skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Interesting. My mortgages have always ended up with a known retail bank and can be paid through their normal websites. Is your mortgage held by some fly-by-night bank?"

I think you misunderstand. Your parent is saying that after logging into his normal bank, he is taken through two or three third party banking providers that have their own domain names and web user interfaces - just to perform some core action related to paying his mortgage.

I have seen this and can give you a few concrete examples:

- Log onto unionbank.com. Mortgage payment is done through "my mortgage portal" which jumps you to unionbank.customercarenet.com.

- Log onto tiaabank.com. You are quickly redirected through the first third party domain which goes by too fast to copy/paste then you are redirected to cibng.ibanking-services.com, where you do your TIAA banking online (!)

USBank bounces you around weirdo domains as well. FWIW, I have never seen wells fargo do this.

This is a phishing nightmare and it is right at the crux of high-consequence interactions (your mortgage, your banking) and barely technically literate users.

It is unbelievable that they do this.
The point of the upcoming platform is not only to discover products, but to help early startups gaining attention to there products. Both you and me, do of course buy products based on a specific need, but sometimes finding something that you never new existed is fun in itself.
I may be misunderstanding, but didn't the paper say the Warning has to come before the Approach to elicit much of a response?
I wonder could you exploit this if you're the company who has the book.

Buy it as a normal user from the other company for $23 million. They buy your copy for $22 million. Wait until the end of the returns window (assuming Amazon enforce one) and return it for $23 million. They try to return it to you, but it's too late.

Probably the bookshop notices something is wrong on the $23 million item, but maybe you could make a few thousand this way.
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I think the idea is that these simple storage volumes are much lower-level than that. If you backed them up automatically it'd be hard to provide the performance that people are using them to get. You build durable storage on top of simple storage volumes.
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The paper Climate controls on erosion in tectonically active landscapes [1]:

> The ongoing debate about the nature of coupling between climate and tectonics in mountain ranges derives, in part, from an imperfect understanding of how topography, climate, erosion, and rock uplift are interrelated. Here, we demonstrate that erosion rate is nonlinearly related to fluvial relief with a proportionality set by mean annual rainfall.

[1] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/42/eaaz3166
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Agreed, but only if & when the abstractions are not "leaky". Robust encapsulation is simply not possible when abstractions are leaky or ill-fitting for the domain -- including an incomplete model of the domain. The latter point -- needing a complete & consistent model of the domain -- is IMHO commonly under-appreciated; a lot of software is based on poorly understood partial abstractions for their respective domains.

Bits of information leaking through faulty abstractions are exactly what make conduits for "side-channel" attacks.
EXACTLY. Many cameras have had PITA wifi sharing modes for over 10 years now, even eyefi existed for quite a while. It's just clunky as hell, slow and annoying that you might as well not use it. They're stuck in some stagnation loop.
I have 2 Lenovo X1's of different generations running Linux, the Lenovo thunderbolt dock and another USB C dock, and there are problems for every configuration of devices. I get dropped keystrokes, flakey network connections, flakey audio, and monitor flickering. I don't know if the problem is Linux, Lenovo, or both docks. I'm not even sure how to start debugging this problem.
Pretty much every other language has regular spelling, and many have very regular grammar. English is the exception, being a Frankenstein assemblage of languages.
I just find Norvigs way of programming, exploring, and explaining so intriguing. Everytime I read something written by him I learn a few things.
ashtonkem is echoing a common critique of textualism — that the personal worldview of a judge is a better predictor for rulings than a supposedly reliable strategy for reading text.
There's probably some cutting joke one could make here, about our industry's increasing reliance upon incomprehensible artificial intelligence systems, and how that might reflect upon the management. But decency dictates that I shouldn't utter it.
It isn't naivety. I believe that by declaring a whole category of person as intrinsically broken beyond repair (in this case, "incapable of functional relationships"), the inevitable outliers of such a bold claim will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If sociopathy is a spectrum, and someone is on that spectrum who would still be able to find a happy and functional life, and they are told without qualification that they are incapable of loving or being loved, they are going to ostracize themselves and live out that story. Even worse is the case where someone thinks they might be a sociopath, or has been misdiagnosed as one, because as we all know psychology is far from an exact science.

Nobody deserves to be marked unlovable based on the way they are born. Period. If someone has already hurt you personally then that's different: an individual is different from a category, actions are different from hypotheticals, and trust is different from compassion. I'm not saying a person's past actions should be ignored. What I am saying is that everyone should be considered based on their own individual choices.

