skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you not add felony murder to the charge? From the 5 year charge, this sounds like a felony, and the person died during and because of the commission of a felony.

Second, can we get rid of allowing international phone calls to appear with domestic numbers. I don't care if companies can't hide the fact that they outsource their call centers to low-wage countries. At least, if all domestic phone numbers were assured to originate domestically, it would be a huge deterrent against this and all kinds of other scam phone calls since they would be subject to US law enforcement.
Interesting. With editable docs, things sometimes get added above the points or reordered and then re-numbered which makes the discussion misleading. The reason I prefer bullets is that it encourages people to quote the relevant section when discussing.
That's one of those great questions about AWS. We actually have had to contact AWS on multiple occasions about EC2 layer issues, and each time I was thankful that a VM construct is very simple, comparatively, to reason about.
> So 8 m to Keck's 10 m

No need to stop at one. Build hundreds, put them in orbit around the sun and turn them into an array capable of imaging exoplanets.
Would you kindly briefly define “compositional agglomerative syncretic approaches”?
Parent's point isn't "Kids should be able to do this without consequence", it's "Kids shouldn't be able to do this at all."
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This is security hypocrisy.

HTTP is a cleartext protocol. Why does your browser quietly navigate to any HTTP site you throw at it? Anonymous FTP isn't any less secure than HTTP.

Why does your browser scream at you for connecting to an encrypted but unverified site, such as a self signed certificate on a closed network, but have no warnings at all for an unverified and unencrypted HTTP connection?

How do you know the context that I am using a plaintext protocol in? How do you know I'm not connecting over a patch cable to the computer next to me? How do you know I'm not connecting over an SSH tunnel?

The user should easily be able to override these safety measures.

The only argument I have heard this is that the user could be tricked into disabling security mechanisms. But that is true of anything in computing. The user could be tricked into typing in rm -rf.

When there is inconstancy like this, it usually implies there is something else going on that we aren't seeing. I have a feeling that companies like Google and Apple have an agenda to move people away from having too much outside of their influence.
When is this fucking piece of shit going to be arrested?

First, for repeatedly lying to Congress.

Second, for funding a fucking genocide.

There is more than enough evidence.

ARREST THE MOTHERFUCKER NOW!
That actually makes more sense. I used to do 35% from the start and it seemed weird to set it aside for people who won't come in for a while.
one thing i wish for in a paper reader: hover (or click) on a reference and get a preview of the cite or fig. that way i don't lose my place in what i'm reading before landing on a cite that's just an authors self cite of their 14th paper on the topic.
The way I see it, swatting is attempted 1st degree murder and if the victim dies the death penalty should be on the table.
Why do you say that? Genuinely curious...not trying to troll.
Information sharing without physical interaction is "spooky action at a distance"
In my mind a graphics based game was strictly better. Your example is more obvious in that it has a choice but no one would say one is strictly better (even a surfer).

So I was wondering what I was missing. Because the graphics based game can't be strictly better if people are playing these text based games. My mental model and the evidence didn't match.

I think I have a better handle on it now, your explanation above was a good one.
At the very least, I imagine a true engineering version of software development would be fundamentally driven by Big-O. Everything justified and implemented in terms of calculable facts. Repeatability might emerge from this.

I think of it this way: what would a CRC manual[1] for software engineering comprise?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRC_Handbook_of_Chemistry_and_...
>> I do not believe in the possibility of a "General Theory of Productivity."

Important frame. I think any effort that doesn't start with this statement is probably headed for frustration.

I reckon this is true also for education, aspects of economics and many other fields. Besides sloppy and/or cynical work, I believe a lot of the "replication crisis" relates to this. Do we really expect that a relationship between watching TV at dinnertime and marital sex life observed in 1986 Tokyo to replicate in 2021 Berlin? If it doesn't, does it mean that it doesn't exist, or teach us anything?

Scientific academia is sort of premised on the idea that we start from a blank slate, and build up an understanding of a field based strictly in science. It doesn't matter that you already know gravity pulls thing to the ground or that water boils when hot. It must be stated scientifically, tested and theorized.

Well... realistically, from this perspective, we know almost nothing about managing people, teaching, lots of things. Yet, we do manage to do them somehow. People all over the world created domesticated cultivars before Gregor Mendel. Science isn't the only framework for knowing things.

Writers working on their process don't generally go to "empirical research." They read Stephen King, or one of many other authors that speak about their process. They find one that feels compelling. Often, they describe things in terms like "earning the respect of the muse." Usually, it's a poorly supported framework made of a smattering of methodology, random bits of advice, unique terminology and some innovative semantics. Sound familiar?
Yes, we can.

