skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> His $830 a month included a few hundred in Supplemental Security, but he mostly relied on close to $600 in Social Security spousal benefits, thanks to Bernadette’s years in the workforce. He said he’s offered to refund her a portion of that, but she declined.

It's generous of him to offer to give her part of his spousal benefits, but the word "refund" makes me wonder if there is some confusion over how spousal benefits work. They aren't taken from the other spouse; their benefit remains unchanged.

A somewhat simplified explanation: if one spouse (or ex-spouse in some cases) is receiving more than twice the Social Security benefit of the other, the one with a smaller benefit gets theirs "topped off" to be half of the other's benefit.

It this case Bernadette may be receiving $1660/month in benefits. Haywood's benefit of several hundred dollars is increased to half of that, or $830. Bernadette still gets her full $1660.

There are various requirements and conditions that may change this amount; I'm assuming both spouses are of full retirement age.

Anyone receiving or about to receive Social Security benefits where one spouse earned significantly more than the other would do well to look into this.

https://www.ssa.gov/planners/retire/applying6.html
>They are the only ones who can change things by law, not me.

I had this thought yesterday as I read about several prominent politicians in Canada, including the prime minister, actively participating in the climate 'protests' that occurred yesterday. Who were they out there protesting? Themselves? They're the ones with the power to change things. Why were they outside with signs instead of in their offices doing something about it?
You underestimate how much higher this value proposition needs to be for people to switch, and you overestimate the amount of savvy web users.
People can communicate by shooting holes into CS 1.6 walls. There are literally no borders for the imaginative mind.
If you make your philosophy austere and instrumentalist enough, there is no ownership, only physical control. And under any Weberian government there is only one legitimate owner of anything.

Luckily most governments and societies today respect a sort of legal Platonism where the law as an ideal both constrains the government and the owners of property even though the government is tasked with implementing it. It might not be empiricist enough for some people but it seems to play nicely with human psychology’s inclination towards the mystical. And of all the cultural fantasies we might share, we could definitely do a lot worse than human rights and the rule of law.
If you have a passcode, all of your data is encrypted with keys stored in the Secure Enclave. So this alone won't let you dump the contents of a phone. (But it's a useful 1st step vulnerability to others)
Russia began to isolate the RuNet
Pure YAML will never DRY.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself

If you write procedural configurations with a real Turing Complete, but not Turing-Tarpit language like Python or JavaScript, then you don't need to repeat yourself ridiculous numbers of times, and manage thousands of lines of hand written eye-sore almost-but-not-quite-entirely-unlike-tea YAML. Plus you can implement validation, warnings and error checking, and support multiple input and output formats.

But so many DevOps dogmatically go out of their way to avoid writing any code, even when the alternative means writing a hell of a lot more brittle unmaintainable YAML where you have to carefully check every line for correctness, and make sure that you're actually repeating the same thing in every location required without any typos, and don't let any of those repetitions slip through the cracks when you make changes.

With real Turing complete code, macros, and templates, you can accomplish the same task as with pure un-DRY YAML data, much more easily and efficiently, with orders of magnitudes fewer lines of code, that you can actually understand, maintain, validate, and test, so you can be sure it actually works without meticulously checking every line of output by hand.

It's better to combine DRY combinations of different non-Turing-complete data formats like CSV, YAML, JSON, INI, XML, using the most appropriate formats depending on the type of data. Spreadsheets are much better than JSON or YAML or XML for many different kinds of data with repeating structure (so you don't repeat key names), and JSON and YAML are much better for irregular tree-shaped data (since you're not restricted to rigid structures), and XML for tree structured data and documents including text.

You end up needing different formats as input as well as output. So you need a real Turing Complete language to read them all in, combine and validate them, and shit out the various other formats required by your tools and environment.
It's already happened a couple of years ago canada wide, through income requirements to mortgage a place with ratios that are small for the market.

To the point where a typical house requires $250k+ family incomes in a place where typical family incomes are one fourth to one half of that.
It's just stuff that sticks in my mind as noteworthy over the years and decades of surfing the web, following those particular topics.

I mostly remember the headline, Google does the rest of leading me back to the article.
End users are not coerced by operators, they are the operators on their own devices and can do whatever the hell they want. The primary goal of DoH as proposed and implemented is to take away that ability from end users, hide that control from them. It's nothing more but malicious anti-user behavior.
How is that predatory pricing? Landlords aren't driving alternative landlords out of business by dropping their prices too low for others with shallower pockets to compete.
Awk is part of BusyBox, thus it's present by default on a wide range of embedded systems/systems with limited resources.

