skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is of course the extremely broad definition of 'public' in the US which includes virtually everything but your bathroom.

If someone calls the police on you because your paranoid or racist neighbour caught you on their doorbell camera and called the cops because he thought you looked like you 'didn't belong' in the neighbourhood that happened in public, but it's obviously extremely problematic and a recipe for self-imposed policing virtually everywhere.

And that's not actually a hypothetical but something that already happened. (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvyvzd/amazons-home-secur...)
> If your argument is that he had no choice in the matter then I'm not really arguing with you because in my world people can make choices of their own free will. To assume otherwise is a slippery slope and so I'm not interested in making that argument. If you have compelling evidence that Scott had no choice in deleting his blog then present it and we can argue about it.

You're using the words "choice" and "voluntary" in a very pedantic way.

If someone puts a knife to your throat and demands the contents of your wallet under threat of being killed, you're also handing over the contents of your wallet out of your own free will. You chose to give up your property. You could have chosen to refuse and suffer the consequences. Your decision to give up your property was voluntary, in the sense that you could have chosen otherwise. This isn't technically wrong, but it also isn't what how the overwhelming majority of people use the word "voluntary".

When people talk about being forced to do something, they're talking about being pressured into taking a certain action due to the necessity of avoiding some consequence if they don't. In this case, Scott was being threatened with the consequence of having his identity revealed to a much broader audience with the probably consequence of adversely affecting his career and his patients. Yes, he chose to delete his blog. He could have left it up and lived with the adverse consequences to his livelihood. But this decision was made due to the threat of these consequences - it was not voluntary.

> Here is an actual trail of evidence for one of the members of the tech community actively harassing a reporter

This person isn't talking about either Cade Metz (the New York Times journalist that was writing about SSC), nor Pui-Wing Tam. The mention of Slate Star Codex comes at the end of this thread. How does this connect, in any way, to Scott's blog post? Furthermore, do you realize how absurd it is to form an opinion of an entire community of thousands if not tens of thousands of people based on the actions of a single person?

Furthermore, how is this harassment? This person is criticizing a journalist on false claims, and calling them a sociopath. You seem to be under the impression that the simple act of saying unfavorable things about someone is harassment. It isn't. If calling someone a liar and a sociopath is harassment, then a lot of people harassing a certain national leader on a regular basis (and rightly so, IMO. The point is to demonstrate that calling someone a liar and a sociopath isn't harassment).
Yes, when a government has found a clever end-run around the prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure that definitely needs to be fixed.

Not sure why exactly you think "aha, so you admit it is legal!" is a particularly insightful thing to say, obviously all authoritarian governments have decided that they have the legal right to intrude on their citizens' privacy and thus have self-determined their actions to be legal. That has nothing to do with whether it's the morally right thing, or is in keeping with the spirit of the constitution.

To wit: China has determined that they have the legal right to disperse assemblies in Taiwan. That is legal there too. Do you think that is the right thing?

Kohlberg addresses this with his stages of moral development - some people think "because it is law, therefore it is moral", and that's really as much thought as they need to put into it to justify it to themselves. They don't bother addressing whether it should be legal, and that seems to be the thrust of your argument.
> We sort of had to collectively admit we were wrong on the premise that you will be happiest if you work on something you personally want to work on the most

What do they say about this? What is it that they found that invalidated this "premise"? I can't seem to find anything in the article.
Well, if it is correct from the perspective of the Americans who were conceding the land, then it's as correct as it needs to be for the purposes of this discussion.
There is nothing to brag about. I want to own my device. I want to install on it whatever i like.
I always think of the famous Hindenburg crash tape. "it's a terrific crash" 1937 for those, like me, that weren't sure of the decade.

https://genius.com/Herbert-morrison-hindenburg-disaster-broa...
Your link has many facts about sources of funding, but does not say what the value of the teacher benefits package is.

> retired before 30 years on the job. It’s stable, but it’s not an early retirement career.

I'd consider retiring at 52 early retirement, especially if it comes with a lifetime pension.
Can you share examples of research papers you've found valuable enough to challenge/sway the opinions of doctors?

I know big pharma cannot be trusted as they're in it to have customers for life, but I've never considered using research papers to change treatments.
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Yeah, the basic use case of simple wired network connectivity has gotten extremely complicated, especially in Ubuntu 18+, where you configure Netplan with YAML to render templates or...something.. that configures NetworkManager or not NetworkManager to do whatever to finally run `ip` to set the address.

