skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes:

> Commonly used interrogation tactics, such as promising leniency or insinuating that incriminating evidence exists, are banned for suspects under 18 years old under the new law, which goes into effect Jan. 1.
> After hours of interrogation, police told one of the teenagers, Terrill Swift, that if he just confessed to being at the scene he could go home — so he did.

What's the advantage to society of allowing interviewers to lie (to anyone, let alone kids)? Not just insinuate something like "your partner's in the next room, it's only a matter of time until he talks so you should come clean now", but blatantly lie and then be able to rely on the result of that in court?

It kinda feels a little like the common law doctrine of Promissary Estoppel [0] where if someone relies on something you've promised, you can't then hold them responsible for relying on that thing.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/promissory_estoppel
It's more to avoid false positives. I've had bug bounty hunters flag secrets in my projects before looking for a bounty, but in actuality it was some random string in a variable named AWS_ACCESS_KEY etc that we used in a unit test (which mocked out the SDK but still expected the config values to exist at init)
The stack reminds me of the Lean Product Playbook's stack by Dan Olsen.
To be fair, even with our (fast paced?) rate of development we have a hard time to tech fast enough to outrun the industrial damage.

On the other hand, only total extinction might be truly "irreparable".
> but good, evidence based information is also now easier than ever to find.

This assumption does not really work when "the echo chamber" of algorithmic curation and optimization for attention does not expose you to ideas outside of your bubble. It's also true that access to evidence based research, say in open journals, is now easier than ever; that doesn't mean I have enough knowledge to properly understand their implications. That significantly limits the permeability of good, solid information compared to garbage.

It's not at all related to the topic at hand, but Japan recently liberalized their power plan so that consumers can choose who generates the power; a study on Japanese public perception of energy liberalization[0] found that over 30% of these that did not consider power plan switching and over 20% that seriously considered it decided to not go through with the provider switch because they couldn't find enough information or had a hard time understanding. It's just a singular data point, but I think the actual hurdle to absorbing the information as opposed to accessing it is a lot higher.

Things like COVID safety or the shape of the Earth is far more personal and complex (once you go down to quality, evidence based information) than power plans, and they lack the financial incentive that switching power plans have. What makes you think that these people in a bubble would venture out to find quality information or listen to an outsider pointing out just how wrong they are?

Unlike the GP, I'm not personally in favor of censorship, as you say, the freedom of expression and information has far too much benefit to restrict mindlessly. Rather, I want to go back to the pre-"algorithm" days where quality content was spread via word of mouth and not through some engagement metric.

[0] 10.1016/j.erss.2017.09.026 - It's just something tangentially related that I've read recently.
Police claim they need to lie sometimes to effectively fight crime. Also, the presumption is that adults will realize the police are adversarial and won't blindly submit to an authority figure as kids are conditioned to.
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Under ideal conditions, I believe in person is optimal. There really is a sort of collaborative emergence of ideas that I don’t particularly find online, in honesty. The issue is that conditions are almost never ideal, and under non-ideal conditions employee well being and efficiency is much better under WFH.
> The learning curve is an absolute wall when installing,

Not really, unless you did everything with a GUI in other distros before and refused to learn anything about the underlying guts of the OS.
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It's definitely this. I'm an old millenial which is why I still like TV but you're running into content making fun of this stuff if youre watching HBO, etc. Though, both Hulu and YouTube TV carry these channels and shows I'm talking about.
Most places don't care about security very much in general. It is a security leak, albeit usually a minor one.
Thanks for pointing that out. GoodRx is not available from EU (Either due to GDPR or due to not being applicable to non-US readers, I guess). That invalidates my numbers a bit.

However, it´s also pointing to another facet of this issue: the opaqueness of the pricing. In here, price of medication (including insulin) is regulated and it´s the same everywhere, for everyone and no seller-specific discount can be applied.
Hang on; you're still serving ads, no?

So what's this about "free"? I mean, you weren't planning to charge me in the first place.

So you want to set a cookie so that you can make your ads more "targetted", and so more valuable? There's no public evidence that ad targetting even works.

But this "free" business - I suspect that some local US paper doesn't make a lot of money from ads served to EU residents. So is it possible that the lost revenue stream is from selling PII to data brokers? Oh dear - that's pretty evil, even if the visitor isn't in the EU.
Works great here. It is paid for in taxes and the government doesn't take a cut every step, so the tax isn't that high.

Also, food stamps etc are already a thing, and insulin is necessary to, like, live.
I find this is extremely common.

