skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My observation from past 10 years is that 10 years ago 1/2 cops were nice and 1/2 cops were harsh, but professional. These days 1/2 cops are nice and 1/2 cops seem to actively create troubles out of thin air. Each interaction with a mean cop was saved by what I'd call status illegibility: the cop wasn't sure whether I'm a rich connected trouble-maker or just look like one. Short conversations with some cops reminded me typical conversations with professional corporate sociopaths when you aren't sure whether the person you're talking to is a skillful sociopath who tries to get something on you or just a chatty dude. Long time ago, when I was young and naive, I got pulled over by a seemingly friendly cop who felt very chatty. I gave him way too much information because I didn't understand what was going on and gave a wrong answer to a request to search my car. What probably saved me that time was his next question about where I work. After my answer he promptly returned my DL and let me go.
Interesting topic for sure and I hold very similar views. I have a book recommendation that might gauge your interest. "Who owns the future" by Jaron Lanier.

He touches on many topics throughout the book and has several talks on Youtube including ones at Microsoft research. Touches on Siren Servers which collate big data and used for not so ethical business practices.

Bottom line to answer your last question is yes, yes they are. The invasive spying tools implemented by these companies give them the opportunity to tailor a very targeted marketing campaign that captures and retains people in their business ecosystem.

Read the book a while ago so can't cite any particular evidence. Jaron pretty much states who ever has the biggest computer with the most data wins. He saw the birth of big insurance companies implement computing into their business practice which was a game changer.

Interested if anyone has an real world scenarios to chime in
The shoddy council built flats from the 1960s, with thin, uninsulated, concrete walls, were clearly a bad decision.

Compared to most European cities, London has very few good quality apartment buildings. British people see this, and conclude that they're not possible.

Some older (1930s etc), good quality buildings exist in London, and newer "luxury" ones. I used to live in one, and it was very nice — no garden I needed to maintain, no space wasted by an individual heating system (and nothing for me to maintain). It was in a medium-wealthy area, with a price to match.
That's not "vulnerable to a flaw". You make it sound like there's some sort of security bug or buffer overflow in the OS that lets any app turn on the camera at will.

The "flaw" is that apps you explicitly gave permission to use the camera, can use it! All they've done in P is notice that they can tighten the permission even further so the app has to be in the foreground to use that permission.

The lack of this wasn't a vulnerability though. Mobile operating systems have been implementing finer grained permissions and security through their entire lifespans. For sure that trend will continue. If we spin every improvement to privacy controls as "fixing a vulnerability" it's just a form of crying wolf that will lead people to ignore security updates even more than they already do.
It is not currently conceived to draw lines, only faces.
You maybe want to draw the edges of an isometric shape? It could be something to think about for future evolutions of this editor, sure, but I would have to think carefully about how to implement it from the UI perspective.
> a mod came along and closed the question

It wasn't closed by a mod, but by the community: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/15301885/timeline#history_d9...

The way close voting works is that a question will be closed as long as there are five (now three!) random people from the community who feel a question should be closed. This is good since there really are many duplicates that should be marked as such, but some people are not very good in carefully judging questions, and the system doesn't recover from these kind of mistakes well and includes almost no punishments for clearly erroneous close votes.

Like I mentioned in my other comment, there are a few comparatively minor fixes that could be done to improve the experience here too, but nothing gets done. Sigh...
Is that 100 startups with ideas, you would be willing to build yourself?
> Well it is certainly possible that the labor market becomes even more saturated in software and education falls back into being an easy go-to natural filtration system.

Education is a shitty filtration system. Work-examples and/or skill-demonstration based interviews like the ones used for programmers are much better. The only reason that so many other industries rely on education is that they don't have as good ways of testing the actual skills of job applicants (and/or because testing doesn't scale that well - e.g. you can give a coding test to every programmer, but can't give a "surgery test" to every doctor).
So when can I expect to be able to order myself my very own Pikachu?
Just normal corruption. Nothing to see here, look over there at how evil China is while we slip some cash to a Senator or two
Given the current state of security practices, I'd say we're lucky if they have unit tests.
We are working on it, but financing seems to be tricky for such an endeavor.
Its not just non-Anglo .. semicolon is often used because data often contains commas, and it’s just easier to swop your delimiter than encapsulate your fields properly ... even then it’s just a simple matter to use the alternative delimeter, or convert by a simple search and replace (once youve added encapuslation to the relevant fields of course).