I miss just editing /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/resolv.conf by hand. I get that that sucks for laptops, but why can't the rest of us just have an exceedingly simple and pleasant setup?
Someone really thought this comment deserved a downvote? How is this not a relevant comment? Baseball caps and winter hats are the default hats worn by most people these days. There is little reason to go back to something more traditional, as classy as that could potentially be.
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Like looking for a plan to breathe! The vast majority of people are not academics. Only someone who has truly been institutionalized should find it terrifying to find meaning and hope without academia.
It seems like a daunting task to take on so much, so props for the work put into this.
It does kind of read like a beta, with the exception of the bigger thread (which makes it feel a bit more like an alpha). If that's okay, I'd like to offer my thoughts on this.

What I'm reading from the chapters and the first few pages (dense in information!), is that there are initial assumptions and an over-arching structure that would benefit from being highlighted.

The undocumented assumptions are about both the audience and your own approach: Where are your target readers at, who are they in broad terms? What prerequisites are necessary for this book to be manageable, and since it covers multiple fields it's possible to offer some insights into other sources (whether online or physical books or classes) that offer fundamentals, up to perhaps even a parallel to what you're putting together.

The unannounced structure seems (as of right now) to be:

(1) Notes about stuff

(2) We're dealing with humans

(3) We're dealing with humans in a system

(4) Related and/or other relevant systems

(5) What do we do as an engineer in this mess?

(6-7-8) How does that practically unravel ?

(9-10) Here's a crash course in mathematical stuff we'll need later

(11) Regression. A lot of it.

(12) Some other stuff than Regression to think about too

(13-14) Practical applications of the last 4 chapters we've been going through

(15) Let's introduce R now!

I think it would read better if there was some progression along those lines:

(1) Tells you what this book is at its core, then very briefly what's going to hit you, and which assumptions you will make and what prereqs your readers might need/rely on

(1-bis) Marked optional: Historical stuff, contextual stuff not directly related to the book's core but useful nonetheless. Perhaps the reader will want to take a look at that at their own leisure.

(2) Bring in the practical tool you have a preference for (R), since it's both useful for data manipulation/visualization and programming concepts. Nothing big, the learning can and will happen throughout the book.

Now you can leverage that tool to illustrate (and low-key practice) the concepts that you introduce about various fields. The next few chapters don't need to change too much but they can be made much more interactive by using R, jupyter notebooks, etc.

(3) Who do we build stuff for? (Humans)

(4) Humans don't live in a vacuum, so let's consider their system

(5) (Perhaps marked optional) Those systems coexist and interact with other systems. Why it's relevant to know about a few.

(6) What do we do as an engineer? (Build, design, creatively, etc)

(7) Basically your 6-7-8 with some fun R stuff

--- And I'd honestly end there, and separate the rest into its own book.

That book can be about introducing the maths, with more or less optional parts/prereqs, leveraging R, introducing the bits of data manipulation that are deemed useful, and so on.
> Would be interested in your justification for holding citizens of today's US responsible for an event that happened more than 100 years ago, before they lived or breathed.

Of course they are responsible, who else should be if not the one who are getting the historical benefits?

Do you use "we" in your country only to refer to the good parts of your history, or up to the day you set foot on it?

Do you think countries' debt should be cancelled every 50 year or so?
This already happens, though, without term limits, so is it really that big a worry?
No. Nearly all OECD countries pay for health and pension insurance through payroll taxes. So a school in France would pay employer-side payroll taxes for a teacher, which would show up as education spending. And the teacher would pay the employee-side contribution from her salary, which itself would show up as education spending. (That is to say, “national coverage” in most European countries doesn’t work how Americans think it works, which seems to be that health benefits for middle class people are paid for through income taxes on rich people. If it did work like that, you’d be right, but pretty much only Denmark does that. See: http://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/taxing-wages-france.pdf. Look at France. About 25% of the total cost of an employee to an employer, such as a school, is employer-side social security taxes—the OECD’s term for payroll taxes for health and pension benefits.)

Moreover, many countries exempt teachers from the national pension scheme, just like the US. The UK, which I used as an example above, has a teacher pension system
The story is quite stunning. So a child molester convicted in 1997 and in prison for 20 years wants to get out of jail. So he seems to have hired some extra ordinary attorney who simply couldn’t find any way to get him out. And one day he finally hits upon this idea of land supposed to be tribal land 100s of years ago! The brilliant idea, indeed. And now half of the state will suddenly become tribal land because of this one guy trying to get out and this one lawyer who dug this out.
What point are you making? That my definition of voluntary is incorrect? If so then I disagree because I use the word exactly how I mean it. No one put a knife to anyone's throat and forced them to do anything that they could have avoided if they had taken precautions. In Scott's case, he could have fostered a better community of individuals and been more careful about his anonymity but he didn't and he wasn't. So his problems spilled over into the larger tech community and people adopted the attitude of the free press being "anti-technology" and "evil".

