skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For non-aussie readers of YC News, the ACCC is an Australian federal government department that represents the consumer interests of the citizens.

This is a particularly important function in cases where there is significant asymmetry in transactions, as is typical with large corporations versus many customers making small purchases.

In scenario like that, a defrauded consumer has essentially no recourse, as nobody is willing to take a minor matter to court. Even if they do, they'll face an army of lawyers that will certainly drag out the proceedings until its Just Not Worth It for the angry consumer. Class action lawsuits, the type popular in the United States, are a joke, serving only to enrich lawyers.

In Australia, the ACCC sues or directly penalises corporations on the behalf of consumers. They enforce laws related to things like warranty returns.

They have a reputation for coming down like a ton of bricks on misbehaving businesses, with eye-watering fines for even minor things like putting up an invalid "no returns" policy sign at the cash register.

As a consequence of ACCC's actions, consumer confidence is increased, so people spend more, boosting the overall business activity in Australia. Companies that behave have everything to gain and nothing to fear. Companies that try to rip off consumers are eliminated from the market, so that they can't unfairly compete with law-abiding companies by dropping prices to levels where legitimate behaviour is unsustainable.

An anecdote: A local computer parts store refused to refund my $500 for a new GPU that was faulty. I told them that this was illegal, and they're running the risk of an ACCC fine. They just laughed at me. I did nothing about it, and jumped through the hoops to return the card to the manufacturer instead. Someone else must have reported them for their behaviour, and next time I was there I noticed a prominent sign at the cash register saying that they've been fined by the ACCC $750,000 and that they had to display this sign to notify customers of their rights. For a local, small business retailer this is a brutal fine, but they're still around and now they provide instant refunds for DoA parts without argument! Plus, the look on the face of the manager who refused my warranty claim was priceless. The system works.
We hope. To me the worry is less time to consider false notices of attacks. Any attack will be met by devastating counter attacks so there should never be a consideration that any notice is a real attack. There are many almost launches where there was false notice (the moon reflects radar, etc).
>why can't we simulate a whole brain?

Of what size? A worm, a fly? Doable. A mouse? Possibly in the next couple years. A human? No ETA but definitely happening in our timeline.
Here's the way you do it...

The search engine page can be used for validation, just allow people pressing the back button on the page to tell you whether the results were useful or not.
Why not? To me (a layperson in the physics of helmets and brains), they would seem to be quite directly related, especially when the cause of the gees is not related to an impact.
If the user wanted the email, its a mistake if it went into the spam box, period.

Trust me when i say you can have a 100% flawless email setup in every technical respect (the full works from this article and more) and still end up spam boxed by Gmail approximately 100% of the time.

Conversely, people that Gmail feels are important wont get spamboxed for minor technical reasons either...
>1% of research is fraud

You are way, waaaaaay underestimating the extent of the problem.
Exactly. If you are disabling noise cancellation on the QC II, you bought the wrong headphones. There are much nicer ones without noise cancellation for less money.
Do you think there's a material inside the helmet that can stop gravity?
https://pastebin.com/fHqu5eXF
Helmets are padded, deform, or have suspension systems to decelerate any impulse that the helmet takes. This should cause a very different g-force spike between what the shell of the helmet experiences, and what the wearer experiences.

If the helmet didn't decelerate any impulse to the head, the range of impacts that it could theoretically protect the wearer from would actually be quite narrow.
Thanks for the question. I have answered it in another question in the comments, and I'll update the docs to make the difference more clear.
Seems like kind of a public service
Generalization gets worse, then better. That's why this phenomenon is being called double descent.
You should get out of your parents basement some time. Things that happen in the real world, especially those that involve physical experience and physical risk, are tangibly different than things that happen in video games.
What made you do it?
Studies show its at least 20 times harder to get a paid conversion than free conversion regardless of price (example being free app vs 99 cent app downloads)

I think it will be easier to convert more than 1 out of 20 from free to paid once they see the value of the search
one day, when mars has high energy requirements, it will still be easier to mine on earth and bring uranium to mars. there will never be a time when it is not. not sure what you are not getting here. unless you mean millions of years in the future, when humanity is dead, and mars is terraformed and as friendly an environment to build a mine as earth.

don't be so quick to make up stuff people never said.
The thing is that no one cares. It's a cultural issue. If Elastic makes it "harder" to get off the starting line by setting secure defaults, they'll get their lunch eaten by a fork called EasyElastic that people perceive as "easier".

