skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you have short-term rental properties, aka unregulated hotels, or more accurately regulation-skirting residential businesses. In normal rentals, guests are called tenants, and in most places tenants have all the same privacy rights as property owners. Therefore, a landlord having access to or retaining any information about door usage or audio-video of the property would likely be illegal. Perhaps a camera pointed at the driveway and public street for security purposes, but even then only with full disclosure to the tenant. Frankly, I wouldn't rent anywhere the owner had installed his/her own cameras--if necessary for security, I'd install my own.

Of course, the same privacy rights also likely apply to short-term guests as well, but while everyone is skirting regulations, what's a bit of surveillance in addition. I mean you've basically admitted (why people can't just shut up when they break the law) that you record your guests in outside areas where they can expect privacy (sounds like the hot tub). That people make movies in places they expect privacy (shocking), and of course you don't look at any of those skinny-dipping videos wink wink. Funny how unregulated businesses attracting unregulated activities still like to have some way to regulate their guests--and do so likely illegally.

Yeah, I know, some airbnb guests can be jerks, abuse the crap out of your investment, I mean second-home you couldn't afford without hotel-income. But you don't deal with the bad apples by violating the rights of everyone else, at least unless you want to invite scrutiny and regulation into your activities.
RoboForm password manager adds DuckDuckGo search
" the more interchangeable the components will be. It's like Lego blocks; "

This is precisely the reason why pure FP is prioritizing referential transparency. Even if objects are perfectly encapsulated, with enough complexity, because other objects will depend on that information, and because that information mutates and changes over time, this is bound to cause some errors.

Compilers can't check program correctness because of the halting problem, so FP aims to give the programmer some patterns + laws to help better reason across this "higher" dimension of moving parts.
Changing Section 230 Would Strengthen the Biggest Tech Companies
That wasn't random. The Nazis did have reasons, just not sane ones.

> Jews

were a culture-destroying race. Just by existing, they weakened the Aryan race. Also, they stabbed Germany in the back after it had won World War 1.

> Catholic Poles

weren't supposed to be exterminated. In fact, they would be much happier as a culture-less people of uneducated laborers under German rule. They were docile and incapable of leadership or cultural achievements anyway.

That "polish" intelligentsia? They actually had German blood. Some could be salvaged and regermanized. But many had to be killed to prevent them from working against Germany. This was very important because German blood made them quite awesome at everything, including treason.

> They were predisposed to fascism because it lent cover to gratuitous violence.

> Fascism is never a reasoned position. It provides a social framework for people's worst impulses.

The Nazis had their share of thugs but impulsivity isn't what leads to industrial genocide. The gas chambers weren't built on a whim. They were built to protect the executioners' mental health, operating a gas chamber is less "personal" than shooting someone.

The Holocaust didn't happen because Nazis liked killing people. They thought it was necessary.
Yeah a really disparaging comment coming from a mod. What is the problem. Sure there is some bickering, but it's falling to the bottom.
What world do you live in where $140k in gains on an investment is not a huge amount of money?
California finds widespread water contamination of 'forever chemicals'
What kind of protection layer was in place? I've been using ZFS for years and this type of functionality is standard.
This is why a UBI doesn't create a nation of layabouts!
Your sponsor can sign off that you won't become a public charge and they'll become your caretaker.
Why stop at organs? Why not sell entire persons?
Can you elaborate on the operating principle behind the ultrasonic sensor what makes its output a "true image" vs. Touch ID's "low-res representation"?
This was one case where the best hospital in the world for THAT particular procedure was in Canada - and is primarily a PRIVATE hospital.

(Though the hospital also gets some $ from the government, so I'm not quite sure what it means to be "private"...)

I think you can have both claims to be true: the vast majority of complicated procedures are best-in-class in the US, but there are some centers of excellence elsewhere as well.
Of all my Linux VMs, Alpine Linux boots the fastest--practically instantaneously. Alpine Linux doesn't use systemd.

Parallel init only helps on large, multi-service systems, but those are precisely the ones that (1) rarely reboot and (2) will have relatively long boot sequences, regardless.
Ah, I was off a bit then. Thanks for the update.
The recording is the better feature IMHO. My iPhone was jailbroken before I updated to the 11 Pro and the audio recording tweak was one of my favorite tweaks. I thought of spinning up a service that did this just using Twilio but wasn't sure if people would be willing to pay (I think $1-3/mo would cover costs).

I just used a recording the other day when Spectrum (shitty internet provider, formally Time Warner) tried to lie to me and I was able to re-listen to my previous conversation with them to catch them in the lie.

inb4: I live in a 1 party state and even so I rarely talk to a "real" person on my phone, it's only businesses and if they are going to have a recording then so will I.
We do this. Every place I have worked at I've had the senior admin explain and show the backup plans for servers and desktops and demonstrate various restore requests. I have caught a few with their pants down.

