skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is true in the current situation, though I would prefer that we ensure free data must be free. In that case buyers of data would be incentivized to pressure providers of free data to improve the data quality.
You're assuming this technology actually works, when in practice it engages in more racial profiling than the also-racist human police force.
> The thing that truly hurts the iPad is the App Store.

I'm skeptical if the situation would be better without an app store. The app store provides monetization and that leads to higher quality apps. I think what we'd really want is for iPadOS to open up to more integrations, like an integration app that offers a different home screen / app switcher / task manager experience.
Your analogy doesn't hold. Your backyard is private property. The data that LinkedIn publishes is intended for the public. That's why Google can index the pages and give you results from LinkedIn.
I might agree with the other commenter. If you can't figure it out yourself (understandable for most people), it ought to be as easy as googling "where are facebook's privacy settings?" I don't have an account, so I can't tell whether the facebook help pages that come up are useful.

In general, I am frustrated when the complaint is about how hard a thing is to do, when sticking that complaint into a web search gives you an easy answer. That doesn't seem to be the case here though?
My point is I really am only hearing one side of the story. If true, I wholeheartedly agree.

However, my experience with those "payments" is closer to "I have read the contract, agree to terms, etc." I am given the oppritunity to see the contract to review before I sign it, and walk out with it signed.

Also, my point is common sense tells me that state farm would want to see my medical records to make sure I am not lying about previous disabilities (we are talking about disability insurance, not car or renters insurance), and usually you sign a contract for insurance.

From a flow standpoint, I can see why state farm would only do one signature if it is all digital versus making the person sign five times, when all it says is "I have reviewed form X and agree." But if someone doesn't actually review all of the documents, then something like this happens.
School is great if you enjoy dabbling in lots of different things. One of the great challenges of life is that most humans are inclined to generalization but work forces us to specialize on one thing and spend a huge chunk of our life on it.
You still have to worry about it leaking into aquifers, though I believe that problem is already solved by encasing the waste in glass.
Just call them when the transaction hits your statement and ask them for a refund. I’ve done this every year they tried to charge me and have been successful. The rep likely also knows it’s a bs fee as well. If not just hang up and speak with another until you get someone who will.
I've found that extremely few folks benchmark their active investments with alternatives (e.g. S&P 500). Not only that, they don't even analyze their own investment performance. Most people I know who've bought stock in a particular company have no idea in the long run how well that investment has done, beyond simple things like "Very well" or "decent".

I work in a tech company. And almost everyone I know who works there is continually surprised at the stock price. They're surprised when it goes up when there's no seemingly good reason for it to do so, and they're equally surprised when it goes down.

While some may have the skill to analyze and predict, it's safe to say that most people - tech folks included - do not.
Forget AirPods 2, Apple Accidentally Leaks Upgraded Rival
See what you said? They made too many large, overleveraged bets.

Blew them up
Many commenters seem to miss the most important point here.

If users from Russia can't access ProtonMail - that's not that much of a deal. But if mail from ProtonMail stops reaching Russian email addresses - @mail.ru, @yandex.ru are as common in Russia as @gmail.com - that's a big problem for ProtonMail and its users.
Ask HN: Open-source ventilator plans for pandemics–possible? Worthwhile?
* The Wuhan Coronavirus is doubling roughly every 2 days.

Source: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

* About 25% of admitted patients required ventilation. Resources are overwhelmed in the province, and currently two hospitals are being built.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30183-5/fulltext

* In any current or future pandemic, patients are likely to need mechanical ventilation. It is likely that scenarios arise where there are more patients than ventilators or hospital beds.

Given those conditions, does it make sense to create an open source ventilator project. I'm not proposing this as a treatment of choice, but only as better-than-nothing line of defense.

I think you could potentially make designs out of
a single motor, and a bladder. one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NPVL1GD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It even looks possible to create mostly airtight structures out of duct tape, so a duct-tape bladder might be possible.

https://www.instructables.com/id/Duct-Tape-Inflatable-Ball/

Is this a crazy idea? Is my reasoning sound? Does it exist? Thoughts?
There is a whole world out there, not only SV :)
We did figure out who the scraper probably is, but only after several years. For a long time they used an untracable botnet, but after blocking that they eventually switched to a corporate network we traced to a data aggregation company. But we don't know for sure who's doing the scraping; it could be the company, a rogue employee, or a botnet that got loose on their network.
How much is spent on marketing in comparison? Only in the US and New Zealand can you market drugs directly to the public. I sense an opportunity to destroy an unnecessary cost.
The hackers don't even need to add a whole sentence to get around that.

"When we receive our 96 BTC, we'll release your data."

