skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unsurprisingly, disabled people still want to exercise their constitutional rights[1]. Blindness isn't a binary condition, there are millions of legally blind Americans with enough usable vision to own and use firearms responsibly.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/08/iowa-g...
How about: learning to type fast, with all ten fingers, without looking at the keyboard.
It indicates that what they sold you wasn't worth the money and they're fully aware of that.

Real estate appraisal is a regulated profession - get two people to value your house and they'll come up with similar amounts. Ask someone to value an education and the answers will be anywhere between "you could get that for free at the library" through to tens of thousands a year.
> Many common practices in software engineering come from environments where failures can be retried and new features are lucrative. And failure truly is cheap. If any online service provided by the top 10 public companies by market capitalization were completely offline for two hours, it would be forgotten within a week. This premise is driven home in mantras like “Move fast and break things” and “launch and iterate.”

Good article. We're not really that bad at it, we just optimize differently than building airplanes or elevators, for most things. No one cares if the site I built for the local bookseller goes down at 3 am for an hour or two. Or even for a few minutes during business hours.
A Fascinating Transparency: Strazza’s Veiled Virgin
The whole point of a justice system is that Occam and his Razor are a terrible way of determining guilt.

Yeah, I'd bet that most people claiming to have forgotten a key or password are lying. But so what? How do you differentiate those who're concealing vs. those that legitimately don't know the string of characters? If they float, they're a witch, if they sink, then I guess they're not? (That's what 18 months for contempt is akin to)
Malware? Include with the operating system, to use the unused part (which might be all of it) of the encrypted partition for random data. Anyone who has no encrypted files, will not know the password to decrypt it, because there isn't any.
If it's a Hong Kong customer, obviously doing international business, they're most likely banking with HSBC and have good online banking with instant bank transfer.
I don't. I have users that forget their password 5 minutes after they set it.
They can't require you to personally admit to it, but if they know about a notebook where you wrote it they can require you to give up the notebook. (The rule makes more sense if you think about it in terms of financial crimes; it'd be hard to ever prosecute someone for fraud if they didn't have to give up their books.)
But it could also be that you legitimately accounted for such threat of the government trying to force you to decrypt your disks and made keys volatile and unrecoverable.
Wikipedia said January 25th for some reason
Given the ridiculous nature of phone naming, nothing can be considered clear.
Looking Backward: 2000–1887
Some of the benzofurans don't last that long and were pretty popular here in the uk at the beginning of the last decade. 5/6-APB and 5-MAPB in particular. Very MDMA-like.

Never did get around to trying 2CB-Fly...
100% agreed. The tech discussion is always interesting, but especially so when informed by our diverse experience.
If not for Facebook, wouldn't their roadmap have been self service ad buying, ad analytics, etc, instead of refining the consumer side?
I think your focus on incentives is correct.

If I'm building a plane, I'm going to understand every last little piece going into it.

If I'm building a web app, I'm mostly ok if I do not understand every line of Rails, and the C code in the Ruby interpreter.

There are embedded systems where people have that kind of understanding. And they do fewer things than systems where people happily throw libraries in and whip out new features regularly.

If I built a web app with the same kind of line by line control as that embedded system, it would get outcompeted by someone playing more 'fast and loose'. Maybe mine would have a 99.999% uptime (or maybe not, because AWS or someone might have problems too) and theirs has 99.95, but way more features, so the market will gravitate to them.
When they start applying these standards to politicians, then I'll be ok with it trickling down the people.
Powell Suggests the Fed May Lack Ammo to Combat Next Recession
> ‘How are we supposed to ranch and maintain our way of life when the government makes changes’

You quoted a statement that isn't in the article.

> like using the countryside to pasture livestock as they’ve ‘done for generations’ is an inalienable birth right.

I didn't get this at all from the article. Where are you picking this up?

> Give me a break, everyone has to adapt with the times, ranchers should be no exception.

Sure, but they have a right to defend their interests. If ranchers voted to allow wolves and bears back into downtown denver, do you think the people of denver have a right to be worried?

> For all their ruggedness they honestly act like spoiled children.

Are you sure you come from a rural background and you generally feel for the interests of rural folk?

> ‘Wolves will affect the livelihood of my archaic, wealthy rancher lifestyle’ doesn’t really reverberate with me.

Once again your quoted text appears nowhere in the article. You are intentionally misleading readers here by making it seem like you are quoting from the article and falsely attributing the quotes to the ranchers.

This is actually in the article.‘Will also fears the initiative lets urban areas make a decision that'd largely affect rural Colorado.’

