skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in my day, I worked at Bestbuy and if you have ever been in one, you may notice that we have a "recycle" area in the front of the store. It is a separated bin, labelled with "wires", "cds", "batteries", etc. The one that always confused me the most was "batteries" since almost EVERY time they would empty that bin into our recycle bin in the back, they would dump the batteries into the trash because almost all of them were non-lithium-ion. My manager said we couldn't recycle regular batteries so they needed thrown away and sorting through the absolute mound of batteries was too much to do.

I know we would receive laptop batteries, phone batteries, and other rechargeables but they never made it into the bin. I hear now, anything with a screen costs money to recycle at Bestbuy. They really seem to be taking a step in the wrong direction. Better labelled bins, and easier access to recycling areas will make it easier for the average person to recycle, which in my opinion, is a net gain for us all.
From your doctor, sure - but from databases of who bought what that the pt consented to be in as a condition of getting a discount? Is GoodRx a HIPAA covered entity? (Not being rhetorical; don't actually know.)
"NFS server xyz not responding , still trying" is still in my head, despite not using nfs for probably a decade.
I’m not saying that proprietary software doesn’t have support costs.

I am saying that source code licenses are irrelevant to support and operations costs.

Both RedHat and Microsoft will sell you a support contract.
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You Inner Passion in Your Heart.Everyone -every person in this world has a Dream: a passion, a vision in
their life that pulls them and urges them to move forward in life. You, my friend have this vision within
you, it "whispers" to you occasionally, but in some cases it cries out. It cries out to be listened to and
acted upon because this vision comes from your soul.Find your inner fire, your sense of purpose; this fire
will help you harness strengths you're not even aware you have. Be connected with your inner passions -
your Life's Dreams, and live that passion every day.
> I was the logical choice. It calculated that I had a 45% chance of survival. Sarah only had an 11% chance. That was somebody's baby. 11% is more than enough. A human being would've known that.

-I, robot
Sorting Pebbles into Correct Heaps (2008)
> I think sleep deprivation is regarded as a feature

Yup. Needing sleep is considered a luxury. If you complain about not having enough, you're "weak". If you can't sleep because of your neighbors, it's considered a mild inconvenience.

Really, we need sleep like we need food, water or air.
Mitchell & Webb made a pretty clever comedy sketch about those two professions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
Brings to mind:

"Rapid Web Application Server (in Assembler)":

https://2ton.com.au/rwasa/

Discussed on hn a few times as I recall:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9948749

(see also sshtalk):

https://2ton.com.au/sshtalk/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15829206
Personally, I just put on a matte screen film on my glossy screen, and that works great for me.
While I tend to prefer this view and think this is a psychologically useful idea, we probably shouldn't take it too literally: how can it be squared with general relativity and its apparent implications of eternalism [1]?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time...
> my school can't change its own schedule until the majority of the parents are also able to cope with the new one.

Sure it can. Announce the change in advance and tell people they better be able to switch by then. Being able to coordinate changes like that is part of the point of having a state.
In case somebody doesn't realize what this is about. IBM helped governments execute government programs. In 1939, IBM helped the then German government, the Nazi government since 1933, among other things with their new task of "ethnic identification", determining who was Jewish and who was not (because they had complex rules about that involving ancestry).

They continued doing this during the war, ... and during the "trial run" holocaust by the German and Austrian Youth Services, then the continuation of that trial run by the psychiatric institutions ... and then with the actual Holocaust. They used a Polish subsidiary, run by a Nazi (owned 90% by IBM), in case you were wondering how they did that without being convicted of treason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
On the client side, at least now, the framework and/or means of API access are always the primary performance bottleneck.
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What about them? They only did it because Tesla is forcing them to do it. You think they would have pushed EVs and things like autopilot to the consumer at this pace for any other reason?

They haven’t really earned the right to be talked about.
Finding and disclosing vulnerabilities predates bug bounties by a long stretch. Bug bounties are simply an incentive for people to follow a scope and disclosure policy through a legal safe harbor and small financial incentive, but they aren't always effective at that. Folks that operate outside of the bounty program don't have that safe harbor and are likely exposed to the full force of whatever domestic 'hacking' laws exist on the books. In the US this has resulted in jail time and fines.

If someone doesn't like the terms of a particular bug bounty program, I would ask why they are doing research against that company to begin with. That's like someone really wanting kids dating a person that doesn't want kids and hoping they will change their mind after they see how awesome it will be. Almost without exception, if you read the comments from the individuals reporting the bugs, they will actually defend the status quo (as is the case here if you dig around). It's mostly just loud people in the vicinity of this trying to drive up the market.

