skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea sure buddy, that's easier said than done. Good luck running a business of any noteworthy capacity and getting requests like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/df0zx5/upset_a...

Most server applications are not designed for invasive laws like this. Think of all the HTTP servers that save IP addresses in log files, or all the mail servers that save user messages, IP addresses, and what not. Think of all the other kinds of software that save "personal data". Now think of the way companies backup this data. Do you think most companies out there have the infrastructure to automatically pull all information about a specific user from all of these sources? No way!!

Sure, a company the size of Activision-Blizzard can maybe pull it of, but the little guy has no practical way to be compliant. Not until GDPR compliance becomes a standard in server applications and backup solutions, and when is that going to happen? This is a serious problem that a few people among the elite have thrown at society without understanding the consequences, or caring about them.

And if you don't comply? Well, then this law is just another set of mines in the minefield.
I had this same reaction, but we can argue for the other side of it. It's highly likely that these devices have reliability problems, used-up batteries, etc...but are still being sold as grey market/relatively new devices. That would mean harm to Apple's reputation for quality, I guess.
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>Crumbling ones that don't receive all of the needed maintenance, yes. Potholes for miles, yes. Rail that breaks down daily, yes. Water systems that are one bad rain away from poisoning everyone or flooding a million people out of their homes, yes.

Show me potholes for miles in Lafayette, LA. Show me all the people poisoned there from heavy rains. Or all those people flooded out of their houses.

>Literally every city I look at can't afford upkeep on its infrastructure. They sidestep this by just not paying for all of the needed maintenance and only ever dealing with the worst emergencies. That's very much not the same thing as everything being peachy.

Pick one and let's break it down.
Here's one from 2014. https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-DetTab...

I think I've linked to the right table, but just in case it's "Table 6.47B – Source Where Pain Relievers Were Obtained for Most Recent Nonmedical Use among Past Year Users Aged 12 or Older, by Age Group: Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2011-2012 and 2013-2014", but there's a lot of information in this link.
Often economies run on star cities, and if your country's economy is disconnected from those star cities because of a breakup, your country's economy will also suffer.

There was also the entire communist central planning thing that made resources misallocated.
>governments don't ban user tracking

You mean like governments whose "authorities" salivate when someone has a "smart device" (aka something in your house with a camera and/or speaker) that records every word you say 24/7? The same government/authorities that solve crimes based on your fitbit tracker tracking your heartrate? (It was in the news a couple of years ago - also discussed in HN)

Most "eyes" governments do their best to increase tracking, reduce encryption, reduce the cost of policing (and information collection and processing).
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Correct.... Not sure why you are being downvoted

There is also a desire for apple to quality control, and not have lots of used devices around that will need to be serviced again at some point.
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Yes, data brokers should not be allowed to exist [1].

But I also think that any collection of data for advertising purposes (e.g. by Google) is unjustified, simply because if the user is looking for a product they can enter the data that they think is relevant in a search (which is immediately forgotten), and this could provide similar accuracy to following the user without the downsides. (In case of such a "product search", Google could extend the search procedure by adding some questions and/or checkboxes, as long as they forget the data immediately.)

[1] https://clearcode.cc/blog/what-is-data-broker/
Doing better in exams is not "potential", it is actual "performance" (in the test).
In traditional cities people usually also live in the downtown.

The main issue is that free parking lots associated with big box stores are incredibly unproductive uses of land, and the tax value of the property reflects that.
Sure Apple can do whatever they legally can to maximize their profit, but society could decide that sometimes what is legal needs to change, or the loopholes need to be fixed.

So we can complain when we disagree with such behavior we consider is very bad and ask for legal changes? I think Apple does has enough money to hire lawyers and PR people to defend itself from some complaints and can also lobby against better laws - so they don't need fans to spend effort trying to shift the topic into what is legal or not from what should be legal and fair.
If Apple doesn't resell trade-ins, why do they buy them and where do refurbished iphones come from?
They must have achieved many replication cycles, but presumably proto-prokaryotes were much more efficient replicators and outcompeted their ancestors.
Cash for Clunkers was specifically aimed at getting gas guzzling cars off the road while providing economic stimulus.

