skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a loophole. A loophole is when you have some case or situation not covered by the rules allowing someone to get away with something that the rules were not meant to allow.

E.g., a company arranging for its shareholders to be able to report dividends as capital gains rather than ordinary income by doing a fractional stock split followed by a mandatory buyback instead of declaring a dividend, with the split/buyback designed so that each shareholder ends up with exactly the same percentage ownership they had before and with cash equal to the exact amount that would have been otherwise distributed as a dividend [1], that's a loophole.

An author picking an open source license that specifically and intentionally allows anyone to use their software and make money from it without having to give the author anything is not a loophole.

[1] Yes, this actually happened around 100 years ago. The rules on buybacks were changed to fix it. But them some legitimate cases of buybacks that should have been capital gains became ordinary income, so more fixes were needed. The result is that what once needed at most a line in the tax code, if it even needed mention at all, became several paragraphs. This is why we do not have a small, simple tax code--there is a massive incentive for people to find even the tiniest loophole and exploit it, and so you end up with multiple paragraphs for things you at first would think could be done in a sentence. (And don't say a flat tax would help...almost all of the complexity in the tax code is in determining what gets taxes, not how much the tax is once you have figured out the what).
People on HN have been up in arms about all those topics since they appeared. Maybe it was that the discussions got so inflammatory and repetitive they ended up getting flamed/flagged off the front page before you saw them. But if you do a few searches (in the box at the bottom of each page) like I just did, you'll find plenty.
Of course you understood and could fix your 1950s car. Anyone who couldn't didn't dare drive. Thus you had incentive to learn. Cars today still have the same carnot cycle engines, with mostly the same parts. The controls are enough better that nobody cares about the air fuel mixture
Thanks for the feedback. Pricing it still WIP at the moment, haven’t quite decided the best way to handle it in the long run
Mind sharing the name of the stories in question? I am interested in reading them.
The Atlantic is a neo-lib magazine that leftists and right-wingers can agree is not even worth using as toilet paper.
Ah beat me to it! )) This movie was an instant classic.
Well, HIV is different - once you have it you’re infectious for life unless without some sort of intervention.
Not only was it pretty decent, it was far more standards compliant than the Windows IE. I don't think they actually shared much code wise. At least developing for IE on Mac felt like adding another browser to test.
Interned for Comma AI. The tech is indeed chill.
The paper mentions voluntary activation of the sympathetic nervous system and anecdotally from my own meditation and yoga practice I've found that I have some control over a very specific SNS response. I'm able to control piloerection ("goose bump" activation) any time I want, something I wasn't ever able to do before and found to be quite strange when I noticed myself gaining control over it.

Not exactly an awesome super power, but I have found that it's helpful for cooling the body when I'm excessively hot during particularly strenuous yoga asana practice (back when practicing around other people in hot rooms was a thing).

Note: In meditation practice piloerection is part of what is generally referred to as pīti.
The Clean Air Act was enacted in 1956. Clean Water Act in 1972 (amended in 1977 and 1987). Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. Occupational Safety and Health Act was in 1970. How can you follow a law that hasn't even been enacted?
You joke but https://www.realpage.com/ ($6B market cap) advertises on its front page "precision revenue management through proven, cycle-tested, disciplined analytics that balance supply and demand to maximize revenue growth" and "The new RealPage® Waste Management Solution is a multifamily first, leveraging AI to optimize waste capacity and contamination levels, and cut costs by up to 40%."
Acknowledgment is included also. He probably expects an blogpost from AWS thanking him specifically?

That’s pretty much unrealistic, given how many pieces of oss a project uses.
> In addition to being opposed by the FCC's Democratic minority, Trump's petition did not even have full support from the FCC's Republican majority. Republican FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly stated that the FCC must uphold First Amendment speech protections "that apply to corporate entities, especially when they engage in editorial decision making."

> After O'Rielly's comments, Trump took the unusual step of pulling O'Rielly's nomination to another FCC term in an attempt to replace O'Rielly with Nathan Simington, an administration official who reportedly helped draft Trump's executive order on Section 230. Simington's nomination is pending Senate approval.

This is so terrifying, the action, the casualness with which it was undertaken, and the lack of outcry about it because we have become so used to these antics
> At every step Visa and MasterCard promotes highest possible level of security.

No doubt you've drunk the Kool-Aid but this isn't true. EMV rests heavily upon cryptographic protocols, we know the highest possible level of security is achieved for such protocols by publishing them for evaluation and improvement by independent researchers. EMV didn't do that.