Why is it that so many comments that claims "I come from a rural background", "I am a resident in X", "I am a blank" go on to attack what they claim to be and mostly in a misleading and sneaky way? I normally see this in vegan related post, "I eat meat" and then goes on list the vegan manifesto, but it is spreading everywhere it seems.
You can actually buy microgram quantities if you know where to look, it's occasionally used in laboratories as a test source. You could buy larger quantities if you had a really good justification and were willing to pay for the cost of producing it, that's effectively what NASA is doing.
Funny you mention that!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod/exclusive-u-s-dir...
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"computation is almost free" - don't say that around the accountant at my company responsible for paying our AWS bill!
I wonder how different was the situation before internet and to a point before personal computers.

Computer engineering was probably slower and deeper thought out. Or am I imagining an ideal past ?
In some cases I've exposed sliders to enable a 60Hz feedback loop on those fiddly tweaks. In other cases Firebug or its modern successors already expose enough.
Some may be fine with subtitles, but the fact of the matter is that most films are supposed to be visually immersive. You simply cannot focus on important subtleties in a film if your eyes have to be focused on a line of text across the bottom. The human eye actually has a very narrow range of in-focus vision.

Not to mention the idea that cinematographers take great pains to frame every shot like a painting, telling a story visually.

Movies with subtitles is like going to a museum where they have printed the name of the artist and the background information in big white block text on top of the painting itself.
"Hallucination season" is a wonderful phrase. Or band name.
Is there a widely known name for these types of 'explorable explanations'?
This is a great resource. Thanks
> follow all possible contacts.

Not a practical strategy for thousands of conference attendees packed closely together for a short period of time before flying back home. This virus is too infectious and has too long of an incubation period. That's why so many public events are being canceled. This exact scenario is playing out right now aboard the cruise ship docked in Japan.
The Optimist's Guide to the Caltrain
Bernie Sanders snuck up on Silicon Valley. Now tech has to deal with him
GraphQL File Upload Best Practices
A truly reproducible scientific paper
Contarian opinion:

We are great at software engineering, and our field is the best at engineering generally.

Engineering isn't about how reliable or high quality the system is.

Engineering is about balancing the costs and the benefits.

It can be great engineering to make a running shoe that wears out after 2 races, if it wins marathons.

People who think software engineering is bad, are actually bad engineers, who think engineering is all about quality or reliablity, rather than about optimizing tradeoffs. Software engineering is doing an amazing job at producing products that balance cost and benefit, which is why software is eating the world.

Engineers from traditional disciplines would struggle here, because it's a lot easier to follow super expensive tried and true process, than to situationally make tradeoffs like we do.
> at least it serves as a proof-of-concept to suburbanites that it is entirely possible to walk around outside without dying.

Except for that whole "walls all the way to the sidewalk" thing. We've been getting tons of that in my town, and it's pretty much the death of walkability. It's claustrophobic and unpleasant, and people are staying away from the areas that have this in droves. The people that live there simply get in their cars are drive to somewhere nicer to do their stuff.
> It's wildly misleading to use the same word for an app written by a few programmers in a couple of months (like the Iowa Caucus app) and the Space Shuttle control software (maintained by hundreds of people, with an average of 1 bug per release)

You are drawing a distinction here between two vastly different project types—not between the roles of people on the projects.

Of course something that has a million times the budget has the potential for significantly higher reliability.

Additionally, the particular requirements of the space shuttle software project make reliability extremely important.

If a computer programmer were to allocate similar priority to reliability in an app for chatting with friends, I'd argue this would make them less qualified for the title of engineer.

My understanding of what characterizes an engineer is that they make effective decisions about technical tradeoffs, and come up with plans that can be realistically executed while optimizing a set of project requirements (technical and non).

In my experience, software engineers are (often) appropriately labeled as such, insofar as the work they do matches that definition (if the definition is inadequate, that's another matter—happy to hear an alternative).

My hypothesis is that people start getting fussy about the 'software engineer' label for two reasons:

1) There's a lot of variety in software work being done. Not everyone writing code is an engineer. Not sure about the situation at large companies, but at least in the startup world, in my experience, everyone I've worked with who had the title deserved it in the sense that they were doing engineering work according to the above definition.

2) The requirements for software projects—especially in terms of the importance of reliability—are very different from those in more traditional engineering domains, which can create a superficial appearance of poor/non-existent engineering. But this is exactly what you'd get if the engineer did an extremely good job, but with project requirements that don't place high value on e.g. reliability.

It would be great if every app could have formally verified code etc.—but the reason they don't has to do with businesses funding these projects, not with the engineers working on them.
Advocacy groups wear their bias on their chests proudly. "Neutral" news purveyors hide their bias behind misleading headlines and selective reporting. I would much prefer to read about something related to digital privacy in Tech Dirt. Not that I have anything against arstechniaca in particular.

