skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It does if you've told your customers that you can't.

Not really. First of all, a suit is unlikely when the person who'd bring a lawsuit is someone that committed a crime with probable cause. Second, damages from having your illegal actions uncovered aren't recoverable when there's a valid warrant, it would be clearly against public policy.

They wouldn't be liable at all; if somehow there was a theory of liability it would be capped at the cost of the phone, which is negligible. It doesn't add up as a motivation for Apple.
When a public figure makes a negative statement against a group or individual in modern times, it's generally a carefully calculated political play that's about as authentic as you'd expect of a politician. Because of this, even when their statement is wrong (and it often is) they'll simply double down on stupid. His rapid followup visit, let alone his public acknowledgement that he was incorrect were major indicators that he's authentic.

And this is a big deal because he is not only the most ambitious administrator NASA has had quite a long time but also the most politically capable. And that leaves me highly optimistic for the future of NASA. Bolden (the previous administrator) was everything you want on paper, but in practice he lacked both ambition and political skill. I've no doubt he very much had a love for space and technology, but he simply didn't have the toolkit to make it matter. As a result of this NASA ended up achieving little more than inertial progress for 8 years.
I wouldn't, but the last time we had a story here where mental health websites were sending sensitive data to advertisers, they did it in such a dumb way you could spot it easily on the network tab of your browser's dev tools. Haven't seen anything like here in my brief look.
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In my neighborhood recently, a woman was held at gunpoint and made to disable the activation lock. Thieves are getting smarter.
That's the first tool I grab for balancing _a lot_ of connections.
This is about macOS Catalina being broken.
Half of all UK debit card payments now contactless
How about restricting people taking photo of the painting and make them immerse themselves with the art introspectively. There are better, high resolution images of the painting on the internet already, why take a photo? No point in taking a photo just to point out in social media "I've been there"
I wonder how it would compare in terms of cost with doing it via the api-gateway. It would depend on how your app and user base scales and what the sockets are being used for I suppose.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide...
There is that Phoenix thing when they famously did 2 Million.

https://phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-webs...

I agree with the suggestion that smaller instances that can be scaled is not a bad idea.
But who is that guy? He has his own fusion patent but no apparent credentials or employer to lend any weight to what he says.

Id like to see something more than random internet people saying it looks like nonsense without much for selling why.

Getting to the bottom of if this guy is really working on these things in the Navy for example
It’s also being designed and implemented in a situation where 5 people plan and oversight the work of 1 person-ish. IT is pretty horrible about having lots of know-nothings with shiny job titles telling one or far fewer people who actually do the work and know what is possible that their technical objections or restrictions are false/made up/etc.
Except MS is countering with MS Teams, which is truly enterprise ready in the same sense as the Twitter thread describes.
Click to lift, click to drop.

Better than the virtual manual labor of exerting constant force to keep something held.
The problem that companies like Slack face in making inroads in enterprise is that companies like Microsoft dominate the market, and can offer entire suites of products at a discount to keep customers exclusive to their platform.

Microsoft has it’s own internal chat tool (which is terrible), but this strategy keeps their clients locked in while the buyers stay happy
"The input to our algorithm is the entire content of the Alexa top 1,000 websites over the last year". Good luck finding the secret signal in that one.

Similarly, there's plenty of evidence that algorithms can reconstruct discrimination from inputs other than skin color - names are the obvious example, but address seems a likely risk too. Algorithms need anti-racism quality control on their output.
This comment makes me really sad. There is so much shit software because developers are lazy or incapable to write clean and concise code. It should not be a problem for any software developer. "Because junior developers" is not a good excuse, they should be capable of learning these things.
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If this was a rubber gasket plant in South Carolina getting a water permit, it would never have hit the news.
Not fair !

You are comparing "4 CPUs and 15GB of memory" for NodeJS with "40 CPUs and 128 GB of memory" for Elixir/Phoenix
This is a great comment! From very early in my career I heard this "cost" center classification and I never understood it. Unless a company's hand is dictated by some type of external force such as regulation compliance, why on earth would a company voluntarily keep a "cost" center? Either the ROI is acceptable or it's not.
Is there a word for the fallacy of believing that another professional didn't consider the factor you thought of in seconds?