There are many but here's a particularly low hanging piece of fruit that results from not having independent researchers looking over what you've done:

It is critical to the EMV design that the payment terminal picks unpredictable numbers. These aren't just nonces, where it only matters that they're different, they must be random or a relatively cheap (worth doing to forge credit card transactions) attack succeeds. So what do you suppose those standards documents require? You might even have read it.

The certification document says for testing read two of these "unpredictable" values. Ensure they are different.

Guess what lots of real hardware actually deployed in the wild does to achieve that requirement? It uses a counter. Because random numbers might sometimes not be different leading to a tiny chance of failing the mandatory test, but a counter will reliably pass the test even though it's insecure. Genius. So you go from "Hypothetical adversary needs to guess a large random number" to "It's just a counter" and attack cost falls from billions of dollars to a few cents per transaction on top of R&D.
If I had to guess, I think it's because they don't want developers optimizing for specific amounts of RAM and then having lousy performance on iPads with less RAM. If consumers don't have an easy way to find out which models have >X GB of RAM, then developers can't put it in their system requirements.
Fun fact: [1]

> Jeff Bezos’ original spec for S3 was very succinct – he wanted malloc (a key memory allocation function for C programs) for the Internet.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-path-deprecation-...
Japan to release Fukushima's contaminated water into sea: reports
I think it comes down to a few factors such as being more trusting of their government measures, being used to wearing masks because of poor air quality and also not having transparency. In China, for example, it's hard to tell what the situation was because reporting was very state controlled.
Also I'm not sure if Asian countries are battling with disinformation campaigns/conspiracy theories as much as their western counterparts do.
If someone was on your street rambling and raving, you wouldn't invited them in your house to have an argument. Yet, we figuratively do this when we reply to (and even seek) negative and angry arguments, leaving us fuming in our living rooms.
Seems like generally a good approach.

However you also have MSG_MORE instead of TCP_CORK to save a few system calls.
If "socialism" triggers a strong reaction, so should "Christianity" trigger the same reaction. It's hard to decouple Christianity, and Christ himself, from a lot of socialist ideals. There is some explanation here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_socialism#History
Try Teams, it's not as bad as most comments here seem to indicate. I understand if you're used to the slack UI (as most users of Hackers News are), it seems like a step backwards, but that's only because you're looking for a 1:1 replacement for slack.

Having taking the route of going from Slack to Teams, where Teams is better at, IMHO, is the following:

- Within channels, all conversations are, by default, organized into threads. This gives you to the feeling that there are lots of chat boxes, but once we spend a few days with it, our team started noticing that our conversations have become more structured. However starting a new "thread" off the main channel discussion in slack takes significant conscious effort and its very easy for multiple conversations to get interleaved and become a mess.
- Integrated video/audio calls, along with call built-in note taking, makes for a very seamless jump from text to voice/video. With Slack, we needed to maintain separate Zoom account, as it's built-in voice/video chat was pretty bad.
- If your IT has already sold its soul to Microsoft Enterprise infra, Teams just fits in really really well, with its Active Directory/Azure AD/O365 integrations. It's no wonder that Teams is doing well in the Enterprise space. We still use GSuite for our emails, but given how less our team emails these days, if I were given an option to start from scratch, I'd probably choose to host our email on O365 outlook (even though I feel Gmail's UI is superior).

Of course, nothing is without its problems - you're dealing with Microsoft products, so except to hassle around a little bit with licensing, bad markdown abilities and a few other quirks. I've seen complaints of the client being really slow at times, but my team hasn't seen this issue in the recent past, since we switched in, except once or twice, where a restart of the client solves it.

One part of our team (~12 people) used Hangouts Chat for a few months, which has been around for more than a few years, and every six months. It sucks. They just released a new update to how their buttons looked every 6 months. I don't know why Google even bothers putting up this product.

The criticism for Teams is disproportionate in Hacker News, I don't understand why. I encourage you to try it out for a few days with a select group of people and make up your own mind.
I wonder whether it would suffice to just have a link to the NSFW/L "Unmoderated" version and remove only that which has valid legal complaints (e.g. DMCA) or illegal content (which should also be made very clear by the lawmakers, in an easy and feasible way to implement, but that's a tangent).
I say great work in coming up with any visual example at all.

