skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was the question on my mind as well. The alleged "perp" died in 2018, but I didn't see any mention of the duration of the group's investigation. Did this group identify him as a person of interest before his death? If so, that raises yet more more questions (e.g. no statutory limitation on murder).

> Hans Smits told Fox News he spent 10 years hiding a whistleblower who said he escaped a criminal "posse" headed by Poste. The man, who The Case Breakers only referred to as Wil, told Smits the posse roamed California's High Sierra region and that he was "groomed into a killing machine."

> Smits said he gave Wil financial, logistical and emotional support over the years and moved him around for nearly 10 years in an effort to keep him safe.

> "I'm the one that took him to the FBI office and put him on a train and sent him out of state," Smits said.

The story does not seem to explicitly state Smits is a member of the Case Breakers, but if Smits knows Wil, and Case Breakers only identify the whistleblower as Wil, it seems to imply Smits is a member of Code Breakers.

If that is all true, they were working Poste as a person of interest while he was still alive.
Parent company was no different.
How to Invest in Crypto When You Don't Have a Penny to Your Name- the Urban Mine
You can't just define the middle class according to arbitrary income bands, as the presenter in your link does. The middle class is an ideal: a single family home, yearly vacations, pensions, etc. The presenter is pretending like we're complaining about the cost of Netflix subscriptions when we're actually complaining about major expenses like housing and education being less affordable relative to wages over time. I stopped watching after the presenter started comparing silent films to the MCU to prove how great our quality of life is today. It's a wildly disingenuous take and misses the entire point.
Isn’t beloved white and left politician Bernie Sanders famous for a photo of him as a young adult being dragged away from an African American rights protest by police?

I spent just a few seconds looking at photos of 1960’s police brutality photos on Google and see white people in most of them.

https://www.google.com/search?q=1960%27s+police+brutality+pr...

Good time to also point out that conservative voters make up something like 24-25% of the population and liberal voters roughly the same. Half the population doesn’t vote in general though the numbers are higher for presidential elections than your average election.
I initially wrote out a rather long comment in response to this expressing my anger and frustration with how people on the spectrum are treated by neurotypicals, but I'm not sure it was very productive.

I guess I just want to say that this upsets me. I don't want to stop the research and I don't blame the parents, but I wish the world was more accepting of us sometimes. My whole neurotypicals have hurt me with their total disregard for the way my brain thinks and acts, yet somehow it's my fault for being like this.

Perhaps one of the more well known examples of this is what happened to James Damore. He got fired from Google for providing his honest feedback to Google's diversity program after they explicitly asked for feedback. But who's fault was it that he took their request for feedback in good faith and was fired by bad actors? His of course. I bring up this example because this is exactly how I've been made to feel throughout my in life. Whether it was when I was in school and getting detention for questioning religious teachings, or at home where I was disappointing my parents for not being the neurotypical boy my parents wanted, or at work when I'm saying the wrong things or sharing opinions that are not permitted.

A few years ago I was fired from my job and I'm almost certain this was because other people in my team expressed that they felt awkward around me and that I didn't fit in. I was there for years and I thought of these people as my friends. It hurt me and confused me so much that after this I struggled to find employment for about a year and I ended up becoming extremely depressed and self medicating with alcohol.

I'm not trying to blame anyone. I get I'm awkward and why people wouldn't want to be around me. But it just hurts because all I want is for people to like me. I spend so much energy every day just trying to be liked, but rarely will anyone do the same for me. It's sad because people on the spectrum tend to be very loyal. We seem to naturally develop very deep connections with the people around us and it hurts a lot when we're rejected.

In the same way we can't build the world around left-handed people, I accept we can't help but live in a world with neurotypical social norms. All I'm asking is you make a little room for us. A lot of us are pretty smart and although we can be a bit weird we don't mean any harm. It's just hard trying to simulate being a normal human 24 hours a day. In the same way left-handedness isn't a disease, I don't think I am either. I know some people are not as fortunate as me and in those cases treatments like this could really help, but a lot of us just need a bit of space to be different rather than to be treated. When I'm on my own or with my partner who understands my quirks, I've never felt I'm at any disadvantage at all.
Maybe it’s time to realize that consumers continue to choose a more locked down platform for policies like this?

Businesses will continue to complain but this protects the user.
> The litigation / cases / govt intervention has been on behalf of businesses not consumers.

There is actually a class action suit against Apple regarding anti-trust brought by consumers. Unfortunately, while the suit was filed in 2011, it wasn't until 2019 that the Supreme Court ruled that consumers even do business with Apple in the App Store [0]. So, a lawsuit filed in 2011 was allowed to go forward in 2019. I don't know what methods Apple had used to hold up the case since then.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Pepper
Maybe if the US had followed what the article is saying and protected those most at risk, instead of pandering to populist sentiments, they could have fared better?

