skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been interested for a long time in building digital infrastructure / public works software, considering ideas for software tools to help communities and cities offer digital services to constituents. My personal goal is to better connect citizens and their elected leadership and improve civic engagement. How best to get in touch?
My shorter version: Precedent in the US is that the US views its jurisdiction over US citizens and corporations as global. If I as a US citizen step over the border to your country and bribe an official of your country in order to gain a commercial contract, I can (and probably, though not definitely) will be prosecuted for breaking US law, regardless of whether or not bribery is perfectly legal in your country. Same for corporations: if the act is prohibited in the US, the US Government generally does not distinguish between whether the act occurred in the US or not.

This is not new. The Internet exacerbates the potential for conflicts, but it’s not a new problem with the rise of the Internet.
Infuriating on so many levels: 1) creating the largest honeypot imaginable/single point of attack. 2) Potential trust issues as companies put proprietary data on servers that are not theirs 3) People storing deeply personal and sensitive data like photos on servers that are not theirs. 4) Forcing others data and work to be used for monetization without compensation. 5) Ultimately restricting innovation as people have less ability to build locally if they really take this direction to the max.
> You seem to think this is just a balancing of risks.

No I don’t. I was saying that the kind of balancing you mention is out of scope for FDA to answer. The fact you can’t find anyone to answer the question you want answered is not the FDA’s problem.

I said go off-label if you want to (although off-label might be slightly the wrong word in this case). Good luck finding a politician that wants to tie themselves to recommending that, in case it turns out wrong.
Two separate issues here -

1. Make the underlying model public (e.g., you ran such and such regression, here’s what you included and here’s a table of coefficients). Inarguably a good idea. Totally unobjectionable. You should correctly be suspicious if the model (and the R, Stata, SAS or whatever code to produce it) is not available.

2. Make the underlying data public. Completely different! I have done research with (e.g.) detailed birth certificate level data. Such data are confidential by state and federal laws generally. Other researchers work with detailed income histories from the IRS. As another example, I have worked with electronic health records, which include names, addresses, health conditions, etc. Almost no one thinks this stuff should be public.

It is fair IMO to require researchers to describe what data they use and how someone else might get it (even if that includes the line “find a collaborator at the IRS”). But it is unreasonable to require researchers to make data itself public, when they may not have the right to do so.

What’s worse is that the reason this regulation is being proposed is to prevent research informed by private, confidential health data (eg birth certs) from being used to make public policy, especially in areas around pollution and environmental regulation.
> It's no longer in the locker room and it should behave as such.

This website is not locker room talk by ANY means. The creator most likely had the hots for her, wanted to try and make boring nerd stuff more interesting & memorable and get more views. So what?

This is the online, PhD geek version of putting up a Britney Spears pinup. It's a fan/niche site, not the homepage of a major site. The audience is not kids; it's nerds.

She's a public celebrity who leveraged her looks to stardom. And a lot of people had the hots for her. So this guy used the shape of her body to explain conduction bands and valence bands and it's a problem? And an example of the cross that geeks need to bear in saving the internet with web technology?

Your opinion and ideal is not possible unless you censor content and user interactions.

And besides, the web got nasty once the general populace was added.

You can just look at your average friend and family argument on Facebook to see that.
If the teams are small enough, they could be put in the vacant shops. It would probably still feel a bit open-plan, though.
You totally can pay the government in stock, you just have to sell it or set it aside in a trust.

There's prior art, this is what the IRS makes folks who are attempting to renounce their citizenship (or give up a green card held for over 8 years) do for illiquid assets when paying the expatriation tax.
There's a lot in your post that's wrong and this comment won't allow me to correct all of it. Grabbing two:

- the Arab nations don't consider themselves kin (or "coethnics" whatever that means) with the Palestinians. When Jordan and Egypt controlled the Palestinian territory, they treated the Palestinians worse then Israeli does today.

- the groups that commit the vast majority of rape (per capita or otherwise) in the middle east are not Israeli. In most of the Muslim countries, it's legal to rape your wife. In some of them (such as Iran), men execute their daughters for being raped by their neighbors. One well known group (ISIS) was really into rape - and so Iran gave them money so they could rape more.