Visualizing multi-dimensional merges isn't easy. :)

That said, maybe an additional example of merging JSON blobs might be more intuitive for some.
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The problem is - many Salesforce candidates are good at speaking about their development experience but few are good at actually coding in Apex and building robust Salesforce applications.

Filter helps you cut through this noise (fake Salesforce developers from actual developers), by introducing an online round, where salesforce candidates will have to write actual Apex code. We test the code written by him on various test cases & scenarios and generate a consolidated report of his score.
This score can be used to decide if you should accept the candidate into your interview pipeline.
I've been wondering if it might make sense to maintain a score across those involved in any project, where your score goes up for involvement with a successful project but down when that project has issues (delays, overruns, faults), with all movement in proportion to the individual's share of the financial returns from the project.

Then, when seeking bids, you could factor in the scores of those involved in the organizations bidding - giving it a weight or requiring a threshold (for average or median or P95 or something) among the participants.
I'd give them that credit had Slack not always been a slothful sludge of molasses. For years.

Any app in which I can type faster than the characters appear has deeper issues than scaling.
I can try to find you the French sources if you want, but Raoult did affirm around early june i think that the IFR for covid19 was 5 time inferior with HCQ and his protocol, with .7% IFR! The ARSGE later published a study that predicted .5% to .9% IFR in eastern France, and i think the CDC predicted .5% for the US.
I suppose, but the parent post claimed that media attention would drive companies to do the right thing for publicity reasons. The past behaviour of car companies around any accident involving their assistive technologies doesn't really show them caring about the potential negative damage. If the did, they'd had paid out already, regardless of blame.

My point is that the media attention involving crashes won't make companies take responsibility or pay to keep the bad news away, they act like all existing car companies and shift blame onto anyone but themselves instead.
Though your system still cost several time what similar systems in other countries would cost. It was under a vastly too large budget.
how to handle tax?
I believe you, but I think you're hitting something completely unique to your setup and external to Slack. I've never seen antyhing like that, what are you running it on? Do you have ways to inspect to find where the bottleneck is?
It wasn’t lacking evidence at all, want to know why? Because I read that headline at the time and thought it was ridiculous, I couldn’t believe they were saying something so backwards. If you had been paying attention, you knew already:

1. It was spreading rapidly in humans

2. It was a coronavirus and therefore was similar to other coronaviruses

If you were following a precautionary principle, you’d have said “it likely is spreading between humans given we’ve never seen any other form of transmission this rapid in any virus that isn’t, and it’s a coronavirus”.

If you think their “don’t wear masks” lie was ok because it was trying to keep medical workers from a shortage, then, how can you not see this as hypocritical? You can’t think the mask lie was ok, due to abundance of caution, and then a total disregard for caution at a much more crucial early stage as ok.

But again, if you were paying attention, watching the WHO make statements like this was terrifying. Like driving in a car with a drunk driver who is stepping on the gas. Who in their right mind would make such a totally braindead, reckless press release like that. Technically there’s no direct evidence, but there’s a whole lot of reason to be worried it likely is airborne. So the headline should be “it’s highly possible it’s airborne, we are waiting for concrete data, but recommend caution given exponential spread within humans”.

The WHO did things similarly shockingly bad three times or so during the pandemic. I was paying attention to all of them and couldn’t help but think something was up. Something was wrong with the WHO. Not just being conservative, but being totally negligent and backwards time and time again. It really seems they were playing either protection for China, or some sort of interference against a good chunk of the world.

If they had done better, many many lives would have been saved. It was some internal politics that broke them. Any halfway sane person knew it at the time.
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Or if they weren't working they'd quickly fix them because people cared more. It's hard to have the same sentiment nowadays when all systems are changing so fast, we sortof learned not to care because there's really nothing we can do about it
Great PR move from Tim.

He seized the opportunity to advertise his product on the topic article on HN.
>Well of course it's not surprising, with memory safety as one of its goals.

Where is this idea coming from that memory safety has to be complicated? Nearly all languages (basically everything except C/C++/Assembler) people are using are memory safe.
And usually it's not complicated at all.
>I, for one think that, "understanding manipulation" is an oxymoron. If you really understand then it's not really manipulation, right?

It sounds like someone never teared up at the moment when the music swells in a sappy dramatic movie. The human brain is weird. We can know we are receiving a placebo and still receive a benefit from the placebo effect[1]. Just because we can understand that we are being manipulated doesn't mean we can fully control it.

