skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it shouldn't. If you get caught lying to Congress, the hammer should come down on you

Congress is a political creature. What is and isn't a lie is, within its context, a political question. This is--very partly, it's mostly a matter of convenience [1]--why contempt of Congress isn't a charge a Congress brings, while contempt of court is one the court regularly--unilaterally--brings.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/354/178
It's very regrettable the author of this article omitted the citation to the paper. Why did they do that?
>The wait is often hours until AWS released a bucket name (since bucket names are globally unique, not just within your account).

I think last time I did this, the wait time was pretty much exactly 60 minutes.
There's a recent HN thread on truck driving, which is legal and regulated, and has relatively less stigma. Yet the industry has apparently also figured out every possible way to skirt the regulations and abuse drivers physically and financially if possible. Granted, that's not a statistical assessment, but it at least suggests to me that legalization and regulation are not enough by themselves to make an occupation safe and wholesome.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28916771
No, no it isn’t the case. Walmart is the only one with more revenue, but they don’t have AWS margins to prop up everything else. I think we’d all be better off if we didn’t have a 2-horse race for 90% of our purchases…

Target (#3)had $93b in revenue in FY2020. Amazon e-commerce had $120b.

https://corporate.target.com/annual-reports/2020

https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1218313/amazon-revenue-de...
> What I don’t get it’s why they care now when this is an old retail strategy. Older than Amazon itself.

> Target is the epitome of pushing you white label brands down your throat from the minute you step into own of their stores. And this is essentially what every retailer does.

But Amazon isn't a simple retailer. Isn't the issue that they do this and operate a third party marketplace? IIRC, Target is a traditional retailer that doesn't operate a marketplace for other retailers to compete in.
I am confused. Why is the company allowed to do this and not any employee. I mean, isn't this insider trading on the company's part? They could in theory take options, then after the value of the firm increases, they could sell them and pay the money to their execs - isn't this strategy just an elaborate insider trading scheme?
Bezos has been pretty honest that he can’t guarantee employees haven’t violated Amazon policy.

> “What I can tell you is we have a policy against using seller-specific data to aid our private-label business,” Bezos replied. “But I can’t guarantee you that policy has never been violated.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/29/bezos-t...
As funny as it may be, this is a weakness in human character, a desire for a thing of no value. Transactional exchanges bleach emotion and depth.

There are productive relationships in life. They do not lie within this realm.

For myself, this was waste of time. I do not deny those who seek it, but the end result is always to be disillusioned.

And now I sound like an octogenarian.
How do you differentiate that opinion from “skeumorphism came first so we all collectively got bored of it” and we like the current designs more simply because they’re newer?
It may work, but at what cost?

You trade living in a country that has vandalism for living in a country that has torture.

I am sure execution will work even better than caning if a nation wants to put "stopping vandalism" above all else.
"Accused of lying to Congress". The "possibly" is redundant. The quality of journalistic English is terrible these days.
> Decriminalization of marijuana in many places is getting people talking about it more openly, for example. It's not everything but it's a start.

sure... and that's the best argument to recriminalize. Having yet more drugs that disrupt mental faculties is not a good thing
You read my mind. Completely anecdotally, it feels like the real estate crazy has really slowed down here in Portland compared to early summer.

I think you are right, or it’s a seasonal slowdown cause of winter.
Going from 1 to 7 non-teacher staff doesn't seem like that big of a deal. A baseline related to the school budget would make these stats more useful.

It's a good point. I don't know the budget, but NY has a lot of admin overhead with a 13:1 teacher to admin ratio.

edit: for the country overall, 54% of the spending is going to teachers, 27% to staff. It is a high number compared to OECD average which is 15% to staff.

https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=10527

The school problem looks like healthcare - failing not for lack of money in the system, but for dozens of other reasons.
As another cross platform mobile dev that mainly uses iOS, this is how I feel too. It’s much easier to mentally model things with intra-app and inter-app navigation being entirely separate.

Navigating within apps is frustrating enough between apps that intentionally implement wonky custom stuff for no reason and cross platform apps that don’t obey conventions by nature, the last thing I want is those same apps mucking up otherwise consistent app switcher behavior.
From the discussion here, it sounds like this is going to be a specialized tool for now. Perhaps we'll end up seeing optical/ic hybrid chips before too long
Prostitution is not a victimless crime. This is just mental gymnastics that people do to make themselves feel better abotu themselves.