This probably isn't an excuse for Elastic anymore, but it's how Elastic was born ("easier than Solr!" -- they didn't invent full-text search, after all) and it's how whatever supplants Elastic will be born. Why is MySQL dominant over Postgres even though "referential integrity" didn't come to the game until v5? Why Docker over jails or OpenVZ? etc. People adopt technology because it's fashionable and it becomes fashionable in part because it's perceived as easy to use. Security and ease-of-use are not quite true opposites, but there's definitely some intrinsic tension.

We have a lot of hapless practitioners in the space and the root problems here won't go away until we get some standards. Better solutions usually lose because crappy stuff focuses more effort on marketing and an "easy" onboarding process, where better stuff focuses on the operational complications of the real world.
Which is..."not right" is the absolutely most charitable response to 'thinking' that sad.
Yet another startup with product that doesn't fit the market.
Not sure who downvoted this, but this is 100% on the money in my experience.

People here are writing comments like that funding should be tied to "how systematic, logical, and well-documented the research is" as though these things are correlated to the existing criteria at all.

Much of the criticism here is like someone who knows how to build roads criticising agile software development because it makes it look like no one knows what they are going to build in the end. It's frustrating, and wrong, but the errors are subtle and aggregative.
From the ACCC website

“I agree” notification

The conduct is alleged to have impacted millions of Australians with Google accounts.

From 28 June 2016 until at least December 2018, Google account holders were prompted to click “I agree” to a pop-up notification from Google that purported to explain how it planned to combine their data, and sought the consumers’ consent for this.

Some new features for your Google Account

We’ve introduced some optional features for your account, giving you more control over the data Google collects and how it’s used, while allowing Google to show you more relevant ads.

The notification also stated, “More information will be available in your Google Account making it easier for you to review and control”; and “Google will use this information to make ads across the web more relevant for you.”

Not sure how you can provide informed consent, when the notification is so vague
Not a bad list of advice. I'll add a few things for infrastructure:

* Setup ARC (RFC8617) for all mailing lists and forwarding.

* Sign up for the Google & Microsoft postmaster tools. They're not great, but it's better than nothing.

* Implement RFC8058 / RFC2369 unsubscribe mechanisms.

* Use an outbound suppression list to ensure that unsubscribe requests or unwanted mail complaints have lasting effect.

* Article touches on DMARC reporting, for which I suggest Postmark's free monitoring tool at https://dmarc.postmarkapp.com/

* From time to time run your domain name(s) and IP address(es) through a panel of reputation services. Check out any red flags (some of them matter, some don't).

And for content:

* Re-evaluate email templates. Many out there are hot garbage, practically inviting users to hit the junk button, which just hurts sender reputation. Ensure there's always a plaintext part. Don't use tracking/opening pixels. Write validating HTML. Minimise size. Don't bury the unsubscribe link, put it at the top, and make sure it clearly works without hostile barriers like "are you sure" pages or sign-in.

* In the very first paragraph, and without scrolling on a mobile, we must explain, honestly and concisely, why we are contacting someone, and why they might want to read the rest, because we have no entitlement to someone's attention.

* Run all mailers through a spam scoring tool as part of CI/CD, because a high score is a bug.

In addition, Google's sender guidelines are well worth reading, they're more than just self-serving gatekeeping: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en
The helmet is padded.

Your head is in a suspension within the helmet, much like your brain is in a suspension within the skull.

Your skull can accelerate at extremely high G's without harming the brain as long as it stays well within the modulus of the suspension. i.e. not for too long. The helmet adds another suspension on top of this.
Searchability I guess? LaTex is for displaying mathematics, whereas this looks like an AST for math.
It's apparently extremely difficult even to stitch up a baseball without the jar.
# Nah, commenting out is better in case decisions are reversed.

# Once it's deleted, there's no way to get it back.

# Version control isn't reliable.
I wonder if these bottles can get past a TSA airport security check without breaking them open.
In 2014, after retiring from full-time work in the SF Bay Area, I decided to use my savings to purchase some undeveloped land in southern Rhode Island and build a custom home there. The results have exceeded all my expectations and I'm very grateful.

https://www.corememorymusic.com/this-new-house.html
David J. Bodney Sanctions
David J. Bodney be fraudlin ya'll
I already excluded the people who are getting a degree because they want to go to industry with it.

Of the 'stay-in-academia' camp, the ratio is hideously stacked against the graduates.

New and emerging universities aren't doubling the academic jobs pool every five years... Which is what it would take to keep up with the graduates being churned out.

(And incidentally, they are also contributing to the oversupply, because their professors will also be churning out even more new graduates.)
Are you perhaps confusing impact with g-force? A good analogy would be a fighter pilot or an astronaut. The g-force is felt all over the body irrespective of whether you are wearing a suit or not.
that is really not a middle ground, you are handing full control of your email over to a third party.
This should be at the top. There is so much truth to this!
While straight digital manipulation may not work as well (colors/contrast based) - those with newer phones can use the 3d depth sensors to do this without any extra tools May have to turn your phone around so the face / depth sensors face the stone, but I just tried this with Scandy (free tool) and it totally works. Pretty cool!