Calling someone a sociopath is indeed harassment if you have no compelling evidence to prove your point. Because if you claim someone is a sociopath without providing compelling evidence then you're arguing in bad faith which is a characteristic of sociopathic people.

I don't know who Taylor is but I can tell that she's not a sociopath but the person harassing her on the other hand has certain sociopathic characteristics.
I used to be a huge Valve fanboy, but throughout the years they've managed to burn away all of that goodwill through a combination of not building good games anymore (or at least not releasing them, as I learned in the article), and pioneering microtransactions and loot boxes (read gambling) added to their existing games that profit mainly off of gamers with poor self control (most of whom are literally children).

Although I also blame the gaming community as a whole for collectively rejecting the subscription model for games, which made the much more exploitative f2p + microtransaction/lootbox business model the only real viable option for games that require ongoing development.
Because of the age old warning about premature optimization, a lot of software that runs critical parts of the internet infrastructure is dreadfully slow. You could pick something that is deployed on millions of servers, speed it up 20%, and the win would be significant.

An example is the progress bar used in `npm` during install operations. Someone discovered that it was extremely wasteful of resources. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10974929

Little things like that add up. You could do even more by focusing on optimizing overall resource usage rather than just wall clock time. Perhaps even write software to automatically optimize others' software.

You want to find a community that is open to change and optimization, though - some maintainers are too busy or are afraid of change.
Yeah, my benefits are valued at $22,500 in Seattle at a Big Tech firm. I don’t have children so that impacts the value, but we have a very good benefits package and it’s still 1/3 less than teachers, if the numbers you cite are correct. My take home and stock are obviously ridiculously better than what I could expect as an educator, even with a Ph.D and the highest tier of experience (the CBA cap for non-administrators is ~$120k for the 20-21 school year in Seattle), so I have no regrets, but yeah HR calculates my benefits as considerably less.
You could make your point a lot more constructively if you omitted the denigration of the author’s substantial effort and people who suffer genuine manic episodes (which tend not to be this pretty).
Yes that's true indeed, I was talking in general. Maybe having a more opened device would help getting security fixes faster? One of the main reason this exploit was heavily obfuscated was to avoid Apple to patch it.
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Reasonable, but shouldn't the real owner of the property be entitled to some sort of compensation regardless? That becomes problematic if you don't have the means to retroactively buy the land from your neighbor, but it doesn't seem fair to just acquire it, free of charge.
> . We seem to do stuff that's out of the normal experience (Python to create thousands of individual reports on thousands of rows of postgres data per report)

Sounds like you need somebody that knows Python and SQL, should be easy to find. Everybody thats been in the business for a while has done reports. However everybody also hates doing reports, so you might have to pay more than you want to, or hire interns to do it.

> A maintainer who can find their way through an ugly codebase and quickly fix bugs that are identified by people who know the business domain thoroughly

I would just look for somebody experienced then, maybe 3 years +. Its going to cost more though, especially if the codebase is ugly and most of the work is reports.

> I've been largely responsible for hiring developers (usually on contract)

Hiring on contract is unlikely to get you desirable hires. Good devs have a lot of options.

My somewhat generic advice is to have a coding assignment. Some people won't do them but its the best way I've found to screen candidate quality. Equally important is to have a good developer look at the submissions. The quality of code as rated by good devs has always correlated strongly with the quality produced once hired, at least from what I've seen.

Advice for your situation specifically is to offer a lot of money and don't do contract-to-hire. Reports suck, your codebase sucks. Good developers can find another job within weeks and won't stick around unless you make it worthwhile. Most desirable hires will outright refuse contract-to-hire so you're restricting yourself to a low quality talent pool already.

You can nab good people for a lucklustere job without paying a premium if you're willing to give rare concessions. Fully remote work, flexible hours, part time, 4 day schedule, relative autonomy, etc. If you can't do that or pay well turnover will remain high.

You're not in a good spot right now. If you're open and honest about the job "writing reports in a crappy codebase" you won't get many interested hires and those you find will ask for more money. If you lie/deflect you will hire more but turnover will be insane. Your best option may be to hire interns. They will expect the job/code to suck and ask for little money. Turnover will remain high and quality will be all over the place, but at least it will be cheap.
It's often hard to find anyone of any characteristic for many projects so it shouldn't be surprising that it's also hard to find people of a specific sub-group.
Coffee: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/the-hidden...
Sugar: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/09/brazil.slav...

I do not believe your implied claim that decriminalizing drugs would prevent this sort of behavior is correct.
For me, only Pock [0] comes close to a possibly or passingly ergonomic use case for the Touch Bar. (Not hating on vim.)

Hard-wired function keys as abstraction are cognitive overhead even if mechanically efficient.

