skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, and the art market is also equally known for money laundering
> there is no one to sue of something goes awry

Hum... There's no way to sue any commercial software distributor, it doesn't matter if it's proprietary.
I had Kaiser for a year and I actually enjoyed it. I saw a couple specialist but I never had any major work done so perhaps I am biased. It is funny to say it since I believe Kaiser originally was one of the opponents of a single payer system but using Kaiser kind of felt like what a government health care system should be. Very low friction. Oh I need blood work or whatever done, walk down the hall. Everything felt more convenient.
Bullshit, these people have US and Canadian corporate accounts capable of cashing out millions at a time.

You can easily get thousands of US personal accounts at short notice if you need them.
I wonder how long it took to come up with the phrase "political neutrality" to explain this, seeing as it's literally the exact opposite of that.

To be fair to Marriott, they are saying it was a local hotel management decision and not a corporate decision, and that their corporate policies would not have restricted this conference. Remember, Marriott doesn't actually own or control (the vast majority of) hotels with their name on it.
Or...do something along the lines of what the healthcare world has already come up with: doctors get paid for the quality of care they give, rather than just quantity.
One observation I have to make: this community of information retrieval seems to be very thin-faced and cannot seem to accept outside contributions. I hope I am wrong.

This is not an isolated case. They rejected some industry changing contributions when they first came out.

For example, I remember that Google PageRank paper was outright rejected by SiGIR. Lucky for us, that paper was rejected, shattering the dream of an easy academia career for the two Google founders. Otherwise, we would probably still be searching with hotbots (remember that?).

The WAND paper was published in CIKM, a lowly conference in some people's eyes, I guess that's not the first venue they tried to publish that work in, because I worked at IBM Research before, I knew for a fact that CIKM was not in the first tier of the venues to publish, definitely not for the IR PIC.

Very interesting. I wonder what have caused this. My wild guess is that this may has something to do with early mistreatment the pioneering IR people received from the wider CS community, because their field was probably considered "soft" and not hard enough. For instance, even today, IR papers are not full of theorems and proofs, unlike some other CS fields, such as database. Their revengeful attitude got passed down to their students, as we can see here. And their reasons for dismissing other people's work are all the same: this is not new, we have done this before. But you have not, because the proof is in the systems you build and the papers you publish.

It does not have to be this way. HCI is even softer, but HCI is the most open field in CS, anyone can publish, you can prove theorems, or you can present user studies, anything goes. Funding? Not a problem. Because it is so open, HCI can work with anyone and on any projects. I remember that my advisor had so much funding, he basically paid me to whatever I wanted when I was in school. I am deeply in gratitude for that openness.
If I had a rubber stamp of [citation needed] I would wear it down to the nub on this article.
The problem is that you're not defining "dark pattern" reasonably.

"You’re saying that as long as the terms are clearly communicated they’re not a dark pattern, aka unethical."

You're saying that something being unethical makes it a dark pattern, and that's wrong. If I rob you at gunpoint, that's definitely unethical, but it's not a dark pattern.

"I think if you’re using your superior understanding of the dynamics of using your product to create unreasonable gotcha situations that customers would not have agreed to if they had any choice then that’s dark patterns."

Again, this is in no way relevant to the examples cited. Telling the customer that any seats they sign up for must be paid for a full year is not an unreasonably gotcha situation. It's a concept that's clearly explained, and one that won't be a surprise to anyone who has any experience purchasing SaaS products, because it's common industry practice.

As to the idea that they don't have a choice to agree, that's virtually never true with SaaS. It is an enormously competitive industry with multiple players in every major area. On top of that, if you're talking about tech companies buying SaaS products, they also have the option to build their own tools if they don't like the options that are available.

"Things like making it easy to create data but punitively expensive to get it out in order to switch products."

Again, this is true but in no way relevant to anything I've said. If it's clearly communicated that you're going to have to pay a million dollars to get your data out, it's a bad business practice but not a dark pattern.

You're applying the label "dark pattern" incorrectly to any SaaS practice you dislike. The phrase has a specific meaning, and any practice that is clearly and honestly communicated up front, even if it's a horrible practice, is not a dark pattern.
How will Apple's approach to hardware repair and maintenance work when applied to vehicles?
Odoo recently added a LMS feature.[0]

0. https://odoo.com
I feel like most of the complaints that make people think blogging is dead is because it's hard to "build an audience", but I've never really understood why that matters. I have had a blog more or less non-stop since 2001, and never once was "building an audience" a goal. My blog is written for my own self, as a place that records discoveries, knowledge, and thoughts so I can read them again later, shared so that they might be useful to others and as a way to connect with friends and family who already know about my blog directly. I actually get plenty of organic traffic from search engines, simply because a lot of my writings over the years are notes on troubleshooting technical issues or instructions for how to set up a self-hosted service, things I wrote so I could find them again later without any audience other than myself considered, but still high value due to their detail.

