skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American kids don't have a chance. Example: High School in Arkansas with a Sonic drive-in across the street and nothing else around it. A SLIM chance of success for a kid born into an environment like that I'd venture to guess.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3798403,-92.2227848,3a,75y,8...

Also, I am a huge fan of Wendell Berry and this topic has so many implications that are worth exploring IMO.
I often using something like this in C++

if( nullptr != pfnErrorSink )
pfnErrorSink( "outofrange", __FILE__, __LINE__ );
return E_BOUNDS; // Or sometimes throw E_BOUNDS;

Where pfnErrorSink is either global, thread_local or a field keeping C function pointer provided by whoever consumes the code.
It's a bit tricky to say when I don't have the full details of what the course entails and haven't assisted to it myself.

I think my concern here is that this course would give the students a false sense of safety since they now have a recipe they can apply to "filter out the junk" making them blind the next evolution.

I also don't think your analogies fully grasp the matter (alt ought they are really good examples of "races to the bottom").

A more relevant analogy would be akin too: "Should we teach students about known vulnerabilities when attackers keep discovering new ones?".

To that my answer is, I'm not sure. There are a lot of vulnerabilities, and going over each known one would take a considerable amount of time. Perhaps spending more time learning other facets of software development would be a better a better use of time.
I agree completely.

Im all for adequate safety nets. I like UBIs personally and the response to the pandemic (on both sides of the pond) isn't far off of that.
Actually I think it was Delta 4GL. BACS built their payments system using it. They put us in a warehouse basement in Dunstable. That was a huge project. I wonder if they still use it.
Too bad the meat of the problem was seemingly cut together into a 5s part before moving on to the iMessage stuff without any context or explanation. So there are multiple levels of auditability so you don‘t have to trust apple or countries even if Apple says „yes“ (which I guess means if Apple says yes to changing the database, but is not explained in the video). Would have been great if the main crux of the issue was not just glossed over.
We already "confiscate others' wealth." It's called taxation. There's nothing new or wrong with it.

> you’d find less people fed, less people sheltered and less education

Countries with higher and progressive tax rates have better success in all of these issues.
It's really too bad that seemingly no amount of resources could stabilize Afghanistan.

As brutal as they are, it does make me wonder if Xinjiang-style re-education camps really are the only way to truly root out this kind of thing...
Interestingly, there was talk after the American invasion of re-instating the (then-still living) former king of Afghanistan who ruled the country from 1933 to 1973 when he was overthrown in favor of a democracy. It's impossible to say if such a counterfactual could have possibly courted more legitimacy for the current government (thus bleeding Taliban support from the population), but it does make you wonder.
I think your list of countries is too long.

First off, North Korea - really? Is anyone seriously considering being a digital nomad in North Korea? There doesn't seem to be any information of value on that page. Same with other places like Vatican City where one isn't realistically going to go as a digital nomad.

I also see US territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, USVI and American Samoa as their own countries, but they don't handle visas/immigration. They're just part of the USA. I suspect the same is true of the British Virgin Islands, Falkland Islands, etc as part of the UK.

Rather than have a long, noisy list that seems like it's probably dynamically generated from something like an ISO 3166 country list I think it'd be better to only create entries for countries where you have meaningful content.

Outside of those objections, I do think this idea has value - it certainly is a nice idea to have this information in one place, presented in a consistent way.
> And we all know how efficient government bureaucrats are.

A common refrain in the private sector, but having worked in both I can assure you that any sufficiently large organization is at least as inefficient as a government.

> I can just imagine the joys of having civil servants dictating how you should run your company.

We do that today through regulation. There are reasons we collectively want some level of control over how companies are run.
I flagged this and the other one[1] because two back to back postings of gushing articles about the same fund seemed odd.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28170436
high-end feature phones

This kind of classification only makes sense in retrospect. Blackberries and Danger Hiptops were pretty much the best phones you could get in 2005. Sure, keyboardless phones existed but they weren't necessarily better.
Not all transformations result in the same hash, hence why fuzzy matching is necessary. Some perceptual hashing techniques try to incorporate common transformations like rotations and scaling, but if you change an image slightly, but enough, hashes will be different but still similar.
I tried to follow Jackson’s book on Problem Frames, did not complete the book, though I’d consider trying to read it again. Its a non-formal or semi-formal methodology that emphasizes understanding the structure of problems and domains before solution design. Its a technique of architecture and systems engineering.
I prefer a robust system of inheritance taxes. Build your company, run it, do a good job and reap the rewards, but there's no reason all of that must go to your descendants as against anyone else. Provide for them sure, even lavishly, but in the millions not tens or hundreds of millions.