Another important thing is fine granular permissions on network shares.
There is never going to come a day when any of these companies give you more control over your devices. Why would they? Thats their entire competitive advantage.
Imho the best compromise was the lockscreen on the pre-Android Blackberry smartphones where you have to move a grid of random digits so that the right digit hovers on the right spot of a picture. Safe against onlookers, not reliant on biometrics and still quicker than entering a password.

But right now I doubt the fingerprint sensors will go away soon, nothing really beats them in terms of convenience.
How does your maths enforce arbitrary quality control assurances? How does it guarantee refunds for breaches of contract?
Hey you. I'm pretty sure I know who you are :) I hope everything's going well!

I definitely agree that there are many examples of ineffective Haskell culture. As a Haskell contractor I get to see how a lot of different shops do things. One thing I can't really tease apart is that most startups have a lot of engineering culture problems, and picking Haskell doesn't inoculate you from that effect.

The main cultural issue I see specific to Haskell shops is that frequently rabbit holes aren't discouraged. By that, I mean there is too much of a tinkerer mentality where engineers are allowed to or even encouraged to experiment with untested ideas instead of known effective solutions. That is a habit I had to deprogram myself from too. It's very fun! In your spare time.

I hope we get to work together again! But I'm usually only called in if there's trouble, so maybe I shouldn't :^)
Yeah - they're horrid. My last experience with them was that they couldn't bill a perfectly valid credit card (tested multiple times at other places during the issue with zero problems). NO idea why... called multiple times to sit on hold and hear "it's fixed!" only to receive a billing failed notification two days later. I let it lapse and now they're not getting $60/mo from me - tough cookie for them I guess.

After wasting over 1-2 hours of my time on hold/with customer support people who could care less I just figured it wasn't worth throwing my money at them anymore if they literally won't take it.

Also there's the experience of having to use old versions of Adobe Illustrator because the newest copies just wouldn't work with Windows 7/10. When searching the issues at the time it was apparent everyone had to go back a version if they didn't want it to crash every 20 minutes!

Adobe is an embarrassment of a software company and reading these other horror stories doesn't surprise me at all. For the time being I'm getting along just fine with an old copy of the CS5 Master Collection that's 10 years old =)
Proxying is a terrible solution, since it allows the middleman to read all your data and masquerade as you (since cookies are part of the data.)

Your should use the 6to4 tunnel provided by your ISP instead.
Hyperbole. You can give a kidney and live a fine life.
What You Do Is Who You Are
I think it's the standard https://readthedocs.org/ standard. It's definitely not custom. I've seen many projects with it.

Edit: Seems to be linked to the doc tool called Sphinx.
Should people really be able to discuss things they don't have the discipline to understand? Should average Americans be able to discuss race relations or economic matters or should they simply... rightly receive superior accounts from those who engage in empiricism?
Good point. That is pretty affordable if you only need it for a short project.

But then again, I never even considered buying access to Adobe apps for just a month -- I'm wary of subscriptions, it's all too easy to forget cancelling them in time, and then you end up paying for software you don't need.
Giant piles of cash can buy many excuses. ;)
> What it appears that they are doing is blowing up the concept of a 'server' entirely, and replacing the system bus with network. So you can have a bunch of 'servers' racked together which create a pool of cpus, ram, storage, and so on, all of which are connected by the network. And then they pull from this pool of resources to create vNodes which are like virtual machines.

Sounds to me a lot like a Beowulf cluster, is it not?
As DMCA stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act, trademarks are outside its scope. There have actually been successful counterclaims under section 512(f) against companies using the DMCA to police trademark infringement.

All that said, an old-fashioned cease and desist letter from Lego is most certainly incoming.
Is the distinction that it's private space? There's tons of recording equipment monitoring public roads, sidewalks, streets, inside stores, etc. In Manhattan, you're on camera way more than you're off camera.
Honestly all this monitoring and "busting" and "exposing" people for minor infractions sounds exhausting. Personally I have other things to spend my time on than surveilling people. Frankly it's kind of bleak to imagine you sitting around keeping an eye on your surveillance cameras and graphs to make sure no one is stepping out of line.
The OpenBSD developers are not too thrilled to hear about these sorts of issues, but looks like sysupgrade installed sets I didn't have before (x*66.tgz, game66.tgz).
MIT has something similar for its students - they lottery off an entire gallery of art to students to keep in their dorm rooms for the year every fall [0].

I have no idea what the damage statistics are for it, but this just reminded me of it.

[0] https://listart.mit.edu/collections/student-lending-art-prog...
I would argue that there are few, if any, countries in the world that this description would not apply to.

