skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The behaviour of the press really has concerned me during the pandemic, I know yellow/tabloid journalism is nothing new but that kind of sensationalism on top of highly targeted social media is. I have no doubt the press as an industry is at least in part morally responsible for causing cases of intractable anxiety and depression in their customers. Media outlets have a Darwinian struggle for your attention and the emotions of fear, rage, and rushed judgement against your neighbours all produce incredible engagement metrics. Think of how many people came to watch public executions in the 19th century for example, we as humans eat that kind of thing up like a half-starved labrador.

Since social media became widespread our society has possessed a well-oiled machine powered by human sentiment and the pandemic has filled that machine's fuel tank with liquid fear and suspicion. News sites don't exist to report the news, they exist to get your eyeballs on them whatever the cost and drive up their site traffic (in the case of most media outlets to serve more ads, in the case of the BBC it's an enormous part of the UK's soft power domestically and overseas).

Think of how many inaccuracies, oversimplifications, and claiming that edge-cases are the norm goes on in the press when it comes to our industry, the tech industry. How many times do we read unsubstantiated bollocks even from supposedly reputable publications about AI or cybersecurity, roll our eyes at the obvious inaccuracies, and move on to the next article about COVID which we suddenly take at face value as though our last reaction never happened at all? The truth is usually messy, complicated, and with hundreds of asterisks; it often cannot be made concise or useful to get eyeballs on ads. It certainly can't be concisely summed up in a five-minute article or judged as a binary true or false by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg.

That's not even mentioning the likes of the UK's SPI-B (a subcommittee of SAGE) which I think has acted very unethically in its approach of employing what in my opinion are abusive behavioural psychology tactics against the British population. The reliance on inducing fear among the general public to improve compliance statistics I think will be judged very harshly by future historians, and this deliberate emotional colouring of current affairs by public sector authorities won't just go away with the pandemic; a power once used is rarely given up voluntarily. The nice thing about conspiracy theories is that they give a feeling that at least somebody is in control however malevolent and that's actually a comforting thought to many, but I think the reality is that we've built an enormous machine that in an Asimov-esque way has run out of control doing exactly what we told it to do: optimise eyeballs on ads with engaging content. Nobody's really in control, and I think that's terrifying to a lot of people.
Speaking as a citizen of the french colonial empire which has pretended since at least WWII that being blind to race would erase racism, it definitely has not. Moreover, ignoring racial issues only reinforces racism by making it harder to denounce.

Under Sarkozy's very authoritarian and racist presidency (though in retrospect Hollande and Macron have pushed those same tendencies even further), there were public debates on national television about removing racial equality from human rights declaration (or was it constitution?) because "race does not exist so mentioning it is reinforcing racism".

Putting problems under the carpet does not make them go away. It's important that race does not become the central factor in explaining things (because there's many other factors) because that would be an essentialist reduction that reinforces racism... there needs to be place for class, gender, ability and other components in social studies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism

EDIT: It's common here in France to hear someone say "How can you talk about racism when there's no such thing as human races! It's scientifically proven, so your claims of racism are ridiculous!"
> The only people still using checks or pennies are more than likely elderly.

And of course almost every single brick-and-mortar business...
I can confidently say I would rather not have to view most people's nudes.
There shouldn't be any if the party has such absolute power and no concern for the people in the way of a project.
I don't see how the right to bear arms, interpreted in any way, could possibly be a human rights abuse.

Which human right is being abused by the 2nd amendment?
Much of the AGESA code for booting the system remains hidden.
The iOS tool scans a backup, but the Android tool "check-for-infection tool" checks for messages pointing to NSO domains. I recently got a strange massage, is this list public?
I'm not really sure how I feel about this. An issue that immediately jumped out at me is privacy, especially when they advertise web browsing (Brave, Chrome, Firefox) as a good use of this product.

I wouldn't feel OK doing around 90% of my web browsing on what is basically someone else's machine. I wouldn't feel safe logging in to websites, exchanging cookies, secure tokens, and just being in control of my browsing history. It's kind of akin to doing your everyday browsing on a library computer—it's a no-no.