I see this all the time at meetup tech talks and it infuriates me!
I'm sure UAV's, especially at night, would very much look like a UFO - you can't discern scale, and they'll move in all sorts of ways you wouldn't expect. If they are far enough away to mask the noise you'd just see a light doing extraordinary things, and without scale the speed and distances could potentially look vast.
ELB is pretty old and should be avoided tbh, use ALB and if you can't should switch to NLB ( for pure tcp LB ).
When I click on Course Tools on Blackboard, I get a bewilderingly long list including:

Basic LTI Tools, Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, Brainfuse HelpNow, Cengage Learning MindLinks (TM), Content Market Tools, .... what are all of these things?! I want to track and post grades (and export them to a spreadsheet), mass email my students, post a link to my syllabus and homework assignments. That's it.

Meanwhile, with our recent "upgrade", the option to merge two sections of a course (so that I can email both at the same time) went away. I have to email our tech support (?!) to ask them to do this. Apparently this was supported by a plug-in module (??) from a third-party vendor (??!!!) who went out of business.

If merging two courses is so difficult as to require a third-party solution, then I have to wonder about what Blackboard's codebase looks like.
Technically, yes.

But I would point out that the linked device has 1 USB-C Power Delivery pass-through, 1 USB-C data port, and 2 USB-A ports.

Nobody has yet shipped a USB hub with more than 1 USB-C downstream data port.
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> they kept it a secret for over 20 years.

They were only able to keep the project secret for less than 5 years - the operation leaked and details were published in the LA Times and other newspapers in Feb. 1975, which forced them to cancel plans for a second attempt to recover the rest of K-129.
Ok, so what's the long term goal here? Reveal that aliens are real?
> pool of Elixir programmers is almost non-existent

Nonsense. There's more Elixir programmers (or at least those who want to program Elixir professionally) than there are Elixir jobs.
A/K/A: The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable Purchase Manager/Committee.

(See: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...)
However, making a real connection is difficult, and there's a huge profit potential in selling people (usually, but not exclusively, men) a fake connection. At what point do AIs start passing the "phone sex Turing test"?

That is one of the things people are explicitly worried about: the possibility that they might make a connection with someone they're communicating with over the internet and then discover it's not a real person.
This made me crack up, thank you
I don't think it's indirect at all.

Climate change will very nearly directly cause war. It will and already is causing food shortages, flooding, drought, etc. This will cause mass migration and conflict for resources. It's about as close to directly causing war as a thing can be.
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It is disappointing how their post devolves into the same old tar pit of racial intersectionality nonsense that stunts and atrophies the mind.

"Concierges paid minimum wage" … many concierges make immense amounts of money for what they do, and often make more than manager of hotels. Most people don't even realize that with overtime most of the hotel desk clerks make more money than salaried managers at hotels. Not even to mention the hotel porters that run the valet, that make immense amounts of money.

It's all just the intersectionality nonsense of privileged, sheltered navel gazers that have no idea what goes on outside of their university and screens.

I really hope that this intersectionality degeneracy will be killed with fire and relegated to the embarrassing and shameful pile of mass mental abuse and degeneracy that it belongs. One can hope.

The worst part about it all is that it just utterly stultifies the mind like any other abused person exhibits, that can only, e.g., reference anything and everything through what their abuser would want or do. But, that was the point after all, creating abused minds that can only think in subservient and submissive ways. It's sad that that abuse of several generations now was allowed to happen.
I've heard a couple of times of this technique by the US Army in which you relax your body starting by the face, then arms, torso, legs. Finally you picture yourself in a canoe in the middle of a lake or something similar to avoid thinking of anything. Anyone knows how effective is this?

https://medium.com/s/story/combat-tested-training-unwind-and...
It sucks when you're writing it, but makes up for it when working with other people's code.
You omitted the "... but there's a much bigger one from your whole country having large amounts of cheap, clean power"

There's no corresponding big advantage to the US for having the Glomar Explorer be public.

BTW, the CIA has paramilitary forces, but is not formally part of the military/armed forces.
I used to work in support at a big company.

We went through endless Salesforce resigns with folk's who don't use them all making decisions and patting themselves on the back for each redesign. It was horrific as a user experience, everyone is a UI expert and had an opinion based on this one time a thing happened... 3 years ago... In fact most every decision was made dude to some anecdotal incident where the person who tells the story was mildly inconvenienced this one time.

Fast forward a few decades and I'm a web developer writing software. My direct customer has a website where they want updates on various things from their partners. This site is entirely for their partner's benefit, our direct customer has a different site for the same data so that they can do more complex things. These partners are barely computer literate, our partners are "power users" (everything is relative here).

So of course this site I built that is dead simple because any complexity confuses them, and by most measurements (and my conversation with the partners) it is doing well.

Accordingly my direct customer wants like dozens of new fields, options to export data and etc ... all things that their partner's never do, didn't ask for ... and don't understand.

