skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious. What percentage of all rape convictions would you tolerate being wrong (that is, the person behind bars is innocent) in order to ensure sufficient coverage of convicting the guilty?
Sadly I don't think it works like that. Ignoring the usual long lead time on tariffs, and the difficulty in applying such rules (Socks now have 10x import duty. Ah but not medical support stockings. And socks on baby clothes are exempt, but if the socks are sold as a bundle ...)

The real problem is that the cruft is already in the system. If we did something clever and said all non-urgent shipments get delayed and the urgent ones come through we would have

1. Some containers have both important and cruft in them.

2. The cruft containers are on the upper port side of the ship. If we don't unload those the ship will topple. If we unload but don't onward ship we have a ton of containers literally sitting on the dock.

3. If we sort that out, the cruft orders are part of the game now - the container of socks is going to come back loaded with medical computers. But now they don't have a container to come back in.

No the solution to this is transparency. A global blockchain / ledger (not The blochchain), would let people see some of the worst problems ahead. But that tech exists, but not the usage of the tools or the trust.
Or perhaps stop throwing 300mb of JavaScript into a simple blog or news site. Not everything needs to be a SPA or track people like the KGB. Clearly the feedback loop of copy/paste/config has gotten way ahead of the reality and has entirely disconnected from anything the user cares about. At some point we should just admit the state of web implementation (it’s not just the front end) is just self-justifying posturing.
You can wear out any SSD. There's no evidence that Apple SSDs are any worse than others. You need to have backups. You need to understand that Apple products are sealed and disposable and only buy them if your use case can accommodate that.
Not from what I have read. It seems like they chose the internet mob as their bringer of justice.
where is the link to the actual study? is it one of these https://som.yale.edu/publications/faculty/michael.kraus-at-y...
I mean maybe, but tax evasion put Al Capone in Alcatraz.
> Compared to modern UI/UX which just slaps me with how stupid it thinks I am

Because most average users of any software absolutely fall in that bucket. My mom can use the Facebook app on her phone just fine, but I wouldn't even dare to suggest that she try to convert an eBook on Calibre and transfer it to her Kindle.
construction workers about to be automated out
It’s not just your manufacturing steps, but you need all your upstream suppliers to also be local. There are reasons well beyond just price for a lot of electronics development to be done in and around Shenzhen.
Wait, I didn't know they where the same person. Neat.
Presumably those end users aren't downloading Droidscript.
Have they shuttered any with >$10b of revenue and >40% growth?
By the time you ask and get an answer here, the market will already have priced in any opportunity that might be mentioned.
The thing is, it's actually extremely easy to get an Advanced Open Water cert. I did it in a few days in Dahab, on the Sinai. We actually dove the Blue Hole as our last dive.
I was going to say! People seem to get all paranoid whenever swap is brought up on SSD machines, but modern SSD lifespans are pretty awesome.

https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experi...

700TB was the minimum that any drive in the above link managed. If you used 100gigs of swap per day it would take you two decades to hit that level.
Somewhere along the line collective benefits were dropped from "progress". Bit like a unification of Disney land and military school. All we know is that we are going.
A new type of OS for a new type of computer
That is pretty messed up that the USPTO granted Amazon a patent for what Opera was doing decades ago.
> This is vigilantism -- the same as if you went out and shot a guy who stole your wallet.

Nobody has shot John Pretty.

I don't understand how "justice" says that Yifan has to lie or pretend that she hasn't gone through a traumatic experience. Writing a blog post is not equivalent to shooting someone. Someone truthfully and honestly describing their own life experience is not violence.

And if nothing else, surely she has the right to warn other women and let them make their own decisions about how to calibrate their risk around John.

> I don't think the world is a better place when people use this approach to conflict resolution.

I'm not always thrilled with public shaming, but to argue that people shouldn't be able to speak about their experiences, or that people shouldn't be able to choose who they associate with, or that people shouldn't be able to warn each other about abusers -- that is also a very slippery slope. Especially in a world where the vast majority of rape cases are never reported or prosecuted.

It's just such an extreme position to say that people even just talking about abusers is "revenge". It's like arguing that because courts sometimes convict innocent people that we should abolish all laws. There is a middle ground between attacking someone for a poorly phrased 10-year-old tweet, and arguing that people shouldn't be talking about personal experiences they've had with sexual harassment/rape.
I don't want to stir the pot, but as a comment below links, Pretty responded with a statement[0]. He doesn't say this is what happened at all but that's a conclusion one can draw if you just read his statement. He doesn't insinuate it directly but he says they were consensual relationships and the two people are upset about how they ended.

[0] https://twitter.com/propensive/status/1387168037908910085/ph...
Reverse Engineer Hash Tackles Smart Meter Monitoring
And in recent computer science (~30 years) we often pick unintuitive names for things.

