skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People will "disagree" and, IMO, that is why we have laws. To resolve the "moral ambiguity" that some folks have. A system of laws is not a perfect, mind you, but, IMO, its better than nothing. When there are debates on HN about tax avoidance/minimisation, people often claim the problem is with the legislature. Any suggestion of ethics is insufficient; they want laws before they will agree there is any reason for tax avoiders to change their behaviour. In the absence of "moral clarity", laws are helpful.

If one does not want persons other than the recipient(s) to read their mail without permission, is it a good idea to let a third party hold your mail for you such that it can be obtained through legal process by a fourth party without your knowledge. "Tech" companies providing "email storage" would never tell you not to use their "service" as it is against their interest.
This Sublime feature has worked for me except for a single time... During one of the interim, 3.x upgrades I lost all of the open but not saved notes files.
Did you ever come across a person who was < x1, like a x0.5 (they overestimated)? I know developers generally undershoot, which is why we joke about making your best estimate and multiplying it by 2-3. But does no one really ever reliably overestimates?

If the answer is never or rarely then that lends a reasonable amount of credence to the idea of just multiplying your estimates. Because you most likely should and the chance of overestimating is low.
Now we just let them operate sleep deprieved.
glad you have it all figured out—may I ask how you achieved this enlightenment? did the sense of superiority over others come with it or was that the result of something else?
$2k CAD ($1,591.79 USD)a month vs 600 * 4.33 = $2599 USD (which is in addition to unemployment insurance).
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores true

Run these both in Terminal, and either restart Finder or just reboot. Should solve that problem.

The whole point of those files was to store Mac-related metadata (such as icon positions and other stuff) that the filesystem in question did not have the capability to store, to preserve Mac users' expectations.
Instead of a pile of machines, imagine a vast opaque bureaucracy, where any individual participant doesn't have any decision-making power and must follow a prescribed set of steps. I think this is partially what fuels nightmares of your average modern luddite.

If you follow a happy path in such a system, everything is fine. But if you don't, it gets Kafkaesque. Check out a first hand account [0] for flavor.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/
I think he is missing a major problem:

> We enter solution mode and start thinking about solutions for those flaws and how we'd design those items. We are so intelligent. We'd make it better, wouldn't we?

> However, when we do this kind of analysis, we may miss the context. Maybe the folks responsible for the design had constraints. It can be a tight timeline, low-quality, or too-expensive materials. Sometimes, it's a waterfall process, and it's too late or too expensive to fix it.

The second paragraph gives plausible reasons why the product might be bad/overly complex: maybe changing requirements interfered with waterfall process? Or maybe they had a hidden design constraint, like "can run on shared hosting machine without root access" or "our CEO insisted we use Mongo"?

But if those were the reason, then yes, we could make a much better version, possibly even during the weekend. Because we know our requirements, and we no longer care about ancient hosting, and our CEO is sane and allows us to use whatever technologies make sense for the project. So our solution will be objectively better: smaller, easier to maintain, faster and more feature-full.

I've seen a great example of this in the past: there was a certain component that was crashy and very hard to maintain. And some day, one of the developers looked at it and tried to figure out why it was so complex for the things it did. Turns out it was built to outdated requirements which no longer applied to us, like "LISP bindings", "big-endian machines", "C89 only", and "no external libraries". They rewrote it from scratch in a week and the new version was vastly simpler and much more stable. The conclusion was simple: sometimes the software is complex because of 2nd order effect.. but sometimes it is complex for no good reason.
It isn't nearly enough time, he'll be out in 2 years. He fucking killed someone and he's walking away with a slap on the wrist. Fuck that guy.
A counter-example: https://daml.com/

Daml is essentially a smart-contract language using Haskell syntax with built-in primitives for privacy & authorization (e.g., so you don't have to either make your whole ledger public or private)

Worth checking out if you're into DLT & PLs! :)

Disclaimer: I work for the company developing this.
> As bad as it was for your father it doesn’t sound like the taxi driver paid him to commit criminal acts he was otherwise unaware he was committing.

Just like 99.999% of Uber drivers haven't experienced that situation either. Do you really think that taxi companies of the past aren't guilty of even worse crimes? At least Uber is a big enough target that you can seek some sort of justice, good luck getting any sort of justice from the scumbag taxi companies.
I would imagine that what would end up being implemented would be more nuanced. If most of your on-paper net worth is unsellable assets, I don't think it would be much of a stretch to say those wouldn't be subject to a hypothetical wealth tax.

Tax law has plenty of examples of various assets having unaccessed value until it's sold. Publicly tradable shares have value because I can sell them to someone for a fairly visible price. If I can't sell it, you could make the argument it's really not worth anything.