Some people are comfortable working in sh/sed/awk. I personally don't care for it. I'm not familiar with it because I don't use it very much, and I dislike the lack of consistency and all the gotchas in shell scripting. (I'm talking about sh+sed+awk+other command line tools, not just awk.) But I've done it at times when it's all that's available.
You can do this on Android Pie and newer, but the overall rollout on other systems might be held up due to the potential issues with enterprises not being happy that their DNS systems are no longer working (and that this is probably far from having priority P0).
Pylint does
I hope he'll change, but even if he doesn't, he's sure to be released once he's too old and physically broken down to be a threat.

That's effectively life, though.
I saved the paper for reading later, so this may be already discussed in it, but enough information leaks through the Referer HTTP header when browsing the web in a traditional browser.

I've never inspected Recaptcha (on gstatic.com), but it does some degree of tracking, ostensibly to detect unusual usage patterns and pick who gets to help train Google's ML models with distorted street objects, and who's never shown the captcha window.
Agreed. The relatively clear terms of the GPL have been very hard to enforce. Do you really think someone intent on doing evil will be stopped by a couple of lines of text in the header of the source code? Who has ever been okay with ethnic cleansing and torture but draws the line at copyright infringement?

Not to mention how reasonable people can disagree on where to draw the line. If you think the Israeli government violates human rights, does that justify banning all Israelis from using the software? What about Intel with its major facility in Kiryat Gat? Should you then ban the software from being run on any Intel processors, whether or not they were made in Israel?

I sympathize with the movement to hold coders and users accountable, but I just don't think this is workable.
the book is a great read
If this is so inexpensive why not agree to pay producers the costs incurred for not engaging in the practice plus a small fee if they don't engage in deforestation? They would be stupid to turn down free money and given so many people are concerned and the total amount being so low this measure could be funded by donations easily. This could be handled in a few days if what you say is true.
That sounds like an amazing barrier to entry in the search space... Want to index websites for your new search engine? Just pay every site a euro!
I have hardly written a line of YAML in my career. It's hardly unavoidable, no one is forcing you to use bad tools. Especially considering that Kubernetes is massively over-engineered for most systems that aren't themselves over-engineered.
The UK (England and Wales at least) have a concept called joint enterprise which is similar.
I can not find any source that many thousands if not tens of thousands died in Europe in 2019 from the heat wave. Can you point me to your information source? I believe you are confusing the 2003 heatwave from over a decade ago with the one in 2019.

The 2019 heat was directly implicated in the deaths of at least 15 people. Five died in France, four in Germany, three in the United Kingdom, two in Spain, and one in Italy. Nine of these were drownings, attributed to people cooling down, and another involved an exhausted farm worker who went unconscious after diving into a pool. The three who died in hot air were aged 72, 80 and 93. Approximately 321 million people were otherwise affected by similar temperatures in the same countries.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2019_European_heat_wave

Edited for clarity
You should really look it up. He posted multiple prior blog posts on his website about it. There's a link someone provided further down in the chain. It surprised me as well when I learned of it, but he injected himself into that debate willingly and deliberately.
My $0.02:

Despite being a strong believer in it, I've worked at places that did blameless post-mortems and it was sometimes frustrating because remediation often felt like a second-class citizen. Remediation is often much more difficult in these environments because systematic changes can obviously much more complex than "fixing" an individual's behavior.

If someone pushes the big red button accidentally I'm fully on-board with the "well what led them to push it and why were there no safeguards?" but it also kinda sucks if you spend so much time on that conversation that there's no time left for "ok, who's going install the confirmation screen for the big red button?"

Sometimes the "remediation" was even just "well, that's just the way it is and we can't do anything about it easily, but hopefully the post-mortem itself will serve as a way to inform people not to push the big red button" which is obviously frustrating because memories are short and people come and go quite frequently in the tech industry.

Anyway, and this might be obvious to some, but remediation is important and sometimes incredibly difficult in these environments. Adopting such an environment requires a commitment to actually fixing the systemic issues. It can sometimes feel more frustrating than "blameworthy" post-mortems especially if it's the same individual(s) over and over again.
Our current world reminds me a lot more of Farenheit 451 than 1984. I always felt it was more insidious. It was a self induced, self policing (apart from the firemen) ignorance, fueled by drugs and technology that kept people stupid, entertained and complacent. Plus, every time i see someone with a pair of air pods i can't help but think of those earbud things they wear while staring at the giant screens.
Wait, why does this make iOS better? This breaks the security guarantees I expected from the phone.
Since you're asking so politely: Google is in the business of targetted advertisement. It doesn't matter whether they're sending you to a website; they profit from your attention and the info you give them about yourself. The insane amount of money they extract won't benefit content creators and anyway it ending in the hands of a quasi-monopoly can't be in the public interest.
> Vancouver's specific problem seems to be that the Soviet leadership in British Columbia has been unable to curb the very capitalist problem of money laundering profits from the People's Republic of China into Canadian real estate.