Scandy:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scandy-pro-3d-scanner/id138802...
Why does a CLI need colours and icons? OK...colours have some value, but icons? Serious question.
Ugh, I cannot get beyond the NYTimes paywall, ever. Something about their paywall standards blocks me out pretty much every time.
Insert a disassembled padlock (without the ear of the lock) thru the bottle neck, and reassemble it inside the bottle. Then, carefully hook the ear into the cork, and insert it into the bottle, then carefully attach the ear into one of the holes of the padlock.

Then fully insert the cork, and then use some shaking of the bottle to click the padlock into a locked position.

Or they just used magic.
You are confusing the ability to sustain the g-force by the brain with the force experienced. A padding on the helmet helps in event of collision, not the g-force which is due to the acceleration
You can't read these things head-on because the information is in the depth. Looking at them obliquely helps a lot. If you want a fancy (and non-intrusive) technological approach then 3D laser scanning is probably the way to go.
But... they do. When you install the app, people routinely agree with "This app wants access to your contact list, storage, internet, and to run at startup". But I get your point, it should be on the box, before you buy the hardware. Currently they can easily argue that you can install the software from appstore, check the required permissions, before even buying the hardware. But that's not enough.
MSY? My local had that sign up, apart from that I liked them so it's a shame they closed.

ACCC won't help with individual cases, though they will follow up and levy fines like you've said. So you probably did the right thing for yourself by working around them in the short term. Apart from that you need a state authority, ombudsman, or something else for direct help.
> The ACCC considers that consumers effectively pay for Google’s services with their data, so this change introduced by Google increased the “price” of Google’s services

It's interesting to think about a privacy policy tweak as a "price increase". I wonder if data will become regulated to the point where monetary value is transferred away from large companies and towards individual users so countries can tax their citizens on it.
How is a collision not just another acceleration?
Well, the problem is that they are, in fact, a serious part of scientific discourse. Peer-reviewed publications are the output; the process of science also requires conversations in offices and labs and conferences, preprints, letters between researchers, etc. - and always has required it. You need to figure out what's interesting enough to research, what angles you may not have thought of yet, what ideas seem fruitful but lack someone pursuing them, etc. Blog comments (and mailing lists and newsgroups and Twitter) are a new way of accomplishing this at a larger scale, but they're not fundamentally anti-scientific - the conversations at Solvay weren't peer-reviewed either.

The major claim of the article is that Peters is pushing his ideas in that realm - not the realm of peer-reviewed articles - and taking mindshare away from legitimate and worthwhile ideas.
You bring up a great point. If people don't understand the ACCC's statement, then people didn't understand the less informative Google popup notification.
Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS
How in the world would I find a flight simulator in my word processor?
Yeah, I create a .terminfo directory in my home folder on any box I ssh to and make sure it has the terminfo for the terminal I use.
1. just launched a local-first, markdown based, hierarchical note-taking tool - https://dendron.so
2. wanted to start a business building a solution to a problem i cared deeply about (information overload)
> Australian federal government department

Strictly speaking not a department, rather an independent statutory authority.

Departments are under direct control of ministers, who are politicians, and the ministers can directly intervene in individual cases whenever they wish

Independent authorities such as the ACCC, the politicians have a much more hands off control - they pick the leadership, but have no say in day to day decisions
> Conversely, there's no reason "poor countries" can't grow their average worker income by investing in education and worker productivity

Emigration.

A highly educated worker will leave a poor nation and instead work in a rich nation. This is a problem inside of countries too.

Folks from poor parts of the USA move to richer areas to gain a better way of life.
Your search engine is a spammer's dream. There's a million other things to consider. No thanks.
So funny thing about unacceptable and lateral g-force — this is a big part of why F1 cars aren’t V10 engines anymore. They were getting too fast and the decision was between g-suits and slower cars. FIA chose slower cars (also more fuel efficient, yay).

Now it’s a few years later and cars have again advanced to the point that drivers pull more than 5 lateral G in some corners. It’s kinda bonkers.