Where I live, most of the people dying in 2020 were in nursing homes, while the authorities focused in giving tickets to people who were having picnics outside or taking their kids to the park
For a few years. But divide that fund by the population and it suddenly doesn't seem as much.

Human capital is far more valuable, but most of the industrial knowledge of Norway is in energy production.
> you can't run out of trivialities.

Spot on. I'd add... you can't run out of irrelevant trivialities.
There are downsides to asking people to change their password for everything! (even though this is a big "everything")

I remember some services send you a message telling you to change your password anytime a new device logs in or even fails to login to your account. That causes most people to pick weaker passwords, since they're not all using manager apps.
I'm never logged in as a user and I don't have an account. So I imagine what I see is likely what other people tend to see if not logged in.
You also need to make it realistic for people to own EVs without also owning a single-family home. My wife and I probably would have bought a PHEV, but we lived in an apartment so ... we went Hybrid instead.

As it is the EV subsidies are really just helping homeowners buy luxury cars which seems a little backwards
Well of course, the anti-racists quite literally believe that 'whiteness' is the gold standard by which every other race, including the asians, who have far surpassed the whites, ought to be held, because deep down inside they believe whites are the ideal.

You see it everywhere. For example, the race chart here lists whites first. For other charts where category has no particular ordering (for example, technical competence), the bars were ordered by current salary. It's not even by relative share of the population, because there are more hispanics than blacks I believe.

Also, I wonder how the presence of 'other' throws off the numbers, because I bet many blacks are used to putting in 'other'. I know as a minority myself, I often check 'other' on these forms. It's no one's business and will only serve to hurt you.
Paddle is pretty good for payments. Easy to integrate and a great customer experience.

https://paddle.com/
At least it's less anachronistic than “record”.
Why stop implementing a feature because one of the vendor is arbitrarily limiting the hardware? Targetting the lowest common denominator isn't always the right move, especially if one platform is stagnating for their own benefit.

Light up a fire under their feet, have the userbase put some pressure on Apple if they're unhappy about the situation.
> What kind of a universe does that online world live in?

One that you're misrepresenting. It's like complaining that nothing in a git repo can be edited because commits are identified by long hex-encoded hashes.
I can confirm this as I worked with a cleaning contractor for their offices and met the cops that were paid to work the night shift watching for trespassers.
UK has the highest tech salaries in Europe and trade unions were buried in the 70s.

I am fine if you guys seek protection of unions.

But never, ever, ever, interfere with my relations with employers.
I think you are right, I was interested what would happen while it was down and she was fine once she knew it was down, until then she kept saying her internet wasn’t working.
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You’re being downvoted for being overly negative, but the ops code is of (literally) shockingly poor quality.

This leak has made me understand clearly that code quality is not what makes a product great.

I guess that’s something.

The jenkinsfiles are mostly nice and clean though. I’ve definitely seen worse of those.
In Colorado at least it's not that high. $50 plus a small amount (today) that goes up over time to no more than $96 in the 2031-2032 fiscal year.

It's CERTAINLY a lot less than you'd be paying in gas tax if you used your car an average amount.

Taxes aren't punishment, anyway. Especially "road use taxes", which are, in this case, used to repair the roads you're driving on.

[1] https://afdc.energy.gov/laws/11486
The problem is how Apple both profits from the app store and sets rules on the app store. It’s incentivized to create rules that make it money without helping users. Apple needs to either stop making money from the app store or to create a separate body that can set rules without being incentivized by profit.

Laws are good, but the lawmakers shouldn’t profit from them.
I like the Amazon reviews of, say, a salad spinner that are something like “the delivery van ran into my mailbox! 1 star!”

I miss worthwhile reviews.
I’m not sure she wants to stop tbh
High Speed Telegraphy 2021 in Montenegro
The "for free" is doing a lot of work there! :) I've been there, and you do develop the valuable human capital, but it costs time and salary.

That said, you're right it is fun, and people like doing it so its good to keep your work mixed up and you team motivated.

It's a good lever to pull IMHO, but not always.
https://openvaers.com/covid-data/myo-pericarditis
ah that looks great! Does it go into a possible implementation of it? I have been toying with the idea of making one but I lack the training and I'd love some guidance.
I'm assuming this is done as a part of an effort to actually regrow and maintain forests as natural carbon sinks, and not some weird thing where trees are grown in the desert.
Put a notice when setting up the app that because of Apple's limitation on NFC that the feature is unavailable.
>According to a very recent analysis by Ki Young Ju, a market analyst, a whale has bought $1.6 billion worth BTC via market orders in just five minutes.