Becomes:

"When we receive our 96 BTC without it being reported to the fraud registry, we'll release your data."
That is the "eventually fade away part" of my remark.
An inflexible cap can always be suspended via state of emergency declaration in the scenarios you're positing.

Hell, via state of emergency declaration the state can use tax money to buy the insulin.
The article states that is not how money (unlike other types of property) works:

> Banknotes, coins, and other highly-liquid paper instruments have a very special legal status. If you unknowingly accept some banknotes from someone who just obtained them illegally (say via ransom or theft), the law can't compel you to give those banknotes back to the original victim. Money, as the great British jurist Lord Mansfield once declared, isn't like regular property: it "can not be recovered after it has passed into currency."

So the key questions are if cryptocurrency qualifies legally as currency and if not, what the legal standards are for who ends up the owner of that property when it gets mixed via various means.
I think you got that backwards.
Just as many people reporting being ill (illness days), but the cold shower group went to work anyway more often (sickness absence).
That's not my way of reading it.
He seems to imply that feeling like a noob is normal due to the modern age complexity of this world. If I understand correctly he is telling go and don't be afraid of feeling like a noob.

I'm saying if you feel like a noob, stop and fix it before exploring further or risk being lost.

I take the contrarian opinion that even though there is growing complexity it is still orderly enough that once experienced enough feeling like a noob should be something akin finding a gem, or having a paradigm shift, which although you should be happy to find, it should remain occasional.

I don't believe you need to feel like a noob to be engaging your skills at their fullest potential. In fact that's quite the opposite.

It's akin to having bugs in software.

Having bugs in software could be a symptom of engaging your skills to the max. But it's more likely the symptom of sloppiness that has accumulated.

In fact when your software has bugs, you spend your time doing some bug fixing, instead of doing more interesting things.

If you are in position that you are feeling like a noob, or have bug in software, try to understand what went so wrong that you are in this situation and try as much as possible to not be again (but keep exploring and building software). This is a symptom that you are working in a messy environment that is on a path to more mess where you will get lost.

You won't sculpt a fine piece of art if you spend your time fixing your chisel every ten minutes.
So they should be updated the same as any other documentation. They're there to help. They don't need to be 100% infallible to be useful.
the example react native code they give in this image would error out: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0779/4361/files/ReactJSvsR...

Text has to be in a <Text>
> That's completely unrelated to what I'm explaining.

Then this is a https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_my_aunt_had_balls,_she%27d... scenario.

If IL were capping below cost, that'd be a problem. They're not, though.
Many of us tend to think of morality as a metaphysical issue and believe that a moral sense is something that we as humans have that machines do not.

But this proposal skirts around that, because it does not require the machine to have a moral sense. It merely requires the machine to be able to enforce logical consistency.

So the machine says that IF you as a human want to achieve Ethical Principle A, THEN here are some actions you can take are known to help you achieve that principle.

Crucially, it does not require the machine to perceive Ethical Principle A as true and make a case for why it's true.

So it's very much an augmented morality device, rather than a machine that proves moral truths.

Or to put it another way, it doesn't say, "You should do X because after running a detailed analysis I've determined X is ethical." It says, "You've determined X is ethical, and here are some ways to achieve X."
Curious on your thoughts about feasibility of manufacturing compact reactors on floating barges in ship yards and floating to where needed to plug into grid (most populations are coastal). Idea would be to solve for political risk/perception in that it can be unplugged and floated away in case of meltdown.
Small request: Can you turn off the initial jumble of nodes before the graph is built and laid out? It's distracting clutter that adds no information.

Animations are fun, but only if they convey artistic or intellectual meaning.

Also, the default zoom level is zoomed in too far (large text, not showing the wohle graph). perhaps this is because viewport resolution/size (phone vs desktop) is not taken into account when chooseing a zoom level (font size)
> Why not give someone else a chance Boomers?

Actively investing and giving people your money is giving others a chance. Retiring and keeping the money in an account and living off of it is a lot less so.
Zen Mind, Noob Mind
Governments are unlikely to give cryptocurrencies the same legal privileges as the currencies they issue.

As such, traceability will remain a risk for anyone receiving cryptocurrency payments. If a chain analysis reveals an illegal transaction as a precursor, it's going to be considered stolen goods, not money, as the article states.
Providing liquidity doesn't necessarily mean HFT. It doesn't even necessarily mean classical market making.

Here's how I like to think about liquidity. It's the market's ability to absorb random imbalances in the non-informed order flow (while still correctly engaging in price discovery for informed order flow). In other words it looks a lot like what economists call price elasticity. Having a lot of participants who are very price sensitive makes prices stable by keeping demand responsive to small fluctuations.