It's not just money laundering, but an entire "industry" of investment and tax fraud schemes:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/out-of...
Let's review the definition of cartel: "a combination of independent commercial or industrial enterprises designed to limit competition or fix prices"

So a cartel doesn't have to be any particular size.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cartel
> In the end, a society gets what they deserve, and those revengeful reap what they sow.

I bet you apply this very selectively.

> Like those clinging to guns for "protection", and dying from gun crime (or from their own gun-owning family members).

You would not want mandatory monitoring collars, sacrificing privacy to massively reduce the homicide rate, would you? We are willing to bear substantial risks to preserve our rights - I would argue it comes from an intuitive understanding of how dangerous it is to be powerless. So why not apply that same logic to gun rights?

There is more to the question than 'Would fewer people die' - after all, if that is all you consider, then monitoring collars would get an unreserved 'Yes!'.

This same logic could get that kid a milder sentence - give him a punishment more just considering his age and role in the crime (subjective, I know I know), despite the risk to "law-abiding free citizens" that he kills again.

If you're not willing to risk death, your own and that of others, to protect your rights, then you will have none.
Sometimes they spill their spaghetti so willingly that all talk of ulterior motives becomes moot.

And if they can't change the norms of the community, fracturing it beyond repair is fine with them because it doesn't deserve to exist if it does not conform to their moral standards.
An interesting related problem is Bertrand's paradox[0]. You have an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle. You pick a random chord from the circle (a line that goes from one edge of the circle to another). What's the probability the chord is longer than an edge of the triangle?

As it turns out, there isn't a well-defined solution. That's the paradox. The issue comes from "picking a random chord". There are different ways that you can pick a random chord which lead to different solutions. One approach to picking a random chord is to pick two random points on the circle and draw the chord between them. This gives you a probability of 1/3. Another approach is to pick a random direction and radius, then draw a chord at the end of the radius perpendicular to the radius. This approach gives you a probability of 1/2.

One interesting aspect is the second approach is the only approach where if you were to draw a circle within the larger circle, the distribution of the chords in the inner circle will match the distribution of chords in the outer circle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_(probability)
Discounted cash flow models are popular. Morgan Stanley probably did one to get the 20% undervalued number. Though they are still basically spread sheets with a lot of numbers you have to kind of guess in them.
"I've said this before, but you can't outlaw the maths."

I don't think this is the right analogy - instead, I think a better statement would be "you can't outlaw random numbers".

A random number and the ciphertext output of a secure encryption algorithm should be indistinguishable.

I don't think I am being naive to think that even in our wildest dystopian nightmares there is no real path from (current jurisprudence in five-eyes jurisdictions) to (random numbers being illegal).
More WeWork Fallout: Unhappy Investors in Startups It Acquired
It's not really the same. Medium turns every comment into its own full-fledged blog post. That's a lot of unbounded space if the restrictions of the format are what let you get the words out.

Mastodon does threads like Twitter with a little more room without most of the downsides. I've thought about setting up a managed Mastodon instance (with masto.host) to put under my domain to use as a sort of public outliner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner

That's what most people seem to use Twitter for anyway.
Revise that slightly to 'it is a waste if time to read this' maybe.

I downvote quite rarely in HN over disagreeing with someone. Usually it is when I don't feel the reply adds any value, and is actually negative for the discourse.

That is, e.g doesn't reach me anything about the opposing position, or is argumentative without any substance, but distracting from comments that are more constructive.

Of course other people use different judgement. At the same time, HN doesn't hide comments to a great extent. Even 'dead' comments are optionally visible (with the 'showdead' setting) and quite a few of us read HN with that on. It's very rare for downvotes to silence people here who aren't actively disruptive.

Couple that with first enabling downvotes when people hit a certain karma threshold, and various other limitations, and HN is free of a lot of the downvote problems of other places.

That to me makes it less of an issue if people downvote to signal disapproval here.

Often initial downvotes will be countered when people feel a comment has been downvotes too much as well.
It's impressive, thanks for taking the time.
Says the person still chipping away at his own still-square version of the wheel.
Protonmail has(claims) client-side encryption.
Before people had a firm idea of homosexuality, men did show affection for other men as well.

It went like this: it is ok to hold hands with a man (because no one will think you are gay/because no one thinks anyone is gay) -> it is not ok to hold hands (because people will think you are gay) -> it is ok to hold hands (because it would not be a problem if you were gay)

and the last step is still ongoing...
On one hand, nobody should be encouraging RMS to continue in his bizarre offensive lifestyle. It's well past time he stopped treating women like garbage, and stopped treating men like garbage, and learned how to be a decent human being.