This is interesting as it implies 1.6B of fiat moved hands (unless it came from other tokens which I doubt), very hard to pull that off while avoiding KYC.

I remark this as usually the 'whale' term implies some sort of anonymity as in "we only know a lot of tokens moved".
If you have an iPhone, you can physically connect it to your computer and inspect its elements through Safari's DevTools. It's a little unintuitive, but I wrote a walkthrough on how to set it up here (see the second section) [0].

I don't know why they make this so hard, ha!

[0]: https://mtm.dev/iphone-localhost-mac
If i asked you to point out a flaw in my reasoning you'd say "but I'm not well versed in the /science/" - I'm making assumptions based purely off that /science/.

If you're saying that it's all just goobly-gook and random chance and everyone's different then I'd see that you'd have no problem injecting yourself with microchips to make yourself feel better, tailored by your ad preferences.

It really blows my mind that you're thinking this is the most valiant hill to die on; like depression is some great enigma that's plagued humanity. It's as common as a headache. People like you stop others from getting better. "yeah you're right, some people are unsavable, definitely need meds. meds are the only way out right now. no don't listen to others who've gotten better. some people definitely have no hope and definitely need meds"
I have not heard of any such thing. Inuit who have never had access to unsaturated fat do not start getting heart disease until they adopt a supermarket-driven diet.

Cholesterol as a measure of health is driven to some degree by Big Pharma, who would like to have everyone taking statins for the whole rest of their lives. Certainly, dietary cholesterol is absolutely harmless, always has been.
Man, I am glad they built this instead of them saying "Ah, load times are slow, scrap that idea." like it seems like a lot of people in this thread would do. Very very cool.
100x this. Prior company committed to doing Infrastructure as Code and CloudFormation worked well except for this hiccup. We didn't even have that many services on ECS but we probably had 1 ticket a week asking support to help us with a 'stuck' stack.

Our commitment to CloudFormation was doubled down on that we could do containers, Lambda, and 95% of any other AWS Services....

However, in hidsight using SAM and the ECS CLI probably would have resulted in a more predictable CI/CD process as we weren't fighting deploy semantics through CloudFormation abstraction.
Time for a new job. You've probably been there too long and have gotten fed up with the way of doing things.
How the Nobel Prizes skew science
Adolfo Bioy Casares, who co-wrote books with Borges. And Borges himself was a fan of Evaristo Carriego.
There are people commenting that Pony was the wrong choice from the get go, but many of us have only heard of this startup (which operates in a saturated market) because they were using Pony.
That's why it's good we can switch companies!
I can't resist this bikeshed, but you've written the Maximum Hacker News aside of the week. I have several car factory service manuals. They do not include cost benefit analyses on when to remove a vehicle from service. Instead, they are full of flow charts on how to diagnose problems. Each flow chart ends with a "If nothing failed a test, but the symptom persists, replace the entire part/assembly."

The goal is to pinpoint which piece of an assembly might have failed and only repair or replace that one piece. eg bad wiring harnesses, a single controller in a complex system such as antilock brakes, a single fuse, etc.

The decision whether to keep attempting to repair an ailing car, or stay in a role that supports a company doing "wildly illegal stuff" is beyond what tech writers can determine for you--even given thousands of pages of information in dozens of PDFs.
"The more dimensions you analyze, the close to 'truth' you can get."

Data scientist here. The above is not the correct takeaway from Simpson's paradox. It is not generally correct that the trends seen in subdivided groups are closer to truth than overall groups; sometimes the opposite is the case. It depends entirely on what the divisions are and whether they make sense.

With regard to gender-based pay disparity, there are a multiplicity of factors, from the most obvious ("equal pay for equal work") to other factors such as the fact that professions largely staffed by women tend to get paid less than professions largely staffed by men. For instance childcare is miserably compensated, despite being a position of high responsibility and impact.

The consensus regarding women during the pandemic (not limited to tech workers) was that women have disproportionately sacrificed their careers to cover the needs of childcare and at-home schooling during the pandemic.
the amount of policing has basically no effect. numerous studies show that potential punishments don't deter murder, either pre-meditated or murders of opportunity. further, police rarely ever stop murders, and only solve about 55% of murder cases. lastly, murders are rare: 0.005%, or 16k/yr, in the US. that's because of the severe social, not legal, repercussions. people feeling connected to each other lowers the murder rate, not policing.
Maybe I should check Opera out again, I used to use it back in the day and it had innovative features back then.

I forget what they called it but you could link one page to another, so I could have an index page open on one monitor and when you clicked on links in that, it would open those links in tabs in a window I had on another monitor.
In China, Even Jump-Rope Is Competitive–So Parents Pay for Lessons
Please try to turn Reddit into this place.
There is an Android Easter Egg game featuring this for those that don't know.
The right to be forgotten is just that - the right to be forgotten. Your issues or needs, whatever they may be (tax info retention, age info retention, etc), take a backseat to the user's rights.