“We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot be
naturally loved.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
It's enough to talk about the UK. They have standardized the English language. And yet...
Better yet: Don't buy one.

As much as I'd want to buy one I'd rather not waste my money on a device that can become a brick just because I'm <var1> or I comment about <var2>.

I brick things on my own. I don't need help for that.
That argument makes no sense. English is far from alone in borrowing heavily from other languages. Loanwords are one of the most obvious cases of linguistic contact and can be found everywhere throughout the world. There are multiple ways how a language can deal with such loanwords: they can keep the original spelling, making those words an irregular exception to the pronunciation rules, or they can adapt the spelling and pronunciation to the borrowing language, or anything in between. Often it starts as the former and at some point migrates towards the latter.

Meanwhile, there is absolutely no reason why English couldn't in principle have a much more phonetic or regular spelling system, except maybe dialectal variation (which you also do have in other languages with more regularised spelling, though).

Now the larger reason for why a huge spelling reform would fail is because it would be a massive continuity break: people would have to relearn, new spellings would appear totally unnatural, it would mean that past text would at some point start being incomprehensible, etc., so I don't think there is any practical way of getting there.
They should've tied a bungee cord round the new one just as a joke the owners would definitely not find funny.
Studies and reviews are taking place. The NIHR one suggests prevalence of symptoms lasting over a month in the 10-20% range.[1]

As with any other early stage research relying heavily on self reported symptoms, the prevalence figures are not well established and the mechanisms causing it not yet understood, but they don't look like flu.

[1]https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3981,
https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Livin...
You seem to be the one making it about different teams. I specifically said it's underfunded across the country, with an emphasis on rural America because they generally have lower funding available.

I'm not sure why you keep jumping to authoritative straw man arguments. Please at least try and argue in good faith and read what I'm writing.
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Technically yes it can be claimed as salvage if it is abandoned, however it also inside Venezuelan territorial waters, Venezuela can always confiscate goods from the salvaging ship or hinder operations if they choose to do so,and can make salvage crew does pay for the Oil.
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It doesn't seem remotely possible to enforce measures like these--even in an authoritarian state with martial law, strict curfews, etc., the ratio of police to population is way too low to enable such microscopic control of individual behavior. Some percentage of people are going to do as they wish without regard to law or the interests of anyone else.

Not even in brutal military occupations can anything approaching this level of control be achieved, and even if it were possible, the totalitarian infrastructure required would have far worse consequences than a disease.

The best bet seems to be unified messaging and economic safety net programs that allow everyone who might be willing to comply under the right circumstances to do so. The US response has been a spectacular failure in both of these areas.
I'm designing a set of information / knowledge tools for myself that attempt to cache, in an Archive.org-centric approach, any data that i link to. If i form an opinion on something based on remote knowledge, i want a hardcopy of it locally.

The whole thing will be backed by an immutable content addressed database. With support for structured (SQL) and unstructured (Binary/etc) content. All very much WIP, and going on several full iterations over the years due to experiments in immutable architectures.

Focused on Git user facing patterns. Which is to say, it should (at a minimum) be syncable over SSH, local FS, etc. No required servers to run, query, sync and etc.

This whole idea was heavily inspired by Camlistore / Perkeep. I'm not concerned about my "data life" (tweets/etc), but rather being able to keep references to what i put into my head. To refer back later, etc.

I'm not saying this as a precursor to sharing my projects, but rather to distribute the ideas i work towards in hope that more people do.
Salvage law doesn't entitle you to just automatically keep stuff. You're entitled to fair recompense (including a profit) for your work - and in the event that nobody will pay you can achieve that recompense by selling the thing salvaged but that's a bunch more effort and you may have to fight in the courts to get/keep your money. These are specialist skills, why not earn slightly less money with far lower risk doing a normal on-contract at-sea recovery job?