AMT also happens plenty to non-startup world people. Own a house and have a combined household income of >200k? You're probably dealing with AMT.
Sounds like you washed out of a toxic lab and are now lashing out at some 20-something’s’ funny side projects.
To add on to my other comment -

Student debt:

https://nltimes.nl/2020/10/27/average-student-loan-eu700-per...

“An average loan of 700 euros per month means that study debts of 50,000 euros are no longer an exception.
(…)
It makes sense that students work more due to higher costs of room rent and tuition fees and less income thanks to the lack of the basic grant.”

Home ownership:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ow...

The NL and USA differ in home ownership by ~4% (69 vs 65.3). That’s not statistically significant to be honest.

—-

There’s a lot of myths in Dutch society, and the majority of people are not aware of reality.
Yeah you're probably right - my tax knowledge of this area is not great since I haven't had to care about it.

I think that kicks in after $20M?
The grey market (unlicensed) weed guys in Vancouver just use cars and ring the doorbell when they arrive.

In the summer, some of them have bikes...
That's not an appropriate punishment. This should have been first degree murder. There was intention to create risk of injury or death.

Also, there were other crimes committed that should have increased the severity of the crime.

1) This was an attempt to rob the victim of the "@tennessee" Twitter handle.

2) The perpetrator has done this before.

3) This was a false police report that put not only the victim, but also the police force in danger. It also reduced the ability of the police to respond to actual emergencies.

Totally underwhelming punishment.
Is not the main point of the article but the article cite another researcher saying that “Some archaea don’t even divide into two cells; they divide into three. There are many, many mysteries in archaea,” I googled it up couldn't but find it, any idea about it?
> While the effect of residents is small, the usage of other sectors is, ultimately, in service of residents

As long as unsustainable water usage continues to be subsidized, I, as a customer, have little ability to prioritize less water intensive products.

If you want consumers to make informed choices, either add the externalities to the monetary price, or enforce rationing.
But why do we have to go to Mars to invent all those things? Aren't there enough incentives to invent them in the context of helping our own planet?
> major corporations aren't paying their fair share

Define fair share.

> From underpaying workers (who have to use public assistance)

I'll never understand this line of reasoning. Would you rather have people who can't earn enough to support themselves earn $0 and rely entirely on public assistance? That's what will happen if you require employers to pay people more than the value they generate.

> Thanks to amazon I have more heavy delivery trucks running up and down my street. Meaning that street wears out faster, meaning my tax money is gonna have to repave it.

Presumably Amazon delivery trucks are using gasoline, and fuel/sales taxes should cover some of those repairs. Also, presumably those trucks are using those roads because members of the community are asking Amazon to deliver stuff to them, so I don't see why the community shouldn't bear some of the burden of repairing the roads as well.
I must say, as much as I agree with the contents of your argument, and I am not saying this was intentional, I resent the fact that you've co-opted the reply-space to plug back in managerial or organizational culture issues, which was already being discussed in the rest of the thread extensively.

I wish you would have stayed on topic with the idea of customer culture issues, or lack thereof.
It'll be very interesting to see what Jones and Andres do with the money.
I don't know what you're talking about, I always confuse my coworkers by doing

Pointe = namedtuple('Point'...
> Perhaps if OLPC had been successful things might have turned out differently, Maybe there's still a chance to build a OLPC using latest hardware like RPi 400.

At India scale they could design their own machines. Something like a ThinkPad X60 where the motherboard can attach a RPI Compute Module.
Is doxxing illegal, though? It kinda depends on the circumstances.
I agree he should have got more, but murder 1 requires intent to kill.
> Judge Norris said he was giving Sonderman the maximum sentenced allowed by law under the statute — 60 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, but implied that his sentence would be far harsher if the law permitted.

So, it seems like statute requires updating to increase the maximum sentence permitted for such crimes. Another question is: would that dissuade these attacks by these actors? I'm unsure.

Call your representative(s). While the American justice system leaves much to be desired, I don't think more time for effectively ordering a hit through social engineering is excessively punitive. Ross Ulbricht of Silk Road fame is doing far more time, in part, for paying someone to perform a hit that didn't take place (it was a factor in affirming his life sentence) [1] [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Trial

[2] https://www.wired.com/2017/05/silk-road-creator-ross-ulbrich...
How are deadline dates assigned? Is the deadline exactly the same as the estimated completion date?

