skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a couple problems: one is that proposed bills rarely go anywhere, so it's generally best to wait for a state change [1]. Edit: I think we can override this issue, given that surveillance laws are of particular interest to HN and the comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23783164.

The other is that HN is an English-language site. We have deep respect for the German language, but articles on HN need to be in English [2]. I've changed it to https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/new-german-law-wo... for now. If there's a better link, we can change it again.

(Submitted URL was https://netzpolitik.org/2020/staatstrojaner-provider-sollen-...)

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I remember learning about Kubernetes for the first time. Thought it sounded cool so I started looking into how to make my own cluster. I think every other tutorial was like: "next, go to CLOUD_PROVIDER and sign up for an account to make a cluster".

I'm trying to look up how to make my own cluster, not use someone else's. Figured it out eventually but it took way more searching then for learning how to use k8s.
For those like me who hadn't heard of rotary subwoofers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_woofer

I remember reading about a LCR speaker array that was built in the 1970s in someone's house, with horns that spanned the entire height of the room made out of cinder blocks. Don't really know how how I would dig that article back up, but it was a pretty interesting system.
These exams differ from SAT in three major ways.

First, they are offered once a year. Didn't do as well as you hope? Try again next year.

Second, the material is significantly harder. Take math as an example. The exam questions are a lot closer to AMC/AIME than to SAT. In fact, suppose language is not a problem, many Chinese middle schooler would do pretty well on SAT's math section. Also you are not allowed any calculator.

Finally, for the vast majority of students, the test score is literally the only factor deciding whether you get into college. Basically, you will provide an ordered list of preferences to colleges and majors, and the student with top score's request would be satisfied first, then the second, the third, etc.
You are right, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. However extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence, and while there is no evidence of an ocean fairing civilization in the 16th century BCE I will believe the simpler explanation that the reason why American crops were cultivated in India is because seeds were brought by winds, currents, birds or insects, but not humans.

I guess I should have been more careful in may claim that “the technology did not exist”, and should have worded it as: “we have no evidence for such technology existing at that time in human history”.
Burn the witch!

No, burn the witch-burners!

No, burn the witch-burner-burners!

But then what about the witches? Burn them too or...?

Okay, just burn people who burn any people!

Er, doesn't that mean we have to burn ourselves?

Why don't we just not burn anyone at all?

Burn that guy!

And so it goes...
New JavaScript Math APIs
This might be a good plot for a who-dunnit.
Bell's Tailored Marketing Program
> Your extracurriculars, who you are as a person, anything on your resume is irrelevant. All that matters is your score.

Sounds absolutely brutal. That said, I was caught with the quoted paragraph. Why should your extracurricular hobbies or "you as a person" matter? As far as I see, all that should be considered in university admissions is indeed your test scores.
> It's hard to explain but his intention in much of his writing was coded. He would consistently use certain keywords and phrases to make certain associations and when you follow through the logic it becomes very sinister.

This reads to me like "his words were perfectly polite but I've decided that he must have intended a certain subtext and the subtext I believe that he intended is evil". Which ... I mean, you can certainly claim that, but when you're talking about the writings of somebody who used a lot of words to do his best to make his meaning clear in the text, accusation-via-subtext at least needs some sort of evidence to be a reasonable thing to do.

> If he did not intend his followers to attack anyone then he should not have named anyone or put any kind of contact information in his post.

The complaints form and the relevant editor are precisely how feedback is supposed to be given to news organisations. Some publications have a "Public Editor" position to handle such things, in which case they should have been contacted instead, but the NYT axed that position a while back.
> Flush out your LinkedIn profile to make it look like you can do the jobs you want

Could you expand on what all this involves?
"This community" doesn't have a singular opinion.
Most of the times, "sollen" and "müssen" are interchangeable.

However, there are fine nuances between the words.

In that case, "müssen" is more direct and used as a command which has consequences when not followed while "sollen" is more of a prompt or demand that hasn't to be followed.
Telegram to Return $1.2B and Pay $18.5M Penalty to Settle SEC Charges
It probably will come down to further court cases, but likely, yeah half of Oklahoma will be subject to Oklahoma state law, and half will be subject to tribal law. That's no different than a state being neighbor to a different state with looser/different laws.

Probably they'll work out a compromise like: tribal government pays Oklahoma fees to have them run infrastructure as they have been, and the State forwards tax money to the tribal governments. That seems like the most logical short term solution, essentially status quo.

But the main change will be that tribal lands may now have more power to change local laws (such as ignoring laws against selling alcohol on sundays, etc).
> An over-reaction is by definition the result of an emotional response. Pretending that it's not is being just as emotional even if they're pretending to be objective.

