that if for any reason the company cannot keep paying Microsoft for the service, or it's cut off from the service (e.g. non us company -> sanctions), basically the whole company is back to paper in a matter of minutes, while with non-virtualized solutions there's a much bigger safety net.
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Harmful apps found on Google Play in September: 172 apps with 335M+ installs
They're little UI accents and not the main focus.
> If politicians didn't regulate businesses, we'd still be working 100 hours a week for 1€/hour.

That's not true. All it needs is for one business among hundreds to require working 90 hours a week. Then all employees would want to work 90 hours a week instead of 100 hours. Then automatically lots of people would want to work in this company instead of all the others.

The other companies in order to keep workers in their companies would also want to lower the bar to 90 hours. And if everyone would require 90 hours a week, then when 1 company would lower the bar to 80 hours a week... etc.
Correct. So in some cases the warranty can be the same as the expected service life but that is a choice the manufacturer makes to send a message to potential buyers. The legal warranty is just a minimum duration imposed by law, while the service life changes from product to product.

In some EU countries the law mandates that manufacturers clearly state the warranty period and the average service life (where you can use the product reasonably within the original parameters). So the manufacturer must be able to fix/replace (not necessarily for free) the product if hidden flaws caused it to fail within the average lifetime period. This means only manufacturers who are certain their product is up to the task will declare a longer life and charge a premium but also guarantee that period of support.

Most products have warranties that are far shorter than their expected service life. Clothes may have as little as 30 days warranty but the reasonable expectation is for a far longer expected lifetime.
Agreed, this seems to be an incorrect conclusion. Maybe ew6082 just looked at the asymmetrical figure without reading the text.
This is not a Brexit discussion. It just happens to feature Boris Johnson.
I've repaired my then seven year old LG washing machine as well two years ago. The rear drum support had apparently developed a fault, and was nearly torn in two by the time the funny noises came and hinted at the need for repairs.

The Youtube videos were a great help, but even though the part I needed was available, all the steps along the way to getting the part and fixing the machine made it clear that this was not a process aimed at consumers with the ability to repair such a machine. The manufacturer chose representatives in each country it sold machines in were you had to buy the part (at €100 with shipping not cheap, but acceptable), but the serial numbers never really matched exactly, and the model I had always had one extra letter left unexplained, making buying the part a gamble.

The part fitted and the repair did work perfectly, even though I had to order the stainless bolts I needed to replace the worn originals from somewhere else (a web shop with a sensible interface).

This device was seemingly designed to be repaired (or at least not prevent it), but documentation and lack of sensible part numbers made it harder then it needed to be. Interesting experience though, it feels good to extend the life of the machine by a few years this way.
> One of our designs has a peak power density of around 15 kilowatts per kilogram. Compare that with today’s motors, such as the one in the all-electric BMW i3, which delivers a peak power density of 3 kW/kg—or just one-fifth as much. And the Magnax machine is also more efficient.

>We believe that we can scale the design to whatever size carmakers (and other customers) may demand.

Count the weasel words. I'm at 5.
`SmallVec` allocates a contiguous array in the struct holding the vector itself (so it can be located on the stack), then if the capacity is insufficent, fallbacks to a heap-allocated `Vec` equivalent.

The `Vec` struct contains the capacity and used length integers, as well as a pointer to the heap-allocated storage.
Exactly. The only path forward to preserve the essence of America is to grind the gears to a halt
for some value of "rape" and "children"; Are Europeans child rape apologists for having lower ages of consent?
If you want to hold an opinion which is viewed by society as dangerous, presenting as just a hypothetical, might allow you to reduce your criticism, while still openly stating it.

Given all opinions are based around what you would do in a hypothetical circumstance, the limits should be pretty low.

Also, there's a strong difference between satire and hypothetically asserting that rape is innate.
And this is why we have a mandatory minimum work week instead of a maximum one, so that companies can get something ... anything ... done.

Did I get this right?
Speaking of right to repair, As anyone seen the price of hard drives lately? External drives are MUCH cheaper (half price in some cases), which seems backwards when the external drive also comes with an enclosure, power supply and cables.

Leading to the term 'Shucking', where people buy external drives just for the drive inside only to discard the rest.
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Really? On a recent trip to Chile and Argentina I only drank tap water everywhere and had no issues.
If you can send a sequence of digits, you can also send a sequence of letters (a text message) using the same technology.
I don't get it... Can't you just use a virtualenv? Then there's no worry about namespace pollution or conflicts between dependencies of different projects.
It does not open.
If politicians didn't regulate businesses, we'd still be working 100 hours a week for 1€/hour.

Except that's not how it happened, at least in England and the US in the 19th century.
I can't really judge from the outside, but it sounds like maybe he played the wrong ball-game a little bit. He overdelivered technically and underdelivered politically. This is still absolutely a problem caused by John and not the author, but it sounds like there might have been an easier path if he'd spent a little more time working John's ego and a little less time delivering technically.
That was not the point, atrophy is not a phenomenon limited to muscles. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrophy
This is known as "negative transfer" in language acquisition theory. Interestingly, it can also work the other way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_transfer#Positive_and...
Worry about these if you use Let's Encrypt