skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People default all the time because they don't really appreciate what can happen if they ignore a court summons.

And, often people mistakenly rely on the advice of friends or family who suggest the debtor wasn't served properly, the debt is too old, they spelled your middle name wrong, or whatever.

There are tons of legal myths out there, such as, non-competes can't be enforced, it takes months to evict someone, I can pay my rent after the three-day pay or vacate date passes, or the like.

Also, in my experience people unfamiliar with law seem to be susceptible to spinning a story in their head that they think will exonerate them only to find out too late that their imagination doesn't carry much weight in court.
... and https://rovaughn.github.io/2015-2-9.html. Maybe a weekend project hiding in here somewhere.
Well, https://matrix.org is a good place to start (but could use a face-lift for non-techies). There's a good list of clients, servers, SDKs, etc at https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now

And of course, there is the Matrix spec itself, but I learned most of what I know idling in matrix channels (#matrix:matrix.org and #synapse:matrix.org) and hosting my own synapse instance.
The UBIC 1 BTC security bounty
If there is much socialising and lack of testing and tracing, it may be alarming due to new cases. In places without contagion, there needs to be preparedness, or risk another round. Italy/France/Spain took their time until lockdown and rest of Europe learned from that. This needs planning and leadership, then opening may be OK.
> and adjust prices weekly to get people in the doors.

They don't adjust prices very often at all. They way they regulate attendance in real time is by allowing lower tier passholders to come in on days they predict low traffic.

The page isn't interesting now, but they have a website that shows when employee passes are good and for which park[0].

That's a great way to figure out when Disneyland will be crowded. If employees are allowed to bring guests to both parks, it'll be a light day.

[0] https://blockoutdates.disney.com/en/home
Blogs: What Good Are They
Superfish was never found, but there has definitely been malware installed on the ThinkPad line:

https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html?m...

The firmware rootkit, to my knowledge, has never been found on ThinkPads.
Bezos doesn't have 100B$ sitting on a bank account, but he has a low-interest high throughput equity line against his hare portfolio that means that if he wants to cut a 5 billion dollar cheque in the next 30 minutes, he can. Which is pretty damn close to having 100B$ sitting around.

If he did pay a high tax rate every time he realized his gains in any way or tapped his equity through a financial instrument, I think things would be much better. But right now Bezos can pay a realized tax rate of under 20% if he wants.
Thank you - I really appreciate the detailed answer.

I think I have a better understanding of how the incentives to cooperate would be hard to overcome even if you technically have the power as a founder (and even if you’re already financially independent).

The personal experience was also interesting - thanks!
If people have bad passwords, that makes brute force recovery of the private key on a Keybase server plausible, right? At least a lot more so than the whole key from scratch. I'd assume that a machine generated key has more entropy than any password that a human can memorize.

If sharing a password-protected private key is perfectly safe, why bother having them? Why don't PGP users just password protect everything?

Above all else though, is there an authoritative source that can answer these questions? As a run-of-the-mill programmer, I don't really understand how crypto works well enough to trust my own common sense here. It's been drilled into my head that there are certain rules to follow set out by people who do know what they're doing. And when people say "it's all good, it's password protected", and I'm not sure what their credentials are, I get a little nervous. I did notice that Werner Koch uses Keybase, but if they could simply point to an "okay" from him or Zimmerman explaining the situation, it would be settled. To me anyway, it's not simply an abundance of caution ("paranoia"), it's that something seems fundamentally wrong with the approach and I just don't know the actual cost.
Can't it be both a trend and a marketing strategy?
> As long as the company pays its owners more than their lowest-paid employees, it can afford to pay their employees more, without going out of business.

If the CEO makes a million dollars a year in a company with 100,000 empoyees, wiping out that entire salary would add less than $0.01/hour to each of the employees' wages. Also, then you would not have a CEO, which you might actually need sometimes.
Yes, you are right, of course. I shamefully misread the article. It's closer to listen/accept/fork.
Sure, or you could use "emacs -Q," but all of those performance improvements are off by default, and it seems like they always will be. As long as that's true Vim will always be the quicker and easier way to modify a file.
Anecdotally, I started learning Emacs a few months ago and am very happy with my decision. I first considered trying roughly 10 years ago, but didn't see the thriving package ecosystem I see today, starting with projects like Spacemacs and Doom. After some time trialing my options, I stuck with Spacemacs, and that choice saved me time in reaching my goal of transitioning my knowledge and project management to org-mode.

Even with training wheels, though, getting started wasn't simple. It's had a very choose-your-own-adventure feel to it. After some early thrashing, I've now found my favorite resources, have a decent sense of what's out there, and am even using org-mode to track my overall learning progress. It's become self-reinforcing.