Over-reacting is not 'by definition the result of an emotional response'. I'm not sure why you feel the need to make things up. My immune system over-reacts to many external stimuli and causes allergic reactions. These are not emotional. So you're stating things that are easily and demonstrably wrong. This is the epitome of disingenuous.

> Scott Alexander is far more likely to be on the side of a public figure than a private individual

If you're a lawyer and want to expand on this, I'll listen. Otherwise, your lack of accuracy in previous statements makes me dubious about your argument.
It's a feature not a bug. The entire system was designed s/t it is incredibly hard for anyone in Washington to do anything. There are good reasons for that.
From the actual opinion: "Oklahoma replies that its situation is different because the affected population here is large and many of its residents will be surprised to find out they have been living in Indian country this whole time. But we imagine some members of the 1832 Creek Tribe would be just as surprised to find them there."

Damn, nice shade, Gorsuch!

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-9526_9okb.pdf
Thank you. I heard SVG was not well supported cross browser a few years ago, but I presumed things have improved since then. Guess I was wrong.
My GitHub profile is automatically updated with the estimated length of my email backlog: https://github.com/raxod502/github-email-backlog
> This article is just more propaganda in the evolving war of words between SV and journalism.

There's no war between SV and journalism, theres a feud between technologically and business savvy content companies and decaying content companies. Op-eds, moral posturing and long forms are not journalism. Journalism is a truthful representation of facts with analysis added for context to inform the readers, which the NYT and many other big names haven't delivered in decades.
British Cops Want to Use AI to Spot Porn–But It Mistakes Desert Pics for Nudes
> I think the no-ads deal is for music videos only, not other YT videos.

Not in my experience - and I use the mobile app daily (my lunchbreaks generally consist of catching up on the few folks I subscribe to).

I also haven't noticed any sort of push towards YT Music...But then again, I don't really "browse" Play Music either; I just press play on one of my previously found artists (using the Start Radio button) or search if I'm looking for someone I've not listened to before.
I don't understand. Publishing his name in the NYT will surely already cause any of his patients who read that to realize it's an article about their doctor. Surely that's where the interference would come from ("whoa, my doctor has been writing about his practice on a public blog for years"), not from the patient visiting the blog. If the patient wants to find the blog, I'm sure they will be able to.
Is Ghislaine Maxwell secretly one of the most powerful Redditors of all time?
I didn't start the pedantry.
> the belief that pessimism wins out in the long run

It's amazing when people that you have never met (I am not from Europe and haven't visited Finland) can think in the same way you do.

I have to add that I am a happy pessimist. I like to tell people how everything is a futile waste of time, but wait! It is a happy and possibly satisfying, innovating, discovering, enjoyable waste of time.
I wish the Supreme Court had this kind of attitude towards other questionable decisions and actions by our Congress, namely the passage of the 16th amendment.
Even consultant is tough. You have a business that you need to run and typically can't just disappear for 6 months at a time and largely ignore everything going on in the industry.

It's actually almost certainly easier to consult part-time (whether you intend it to be part-time or not!) than it is to go 120% for 6 months and then rapidly ratchet it to zero for another 6.

I think the only person I know who has done something like this was a lawyer who worked as a contract lawyer for some big finance company (I think) for about half the year. Which doesn't sound like a bad gig. But it's hard for most white collar jobs.
Why 3-2-1 isn't enough; or, How do I safely store my files?
Considering that JodaTime was more or less the reference for java.time, I would be very disappointed if java.time was worse and didn't get rid of JodaTime's design flaws.
"Business logic" is just another name of "logic". E.g. something like "if X is even, then print 'fizz' otherwise print 'fuzz'" is considered business logic.
Uber agrees to buy food-delivery service Postmates for $2.65B in stock
He walks a difficult path well.
I actually agree with tyre on this. Canada has the Westminster system, meaning a Parliament where one or more parties forms a government. In Canada particularly, party discipline is near absolute: you vote with your party or your party kicks you out. This means legislation is really passed on a party level. A party with a majority basically passes the legislation it wants to, with none of the horse-trading and whipping and deal-making that is common in the U.S. A minority gov't has to make a deal with another party to pass legislation, but that's between two entities, not the tens or hundreds of congresspeople who need to be corralled.

