skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't you normally expect people to make the strongest case for preventing something? It's pretty common for a lawsuit to bring every claim a lawyer can come up with on the hopes that enough will stick to get the outcome they want.

I would especially consider that in the United States we do not have a broad legal right to privacy but there are potentially much stronger tools available if that software skews negative outcomes towards protected categories like sex, disability, or race. From the perspective of a student, job applicant, etc. being asked to use this, if the legal risks cause an organization to stop using it they'll enjoy that as a win even if the outcome isn't a blanket ban.
Something I don’t see the Go team get enough praise for is their ability to bring major language changes like generics into the language in an actually backwards compatible minor version update.

If nothing else, I find myself choosing Go frequently because it’s not going anywhere and it’s not changing.
So what? You are turning things on their head. Google is giving you reach that you wouldn't have had before they existed. They are not taking away reach from you, they are giving you additional reach. You absolutely can get by without Google, you just have to limit your reach.
Which database to you query? They're on the blockchain, but you have to know which format you're accepting, how to verify, etc. Do you accept OpenSea as the source of truth for NFT ownership? How about Foundation? What about MyFirstMarketplace, the one that I've decided to create?

This requires some social contract to know who the authority is, and that's probably based on how much they have spent on marketing to become The Authority.

It always comes back to social contracts.
For context:

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

> Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be any asset, including an object, land or real estate, intellectual property, or until the nineteenth century, human beings.

In light of this

> In current capitalist societies, ownership of property is fully secured by the military (police) and judicial (law) power of the state.

Any examples of non capitalist societies that actually governed more than just a city for more than just a couple of months where there were no enforcement of exclusive rights over anything?

Because if I can think of none, just for example, USSR would get real pissy real fast if you infringed on the exclusive rights which they thought existed over a whole host of things.

Sure, in most non-capitalist societies people had no exclusive rights to their own labor, or their own persons, but there were still many people who had exclusive rights over things that would be enforced by use of force. And the state did have exclusive rights over the person and labor of their subjects, which is a key differentiation from most "capitalistic societies" as you call them.
It looks like it was designed in Prison Architect.
Good job reading the code! It's as you should do when looking at a project.

Is there a way where the image can be replaced with another based on the scheme? I didn't see any, which achieves the same result as putting the image on-chain.
The navy pays people to live like that; the university is charging people. Not sure this is comparable.
It's much harder to lie face-to-face. Your body language will give you away unless you are well practiced at lying and deception (sales people, politicians, actors etc.).
Encrypting the Ubuntu partition with a Windows dual-boot
The Ubuntu installer offers to encrypt your disk while installing, but this option is not available if you're dual booting with Windows or whatever else.

An unencrypted OS installation basically means a fully accessible computer with zero security. And the dual boot is an extremely common situation for linux laptop users, so it's really important to find a workaround.

In this blog post I wrote down all I had to do to make this work on an HP Omen laptop, which gives you extra hard time. It required half a dozen different stackexchange-inspired solutions used together.
Mendocino County, CA--My local Verizon data was also down for at least 10 minutes, likely overloaded due to the sudden outage, and local FM radio had no updates, as they do during events like wildfires or fiber optic cuts.

So for the second Comcast outage in a row, my first line of confirmation on the outage (as opposed to damaged house wiring or hardware or something) was ham radio. I turned on the HT, hit scan, and the first carrier found was a conversation about the outage, a couple cities north. That's always helpful just to get oriented. But funny because there ought to be a better information fallback now that internet service is so crucial. I couldn't even log into the Xfinity app on my phone.

Also, for the first time, I realized that texts using Google messenger's enhanced chat features may not go through at all in this situation, as one would expect normal texts to do. This was worrying because...do I need to disable this feature every time I go hiking now, if I want my texts to send?
Pricing a good above its production cost is not artificial scarcity.
The global chip industry has a colossal problem with carbon emissions
yeah, they are basically selling plain simple Virtual Machines as if they were a revolutionary technology. If you exclude the recent GUI features (which are orthogonal to WSL2), WSL2 is IMHO just marginally more convenient than running Linux on a classic Hyper-V VM and using SSH to access it.
The problem is we currently tend to ignore certain biases in our process which are known to introduce errors. Once it becomes a recommended medical practice that medical professionals use, medical opinion often trumps common sense and patients have trouble defending themselves even when they, personally, are certain this is harming them.

Doctors will outright suggest you are mentally ill and need to see a therapist if your life is on the line, you aren't satisfied with their course of treatment and you question what they are doing and/or express concerns that this could kill you. Once they more or less declare you crazy for questioning them, you lose even more control over your body, your health, your life and your right to actively make decisions for yourself.