Of course in my example I could try to incentivize said partner to have children by all sorts of unethical means, and there are certainly ways for researchers to try to incentivize corporations to increase bounty scope or payout by unethical means. This is generally considered 'extortion'.

Lastly I think it's also important to point out that legality has nothing to do with ethics, and I certainly believe there are cases where disclosure is warranted outside of any established paradigm of 'responsible disclosure' or bounty program.
There is also sometimes a disconnect between perceived risk by the driver and the actual risk. How we design roads can have a large effect on this. If people are regularly exceeding the speed limit, you designed your road wrong.
2012 tag is very fitting. I remember being bored by all the off-black designs produced back then (2008-2013?). It all looked mushy and spineless.

When The Verge came on the scene in 2011, they showed just how pretty the proper use of black can be.
I wonder if at this point, the focus on `accomplishments` is a bit contrived at the level that Ellison is operating at. Legacy and impact seem like more reasonable monads of operation when you are dealing with billions.

Maybe those dollars would appreciate in value, if he put efforts into shoring up social policy in the US.
the whistleblower Marty Tripp alleged that as Tesla ramped up Model 3 production their battery production facility was creating hundreds of millions in wasted battery product.

Scrap inventory has a severely depreciated value - the emails that have surfaced suggest they may have tried to hide it under “Work in Progress” where they could value it fully.

If they actually wrote down $100M+ in battery inventory that would be a massive shock - no investor is considering that level of scrap in valuing the company right now.

If they have a secret subsidiary they could sell it to this entity at some bloated price without anyone knowing.

This company then becomes some highly indebted entity that will probably eventually go bankrupt but save Tesla’s valuation.
No need to offend the sheep
In general, Medicaid is one of the more generous health insurance plans available in the US. The maximum nominal deductible is $3, and the maximum nominal copay for managed care is $4. For drugs, it’s around the same: $4 for preferred drugs and $8 for non-preferred drugs.

There’s certainly variation in who can qualify, per State; some States are more generous than others. It’s debatable whether it makes sense to even consider the US as a whole, since it’s really a heterogenous collection of 50 self-governing sub-cultures. The Canadian healthcare system for eg is also provincial, with the Federal government providing minority financial support. It’s actually more Province-driven than Medicaid is State-driven, today.
But we would blame the person in your situation.

In the vehicle, is it still the fault of the driver, or the software company? Or insurance?
If that was true, it would be different in winter, but it isn't (at least for big projects). I've had a lot of renovation projects done, and all the trade folks I dealt with just like having most of their afternoon free, by starting super early. The jack hammers across the street will start in pitch darkness, they'll just use powerful lights.
I am looking to buy Sony DPT-RP1 or very similar Fujitsu product. A quick review from actual user may be helpful in making decision. What do you not like about this Sony product?
The interstate system dates to 1956.[1] So it is part of the set of mental models that haunt the US and continue to poison our built environment. The post-WWII era is the same era that gave birth to the modern suburb and the Baby Boom, giving us the Baby Boomers.

Americans have been basically brainwashed into thinking that patterns of development from that era are right and good and so forth and then we put those models on steroids and do more of that same.

Our suburbs began as houses of around 1200 sq. ft. Last I saw stats, the average new home in the US was over 2400 sq. ft. (though a recent private conversation with a professional urban planner suggests those figures may finally be dropping).

We need an entirely new set of mental models, something I think of as "the butterfly economy" based on a comment I made on HN once.[2]

There is a potential path forward, but we aren't going to take it because that would involve listening to a woman and this will not happen. This is a hill our current world is eager to die upon, so we will remain haunted by the ghosts of Christmas past -- prisoners of mental models that served our parents and grandparents extremely well, so they got burned into our collective psyche as the only good way to do anything and never mind that the world has changed and all of that is very much out of date.

I'm short of sleep, tired of getting zero respect, underfed (as is the norm late in the month), in a generally bad mood over how my crappy existence remains crappy largely due to sexist BS and no amount of pointing out the sexist BS causes it to really budge. So I think that's all I'm going to say here since I fully expect to get kicked in the teeth for saying anything and I've had quite enough abuse for one life.

[1] https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/interstatemyths.cfm

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028732
You don't change any schedules, you stop changing them twice a year. What you change is merely what each our is called.
Books try for pure black inks to maximize contrast against a not-pure-white background. Most book paper tends to have a little yellow, a little brown, and a carefully non-specular texture. Art book paper tends towards glossy, bluish tones closer to pure white.
There are still a lot of people who develop on MacOS and deploy on linux, so a kqueue port would be valuable even if it were not as well tuned.
Anti gravity tech.
And docker hub account management and security management options have always been _horrible_. For example, I can't create a login token exclusive to one organization or repo on docker hub, meaning anywhere i use those credentials is a potential security risk to ALL my orgs and projects.
> I appreciate and value his opinions that there should be no pure black in the creative product we make together.