Meanwhile I ask the customer(s) about adding a block of text in a section of the site to help guide the partner's along better .... no response. (actually I've started just adding them on my own now...)
Since this is HN, I was hoping the article would say how the new system works, sadly it doesn't.

There's been a few threads about travel/tourism, and here I am again wondering about the bucket-listing. Why is "seeing the Mona Lisa" on people's bucket lists, and why do many only care about taking selfies with it, to say "I did it!"?

I suppose it's what people have been "taught" they "have to accomplish" in life. Is it about showing off/showing status?
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I've been looking at some of the trend aggregators for the past few weeks - quite helpful to understand (though perhaps not accruate) what's the latest buzz. :)

https://trennd.co/
I've seen this with mobile phones in the 90's-2000's. Until Apple came up with the iPhone designed for the end users, the phones' buyers were the networks, not the end users.

The same goes for companies like LinkedIn - they are now driven by recruiters and not the end users. Thus the idiotic interface and functionality changes that basically makes it unusable [to the most of the users].
That is the same link I posted without the path to the readme.
In a sense you are building an algorithm but with different means from the usual ones. It is built trough compilation of a large amount of data using the well known machine learning algorithms. Tbh and especially in this case these are vocabulary terminations we should not but stuck on.
Ok, here's a better comparison:

"Websocket Shootout: Clojure, C++, Elixir, Go, NodeJS, and Ruby"

https://hashrocket.com/blog/posts/websocket-shootout
>One day they're going to do an IE6, and shift their focus away from the project, and the whole web will suffer.

This would still be preferable to if they became the only browser and all web developers were subject to breakneck paced new features and discontinued compatibility as Google makes their characteristic impulsive lurches with zero long term vision.
On the other hand, good enterprise software ... Comes with an API that doesn't break on a whim every few weeks, but is stable over years or decades. Works diligently to solve bugs on a timetable. Changes gradually. Has plenty of documentation. Offers training courses. Is certified to work in highly regulated environments.
>that is an organization problem, but anyway I disagree with

How so? I guess I misunderstand what is meant by "organizational problem". For me it's "we want to do X but due to bureaucratic inertia and lack of organization it's impractical to do it". Like "we need to buy a new blackboard but in order to do it we have to go through a 29step process and 5 commissions so nobody bothers".

My point is that we're lacking the 'X' to begin with for space exploration. What's the big end goal currently? Putting humans on Mars? Some talk about it but nobody seems to be in a hurry and it seems more about propaganda and boasting rights than hard science.

>The rate at which humans on site would accomplish things is not to be scoffed at. Whether it's worth the other costs getting them there is still up for debate. But robots are not hands down better.

There's a trade-off of course but I would be very surprised if it wasn't in the robot's favor. For one thing to this day it's still unclear how we could send humans to Mars while maintaining them in good health. What do we do with them after the mission? They settle on an inhospitable planet or we find a way to retrieve them back to Earth?

Curiosity weighs 899kg, I doubt that humans + habitat + supplies + power + experiments + all the safety-related overhead of having live humans involved will probably amount to several time that mass (which as we know is a big problem with rockets, since more mass means more fuel which means more mass which means more fuel...). Let's not even talk about the trip back.

Sure Curiosity is slow, but once it's landed I suspect that the ongoing operating costs aren't insanely high.

That's all back-of-the-enveloppe calculations of course but I would be very surprised if sending humans to do Curiosity's work wasn't at least an order of magnitude more expensive, even if you factor the shorter total mission time.
There are many thousands of studies, just like this one, that imply correlation, but not causation and fail to properly account for confounding factors. Occam's razor implies this is more likely to be yet another study that fails to account for X of these factors.

This doesn't mean the future of science is in jeopardy. It just means more study is required and jumping to alter policy or make decisions based upon these studies, well, requires further study! :P
I have not. I moved out of Georgia years ago.
> Studies have shown that just one week of sleep deprivation—less than five hours per night—dropped young male’s testosterone levels by a whopping 10 to 15 percent. For comparison, a healthy individual’s testosterone will naturally decline by 1 to 2 percent per year. In other words, as far as your hormonal system is concerned, a week of bad sleep will age you a decade.

But isn't this temporary, not permanent? I was repeatedly sleep-deprived as a military officer in my 20's -- both chronically and acutely, and often beyond the parameters described in the article -- and my T levels are normal now that I'm in my late 30s.
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To what degree are artists of the past just famous because of the prejudice of being "well known" instead of the skill that is expressed in their work.

What percent of the money dedicated to old artistic creations gets dedicated to the commission of new work, thereby incentivizing the development of new skills and content from contemporary creative artists.