Also, while today many countries think it's very important not to - for example - spill vast quantities of toxic materials into the ocean, this was not originally a concern of salvage law, and so not all jurisdictions will be friendly to the idea that you deserve reward partly for preventing an environmental disaster. Countries with modern salvage rules would pay more for the fact you're preventing a massive oil spill than if you "salvaged" millions of gallons of say mild saline solution that were inexplicably being moved and aren't toxic, but the work is the same even if you're paid less.
As a non-native English speaker, the bigger problem to me are not homophones, but homographs that aren't homophones. Or in general, same groupings of letters that are pronounced differently. That aside, there's a bunch of words that have been imported from English to Polish that mess me up (I'm getting tripped by the Polish pronunciation, it bleeds into how I speak the word). Grammar is actually great to learn (same goes for Spanish based on my limited experience with it).
Some ARM chips used to have bare-metal Java bytecode support, called Jazelle.
Thankfully the flu has an effective enough vaccine.
𐑢𐑦𐑔 ·𐑿𐑯𐑦𐑒𐑴𐑛, 𐑞 𐑦𐑯𐑑𐑤𐑴𐑛𐑳𐑒𐑖𐑩𐑯 𐑝 𐑯𐑵 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑𐑦𐑒 𐑕𐑦𐑕𐑑𐑩𐑥 𐑐𐑮𐑩𐑟𐑧𐑯𐑑𐑕 𐑯𐑴 𐑕𐑦𐑜𐑯𐑦𐑓𐑦𐑒𐑩𐑯𐑑 𐑑𐑧𐑒𐑯𐑩𐑤𐑪𐑡𐑦𐑒𐑩𐑤 𐑐𐑮𐑪𐑚𐑤𐑩𐑥𐑟, 𐑨𐑟 𐑿 𐑒𐑩𐑯 𐑕𐑰.

(With Unicode, the introduction of new alphabetic writing systems presents no significant technological problems, as you can see.)
This. Scalia was widely advertised as a strict textualist, until of course it wasn't convenient (c.f. Heller) and then he was quite willing to both ignore precedent and slice and dice the constitution to fit his desired outcome.
There is an active Esperanto couch serving community. Free room and board to those who speak the language.
That reminds me of this old joke [1]:

> The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.

> As part of the negotiations, the British and American government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement. Consequently, they have adopted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as European English (Euro for short). In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c."

> Sertainly sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also the hard "c" will be replased with "k." Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

> There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the second year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f." This will make words like "fotograf" 20 persent shorter.

> In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will encourage the removal of double leters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful and they woud go.

> By the fourth year peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v." During ze fifz yer, ze unesasary "o" kan be droped from vords containing "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinatins of leters.

> Und after ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German lik zey vonted in ze first plas.

I never knew it was based on a Mark Twain quote. Then again, Mark Twain's philosophy I didn't hear much of either (I'm from Europe, don't think I learned any American philosophy on high school).

[1] https://alt.jokes.narkive.com/I7hqyPoJ/a-joke-a-plan-for-the...
Thomas is making a careful argument that the opposite is true, that the judiciary has broadly interpreted the law for maximum indemnity, taking it well beyond its text.

BTW, the many on "the right", particularly Randy Barnett, have long argued in favor of judicial activism in the service of his preferred philosophy, original public meaning. He doesn't fault the other side for activism, but for actively pursuing a philosophy he disagrees with, living constitutionalism.

It all depends on exactly what you're applying "activism" and "restraint" to. Barnett would argue for restraint in reading Section 230 as creating more authority than its text supports, but activism in applying such restraint.
That is unscientific fear mongering. As with any virus there will be some outliers. But in general there is no evidence of widespread antibody enhancement. Reinfections are rare, and most reinfected cases have minor symptoms.

https://www.jimmunol.org/content/early/2020/09/03/jimmunol.2...
I have noticed such pricing tactics with Udemy. I typically buy courses for $10-12 range, but they frequently show me courses around $94-$136 range. (especially when I am logged in my account).
This ship rests off of the eastern tip of the Venezuelan shoreline, a country ruled by a communist dictatorship that runs all oil operations in the country and simply doesn't care about any of this.

They just had an oil spill from a refinery off the western coast in July and have done nothing to either prevent or fix it as far as I am aware (https://www.dw.com/es/alarma-por-derrame-petrolero-en-costas... in fact they had a second oil spill in the same location a couple of weeks later trying to get operations going again.

Heck, they had one last year that I believe is still ongoing on and off (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruW_lkWCums&t=244s) and this by no means an exhaustive link, just the ones I can remember off the top of my head while writing this note

By now may be thinking this case is surely different as it has international implications, but never mind, they've already done that before without major consequences (https://www.abc.es/sociedad/abci-petroleo-venezolano-origina...)

On top of this the dictatorship is actively blocking access to inspectors to review their claims that everything is under control (https://www.looptt.com/content/foreign-ministry-no-access-gr...) which is something they could do tomorrow if they so wished

As a Venezuelan I can assure you there's no need to invoke big business interests or sanctions; they simply don't care.
I'd say everyone should start preparing for the worst; will it be a disaster? Absolutely ... one more to add to the long list of disasters they are responsible for; the dictatorship (and us everyday folks in some measure as well) have grown numb to them by now

PS: My hat's off to this guy who literally risked his life in order to bring awareness to this
If you work at facebook, delete their codebase.
Because you interpreted the neutral words of the article as left and right? It doesn't say what political views the crude authoritarian has.