Is this why the most fashionable websites are also the most difficult to read? I ask purely for information.
> To do this, as claimed by Musk with 1,000 microelectrodes within an hour with "surgery without anesthesia", in the pulsing brain with no neurosurgeon present is not just impossible...

The not-so-secret secret sauce that will make it possible is AI.

I'm certain it will be possible, in the not too distant future, to build AI models that can successfully control microelectrodes to penetrate into the cortex and find cells with superhuman precision.

Consider that we now have "dumb" AI machines like GPT-3 that can model the statistical structure of human language. And note that there's nothing new or interesting about GPT-3's design except its size. GPT-3 is just a sequence of really large transformer layers.

I can imagine a robot with the scale of a GPT-4 or GPT-5 successfully controlling those microelectrodes.
"Flock to the polls" is a common phrase in headlines. So that’s some evidence that others see voting as flock behavior. I don’t think I’ve ever seen “flock to the jury boxes” though.

For whatever reason when I see a “flock to” headline I think of birds, not sheep. Specifically I think of flamingos.
Well, at least MS acknowledged their mistake
While I can't tell how you feel about these things, most of it sounds pretty good, from an employee perspective.

Sure, there's stuff that is infuriatingly misguided, but all in all I rather like living in a place that puts the onus on the employer when it comes to all sorts of financial and practical issues that an employee might deal with.

I definitely don't want things to be more like the US, much as it complicates things for myself as an entrepreneur and employer.
You can block JavaScript with uBO[1], with the added ability vs. NoScript of being able to create rules on a per-site basis.[2]

* * *

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...

[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...
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The story is unfortunately sparse on the details of how the recycling works (whether there is any truly new idea).

Based on the "furnace" picture and language about melting down the batteries, it seems like their approach is to just treat the incoming batteries as "enriched ore" and proceed with an energy-intensive, standard, metal extraction process.

So what they save is the huge amount of energy and dirtiness required to dig in the earth (in the few suitable places on the earth) for rocks with <.5% metal content and crush those rocks into dust, which is substantial, but not revolutionary?
That's an optimistic take (are you being sarcastic?). We've seen something similar with company stores in mining towns during the 19th and 20th centuries. They weren't exactly known for treating their residents (employees) fairly.

I'd expect a much more sophisticated 21st century take on company stores before some libertarian utopia.
The switching cost is a one-time cost. The benefits are permanent. It hardly matters how much switching will cost, eventually it will be worth it.
How much time did you spend on this?

Would you have done without excepting any rewards, i.e. just for fun?
And back on the frontpage.. I don't understand HN ranking algorithm.
I don’t really care. If people don’t want to get vaccinated that’s their problem. As long as they don’t ask others to keep the infinite quarantine.
> Slack isn't entitled to that work.

Sure, but that isn’t the user’s fault, and they’re the ones who are going to get attacked. I don’t disagree with your other points but I don’t think selling an exploit on the black market is the right solution.

Perhaps the best compromise, as I think about it, is to just make the exploit public with no prior warning to the vendor. That’s not great for users either, but at least they’re informed, and the vendor will be left scrambling. But in that case, the researcher gets paid nothing at all.
> whatever you think is fair

Please give us some examples of what you would consider fair in this situation.
Compile BoringSSL with -DOPENSSL_C11_ATOMIC when possible to reduce
That's not just a simple announcement, though. It will require additional budget to pay for the before-school supervision required for students whose parents don't have the luxury of telling their employer that their hours must change.
Instagram's text color, the first but not the last I'll check, is "rgb(38, 38, 38)." I wouldn't characterize it harder to read than this website, which uses "rgb(0, 0, 0)", or easier to read than the NYTimes (the third), which uses "rgb(85, 85, 85)." Anyway, I would hardly characterize those as fashionable, they are some of the portals on the Internet. So maybe you're talking about a different site, or something, but certainly, among the most mainstream sites, there is a consensus to not use pure black in the font.
You’re making a statement here that is only true if you assume the developers of such a service have optimized their framework. If instead they are using one of the slower frameworks, they will pay proportionally — you can’t assume that just because they take Mrps that the service will be super complex past http. Often the exact opposite is true and they get to that scale by keeping the service very, very simple. Http processing becomes -more- of their latency budget in such cases.
Thanks, this was the question I had before purchasing, if they might decide to pull a Tivo in a future software update and kill off everything on https://github.com/reHackable. I mean, with enough resources they could replace everything with non-GPL3 licenses then lock it down, but that doesn't look likely, so I think I will go ahead and buy this.