Realistic estimates aren't padded, but they still have significant probability of being inaccurate. After all, they're estimates, not information from the future transmitted to the past.
I believe the judge said that they wanted to sentence him to more time, but the law limited it.
OK, but I didn't say that no one can write C without bugs. I said that blaming languages is good, that we'll all lose due to people continuing to use C, that C programs aren't inherently smaller and faster than other languages, and that people should treat writing C as they would treat writing crypto.
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Bonus and/or equity grants via review feedback are a blunt but effective tool. You could probably reduce this to "My team is not highly engaged/motivated, and I think it would better meet my company's needs if they were. How can I improve that?"
I know everyone wants to be upset at the "swatter" but few people seem to be upset that it is even possible. It shouldn't be possible to be murdered from a phone call.
So evil, and for such a trifling thing. What a shame.

> Other victims of the group told prosecutors their tormentors further harassed them by making false reports of child abuse to social services local to the target’s area, and false reports in the target’s name to local suicide prevention hotlines.

> Eventually, when subjects of their harassment refused to sell or give up their Twitter and Instagram usernames, Sonderman and others would swat their targets — or make a false report to authorities in the target’s name with the intention of sending a heavily armed police response to that person’s address.
Our paths crossed on the engineering team of a certain letterbox flower company, for a short time at least. Good to see you doing well Tom, nice article.
Some of their peers, perhaps, but much less of a disadvantage than they would have been at before smartphones.
I find it's low quality libraries that tend to have poor documentation. Perhaps that's 99% of open source libraries.
Does Swatting exist in any other country that is not the USA? Because I see two problems here, one is the criminal that make the calls, the other is what it seems a severely lack of training of the Swat teams.
> If this is all a massive dick measuring contest, I honestly couldn't care less. It's advancing space exploration and providing competition in the space.

This is the crux of your argument, and it's the core disagreement. Blue origin does nothing to advance space exploration just by virtue of existing. They are not competitive.
> You're saying that the solution to k8s is complicated and hard to debug is to move to another cloud and hope that fixes it?

Not in the slightest. I'm saying that building a platform against k8s let's you migrate between cloud providers because the cloud provider's system might be causing you problems. These problems are probably related to your platform's design and implementation which is causing an impedance mismatch with the cloud provider.

This isn't helpful knowledge when you've only got four months of runway and fixing the platform or migrating from AWS would take six months or a year. It's not like switching a k8s-based system is trivial but it's easier than extracting a bunch of AWS-specific products from your platform.
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I mean, there is nothing in the roadmap:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filter...

And I already upvoted the support ticket for firefox:

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/su...

However, teams was just an example. Just to say that sometimes people can't just use firefox despite their efforts. Trust me I tried for months, and in both the companies I worked, either teams or Palo Alto VPN freak out with firefox. Had to adopt Brave for the working environment. I use firefox for everything else, though.
Vitalik Buterin: Things that matter outside of DeFi
Yeah, from the product management side this is the way to approach it. Make priorities clear and make it clear whether the important part is the date or some set of features.

If the date is what's important then start the conversation with "here's the date, can we get this all done by then? If not then what can we get done? If we can't do it all, here's the stuff that I think is important." And make sure to allow some time for people to think about things and give an honest estimate.

If the features are what's important then don't even put a real estimate on it because then that just turns into features + date which never works well. SWAG it by weeks or months and refine as you get further along.

It's basically a law that we always want t do more than we have time for, so it's important for the decision maker to be clear about which parts really matter.
It seems like the crime at play here was Doxxing. The one who actually made the Swatting-call was some unnamed minor from the UK.
He only has a 1% effective rate if you change the definition of effective rate. I assume you're fine with making that change, but the federal government isn't currently.
It must have changed a shitload in the last 2-3 years if that's the case. What tools are you referring to? I'm pretty familiar with C++ tooling but I haven't paid attention for a little while.
Hedgemaster, all of your comments have been marked dead. As a result others cannot respond to your comments, most will not see them either, unless they specifically set "show dead comments" to True.

I dont think there is anything objectionable in your comments. Do email hn@ycombinator.com if this does not get resolved.

Regarding your comment on my query, it really doesnt answer my question, but that does not mean that your comments should be marked dead.
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Would love to read a bit more on that. If anyone has a good source on variation of caffeine susceptibility, I'd be grateful!

And the point on being careful extrapolating makes sense. I will work on that.
Then we need to fix the penal code. Recklessness for human life isn't adequately punished, which is why swattings won't stop, and why drunk drivers are permitted to continue killing people.
Track records for those who have made lots of predictions
Yes, but a big contributing factor is that the police in the US have a militarized wing, even in small towns. SWAT teams probably only need to exist in large cities, and even then, should rarely be utilized.
This is a very poor article. Much better reporting can be found in the previously discussed article here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27902214) or at the original source (https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/pillar-investigates-usccb-g...).