In other words: if there is overlap, the right of one person's data to be forgotten supersedes the right of the other person's data to be remembered.
"But CDK transpiles into CloudFormation templates. For that reason alone I can’t recommend it."

CDK is superior to terraform for a glaring reason: it's a first class citizen in AWS' eyes and terraform is not.
Do you know how they are generating electricity?
I imagine you want NUMA aware software specifically designed for multi-socket systems; off the top of my head the ones I've heard of are IBM DB2, SAP HANA, and Microsoft SQL Server — although I've had a chance to actually use any of them.
Again, whats the alternative? Human being making this decisions. Human beings with their own biases and life experiences. I trust a model where I can at least control the inputs it considers, is auditable, and created by intelligent thoughtful people than some police chief.

> accidental racial bias has already shown up multiple times in applications where it should be easier to detect than an invisible 'crime prediction' algorithm that the general public won't have access to but public policy will be implemented on the basis of.

The primary victims of violence are often of this same race as the "accidental racial bias" you're talking about. You're not doing anyone any favors by misallocating police resource to be more "equitable" without considering actual need. Only 7% of Americans want less policing in their neighborhoods. I imagine people that live in high crime areas would prefer more policing.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/562738-pol...
I agree with the principle but the problem here is the word "AI" or "ML"; what we are talking about is really just fancy statistics. Are we forbidding statistical modeling of any kind? How would we even describe or enforce that? The ML courses I took started with just running a linear regression on a large data set, and those were considered a form of ML.

This is tricky. And the problem is not just the techniques, but can we trust our institutions and practitioners -- what kind of systemic and unconscious biases are driving the misuses or potential misuses of ML?
Austria's Kurz Channeling Freud
It can just go through a manual review and delete the parts that they're are legally required to delete. While I don't agree with a lot of the money laundering/terror financing laws banks shouldn't have to delete your data if you're trying to avoid taxes or whatever.

INITIATION is the important part, if they fail to delete the parts they're required to delete, F them: get them off the app store.
I added a link above to a good talk from Dennis Whyte. I think it will help address your question about the additional engineering issues in a commercial reactor based on ARC.

In short, from my basic understanding, there are quite a few additional major challenges involved with fusion power generation. e.g. After creating net-positive fusion, the heat must be efficiently extracted without stopping the reaction. Also tritium must be continually extracted from the FLiBe (fluorine-lithium-beryllium) bath that stops and collects neutrons and extracts the heat.

Since I'm a total novice in all this, I don't know if these require incremental innovations or major advances. But from the video, the problems mentioned seem to be more tractable than achieving fusion ignition or Q>10.
W7-X was supposed to demonstrate a 30-minute run in 2021, but that's been pushed back a year.
So there are now 3 hosted offerings? Forge, v1 and v2?

This is getting extremely confusing.
The really rich are not so because of the salaries they draw, if any.

Salary transparency can help individuals by revealing their unfair pay relative to their peers. Correcting such injustices are not big money overall, they're not going to create meaningful wealth distribution, it's not going to make the rich noticeably less rich.
One thing that is confusing about the concept of "deleted" is how do you minimize fraud on a social platform without retaining PII (indefinitely?) of your users.

If there is a known fraudster and you have their selfie image, email address, and ML face vectors, the fraudster requests their account to be deleted. What should the company delete? Maybe the company can keep a one-way hashed email and face vectors, but what about hash-collisions or false positives?

If there is a user that wants their account deleted, but then they come back to the platform (maybe abusing a referral bonus or first-time-only coupon), how do you stop this fraud?
How depressing. Probably true. But depressing nevertheless. Bigger frameworks, more complicated libraries, deeper multi tiered tooling, all of these things that we call ecosystem, reduce access to general purpose programming and creativity. We've created a bureaucracy of execution so complicated that we need vast amounts of funding to keep us at the tiller doing the biddings of e-commerce apps. It's like the founding fathers of programming have been reborn as Sir Humphreys.
It absolutely is, I'm living in a former communist country and these stars are still everywhere:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_star
direct PDF link: https://www.yodaiken.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/yodaiken...
I find it funny how today the measure of success is first and foremost GitHub stars and everything else comes later.

> At the time of writing, Wasmer has an incredible growth. In 2.5 years only, the runtime has more than 10’500 stars on Github, and is one of the most popular WebAssembly runtime in the world!
Why are those reviews included at all if they weren't "verified purchases"? I guess there's some utility in it - you already own product X and want to let people know about something (positive or negative) but... this blatant sabotage from obvious non-customers/users is crazy.