There is definitely room for improvement in our current process.
Try neovim to see what this approach might look like, yes it's vi not emacs, but they allow python and rust plugins and have a plugin framework now. It's killed sublime for me. And I used to use emacs over vi.

Personally I'd like emacs a lot more if it's plugins system just worked like vscodes does and as you said let me use languages I'm familiar with.
Pretty obnoxious how it requires an extension on Chrome/Edge to use which seems to just change your default search setting. You can test it on Firefox without an extension.
And what value does this unique NFT have if it has no enforceable or enforced relation to reality?
That's exactly what PyPy does do. You get a specialized version of the interpreter which is specialized to the particular program.
Why would you be forced to use them for doing business? Who is forcing you? I don't think Google, Microsoft or Amazon force you to use their products.

I know there was a time when Microsoft pressured vendors to only sell bundles with Microsoft Software. Even then, there was already Linux, and other vendors.
I took an astronomy course a few years ago which had a fairly forward-thinking (if a bit lazy) instructor. The initial tests were fairly conventional. But for the intense test right before the final, he gave us a comprehensive take-home. With the full assumption we'd be hitting Google hard for the more difficult questions. He knew this was a complex topic. Thought we'd learn more and retain more with a test where we had to show some initiative in finding the right answers without the stress of having to remember it on the spot.

Plus, it doubled as a study guide for the actual final which was only a couple of weeks later. I thought it was a remarkably kind thing to do. Took out a little stress. Gave even the struggling students an easy "A". And it worked as a comprehensive guide to almost everything we covered.
I live in New Orleans, which has some very strict rules about what you can and cannot do when building or renovating in the French Quarter. As a consequence of this, there are multiple businesses that exist mostly to create all the legally-mandated ornamentation. Their work shows up outside the historic district, too.

You don't wanna carve stone, sure, but there's people out there who love sculpting and carving and all the other physical creative work involved in making a pretty building.
Is it just me or is it entirely wrong to have a contractor test themselves? It just begs for failure, like Boeing certifying the 737 Max or this. The incentives are all wrong, and they know they will get away with it with minimal fines.
Is this some sort of rolling outage? My service didn't skip a beat last night, but I had an outage in my neighborhood from roughly 8-9 AM CST this morning in the Chicago area. The cable modem couldn't get a DHCP lease.

At my office, also nearby, the outage was shorter; it's on a static IP.
How about you trial this first and then come back to us? Might find that there is a reason for shore leave in the Navy
From what I see in responses to you, Munger has designed other well-received dorms in the past so that gives him credibility on this topic. It doesn't mean he's right but it's a good chance his thinking is more nuanced than those shitting on it - especially coupled with the current article that describes how he thinks.

This is total conjecture but I can imagine him doing something like this: Question: how do you make students the most miserable? Answer: create a dorm that discourages social interaction, and is far from classes and amenities.

Starting from that, you do the opposite: create a large, centrally located dorm where the design discourages sitting in your room and encourages use of shared spaces while benefiting from greater density and central location.

If the question is "are windowless rooms good?" the answer is "no." If the question is "are we willing to sacrifice bedroom windows so that we have grater communal life and better walkability" the answer is probably "yes, possibly."

Logically it's the same argument for why some people prefer to live in small city apartments when they could live in a much larger home elsewhere for the same price. The very nature of city real estate is tied to the nature of city life (both as a cause as an affect) and it's simply a tradeoff. Asked on its own "do you want a cramped apartment" the answer is always "no" yet people often opt for it in context.
Sure, got a few million dollars to bring a lawsuit knowing that if it starts go somewhere they'll issue a 3-line patch and blame the intern for not testing it?
Dad of 5 here. Monitoring of equip can be reasonable. Request the equip be returned periodically for reset & restore.

Monitoring minors - on school property - beyond temporary measures that are strictly necessary to address recurring, meaningfully disruptive issues is not okay.

Monitoring of minors off school property is a hard no, by strong default.

This is where we start.
You are not thinking about the real risk. It is not about preventing a candidate to Google a few things on the side. It is to prevent a completely different person from doing the exam instead of the candidate and simply sending them the answers. And don't think it is just an abstract threat, there are whole businesses built around that. Unfortunately there is not much you can do to have exams remotely and be sure the candidate is the one doing the exam without being extremely invasive.
Opening this article voids warranty
> Even if the database leaks, it's encrypted

My point is that with only one billion SSN combinations, it's easy to brute force the two way encryption in the same way you would brute force a one way hash.
The Navy is understandably cagey about how they surface through ice-sheets, but this Smarter Every Day video is the best summary I have seen. https://youtu.be/XFJnWp1tAdU

Basically, some part of the sub needs to be strong enough to reliably break ice at sub-zero temps. The rest needs to maintain its strength at those temps.
Stop being so fixated on NFTs.