I feel like a lot of these people just buy expensive (or even go look at) paintings so they can show off to their friends that they have a [or saw a] "Picasso", not because they genuinely love and appreciate the work. Maybe they have don't know how to actually appreciate a work. Would they understand its value without the name attached?
you literally just jumped to imputing a mechanism to back-support epidemiological data; I recommend not doing that.
> as soon as this plant becomes operational

It's been operational for 10+ years. https://goo.gl/maps/XLEegK3rH1AqUXpw8
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Outsourcing of technical capability (especially prevalent in government) bites you hard when you lose the ability to work directly with your contract teams and have to rely on their direction. (Especially if the management is non-technical)

There’s a clear conflict of interest on the part of the contractor, and you need to be able to set their direction competently. I would recommend always having an in-house capability, even if it’s just an in-house consultancy, so that you don’t run into these kinds of issues and can provide adequate direction / oversight.
From the article you linked: "The economists calculated that a 10 percent reduction in daily PM2.5 could save $1.1 million in crime costs per year, which they called a 'previously overlooked cost associated with pollution.'"

Is that 'million' a typo? I imagine $1.1m amounts to something like one homicide a year.
Around ten years ago, I ordered a bunch of berries+tablets and held a flavor-tripping party in San Francisco. It had a good turnout but not as many rsvp's as I'd expected to my Facebook event. Later I heard from multiple friends that they didn't know what "flavor tripping" was, and assumed it involved some kind of hallucinogenic substance. sigh Just like emails, you can't assume people read the content, just the title.
With the contrast she made between WIMPs+tiredlight and Higgs+bigbang, I think she suggested that when both languages have equal predictive power, one should choose the language that is consistent with existing definitions. If a new language confuses definitions and creates the appearance of paradoxes, it is not a good language. This is drawn out in some of her other articles.
I think this gets it wrong. The real reason enterprise software sucks is that enterprises have complex and unique workflows and would prefer to buy software that they can fit to their workflow rather than change the workflows of their profitable business with tens of thousands of staff who will need retraining.

If you look at all of the most successful software of all time they are the complete antithesis of the Unix philosophy that so many designers and developers prefer. Word, Excel, SAP, Photoshop, Salesforce, JIRA. People hate them because they are complex, configurable, and have 1000 features.

But that's the same reason they can sell into law firms and oil refineries and animation studios and all those other very diverse businesses.

And most enterprise software sucks because 1) writing complex, highly configurable software is hard and 2) very few companies have the billions of development dollars the above handful of companies have to throw at the problem to try to make it tractable.

That the end user isn't the purchaser isn't going to change that fundamental reality that businesses are complicated.
And tell me, how can you verify that these were the inputs used? How can you check to see how those inputs were used within the algorithm? How can you audit such a system?
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PS: Here is a guide to the process of submitting a patch:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...

./mach bootstrap will usually help you set up your environment mostly automated after some confirmations, and will ask you if you want to do full builds or artifact builds, too

A general build guide is available too:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...
Does anyone else find it difficult to get consistent sleep regardless of their efforts?

Since starting a more stressful job most weeks I have at least one night a week where my sleep is disturbed at some point and I find it difficult to get back to sleep.
Simple consumer friendly products have a tendency to get more and more complicated as they try to expand their market into the enterprise. The question is not whether Slack is simple now, but whether it will still be simple in 3-5 years.

Of course, Slack already isn't that simple. The authentication model seems insane, and no one can ever explain it to me when I ask.

It's nice that me@gmail.com and me@corporate.com can be logged into different slacks in the same electron app, but why do I have different accounts/passwords for me@gmail.com for different slacks? It's all the pain of federation without any clear benefits.
... This site is a joke, right? You can buy a "fusure core" now, with a 4-week lead time, for $3000. The description gives some vague hand-wavey stuff about "thousands of nanoscale tokomaks [sic]", allowing the "Coulomb barrier to break via quantum tunneling".

Is it just an experiment to see who's dumb enough to give them their credit card information?
Very useful when you need to remember your friends to pay you back.
You're likely in one of a few fields where this is true. A PhD in classical history, not so much.
The replication crisis says otherwise.
Curiously, a similar problem happened last week in the Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Tenerife.

Temperature of ultrafrozen samples raised to -75 Celsius and years of hard work and a collection of DNA reference samples for agriculture were about to vanish
The only thing that gives me pause is thinking would the Chinese be better off without access to any Apple or Blizzard products at all? Because I think that is ultimately the threat of not following the mandates.