You injected that in, and then claim it's the author dog whistling. (By the way, this is actually, literally "begging the question" - "It must be a dog whistle because I read it this way even though it doesn't use those words or make that claim at all!")

That's why you're being downvoted. There's a strong reason the author didn't use the words "Trump" or "left".
The question is when will that be, I need to time my exit from the field.
Good article, I use those extensions and have a number of additional privacy settings tweaked on Firefox. Stay safe out there folks ️
It seems like this is a space where a non-profit might be more successful. Any profit-based company is going to have incentives to game reviews. Consumer Reports is published by a non-profit. They have a decent reputation. Reputation exists on the internet. HN has a good reputation too.
Looks neat! I'd be curious to see what's out of season though - as anything missing here makes me question if it's simply not supported by the website, or if it's not in season.
This is awesome. Thank yu for this.
Every time I read one of these articles, I start feeling increasingly worse about not being a vegan.

I still eat meat, but I do wonder what paper is going to get released that is the tipping point for me; it's easy for me to justify eating meat if I think these animals are so stupid that they can't feel higher-level emotions, but if we have legitimate evidence of animals having "uniquely human" traits, I can't help but think that us eating them is sort of ungodly cruel.
If you want that, you can start with TypeScript and name your number types. Doesn’t do anything real at the moment, but subsections of code can then be compiled as assemblyscript to wasm.
We don't test for who has flu.
Instead of creating some sort of government/non-profit censorship API and giving up the controls to content censorship, they are playing this censor role that will never have an end. Nobody will ever be satisfied. If they were smart they would say something like the ISPs: Hey, we're just providing the infra, we don't control the content and point the finger at the government.

Is it really profitable to have this information flow controller? Don't they just want to sell ads?

Look, I know it's not that simple. But why not do this?
Isn't the guy banned from commenting on Tesla by the SEC?
In theory this is true.

In practice someone facing liability for having done something at the level of killing a pedestrian or illegally poisoning a field will be doing everything they can to reduce their exposure.

Claiming the problems result from the original design and not the changes may be their first step in their defense.

Once that defense has been raised, it won’t necessarily be simple to prove whether the repair was the cause of the problem or not.

But, this is an interesting issue. Perhaps the right to repair would be more palatable if it came with a blanket indemnity from legal liability for manufacturers once the device is repaired or modified in any way.
TLS, TRS I've seen abbriviated, for the little,reasoned schemer
Those are good starts. I'd add that one of the biggest problem with free speech currently is that we allow actors to speak and publish content that we don't even know are real Citizen of the US. And we allow people to speak and publish content at scales that are unprecedented.

I think this is a big issue that somehow people don't talk about as much. It isn't free speech that's so much being attacked, more so we are trying to define the framework of free speech on the internet.

There is one perspective that could say the internet is like anything else, and so free speech applies the same. Except the internet isn't like anything else. It hides people behind anonymity, it allows actors that arn't american or even real to present themselves as if they were and speak to US affairs. It makes it trivial to decimate false claims to a greater audience at almost no cost. And the platforms of information built around it have designed automated systems to burry high quality discourse and instead promote sensational headlines.

To me, this is similar to problems of spam, phishing, fraud and abuse that say Amazon faces on its store front, like counterfeit, fake reviews, bot accounts, money laundering, etc. Democracy on the internet faces similar problems of fraud and abuse. And just like Amazon needs a framework to mitigate those fraud and abuses, our democracy needs it as well.
Especially Rackspace -- isn't their price tag because its all managed hosting?
Well I think Oculus is a no go for a lot of people now, as cheap as they are.

What's with the "Good Standing" thing? I've heard people got banned for simply linking their Facebook and Oculus account. Why does Facebook consider this reasonable? Why remove people's ability to play games because they broke the TOS for an entirely different platform? You're not my mom.
How do you test drive a pre-order? Y just came out.
It’s called phonemic orthography: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography

I’m also from a country with such a language, and as a kid I couldn’t understand the concept of spelling bee competitions in American movies, like, what’s even the point?
Not necessarily programming languages (in similar vain as what est31 said) but cryptography has made its way into instructions, see SHA1RNDS4, SHA1NEXTE, SHA1MSG1 and more. They are not general cryptographic primitives but specific instructions for computing a specific cryptographic hash, just because SHA became popular. Also has SHA in it's name :)
Could you share a Google Maps link for the approximate coordinates of the ship?

(Upvoted.)