Though CSV directly implies commas I find it helpful to consider it a synonym for “delimited text”. The specifics of the delimiter don’t bother me so much so long as the format is consistent.
There are other options. My next phone will either be a Librem 5 or a zerophone.
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So strongly persuaded to use their hyperinflated disaster currency. I imagine there's some pretty interesting "on the ground practical tips" on how to handle that well. Maybe people learn how to introduce bartering whenever possible. Or find money sinks to spend their revenue before the next day.
If you're reading this, please watch Brazil (1985).
‘Management’ and ‘process’ are mostly based on pseudoscience.
Write CPython with an emphasis on C. Then get the speed gains you need.
>Currently young couples get a 2 bed (with one bed being a box room) and have to move out once the second baby comes //

I guess you've never heard of bunk beds?
Hi Brendan! Evan here from ClimateCareers! Https://climate.careers

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Perhaps unbeknownst to some folks, the FDA as a regulatory body is funded in large part now by Congress but by GDUFA and PDUFA which allows the agency to collect user fees for both brand and generic drugs from the drug makers themselves, in essence being funded by the industry it is meant to regulate. So it is then understandable why a lot of the guidelines become flexible (note that the FDA cannot enact laws, that is the duty of Congress)
Many games are held together by duct tape
> Excel

Guess many people don't like to install this slow bloatware like I do.
Sounds like good system testing to me!

EDIT or absence thereof
Design, Composition and Performance (2013)
Even within the Marxist two-class world view, it is still contradictory. “We recognise people are unequal, but we will ensure that their economic outcomes are”. If the first part doesn’t contradict the second, then it certainly isn’t a relevant part of the message.

But even then, the strict two class world view doesn’t describe Marx’ entire philosophy regarding class, which was founded on ideas of social isolation. Something any level of class inequality will create.

Though in any case, the two class world view doesn’t fit into reality at all. According to that theory, anybody with capital is in the upper class. That’s a huge majority of people today. The moment you let people use capital, you have a Marxist theory class system. How could you possibly eliminate that? There’s no way? Well this was actually a problem Marx solved, and the quote makes much more sense when you account for that:

> The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
But it is a fun job
Monzo or Starling in the UK.

In the absence of APIs from most banks, it would be nice if there was a client side personal finance web app that allowed uploading .csv or pdf statements, and scraped those for you locally, perhaps with the option of using your own Google Drive or Dropbox as a persistent storage backend beyond browser localstorage.
What happens then when werbot is down? I'm assuming this is a hosted service? What happens when a session is a day long, and the output is a verbose compilation of Firefox? Is that still all stored in the database?
Position your index finger between your eyes and monitor. If you focus on your index finger you will see only one index finger, but if you focus on monitor you will see two index fingers. Now, you need to do the same thing with the monitor, i.e. you need to see two monitors :-) by looking somewhere behind the monitor. If you separate two monitors just enough you will see the shark in 3D.
OP was specifically discussing transfer students, not high-schoolers in accelerated CC programs.
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I doubt there are books that could teach you critical thinking. It requires to spend lots of time observing and learning stuff, trying out possible solutions and getting meaningful feedback.

Also from my experience it helps when you stop judging people and stuff, labeling things as good or bad, black or white. Just try to understand different points of view and outcomes as they are.
Raku is the new name for Perl 6, not Perl 5.
Could you point out what law you're referring to?

Some early 20th century (and some earlier) housing in my UK city is 3 or 4 storeys. Many of the newer buildings are 4 storey, a few tower blocks (60s/70s).
slides & transcript: https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...

> So there's a sense in which improvisation is dynamic composition of prepared materials, of planned material, and that to be a great improviser means to make those smaller plans or have those kinds of prepared abilities or approaches or sensibilities that you can apply when the time comes in a live situation.
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In not the gut you talk about, but... I built many systems and was always a point of failure when it comes to dependency. I still know a lot of code, even when it's years ago. But I never kill an idea that has a better outcome as the current solution has, and if it's possible to implement, we'll do it. That's leadership.
I wonder how many human lives' worth of work has been wasted from the decision to use Python and having to deal with 2/3 transitions, and if it was worth it for the speedup of using an interpreted language.
We used to maintain an actual map of climate-impactful orgs on https://Climate.Careers. Very few people used it, so we took it down — but we still have all the data of course!
Ted Kaczynski and Clifford Stoll were spot-on about the detrimental effects of technology on freedom and happiness.
this hits so close to home
Not sure why the original response got flagged but: I think that her being a woman in this context provides this kind of output with more amplification than if she hasn't been while at the same time diminishing her opportunities for honest collegiate feedback. That's not her fault or an advantage that she's deliberately taking, or an advantage all for a researcher, maybe for an author/pundit.
I always associate this word first and foremost with the device in Asimov's short story sequel to "Marooned off Vesta".

