skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think saying 'they're drowning' is still giving them too much credit. People who built terrible broken systems don't know they are bad at building things, and they probably don't have a clear idea of what would be better or worse to begin with. They don't know it's better to have a system that can be debugged, they don't even know what the difference is. If you give them examples of good designs and bad designs, they can't tell you which is which. When they say 'this is good' or 'this is bad' they will astound you with the reasoning.

Software is an industry with no standards for employment.
All it takes to be a Software Engineer is for an incompetent manager to hire you. More than half the people I interview barely have a basic familiarity with writing software. These are people who have been employed as software engineers for years and will certainly find another job. They struggle to write a nested for loop. They write functions with thousands of lines. They just don't know what they are doing.

The author here claims they don't want the visibility of the situation to increase, but I think they don't know it's a problem to begin with. Their stupid excuses for not moving forward are just their stupid thoughts said out loud.
There’s always bitcoin
It is not law enforcement that is driving them underground. That is private corporations, who decide to rather not know those customers.
Thanks for writing/sharing this. It puts words around some dynamics I’ve seen, and not just online. It got me thinking about people and my mental models of them, which I think is helpful.
Basic firearm safety instruction is part of it, and the other part is the general mechanical reliability of firearms. Modern firearms, as a general rule, will not fire themselves unless somebody or something interacts with them. Basic firearm safety instruction is often a short dogmatic set of rules[0] primarily focused on making sure people don't interact with the gun in a way that makes it likely to go off unintended. These two factors work together to keep people relatively safe from accidents around firearms most of the time.

There are some guns for which the basic dogmatic instruction is probably insufficient. Notably glocks; in some circles "glock" has become a verb, wherein to "glock yourself" means to accidentally shoot yourself in the leg with your glock while holstering or upholstering it. More specialized training can reduce the chances of this happening, but for this specific scenario and some others like it, the standard basic safety instructions fall a bit short in my opinion.

[0] One example: http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/safe_sur/acts-tpto-eng.ht... Other rulesets often have the same ideas worded in slightly different ways.
What do you mean? Zero original point does not work with negative data?
Bikes in the bay are next.
I just re-watched this section with closed captions turned on. The cityspeak is just identified as “FOREIGN LANGUAGE”, but isn’t actually translated.

Ironically enough, the same is true for “Maclunkey” in the scene where Han shoots Greedo. All the other things Greedo says are translated, but not that one.

Darn.
Hack The Planet!!!
Scientific figures aren’t designed for public consumption either; the intended audience is the set of other scientists subscribed to that journal.
It can of course curb illegal activity, as all surveillance laws tend to do, but at enormous cost to privacy, the ability to escape unjust laws, and the ability of persecuted minorities to protect themselves from tyrannical majorities.
The architecture of declarative configuration management
The 3a is properly priced. I hope they keep the -a thing going. I can't imagine a world where I'd pay $600+ for a phone. We're at the point now where all you're buying is a new battery and 18 more months of security updates. More RAM, faster CPU, what's the point? I'm not playing high end games, content creation, or compiling software on my phone.

If they don't keep -a going, then they've blown it. The Nexus line was great.

They've also already totally blown it with all the texting bullshit. Hangouts is awesome. Carrier based texting is a significant step backwards.
Github: https://github.com/200ok-ch/organice

Web Browser App: https://organice.200ok.ch/sample
Can't that be said about every post on HN?

Globally, you certainly don't see many uber-wealthy people over 30 yearning for shared living accommodations. Nor have I ever met anyone who said "I wish I had a neckbeard gamer who doesn't shower and a 39yo crazy cat lady on Xanax as my roommates."
You can get that effect in any system if the bean conuters count the wrong thing. Source: have worked in a Ford factory.
There's a backstory to this paper from the r/math subreddit [1]. One of the authors initially posted the question there, and stumbling upon a similar question on math overflow emailed Terry Tao. And surprisingly, he responded.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/ci665j/linear_algebra...
You should be specific about who you’re calling out. I’m sure this is good advice for journalists making infographics for the public, but it isn’t for scientists talking to other scientists.

I design my plots for readability and in the process regularly break every rule you listed here, because I trust my audience (other scientists) to understand how to read axes. Yes, it might be confusing to somebody who doesn’t read graphs with axes that often, but if I optimized my papers for their convenience, they would all have to be 100 pages long.
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> science is about quantitative measurement

Hard sciences may be, but there are quite a soft science domains such as psychology. We do not yet know exact nature of addiction, but psychological, environmental impacts have not been ruled out, by most scientists.
Hubble's 13B Year Old Photo [video]
What makes you think it's any different?
You're literally doing it right now, my comment got flagged, lol...

Don't bother suggesting innovation in HN, it hasn't been updated in 10+ years, and for some reason they're proud of that fact.
People are literally saying to default to using PG for "everything". That's the attitude I'm arguing against.