Would you have been glad to see those 14 mpg cars shipped to Mexico to be reused and the emissions just sent overseas?
Yeah, that is one facet of the overall institutional approach to procurement that treats everything like a commodity that can be perfectly substituted and comes down just to cost (and maybe a few other checkbox categories). A flexible approach that procures for outcomes but doesn't prescribe how to get there is much better at admitting creative delivery solutions, including those from new entrants.

Of course past experience is still a logical thing to consider when judging the overall risks of a project. But if you look for creative solutions you can get away from "look, this entrenched legacy business is the only one meeting out experience requirements".
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I guess it's about "value". If people can get working Apple devices for cheap, why would they bother paying them new? But also I wonder, in what state where the devices Apple sent for "recycling" if they were still able to operate normally? Maybe the real scandal is there.
Maybe this?
https://www.shodan.io/
Incredible. Where should I look for the undersea building off India? Gives me huge Atlantis vibes, haha.
These terms are not listed in RFC 7719 “DNS Terminology”.

> You aren’t grasping them correctly.

I find this to be quite rude.
Maybe another approach has potential:

[0] https://www.eetimes.com/bipolar-zener-combo-takes-on-cmos/

In fact, multiple gates can be created in the same transistor, in an effect SFN calls “multi-tunnel.” Multiple NOR and OR gates can thus be created from a single Bizen transistor, allowing creation of logic circuits with many fewer devices. This can result in a three-fold increase in gate density with a corresponding reduction in die size for integrated circuits based on the transistors. Summerland said that SFN is also creating a reduced device count processor architecture to enable analogue computing with Bizen transistors.
While I broadly agree with your point, we don't know why these devices were meant to be recycled (and not resold). Apple may have found serious issues with the products which means re-sale wasn't an option.
I recently got the outdoor Polk audio speakers. And have them hard-wired to a fairly high-end receiver. The sound quality is so much better. I listen to a lot of vinyl, so that makes it an easier choice too. We use the smaller WonderBoom speaker when we do need it for the beach or something, but when at home, I will always chose to get the hard-wired path. Regardless how quickly the Sonos speakers connect to your source, hard-wired is better quality and is always connected.
Logitech Media Server / Squeezelight on some Pis (or whatever) should do it.

It’s pretty old skool now but it works just fine. Has plugins for airplay and whatever android does as well.
I agree him being in Russia currently isn't a good look... but I don't think he was a Russian asset. To me, he always seemed like a really good person who followed his conscience.

I think where he messed up was he got help from Assange when he was at his neediest, took it, and ended up in Moscow.
Agreed, that is a pretty straightforward danger.

But just because that is a simple and direct danger, does that mean that mass extinction isn't killing off "key cog" species in more complicated critical machinery?
Terms and conditions with customers in terms of what will happen to devices turned in to be recycled.
It reminds me of Uber shredding 10s of thousands of electric bikes after selling JUMP because they did not want to deal with any liability risk: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52832791
Related, "The death of corporate research labs" (https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-researc...) spawned two large recent HN discussions:

248 comments, 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23246672

177 comments, 2 months agoL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24200764
Some people in a government perhaps, but certainly not all people in a government.
Refurbished look as new, which isn't hte case for trade-ins. Refurbised will typically be new products that were returned within the return window, or may be customers that brough something for repair and were offered a new device to speed up the process.
A certain level of deviance and spurious or immoral lawsuits is basically required to gain the political capital required to create actual change. Thousands of laws have been passed because immoral application of existing law caused outrage and spurred lawmakers to change.
Go and fix the loopholes! Get Congress to act. I wish they would.

But in the meantime, respect existing laws and rights in contracts.
> ship them to a developing country or somewhere else

Wouldn't it be worse for the planet? First - shipping these across the globe is also destroying the planet. Secondly - many developing countries are not really recycling old electronics, they just dump them into the wasteland, which makes it even worse for the planet.
> In France they intended to make it illegal to destroy new products. […] No idea whether that is still current, I am not from France.

It will be, for all products outside of food, starting in 2022.