Why do we need an "audience"? Many of the most honest and interesting contemporaneous writing in human history was written as private memoirs or journals, and blogging originated out of journaling. There's never been a need for an audience to derive value from writing, and that hasn't changed, we've just accepted the bargain social media has tempted us with to "make us famous" off of feeding their user-generated content machine. Being famous was never the goal of starting a blog, and it shouldn't surprise anyone that many many people continue to blog without any desire to be made famous.
Yes pretty much.

They come coated with flax oil which you have to remove with hot soapy water.

Once that’s done it’s a case of heating up some oil and allowing it to cool.

Some people will do that by putting them in an oven but I just do it on the hob.

It’s really easy and after the first coat I've not had any thing stick.

I just wipe the pans out after use an apply a little more oil each time.

Over time the seasoning builds up and the pan gradually turns black.

I’ve found them to be really easy to live with.
The crowd was complaining that a laser pointer (thought to be a gun sight) was pointed at them. Kyle's weapon has no such sight, making that impossible.

There's a disputed drone video footage where some think they see Kyle raising his gun in his left hand, but if you look at the video, the pixels they're pointing at exist before Kyle even reaches that point, meaning it can't be a gun. It may be a mirror or some other part of the car.

This is a major dispute because the prosecution gave the defense a low-quality, strange resolution rip of the video while having a higher-quality version for themselves. They admitted that "our version is better" in open court, before backing off to claim it's "just playing weird."

Kraus, who said he would have a much better job if he knew this encoding stuff, was seen with Handbrake installed on his laptop. The program was installed shortly after Kyle plead guilty according to the dates on the file.
It would be hugely energy inefficient. Generally, you want the exhaust velocity of your rockets to be close to the total mission delta-V (or, better, the total delta-V up to that point in the mission.)
> Without those imports, how will people reading the code find the definitions? How will they track down the source code for all the methods being called?

I think in dynamic languages like Ruby and Python, there are two very different cases that we need to distinguish when thinking about this.

The first one is global references to modules/classes/functions. For example, in Python you may write:

import my_module

foo = my_module.Foo(some_arg)

So, if you wanted to find the definition of that my_module.Foo() reference, it's easy: go to the definition of my_module and search for the Foo class/function definition.

In Ruby, you may see instead something like:

require 'my_module'

foo = MyModule::Foo.new(some_arg)

Which looks very similar to Python, with the difference that the `require` method doesn't assign any local binding, but just executes the file my_module, which in turn will modify the global namespace directly and make `MyModule` available at runtime. The `require 'my_module'` might not even be present on the file that's then using `MyModule`: it might be indirectly required by another module that this file uses. Or, in the case of using Rails or any framework with auto-imports, the file might not have any `require` calls at all!

So, how is this resolved?

By convention, basically. If you see a reference like `MyModule::Foo` and want to see the definition of that, the convention is that that definition will live under my_module/foo.rb, so you can go to that file with some confidence that you'll find the the code for that class there.

So, if the convention is strong, and people follow it, this is basically a non-issue, and the go-to-definition can be done as easily as in Python, with or without an intelligent IDE.

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The second case is when you have a dynamic reference to an object/function/whatever, like:

def do_something(arg):
arg.foobar()

In this case, neither Ruby nor Python (or any dynamic language in general) will help you much in trying to find the definition of the `foobar` method, as the type of the argument will only be known at runtime at the moment that this function will be called, and can even vary between calls.

There are different ways to make this go-to-definition somewhat more ergonomic than a global search for `def foobar`. But on the language level, i think both Python and Ruby are basically the same in this case: not very helpful. We then compensate by using good naming conventions, type annotations/comments, or using powerful IDEs that analyze the code to make good guesses about who is calling what.
He's pretty passionate about education policy; this article is one of his better ones on that topic, IMHO: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-arent-actually-mad-... The discussion of Robertson et. al.'s 2010 paper is worth reading the article just for that.