On the other hand, he's such a houseguest from hell that anyone who ignores basic morality and takes him in anyway will be sufficiently punished for their breach and no further social sanction will be necessary.
US Dept of Education Has Big Payday for K-12 CS, Including Tech-Backed Code.org
Startup Lesson #18: Construct Archetypes
> awk '/503/{print}'

{print} is the default action, I believe. So it would suffice to do:

awk '/503/'

Though, then you may as well just use grep for something like this.
While the quick answers on the right of Google search results may be designed to keep people from clicking through, I have never seen that feature used for a news article (for me is is usually stackoverflow and Wikipedia where this has an impact on click throughs.)

I don't think this is the case for search or news. The "snippets" under a search result make me more likely to click through and really don't ever provide enough info to allow me to skip reading the page.

Since your assertion runs counter to my (and others) experience, I hope you have some actual data to back this up? Perhaps a website that added a robots.txt to prevent snippet collection and saw an improvement in traffic from search?
Data Error Undermines Study About Crispr Babies’ Lifespans
This is why I love software. Woo reusable abstraction.
I don't have any technically knowledgeable comments to make, but I think if you don't fully understand what happened, there's no excuse for doggedly insisting one group of people involved should be given the benefit of the doubt and the other not. It's reasonable to assume we lack something when it comes to the crew's POV.

Actually, I have one thing to contribute, that I often think of whenever I read about an air disaster. Experts frequently say "why didn't the operators do logical thing X?", and I think there is a practically universal answer. Whenever something unusual goes wrong, it is likely to upset your existing logical model. You know either your logic is faulty or the inputs to your model are wrong, but which is it and how?

It's easy to say "just do A, B, and C as trained", but once jolted out of your mental context, you probably can't regain it in a few seconds or minutes before crashing. The impossible task is not to know the necessary actions according to the book, but regaining the trust that they are the right ones in the face of something unexpectedly violating your assumptions.

Developing a new logical model for reality is very difficult even for highly trained people, particularly under time constraints and life-or-death pressure. Or, even the meta-problem of knowing whether it is time to develop a new model of reality.
Exactly. Now that they got rid of Stallman, they want to weaken the GPL, to look less fundamental and strict. Beware
Python Lib on Encoding and Language Detection. No Cpp Bindings. Like Chardet
Why do I need to understand how the compiler works, at that level of detail?

I don't see why understanding closures requires so much mental effort. Just using them a few times should give you a practical understanding of how they work. Closures are not a complicated concept - a bunch data your function has access to outside of its own scope.
Is it true that copyright licenses can't add restrictions? Patent retaliation clauses in software copyright licenses suggest otherwise to me.
Part of the reasons for the response is that many people predicted what would happen. Other countries tried it before, the predicted thing had happened there. But the publishers got their way, and now are complaining that the predicted thing happened, and not their fantasy that Google would start paying them.
- Part out of habit (since way before 'Do not disturb' mode), I want no disturbances when I sleep.
- Because it saves battery/energy
- No connected device in the bedroom (OK, I got a Kindle)
- I (honestly) don't see any sense in having my phone run for ~7 hours while I'm asleep

Why do you not turn off yours?
https://twitter.com/porkostomus/status/1151595347157737472

I agree, if this person was acting entirely rationally they probably would have switched to learning JS and found a job by now. My only point is that there aren't many opportunities for junior-level Clojure developers who don't stand out as exceptional in some way.
> The control plane is not under their control necessarily.

It is. They can even install a VPN everywhere they want, that's how much control they have. DoH wants to take it away.

> I suspect ESNI will have no trouble gaining meaningful marketshare.

You have not been paying attention. Those same organizations removed the exact ability esni proposes once governments applied a bit of pressure on them (I'm talking about collateral freedom domain fronting thing).
Other than State issues ( I am glad it is being work on ), How will LiveView works if your client is in say AUS / New Zealand and your Server is in US or EU with 200ms+ latency?
No this is different. This presentation is from Hot Chips which went much deeper than Autonomy day.
Cold weather causes more deaths than warm weather.

See for example: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/30/excess-winte...
Tony Soprano was Jersey Shore Italian. It hits the TH sound a bit softer, with the tongue a bit closer to the front towards the teeth. The Chicago accent hits that sound with a hard D, with the tongue pressing the palate further back from the teeth. Also, the S sound is harder, too, especially at the end of a word.

There's nothing wrong with his accent at all! I just wasn't used to it, and it sounded like a fake Bronx accent to me at first, until I parsed it and realized it was probably a Chicago accent.