However, I agree with the point that you're making wholeheartedly. There's a very serious amount of wealth disparity around the world, and the rich have gotten so rich that they can't even feasibly spend all of their money if they had to.
Trust with accountability and respect seems to go a long way some times but not others. Anyone have a theory why this system worked so effectively but other systems involving trust don't?
This headline gives me anxiety.
You can only bring down costs and combat things like hospital consolidations through a single payer system and dismantling private insurance (i.e. Bernie or Jayapal’s bills), so none of the “compromises” proposed by other candidates will do anything too meaningful. If you want a good breakdown on why, I recommend Tim Faust’s new book:

https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/health-justice-now/

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-death-panel/e/63311382
If two million trained software engineers magically arrived in the US overnight, it would certainly help the bottom lines of AMFGOOG in the short-term, but would probably drive down the long-term cost of 'I want some software built'.
Well when the FYI recommends paying what options do you have?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/opinion/ransomware.html
Seeing how bad fingerprint scanner is on S10 even with correct fingers and no protectors I can only wish luck to the thieves who'll try to do this trick. I sometimes can't unlock damned thing in five tries and have to enter password.
It has negative externalities as well. The poor cannot afford to donate kidneys - the time out of work, the lifetime extra health maintenance and checkups. So it becomes a rich person's prerogative.

And it remove a source of cash from an entire population, with all that entails.
The irony is that Trump's tariffs on China would be a positive toward our carbon footprint, because we would end up purchasing less goods from China.

Political bias might just be worse for climate change than anything else.
I agree, and it's likely that's the most correct answer if people want to see the market change.

The second most correct answer is to just opt-out if you feel spied on and get to feel very smug watching people who didn't opt-out get burned by their choices. Honestly, I recommend that solution unless one encounters a situation where opt-out is impossible.
I suspect that for a lot of people it's more fun to make the money than to spend it. Some people (like myself) would rather try to do hard things and fail than to never try at all. If you do this enough times, eventually you get lucky. Once you eventually find yourself with money, the novelty wears off quickly and you realize you want to get back to building and creating things.

This is probably part of the reason why many people who get windfalls (lottery, inheritance, etc) spend all the money and wind up broke again. Easy come, easy go.
"Mark Zuckerberg Live from Georgetown" sounds like an album
yes, for me the interrelated nature of some of the calculations on different forms is what I prefer a computer to do.

100 pages that I had to print twice and couldn't e-file, fun! but by hand? not fun

I did read the comprehensive instructions for some forms.
Maybe I'm just out of touch, but what target demo is still watching cable television instead of watching TV shows online? The last time I saw people sitting around a television (with a television station on it), I was visiting a nursing home.
Actually, there is almost no topic that degenerates into flamewar and (frankly) inanity as rapidly as the topic of religion does on HN, and probably anywhere on the internet. Can you think of one?
Um, the opposite of work is "play", not "do nothing and rot."

I have plenty I'd like to do out of pure enjoyment if I didn't have to wage slave 8 hours+commute time a day.
Hmm... maybe someone elses will work better than mine... I can hardly get in.
A lot of the comments in this thread are saying it's because the rich are passionate about what's making them money, or their work is like a hobby to them.

I think "work" as it is said in this article, is maybe better read as "making money". The article is more about why do the comfortably rich continue putting in so much effort to make even more money. Sure, they can continue to do hobbies or whatever and call it "work", but why continue trying to make a profit, instead of paying employees more, or running non-profits, or pursuing hobbies in ways that doesn't generate them more massive amounts of money?
Many of these complaints would apply to physical safety too. But we don't just wait for buildings to burn down to teach organizations a lesson about their heating contractors -- we have fire codes, and inspectors with teeth.

Is there any chance that something like this might be done for IT? Or is it all too young to be done sensibly?
I always use Google Hangout's free phone call when calling customer service.
This is true but misleading. The status quo is much less of an active endeavor than changing the status quo.

As an obvious examples, the American Revolution was clearly more active. And surely the revolutionaries were seen as more "political" than people who just wanted to go about their lives. Said lives of course including a variety of actions that directly or indirectly supported British rule.
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I am talking about premature infants.

The one study I could find from 2000 that compares them showed

>Relative risks for infant death from all causes among singletons born at 32 through 33 gestational weeks were 6.6 (95% confidence interval [CI], 6.1-7.0) in the United States in 1995 and 15.2 (95% CI, 13.2-17.5) in Canada in 1992-1994;

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_vis...
TLDR; if your company / city has millions invested in a cyber infrastructure get cyber insurance. :facepalm:

Also $76,000 is oddly low... like low enough to be the price of a well established firm to do a pen test on your network...
I have 'volunteer' fire service out here in the country. And installed my own sewer. Police are essentially non-existent out here - I see a patrol car maybe once a year go by.