EDIT: Oops, in the story it was "anoptikon" which was a play on the misunderstanding in the first story that the company was talking about "an optikon" when referring to the device.
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Userbase here is generally young and idealistic, most probably don't know how research works and apparently can't tell the difference between mutual co-operation and state-sanctioned plagiarism.
A corollary is that you can hold a facade much longer than you can function.
Found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength
But apps request permission to do functionality-related things and then spam you. Grab, a ride-hailing app I used in SE Asia, was terrible for this.
Lying in engineering means saying anything that's not true with any certainty.

It’s funny because that’s exactly an example of what I mean. Real engineering is about compromises and those are highly subjective. What’s the feature we should work on next? What tools should we use? What’s the priority of this bug? Should we refactor this today or take on more tech debt? Ask 10 people and you will get 10 answers, all of which are just as true as any other. Recognising this comes with experience.
“[..] to present to the eye some picture by which the course of their reasonings might be traced: it was however necessary to fill up this outline by a tedious description, which in some instances even of no peculiar difficulty became nearly unintelligible, simply from its extreme length”
- Babbage on Java, 1821.

My stumblings in APL involve a continuous adjustment of functions and data to fit each other, an impedance matching, a continuous going up and down lochs, now to enclose this, now to align this vector with that nested vector, now to mix that nested vector into a matrix to feed into a function with a first axis rank adjustment.. and it feels like a system built of ill-fitting parts because of it.

Perhaps it’s not APL inherently being an elegant notation, but smart people’s ability to express their thoughts elegantly in whatever notation they are using?
This effect is perhaps most pronounced in comments sections of local news papers, where stories about pretty much anything seem to attract rantings about Muslims, gays, socialists/leftists, SJWs, what-have-you. A lot of the more reasonable nope'd out of there many years ago.

I wrote a somewhat related article about this a while ago: https://www.arp242.net/censorship.html
When you are an employee at a job you don't like, but you keep staying because you think you are irreplacable, you worry about your colleagues, or for whatever reason: just leave.

The only reason you stay is a feeling of responsibility.

But you are not responsible for the company or it's employees.

You are responsible for your own life and your family.
When you talk about about a big company, you're really talking about thousands of individuals. Each with their own goals and values.

When a big company does something wrong, often it's just one to five of those thousands of people who did something wrong.

Hatred for a big company is very similar to racism. Some of the people who work at a big company may fit the profile you imagine. But many of them don't. Sometimes the large majority.
Related to that: On many people's mental maps, programming seems to be closeby other things like installing a driver, changing configuration and such. That it is an powerful tool for anything that you do with your mind completely escapes the bystanders.
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A clbuttic mistake.

The underlying story is getting tragic, however: "you can't blacklist impropriety" is apparently not learnable, despite decades of failed attempts.
The PDF seems to be missing the images; the scanning technology used seems not to have been calibrated correctly to capture them.
I wish more devs cared about backward compatibility not just in python but in general. I know a particular, very popular library, 60k stars on github, who's maintainers break stuff every month. They don't care how many developers time it wastes they just decide FooBar should really be named FooB and rename it. No Effs given how many people it disrupts. You'd think people would complain but cult of personality and/or popularity of library turns people in to fan boys where they seem to think "If these geniuses are doing it this way then it must be good". .... sigh
You can report it to Apple that the app is abusing notifications and give them a screenshot and they will action it. Before that, you can probably try reaching out to the developer with an email and an app review though.
You can think of bad jobs as an opportunity to learn how to be effective in dysfunctional environments.
That agile-let's-hold-hands-together-and-sing type of development is total and utter crap which doesn't improve the workflow in any way and simply acts as a shield from the management for everyone that loves to slack about and is scared of taking even minor decisions.
Well, I think most games err to the "quick and dirty" side of things. Tracking down intermittent issues in code like this must be horrible, if not impossible. Leading to delayed projects, buggy releases and developer burn out.
"Thinking, Fast and Slow" might be good here.
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> [...]the desperate lengths Python programmers will go to to use it for things it was not meant for rather than learn or use other languages[...]

I don't think it's an issue of not wanting to learn other languages.

If you really like screwdrivers and go to screwdriving events, have a collection of screwdrivers, you may end up living in a echo chamber where you and your peers are convinced using a screwdriver is a good tool to plant a nail.
Life is fleeting. Most of us here are 1/3 or more of the way done. Divest yourself as much as possible from your job. Find other sources of identity. You don't need that fancy car or to buy a boat as much as you need that ejector seat savings account.