[1] - https://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/03/placebos
I think this is because in most cases, the "when" is what their bonuses/promotions are based on. Managers don't get promoted because the code is great or the architecture was elegant, they get promoted for raw delivery and being able to say "my team delivered X in only Y days".
Clearly, English is an inferior language :-)
At an ELI5 level, does anyone know why Swift can have ARC and async but Nim's ARC doesn't work with async? Is it just implementation details of Nim's async specifically instead of anything more fundamental to ARC? Just asking out of curiosity.
It seems like you're arguing that people should get both the good will of having an open source license and the profits of a closed source license. Which comes across as disingenuous.
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> open source author who just wants to be treated fairly

How is it not treated fairly in a moral sense?

I don’t think many comments are hostile. The title is entirely clickbait, and for generating PR for the author.
It's neat, and a good application of the technology, but honestly I don't see this taking off because the gap between the tech and execution is closing quickly. Comma was really far ahead of everyone 5 years ago. But... we have gone from a situation where the Level 2 systems available in most new cars went from an impractical gimmick, to very useful and comparable to this in just a few years. New Toyota's (MY 2020) are pretty comparable to this at no extra cost. It's really hard to see why you would buy this system for $1100 if you can just buy a new car and get this all for free, plus a bunch of additional safety features that OpenPilot obviously can't include: backup sensors, blind spot monitors, etc.

I don't think manufacturers will outsource the development of their ADAS systems to Comma (or anyone else for that matter) because they view it as a potential short-term differentiator. The existing differentiators are collapsing quickly: reliability is no longer a major concern for EVs, infotainment is lost cause (Carplay and Android Auto won decisively). Aside from ADAS, we're looking at a scenario where in 10 years the only reason to buy from company X vs company Y might be price.
He mentioned all the PCB designs were using 4 layer, which is pretty cheap even in prototype quantities.
That actually serves as a good example for the difference between Small Claims Court and Superior Court.

It might also have been a good idea to wait out until it was no longer possible to appeal the decision, before going public with the outcome.

IANAL, but I think there was still a good chance that the guy could have won an appeal if he had appropriate counsel represent his case, using appropriate discovery and other instruments to properly mount a defence.
If that hypothesis was correct then why haven't smart CEOs fired all the redundant workers? They certainly have ample incentive to do so, and in the US at least there's nothing to stop them from downsizing if they wanted to.
Is the general consensus that the virus would be eradicated if everyone wore a mask? Is it enough?
I'm sure linguists can chime in, but I hate in English (my language) that words that mean different things can have the same exact spelling - and the only difference is the context. I'm guessing that's not entirely responsible for dyslexia - but it can't help. Having taken a little Spanish, I've noticed it's also easier to identify verbs, no letters are silent, nouns typically don't share spelling with their verb forms, gender affects other words. There are a lot of helpers in Spanish (and I'm guessing french) that just tend to help people navigate words and letters better.
The actual paper is behind a paywall for me.

I'm having trouble understanding your description of the experiment. How does selecting C over B, after initially preferring B, support the thesis that random choices become preferences? Shouldn't the baby select B over C to support that thesis?
Nice, well written essay. Reminded me of Annie Dillard's writing. I'm not sure if it's the end of Silicon Valley, but if it is and that results in spreading the abundance around the country more evenly that wouldn't be a bad thing. Location in biology is important and limiting, however, location for our human endeavors is becoming less important due to technology.
OP here. It's a good point you raise, its something we did our homework on and were advised that since we're offering a commercial franchise agreement and not a share purchase agreement we don't fall afoul of the SEC. It's also the reason why we've been able to offer only a limited amount of information on the website.
They have no responsibility yes, but why choose this particular thing to censor when theres and endless stream of millions of other tweets that are also not related to the election and less fact based than this?
> Of note, and correct me if I am wrong, but isn't n30 the minimum for statistical significance? (even though n30 is still laughably low, and id prefer n3000)

It depends on the size of the effect, among other things. Maybe you are thinking about student-t distributions being approximated by normal distributions?

> Insulin is released in response to blood sugar.

This is true, but is only part of the picture. There are other hormones like incretins. There is even what they call the cephalic phase insulin response that occurs before blood glucose concentrations increase. I think it even can occur just from imagining eating food.
Going bald pretty much did the same for me haha. It's very interesting, and disturbing, how differently people treat traditionally attractive people and unattractive/less people.