The result of this is basically higher quality legislation: no loopholes to gain this Senator's support, no watering down or poison pills; but also, no extremist bills with clauses to trade away to buy support. The gov't passes the legislation it wants to, in the form it wants to, for good or ill. As a result, I believe, matters reaching the Supreme Court of Canada really are more narrow legal issues, not another avenue of attack on legislation. There can be significant rulings with broad implications, but overall, Canada's Supreme Court isn't a battleground because legislation isn't a mess offering a variety of vectors of attack. It's more internally coherent.
I never said anything about consistency. I'm talking about your claim that the article is "ugly."
Yeah I was wondering what exactly was meant by "reservation".. in my experience you can't, as an outsider (non-native), just go, and live on the reservation. So unless it's unlike any reservations in my state then there must have been something I was missing.
Honestly surprised this blogspam made it this high on HN. If it was on medium it'd have another hundred votes at least.
Still trying to "master" this skill, but "learning" how to observe, learn, shift through the noise, and apply that knowledge in a reasonable turnaround time.
We never stopped the general concept of contracts being enforced — this is just a case of a majority in power choosing not to enforce them in one specific case.
I agree. My team is just more productive in C#, so we just stay there as much as possible. As you say, the ability to work on just solving the actual problem is very under valued.
I agree that police are fundamental in the US so it is ok to make cars for them, I made the exact same argument you did. What I disagree with is the argument that you are not responsible for how the tools you produce are used.

If you are creating a legitimate product and making it available to everyone, I don't think you should be generally held responsible for how it is used (ex. guns, civilian vehicles). But that is not what Ford is doing - they are working with law enforcement to create vehicles suited to their needs, they are specifically working to make it easier for police to do their jobs. I think that gives them some responsibility, in the same way that I would feel like a company making military vehicles for Saudi Arabia has some responsibility for how they are used.
It's interesting how the HN discussion here is far more critical of the article than the /r/slaterstarcodex discussion is [1]. (although that is a much smaller community.)

[1] https://np.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/ho6g2b/slate...
> By 1 AM, I had sent Apple a POC and my analysis.

> Still, I'm very happy that Apple patched this issue in a timely manner once the exploit became public.

Sh- should we be happy Apple fixed this so quickly? unc0ver allows consumers to get more out of their Apple devices, and Apple's fix isn't really optional (unless you disable auto-updates and tap "Later" on every update notification). Is this exploit even an issue? Apple's probably not going to let an app exploiting this zeroday into its App Store and sideloading is difficult; it's very unlikely someone malicious is going to trick people into installing malware that uses this exploit. It sounds to me like Apple is purposefully limiting consumer freedom by actively trying to prevent jailbreaking.
Isn’t the point of the post to highlight that people in different roles could all be looking at the the same thing but interpret is very differently?
Bad Apple for Taskmgr
Democracy in common language is general term. Not synonym for direct democracy.
Ok, changed to that from https://netzpolitik.org/2020/staatstrojaner-provider-sollen-.... See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23783406. Thanks!
Large parts of the City of Tacoma and surrounding cities fall inside the Pyuallup Indian Reservation in Washington state. In fact, out of >40,000 people on the reservation, only 2500 are members of the tribe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyallup_people
Ask HN: Does Google use Gmail content to influence YouTube recommendations?
I'm working on a new version of my webapp, Muzoti.

I'd just finished sending an email in Gmail to a friend saying how I needed to allow users to choose the key and mode of the scale for their generated piece. The exact text was:

"Sure. I think a popup dialog screen should go there that allows you to choose scale, mode, track length etc."

Literally 5 minutes later I switched to YouTube and the first recommended video was one by Guy Mitchelmore teaching how different modes work in scales. Specifically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agln4_z8D8I

I thought that was an incredible coincidence as I don't remember seeing any of his videos before.

Later on though I started to wonder if Google was actually using my email content to decide what to show me in Youtube! Which, to me, feels completely sinister, even if solely algorithmic..

Does anyone know if they do this?
"tui"?
I don't think his words were polite, in fact I think it was quite the opposite. If I wanted a civil discussion I would not have listed any contact information about anyone. I would have said, "I am archiving the blog until further notice because I need to think about what kind of content should be made publicly available because words have power and it's important to think about what information and inferences we make available to others through those words".
Ask HN: What is some great B2B sales software?
For what services?
Isn't this usually because a new VP comes in and wants to leave his mark on the product (in the same way a dog leaves his mark on a tree) and ends up ruining the platform? Google is notorious for this.

It seems inevitable that every growth-driven platform will -- like a balloon -- be grown until it bursts.
I think that computers managed to beat humans at poker already. (Online poker, which is different from physical games, where of course AI cannot compete)
Sir, this is a Wendy's.

....but I'll entertain you, both of your first two sentences are about inflation. We aren't "kinda seeing this on the stock side" this actually is inflation. This is the expected outcome of inflation and what has been happening for 100 years in the US. With an unprecedented acceleration.

I think what you are missing from a "capitalism versus X" discussion is the nuanced discussion of macroeconomics.