And when you realise that conditions have evolved to a point where you're not having fun anymore (and they always eventually do), eject yourself and go spend far more time with family, friends and your other sources of identity.

Everyone _wildly_ undervalues their time.
1.) When did you graduate? 2.) How has employment been? Not snark; genuinely curious.
Assuming you'll want to read Fall of Hyperion, the continuation of Hyperion (can't really call it a sequel), it's interesting that Keats plays an even larger role in that book. Simmons includes all sorts of parallels between his work and that of Keats, but I even found myself a bit annoyed at times as it seemed like Simmons wrote the second part of the book mainly to show his love for Keats.

Still, Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion is some of the best scifi I've read, and I say this despite not being a big fan of some of the themes Fall introduces.
> The implications of that for progressive personal income taxation

I don't think there are any. An individual doesn't get to choose between a high tax job and a low tax job. The only way to get more money in your pockets is to get paid more money, regardless of whether you're taxed at 15% or 50%.
And once they start they don't stop again, which is also kinda annoying. I wish there was some way to permanently allow it, and not be bugged by the alerts again. Something the app cannot set by itself, but i can set.

I have some apps, i.e. Unifi Protect, that requires access to background location to send activity alerts when nobody is home, and i frequently get alerts that this app has used my location in the background, and despite selecting "allow always" it will pop up again in a couple of weeks.

To further add insult to injury, i appear to have "trained" my wife so well that she defaults to selecting "deny" for apps she doesn't use, and "only when in use" to everything else, which then results in a flurry of motion alerts :)
Well when the term was coined, the key was two full width rooms each floor. Get out into the industrial and poorer areas especially in the North, Scotland and Wales and there were some one up, one down back to back terraces. Most of those went in slum clearances, but some survive...

Sure, the indoor bathroom/toilet was added later as it was a Victorian era innovation, but the second room on the ground floor was generally a back kitchen/diner. So you'll find a great many with a later kitchen extension (frequently flat roofed, and incredibly poorly, or not insulated) that permit separating kitchen and dining room, often adding an upstairs indoor bathroom/toilet for the first time. When those extra rooms were there from new build they weren't called 2+2s -- though they were clearly two bed houses derived from them.

UK estate agent standard for describing housing is number of bedrooms. Apparently we're meant to figure everything else from "two bed", "five bed". What else is in there is often quite varied and ludicrously (fraudulently) creative in estate agent blurb. Thank heavens for the relatively recent expectation of a floorplan and regulation limiting estate agent creativity. Until the 1980s or 1990s you almost never got a floorplan unless buying new, or exceptionally upmarket. :)
I agree with everything you wrote, but note that Apple's attempt to brand itself as privacy aware is self serving and works only because privacy is such a vague topic the population doesn't really know how to reason precisely about it. Their affluent users don't actually care more than anyone else, but it lets them virtue signal to their friends a little bit without having to make any actual sacrifices of features or usability.

Take the end to end encryption in iMessage. It doesn't mean anything: like all such schemes Apple can push a new key to your friends phones, or a software update that selectively disables it, at any time they want. There may already be back doors there nobody knows about. The user could never detect this nor do anything about it even if they did. But Apple use it to claim they care about privacy.

On advertising, Apple only decided advertising was bad and privacy invasive after their own iAd initiative flopped completely. When Jobs thought Apple could compete directly with Google on advertising he was all about how beautiful and usable Apple ads would be.

Apple's all about privacy except they want you to upload everything to their cloud. They're all about privacy except they have root on all your devices. Note: this is unlike Android, where the root keys for the devices are owned by OEMs who sandbox and review/audit Google's software, and the OEMs in turn don't have access to the Google cloud data. Some Android devices don't even use Google services at all.

For Apple privacy is a marketing angle. It can be seen in the way the latest iOS/Android versions don't differ from each other in any significant respects.
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The article and comments about Hitler's plan to (or not to) attack America [1] are interesting. Wa-a-a-y down at the end of the comments, there are a series of interesting threads with bibliographies on the possibility Stalin had an outsized covert influence upon American foreign policy. And lots of other interesting threads; software isn't the only endeavor where it gets fractally more complex the closer you examine it.

[1] https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/32084
Interesting post, but the code examples are completely unreadable on firefox + windows, because of the CSS color: #333 on .hljs class.

https://imgur.com/tUnlwWa
Carl Sagan's excellent The Demon-Haunted World includes a "Baloney detection kit":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World
or any Mass surveillance state like North Korea, China, Stalin-era Soviet Union, DDR (East Germany)

they had limited resources but high enough punishment to keep the population in check