Last year I submitted a working proof of concept with detailed explanations of how you can steal passwords and details of users as an app maker on Shopify, and it got denied for a similar reason (though I dont think it's been fixed). I've since stopped wasting my time on such pursuits.
They're allowed to in investigations: "we have a witness who saw you do it" will sometimes cause actually guilty people to confess, or to start naming accomplices, etc. Or, "we think this was an accident" can elicit "it was, I didn't mean to do it" as a confession.
1) I think you're underestimating the difficulty of accelerating any massive object to relativistic speeds, 2) doing so with enough accuracy to hit a relatively small moving target many light-years away is not exactly trivial, 3) a civilization with the capability to accelerate a massive object to relativistic speeds is probably also capable of building self-sufficient artificial habitats around its star, which is a lot of targets you'd have to take out for complete obliteration.

So in summation, I think defending against an incoming relativistic rock is at least as easy as using relativistic rocks to obliterate a distant civilization.
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making my email more secure (protonmail), my calendar/contacts more secure (Etesync - which is better than what ProtonMail offers), making my hosted notes secure (StandardNotes - free but i pay for an organizational extension that i can't live without), all costs money. Most people aren't going to pay this even though all these services costs me like $17/month total. These three services together are more expensive than Netflix.
Width means little without knowing the slope of the land. The river's main route is narrow (because erosion happens 24/7) and the flood plain is broad (because erosion happens rarely).
The irony is palpable.
We can already hit tiny (Ed: planet sized) targets at interstellar distances. Planets are relatively speaking quite large targets especially if you’re tossing several rocks.

This stuff doesn’t need sci-fi style new physics, just the kind of infrastructure we could actually build.
The difficulty seems to be that it can sometimes cause innocent people to confess too

Edit: adding this link to the excellent and oft-cited "Don't talk to the police [even if you're completely innocent]" lecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
NASA and Space engineering is fascinating! Being able to do this on 30 years old hardware ... In space
I studied a PhD in this field (dropped out after one year).

There are useful prototypes out there ("useful" as in someone with motor neurone disease moving a computer cursor on a text to speech machine), but all of them use invasive, penetrative electrodes that fail after a matter of months as the body rejects them.

The less invasive prototypes have seen no real breakthroughs in the last decade and a half. Only a small percentage of people can use them with any real accuracy, nobody knows why and frankly nobody's doing the research on it.

All the grant money goes to people throwing random ML models at standard datasets and patting themselves on the back when it gets a 2% more accurate fit on one (and only one) set.

Couple this with the fact that technology relying on other biosignals is yielding amazing progress (mainly the translation of voluntary muscle/tendon movement into control signals for a computer, like what Stephen Hawking had but more recently prosthetic hands with dinner and finger control), I suspect that most of the research into BCIs will be put on ice until we have a more complete understanding of how the brain works or can no longer make progress with other control technologies.
Hurrah! We may well need it if the James Webb doesn't go according to plan.

But really, aren't these spacecraft, rovers, exploration programmes, etc. among the best example of what humans can do if they put their minds to it?
Every American should watch this video. There is no reason to talk to the police, it will pretty much never help you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

Edit:
The lawyer made a follow up video clarifying that in routine traffic stops police do have autonomy. So as long as you are reasonable and just showing the policeman you aren't a public menace is seems ok. For any other reason I'd have my lawyer on me no matter what.

Also this video specifically pertains to the 5th US constitutional amendment.

Also IANAL but the guy in the video is.
"The vehicle climbed for approximately 10 seconds, reaching a height of roughly 85 m (279 ft) before starting to descend, and making a controlled landing back on its landing legs approximately 25 seconds after take-off." [1]

It did two other flights, but nobody seems to know how far up those went.

New Shepard has undergone 15 test flights to around 100km (suborbital), so that's something I guess.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin_Goddard
Talking to the police is a bad idea at any age.
Thanks. When you began working on the main docs, did you start with a pre-built theme or did you start from scratch?
Yea I was looking at Riverside.fm and I think it's the best tool around, still need the parties to be on a laptop and Chrome.

Will check if Google Voice works easily in Italy.
That would be:

...61893587

We start writing the digits right to left an pi/4 is about 0.78539816...
The German Tank Problem is one example of this.