Can you link me to an example of a false rumor Tech Dirt has spread?

EDIT: As danso points out, this issue probably wouldn't even have been reported by ars if Tech Dirt hadn't done the actual work of digging up the court documents, so complaining about the admittedly outraged tone of their articles is just petty.
I look forward to trying out your infinite gearbox implementation.
I was diagnosed schizophrenic -- among other things -- in an in-patient program for children.

The parent is sensationalizing a good bit, but I agree with his overal point: treatment of schizphrenics -- and other "untouchables" syndromes -- is very poor.

Antipsychotics are hell. Full stop. Even for next-generation pharmaceuticals. Risperidone took away the delusions, and every other faucet of myself that made me human. Can it improve quality of life? Yes, it can. If the case is severe enough that the patient is endangering themselves or others (through violence or neglect), antipsychotics can sedate their impulses and delusions.

I would describe it as a short-term (if ceased within a reasonable timeframe) chemical lobotomy. No hyperbole.

I was lucky that I'm fairly educated, quick of mind, and primarily presented with negative symptoms (catatonic subset). Delusions and psychosis are transient, and I'm able to reflect on them, identify when they pop up, and not act on them.

For someone that is in a near-constant state of psychosis, antipsychotics are really al that can be done, but I personally would rather be dead, than a husk. If I were still on them, I probably wouldn't believe this because the drugs would take away some of my agency.

I'm now on a hefty dosage of a certain dopamine agonist, and it has improved my quality of life immensely. There are stil bugs, and psychosis and delusion are much more common now, but I have a good grasp on them and wouldn't want to to back to being a shel of a human.

It's dehumanizing and violates my dignity.
Curios about the targeted market, as well. Is the focus simplicity or privacy. The site says it is for developers ... why?

Focusing on privacy will likely require simplicity. Narrowing the focus may actually be a better marketing option.
1. The study of wildlife migration patterns has been a thing for a long time. Methods exist, and are always being improved upon with better technology. A well-placed hunting camera could do the same thing without all the trendy Bay-Area BS.

2. I'm pretty sure that if (when?) a company develops drone-powered mass-surveillance technology, they will be doing it for someone other than ranchers.

3. This whole thing is really a non-issue. Individual wolf packs kill few cattle per year, and there are a lot of published papers with similar numbers. In fact, the removal costs of the wolves can exceed the potential lost profits.
Yes, the idea that taxes and debt existed before money to grant that money value was very eye opening, and an obvious model in hindsight.

Another example of someone in power saying "Hey, see this problem we created? Well, we also have the solution..."
Does neuroscience rely on neuron/collection-of-atoms duality?

IIUC, classically "mind-body dualism" involves an assertion that the mind cannot be explained physiologically. Psychology only asserts that the mind can be reasoned about directly. The usefulness of psychology depends on that reasoning being sufficiently accurate and sufficiently easier than reasoning neurologically for some problems.
Only if it was diagnosable as schizophrenia
That's a rather pessimistic view of bank transfer. Companies doing B2B transactions above 10k regularly use and often prefer bank transfer. It's more security for both the buyer and the seller, no fees, and cheaper exchange rate if changing currencies.

The reversibility of card charges is a huge con, not a pro. Don't want it for large transactions, especially if involving physical goods (non recoverable costs). Besides, chargeback is a privilege reserved to consumers, it's not available to business accounts.
Would going through the Play Store have prevented this?
A former employer bought many competitors and sunset the product each time, because it was cheaper to rebuild the missing features than keep the whole product alive, especially when it did roughly the same thing as the acquirer's product.

This seemed logical but also a waste. Given that a likely outcome for any new company is acquisition, is there a way to make your technology friendlier to an acquirer? Even microservice architectures seem to usually have assumptions about users and other core concepts.

I want it to be possible to just staple the features on, like the business folks already assume is possible.
...what? I can't figure out what you're trying to say. I tried reading it several times.
> Beer Waste Saves Montana Town $1M on Water Treatment

The title on the article has changed from this, which is incorrect. It referred to a one off upgrade needed without the process that normally used alum.

> Beer Waste Helps Montana Town Save Money On Water Treatment

"We know the alum that we saved already is about $16,000 a year for sure."

But, as what they are doing is non standard external costs would add up.

But employees love doing novel things so there's the added productivity bonus.