If what you care about is rape, murder, and genocide, you're against Iran 100x as much as you're against Israel.
Took nearly a week to respond to the original tweet (https://nitter.net/sebslomski/status/1344219609923276801), but not much more than an hour to respond to the quoting tweet from an account with an order of magnitude more followers (Edit: it looks like it depends on how you count “response”: https://nitter.net/GitHubHelp/status/1346250095700946956#m was 18 hours ago, https://nitter.net/sebslomski/status/1346467442428530691#m was 3).
Not OP, but scientific conclusions need to be verifiable, especially if they are driving policy. IMO you'd need a very good reason to keep any data related to such studies secret, and thats only if the data being kept secret isn't meaningful to the reproduction and verification of the results. Knowing who is X data point is most certainly relevant to independently verifying whether or not the data of the study is accurate, so i have a very hard time seeing how that should be kept secret.
Cortex over reflex: circuits where executive control overcomes instinct
FB rep scolds reporter for small sample size while FB blocks access to full data
Almost reads like a The Onion post.
Are you saying that the banks are the real terrorists?
This exists already, it's called RTX Voice: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/nvidia-rtx-voice...
>massage and cherry pick the data until it fits whatever narrative it wants. It has a lot of money at stake.

People already do this when there's basically nothing at stake though.
Sounds terrible unless they're able to add windows to all of the current stores.
If we had widespread Ebola, people would stay home on their own, without the state forcing them to. The whole reason people flout the restriction is because their personal risk is very low. For people under 45, catching covid presents similar risk of dying to a year of driving a car. If government tried to ban driving, arguing that it is for my safety, I would be pissed and would not accept that law. However, if 10% of drivers died every year, I wouldn’t need government to stop me from driving, I’d stay the hell away from the killing machine myself.
Do you mind sharing when you were first told about this? Some people in this thread seem to think this was abrupt.
Google might as well apply every possible label to every app they publish just to piss Apple off.

I mean, people who care enough to check the labels will know what google collects already.
Journals don't pay reviewers either, as has been explained above.
T-Mobile suffers its fourth hack in less than three years
"We were working for two years to get this license." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25648849
That this book and the very similar "Grokking the System Design Interview" (I went through both) get accolades just shows the poor resources we have.

What we need is more "Designing Data Intensive Applications", adapted to interviews.

Just as a couple quick comments, the "web crawler" scenario suggest a breadth-first search, which is OK (as in compared to depth-first search) but not good enough; web links in general is not a DAG and you can get into a loop. As another comment, in none of these two resources there's a single estimate that I can remember about how many servers you need as per requests/bandwidth etc, only calculations are about data amount. They also assume collaborative interviewer, which has never happened in my experience. I think none of these two resources by themselves would get you a L5 or even do well as L4 at FAANG (please somebody correct me), they are very basic (maybe I'm "too advanced" heh).
You will if you take up citizenship in a country which doesn't allow dual nationality, or, more commonly, you will if you're an EU resident who doesn't have EU citizenship.

It's a bad enough rule to apply to individuals, but to apply it on mass to people, probably most of whom didn't actually want to leave, of course is petty and spiteful. You can be on either side of the Brexit debate and see that. Where's the good will?
TicketMaster was a textbook example of a consumer-harming monopoly WAY before that merger. I’ve written to a few senators about it. Jack shit has been done, of course.
Not colloquially. That's correct. Muting a mic is the colloquial expression. Think about what the word means: silence a thing. The mic does not make a sound.
That strategy was only the best if you assumed someone like a Tesla wouldn't come along. However, a Tesla did come along, and as a result, Tesla now controls an ungodly fraction of the total worldwide automaker value.

Basically, it was a bad strategy, as it was practically inevitable that at some point someone would "defect" and do BEVs. Not only did the automakers use a bad strategy, but they failed to pivot from that strategy once it was already blown to hell. Any one of them could be worth a lot more money now if they had simply taken EVs as seriously as Tesla did a decade ago. But none did.

Same problem with Kodak. The new technology is inevitable, and while you may delay it, you're killing your future by doing so. It's short term thinking.
I've spent thousands of hours waiting for buses in the rain and yes that rhyme could well be the national motto. But still it's not much fun with bags of shopping and small children.

But I can undash your stereotype: I'm English. Mind you my boss did once say to me "Du har blitt en ekte Viking."; the previous day I had walked out of the office to go home dressed only in a light jumper and shorts while it was tipping it down. It was summer so not too cold and anyway where I come from the rain comes sideways from the Atlantic.

Glad to hear you liked it here, perhaps you'll get a chance to come back once COVID-19 is sorted out.

> the problem of designing convenient, efficient, cost-effective public transportation is beyond the capabilities of this HNer.

You are not alone. I certainly can't do it and it seems to be beyond the local authorities here. Actually I wonder if it might actually be provably impossible.
> Last year, we pivoted our YC startup from a socially-good mental health product (Quirk), towards a socially-neutral software infrastructure product

> It's more important [...] to improve mental health than to be working on improving mental health.