The Allies estimated how many tanks Germany was producing based on the serial numbers, and this gave a closer result compared to other intelligence sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
Because lying works, propaganda works. You won't ever be able to convince everyone but you can confuse enough people that there isn't a united front that demands change. Especially those who want to believe because they're comfortable and thus reluctant to challenge the status quo. Also people who aren't intelligent enough to understand what's going on.
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Yes, but it's been a tough road. Part of the Obama health care reform plan was to allow specific states to opt out of federal requirements if they could provide universal coverage at the state level. It's been started and abandoned in a few states. It's currently working it's way through the legislature in New York which has liberal majorities across the board, but it's still going slowly.
....we have never hit anything at interstellar distances, which are several orders of magnitude farther than interplanetary distances.
That is perhaps what is claimed, but there are plenty of adults who for various reasons, lack capacity to make such judgements as well, or even realise that the Police might not be telling the truth. There could be lots of different reasons for this too - whether something like being raised to trust the police blindly, through to having learning difficulties.
Admitting would imply that they were hiding it previously which they were not. Why would they? The courts have generally said it is ok which is why legislation is required to stop the practice.
I did the 2 week quarantine in Thailand (I went in knowing I had to quarantine). It wasn't bad but I was in a 5 star hotel with amazing food. Couldn't even leave the room which was a little ridiculous though.
Hubble "sees" different wavelengths than JWT, also, both are overbooked. So we really want Hubble as long as possible, no matter how the JWT launch goes.
Hi there!

They only need be registered as unemployed. The law [0] is in Russian but Google Translate does a good job [1], see 5.d

Free medical care in Russia is far from perfect, of course -- sometimes you have to wait for a month for an ultrasonic scan, sometimes they give you Russian insulin instead of Danish, but they will save you from a heart attack, install a stent and provide with necessary medications for at least a year.

[0] http://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_107289/7e136d...

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http:...
I don’t know what ECS is. You should define the acronym…
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Charitable attribution? They have/had a shared interest in transhumanism and the funding of research in that area.

Non-charitable attribution? They like young girls.
The definition I usually use (speaking loosely for the moment) is that prime numbers are natural numbers greater than one whose divisors are only one and itself.

Speaking more formally, a natural number p is a prime if and only if:

a) p > 1

b) for any natural number n satisfying 1 < n < p, p mod n ≠ 0
Also if the universe is infinite, is it the one with or without axiom of choice ?

Can you always pick the center of each universe in a universe of infinite universes ? Any point can be the center, you just need to pick one.
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> After hours of interrogation, police told one of the teenagers, Terrill Swift, that if he just confessed to being at the scene he could go home

Isn't it already illegal to interrogate a minor without their parents? In any case, this story sounds similar to the Central Park Five / Exonerated Five.

Unfortunately, police in Chicago have committed lots of illegal acts during interrogations. I'm worried that making more things illegal may not have significant impact if they just deny lying after the fact.
Thanks for sharing your experience, it must be really hard as a parent in times like this
I'm not into pianos, but this hit me right in the "old internet" nostalgia. Anyone who wasn't there for an internet before Facebook and Amazon, there was a time when the whole internet was like this (and science research and porn and other stuff, but I was a kid and looked at this kinda thing). Just someone who is obviously an amazing person writing about something they know or did on their own website. Pure HTML with some photos dropped in along the way. Would have been 30 seconds MP3 downloads instead of YouTube videos, though. So maybe a site like this is the best of both worlds.
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I think critics of this technique are forgetting how incredibly manipulative film is.

It’s a cool new spice on a crowded spice rack.
We have public hospitals already. People happily opt out. They’d opt out even harder if there was a tax break.
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it's very likely the baker submission to science forced DM's hand.
Don't know why you got downvoted.

As a former GDPR compliance officer for a company managing about 40 customer websites, I can confirm that GDPR compliance is not burdensome or costly, unless you are intent on violating the GDPR. You appoint someone on your tech staff as compliance officer, and as an organisation you make sure that complaints are handled.

Handling complaints is something any business should be able to do, GDPR or not; a business that can't handle complaints isn't a viable business.
But they have the secrets, can't they check that it's the actual secret ?
I wasn't even thinking about their states trying to take resources by force.

What would happen if 20% of India decided that their society has collapsed and they should migrate at any cost to some developed country?
I thought we used to call that 'fraud'....

If the police are lying to the people, then why can't we assume the witnesses are lying... The police are supposed to be more reliable, after all.
"then failed for the most unexpected sh1t"

I am curious. Would you be willing to tell us what happened ?
I personally wouldn't put something like bootstrap in the same category as all the things i wrote down.

Android is not 'just' an mobile os ;its a free globally used mobile operating system used activly by over 3 billion people with an easy way to incorporate your own app market.

I have not mentioned something like googles material design or angular.