Think about the ecosystem. Think about how you could potentially use it to do something real. We actually have real money flowing into a space that no one ever cared about. There is new possibility here.

Just brainstorm for a while. Maybe you get nowhere. Maybe you get somewhere. It's the wild west. Have fun, and stop being a grouch!
The question is what cost are we willing to pay for buildings and cities to be more beautiful?

The author doesn’t address cost at all and it is one of the primary inputs to buildings. Not just the construction cost but the operating costs especially the ongoing energy consumption.

Productivity and efficiency matters. At the city scale, these have a measurable impact on quality of life. A city that wastes gigawatt-hours of energy every year will be poorer than its neighbors that do not.

But perhaps you would pay something extra to live in that beautiful but massive energy sink of a city. How much extra? No one wants to live in a perfectly efficient yet ugly building or city. So the question is, what is worth for buildings to be aesthetically pleasing?

P.S. This is not a symptom of capitalism, IMO, as the author incorrectly asserts and the end. Productive use of energy is an equation of life not any particular economic system.
Well AFAICT the foundation isn't funding any developers at the moment, either. I remember from the discussions that was always a far-off goal. Though it probably does make it easier to coordinate donating hardware resources.
The official requirement of the US Navy seems to disagree and I tend to trust they know better than us what they design their gadgets for. The metallurgist also thought they knew better, because they're operating submarines for their lives... oh wait.
Lesser-known Postgres features
Relevant discussion from earlier today: The Magnificent Bribe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29154178

> Surrender to the power of complex technological systems — allow them to oversee, track, quantify, guide, manipulate, grade, nudge, and surveil you — and the system will offer you back an appealing share in its spoils. What is good for the growth of the technological system is presented as also being good for the individual, and as proof of this, here is something new and shiny. Sure, that shiny new thing is keeping tabs on you (and feeding all of that information back to the larger technological system), but it also lets you do things you genuinely could not do before.....The danger, however, was that “once one opts for the system no further choice remains.”
No, because it is a fake scarcity scam. People are selling art they don't even own. It is all a pump and dump scheme.
We're always just one declared war away from changing that.

Your life's circumstances can change at a moment's notice. You could fall and have a devastating brain injury. Being comfortable with your circumstances can mostly only come from within.
The marketplaces verify the collections. So if you're buying from a famous artist on OpenSea, you know the NFT is the one from that artist. There are copycat collections but it's no different from someone trying to flog a fake Banksy a the local shopping mall.
Completely agreed. Customer success is what gives a middling product the time and space to turn into an ATM machine.
This one in particular was a really good exploration of the simultaneous urge to share creative works and fear of exposing that much of yourself.
Yes, but the job market is different there as are the cost structure... it is not an equal comparison.

For example, in the USA you are looking at about 22% for taxes on an employees salary that the company pays. In Europe that can be as high as 50%.

Just one example...
Unit tests only catch known failure modes.

TDD only catches assumed known failure modes.
You know I attended The University of Memcached but years later when I asked for a copy of my degree certificate ... well you know the rest.
You might find this comment of interest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25427090
How is this piece of garbage #10 on HN?
I do not understand this part: we (banking software) have trivial rules that completely stop this: I would hope bigger organizations have this too. But simply; support roles (all roles are limited: millions cannot happen; you need a big bug for that) cannot view over 100 customers a day: if they hit that 100 2 days in a row, their account is blocked and their manager (also access to 100 a day but can unblock support employees) has to check the reason and unblock. How does a support account actually give you access to all customer data? What is the point of that?
If that were the case, yeah, I don't think it would be nefarious.

Lying about the unhealthy effects of smoking would be nefarious. But if people willingly decide they want to smoke, why wouldn't they be interested in preventing bans on smoking or whatever.

I often wonder about it, as I can't stop eating chocolate. Would I prefer a world in which chocolate doesn't exist (and alcohol, and cigarettes)? I am not sure about that. All those things can be good in moderation (except perhaps tobacco, but I guess if I was a soldier maybe I would take up smoking, too, because why the hell not).
Offline spreadsheet tracking cryptocurrency balances and prices. Spreadsheet is encrypted at rest.
Yet. Give it time. Though, i believe they just meant the waters surrounding Antarctica.
English is my first language! Sorry if my phrasing is confusing.