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2019/12/13/loi-antiga...
the core business problem for sonos is that they were a one-trick pony that didn't strategize. they assumed they had cornered their little market segment and focused on feathering their nest, rather than monitoring and adjusting to wider market dynamics. entrenchment is not a (sustainable) business strategy.

when sonos came to market, they were the best repositionable home speaker system, hands down. their primary differentiator was their superb and resilient audio-syncing capabilities (not it's less-defensible content catalog, though that helped as a flanking feature).

they had the chance to become the brand in home audio, and they blew it. phenomenally. likely because they were under-/mis-invested in r&d, and possibly also under-capitalized (often because founders don't want to risk devaluation/dilution).

from that base of home audio, they were perfectly positioned to become the home hub of the future, the nerve center for everything audiovisual (and beyond) in the home. instead, they got distracted by clouds, analytics, big data, and every other tech buzzword floating about. it's business strategy 101, and the perfect business case fodder.
I think the specifics of "defensive writing" depend strongly on the subject. In the author's subject (infosec), you probably need to defend against the "it won't work" and "the assumptions are unrealistic" schools of criticism, so you end up being overprecise and including unnecessary complexity just to preempt the critiques. In other subjects (the mathy side of TCS), you mostly need to defend against the "it's probably well-known" and "what is this good for?" attacks, so you end up providing lots of context that confuses more than it elucidates and speculating about possible applications you don't believe in yourself.

I myself am a bit skeptical of how far this "defensive writing" is to be blamed for the unreadability of papers, and even if it's such a bad thing at all when done in measure. In maths, reading papers is about swearing and asking the author just as much as it is about actually reading; yet the reasons for the unreadability are often more natural than "we need to get this past the referees" (all else being equal, referees still reward readability). New ideas rarely are born easy to explain. Ugly ducklings need their time to grow. You can wait for 10 years hoping that by then your own work has taken the proper shape to explain to undergrads, or you can write it up half-baked in half a year and let others play with it. What is better for science? The answer is far from obvious, particularly because releasing your ideas into the wild will often get them properly explained faster than trying to do it yourself.
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Why do you assume a consumer buying a low-cost used Apple device would prefer a new device over a low-cost competitor's device? Obviously they already chose based on price.

Do you think it's possible Apple believes that reselling devices will result in lower recycling rates? Is it possible that reselling devices that can't be refurbished to their standards could be a safety or liability issue?

Why are you making judgements about what benefit of the doubt a company deserves based on an assumption on top of an assumption?
Sometimes it is immoral to abide the law.
Cash for Clunkers was a terrible program: it took many affordable albeit older cars off the road. The barrier to get a car on the road for someone without means has been raised significantly.
Why doesn't the media publicize how the laws and Congress are failing to protect the environment? Why blame the companies that are simply acting according to the rulebook they've been given? You're outraged at the wrong party. And no subtle shaming of one company is going to change the incentives that govern 1000s of others.
"John MacFarlane announced the company's shift to streaming music services and voice control instead of local playback"

That's all fine and best of luck with the pivot. Businesses change focus all the time.

What is has made me despise the Sonos company and culture is that they effectively forced pre-pivot customers who bought Sonos products (which were designed and sold primarily for local playback) to make that pivot also or else have their devices bricked.
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> It is just as easy to prove that a pro-elite-university hiring practice has a differential impact on a variety of protected classes as one that uses an IQ test, and there's probably better evidence for lots of jobs that performance is predicted by IQ test results, to overcome the presumption of disparate impact discrimination from the differential impact.

If this is true, then why haven't elite universities been successfully sued for discriminatory admissions (recently that is)?
I guess I'm having a hard time understanding the distinction you're working to draw between the three words. All three mean something, and could be argued to have value because of their pithiness [0]. If you're inclined, I'd be interested in a bit more of you're framing. Especially in terms of bio-medical texts, I'm a bit confused which characteristics make 'ameliorate' worse than 'in situ'.

[0] Like this word. I could have said "Because of their precise meaning", but I picked a word that encapsulates that directly.
True. That's the kind of "freedom of speech" I would happily renounce to in any public platform. Let them spread their idiocy in private form by themselves alone.
I think there is another article about a road being constructed for $30 mil or something absolutely crazy when it’s not needed at all (and the road would fall apart before they could repay the loan). The basic gist I got was: when loans become more available, things start getting constructed when they aren’t needed at all and costs balloon fast.