With more modern tools getting better and better, I find it no surprise that VS Code and others are gaining market share, and that the Emacs user profile is becoming less diverse. But I think there will always be a place for a tool(box) as powerful and configurable as Emacs.
I didn’t say they were good. I said they were democratic, and that the lead to better outcomes in the view of those who control those outcomes, which is a tautology, purposefully so.

That can lead to good or bad outcomes in your judgment depending on your values. But it’s fundamentally a different dynamic than a for profit entity.
Setting all economics and politcs aside, the most gut wrenching part of this read for me was the image of a hospital whose patients never get organ transplants, but give organ transplants. That goes beyond one person getting treatment while another is denied. That's the denied person, in death, still giving. I dont know if single payer is the best system, or if a hybrid system or regulated private monopoly or some other weird approach is better. But this system that we have today isn't working.
To be fair, the feature today is not so much "dark mode" per se, as the ability to centralize the setting so that everything can follow it - especially the websites. I remember using dark OS themes in early 00s, and it was always annoying when you opened a browser or a PDF, and it drowned out everything else with a field of white.
Single payer isn't just "more government," it's also "more open market competition" at least in my limited experience as an American in Canada (been here almost three years).

Single payer means everyone has a health card entitling them to spend tax money on their own healthcare how they want (within certain parameters, of course). This means health insurance companies don't get to act as cartels, limiting (patient) access to care, and, crucially, limiting provider access to patients & patient dollars. If I want to see a doctor in Toronto, I don't go to the doctor "in my network", probably at a big practice that has some convoluted agreement (or not!) with my particular insurance provider. If I want to see a doctor in Toronto, I can basically go to any available doctor who is taking new patients.

Imagine literally everyone has a health-care budget to spend, regardless of how rich poor they are. Can you imagine the type of competition & innovation this creates for those health-care dollars? Pharmacists remember my name & ask whether the meds worked as expected, doctors will visit me at my house (this has been cut back by the latest provincial government), I can check wait times at drop-in clinics online & book an appointment, see a doctor same day, even within a couple hours. Try that in the USA without going to the ER, and even then I'd be surprised if you see a doc in less than a few hours.

I was amazed to see the competition and market innovation in healthcare in Canada when I arrived here. You might be amazed as well.
it will show if he is serious about saying it "is not fair"

Imagine you are in a position when something happens that you believe is unfair and you have a way to reduce that unfairness, even just a tiny bit. Wouldn't you do it?

Would you only write an editorial and not rectify it?
Neovim is an editor with macro capabilities, which can be programmed in LuaJIT.

It's my terminal editor of choice, and yes, arrow keys work. But why would you want to use them?
I still don’t understand how/why it’s tax free. Who is paying the taxes on the royalties? Nobody?
That causal chain only works in perfect competition where prices are convergent with marginal cost. In real market conditions perfect competition doesn't exist just as perfect monopolies are rare.

Google and Apple are competing on selling phones, Google and Facebook are competing on selling ads, yet all sit on billions of dollars of cash. I don't see their workers being able to "extract" more from their companies?
The website had a collection of music (online radio?!)curated by him that he gathered for his son musical education. I wish i could listen that again. Incidentally Duncan jones mentioned in an interview he is not into music and listening to songs is ‘like watching your dad do accounting’.:p
Kuhn's philosophy is a direct descendant of incompleteness. In a sense, all of postmodernism is too.
The public option isn't supposed to replicate private insurance. Monopolistic/legislative powers allow the public option to set market rates.
China is not to be trusted, Zoom and now Keybase is not to be trusted
Saw an interesting talk just about this topic [1]

The gist of it was:
Other engineering disciplines use the techniques you've mentioned because of the the costs, both time and money, associated with getting it wrong.

Software engineering lends itself to different methods of development and construction, as the costs associated with getting it wrong or making changes after the fact are much lower. (For most applications, anyways).

As such, (this definition would be another sticking point) these less rigid methods should still be considered engineering, with engineering being a balancing of resources with outcomes, not fixation on mathematical models.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdlBHHimeM
Oh my! This is amazing! It is exactly what I need to fulfill the picture!

To those, who can't or don't want to watch the video: you can configure iPad to lock you in a single app and unlock with either biometric or pin entry. This is available in the accessibility settings.
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Facebook SDK crash overloads Firebase Crashlytics
It’s even worse then; they truly own less than they claim and are just de facto in charge because economists (who I’m sure have nothing to gain by it) let us know this is all exactly how it works

If you see everyone as atomic agents of work, is Bezos worth so much because of cherry picked models favored by law, or is he himself distributing goods in a universally mathematically efficient way by some unknown force, invisible hands and “free markets (in a nation of laws?)”?