Barley seems to be around 121.71 a tonne, so no real need to get recycled barley? But then maybe there's something easier than barley that's more standard and accurate and doesn't risk costly mistakes. Like alum?
Non XL Pixels are okayish, but I still prefer the iPhone SE form factor. Or the Nokia N9 form factor, which aside from being small had a perfectly curved screen and matching gestures.

The only device right now that comes a bit close is the Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact. But it's very expensive for what it offers. At least, they have great kernel & AOSP suppport.
Yes it's a bit like buying rounds or dinner when you go out with friends. You don't have to keep an exact tally but you all usually know if someone is skimping or only offers to pay at the cheaper venues (and this might be OK among friends if we are all in different financial situations which is an important part of a favour economy).
Japanese man who believes in smiling is world's oldest
Metasource: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/when-hear... ("But a new study suggests that the way schizophrenia sufferers experience those voices depends on their cultural context.")

Googling will show similar reporting in the literature over several decades. I don't think I've seen any contradictory research, though that's not surprising as this is just an interesting observation; there aren't any sophisticated, concrete explanatory models to critique--individualist vs collectivist dichotomy seems intuitive but not concrete on its own. Rather the focus seems to be on pragmatic therapy. It's noteworthy nonetheless, particularly as a reflection of American society, and of how culture informs pathology, a point usually made regarding more touchy-feely mental health issues and thus lacking punch.
Promotions aren't consequences?
Fortunately, if you're not lactose-intolerant, you can just drink real milk, which is highly nutritious and considerably less processed than any alternative.

Best if you drink whole milk, because 2 grams more fat in a glass isn't going to hurt you, and actually makes it taste good.
I bought in to Comma.ai at first and even started porting my car over. But I quickly realized that the whole comma.ai crowd is way way to cavalier with safety. One day I was driving down the freeway and saw a small fender bender occur in front of me. I looked up at my dash and it was all ripped up with wires hanging everywhere because I was working on the Comma.ai stuff. If it had been me in that fender bender you know that insurance would definitely blame me for that given that I was messing with the OBDII and radar sensors.

As cool as Comma.ai is, I really believe that their approach to allowing so much community involvement with little to no oversight is highly irresponsible.

That being said.... If they do succeed, and get some sort of government approval or oversight.... You bet I'm putting that stuff back in. Its cool A.F.
The story I am familiar with emphasizes different aspects but illustrate the same point.

Cao Cao volunteered for assassination mission but asked Wang Yun for a renowned sword/knife as the assassination weapon. As he entered Dong Zhou's chamber he encountered general Lu Bu, a fearsome warrior and Dong Zhou's personal body guard. Cao Cao told Lu Bu that he wanted to try out a famously fast horse of Dong Zhou and asked the general to fetch it. When Cao Cao failed to kill Dong Zhou, he pretended that he was gifting the famous (assassination weapon) sword as a token of respect. Then he went outside and jumped on the famously swift horse general Lu Bu just brought at Cao Cao's request and fled, while Dong Zhou and Lu Bu were puzzled by Cao Cao's action.

I cannot vouch for the story's authenticity, but what a fascinating story.
I see these kind of tools once in a while and it brings out my jaded side. About 15 years ago I recall some considerable effort was spent at a company I worked at for the Quality Engineering team to build a visual regression tool for a video game UI I was working on. Using some Windows api magic it could detect buttons and click them to navigate through a UI and then take a screenshot to do a visual diff. It was the most broken useless thing ever and after 2 or 3 months of development it was scrapped.

Last place I worked had a team that built a similar system using Selenium and some image diff. It worked 90% of the time. It was even integrated into their CI pipeline and the system would email you when it failed. You could make a change to one area of code and get an email from the system for a completely separate area that for whatever random reason failed. I once submitted some code to that project and when I got the email I asked one of the project maintainers what I should do to fix it. He told me to just ignore it. Their process was to check the output of the tool on those failures to see if there was any legitimate problem. When I checked the output myself a large amount of the output was garbage (about 100 application states tested and at least 10 in a garbled state).

My own team even tried to integrate Selenium and we even found an external vendor where you can ship your Selenium tests along with your app and they will run it against a matrix of browsers of various versions. We barely got a Chrome version running - no hope of Safari, Firefox or IE/Edge. It was a blackhole of time just fighting to get an equivalent of hello world running consistently as a test in all browsers.

One day someone will prove me wrong and get this kind of UI testing working reliably. But after nearly 20 years seeing optimistic people die on this hill - I do not support wasting more time on it.
Seems like this was pretty doomed from the get-go. Right off the bat the entire internet would be broken on these phones, as I doubt any websites are designed to handle a ~100px wide viewport. Even designing sites for 320px viewports of the iphone4 is massively challenging and not well implemented by many. Not sure how they planned on handling that.
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