Examples: WebAssembly(neither web, nor assembly), Serverless (has a server, actually), JavaScript.
A few weeks ago I got a new ThinkPad X1 Extreme from work to replace my awful System76 Thelio Major. I was interested in checking out the X1E because I was due for a personal ThinkPad upgrade too.

Last week I decided I liked it and went to see what Lenovo had available. All of the nice X1E's with the UHD display were showing "more than 12 weeks" delivery time!

The next day I remembered that the ThinkPad P1 is exactly the same machine as the X1E with a different GPU. Lenovo is wacky like this with their model names.

Some of those were showing 8-12 or over 12 week delivery too, but they had one P1 configuration in stock the way I wanted with UHD, 64GB, 1TB and an empty SSD slot.

It shipped the same day I ordered it, arrived Friday and is great! And was just $1625 plus another $149 for three-year premier support since I ordered it through Corporate Perks (who I highly recommend). Would have been $900 more if I bought it directly on lenovo.com, even at their "sale" price. The machines ship direct from Lenovo either way.

So I thought I'd tell my friends and colleagues and checked again yesterday. Nope, all gone now, this model went up $200, and it along with all the other nice ones are "more than 12 week" delivery too.
Yes, and the comment comparing NK to vikings pretty clearly threw away the "at least tolerated" part of the comment above it.
BitKeeper: The less-confusing product Git was cloned from
@dang I’m sad that this was flagged. It would be nice if you or some other mod could explain why this decision was taken.
> But this litigation of what's inside people's heads

Nobody is advocating that here, why do you keep bringing it up? This seems like something you feel is happening but that’s not what we are talking about at all.

> We’re not being asked to associate with anyone’s aunt here and I think we should try to keep to the topic at hand.

...you and other commenters brought up the Aunt. I don’t know if you’re confused, or what; but I didn’t bring the Aunt up in the first place. It arose spontaneously as a straw man up-thread.
Interesting to hear this. I really want to use this service.
Any query with an SSN/ITIN that doesn't exist will create a report for that number. Different names using the same SSN/ITIN are listed as aliases.

Credit reports are queried for many reasons, not only loans.
I highly doubt a plugin would work, but maybe a fork could work. It does seem like Mighty is collaborating with the Chrome team to make improvements to Chrome directly: https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1385237770633846784

>creates an unnecessary dependency on a startup company that might fail or get bought at any time

This is the story of any new company trying to build anything
I always try to remain approachable and supportive. Through this openness, I’ve nailed a lot of girls.
> Ah, so the force vector is constant/infrequently updated, not the position of the second body. My apologies for the misunderstandin

That's fine, glad we got it cleared up.

> I'm honestly a bit curious what an that would look like. For example, what would an orbit around the Earth-Moon L1 look like? What would an Earth -> Moon low-energy transfer look like?

> I feel like depending on the system you might need to update the "fixed" force vector relatively frequently to get anywhere close to approximating n-body results, which basically sounds like regular integration.

For a basic example-numbers implementation, replacing an n-body simulation that updates every 10 seconds, I was imagining that you might update the force vector 1/100th as often, every 1000 seconds. That's plenty fast to accurately handle a multi-day orbit around a lagrange point or a low energy transfer. The paths the craft take should look completely normal.

If you then combine a normal single-influence orbit with that force vector, you could summarize 1000 seconds of orbit into one moderately complex equation. So instead of doing a moderately complex calculation every 10 seconds, you'd do two of them every 1000 seconds, an estimated 50x CPU savings.

If you're not very close to anything, there's no benefit over just running an n-body calculation every 1000 seconds. But the hard-to-handle case is orbits that are low enough to need rapid updates, but high enough that it's noticeably wrong to use an ellipse. And it's easy to end up with a lot of things in those orbits.

> Wouldn't that arguably be where the most significant errors would be, as that's where the relatively unphysical constant force vector would have the most significant influence?

Treating the forces as constant over a stretch of time, when they actually are almost constant, shouldn't have all that much error, unless I'm missing something glaring.

As you get further and further away from the most influential mass, this system gets closer and closer to simply being an n-body simulation with a timestep of how often you update the force vector.
It isn't just Electron, Node is also plagued by its own low barrier to entry.

One of my former employers had the great idea of hiring hundreds of "senior" JS devs and redoing the entire frontend of the website. When it launched to production the whole system scaled at approximately 1 enterprise-grade server to 1 concurrent user.