We don't know how secure their VMs are, the VM-to-VM separation (can other instances use exploits/loopholes to peek into my home directory?) and at-rest data protection (encrypted at rest? can the owners see the saved data?).
I've never had a refund denied. One was for 20k on an account that only billed that much monthly. If it's an honest mistake they'll wipe it if you have any history with them.
That's if you take the expatriot exemption. Doing so has many implications including not being able to legally contribute to an IRA or SEP account. Even with the exemption, you still owe taxes on Social Security and Medicare. Social Security checks ship abroad, but the Medicare is not redeemable nor are there any exemptions for it. There's been years of editorials of regular Joe retirees not realizing this til late that they paid Medicare their whole lives to get in a big medical bind in another country.
Why make it unmanned when you have an army of soldiers. Put a man in there to steer or scuttle the ship if needed.
Abba never officially ended - and indeed they are actively working on a new tour at the moment
Did anyone else find the writing style confusing, in that it wasn't clear if the listed people had installed Pegasus to use it on others, rather than finding it installed on their cell phones to spy on them?
Finally in the last part of the article, one can infer the obvious (and expected) assumption. For example Macron has secure phones for official secure conversations, but his personal iPhone has been hacked, and Pegasus has been installed, to spy on him. (Not for him.)
The MA state free online tax forms are about as easy to use as Turbotax.

US Digital Service and GSA 18f have been doing good stuff for the government for over a decade.
It absolutely is a problem of predatory companies spending money on lobbying against simpler tax code. An equal share of the blame is on the politicians accepting these “legal” bribes against the interests of their constituents.

Lobbyists were supposed to be for promoting the interests of small groups that might not have the representation among a politicians constituents to warrant paying attention to. Instead we have rampant and excessive spending by corporations that lobby to keep their monopolies over segments of the market that harm American citizens.

- https://www.nbcnews.com/business/taxes/turbotax-h-r-block-sp...
- https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...
- https://abcnews.go.com/Business/turbotax-lobbies-lawmakers-t...
Venmo Curbs Visibility on Payments So Strangers Can’t See Them
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I like all print books, but especially used ones for their texture, smell, and other intangible factors like holding a piece of history. Whenever I travel I make it a point to also stop by a used bookstore to pick something up. I try to avoid ebooks when possible, but sometimes things like technical manuals are easier to digest/search/etc electronically.
The Dish ‘fix’ for the T-Mobile-Sprint merger seems more shortsighted than ever
If you're the only person that always hear dogwhistles... Maybe you are the dog?
Daniel Hale, a ‘Second Snowden’, Leaked Drone Wars Documents
> 11. Retention of Information

> All Information provided by you, save and except upon withdrawal or termination, shall be retained in locations outside the direct control of the Company (for instance, on servers or databases co-locates with hosting providers). We will delete Information based on a request received from you within a reasonable period and latest within thirty (30) days of receiving a deletion request. However, we may retain such portions of Information and for such periods as may be required under Applicable Law. Notwithstanding anything contained herein, Company may retain data after account deletion for reasons including but limited to the following purposes: If there is an unresolved issue relating to your account, or an unresolved claim or dispute; If we are required to by Applicable Law, and/or in aggregated and/or anonymized form, or Company may also retain certain information if necessary, for its legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention and enhancing Users' safety and security.

https://neverinstall.com/privacy

--

If I understand it right, information is kept for an unknown period of time unless the user sends a deletion request. I am not sure pressing the "delete" button at the end of a session acts as a deletion request, but I hope so.
As a Clojure developer focused on creating correct/working software, I find the "Simple"-ness of my tooling's internal architecture to be a lower priority than it not leaking additional cognitive load onto my dev experience.

It may be the case that lein's internals are a blob of complexity, without boundaries defined in the "right" places. Maybe Clojure Tools' 3 or 4 components have it correct (though I'm skeptical of that, since there's overlap between them -- even moreso now with tools.build).

Conversely, it may be that build tooling is by its nature a messy affair (dealing with dependencies, resources on the filesystem/network, interaction with tools, tests, etc.), and that making those problems go away to the extent technically possible does your community of developers the greatest service. That would explain why talk of CLI and deps invariably has pushback and lein advocacy.

I wouldn't know if lein is internally complex because I've never had to go digging in it beyond the documentation project.clj file, even to do rather complex build definitions. By comparison, I've easily spent man-weeks on getting to the same place with deps.edn, and I would still find even defining the roles of its components difficult if pressed. I also worry that if we hit new Clojure devs with a wall of tooling issues like this, they won't stick around, even if we tell them the underlying theory of their tooling is more sound.
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Did something similar. I didn't care if the fee was like $30. But I needed their investment/small business tier and it was in the multiple hundreds of dollars.

Switched to a different service.

I know people want privacy, but I'd sell my income and personal company finances for $500. Where is that tax company?
Edit:
I misunderstood the problem again. Sorry for that. Talking with users, made me realise that they want to directly go to learn Python rather than learning "Fundamentals of Computing". I will be dividing up the course into three smaller courses and will be moving "Fundamentals of Computing" into its own course.

Thank you for pointing this out, I really appreciate it.
Interesting but no way is it faster!
> Does it need to be loadable via pickle? Torch? Tensorflow?