Touch Bar ignores ergonomics (screen to bar to screen) and what should be up (interface queues) is down (enemy of touch-typing). Cognitive overhead and mechanically inefficient (no muscle memory).

Not worse than QWERTY but still...

[0]: https://pock.dev (no affiliation)
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How does that jive with the overwhelming propensity for big government on HN?

“I don’t want the gov’t to know I was at a protest, but I’m more than happy to give them all my medical data and work for a nationalized company.”
Sometimes referred to as “transgenerational trauma.” It’s something Jews and Native Americans/First Nations people have in common, probably along with most populations who suffered genocide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_trauma
Yeah. And I was about to say something to the effect that this plan was a bad idea, because then you end up with out-of-touch political elites in the Senate. But then I thought about the current makeup of the Senate...
You were there? Otherwise, your of course is no more or less compelling than my newspaper sourced statements.
some site I guess:
https://neuvoo.com/

Never heard of it, and was annoyed to get hijacked when I was trying to apply to a position. ZipRecruiter is another one
I think it's more about trying to identify people with self-agency and leadership qualities. Schools generally prefer to have an above-average-intelligence alum who changes the world, over a brilliant alum who retreats from it and gains their satisfaction in life from introverted pursuits like learning things.

College itself is where you get a larger worldview. Requiring people have it already seems like a great way to exclude people trapped by family and financial constraints.
To clarify, Jody Allen took over Paul Allen’s fortune when he passed. I’m unsure what all has been closed since then, I know at least Stratolaunch (a space firm), Vulcan Productions (a small-ish media company), and now Vulcan Entertainment (LCM, Cinerama, and the flying heritage and combat museum) have all closed.

The Museum of Pop Culture (preciously Experience Music Project + Science Fiction Museum) was spared - they’re technically self funded now.

It feels like she’s cleaning house. COVID definitely didn’t help but Cinerama closed for a “remodel” sometime last year and laid off all their staff.
I mean, the only reason that Congress can revoke a promise to the Creek Indians is that they have a stronger military. It's not about justice, it's just about strength.
Almost the same here. Picked up a Tilley had on impulse one day, and started using it for my scout evenings and trips. Before long, going outside without a had felt naked: a perfect piece of clothing for Scandinavian weather with showers, wind and sun.
Do you really think that more people would die if the US military went on strike? Besides, the US military already has a mechanism to force people to work for the military.
I wanted so hard to love DDG, but it failed so hard esp for developer questions (90% of my searches).... but DAMN this is what I wanted in a replacement. I've already replaced google, though native dark mode would be cool, but I can just use stylish for that ;)
“ McGirt, 71, has served more than two decades in prison after being convicted in 1997 in Wagoner County in eastern Oklahoma of rape, lewd molestation and forcible sodomy of a 4-year-old girl. McGirt, who did not contest his guilt in the case before the justices, had appealed a 2019 ruling by a state appeals court in favor of Oklahoma.”
See my other comment.[0] Particularly the part about checkerboarding.

I can't end up in Canada or Mexico by accident. Nor do I have to drive through them to get from one part of my state to the other.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23788209
> ...very pessimistic of law enforcement getting anywhere near politics.

> Many of the ugliest chapters in our history involve failing to uphold this standard.

I don’t have data to back this up, but I certainly would not be shocked to read a study which showed that police, rather than enforcing laws universally, are far more likely to be using their discretion attempting to steer society by selectively punishing segments of people who they view as “unamerican.” Whether it’s done to juggalo types from “the wrong side of the tracks”; strange religions; different races; or like in the past, pot smokers, guys with long hair, or punks with colors in their hair. etc... etc... etc...

I don’t know how we fix this problem, but I suspect the tendency to view “others” as problematic and applying pressure to other groups in a misguided attempt to steer them into compliance is part of the problem.
For data on people in the EU, that's essentially required to comply with GDPR.

That's because of backups. GDPR doesn't really say if handling a deletion request just requires deleting from your live databases or if you also have to through your backups and delete from them too.

I didn't save the link, but at least one country's privacy regulator has clarified that deletion requests do not apply to backups, but if the backup is ever restored you have to delete any restored records that had been subject to a deletion request.

Hence, the need to maintain a record of deletion requests in sufficient detail to re-delete those records if they ever come back.
Yes. My partner worked in a women's shelter and told me about the 'learned behaviour' that was perhaps the root cause in so many situations. Her grandmother had managed to hide and avoid being taken to one of the Catholic schools when they came into their family home to take her, her grandfather didn't manage it.

Easy to see how that kind of trauma in a family could affect the next generations, particularly so if their was abuse - which apparently was rife in the schools they were sent to.