While I applaud your efforts to teach people how to write code faster, the majority of JS devs I have found just want to hit feature-complete and go home.
Indeed. In October of 2019 I ordered a basic printer for $36. The cheapest one on Amazon right now, at least with more than one review, is $90.
If American businesses have over bought and overpaid for inventory then expect bankruptcies and fire sales. Computers and cars are unlikely, but bread machines, lounge wear, exercise equipment, and similar items are likely to eventually, and randomly, saturate their markets. IOW people probably won't want a peloton in six months. If peloton overestimated demand it'll shock their books and if severe enough threaten their viability as a company.
It doesn't matter. The revenue for x86 server CPUs goes down every time Amazon install a CPU they made themselves instead of buying an intel chip.
not OP and I believe the accusations. but if she would have wanted a) real justice and b) create even more hell for the accused while c) staying out of the firing line of misogynists on social media, and d) get closure sooner because people won't be after her for the next years to remind her, then she should have filed a police report.

Given his situation (see my other comment[1] on why) she could have made his situation much (I repeat MUCH MUCH) worse than what she did. I wouldn't want to know the amount of abuse she now gets because of it and in the months (if not years to come).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26962280
They do give historic data, but yeah I don't know offhand which ones give comprehensive direct API access just by feeding ADS-B data. RadarBox seems to. FR24 and FA require you to contact them -- I've never done this so I don't know how much friction the process entails, or what kind of API limits you may be subject to. Probably depends on your intended application.
> Not all things modern adhere to those design patterns.

Could you give some examples?
Sure, then you have option 3: Put a "setup-git.sh" script in your repo, and have the README tell users to run that to set things up. If your users are willing to run code from your repo, you can just have them run code from your repo.

In fact you can set the default branch to contain nothing but those two files, and have the setup script switch to the real branch once it's done with its work.

(And if your users have some other way they expect to run code - make, setup.py, yarn run, whatever - you can use that instead as the entry point.)
I am very rarely anti-innovation. But when I think something is wrong I can't help but not being indifferent.

In this case I don't think this tech really qualifies as an innovation, it is mostly the wrong patch to fix a real problem, bloatware.
Users != Customers as you well know. If a startup outside of Google had millions of users, they wouldn't be considered a wild success unless they could monetize those users, otherwise it's just an enormous cost that eventually leads to failures once they run out of VC runway.

And let's be real, a huge swath of VC funded startups recklessly engage in "growth hacking" to acquire users, without a legitimate business plan, usually, e.g.

Step 1: get users
Step 2: <magic happens>
Step 3: Profit!

And then it turns out their ideas for monetization don't work, and they get an exit via acquisition by one of the big players as the VCs try to get some of their money back and leave someone else holding the bag.

SV is littered with companies that had millions of users but ended up folding and selling, because ultimately, running a business isn't free, and those users have to generate enough revenue to cover costs plus ROI.
You have it backwards. The only people who can politicize anything and everything are "minority groups". Only people who aren't discriminated against can afford to take a position of politicizing everything. That's a position of privilege.
For many startups, that code that you mentioned as technical debt will be deleted en masse as the business pivots and adapts.

For startups, moving fast and getting 80% done in 20% of the time is the correct choice. It's frustrating to look at the result as a software developer, but the engineer is there to serve the business, which pays the salary. As a software engineer, I very much disliked working in engineering teams that were engineering for the sake of engineering. It quickly devolves into meaningless arguments and drama.
Do you have multiple API instances by chance? Maybe one remained with "old" code?
or maybe just don't rape people idk
I also think we can build better communities by ensuring people are in safe situations, especially when traveling or when they are in an unfamiliar environment. This is especially true of young adults who have yet to experience predators.
A billion of the profit increase is from expected depreciation adjustment, but growing profit by 2.5x in one year if bonkers. Search made $7 billion more this year and as far as I can tell is effectively exactly the same as it was last year. Goes to show how much advertising money has shifted away from traditional forms like tv/radio/print during the pandemic.
Apple's M2 chip has entered production and will ship as soon as July
we parents need to get better had having conversations with our children around sex.

I'm a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. I thought long and hard about this and decided that talking to my children about the existence of sexual predators would rob them of their innocence.

I've studied how this works. Sexual predation almost never starts with rape. It starts with myriad instances of boundary violation and disrespect and culminates in rape.

Rape hinges on the detail of consent. As a society trying to combat this issue, we seem to overlook that for the most part.

I taught my children that hugs and kisses required consent. I taught that from birth. Even a baby too young to talk can turn their face away because they don't want a kiss or hold their arms up enthusiastically to receive affection.

When they were older, I told them if they told someone "no" and their decision was not respected, come get me.

I only had one of them come get me once. The person who felt entitled to get "sugar" from my child was utterly shocked that I told them they were wrong.

This was an elderly female relative. My children are both boys.