No woman wakes up one day and says 'I want to sell my body for sex to the highest bidder' unless forced to by circumstance.
What apps are you referring to? Bixby? I've also got the S21 and never get Bixby notifications once I switched them off.
It's not, because caveat is in the letter by the lawmakers.
Pixel devices (at least previous ones) supported the inverse of this, where you could set the phone to remain unlocked until it was left stationary on a table. The theory is that (for some people) the most common reason to lose a phone is leaving it behind laying on a table, and it can safely stay unlocked as long as it's in your pocket.
That's indeed done all the time in electronics: for example, RF CMOS usually trailing on a node three or four generations behind the bleeding edge.

However, all-optical/photonic computing is just intrinsically so much worse than electronics. On top of the issues that I touched on, there are also other fundamental problems, e.g. distribution of power: photons like to get absorbed by nearby electrons. How do you then supply all the active devices (switches/lasers/etc.) with power while maintaining some semblance of signal integrity and dense integration?
Sure it might be hard for the contributor to be sure, but it’s even harder for the repository owner.
Yes my mom did too. After several times she failed to deliver them to the school nurse for their daily tranquilizers, she was eventually put on administrative leave and then denied tenure. unfortunately, you cannot fight the system. The boys she had were excelling, but the schools could not stand that they were being showed up by a mother of boys with no 'formal' research experience.
"Attention-Deconstruction" is actually from old "Awareness" meditation techniques from ancient Hinduism/Buddhism texts.

One well-known text is the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vij%C3%B1%C4%81na_Bhairava_Tan...
Pre-K decreases educational attainment and increases criminality. The effects are not small. We have evidence from Quebec where they introduced universal childcare and Tennessee where we have evidence from randomised controlled trials.

> Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long-run benefits. We test the symmetry of this contention by studying the effects of a sizeable negative shock to non-cognitive skills due to the introduction of universal child care in Quebec. We first confirm earlier findings showing reduced contemporaneous non-cognitive development following the program introduction in Quebec, with little impact on cognitive test scores. We then show these non-cognitive deficits persisted to school ages, and also that cohorts with increased child care access subsequently had worse health, lower life satisfaction, and higher crime rates later in life. The impacts on criminal activity are concentrated in boys. Our results reinforce previous evidence on the central role of non-cognitive skills for long-run success.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w21571?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medi...

> In second grade, however, the groups began to diverge with the TN‐VPK children scoring lower than the control children on most of the measures. The differences were significant on both achievement composite measures and on the math subtests.

https://my.vanderbilt.edu/tnprekevaluation/files/2013/10/Apr...
We have never been very close to integration.
Except that in this case they are about 30 to 40 years late.
Acquisitions. Say a big company lacks in category, an exec from that company can let a VC know that they would like to buy a company in that category and are willing to pay a certain amount. The VC then goes about bringing the company into existence. Do a song and dance about how it's a real company. Buy a bunch of positive press. Cram it full of new grads. Then before it can collapse under its own weight offload it.
Bear in mind, you may not care about a congressperson from Alabama, but the people in Alabama who elected him do, and he's there to represent those people... you have your own representative representing you. The fact that it's someone else's representative doesn't make them any less important because they aren't there for you personally.

And yes, Congress can effectively put someone on trial (see: impeachment) and the fact finding processes they use before creating legislation is similar to a court proceeding. You are legally bound to respond honestly.
> Brave Search is currently not displaying ads, but the free version of Brave Search will soon be ad-supported.

Well, there's that. I assume they won't implement ad blocking for that one.
If I am working in a team, I prefer frameworks because it provides a set of idioms and documentation out of the box. That's great for making sure we are doing things consistently across the team and making sure it's harder for new devs to get stuck spinning their wheels. It can make hiring easier too, but I would still hire a good dev without specific framework experience.

Solo projects it really depends on the size I expect it to get.
Thx. NIST SP 800-63*
https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/ :

> SP 800-63-3: Digital Identity Guidelines https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-63-3

> SP 800-63A: Enrollment and Identity Proofing https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-63a

> SP 800-63B: Authentication and Lifecycle Management https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-63b

> SP 800-63C: Federation and Assertions https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-63c
> that they faced no repercussions for doing so is not an exception, it's the rule

This is playground logic. No enforcement mechanism is perfect. Permitting nullification on the hope of perfect enforcement is a straight line to anarchy.

Congress isn't a court. Its purpose is to legislate [1].

If you lie to a Congress and it impedes the legislative process, you can get boned, provided there is political will to refer you to the DoJ and sufficient evidence for them to pursue and convict you. But it's not analogous to contempt of court. (In particular, there is Constitutional risk around the executive interfering with people talking to Congress. Even at the request of some of its members.)