How is this pivot effective? How is it improving mental health?
I did some construction work at this mall in college. Of the many many problems, natural light is probably number 1. It's an absolute dungeon, dark and oppressive. I don't see how you fix it besides blowing it up and starting over.
I completely agree, but that population would be a pretty small readership.
When Barry Bond got caught doping, nobody said "The SF Giants were doping". Barry Bond owned that.

That's all I'm looking for here.
Your example will almost certainly happen in a few months. pdonis is just suggesting the same thing happen, but 6 months earlier.
Google's safety net API is used to check if the device is rooted/unlocked/tampered. Many apps are using that now and will in future. There's no way around it.

You can either have a phone for tinkering or general usage. There is no in-between now.
> you're basically saying that users who are capable enough to even need/use decentralised version control systems are too dumb and incompetent

Do not put words in my mouth. I did not say that, you just did. I said that usability is a real concern, because no matter what you expect people to do, it will never work perfectly 100% of the time.

> I'm not talking about security in general.

You can say that now, but that's not what you said previously.
"There's no such thing as a "trade-off" when it comes to cyber security"

> you instead share your entire private life with these companies?

Again, I did not say that. Github is a social coding network. I am not saying that I have all of the answers as to how this should work, but I am saying that if 1 member of a 100 person organization loses access to their account, and the other 99 members all confirm that their account access was lost via some event and assert their identity, you could have the start of a reasonable recovery path.

> the CEO running the show is in an entirely different category

Not sure what you mean by this. Are you saying that a CEO is just automatically more responsible and not going to lose something? Or are you saying that he's clearly just more important so it's okay to bypass the stated procedure for just him/her?

> Do you leave your house key under the doormat? Do you keep a post-it note with all your passwords taped to the back of your phone - you know, just in case you forget one and for convenience?

This is not even a valid comparison, and you're just trying to be condescending. I don't leave a house key under my mat just in case I lose it. But I also don't expect to never be allowed to enter my house again just because my key is lost.

> if you can't afford a data storage solution I seriously wonder why you have a need for a distributed version control system in a (semi-)professional environment.

Because many people use Github for non semi-professional environments? It is full of amateurs. Just because you don't find someone's work valuable, doesn't mean that they don't. Saying "Well it's not professional, so if you lost it then it doesn't matter" is not correct.

> 20 bucks for a protective case for your phone - no problem. 50 bucks for a half decent 1TB portable USB HDD to backup

You're comparing a 1 time action to a recurring action. I'm not saying that you shouldn't have back ups. You obviously should. But people are human beings. Even if 99% of people have perfect back ups, that's still 560k (according to Github home page numbers) that will have failed backups or some other issue.

PS. you keep widely including the term "decentralized", as if just because git is decentralized, that nothing on Github should matter. For better or for worse, Github has become the central git repository provider for millions of people. Claiming that Github services should be magically decentralized just because git is decentralized is an invalid claim. Because Github is not decentralized.
The license is specific to GitHub.

However, we don't want this to be a competitive advantage for GitHub; developers should choose GitHub because it is better, not because it has a license from OFAC. So we have taken it upon ourselves to advocate for OFAC to allow developers in Iran and other sanctioned countries greater access to all platforms, and we will continue to do so.

This kind of change would likely require an update to OFAC’s regulations, the issuance of an updated general license, or the issuance of formal guidance from the agency. We hope that OFAC’s issuance of a license to GitHub will help pave the way for broader access to similar platforms.
Also, significantly less migrant labor-style travel as there is in China.
yes, it’s stupid and such sanctions led to more anti-west/us and more pro-russia sentiment in Crimea.

Source: have relatives there
I have the full size Model-M I would use a Model-M Space Saver as my daily driver but the full size is too big for my desk while also using a mouse.
> I do think Moxie forcing the week's lineup is a bit much.

Maybe, but I saw it more as a way to try to have a little fun in what had been a stalled conversation due to Joe's lack of understanding on why cryptology has become vital and the implications of its need in modern Society.

I wish Joe had done some basic research and mentioned the first crypto wars himself and the fallout with Zimmerman had with PGP and Moxie would have probably opened more about how that pertains to erosion of privacy and security on the internet and the implications of the Surveillance Economy that has grown like a deadly tumor on Society since the Patriot Act and why Signal was created in the first place. He's had Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Andreas Antonopolous on several times now, there is no excuse for not being some what informed given his general curiosity on the topic by now and making the most of those podcasts and having Moxie speak on such a large platform.