I wonder if something like the HANS device could be useful in sledding. Or those neck protectors motocross riders use. Might keep heads from banging around as much.
Then don’t, take json or some standard format with an off-the-shelf parser as stdin and write it as standard out. Then just use jq to munge data into json on one end and back out on the other.
Your comment seems to imply that there's something fundamentally different from humans and other animals.
# JIRA: L-2401

# Dev-only code.

# Fixme: delete before release.
Think how easy it is to take advantage of grandma for "tech support," whether it be from India or at a seedy computer repair shop. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that the majority of small business owners have never heard of Shopify or Wix, as they are more likely to turn to someone they trust, whether that be a "tech-literate" cousin or a local service. Keep in mind that many of these businesses didn't even have websites a few months ago, let alone e-commerce solutions. Not everyone lives in SV or NYC and is perennially exposed to their ads.

I agree that these businesses shouldn't be doing this by themselves, but the tech industry shares some culpability. It should be ingrained in people's heads to think of security first. Most people outside the SV bubble are still using [SO or pet's name]123 as their password. I go to a university in NYC. I've tried to convince several (college) friends to use password managers to no avail. This isn't just a problem endemic in old people. Someone needs to "mainstream" good security. A good start would come from, say, Apple, by including security keys with new iPhones, as much of a pipe dream as that might be.
I assume you mean classification here, full biology is a lot more.

I wouldn't describe cladistics as hookum/voodoo. It's a quite well defined and successful method when used correctly, and has been in wide spread us since way before the 80ies.

The only problem is that it didn't really work for micro organisms, which is the majority of living things because they all look very similar. Sequencing has changed that, and that's why we see so many changes to the tree of life now (in fact it's not even a pure tree anymore)

For the specific problem of pterosaurs (which this article is about) sequencing doesn't help at all because there is no DNA. It's still all only bones and cladistics.
Surface Tension is one of the most memorable stories from my youth. Not hard sci-fi, but rationality and adventure. The introduction can be skimmed. http://www.sfsfss.com/stories/Blish,%20James%20-%20%5BNovele...
Reading that page gave me k5 flashbacks
Would it be possible to put the theorem name (and possibly a description) at the top instead of buried at the bottom in a metadata block?

Theorem: “Fundamental Theorem of Calculus”
PG and the parent comment are saying the same thing. The problem is when the conventional-minded person becomes stuck in a convention that is no longer true. That doesn’t necessarily mean that said convention was _correct_, but that what _was_ conventional is no longer so.

It used to be _conventional_ to have scantily clad “booth babes” in pretty much every technical conference’s vendor room (worse at things like CES, but I remember going to a mid-2000s VMworld conference where there were some booth babes). At some point—in part because of pushback against the sexism of “booth babes”—it became embarrassing to have them. I remember discussions on various sites (IIRC, including HN) where people lamented “feminism” for the disappearance of booth babes. Ultimately, the people who lamented it couldn’t keep up with the changes in convention.

It used to be _conventional_ to be casually sexist or racist in the office. The convention changed. The people who are supposedly being “canceled” have been unable to keep up with the convention. It could be personal sexism and/or racism, or it could simply be systemic sexism and/or racism and they haven’t _quite_ caught the memo that the convention changed.
On a basic level, a CLI with color adds visual information that's easily seen at a glance. In this example blog post, the author shows how adding color to `df` resulted in an immediate visual distinction between mostly empty and mostly occupied space, which would normally require scanning a column to find.

Icons? It's easier to show information in a smaller area when you can use the spot a character would take with an emoji or equivalent.
What is entitlement spending?

These?

"Social Security and Medicare are sometimes called "entitlements," because people meeting relevant eligibility requirements are legally entitled to benefits, although most pay taxes into these programs throughout their working lives."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_Sta...
How funny would it be if someone made a realistic non-voxel version of minecraft that is only playable on a VM Computer in minecraft. I imagine inhabitants of a voxel world would create games that are stylistically different from their own world.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll update the docs to make this more clear.

The goal is to allow the building of a system so someone could ask, for example, "what are the known theorems that describe when a function uniformly continuous?" or "under what conditions is a group solvable?".

To enable this, it is necessary to build a system that catalogs precise statements of math theorems, definitions, and other statements (https://mathlore.org is the start of this system that uses MathLingua but currently only uses keywords and some structure for searching).

This is similar to https://mathworld.wolfram.com or the math pages in Wikipedia except the statements are not text or LaTeX, that is hard for a computer to understand the meaning of. Instead the MathLingua language is used to identify math statements by meaning.

Right now the tooling can render math statements, find duplicate definitions, and can find missing definitions. Further https://mathlore.org uses MathLingua and has some basic searching.

Further, experimental work is also underway so that the MathLingua tooling can expand a math statement by expanding the definition of items used in that statement.

Yeah, I thought about using something like "A Language for Mathematics" but I thought "The Language of Mathematics" might draw more attention :) But it is only the title of my post on hacker news, not the title of the MathLingua website.
Rather like Lem's "His Master's Voice" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice_(novel))