Most likely, she wasn't actually a child molester, but this practice of adults demanding hugs and kisses from children who have no right to say "no" is commonplace and gets treated as something funny in movies. I treated it as no laughing matter.

If you want children to understand consent and respect, the best thing to do is let them experience it firsthand from birth. And make sure they know that rule is a two-way street, not a one-sided privilege.
It definitely sounds like he abused his position and did a horrible thing, but the thing he did is not rape (assuming OP story is 100% accurate description of events).

If 2 people are intoxicated and have sex, do they both rape each other? If one person holds more power than the other, while both are intoxicated, is it just a one-way rape? Or is it still a two-way rape, where one person just "rapes a bit more" and the other person "rapes a bit less"? What if the person who had power ends up regretting sex afterwards and cries, does it "turn the tables" and cause the rapist to suddenly become the victim of rape, after the fact?

Yes, she was drunk. Yes, she later regretted having sex. These things alone do not mean that rape was committed. As far as I can tell, she is not referring to the events as "rape", so maybe you shouldn't either.
Kinda hate to see those share buybacks. You'd think with an organization that large they could think of something useful to do with fifty billion dollars.
If you tell me the FAA code for a US airport, I can tell you the IATA code without a database lookup and without checking with IATA.
Here is a mythic one:

> 29560568 is the answer to life, the universe and everything.
> accused of being guilty of white privilege

Maybe "accused" and "guilty" are not the right framing here - you inherit white privilege because of your ethnicity, it doesnt necessarily make you guilty of anything, but you benefit from it whether you want it or not.

You can think of it in the same way that the wealthier people you mention have inherited a better social class by just being born.
They can profit from the privilege of their wealth, while suffering from racial discrimination. You can suffer from poverty, while not being hindered by your skin color. People are multi-dimensional.

I think a fairer way to compare would be to compare people from the same social class when looking for privilege and inequality here.
Is a poor white person doing better than a poor black person?
Is a rich black person doing better than a poor black person? Is a white rich female doing better than a white rich male? Etc...
> 2. Longer liftetime of company computers. No need to upgrade to M1 yet.

An M1 MacBook Air can be had for $999.

That's equivalent to 20 months of a $50/month service.

Alternatively, you can finance a MacBook Air for $83/month for 12 months, and then no additional payments after that.
Ok, my sister was raped by her boss, was found in her appartment three days later my father, who immediately called a lawyer (female, specialized in criminal law). She told my sister that since they were only two in the kitchen with no surveillance camera, she couldn't sue but only report (its called "main courante" in my country) and "hope" that another girl is raped before 2039 and report it. The policeman concurred, nothing to be done.

I still shout "rapist owned" each time i pass his business, as do my brother and my father, my sister privately shared her story with his daughter on facebook last year (his daughter is one year younger than my sister, the creep), basically destroying their relationship, and the cooking school my sister went to directly called all female student and ex-student to tell them to avoid his restaurant. I also scraped social networks (only public data, nothing illegal) for his activities two years ago but only found business contacts. Each of them still received a nice email though.

I will move back next month, so i will continue my shouting campaign harder after the pandemic end and hope his business can't survive covid. Since his restaurant will be between my place and the place i keep my boat, i'm pretty sure i can be successful.
One thing you’re missing here is that sexual consent is an ‘in the moment’ thing. Someone might be coming over to your place fully intending to have sex with you and then change their mind. You have to respect that.
I think they suffered from a toxic culture that comes from the “growth at all cost” mindset.
Hopefully this has changed by now, as the company gets more mature and starts thinking more on the long term.
Apple could easily fit 2x-4x the performance on an SoC so that's what people expect the M1X and M1Z to be. Note that it's still an SoC if it has "external" memory (Apple's "unified memory" isn't what people think).
How far behind Apple are AMD at the moment? If ryzen chips were optimized for low power and manufactured on TSMC’s 5nm process like the M1, what sort of performance difference would we be seeing?
I think there are a few problems with this:

Another commenter mentions somewhere here that the specific thing that happened may not have been illegal in Germany then (but is now). I don't know how to verify that as I don't speak German.

This happened several years ago; there is no physical evidence that remains. This, as you allude to, is a he-said-she-said situation. I assume there are emails/texts/etc. that might speak to Pretty's poor character and ill intent, but that's not much. In the US this would almost certainly not be enough for a conviction. Maybe it would be in Germany or the UK, but I suspect not.

Agree that she may have opened herself up to legal liability (at least an accusation of libel or defamation). As I recall, in the UK it is harder than in the US to defend oneself in court against accusations of libel.

It is possible, though, that Pretty might be dissuaded from bringing any legal action because doing so will only draw more attention to his bad behavior, and could result in a worse situation for him than just going and hiding under a rock for a few years.