There are a lot of people in the US deeply dissatisfied with the levels of inequality and the way the deck is stacked against low earners. That does need to be addresses, but plenty of countries have done so without turning to outright Communism and Marxism. Is Britain a Marxist state because it has a robust social security and public health system? Is Germany?
It depend on what is done with said boost.
It would go straight into your wallet? Makes perfect sense to me for the government to get an additional cut.
It would go straight into the companies' salaries? No reason for the government to touch it more than it already does.

Obviously, there's room for nuance and it's not just one or the other.
Its equally easy to see how this was to keep compliance with the orders for as long as possible, then, and in hindsight. Even the most heavily locked places with an overly compliant population couldnt have gotten that result by saying it was going to last for 9 months+

Senators on the intelligence committee dumping shares and buying remote work stocks for … a two week disruption?

I said the same things in March 2020 I just still don't understand how other people process things.
Prions are an obvious exception, but I don't think I agree with carcinogens. Perhaps I'm unaware. Can you point to any carcinogen which a single exposure to would result in a >0.05% death rate in the exposed population?
Agreed. We have work to do!
same as how Iran could be without US backed coup. All superpowers are bad for this world. But still, the world is still suffering from the mess last empire made.

I don't know what to think for Afghanistan, a government without ability to maintain stability is not useful, and Taliban is a bit backward, and I don't know if we can expect them to change when they take full control of the country. With modern weapons, something like a revolution would be impossible to happen in any country, AND a government not through revolution really does not last.
For some media organizations the fear mongering accusation is true, others much less. I agree it's tiresome to tar them all with the same brush. Of course everyone needs to treat sources of information with a bit of healthy scepticism.

On the COVID theme, it does remind me of an all hands call at my company with a quite senior person during the early days of the pandemic. At one point, we were confidently told that the 20,000 deaths Sky News were reporting as possible was "fake news" and the media was scaring everyone. Well, we know how that turned out (hint, the Sky News figure was around x6 too little).

I thought at the time it was a bold statement given no one really had any idea how the pandemic would progress.
Thanks for your comment, support and advice! I think that's a really good point that the main challenge here is engagement and adherence, and it's obviously something we're always looking at and trying to improve.

In terms of drifting away from evidence based approaches, that's definitely a risk and a temptation for everyone in this space, and links to some of the other commenters fears here as well. It's a slippery slope we're well aware of and which we don't want to slide down.
Give people votes proportional to the karma in that sub.

Also, make it hard to perma-ban someone with over 100K karma points, especially in regional subs (like /r/india, etc.); you can change your interests, but you can't really change where you are from. If nothing else, force the mods to actually justify bans; and one subjective offense should not be enough to ban someone.
More and more op-eds like this will be needed to desperately assuage the cognitive dissonance between climate denial and the actual news.
The notion of "fact checker" is semantic slight of hand meant to give such people an undeserved veneer of special credibility beyond the weak credibility of journalists. It lulls people into a false sense of security. "He's not a journalist. He's a FACT CHECKER. Oooo, trustworthy!" It's an arrogant title that arrogates the supposed authority to check facts and offer pronouncements on them.

All journalists, for example, are supposed to verify their claims (they don't, but that's a dereliction of duty). But here comes the "fact checker". "Stand aside, you unwashed masses. I have special access to the truth that you don't have! I have the means of verifying claims that go beyond the paltry powers of the journalist. I am...the FACT CHECKER MAN!"

The point is that the fact checker does not transcend the journalist. Investigative reporters are "fact checkers" but without the Ministry-of-Truth title of "fact checker" that's supposed to shut down conversation and ram through the "fact checker's" preferred narrative and accounting of the "facts".
Sure, but that's ... it seems to me many taxi folks were already 'independent' in some way beforehand (perhaps not all?).

The payment model for that seems somewhat opaque anyway - you've got mileage/depreciation on a vehicle, fuel, no hourly base pay to start with (IIRC).

For companies that employed an accountant onsite for, say, $70k/year, if they want to pay that accountant direct, say, $90k directly... fine.
Perhaps in a different context. In this one, I am pointing out that the headline implies that millionaires, as a collective group, are pushing for taxing billionaires. By adding "some", it points out the absurdity of the title. If I were talking about a group of people in a "No True Scotsman" sense, then yes, "some" would be a weasel word.

Thanks for learning!
LG Prada changed everything. iPhone was a lame ripoff of that device.
Libertarians might too, the two aren't mutually exclusive. I also don't think it's something to get defensive about. I'm left and I've certainly seen the behavior that the poster mentioned. That said, what I'd say to both of you (that I've learned as well) is that the left and the right are not monolithic groups and are highly fragmented in various ways. This can lead to the obvious misunderstanding the other side for the words and attitudes of a few and judging your own group (thinking highly or negatively) for your own perceived bedfellows rather than your actual bedfellows.
This article is ironic coming from Buzzfeed
Snopes altered those pages when they got called out for it.
Yeah, streaming sites was the one issue I had with Mulvad. But I don't stream that much, and am super happy with them otherwise.
> The world would revolt if beef disappeared.