Redistribution of wealth into poor people affording food has only a little to do with inflation, so I'm sorry thats the level of discussion you've had with people thus far. It has more to do with market signals as well as competitiveness of that market at all for private investors if they were to be taxed heavily in order to pay for it. They really can go somewhere else, and that is a great privilege which always has to be balanced with what policy makers attempt to do. Right now, there is a massive wealth distribution occurring in order for people to be able to stay fed, with additional payments in unemployment insurance, coming directly from the Federal Reserve creating new money. And there are many market signals missing, exacerbating misallocation of capital.

You have to realize that with the CARES Act, the Federal Reserve's charter has been modified by Congress. Things that were unfathomable and illegal for the Federal Reserve to do are now legal. The entire point of the Federal Reserve were so that Congress stayed out of managing the money supply as it would be a continual political distraction, and Congress always shied away from touching anything about the Federal Reserve's law until now.

So the entire discussion has flipped. Republicans and moderate Democrats will never call it socialism, they'll never call it universal basic income, and right now there is also no political will to tax heavily in order to curb inflation while paying for the same programs. But what is happening is massive inflation, from the state, into a lot of people's pockets, to keep the lights on for everyone. Many of those people are buying stocks, along with the wealthy and corporate recipients.
I agree it's looks like they are naked. Even if they are wearing clothes it is a very odd choice. There are infinite pictures of those steps.
Because I could not test for Death
He kindly test'd for me —
The Fixture held but just Ourselves —
And TCP/IP
Police (who work for us and should be viewed as our employees) have a lot of damage control to do. Step 1 is admit you have a problem. We haven't gotten past step 1 yet. I'm sure there are fox news comments in this thread that will back this up.
Like all things taught and learned by cargo-culting, unit tests have long lost the original intent.

No, a unit is not a function, or a method, or a class, or a file.

A unit is a clearly separated, non-trivial software component with a minimal and stable interface to the rest of the software system.

A unit is a good if it requires little to no mocking to test and a very small number of messages to test. It should also do something non-trivial - think small library size, not class size.

The unit should probably have a README which explains the small interface and the small number of necessary dependencies. The unit tests should largely treat the unit as a black box and be based on its promises in the README.
Seems like a lot of gate keeping, especially the Middle English part.
It totally excuses it. Intent is key. If you have no clue what a disease, a virus, an immune system are I don't see how you can be called "heinous" for unknowingly and unwillingly spread diseases.

As for lands, I don't know, lands all over the world have been changing hands since human beings learnt how to walk, most of the time after violence/war. It happened in 1500 when the concept of "nation" didn't even exist and the only way to say that a land was yours was to be able to keep it.
This. They already copied the crappy date API from Java. Why not copy the good one too?
TL;DR: reverse engineer a jailbreak exploit.

> By 7 PM, I had identified the vulnerability and informed Apple

I don't know why this rubbed me the wrong way. Like, it feels "lazy" (for lack of a better way) to disassemble an exploit and run off to tell the vendor. If anything, the exploit writer should get the credit. I don't know.
The key point you are missing is that Ford created cars specifically tailored towards law enforcement. If the police were just buying Ford Fusions from the dealer like everyone else, I wouldn't consider them at all responsible. But they are specifically designing vehicles to help law enforcement, which I think gives them some responsibility.
"German proposal would"
> This was his dissent on DACA. Agree or disagree with the program that allows undocumented immigrants to stay and go to school, I don't care. It's not legislative, it's not judicial, it was a program by DHS setup under the last administration. Now the court rules the current administration can't undo the program? It's bizzare.

This is an inaccurate summary of the decision. The fact that you gave it, after giving an accurate summary of the dissent is very telling. It indicates that only a fool would trust you on political matters as you are a willful liar who does not respect your audience.

I eagerly await your correction and apology. Just kidding, I am fully aware that you have no respect for truth, and that you have no central morality.
Calling it "plausible deniability" implies that he condoned any negative results.

I don't believe that to be true, and I do believe that if he'd made no comment at all about contacting the NYT, many - if not most - of the people who contacted them in an unconstructive fashion would have done so anyway.

I do agree that Scott knew what was about to happen - but I think his attempt to guilt trip his followers into not doing it even though he knew it would probably be futile was genuine.
I've never shipped anything commercially on my own. But my gut feeling is that there's a fear of, "I'm going to ship something that's not great, and so people will look at it, decide against it, walk away, and my chance is gone forever."

I have a feeling that in reality there is always a constant stream of new potential customers who will consider your product, and eventually the number of people who reject it and walk away will start to go down.
Some (perhaps many) of these trials weren't so much badly designed as not designed.

When you're overwhelmed by patients and have no good treatment, and have to try something, it's possible to try something experimental and write that up. That's then called a "trial", but it's designed by people who are up to their necks in work.