Honestly, I wish he had let him request Laura Poitras to come on as she can bring the topic to the massess in a relatable manner better than anyone I've seen so far--hell I remember first seeing CCC and Defcon videos being totally overwhelmed by the speakers so much I couldn't follow any of it. This may be because she comes from a non-technical background as a film maker that has been around Cypherpunks for decades now but has also been at the center of so much of the polemics (Assange, Snowden, Wikileaks, Intercept etc...) of it all and likely saw how valuable it is in life and death situations very quickly.

My issue is with the dropped calls and poor call quality, but given how few people use the voice based calls they because Signal knows how vital to optimize for low bandwidth things like messages given its prime demographic in places with real reasons to use this app for its intended purpose. Again, totally understandable to me and something that they will eventually get to.
but LiveNation doesn't hold stock worth $16B and cannot easily issue new stock.
You can't know until you test.
Nope. There is an explicit exception for people who you know are not an Iranian national.
> I think your argument makes sense but the example you gave is far too extreme.

It was a bit of an exaggeration yes, but it made my point about neglecting rarer failure cases very succinctly.

> Also, isn't splitting things into small services instead of large beasts full of hidden behavior the basis of the argument in favor of microservices?

With microservices your goal should always be simplicity rather than size. Simple code is often small, but small code is not always simple.

In fact, 3 well built microservices will usually have more lines of code between them than a single monolith that does the same job would as they have to have all the boiler plate for talking to each other and accepting RPC etc.

(Also converting a large system that's hard to reason about into microservices generally results in a large distributed system that's hard to reason about - system design is hard!)
Also, in 4000 years, the majority of the population won't even be living on Earth anymore.
Because motorsport is a giant unprofitable waste of money. The only value they get out of it is advertising their brand, and Tesla doesn't advertise.

Why would Tesla spend the minimum tens of millions of dollars to get into what is at best a side diversion from their main business? They certainly have better uses for that capital and talent.
I'm very new to Termux and recently installed the Google Play version. If I install the F-Droid version will it have access to all storage, such that I could edit Dropbox files in emacs and have them automatically sync?
> We already have major issues with e.g. making teenagers wake up earlier than most of their bodies are tuned for at that age.

Forget the teenagers, standard time kills people. People are more tired in the afternoon and have more accidents if the sun is already down. Summer time actually saves lives.
Another factor is that morning and evening commutes are quite different. The evening commute is more spread out over time.

In the morning, you have adults going to work, kids going to school, delivery trucks rolling out, people going to get supplies they will need for the day, people doing morning exercise, and so on. Sleep is a big synchronizer that tends to get most of us aligned at the start of the day.

By the evening rush, most of those people other than adults who went to work are already home. Also, the times people start the evening commute tends to vary more than the times they start the morning commute.

Add in to this that morning weather and evening weather are quite different. Mornings tend to be colder than evenings, as they are coming off the sunless night.

This means that hazardous driving, biking, and even walking conditions are more likely in the morning than the evening. This won't make a different in Florida (where the author of this bill is from), but it sure makes a difference when you get into the northern parts of the continental US.

Put this together and whenever you have the morning commute before the sun is up you are combining the most number of people, the greatest mixing of pedestrians and bicycles with cars, and the highest chance of bad conditions (icy roads and sidewalks, poor visibility).

When you have the evening commute after the sun has set, it sucks, but you have less traffic of all kinds and better road and weather conditions.

Thus, if you have to have one of the commutes outside of daylight, it is going to be better to have that be the evening commute.
The famous lab animal selling was "A top academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering earned 10.17 million yuan ($1.46 million) by illegally selling off lab animals" rather than a low level tech. Pigs though. Still it suggests standards may be a bit variable.
I didn't realize paying criminal penalties was supposed to be fun and easy ;) this is literally restitution for a crime.

"Uh, no Judge, I don't think I should be forced to go to prison, that's hard"

[edit] Maybe this is controversial, I dunno, I might just be old fashioned that way, but my opinion is if you find the punishment too onerous maybe don't do crime.
> Kids don't give a shit about walking to school in the dark. I know, as someone who was recently a kid and resented winter "daylight wasting time", I would much rather have had more hours of daylight in the afternoon when I was finished with school and could actually do fun stuff outside, rather than useless daylight in the morning while I'm sitting on the bus or in a classroom at 7:30 AM. And as an adult I feel the same about work.

I was actually thinking of "walking to school in the dark" as a safety issue. You and I probably live in safe communities, but not everyone does. And, sadly, the same communities that have more crime are frequently the ones less able to afford services like school buses.

But I also think a lot of kids and adults don't actually want what they think they do with regard to DST. Having more daylight in the evening seems appealing, and it's what I wanted when I was younger—but then I was in a situation where I had to get up an hour earlier in the winter. It's not fun.