Some of the projects on https://github.com/reHackable talk about having to be re-installed after upgrades, and other unfriendly vendor behaviour (e.g. https://github.com/reHackable/scripts/wiki/webui_invincibili...), which is slightly worrying, it'd be more assuring if they had better support for 3rd party software, or at least just a webpage saying "yes you can install 3rd party software, but note that it's not preserved over upgrades". The company I work for also sells a linux box, allows 3PS, and does have such a web page. Such a webpage might also cater to all the other people here commenting that their marketing dept is ignoring us.
How can I move my blog from Medium to Blogger?
Generally we drivers are very poor at judging acceptable risk, like iffy weather conditions where we will feel pressure to keep that annoying tail-gaiter from overtaking even thou they are driving as if the conditions were optimal. Why? Time constrains of appointments or just a need to get home quickly. Then a myriad of things; stress, lack of sleep, boredom, age, health, hunger, intoxicants. We don't parse any of these risks at all well given the real conditions, as evidenced by the road toll. Removing human foibles from everyday transport should make driving steadily safer just as automated systems have for flying or rail, etc.

As for the liability, perhaps some portion of the reduction of insurance costs for damages to health and property can be funneled into a fund for mitigating wherever improvements are most needed across the sector generally including signage, road markings, code audits, sensor checks and so on. A small levy on the autonomous car's insurance should do the trick.
How does a company get an article like this published?
The real reason this is a problem, is that docker hub has never focused on implementing standard and secure features for account management. Even with the recently implemented access tokens, there's no way for me to limit the scope of those tokens to a specific organization or image, and thus it's no different from a password.

That means if I build something from one organization, it's going to impact the ability to build something for another organization.

This effort seems to me like they are trying to disguise a last ditch effort to stay afloat.

Now that github, gitlab, and other great image repository options exist that don't lack these inherent security/integration features, anyone impacted can easily switch providers for no cost.

This new rate limiting won't help anything for docker, it's just going to kick off the exodus away from docker.
Ironically, it's this account/security/integration stuff that they lacked focus on that lost them so much financial opportunity to begin with.
New Zealand bourse crashes for fourth day after cyber attacks
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> stifling Facebook's right to decide what they want to allow on their platform.

Is indian govt really proposing this though? who is stifling their right?
I complain construction starts at 7 because quiet hours start at 11 (and in practice no one enforces them that early). Let's forget circadian rhythm for a sec and my issue isn't how early or late it is. My issue is that its a strict 8 hours window when we know:

- people need between 7-10 hours of sleep depending on age
- most people don't fall asleep instantly
- sleep deprivation is a pervasive problem with significant health implication.

If we (again, forgetting circadian rythm as it makes things more nuanced) move things to start at 5am that's fine, but then things have to stop much, MUCH earlier (they wouldn't).
> More and more people are giving up on self driving car tech

What do you mean when you say this? I’m seeing more and more of them on the roads not less.
Would it change the fact they will still be 100x times overvalued?
There is lots of research pointing out that the problem may in fact be trying to do that at all. A significant issue with this is that humans can't do precision positioning of limbs in free space, yet can carry out all the tasks people want to use these robots for.

When you see surgeons, who have loads of theory about precision movements you will quickly find that they rely on feedback rather precision for their movements. For example, they cut along the "linea alba", not by knowing where it is and positioning the knife exactly, but by simply slicing down starting at a good enough position, knowing the knife will follow the linea alba because it's attracted to it. Which is a fancy way of saying that it's a force feedback problem, not a positioning problem.
I used to think similarly. Then, a couple of years ago, in my mind I started to go back to my past. I now often think about my childhood, my grandparents, I look at the photos I took or other people took when I was doing what I loved doing, and I swim in those memories, which are mostly joyful, no need to remember what we don't want to.

And my life now is made less of moments that won't remain and more of a continuum of life that started with my family, with my dreams, some of them fulfilled and some yet to be or never to be.

It gave me perspective, new strengths, the understanding that most events disappear into nothing; 5, 10, 15 years of school and we barely remember the names of our classmates. Of the three years of middle school, I remember three episodes at most. Where did those pains and laughs and dreams go? I only know that the dreams remain.
I suggest you try and peek outside your bubble then. Software Engineering isn't free money everywhere.
I think this is less of a seismic shift than a lot of people are reading, since the building in question isn't expected to finish construction for years. I think even the most pro-office people would admit that pre-pandemic forecasts of office needs 3 years in the future are now unreliable.