On the very short horizon that's done by market makers and HFT participants. They're quoting a tight two-sided market so that as orders arrive the price remains stable. But HFTs keep very small inventories[1]. They're unable to absorb the typical imbalance seen on the scale of hours, or even minutes.

There exists a secondary class of participants, usually grouped under the catchall category of "stat-arb", that exist to fill this need. They're still trading directionally, but that direction is very sensitive to recent price moves on the scale of hours or even minutes. Moreover they tend to overwhelmingly trade in a mean-reverting manner.[2] Effectively these participants "provide liquidity" in the sense that they're stepping in and absorbing imbalances in the natural order flow.

[1]https://www.cftc.gov/sites/default/files/idc/groups/public/@...
[2]https://web.mit.edu/Alo/www/Papers/august07.pdf
Good point.

It still makes zero sense for me why more fraud would happen specifically at adult toy stores compared to other categories.

I just don’t get how banks make their decisions.
Mine declined my credit card when I tried to add it to Patreon. I called the bank and the rep told me that online subscriptions can be fraudulent and that a bank needed to protect its customers. I told her Patreon was certainly not a scam site. She replied that she’d never even heard of Patreon and that she wasn’t going to white-list Patreon for me and “jeopardize tens of thousands of other customers.”

I feel I’m never going to get behind banks.
You sure about that? Maybe 6502's are old enough before proper ESD protection circuitry became mainstream, but generally smaller nodes are a lot more sensitive to ESD damage than the ancient stuff since the size of features back then just was so much bigger.

There's a reason why HBM ESD limits have gone down over time... just because it's physically impossible to protect against a certain level of ESD when you're running ultra high speed circuits.
Unknown.

ABB has won orders worth over $300 million to supply breakthrough technologies for the world's first 1,100 kilovolt (kV) ultra-high-voltage direct current (UHVDC) transmission link. [1]

For an 8 GW 40 km link laid under the English Channel, the cost was ~£750M.

An April 2010 announcement for a 2,000 MW, 64 km line between Spain and France is estimated at €700 million. This includes the cost of a tunnel through the Pyrenees.

I'd guess ABB's contract was equipment only and that installing 3000km of power line would have been the majority of the costs based on the Spanish/English/French pricing.

[1] https://new.abb.com/news/detail/13922/abb-wins-orders-of-ove...
I believe they like to call that "Hollywood accounting."
Well, my name, my job title, my employer, my job history.

These are all my information, and selling them to marketing companies is definitely not archiving.

Would you be OK with a company scraping your blog and selling it?
As someone with more than one weird hobby, I'm pretty sure conflating 'smart' with 'committed to weird hobbies' is a sin weird hobbyists of every stripe commit.
One, I didn’t say Google, but two, what are you doing that’s getting you locked out of a Google account for work?

Firewalls, people.
The issuance of an injunction is in no way related to how the future court battle will result.
more like 99.999%
I agree with your reasoning, and I hear this reasoning a lot in the technical community. I wonder if you evenly apply this to other political issues? There's an incongruity in how people think about privacy rights in the Western world and how they think about property rights, especially in relation to self-defense.
I don't use Apple Music, but Spotify, so I am a little confused about the idea that Spotify does not have a library, or "the concept of a library". I mainly use Sptify via their library, and only rarely use curated playlists or anything like that. Am I missing something here?
I've used Godot to make a few 2D games and the experience was wonderful compared to Unity (for me). GDScript is similar to Python and very easy to learn. Godot also has GDNative that supports bindings to lots of other languages, so you might want to look into that: https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/bbfpa7/what_programm...
We do not live in a post-scarcity society, but the US is rich enough to guarantee every child a standard of living that includes adequate food, shelter, and education.

When these discussions come up, I often think about this simple chart:

https://i.redd.it/pg5w8ws3b0o31.jpg

If the distribution of wealth, i.e. access to resources, were what 92% of Americans considered ideal, we'd need the minimal social programs you seem to want, and your low-wage worker in Renton would probably pay nothing to support a poor kid in Mississippi.

The current wealth scheme in the US is very much a consequence of US politics, i.e. taxation, wage laws, etc., it's not a natural state of being. (There is no natural state of being for a society.) What we have now is the result of choices made over a long time; getting different results, so you'd never be on the hook for someone in Mississippi, would take different choices from society, not just you declaring that we cannot afford and therefore should end social programs.
>Copyright has this annoying incorrect connotation that it has anything to do with copying when it's really publishing that it should be limiting. //

Copyright does make _copying_ tortuous. Broad personal use exceptions in USA, for example, make this appear not to be true, but it is the act of copying - even without publication - that is protected in general.

Ripping a CD in UK, for example is copyright infringement without a general personal use exception (there are exceptions, under Fair Dealing, but whatever you're doing almost certainly doesn't fall into them).