I don't know where this idea comes that kids can never be held responsible for serious misdeeds. This is hardly a harmless prank.
You are so clueless. Get a life.
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Meanwhile if the call was legit, people would complain why the lazy police took no steps to remedy the matter and the usual "police have no obligation to protect you" quotes would be copy and pasted.

People should look toward improving the problems in society and in people instead of just blaming police for everything. Police did nothing wrong in this case. The parents and kids should be investigated and questions should be asked of what they did or did not do and how they could have prevented this.
The article linked by your parent said that it is sufficient for the job to be "non essential".
There will always be bad things in the world. If not this there would be other things kids can do.

Edit: i guess i should rephrase this. I disagree that the ease of swatting in any way absolves the perputrator of any guilt or that if it wasn't possible to swat people we wouldn't have to have rules against violent crime.

I still think the ease of swatting is stupid, just that removing that ease doesn't solve the fundamental problem that bad people exist in the world. That said, im not saying that we shouldn't make swatting impossible
None of my arguments here have been classical syllogisms and so none of my arguments can be "logical fallacies". Your not responding to the meaning of my informal statements in a rather transparently bad faith manner.
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Exactly. All the grocery stores and restaurants should close and we'll see how well that bodes for the local citizens.

Edit, I'm being sarcastic. It's glib to suggest that somehow all of these businesses can just magically raise prices. It's a complex situation.
Most small shops are struggling, being 1 bad financial decision away from bankruptcy; doing business with no type of insurance whatsoever, and here and there stiffing some suppliers to make ends meet.

So, there's no way they can afford to increase any expense, if they were to do that, they'd be out of business right away, so they continue floating away.

These business owners are unfit to do business; so what is happening is economic darwinism. RIP.
> Whereas in reality there are many events - the humans at location A see both colors as do the humans at location B

This is one of many interpretations, I don't think it's fair to label conjecture as "reality" yet.
I did both for multiple years. I know which one feels like work.

Go work 20 years of Friday and Saturday nights in a popular restaurant. Does not have to be the same one, as the expectation is the same.

The level of effort I need to put into coding dropped off exponentially.

As one ages the level of effort out into restaurant work goes up.

Let’s rely on science and not bias. Programming is still not sweatshop work on the regular. I work 4 solid hours a day.
> So I'll ask you and others here: what do you think are the most important and applicable insights from that paper?

* Statelessness for horizontal scaling

* Idempotency to handle network partitions

* Request state must be inline or addressable by URL

* Hypertext As The Engine Of Application State

* Media type negotiation

* How to exploit pervasive caching

I think having these formalized in a coherent framework was very valuable, and I don't see how this couldn't help but influence your career, unless all you write are desktop applications.
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That is a change. I used to deliver pizza, it was cash or check, I pocketed any tips before I got back to the store, the management never had a clue how much tips I got or did not get. Even with the checks, they just went into a box and were totaled at the end of the day. No way to trace them back to an order.
No AMA limits on number of doctors who can graduate a year.

Anyone can get a license to open hospitals/clinics of any size.

Entrepreneul people will pair up with top doctors to form great businesses running healthcare.
> can we really blame them for doing fucked up shit without considering the consequences?

Absolutely. The incident was in 2020 and one of the suspects isn’t a minor as of 2021, so these aren’t exactly clueless children who are incapable of understanding that actions have consequences.

Swatting also isn’t a new concept with unknown consequences. These people are using swatting precisely because it has a track record of being extremely dangerous. They’re not breaking new ground, they’re looking at past events and choosing to repeat them.

These people shouldn’t get a free pass because they were almost-adults rather than legal adults at the time of the crime.
appropriately named, it seems
And we should be thankful for that: I know someone who lost a nephew to cops in December (who were called in by his sister to do a mental health check; when they arrived there was no active danger and yet they put him in a knee-to-neck restraint); but do we actually need a squadron of people to show up with guns in these situations? I know people who have gotten so afraid of cops that they don't even call the cops anymore when actual bad stuff is happening... like people shooting out their windows with pellet guns as part of what seemed like repeat targeted attacks against their house (a co-op).
Sure, but if police aren't militarized, if you look at the gun stats you see that we are a heavily armed nation. This isn't the UK. What are police supposed to do, go in there with truncheons in one hand and pepper spray in the other? The gunplay is out of control at the moment. The cat's out of the bag and we've screwed up.
It's 4x the median per capita income in San Fransisco, and double the median household.
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I set up a crowdfunding campaign for an open source hardware project [1] about 5 years ago, and one of the most common question I heard from concerned family members was "how are you going to protect your idea from being stolen?".