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/354/178
Avoid all links to kicad-pcb.org – Use kicad.org
Dragging random people before congress always seems to be a politically motivated media circus of some kind or another. Why should these affairs hold any legal weight whatsoever?
I think that highly optimized browsers have to deal with memory usage and page sharing as well. And QUIC started out as a userspace implementation shipped with Chrome handling packets and such, so I think browsers and OSes are not "entirely different".
> Well yeah, the difference is that conspiracy theories purport that a group of people are secretly conspiring in order to fool the public into believing a false narrative.

You mean like this:

1. https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

2. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/15/1046519838/katie-courics-ethi...

How much more do we need to see before we realize that indeed there is a group of people conspiring in order to fool the public into believing a false narrative. The only thing the conspiracy theorists have wrong is that it is secret.
This was a fantastic read; thank you for sharing.

I saw escorts for a couple of years. It was often weird, when I just didn’t click with the woman, but I met a few really awesome people.

There are other down sides to escorting. One of the women I had seen a couple of times, was later murdered. They ended up catching the killer- another escort, I don’t know why. It was hard to grieve; we were not real close; her family probably didn’t want clients showing up at the funeral or any other reminder like flowers.

I ended up falling in love with one of the women I met and we dated for a while. It was a serious emotional roller coaster being in love with someone who was having sex with other men until she was ready to “go exclusive”. But in the end we got married after she retired.

Now it’s ten years later. We have a son and are still happy as can be.

If you’re thinking about seeing escorts, remember that since intimacy with other people is involved, there are often strong emotions as well.
They indicted Roger Clemens for lying. You can see where their priorities lie.
Microsoft is 'infected' with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
I dunno.. maybe the government should start an advertising campaign, but that would imply that they would be able to put individual interests above those of their corporate overlords.
She’s posting in the replies here so maybe she’ll say whether this feels like an affront to her humanity. Still, this conversation around why it might be icky seems philosophically meaningful.
This is mostly common sense, but it'll be really interesting to see the metrics: People choosing to use the Brave browser should presumably trust Brave as their search as well, especially once the crypto ad scheme ties into their search engine too. This might be a case where most people follow along with the switch.
But did they lie to congress… it’s not about prioritising their own brands because yes everyone does it, it’s about lying to Congress.
It could spark a liquidity crisis. Tether is a mechanism for converting crypto to USD, and if there's a run on Tether and they run out of USD for whatever reason, it'll spiral into a run on other exchanges, if people aren't able to change their crypto back into USD, the value of that crypto suddenly vanishes
I know a lot of guys who dont wake up every day and say they want to sell their bodys for hard labor to the highest bidder, but it's decent work. Similar to how women can contract incurable, potentially-lethal venereal diseases as prostitutes, jobs like construction can really mess up a man's body. Doesn't mean we should ban them.
> nearly every important member of the government that has testified before congress has flat out lied to congress

This is rubbish. There is a litany of recent, memorable cases. But they rarely met the legal threshold of contempt of Congress, and in the cases that did, there was seldom political will to prioritise its prosecution.

Congress, by design, is a political creature. We don't want the President (DoJ) rounding up people who speak to a co-equal branch of government because he--unilaterally--thinks they might have lied.
I've done 3 or 4 Pixel RMAs and device protection plan replacements in the past few years. The good news is that it's relatively easy to convince them to replace the phone. I've never had a problem getting a replacement, even multiple times for the same issue. The bad news is that communicating with them is infuriating. In one case they were so incompetent that two different reps separately sent me replacement phones. And when I called them trying to return the extra phone they were totally unable to process the situation. I eventually gave up wasting my time trying to convince them that I should return the extra phone and just kept it (gave it to a friend). Luckily they were too incompetent to charge me for it.

The other bad news is that the Pixel 2 XL and Pixel 4 XL both had issues warranting RMA and the RMAs did not totally fix the issues because these were design defects, and the replacements also exhibited them to varying degrees. Speaker buzzing for Pixel 2 XL, and back glass detaching over time on Pixel 4 XL.

I'm still buying Pixel 6, but if it doesn't have an RMA-worthy design defect it'll be the first one since Pixel 1.
I don't know what these are but if they're objectionable enough for both of you to have turned them off it's likely that they should have been opt-in.
It is possible for the state to compel without violence. That is still force.
I believe there is at least one son-father-grandfather trio of B-52 pilots. Possibly more than one.
Yes, you're right. I had decriminalization in mind, but maybe chose the incorrect word.

And to elaborate on the prosecution part, in the wake of #MeToo, a lot of people came out with their stories, but not many of them pursued a legal route. I got the feeling that proving many of those allegations would be difficult in a legal system and whatever cases that did go through the legal system had a preponderance of evidence - along with immense social pressure - backing them up (think Bill Cosby/Harvery Weinstein). This is what made me wonder how much of a deterrent decriminalization/regulation would be on sexual assaults. Do we have to use public shaming, like in #MeToo, as a deterrent mechanism?
Well it might not have been optimistic in terms of threat models as much as pessimistic in terms of how long the OS would be around...
If your income is from working a job, then it can only go up via a raise, a different job, or an additional job. But you can only reasonably work 2-3 jobs. The gains are linear and do not compound.