Or perhaps US would just have to revise the beef quotas it sets on foreign exporters. A lot of California farm production is designed with costs borne by the public and profits kept private.

It wouldn't stay competitive without a mount of legislative work, quotas and tariffs.
Fails for

[1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1] -> [[1, 1, 2, 3, 3], [1, 2], [1, 2], [1]]
We should overhaul all of our refugee programs to only take in women and girls, without the prospect of chain migration.

Let the men stay behind to fix or fight the problems, and their women can return when safe.
Yup, notebooks are what I had in mind. I make heavy use of mathematica when I want to explore a new topic.
It's really useful to look at the context of the market at the time. High-end phones ran a mobile variant of Windows, or were Blackberries. Screen sizes were getting larger and having data coming to your phone at all was still considered a bit exotic but was starting to happen. Touch, if there was any, was usually on a non-capacitive screen and was generally pretty terrible. The integration of sensors, data, GPS, etc. was starting to happen, but wasn't ubiquitous.

The market was also incredibly fragmented both on the hardware and software side. The hard divide between feature phones and smart phones hadn't yet been delineated in a general sense (the Windows phones were just kind of clunky and weird, and Blackberry basically had it's own market segment and represented "smart phones" in the press). Phones just kept getting higher and higher end, and adding more and more features.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/best-mobile-phones-of-2006/

The most anticipated phone for 2007 was Nokia's N95, the press called it a "multimedia device". It came with GPS, quad-band, 5MP camera, Wi-Fi connectivity, an accelerometer, a Web Browser, a big screen, apps. It looks vaguely like an older iPod, but has a pop out numeric keyboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N95

At the time it was considered one of the best phones ever released and sold 10 million. At the time it was sometimes called smartphone, but I think today we'd call it an advanced feature phone.

Android thus came out in this market, and the phones it originally targeted looked more like the N95 than the iPhone. When Apple introduced the iPhone, they rethought the form-factor and simplified it, getting rid of most buttons and making touch not suck. But functionality-wise the iPhone was about on par with the N95, and so was Android. However, the first iPhone didn't support user apps, had limited connectivity and sold only 6.1 million devices.

When Android started supporting phones with iPhone-like form factors, it wasn't a given that it would become the predominant form factor for phones. The first few generations of Android phones still features lots of vestigial keyboards and buttons and rollers and sliders and such carried over from the N95 and blackberry style phones that Android devices were also looking like. Once the iPhone style form factor started leaving everybody else in the dust, Android phones (and the OS) simply dropped that stuff also.
I think I get what you mean: the percentage of people who access the web using a screenreader is not huge. That doesn't mean we should discount it, it's just common courtesy and it's a legal requirement in many circumstances.

But if you take one step back, the demographic is not very small at all! It includes everyone who is a bit older and maybe can't see as well as when they were 23, so they like to increase the contrast a bit. I myself am not very far above 23 and I read hackernews zoomed in to 130%, it's just more readable. Many people have an easier time using a computer by for example making buttons larger so that a mouse can click them faster. There are more examples.

And last but not least: Writing functional UI tests for applications is enabled, in a good chunk by accessibility capabilites built into the gui toolkit. My job would be much harder if that wasn't baked in to most UIs.

So, while I agree with you: let people have fun playing with technology and create new things without having to implement everything from the beginning, I don't think it is fair to just dismiss accessibility concerns like that.
> So comparing rate of incidence of blood clots to car accidents to imply vaccine safety is a bit misleading in my opinion.

Hm, I was addressing the parent's specific point about blood clots rather than safety in general. I agree with you broadly, however. Worth calling out my wording. Thanks!
Yes, that's kinda the point I think. You could save a bunch of money by filling your product with asbestos and making employees pee in jugs, or you could just, you know, not do that because then you have to hand over more control of your business to the government.

Granted, this also disincentives societally beneficial efficiency increases.
Because in the 'olden days' (Win 3.0 era) there was only a combobox, not a separate dropdown. Over the years the names have stuck.
Yeah, I admittedly lost patience at that point. I did glance over them and saw it was pretty much the same deal.
I think the article oversells the guarantees infrastructure can give you, especially around this:

> We can make sure that we always have X instances of a given service or process running in our infrastructure.

Kubernetes will make sure to try to start new instances if existing ones fail. It cannot make sure that you always have those X instances running by any means!