If they don’t use pickle, they shouldn’t release in pickle format. They should release in a format such that you can take the source they release and use the model weights as required “installation information” and run the software. Probably the native format for the app.

We don’t know if they do or they don’t. That would be a matter to be decided in the court. Likewise you might argue the weights are not installation information in the GPL sense. Stock fish asserts they don’t release weights. Chess base hasn’t commented. I can’t find them.

Simply stating “the software runs! The weights must already be distributed” isn’t correct in the sense that the GPL demands. By analogy, “the software runs the source must already be distributed” isn’t correct in the same way.

I looked I don’t even see where they are releasing the code.
Is it this? https://github.com/DanielUranga/Stockfish
It does change the dynamic / comfort though. Would you rather ask AWS to please revert $5k they put on your card, or talk with them about $5k they'd like to charge you but can't?
> Only thing I can think of is perhaps that could reduce rainfall in neighboring areas which would have received the rain.

…which seems significant, no? If you fast forward to a water deprived future (uh, present?) and give nation states the ability to take water that would have fallen on neighbouring countries and take it for themselves… I don’t see how that ends well.

Don’t get me wrong, the technology is fascinating and on purely technological terms it’s a great development. But yes, it could lead to some strange outcomes.
But unless you plan to block your card and ignore AWS' email(might not be a healthy thing for business), how will prepaying bad?
Totally unrelated but good luck today with your interview! You have a stranger on the internet rooting for you
>> In total, 30 kilograms of marijuana and 55 of hashish were found during the operations in Spain and France.

Yeah. A bit ambiguous. I guess the mention of cocaine was to improve the profile of the bust.
Don't delete your comment, it was pretty neat
> Even Unix follows this pattern for process creation!

That does not make it a good pattern.
I think the most depressing is the celebration of something that is kilometers away from an achievement. Its just a pure ego trip from bezos.

That said its not bad space interest more and more people these days
How does e.g. Android Studio work? Can I use USB debugging with a device connected to my local device for example?

If not, this seems pretty much useless.

Also, I don't really see the advantage of this compared with full Windows cloud workstations offered by Amazon and (soon) Microsoft.
The execution of Liverpool Waters so far is pretty crap. Reading-on-Sea.
The only ones who can detect dog whistles are dogs.
> 2) Tolerating the gross misbehavior of one state or leader because you perceive them as a bulwark against other worse leaders is an extremely foolish course. Not only does it expose ones ideals as being hollow and situational, but it often creates new problems that must be contained later.

The summary of US foreign policy since WW2 x)
I think you could, yes. It’s a different question as to how fast you’d hit the limit, but definitely possible to do a “this site can only have 100000 visits” type art project.
Well, stack exchange already turned me into a bad programmer, so...

I actually think that there are so many layers of software between the app you develop and the machine, that it is almost impossible to know every detail. There are language, runtime, compiler experts that will certainly know more in their respective domain.

I develop embedded systems, mostly bare metal and Linux based systems. Being able to read the output of a C compiler can indeed help. But that isn't really my expectation when I develop higher level applications.

In general I would support this statement though. Use copilot if it really suggests what you wanted to write anyway and have done so countless times. If it suggest some arcane wundercode, maybe try to write it yourself first.
Not much of a feature.

If that could be used as a hard limit that would be more interesting
I'm a vocal anti advocate. Hope you do too.
This has been upsetting me about some of what I believe are people raised on the current regime of FAANGesque flattening of society, lot of things have this built in assumption that public services are so unlimited that their cost is not appreciated. Like the gov can be as omnipresent and self sacrificing as a diety.
Oh yes, please. And to all the other commenters that suggest workarounds: Yes, better than nothing, but not exactly a solution to get beginners on board. AWS is complicated enough even without all the billing headaches.
Winning a premier league title and the scousers go nuts. Maybe being a WHS isn't as financially valuable as having an elite footballing culture that brings in many more millions from around the world.
There are so many fun consequences of no free will,

For one, if we don’t have free will, no one could bother one way or the other whether they argue about it.

It would also just be a feature of the universe that clouds of atoms take one position or the other :)
The replies to this thread highlight how there are two different camps of computer user.

One camp, full of very able computer users, responds immediately with techniques and suggestions for how to do something, because (1) that's what they'd want to hear, and (2) they're generous with their advice.