But it's true that his writing seems to drift between extremes -- some sober, well-researched and very interesting, and others almost as if a different person was writing it.
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I do think the author made a mistake here: the author credits western 'social controls' to so-called "Neo-paternalist nudge theories", i.e. as if there's some western illiberal thinkers out there that have decided for us that we should collectively police each other socially for the greater good.

This couldn't be further from the truth. Those thinkers exist, but they have no power anyways. Cancel culture and other "illiberal" modern activity is actually emergent behavior from strongly connected social networks. It's pure populism. It's just that millions of people go on the internet for the purpose of feeling angry at somebody else on twitter or facebook, and this via the free market results in people losing jobs, people being ostracized, or even the formation of real-life protests and riots.
How often does it beep after being separated? I don't own one but I've read comments saying may be every few hours, or only on movement. Apple's site doesn't have those details. Where did you find your information?
The design of the device shouldn't allow the user to place it in an operational state without doing obvious security checkup items like changing the default password; this is an onus on the manufacturer.
More importantly: they looked at hiring practices. That's an extremely narrow view of the problem domain.
What’s that quote? It’s something along the lines of “the way to get good people to accept or do evil things is to convince them that the end justifies the means”
"Only Nixon could open China". Yes, let's send pallets of cash to a communist country in exchange for plastic toys and other end-manufactured goods. This was exploitation of global inequality was only ever going to help the billionaires.
The point echoed in this discussion multiple times is that distributions should not handle the tiny python libraries and attempt to solve the dependency version issues, but treat an application with all its dependencies included as a single package. If a dependency needs to be bumped a version for e.g. security purposes, then the app obviously wasn't tested with the new version (which didn't exist at the time) and needs to be retested, repackaged and rereleased for the update. This would cut down on the number of packages to be maintained, as the vast majority of python libraries would be exclude from the direct packaging process.
I'm not a fan of China myself, but there's some evidence[1] that the two Canadians arrested were, in fact, spies. Personally, I'm not sure what to think. But tweets like this from CSIS[2] are certainly suggestive when viewed in a certain light.

[1] https://canadianpatriot.org/2021/09/29/michael-kovrig-and-sp...

[2] https://twitter.com/csiscanada/status/1441576564374769665
It's closely related to how, in some circles, everything needs to be a "side hustle" or otherwise be connected to making money in some way.
Yeah, but how much time will it waste?
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> Large impersonal institutions are much easier to hold accountable than local communities.

It’s clearly easier to get CocaCola to change course than say, my local butcher. /s
Sure they have. Chevy Blazer and Ford Bronco came out in the late 60s.
>> if 70% of these staircases wound clockwise, they clearly favoured this orientation.

If 70% of surviving staircases are clockwise and they were built in similar numbers then there is clearly an advantage to the clockwise orientation. If they were not built in similar numbers, then its on the author to find a specific reason rather than simply reject the conventional wisdom on the subject.

You don't disprove something like this by pointing to a lack of evidence. You do it by finding compelling evidence for an alternative.
On the contrary, big tech is completely unaccountable.

Governments are also unaccountable when it comes to invisible breaches to citizen's privacy. See Snowden's revelations.
The one largest problem with Moodle is its dependency on plugins and the consequent decentralization of core functionality. The core UX itself is shit because it needs to open space for plugins to change it and because it was created as a set of independent plugins itself.

But yeah, if you need more functionality, just write a plugin.
You didn't read far enough. The author opens with those weak, poorly supported points (I think they suggest that there will be a more spirited defense in an upcoming book). The tracing of the origin of the idea is a much more compelling argument.

If some one told you "oh yeah, this 20th century fencer who was obsessed with spirals said that the reason castles were built this way was obviously the sword fighting implications" you'd probably be less likely to believe it.
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> You’ll only be able to view all this information if the owner turns on Lost Mode for the AirTag. Also, you can only see the contact information that they chose to share with you while putting it in Lost Mode.
In that case, 99% of deadlines are not what you'd call real deadlines. Even in your fantasy case, what often happens in the real world is regulators give more time for companies working to comply.

So if it helps you, just imagine here that we're talking about the 99+% case, rather than the extremely rare "real" deadline.
Amazing how much hay can be made by dropping a single word:

“A Marriott refused” vs “Marriott refused”.

The text of the article makes it clear that there is no evidence that Marriott as a corporate entity had anything to do with this, ans a corporate spokesperson actually denied that this was policy and as much as said that the local hotel manager screwed up.
This type of insurance is called capitated, seeing extensive use by medicare and Kaiser Permanente.
Note the hypothesis about risk being a predominantly male trait is also consistent at the other end with men making up 90%+ of prison population in pretty much any form of government or society.