If he’s literally doing it, wow! Ok. But if it’s mathematical efficiency it’s mathematical efficiency. Bezos didn’t measure it. He took object distribution and abstracted it. Wow! Business innovation!

Nevermind guys like Krugman openly admit Hari Seldon like powers of bending social agency are exactly his goal

That’s great if the people in charge are truly benevolent

Old enough to wreck the planet and die before it’s a problem doesn’t really suggest to me they’re going to be motivated to voluntarily acquiesce to measurable anxiety this creates for folks that aren’t quite so old

Again more disingenuous western BS

That carbon emissions have detrimental effects on human health and the environment was pretty obvious in London and elsewhere back in the day

But since it’s not in your neighborhood, those laws of physics that matter for computers are lying to us when we annotate the inputs differently?

Ok. Yup. Shark jump achieved.
> hundreds of sensors collecting data on air quality and the movements of people

> It was also told [by the independent panel] that any data it collected from its sensors would have to become a public asset.

Wonder if that influenced their decision to end this project.
Google’s Sidewalk Labs Walks Away from Toronto Smart City Project
> disgustingly grandiose

Just like GraphQL itself.
Not really, US States are much less powerful and represent a smaller fraction of the whole than Canadian provinces. A US state wouldn't have the power in practice to implement universal healthcare.
Zerodha.com seems to be banned in Tunisia. Is that because of spam or due to some regulations in India?
The entire price paid either goes to labor or capital, and most of it already goes to labor. If you pay 1% of the workers $3 instead of $2 then the price may only need to rise by $0.01, but then you're just taking $0.01 each from a hundred workers and giving it all to 1% of them. And what happens after you do that a hundred times?

Meanwhile, again, introducing a monopoly increases the money that can be extracted from customers by labor but also by capital. So if you introduce a monopoly and it raises prices by $0.01 or $100 or whatever amount, and you're very lucky and labor gets 90% of the increase and capital only 10%, then on average workers have lost 10% of that amount. Because you still pay 100% of the price increase and then get less than 100% of it back.

There are also taxes, which make it even worse -- you get paid $1 more, the government takes 25%, you go to buy the thing that costs $1 more (so capital is getting 0% of the money) but then you owe 8% of the $1 in sales tax, and you've now lost a third of the money you used to have to Uncle Sam so they can give it to Bank of America and Halliburton.
Ask HN: Next foreseeable crisis after Covid?
What are other large scale disasters we can reasonably anticipate, but are not doing enough to prepare for?
It doesn't look at all like any legitimate scientific paper I've ever seen. It's wild speculation by non-experts, written up in an amateurish way.

There is no indication that there's a lab in that location, much less that they work on bats. The WHCDC is primarily a community health organization, and some tiny satellite office is not where they're doing research, if they even do any significant research in their own labs.

You're promoting a conspiracy theory that has zero evidence (someone online claiming they have bats in a building that doesn't even appear to be a lab is not evidence), I think for political reasons that you've made quite clear - your views on China.

About your use of the phrase "CCP," I say you're using it for shock value because I don't think you're actually specifically talking about the CCP. You're talking about the actions of government officials, policemen, etc. What is added by alluding to the political party? This is the same as with the WHO. Suddenly everyone acts like an expert on the WHO, when they actually know next to nothing about it. I think 99% of the people going on about the "CCP" couldn't tell you the first thing about it. They actually mean, "My mental picture of the evil Chinese government."

I paid close attention to how the Chinese government handled the outbreak. I think it would have been nearly impossible to contain, even with the most aggressive early response. The US and Mexico were unable to contain H1N1 in 2009, which is a less transmissible disease than CoVID-19. Containing a highly contagious respiratory virus is incredibly difficult. This is being underscored as we learn just how early the virus spread internationally. There was community spread in California in mid-January, and there is now a paper claiming the existence of a case in France in late December, before the virus was even discovered.

I am sure that the government in Wuhan resisted taking measures that could have slowed the spread of the virus early on, because they worried about the effects those measures would have on the economy. That is not something that is peculiar to China, however. Just look at how many governments around the world downplayed the virus, even as the epidemic grew exponentially within their borders. In Wuhan, there was about a week of downplaying, before the central government stepped in and forced extreme measures on the city, which turned out to be highly effective. You're criticizing those measures ("Draconian"), while also severely mischaracterizing them. Months in, most of the US still hasn't suppressed the outbreak properly, and now the President and much of the political establishment is suggesting that maybe it's better to let people die than to harm the economy.