What's frustrating about this conversation is that I'm literally, right now, supporting two different queueing systems based on PG and Redis, so I get on a very real level, the tradeoffs. I know in great detail the problems that come up, but HN is not conducive to talking at that level of detail. At this point every comment I make is flagged and downvoted, so why would I pay time into a system that has clearly decided my opinion isn't relevant?
> I'd argue there isn't a middle class use case for strong anonymity. There are tons of use cases for identity and privacy, but anonymity presumes you are being preyed upon somehow. You need antagonists, and most of those are government/institution related, but by defining yourself in opposition to them, you in-effect leave the middle class. E.g. cease to identify as someone those institutions ostensibly serve, and identify instead as one of those they target.

The middle class still needs to work to eat, and I'm sure there are plenty of online activities that middle class people engage in that they don't need their employer or professional sphere knowing about.
> A fool and his money are easily parted. If those students didn't blow their tuition on MLM garbage, they'd have blown it on something else. I'm sure there's a kid somewhere who blew his tuition making ridiculous option trades based on something he read on r/wallstreetbets.

Just because you're getting downvoted, doesn't mean you're wrong. Caveat emptor.

That said, the kids who make the options trades probably lose more than the ones who fall for the MLM scams...
> soldering it to the board AND making it so that there's no way to access it in the event of a logic board failure

I prefer this, considering how encryption works with the T2 chip. I'm probably in a minority of general users, but probably in the majority of HN users when I say that nothing on my laptop is important. I don't even have backups per-se. Code is in git and mirrored to multiple remote backups. Documents and similar exist solely in the cloud. If for some reason my laptop was stolen I want there to be an as close to 0% chance of an enemy retrieving data from my laptop as possible.

(Yes, I know SSD encryption exists, I think the T2 thing takes things a step further)
Now backed by Amazon
Hehe. Yours is a little cutie too!

I've just borked my install trying to migrate to aarch64 from armv7h.

Currently rescuing it (I hope) with a chroot.

Fun! :D

edit: all sorted! aarch64 kernel compiled; migrated the userland over from armv7h (I've been using 32-bit for a few months) - no issues so far! whee!
So what happens if you aren't linked even indirectly?

What if the trust chain is 20 users long?

Who's going to spend the resources to find this chain? And has it been tested to scale, or is it just like Bitcoin in the early days where people said it would scale and never tested it?

People are going to gravitate to putting all their money into a large exchange like Coinbase to avoid these problems.
The government has been proven to be irresponsible with my money, I don't object to Ubers position here.
People change. Many believe in redemption too.

B maybe did a crime, did not get caught. Never paid a debt. Maybe never learned a lesson A did.

This is not just politicians. People have feelings about this too.

Frankly, I believe in being able to pay ones debt, mistakes having been made, growth, better experience acquired, and move on.

If it is minor, there should not be life long implications.
I know what you mean, player. I got a bankroll in my pocket right now.
But then anyone who wants to use an aftermarket cooler will need to peel off the stock cooler first. I don't think that's consistent with the Pi philosophy, not to mention you might damage the SoC if you apply too much force while removing an adhesive heat sink.
Serious question: why does an already-built password manager need 200m?
Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21537642
Any thoughts on which TLDs are least susceptible to shenanigans?
That would be responsible to mention in the review, with a promise to publish new comparisons whenever new mitigations are released.

Intel's security flaws pushed our LCRs up at least two years and cost us extra in over-provisioning to account for real and potential performance loss. If Intel isn't actually hardware mitigating (as in, making no effort to redesign their chips with security in mind and instead playing whack a mole with vulnerabilities as they're discovered) and reviewers are not highlighting and disclosing this, they're lying by omission.

I'm not being rude, but don't give Intel a pass here because of any prior fondness you might have held for them. Every benchmark of an Intel CPU you've ever published was made false by their negligence. That's a big, confusing problem for consumers, and they rely on your clarity and diligence to bring it to their attention and correct.
This isn't an aggressive tone, except to people who have their own emotional investment into the topic.

I put out what is given.
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Pengwin: A Linux Environment for Windows 10
This is not Uber's real problem. The much bigger problem is that Uber's business model by definition cannot be profitable, and here is why:

Let's start with the costs of the business model.

What are the two costs involved in transporting a customer from point A to point B? They are:
- The car’s time
- The (human) driver’s time

Operating or leasing a car for a certain amount of time (maintenance/insurance/gasoline) has not become significantly cheaper since Uber was created, so there is no cost reduction here.

Hiring a human's dedicated time (at least minimum wage) has also not become significantly cheaper since Uber, so here too there is no cost reduction.

Therefore the cost to transport something from point A to B has stayed exactly the same, before Uber and after Uber.