I haven't heard many feminists argue for a female quota in prisons yet.
Getting scary how much our corporations are consistently afraid to offend China.

A reminder that's it's not a good idea to outsource the guardianship of our democracy, ideas about justice, and civil well-being to corporations. That's a role for government.

But, where is the HN free speech brigade? Do they not see a connection here?
I had this exact realization getting ramped up in a large rails codebase: ruby is optimized for experience of the code author, while most of the things people miss from it (explicit imports, static types) help with code maintenance and codebase scalability.

The small/large project distinction makes sense to me. I think there’s a clear point in project size where the joy of writing code has to be deprioritized behind maintainability and simplicity, even if it becomes less fun to write code that way.
The management of this Marriot Hotel did yes, but it's encouraging that Marriot's corporate management immediately overruled the Hotel on this and apologised to the group.

Marriot do have a spotty history on such issues, but I think we should commend them when they attempt to do the right thing. Yes this shouldn't have happened in the first place, but given that it did they do seem to be doing their best to make it right.

I'm not going to post this reply to every single other comment ragging on 'Marriot' here, which is all but one top level comment, but come on people. Read the article. Oh, and now that top level comment that was actually informed and provided useful context is getting downvoted into oblivion. We can do better than this.
Article written by:

> Aidan Jonah is the Editor-in-Chief of The Canada Files, a socialist, anti-imperialist news site founded in 2019. He has written about Canadian imperialism, federal politics, and left-wing resistance to colonialism across the world.

Site mission:

> With the emergence of China’s New Silk Road (One Belt and One Road Initiative) as a force for global progress, poverty eradication, and peace, Canada has been confronted with an existential choice: Either continue to abide by the rule of monetarism, post-industrialism and war which have become signature features of the Anglo-American system dominant since World War two and run through the City of London and Wall Street, or embark upon a new mission of “win-win cooperation”, respect for the sovereignty of each nation while working in harmony with a community of share interest vectored around long term goals, great infrastructure programs and scientific discovery. This latter system is empowered by the force of new institutions such as the BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Eurasian Economic Union. New credit generating institutions have been created to advance the expanded New Silk Road vision have come online such as the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the New Development Bank and the Silk Road Investment Fund to name a few.

Prasing Donald Trump approach to Russian and China:

> European nations are now deliberating whether they should continue to sit in the failed Euro cage, or embark on this project which openly welcomes all sovereign countries as partners in development. Donald Trump’s United States, having broken with the Neo-Conservative paradigm of war with China and Russia, also increasingly moves towards a new collaborative relationship with Eurasia and the New Silk Road. The question is what will Canada do in the face of this historic opportunity?
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polio vaccines != covid vaccines

* Covid risk is highly age dependent. 1000x so. An unvaccinated kid has less chance of death than their vaccinated 40yo parent. Covid mortality is concentrated in the >50yo population. Please take a look at the very nice charts Singapore ministry of health put together to get a sense of the age-dependent behavior. https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/statistics

* Covid vaccines do not fully stop transmission. Even the highest vaccinated places on Earth still have regular outbreaks in the winter season. At least a couple papers from reputable sources indicate that the vaccine effect on transmission is "negligible" after a few months. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3... https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264260v...

* Vaccine efficacy against infection wanes over time, the medical literature estimates VEaI at 50% after 6 months. Fortunately, VE against severe disease holds much better. High risk populations greatly benefit from vaccinations. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0620 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01548-7 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2114114 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3949410

* Covid mutates: original, alpha, delta. Every time a new mutation took over, the vaccines have proven less effective. Where is the delta vaccine?

* There is no bottom to how not effective a vaccine can be. UK epi data indicates negative VEaI for delta, and nobody has a definitive clue as to why, though many suspect statistical artifacts. Just to be clear, US and Germany epi data indicate the opposite, the only point here is that the possibility exists. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

To recap:

polio: disease that mostly affects young people, crippling them for life, vaccines are highly effective in granting herd immunity and eradicating the disease.

covid: disease that mostly affects old people, has almost no effect on children, vaccines cannot stop transmission, the disease is widespread and undergoing active mutations.

If you are an adult, especially near or past retirement age, please strongly consider a covid vaccine for your protection. OTOH, it is not that clear that forced covid vaccinations for kids are a longterm net positive.
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