Like student loans, easier access means they can charge more.
These phones were shipped to and resold in China. I think the issue is at hand is that instead of Apple recouping the value out of the recycling stream it went elsewhere which seems like contractual theft.
While the results are interesting, the chosen list of precursors is somewhat implausible. Three of them are completely OK (water, hydrogen sulfide and dinitrogen), because they must have been abundant before the origin of life. Ammonia is also OK, even if should have been less abundant. However, methane and especially hydrogen cyanide should have been several orders of magnitude less abundant than the others, so it is much less likely that they played any significant role. On the other hand they ignored 2 other precursors that were certainly very abundant in early volcanic/vent gases and which likely provided the main source of energy for driving the organic syntheses: dihydrogen and carbon monoxide.
This isn’t really true.

Nassau County, one of the first generation of suburbs and one of the wealthiest counties in the country, has been under NYS fiscal control since 2000.
Optionality is a bigger problem than people realize, these special cases force “conditional pollution”, and when the optionality is implemented with exceptions, you now have to understand non-local control flow.

Make everyone’s lives easier and make a spec where everything is mandatory.
The parent comment is irony.
I've been wrestling with some declarative configuration, and it's getting to that frustrating scale where things are almost the same but a little different.

2. isn't too bad in yaml, since json is valid yaml, a broken file can be reliably picked up with leading '{' and trailing '}'

With regard to 1 - both comments and nonstandard formatting like the above {} hack, are currently hard.

Anyway, got to spend some time outside, and away from screens. Apologies for the snark.
I do. I have an iPad and the Apple Pencil has made a huge difference for me, but I think its hard to expect everyone to have a device (even a cheap one) for that occasion when they want to contribute to the whiteboard.
I have three of their little speakers and a sound bar and I’m pretty happy. No connecting/disconnecting bluetooth, no walking out of range and the sound getting choppy, I can select which speaker I want to play directly from spotify or open the app and play multiple rooms at once. Not sure how well it works (or if it even can) as a direct bluetooth speaker. I think it’s more like a little music server and your phone is just the remote.
> They have committed no crime

Not true. Assange hasn't committed a crime but Snowden has committed a crime of theft from the NSA; unlawfully retaining a National Security Agency (NSA) documents containing information classified at the TOP SECRET/SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (TS/SCI) level.

Let me clarify. What he did in exposing PRISM was fantastic, the people had a right to know, absolutely, but, the act in itself was still stealing. It's no different to any other theft. When you work for a company and you steal, you can be prosecuted.

We can argue from two points; moral and legal. Morally he did the right thing. Legally he did not.

The difference between Assange and Snowden is vast. Assange is a published of information, no different to The Guardian. He did not steal the data he published. Snowden did, as did Chelsea Manning when he stole the known as Cable Gate.

The point in the article is that the OP thinks Snowden should receive a pardon. My point, is that Assange hasn't even been pardoned for his supposed crime of publishing. If Assange hasn't been pardoned for a lesser crime, then what hope does Snowden have of being pardoned for an actual crime of data theft from the NSA?

Another lady stole data from the NSA. SHe is now facing prosecution and 10 years.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/west-virginia-woman-admits-wi...
I'm in the DC area where anything that goes up in the air is taken very seriously.
Like being "baseline" vs being wired. Dexedrine was the first thing I was put on and I was on it for half a year. Cycling off it on the weekends was agonizing: exhaustion like I'd never felt before, depression, sleeping for 12 hours at a time.

Modafinil makes me feel like myself but a more productive version. The big issue with me has always been starting a task and modafinil makes a scary task a lot more approachable. My thoughts are more ordered, I can see the bigger architecture of a thing, verbal fluency is improved. I cycle off it Saturdays and Sundays and that works just fine for me.
Looking through, many of those people are still posting today- makes this site feel a little more grimy.
America tends to like to do the cheaper thing and get the biggest number. Extra large pizzas made mostly with cheap vegetable oil and bread, lots of square feet with the cheapest drywall, materials and bad design, etc. Maintenance mode capable roads I would guess would cost as much as a road with one more lane, so they just build another lane instead of keeping one in reserve.
Last Kubecon in person was exactly like this page, few interesting talks, lots of vendor pitch and them trying to convince cloud native is opposite of vendor lock-in. Yeah, maybe for things like OpenTracing where you can have multiple export options.

But why the fuck Splunk or vSphere is here? Just because they support cloud native unit, containers?

I unfollowed a lot of CNCF related twitter accounts and mailing lists to avoid vendor spam and been happier since.

I don’t want to be that grumpy old man (I’m 30, kinda getting old for our sector unfortunately) but all of this is too much.