I would calmly explain to them that the biggest risk was the product either never launching our fading into obscurity, and that if the idea was truly valuable it would be copied regardless of what I do, and that I'd actually researched dozens of last campaigns and found that the projects that put less effort towards "protecting" their IP had better long-term prospects. OSHW projects received significantly more funding and lasted significantly longer post-campaign.

Despite this, every single person I spoke to would still insist that I was making a mistake. I genuinely believe that there is some sort of caveman anti-cuckoldry reflex at play here. The visceral image of a counterfeiter getting rich from your hard work motivates people to act against that outcome even if it's not in their best interest.

For what it's worth, the project is still popular 5 years later, nobody has cloned it commercially and it generates enough passive income for me to live off of I so desired.

[1] It's an all-in-one USB oscilloscope, signal generator, power supply etc. board, https://espotek.com/labrador
> The core problem with swatting really seems to be the process of reaction by adult police officers starting with a fully-militarized force as their first interaction

Well the alternative is to assume every crisis phone call is a prank/crying wolf? You'll just swing the other direction and the police will show up unprepared for a crisis every once in a while.

Say some kids go to Mecca and "prank" big crowds of people by shouting "bomb! bomb!" and then it causes a stampede and people die. Is the core problem there the reaction of the adult Muslims not being skeptical enough of the initial claim?
What exactly do you want police to do after being told that a guy is going around killing people? As that probably happens more than swatting attacks in the USA. Sending a SWAT team on such a report seems quite reasonable.
People can, and have died from this practice. But sure, give zero consequences to the assholes doing it, I'm sure that will teach them a valuable lesson.

Do stupid shit, win stupid prizes. No empathy for these kids.
The hardest part of any business (games or otherwise) is finding paying customers. Your ideas/hard work/execution/vision/tools/… is worthless without somebody actually willing to commit real $ for your product.
right! thanks! i forgot about the oneplus6 & it's progress!

figuring out how to get a kernel & normal environment booting seems to be one of the biggest challenges.

there is a TianoCore EDK2 porting effort underway that seems to have support on a good number of phones. who knows what works & doesn't once you are able to start running your own mainline kernel, but way cool to see over a dozen phones on this list! genuinely excited to have some 3(+) year old phones (mostly now unsupported, insecure, or about to be!) to start to get to play with!!

this could well be a flagship demonstration of what a Right to Repair can do: save a lot of devices the landfill, prove very enduringly useful to people, once they have some self-determinism with their purchases. ad astra emptor.

https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-sdm845
This is more about how bad GM is and less about electric vehicles
First of all, getting rid of Unicode is not going to happen. Don’t ask.

Getting rid of images might be doable, but still difficult. Talking features away from people is politically difficult.
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This is an atypical time. Of course right now there is huge churn, due to covid, the pandemic unemployment benefits, and the fact that restaurants have had to quickly hire anyone with a pulse to keep up. This all leads to obvious churn.

The real question is whether things will be meaningfully different in 10-30 years. I suspect the answer will be yes, because automation will be more capable, combined with legislative pressure to eliminate low paying jobs.
> They get a call that someone is shot, and that soon others will be killed, they are going to call SWAT.

There is no law of nature requiring that police departments react that way. It is up to us as a society to decide what behavior we desire.

If, for instance, I were to learn that 90% of all calls for SWAT teams are from "swatting" (baseless prank calls performed to create the reaction) while 10% were actual life-or-death situations it would affect my opinion of the right way for police to handle it.

So I think knowing the actual statistics is important.
First degree murder is a little much (do you really think this is equivalent to taking a gun and shooting someone with pre-planning and full intention to kill them?), but certainly involuntary manslaughter fits.
The police/SWAT team are the ones who ultimately pull the trigger. They need to do their due diligence before doing so.

"Someone else told me XYZ" doesn't absolve you of responsibility for your actions. The people who called in with a false report certainly share in that responsibility, but it's not solely theirs.
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Totally agree.