This may sound nitpicky - and of course, any code-level solution to redundancy or failure issues won't work if you don't have anywhere available to run on - but it's important to understand both your requirements and what specific guarantees your infrastructure can make. There are cases where "let it fail fast, Kubernetes will restart it" may not be your best choice.
I'm amusingly reminded of this thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28140367

Instead of WWF employees doing the work as park guards/rangers, they hire "mercenaries".. when these "mercenaries" do bad things they can always say its not us :)
What qualifies you to make pronouncements about how the world should work?
No one owns a car factory; it's divided into shares. And anyone now with $20M can retire. And I don't think the problem would be that so many people hit $20M that everyone retired.
I learned to think critically about what I read from one specific incident. There was a local story about a high-school football game that afterward there was widespread vandalism and high levels of aggression/violence.

I was at that game, it it was all very normal, maybe with higher than average attendance, leaving a bit of a mess. The only way I could imagine the news being written as it was, was that the reporter wasn't there, talked to a few people, and extrapolated making the story exciting. There may also have been a motivation to make a school look bad. In any case, the jig was up for the value of in-black-and-white.
It could also just be that someone deliberately wanted to wear a mask for literally any reason whatsoever. It’s just ludicrous to judge someone for that or to consider it “ridiculous.”

You might as well say “have you ever seen someone wearing a hat in their car even though they’re inside a climate controlled car and don’t need sun protection on their head?”
If I shoot a man, I am to blame.

If I build a robot that shoots a man when I press a button - and I press the button - then I am still to blame.

If I build a robot that runs a bunch of algorithmic code and it shoots a man - I am still to blame.

So the orginator of the algorithm (Facebook) is to blame, in full and without reprieve. The algorithm did not exercise free will.

Had Facebook made it so that the algorithm was transparent, or at least easily disabled then they might have some defense. They did not do this.
Are there any use-cases where this would have been preferable to plain key-based ssh auth?
Or use a language with generators and coroutines? I believe this would be natural to express in Python and (maybe) with C++20's coroutines. Java’s stream API could also probably accomplish something similar.
We do that today through regulation. There are reasons we collectively want some level of control over how companies are run.

Regulations are different from a Washington bureaucrat far removed from your company having to approve your new fiscal year roadmap or plans to pivot the company
Nice one!! I looked a few years back and it wasn't there. Will try it.
No, this will never happen. Longer reach is more expensive but the industry won't pay the highest prices for everything if they don't need to.
How now APL?
IBM Makes Long-Expected Entry into Personal Computer Mart (1981)
> Natural immunity is globally inferior to vaccinated immunity.

Cool, tell me more. I have a background in biophysics (with a touch of immunology and virology) but I don't know a whole lot about that.

I'm not up-to-date on all the latest covid science, but I don't think I remember many cases of people getting reinfected.
I don't understand how this is different than the "International" keyboard variants that ship with Windows.

How is this better than the status quo?
Bad is relative. If it's a game where you have to repaint the entire screen anyway, then it doesn't matter. But a lot of potential optimizations are lost when you don't use a retained scenegraph.
> I see Snopes as pure, unadulterated bias

Could you please elaborate? I have never seen them described like this.
The countries at the top of the list are known for being nomad-friendly, so there is likely some curation going on there.
Easiest solution to diabetes: Sugar tax.

Easiest solution to climate change: Carbon tax.

If we havn't used these solutions, someone high up in the food chain is placing a greater emphasis on profits from the status quo instead of the wellbeing of the population.
Regarding A, B and C ISO sizes, they aren't mysterious:

- the aspect ratio is square root of 2 to 1, so that cutting in half the long side leaves two sheets with the same aspect ratio.

- A is the main series, with A0 approximately one square meter.

- B sizes are square root of 2 times larger in area than A formats with the same numbers, filling the gaps.

- C sizes are slightly larger than A sizes, suitable for containers, envelopes etc. for them.
Issue them visas and a path to citizenship in developed countries.
I know that scanning is done by one’s device.

I just think that there are better arguments against it without unnecessary exaggeration. So I wanted to be more specific on which images on your device are scanned according to that paper.

Obviously I should have phrased is better, like “about to be uploaded to iCloud”…
I don't think newcomers use this anyway; usually you start off setting up git with ssh key-based authentication, not password-based.

That's exactly why git is a bit of a pain to initially set up.
> the landscape has become a lot more partisan/ideological in the last 10 years

To an outside observer of US discourse, the phenomenon appears to be market segmentation and control, not really "ideology".

As former president Trump (a person who says whatever he pleases, without consistent principles) said when Fox failed him, "you have forgotten the golden goose."

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/they-forgot-the-golden-g...