If the income comes from investments,we'll, there are no limits. Each increase compounds.

So yeah, the rich get richer. The system is broken, but it is working as designed.
This seems more like trying to capture money. If this was about privacy, they could have just gone with duckduckgo.
I routinely find my iPhone and iPad are one major version behind. Yep, just checked, I'm still on iOS 14. I don't even care about all the new features.
The title could easily be "The easy way to rein in _________? Stop them gobbling up competitors." Regulators have been way too lax as far as anti-trust enforcement. It seems like nearly all these huge mergers over the last 3 decades have been rubber stamped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_mergers_and_ac...
> Is there an ACME-like thing to verify online identity control like Keybase still does?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28926739 :

> NIST SP 800-63 https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/ :

> SP 800-63-3: Digital Identity Guidelines https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-63-3

> SP 800-63A: Enrollment and Identity Proofing https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-63a

FWIU, NIST SP 800-63A Enrollment and Identity Proofing specifies a spec sort of like ACME but for offline identity.
"Possibly" lying to congress.

Now I ask you, what is that? Do they give Nobel prizes out for "possibly" doing physics??
Great, now I can accumulate my $.05 worth of monthly BAT a little faster!

Edit: I expected the YC crowd to pick up on Palantir puppets a bit faster. I'll gladly burn karma to get the word out though.
Maybe they’ll pull an AIG and change their name twice before finally changing it back to Facebook some years later.
I'd agree if we had a 2-horse race, but I don't see it, there are a ton of competing retail stores both online and offline.

And especially online, it's not like you're limited geographically where say your only store that has what you want is a big Walmart, you have access to hundreds of online retailer to choose from.
How different is Target's relationship to its suppliers from third-party Amazon sellers really? In many cases it's the same entity that wants to appear prominently in both venues.
Sure, I don’t disagree about this part of the charge: I just don’t think there’s much difference between any other commerce-oriented business and Amazon on the question of prioritizing store brands.
This is what's really annoying about the new Windows team. They often are so obsessed with doing new cool things to win back users, they often fail where Microsoft has traditionally proven superior: Careful, well-planned steps that maintain the utmost security and process.

WinGet, for example, was entirely automated approval for changes to app installs.

It took so much time to convince them was easy to compromise, and then they implemented some community moderators instead of hiring an app review team.
What does being a 'cultural fit' mean?
I wonder how much money on market research went into that.
But it is. Here's how things typically go: person in front of the Congress has a certain political affiliation, perceived or official. So one party (their own) runs down the clock asking them ultra-softball questions they can easily answer truthfully, while the other side asks difficult question which, if they answered them truthfully, would doom their appointment or invite further legal scrutiny, so they lie instead. On some occasions (Clapper or Clintons to mind) they just blatantly and unceremoniously lie to both parties, with impunity. On other occasions (Zuck, Pichai, others) they lie by omission or promise answers later, even when it's quite obvious they know them at the time. Nobody in the press ever checks what answers they provided "later", or whether they have provided them at all, or whether those answers were "truthful" or not.

And yes, everyone in Congress is quite into inside trading too (often holding large positions in companies they "scrutinize"). Multimillion dollar fortunes can't be built on $174K/yr otherwise.
I’m glad to see people mentioning this passage:

“In the popular imagination workers’ share of the economic pie has room to grow at the expense of profits. But recent research suggests that labour’s share of the value created by firms has in fact been fairly stable in most rich countries during recent decades“

That entire piece needs some citation. What do they define as labor here? Are they analyzing all job categories? Are they lumping in highly paid software engineers from FAANG with people working at a retail outlet?

Regardless of source material, that part also misses the point entirely of the workforce category that’s demanding wage increases.

Workers in this category are saying “stop hoarding y’all profits and pay us more so we run with less profits and bonuses for the high levels”.

The article is suggesting that if wages are increased, prices will need to increase which will in turn devalue the wage increase. But it fails to discuss if the chunky profit margin can be sacrificed without raising prices too.

Honestly, I like a lot of the economist but this particular article in this weeks edition had me shaking my head hard.
Gotta be honest, I don't see it as much of a win if I can't buy store-brand cereal anymore.
Part of me is trying to come up with ways I could short this incredibly irrational market™, but I'm reminded of the saying that the markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent
YoY will reflect the massive crash we had last year. Compare it with 2019 levels.