To transport something from point A to point B, someone must still carry this unavoidable cost. If the customer is not carrying this cost, then Uber must be carrying it. Uber can do so for now because investor money has subsidized the cost. But Uber can’t do this forever because investors will lose patience and stop the subsidy.

Uber can only be profitable once the unavoidable cost transport is passed on entirely to the customer. At that point, Uber will have to charge the same price as any taxi. Stated differently, Uber can never be more profitable than a taxi company on a per-ride basis.

Given that customers have no loyalty to a ride-share service, because every ride is virtually identical, any taxi company can build a similar service, removing any "walled garden" or "network effect" Uber may have hoped for. In fact, Uber clones are doing well in other countries and are creating significant headwinds for Uber.

Uber therefore has no hope of ever delivering its promises unless it can deliver driverless cars. Even if it can do that, the technology will quickly become commoditized and ubiquitous, meaning that any other ride-share service could offer it as well, once again removing any advantage, and driving margins for all ride-share services to near zero.
Power Complexity on the Rise
Meh, as long as they're not designed to improve themselves, and there are strict protocols for ensuring all active units are controllable, it's not necessarily a recipe for solar system paperclipization.
Fanalyze – Sports search engine and analysis platform
I mean why stop there? Let's remove the database indexes too. Hell, why use a hashtable when you have lists amirite?
> You don't need Tor to unionize.

Labor history is rife with eavesdropping, spying, honey pots and sabotage against workers at the hands of employers. Computers make all of those things easier and cheaper than they were in the past.

Nowadays, firms offering those services go by the names of 'union-avoidance consultancies'[1] among many others. You can Google that term or 'fighting union' for dozens of companies you can hire towards that end.

Also, the Pinkertons[2] are still in business doing what they did 150 years ago.

[1] https://www.epi.org/blog/union-busters-are-more-prevalent-th...

[2] https://www.pinkerton.com
You can't really do much when your president stated he would "bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding."
It's not traffic, it's money. It's also a significant percentage.
> I'd argue there isn't a middle class use case for strong anonymity.

So you don't mind that banks can sell information about where you were, who you are and what you buy, mobile carriers sell information about who you are and where you live and whom do you call? Treating you as a "consumer" without any rights.

The only way to opt from being sold is not to provide information about yourself. Which is called anonimity. Use anonymous cash, anonymous bank account, anonymous messengers, anonymous SIM card. Sadly, most governments don't allow this because they don't want to trust you and they are not at your side but at the side of bigdata traders.

So today you can buy drugs anonymously using Telegram, but cannot buy something anonymously on Ebay using Paypal without filling out a long form with passport data as if you were applying for US visa.
Sorry, I might be missing something but can you point out where the author is saying they're against this or that its a "concern"?
They say it can be disruptive - and explicitly say to whom it is disruptive ("people who don't run into the kinds of people normally" i.e the masses) but I'm not seeing this explicit point where the author says it's a bad thing - only that it's a challenge to moderate everyone tactfully.
Can you help me out?
Good luck! I'd like to hear how Arch works out for you. I used to use Arch before I switched to macOS. If I ever get around to using a Pi as a desktop, Arch will definitely my first choice.
> I refactored the code from untested and untestable, to testable with 40% test coverage. The senior architect is refusing to merge because the test coverage is to low.

what's likely even more frustrating is that other merges went in for years with no tests or testing in place at all.
Ask HN: Which companies are gravitating top tech talent?
I always hear of an exodus of talent from companies based on certain events. Where are these employees moving on to?
Don't have access to contracts without arousing suspicion.

It's been happening for a few months and amounts have increased.
Wow, yea, that's nearly identical.

Main authors for both repos are the two repo-owners tho, so there's some kind of collab going on in any case: https://github.com/DanielDe/org-web/graphs/contributors vs https://github.com/200ok-ch/organice/graphs/contributors (and munen is the CEO of 200ok)
Where’s the MeToo movement????? Disgrace that corporate America can get away with making their own laws when they want
Also, I find it remarkable that I do not know you (so I doubt you are acting to offer assistance, as my friends might), and yet you offer 4 rebuttals, the latter 2 which suggest my thinking is suspect...

Where is that coming from? And why?
I'm curious to see the path to profitability for Uber and Lyft's multi-modal strategies (scooters, biking). Right now it's a land grab, but I'm unconvinced the land is worth more than the purchase price. Perhaps it's valuable as part of a larger strategy but I have my doubts those bike trips are profitable on their own.
When I was trained in lifesaving, one strategy for panicked victims, who might drown the rescuer, was just to give them some space to drown enough to lose consciousness. Then they were much easier to rescue.
Flipkart fights climate change, to collect plastic packaging back from customers
Even if you did click to accept the terms of service, their server knows you probably didn’t read it. They know exactly how long it was between you being served the contract, and you accepting it.