The article frames this as a priest being outed for his sexual preferences but that is a terribly warped perspective.

This priest, as all Catholic priests do, _voluntarily_ took a life long vow to abstain from any sexual relations. He was wantonly breaking that while hiding it from his community. Worse, he was literally on the committee creating regulations to discipline other priests for violations against that very same vow he was breaking. It’s always sad to see a man not live up to his own convictions, but this was a particularly egregious case of hypocrisy as well. It would have been much better for him to withdraw from public life once he knew he couldn’t keep his vows.

This is not an instance of an innocent man being outed. It’s a case of a man committing canonical crimes who got caught via anonymized location data. I am worried about some of the future implications as the article states, but what happened in this instance is a good thing.
Serious question - if I shoot a gun wildly at a house, my goal being to scare people, and I accidentally kill someone, would the law consider that murder with intent? Because that's what swatting is.
Or to ride semi-naked. Now there's a sight for winter.
Narcos already use mini-submarines, although they're manned.
They have already been seized in Colombia, Spain and elsewhere in the past.

https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/11/26/inenglish/15747...

https://news.sky.com/story/homemade-narco-sub-captured-by-sp...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hisutton/2020/08/31/completely-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dramatic-video-shows-co...
I use Beyerdynamic DT-880 for music production. They're the only headphones I can wear from morning until night without a headache or ear pain. If you're okay with paying $200 and have an audio interface or amp, it's a great option.

The only downside is that they're intended for studio purposes and have very accurate sound, so the listening experience for bass-heavy music is less "fun" than consumer headphones. For mix testing and casual listening, I sometimes switch to the Audio-Technica ATH-M50X, which is the standard for EDM kids.
Oh, agreed. My point was it was easy for folks to think they are safe because they have backwards compatibility, when they actually need both if they are concerned with running a rollback.
No. S3, like most AWS services, has uncapped costs. If you experience higher than expected load, such as a DDoS attempt, you'll burn through the preallocated spend and you'll still get a bill afterward.

This doesn't appear to actually shut down the resources once the preallocated spend is exhausted. Its just a way to pay for bills preemptively instead of when you receive them. Its an accounting thing, not a new feature.
Especially the Bezos one also feels unethical, when you take into account tax avoidance, poor wages and working conditions. It feels like he skimmed money from the workers and tax payer to give himself a trip to space.

He deserves ostracism rather than recognition.
Unless they call you, refuse to negotiate and still send it to collections as it is (at least in their mind) a legitimate charge.

All these stories of providers giving "good will" credit for these massive charges really concerns me when you look at how other parts of these companies ignore their customers or only reply with scripted responses.
Yes, you can. We take on individuals regularly: https://www.dlsdc.com
What about cross-border payments to family members living in a different country?
I agree with you that there's been a shift in general attitudes towards freedom of speech. I disagree with you regarding where that opinion has shifted. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you view this shift as occurring "across the board". I don't think that's the case. To me it seems that left-leaning people have shifted into very pro-censorhip views (against anyone who disagree with them), while right-leaning people have not shifted into pro-censorship views. You have now provided 2 examples of people who have (arguably) spewed hateful rhetoric, but didn't face harsh consequences for their actions. Both of those examples are left-leaning people. It does not strike me at all surprising that these left-leaning people were not censored, because the pro-censorship movement appears to be facilitated exclusively by people on the left, and of course they're not going to censor their own.
She specifically alleges that this comment about Muslims was not hers. I do not have any way to know if that's true or not--and I find the article's notion that she should know who did make an anonymous online comment incredibly thoughtless--but if that's true, your entire argument is wrongly premised.

I would think that she would want to prove that statement falsely attributed first in a defamation suit before going after the university.

The test above is correctly quoted, the only dispute is factual which none of us here has the evidence to resolve. She may be lying or telling the truth, but we can't make any grand pronouncements about whether the university was right or wrong on the basis of disputed factual claims that have yet to be resolved in court.
I suppose its less defensible for sure. Still her comment seems aimed at even a smaller subset of Muslims, actually a tiny subset of those that were there on that day. Definitely less then what is claimed in a lot of posts here, that it was aimed at all Muslims.

Why were Muslims protesting in front of Trump Tower? Seems like Trump was like the first President in decades not to Bomb the shit out of one of their countries of origin. Trump had one the lowest Muslim body counts since last century.

Perhaps her comment was all about perceived ingratitude.

I've come across this before, were Americans think other countries should be grateful that they don't get bombed.