Google maps gave everyone a free few on the earth in a time where you had to pay for maps on your expensive navigation system. It took OpenStreetMap a while to do the same.
Wait you can get to run Kodi on the Link? I might be missing on some fun there... guess it's time for me to do some searching!
The article contradicts itself several times on what the actual fix was.
Yeah, they make money by working the convoluted US system.

It isn't good that the prices vary, but it's been long enough that people with substantial drug costs should be doing some basic checks, discussing the highest quoted US prices doesn't reflect what people are paying.
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That may be your opinion, but an invoice in at least the Netherlands needs an monotonically increasing number. And it needs to be on the invoice and your customer needs to be able to see it.

[edit]
It's even EU-wide, see article 226(2) of directive 2006/112/EC:

> a sequential number, based on one or more series, which uniquely identifies the invoice;
The first thing I wondered about these comments is how often "Peak Oil" would be mentioned. There has been no peak oil related crash. I think the world's economy and markets are now resilient enough to safely say 'peak oil' will never be a cause for the collapse of civilization. Rising energy prices will just usher out the age of fossil fuels faster.

I now wonder what happens when (if?) we get to 'net 0' (which hasn't been mentioned in these comments). If we can reach a point of unlimited, renewable, clean energy that's (almost) too cheap to meter, that just upends any model because it'll zero out factors that are parts of or 'limits' in those models.

- Lack of fresh water: solved by free/clean energy (desalinization)

- Lack of adequate food supply: solved by free/clean energy (fertilizer production)

- Lack of resources: potentially solved by free/clean energy (asteroid farming? recycling?)

It's hard to imagine a problem that unlimited, clean energy won't help solve.

The question is, can we get to net zero?
I have exactly the same use case and everytime I had to choose a platform before buying I was hoping Valve would release a handheld machine, my wish was granted :).
Police shouldn't be allowed to lie to anyone for any reason.
> IMO, that there is a divine is incredibly obvious.

There is absolutely no evidence of such a thing, in fact, all major religions require that lack of evidence, it's a fundamental feature of them.
Wow, I watched it and didn't realize. In retrospect, I think I actually did like the deepfake audio more than if a different narrator spoke, but it would have been better if there was a disclaimer in the beginning that he didn't actually voice them.
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No joke, have you thought about selling your exploits to other actors?

Exploitation has such a rich history between sellers, buyers, and users; the marketplace is way more sophisticated than what it was in the 90s.

You can probably get $5k to $20k for the exploit to Shopify. There are plenty of nationstate actors that create honeypots for a variety of targets. I'm sure Shopify exploits are worth something to someone.
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>I wouldn't be surprised if C++ was in very gradual but terminal decline.

I am quite sceptical that this will ever happen. C and C++ are fated to live together and forever :-)

The "accidental" rise of Web Applications gave a fillip to other languages simply because most of the early programmers were non-CS people. But once these apps hit their limits at scale they had no other option but to fallback to C++. So most often you only have a shim/skeleton app written in some other language whereas the libraries/guts are all written in C++.
> 1. Hijack an existing library

Hijack or buy outright an existing library. IIRC, there have been many such instances where existing projects have been sold for large sums to questionable parties.
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I'm wondering if this couldn't be used as a way to confirm or search for secrets: push huge files with many "secrets", if it's rejected, then you know it has a valid one, then rince and repeat with a binary search to find the one.
Why wouldn't they just ban those particular things for all suspects, not just for minors?
> IANAL

Maybe you are not a lawyer; but perhaps you should actually read the GDPR before suggesting that it's possible to waive all one's rights under the GDPR.
We could decrease our rate of consumption/production, for one. The rate at which we're consuming is what's unsustainable. We have enough resources today to cover everyone's needs. The problem is we are producing well past that, and even still not everyone is getting what they need. Just look at how much food is thrown into dumpsters every day. Or all the energy locked up in landfills in the form of deteriorating plastics and electronics. All the junkyards filled with cars. Look at the thousands of acres of almond farms in CA's central valley. It takes a gallon of water to grow a single almond, yet the central valley is in perpetual drought. A better allocation of resources is what's needed.

We live in a society where everything is disposable, and that has a huge energy cost that we don't factor in because energy is so cheap right now. When energy is more expensive, repairing, conserving, and reusing a thing will be a better choice instead of throwing it out and buying a new one.
Any chance they had of getting me as a customer died when they started doing Epic store exclusives. I won't give them money to build another walled garden. There's more than a few games I haven't purchased because of those deals and by the time they finally come to steam I don't care enough about them anymore to spend the money.
If we consider the average consumer of these products and not the average HN reader, doesn't that qualify as an absolute wall?