Clearly if that time is anything under a number of minutes or hours you can’t possibly be agreeing to the contract and so they should be duty bound to refuse service.

I look forward to a test case where a judge rules a terms-of-service contract unenforceable because the vendor logged that I read it in 3.2 seconds and accepted that as me having read it.

Or maybe it’s time to start being that person again, who reads contracts slowly and in full before signing.
So being the person that’s manning the lifeboat, what do you do? Kick them down?

If you do nothing everyone will surely drown.
An Open Letter on the Hong Kong High Court Injunction on Internet Speech
How loud are these?
>> a fixed fare

like I said originally, "predictable." thx 4 confirming
The bike stuff was basically breaking even when it was Motivate. The real tragedy here will be if Lyft bought Motivate just so they could mismanage it into non-existence.
Key factors that separated the elite players from the average:

- one morning and one night period of very deliberate practice

- an extra hour of sleep

- leisure time was rated as more relaxing
God.. you guys just love org-mode! Every time I get Polar on hacker news I get another batch of request referencing org-mode. :)
The typical way to go about this would be creating separate Bitcoin wallets for different types of purchases. Many wallet clients support this out of the box.

Personally, I generate a new wallet for every transaction.
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201911/01/P2019103100982... - government press release on the injunction restricting internet speech

https://gogetfunding.com/jrcensorship/ - crowd funding to fight this: 1.6mn of 3mn raised as of now, first hearing today
For me in Russia gmail always requires a phone number. But my ISP is large and maybe someone of its users was sending spam or did something bad.
Misleading title. This is a template letter, for selling a product to your boss. Twee marketing material has a limited lifespan on hacker news, unless you are highlighting something noteworthy.
AskIgor: Automated delta debugging service (2006)
I automatically follow any developer's blog I come across with an RSS feed. Just putting it out there for anyone who has a blog and wants to share :)
There’s something to be said for having the cpu on the back side of the board, like some of the NanoPi models. Easier to spread the heat with no connectors in the way.
profiling is illegal when the service is necessary to live. in germany for example, it is illegal to deny someone access to things like a phone line, electricity or water. (that is, even if you don't pay your bills, they are not allowed to turn of your service. instead, if they want the money, they have to sue you)

i believe at this point, access to a bank account is also included in this. as things progress, more things will be added to the list. soon (if not already) internet access will be included.
They don’t need to make the scooters profitable — they just need to make sure that the scooters don’t displace Uber and Lyft rides. They just need to make sure the scooters are crappy, broken, and annoying to get the world to turn against scooters and stick with Uber and Lyft rides.
Wait, so she sold "her" music and it's no longer hers....

What am I missing here?
I think this might be somewhat tangential to what the article has to say, but I think there is a fair amount of mindset to the "busyness" thing.

Some people seem to think that "busyness is next to godliness", so they make sure never to let anyone see them idle. They don't so much focus on what they are doing, just that they are doing something.

I've always taken the opposite approach. I go out of my way to make it look like I'm never busy. "Make it look easy." It's just a different sort of personality quirk.

It's fun to come across people from the other camp. We find each other very peculiar... :)
Mostly because of the concept of “insurable interest”. Insurance pricing doesn’t hold up unless the buyer has a reason to avoid the outcome being insured against. The simplest example is life insurance.

Why do you question whether identity would matter?
I watched the video - I prefer personal freedom resolved at as small a level as possible, rather than ideas submitted to experts/researchers (who chooses the experts?) then managed over by administrators (again who chooses this roster?).

And why is "the concept of voluntary ill conceived"? Taken at face value, that sentence means people should not have freedom over themselves or their property... Also known as a definition of slavery.
Even this explanation is incorrect. Evenly sampled data across many orders of magnitude give an even distribution of leading numbers. See my comment for code here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21541264

There are many distributions which do lead to the distribution of leading digits that follow Benford's law, just not uniform. Nor "uniform over several orders of magnitude".
I forget the name of the other famous physicist (not Dyson) who said it, but the quote was: "I've seen more [persons] destroyed by Physics than by drugs".

I don't regret my Ph.D., but I still remember the monotone voice in which I defended my dissertation. Listen to advice here. Powerlessness is quite something to experience when one is (has been) locked in for years.
It doesn't work that way. If Coinbase operates a Lightning node, you simply open a channel to their node, from your Lightning wallet. You don't give Coinbase your money.
The absence of competition reinforces conservatism.

Bluth leaving Disney was the best thing to happen to them.
This is what I meant. In our society, only very few, usually already rich, can try their own ideas. Most of us have to stick with known ideas that bring profit to business owners or meaningful visibility to universities. When I was in college, I had to work on ideas approved by my professor. Now I have to work on ideas approved by my corporation. But if I had money, I'd work on something completely different. Sure, in 15 I will be rich and can start doing my own stuff, but I'll also be old and my ability will be nowhere near the peak at 25 years.