In the end, I think one would have to be blind, or blinded by political ideology, to deny that China handled the outbreak better than the US did.
I think what you are seeing on Lenovos page are placeholder prices, the device isn't shipping.

Pricing was announced to start at $1499.
Developed in China means code accessible and changed by China
Not as fast as Vim. I just tried it on a 500KB SQL script; Vim opened instantly. emacs -Q took a while to flash something on the screen.
yes, the special rate for capital gains is ostensibly justified as an investment incentive, but it's unnecessary for that purpose. investors would still chase the highest returns for their capital.

we should instead treat all income the same for tax purposes.
> Instead, use the slash, Ctrl-/ to start a command chord

This has an obscure problem, of which you were no doubt unaware.

In the terminal, Ctrl-/ sends backspace. Emacs isn't commonly used in the terminal anymore, but it can't become useless in the terminal, and this change would make it useless.

Unfortunately this is a non-starter.
Why are y'all aggressively judging the codebase when you don't even know how firebase analytics works on Android? Damn
This peaked in Win8, but it's been a lot more fuzzy since then. Desktop Win32 apps can use UWP APIS, and can be distributed via the Store (complete with updates etc), for example.
Gotcha. Thanks for addressing the concerns. Can't say I'm fully relieved by them, but they do give some partial answers to things I was confused about.
Exactly how I'd been using it - keeping my dotfiles in a git repo that's not at GitHub.
And yet, even when the government is the payer, they have shown consistently that they are unwilling to enforce pricing control. For example, even though medicare billing rates for doctors where supposed to go down several times, in each case, threats of strikes by doctors with very public "look how evil the government is" posts by doctors have kept the rates inflated.

Cost control isn't linked to single payer. Nor is efficiency. If you don't believe that, look at Germany. Not single payer, but incredibly efficient, and great at COVID19.

On top of that, there are places where the government enables horrible behaviour and payments. For example, they negotiated a shitty deal on CPAP machines, and now everyone who does CPAP gets medicare rules, which is $300 a month lease for a machine that is sold commercially for $650. When I pushed back on my insurance company they said that this was medicare rules.

Good governance is good governance. We don't have it, and single payer won't fix it any more then Obamacare and health rationing fixed it.
Climate change. It's already been extensively written about, it's already happening, and we are certainly doing too little.
I am talking about the choice of word and testing wether he means it or not.

If he said that the would not mind paying more for taxes, that is ok.

Saying "it is not fair" is just populist BS - would you keep money that you honestly thought was given unfairly to you?
To add to that, trackpad on Surface Book (can only talk about the first gen one, haven't tried 2nd or 3rd gen yet) is also by far the best trackpad I've ever seen on a non-macbook laptop.
For the SSL part , I have been looking at Caddy as it seems to have pretty simple reverse proxy over SSL setup.
good to see the consistency on their verbose blog post aligned with their design philosophy.

"We copied apple position for buttons and alienated every gnome user from the past decade because it is THE button position!"

"you can't move dialog windows. it's not where the dialog is, it is THE position of the dialog window."

"rewrite entire project from scratch just so we can have javascript extensions? ...there's no alpha or beta channels now, the rewrite is THE stable channel!"
I think this highly depends on the developers and the team. I myself care about my work and this sometimes lead to tensions with management, but because they trusted me, those tensions were productive. When the trust is lacking, those tensions become sour.
You must get rid of a lot of the red tape as well.

Take a look at the stupidity around getting a authorization to test for COVID19, and realize that this is not a aberration.
> I did want to express my disagreement when it comes to the original claim of "any framework in any language can do what PHP frameworks can do" though.

Oh, a complete agreement on that.

This conversation sidelined from some people talking about Java, .Net, Go and Rust. None have anything similar to the big web frameworks. And while I'm not completely sure about Rust, I do believe that none even can have it.
NPR has a full text-only version of their site. Here's this article there:

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=156737801

The "sId" parameter on text.npr.com matches the penultimate part of the www.npr.com URL.
Because people will buy the ticket which is $1 cheaper.
In the Mac ecosystem, if the app isn't using the latest APIs, it's likely to be broken within the next 2-3 major macOS updates.
Also changing tastes in clothing have reduced the gap between luxury clothing and cheap clothing by a lot, while home improvement needs remain more or less steady.
Unlike secured loans like mortgages, the cost of default for unsecured loans is already priced in to the interest rate of the debt. Once it gets sold a third party, that's just a bet by that company that they can strong arm you into paying them something above what they paid for it by exploiting your anxiety or misplaced sense of duty. They didn't earn anything -- they didn't create a service or good that you found valuable, didn't invent something that saves you time, didn't make you life easier or more comfortable. They are scavengers. There is no moral obligation to enrich scavengers.