> 2. $FOO is NOT RECORDED AS A CRIME if the apprehended suspect is not convicted.

This is not true in any municipality that I'm aware of. For example, the NYPD's CompStat[1] system publishes weekly and monthly crime reports based on pre-conviction arrests. That information isn't considered guilt-presumptive, because it doesn't assume that any particular arrested person has committed a crime -- it's an agglomerated statistic.

Given that crime reporting data doesn't require convictions, it's not clear to me that your counterpoint holds.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompStat
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I don't really understand your point. ProctorU has apps on both Play Store and App Store, how does Apple and Google save us here? Seems they have no problem hosting software for ProctorU.
> To be fair the working space is being experimented upon. The open spaces are fairly new, and there are plenty of workplaces also where people don't have attributed desks, they just walk around the building and sit wherever they want. Whether any of it works, I don't know...

All of this is purely driven by cost cutting.

Many jobs require deep concentration and quiet and in places that respect this you get individual offices (extremely rare for the entire company, but notice that in 99% of companies every level above manager tends to get an individual office) or team offices (probably the best compromise in terms of cost - socialization trade-off).

The flexible desk ("flex desk") setups work for some things, but they tend to suck, too. You have to take everything with you, generally. Over the ear headset? Bring a bag! Favorite mug? Probably the same. Pens, notes, whatever? Nomad life style.
Stop testing people on memorization and then you don't have to worry about cheating. Allow people to recall data with resources typically available to them in the real world. This is the same issue I have with code/interview challenges that say don't use the internet. I would be a fool to not use the resources readily available to me or at least validate what I think I already know.
The article’s claim that “inflation is far worse than the government admits” may well be true, or it may not be, but it doesn’t provide any evidence either way. The closest it gets is here:

> When we look around, we see stories about how food prices have surged, gas prices have surged, car prices have surged, electronics prices have surged, and on and on.

> And those price increases are far above just 4.4%.

Which is… well, not exactly quantitative.
Real Question / Zero Trolling: What forums do you like these days? I have been reading HN for a few years now. I am still consistently impressed once a day by comments I read here. The community works pretty hard to self-correct. An imperfect social science, but they try. (<hat tip> @dang)
and it was only worked out around 2010 I think? sign of a well manipulated sample when it takes so long!
Longmonts costco is in superior, not too far. Its pretty nice.
I don't think anybody is trying to explain the price difference between a $7 shirt and a $100 shirt as being the result of one having a larger supply than the other.
Arguably you can only refute hypotheses, if you're of the empiricist mindset about testability, so in a sense that's even _more_ stringent.

TRIZ seems to admit of situations where basically, you don't know enough about what your hypothesis ought to be that 'the scientific method' won't get you far enough, so you must proceed by walling off as much of your search space as possible as fast as possible by prioritizing the rejection of negative outcomes rather than identification of positive ones.
I'm a Fish inside Iterm2 user, constantly with a four panel split screen, and I'm always slightly amazed that _something_ seems to even remember which pane I ran various commands in. I have no idea which is remembering though.
When was the last time you used an app because its code was clean? How could you even tell?

Nobody cares about the code because it's not what they're consuming. They care if the end result, the application itself, is high quality. If you can achieve this with dumpster fire code, so be it.

There is some evidence that code quality is irrelevant to delivery schedules in the short term. In the long term, your poor architecture and software design decisions may come back to bite you. But that's for future you to deal with. Your primary directive as a startup is to make something people want. Do that first, then you can deal with the side effects.
Thanks, I guess for the price of Nitro that'll be good enough.
> All in all its not the worst thing in the world, but when I first read the requirements for the ProctorU testing environment and technical requirements I almost quit school completely to look for alternative paths. Some of the crazy requirements include: Testing space must have nothing on the walls, or floors. You can’t wear glasses while taking the exam. Your desk must be clear of everything besides the specific testing materials (calculator if your lucky, and maybe a pencil and paper) Your device needs a webcam, so that they can not only watch you for the entire 1 hour and 30 minutes where you take a test that determines 40% of your grade, but also so that you can show them each wall, floor and under your desk. And thats just the physical space requirements. I had to empty my closet and use my laptop to take this test because their is no way I just have an extra room for testing…

Talk about security theatrics ... I'd just stick the answers I want on a piece of paper just under the cupboard in reach of your feet or with a tape on the bottom of your desk and get it off when scratching your crotch.

> access to folders they had to right too

Why? They are recording all processes and the screen already. Again just theatrics. And if you can hide it from that they are never going to find it anyway.
The difference between "easy to fake" and "hellishly difficult" is the authors clicking next-next-finish in VMProtect or not.