The second camp says "Why shouldn't the UI do what my intuition clearly craves? I'm not interested in learning alternate ways to bend my mind just to do something that Apple could have provided with minimal effort."
Everything is a probability game; it’s not about reducing risk to zero (impossible!) but having less risk than the alternative.
In the US many police departments and personnel are under-trained, but no, "the most responsible party" are the human beings doing the swatting, regardless of their age. So if I'm young and "stupid" I can go around murdering people?
Radio communication is made more difficult by being surrounded by water.
> One is a multinational corporation with untold influence which hoards exploits for black box software and hardware.

colt? or nso? not clear from the comment…
Planning the Attack on Pearl Harbor: A desperate gamble
Let's compare Cali with the most advanced country in the EU - Germany:

- In Cali you will earn 6-10 times more than in Germany as a top-tier software engineer, but even an average dev. makes much more money

- Weather is much better in Cali

- You can make friends much easier in Cali comparing to Germany

- A lot of people are depressed in Germany

- Despite higher salaries, many products are cheaper in USA. Electricity is 3 times cheaper, Gas is much cheaper, the laptop I buy from Lenovo is 30% cheaper in USA...

- English is much easier than German, so you don't need to waste 3-4 years of your life just to learn another language
Sweden uses tax policy to influence things and our taxes are just as easy. The state knows most stuff and then we just go in and adjust the default.

So, no, the reason is that they have all the information already and for most people just need you to verify it. In the US, the tax companies are lobbying the government to keep it difficult. The subject has been covered on HN every year during tax season.
The Irish remdelling in 1996 improved the centre of Manchester. I haven't lived or worked there for a long time, but I was interested to watch Manctopia [0] to see how modern development was effecting the city

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lwn1
That's a reasonable point, but doesn't particularly address the issue.
The Tragedy of the Commons takes to the skies.
My alarm bells would go off if someone claimed to know what is best for the whole species.

If individuals are not rational as you say, then how would politicians, technocrats or other central planners be rational?

If an individual doesn't have the right to coerce you, how does a collective of individuals have the right to coerce you?

Individualism is the decentralization of information and decision making. It has a different failure mode. If we accept that men are fallible, then individualism allows for a competition of solutions and ideas. Humans will never be perfect. Decentralization allows us to progress and iterate faster than central planning, which has all of the same problems with what you call "irrationality".
>That experiment was halted because it didn't move the security metrics as much as they wanted

So they hypocritically said. In fact it was halted because there was blowback from users and pundits concerned with this.

>It is therefore very obvious that the conspiracy surrounding the motivation was ridiculous.

Well, I have a bridge in Brookly to sell...
Ask HN: How to get into computerized sports betting?
A knife or a brick are not (with a few exceptions) tools that are only designed for killing people, so no, I could not say that about them.

(However, if you do sell a "Throat-cutting knife" for cutting people's throats, and someone buys it and cuts somebody's throat, then hell yes you are responsible for that.)
> most professionals in the UK will need to file taxes, but accountants are very cheap here

I'm guessing you're conflating professionals with contractors, as most high earning professionals I know do not need an accountant to file their taxes, as it's all just done on a self assessment, which is extremely straight forward, and there's little opportunity to game that system effectively.

Meanwhile contractors operating through Ltd entities (now may be hamstrung somewhat with IR35) absolutely should be leveraging an accountant to take advantage of the various ways to reduce their taxable earnings.
I live not far from a city in the US where a house that is left vacant for more than a few days WILL get it's copper wiring, copper plumbing, and HVAC units stolen.

So no, scrap dealers do not have to do much (if any) due diligence around here
Just a heads up, your link has a trailing semi-colon, which deters from just clicking on it to go to the destination. Although it probably doesn't matter any more, as the entire post was marked dupe and removed.

In any case, good luck with the interview!
> BTW, I would never write anything in a book. I wonder if I'm the only one.

You're not. I don't consider myself the final owner of the things I possess.
I think most of the cost for medium-large sized business are elastic(number of pods, bandwidth cost depends on requests per second, storage cost for many things increases linearly with users etc).
Anomaly Detection in Clinical Data to Increase Drug Safety
The former. But if we're talking about $5M instead, I'd be completely terrified of both options.
Amazon’s New World Mmorpg Could Destroy RTX 3090
We are a funded startup and are working really hard to grow and never shut shop. Even if things dont go well we will provide all our users an option and enough time to backup their data.
I’m not sure what you consider the conclusion to be, but large-scale refactorings at Google do happen in the way described in the article, with the bulk of the migration done using many commits done in parallel.

Being able to rollback is indeed important and reducing the sizes of commits makes it less painful. If one project has a problem, unrelated projects won’t see the churn.

Or at least that’s how it was done when I was there. It’s been a while.
You also can use this to meet credit card minimum spending for credit card bonuses.
I remember a town, not too long ago (5 years?) Hilo I believe, that had parking meters that stated:
"Nickel or penny for convenience"
For 10 minutes of parking.
Professional titles confer too much undeserved authority in an egalitarian world