And the USPS has been going broke for decades now. Not a good example of a well-run service.
Some significant incentives or legal controls would likely be necessary to realize that. Companies have zero incentive (beyond possibly performance if network bandwidth is an issue, and it's not) to (c), since that gives you carte blanche to steal their implementation, reverse-engineer it, and use it outside their control. I don't anticipate they'll facilitate that voluntarily.

It's also a lot easier to debug and improve software running on machines in a cloud one owns than on local heterogeneous architectures out "in the wild." Ask anyone who's done backend web development vs. frontend how fun it is to get "It don't work" bug reports from end-users with no logs and only spotty event metrics to guess what failure mode they got into and how they could get out of it (including failure modes such as "their ad blocker decided to kill half your functionality because your JavaScript's name had 'ad' in the URL").

There's a lot of incentives aligned for thin clients and fat servers.
Thanks for the info, will definitely use it next year !
Think of it like a high school test, you submit your test to the IRS, who has the answers, and they tell you if you are correct. Also, the US is the only class who's teacher doesn't either show them the key or skip the test entirely.

When I realized that some other countries have no concept of a tax day and don't understand the yearly hype train of US taxes, that's when I got really bummed out on how broken our system is.
Can OpenBSD run Sway? Or is that only supported on FreeBSD/Linux?
Tesla gets the go-ahead to build cars in China
I was just going to mention this. Apparently they'll only loan prints to students. Faculty can get the better stuff: https://listart.mit.edu/collections/campus-loan-art-program
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Even better, I live in New Zealand - we have no capital gains tax here!
It's partly strategic. The presence of a moderation comment like that in a thread often seems to evoke higher-quality comments. I'd bet that it such had an effect in this case—the thread improved almost immediately—but who knows.

You're right that I should have written something longer and not in haste. But I'm a bit surprised by the strong reaction to that one; it's atypical. Perhaps to some readers it felt like a disparagement of their own view on religion—which of course it was not.
The way they're on sign-posts and everything is great. Although, the notion of the colors painted on trees and what they mean (Red/Blue/Green/Yellow) is something that I've definitely come across in the US. Specifically, in areas near Boy Scout Reservations.
Software devs use WakaTime because it's automatic:

https://wakatime.com

For non-engineers it seems they mostly use old manual time trackers like Toggl.
Front one would be better of course, but only if it worked. As it is on S10 scanner is complete garbage, even with all the patches they keep making.
The video gives excellent intuitions. But do try writing down a rigorous argument after watching it!
Yes. I would have happily retired at age 16. That said, I am glad I did not, because I gained a lot of experience and knowledge that I would not have otherwise, if all I did was play video games and go camping.

Now I am more than ready to exit the work force. I just need the means to do so. :-)
I would guess that the high level of religious affiliation in the United States is somewhat abnormal for a developed and wealthy country.

Can you find another Western nation out there with similar levels of religious affiliation?

I think I see this decline as a correction. It's not actually normal to have so many people finding religion important to their lives in a large, connected, developed society. The USA's unique history and geography lent itself to high levels of religious affiliation, but since the Internet has connected us all a little closer, it's been harder for religious institutions and religious parents to prevent younger people from obtaining unfiltered information.

Enjoyable secular rituals are also easy to find if you look right in front of you - the Thanksgiving Day parade, the SuperBowl, Halloween and Trick-or-Treating, Valentine's Day, city-wide marathons, County Fairs, street festivals, etc...the list is nearly endless.

And tradition itself isn't a religion or belief in something. The fact that the Catholic church has you cross yourself, stand and sit at specific times, or eat a cracker are not examples a belief in anything, they are physical ritual and tradition. One can partake in all those activities without having a thought in their mind. There are also secular traditions that have no root in surviving religions, like putting a tree in your house during the holiday season. Plenty of atheists put up "Christmas trees" because it's fun!
It's true, I believe the low probability of getting the reward is the greatest flaw with the watchtower reward scheme. Not just if you have many watchtowers, but the likelihood of a peer attempting a channel breach in the first place esp. when watchtowers are in place would be extremely low since that peer is almost certainly assured to lose money.

There are some services currently providing watchtower for a flat fee instead, and the going rate is low (1 satoshi / txn watched) =~ $ 0.00008
“Aliens Cause Global Warming”, Caltech Michelin Lecture by Michael Crichton [pdf]
Awesome, I didn't actually know about that option. Will try that now instead.

I do find the mention of DDG using Oath rather alarming, though, since Oath seems particularly obnoxious, at least with their GDPR pop-up on Tumblr. What does DDG do with Oath?
Three US Hearthstone Players Banned for Hong Kong Protest
Yes! I really enjoy them as well-- and he has his animation software on github: https://github.com/3b1b/manim