This is basically the same as blaming the first-day developer that wipes the production database. It's more on the police to change their behavior than to expect kids to stop being imbeciles.
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Ok, so let's write an entire article about punishing the kids, making it sound like a really harsh punishment should hit them and implying it is a shame that the other ones are untouchable, and not even once talk about how maybe the police are at fault for being at the whim of children on the Internet? That is ridiculous.
A fair point, but that's not really a problem with the technology. (And I did hedge with "probably" :-)
It’s crazy out there. I checked in to the emergency room during peak COVID for a non-COVID emergency. After going through a metal detector there were six beefy security guards packed tight in a small vestibule that definitely wasn’t socially distanced. I can only imagine what kind of terrible patients the staff have to deal with if they have that level of security.
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I think the parent is off about that being the "core" problem, but you're presenting a false dichotomy: one can be skeptical about the truth of a crisis phone call while still investigating to see what's really going on.
If you tip zero it's plausible that you forgot. If you tip low you're sending a message.
If your government is bad at installing fiber/high-speed internet connectivity to a not-so-rural town of 160,000, you have to fix your government, don't just throw money at global unregulated corporations. This is a common thread in the US/Canada where governments are so bad at their job that people just came to hate the idea of public infrastructure as a result.
Why can minors wield SWAT teams without further due diligence?
You don't know what a contact list is? The phonebook you create as people call & text you that is contained on your phone and shows you the name you typed into your device when that particular person calls or texts you?
They are children. Children make mistakes.
Where's the outrage against Twitter? Couldn't they simply make it possible to recover any twitter handle, e.g. by providing proof that you were the original owner?

Then the market value of a stolen twitter handle (at least an active one) would be zero, since any handle I buy will just be restored to the owner eventually.
So we’re talking about ’The boy who cried wolf’ here. There’s a reason it’s a timeless fable, dating back thousands of years.

It’s a common dilemma that we might not ever solve. It seems to me ‘swatting’ is one of the most modern iterations of it.
Are we victim blaming now? Is that what we’re doing?
We can do both, fortunately.
Kids of those ages are routinely tried as adults.

You're going to have to let all those minorities out of prison who were tried as adults at 14 before I can even begin to subscribe to your logic about 17 year olds.
I run a a lot more untrusted code on my laptop than on my cloud servers. Likewise for work, even more so as I don’t myself trust the spyware/malware they jam on the laptops.
It seems to me all you have to do to fool a ML model is rephrase sentences and just use verbiage it has never seen before. So why isn't your tool just the latest item on a pre-IPO company's checklist that is looking to commit fraud to scrub against?

Also if Muddy Waters can do something similar to this (if not better?) doesn't that mean you should just hire them and throw away your ML model?
Whilst true, this is a situation where kids can do something relatively trivial and easy (make a phone call) and a massively disproportionate outcome in the form of extreme violence is carried out by the state. There are very very few such opportunities for kids to leverage that kind of power, and it's important to prevent them.
> It's a statement of the Everett/relative state/many worlds interpretation

No, it isn't. I've said nothing about many-worlds, only reversibility. And on that point everyone agrees.

> Now it's dinner time, you don't believe that

You really need to read the link above. It goes into all that in great detail. But the TL;DR here is that if it's dinner time, you haven't actually reversed the measurement, notwithstanding your current mental state with respect to the photon.
I like to describe this position as NIMOP: Not In My Orbital Plane.

The idea that you own a view to infinity to me us more absurd than taxing me for breathing air, which is also a negative externality taken to extreme.

Let's put a quadrillion more times the mass in space. Let's build huge orbital rings, and take to the Galaxy. Let's get a trillion people living in space.
Having it be optional increases, not decreases, complexity. ;-) It also increases the propensity for people to use the feature blindly.
They didn't pull the trigger at all. They just showed up.
A Race in Go is Undefined Behaviour. All bets are off, whatever happens, no matter how strange, is OK.

If you have a race which definitely only touches some simple value like an int and nothing more complicated then Go may be able to promise your problem isn't more widespread - that value is ruined, you can't trust that it makes any sense (now, in the future, or previously), but everything else remains on the up-and-up. However, the moment something complicated is touched by a race, you lose, your program has no defined meaning whatsoever.
My understanding was that while some of these are about CVEs and such, not all are. Like my understanding was the Microsoft numbers are from across all products, proprietary and open source.
This also applies to other fields - medicine for instance.
Swatting is effective because its rare. I doubt, nationwide, its more than 1%
Yeah it’s completely absurd that emergency services can be abused like this. It’s a similar situation to ordering a bunch of delivery pizzas to a victim’s house. There must be a middle ground between convenience (being able to pay cash at the stoop, get a rapid emergency response when you need it, etc.) and preventing abuse.