See eg UK CDPA1988, Chapter II, section 16(1)(a); or USC17, Chapter 1, 106(1).
> You can understand neural networks and whether Tesla’s auto pilot OS technically reasonable.

The problem with people you describe is learning to do the other half of the company analysis.

There was recently post in HN "Tesla races past $100B in market valuation" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22118913 People gave good reasons why Tesla has good tech, good cars etc. None of those arguments were tied to price range. They would be just as valid for $100B, $500B or $1T valuations.
Ironically, insulin is a great example of why your premise is false:

Insulin replacement was developed a century ago, being first discovered by a government entity (U of Toronto). Private companies commercialized the treatments in the 1940s and 1950s, developing long acting forms that could be administered in a single injection per day. Since then, pharmaceutical companies have made continuous improvements with fewer side effects: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/why_peop...

Note that nobody is proposing to give people the versions of the drugs developed by public entities, or even the long out-of-patent earlier versions of the drugs. That’s strong evidence of the fact that the improvements developed by private companies were really important.

Moreover, the only thing stopping companies from making cheap generic insulin is the government itself:

> Patents on the first synthetic insulin expired in 2014, but these newer forms are harder to copy, so the unpatented versions will go through a lengthy Food and Drug Administration approval process and cost more to make. When these insulins come on the market, they may cost just 20 to 40 percent less than the patented versions, Riggs and Greene write.

Instead of “scrapping” the industry, wouldn’t it make more sense to, as a first step, get rid of regulatory roadblocks that prevent competitors from producing out of patent drugs?

Moreover, as to your claim that “other countries” do things differently—your only example is India, which does essentially no pharmaceutical R&D. Western European countries also rely on for-profit pharmaceutical development. Pharmaceutical spending as a percentage of GDP is about 2% in the US and Japan, 1.8% in Canada, and 1.5-1.6% in Germany or France: https://data.oecd.org/healthres/pharmaceutical-spending.htm. European countries negotiate hard on drugs like insulin, but for the most part they pay a lot too.

As to your broader point of “why do we need private businesses to do this?” It’s a mistake to mix up the products being made with the process by which the products are developed. Just because people need drugs more than search engines doesn’t mean that the government is more qualified to develop drugs than search engines. It’s two completely different things. Drug development is high tech work. If the government could do it well, while squeezing out the profit margins, there would be no reason for the government not to run Google or Netflix.

After all, why do we need a “private business” like Apple to develop iPhones with 50% margins “when the tax payer could do it at nearly 0% margin?”
Across the land within their circuit, over matters within their jurisdiction. Elsewhere the ruling is merely advisory in nature.

It gets tricky with nationwide actors though.

Besides some specialized topics like patents and international trade, nationwide orders and injunctions are the sort-of exception, which are based on a courts local jurisdictional power over a non-local nationwide actor.

I'm not sure what the generalized name of the principle (beyond injunctions) is called (I've heard it as a type of jurisdictional overreach), but the presumption as applied here is that LinkedIn, being in the 9th circuit's jurisdiction, also adhere to the ruling outside the circuit, absent a contradictory ruling by a different circuit.

(One of the usual requirements for the Supreme Court to even hear a case is that different circuits have conflicting rulings on a matter.)

But it looks like the Supreme Court is about to seriously reign that nationwide power back soon, at least for judges issuing orders to departments/actors of the executive branch.
The table seems tell a different story. I guess not including cost as a factor in that benchmark ?

For the article funny it refers to lisp.
We've done that, but it's tough to rate-limit a botnet because of the ip address spread. Also, their crappy scraper software doesn't even bother to check if requests are successful; it spews them just as fast no matter how our site responds.
Ask HN: What do you physically bring to and from work?
I started a job, and I was told that I couldn't leave my laptop on my desk for security reasons.

I find this strange, since you need badge access to get in, there's security cameras, the hard drive is encrypted, the OS is password protected, etc. It seems redundant.

It made me curious - what does your work let you bring in and bring out of the building?
You can definitely provide winter heating from rooftop solar panels except within the Arctic and Antarctic circles. Shared things may or may not be cheaper than privately owned; it depends on the particular situation. A utility-scale battery energy storage system needs inverters and distribution lines, each of which have both costs and energy losses; a home battery energy storage system doesn't need distribution lines and may not need inverters. And even if you have shared utility energy storage, it may not meet your reliability needs, so you may need private energy storage anyway, as most data centers do, adding to the costs.
> When it costs billions to develop a new drug due to onerous testing regulations, that's what happens.

This does not explain the increase in cost of insulin, which was invented in 1923.
Robots.txt doesn't interfere with anything. It's a suggestion.
Google paid researchers over $21M for bug bounties, $6.5M 2019