skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This sits so unwell with me, gives such limitless tyrannical & dictatorial control to a company.

Do you think Apple could get some "hackers" extradited if they don't live in the US? Its that old adage, one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter and some country's like Russia will point blank refuse extradition to the US as will other countries.

Any business can put what they like in their terms and conditions, those T's & C's are still tertiary to regional and state law if they are even enforceable.
Lawyers will let your put what ever you like in a contract, whether its reasonable and enforceable is another matter which only judges can decide.

Now if you live in the EU, there is nothing wrong with reverse engineering code, the EU court has ruled this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28809559 but the definition of a bug can be more vague because a coder might suggest a user reported bug is working as its coded, so the coder may not see it as a bug but the user might and her you just need to convince the judge. Grey area.

Another example of what was a grey area of law was initiating an email send to an email server in order to track whether an email address existed or not. Once the status of an email address was known abort the reset of the communication. It was useful for tracking people globally, and spam filters were not that good at picking this up in the past. Anyway that process has effectively been ruled illegal by the EU now as your email address supplied by your employer has to be treated as a private and personal email address so then other personal & privacy laws come into play to make the game more complicated, but you used to be able to track people globally in businesses & military to spot when people had left an employer or been moved in some cases.

Then you have the NSA putting out reverse engineering tools for free like https://ghidra-sre.org/ making one wonder what is the point of law especially when you reproduce parts of the AT&T infrastructure in Romania? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29135559

Now whilst the law might seem absolute, legislation is very intentionally left vague and its judges who make it closer to being absolute with narrow specific definitions when they make a judgement, but if there's one thing I have learnt, interpretation of the law can be surprisingly vague even by judges.

So all in all this could actually be a marketing or reputation management exercise or both involving lawyers to reassure Apple customers they have made the right purchase. Running an entity beit a business or a govt can be incredibly nuanced like playing a game of chess, and sometimes its not the initial action we need to be concerned with but the resulting action.
Just because you know it doesn't mean you have the pedagogical skills to help somebody else know it. By way of example, I am more than competent at introductory computer science yet I am wholly incompetent at teaching it--were a student to need help with something that basic in CS, I wouldn't know how to go about helping them understand, since I don't understand why they might not be understanding something.
The thing about iterated games is better known as the "repeat player advantage". They do indeed play the same game over and over, not one game that goes on and on. The information isn't specific to each case either, typically both parties are equally aware of the facts at hand, it usually means the repeat player simply has more experience and a better grasp of the same information and its implications. This doesn't necessarily involve the usual meaning of information asymmetry, which is more about being different from chess, where both players have a full view of the board.

If someone gives you a contract with an option to purchase shares, you have as much ability to analyse its risks as they do, and frankly if it is a contract to purchase X shares of a class that is so insufficiently specified that it can later refer to a diluted version of the same, then I don't know why on earth people accept them as good consideration. I don't know what laws apply to disclosures around share dilutions in the US, but it is one of the areas in which commercial law often tries to even out a noticeable information gap, just like takeover offers. But they can't save you from accepting it without knowing what it means and looking into how you can protect yourself from its risks.
Let's see the big picture: It's not only about a spyware, but it's about a vast range of malicious tools used for targeting human right activists around the world, at first through spywares and other malicious software, but if they needed, physically harming them.
It is actually part of the Israeli state-sponsored terrorism around the world. Other dictatorships like Saudi Arabia also use their tools. Brutally killing Jamal Khashoggi was one of the instances.
By "promoting equity" they're just compelling more of the able parents to send their kids to private schools.
The New Ten-Factor Authentication Processes
> 2FA is risky for me as I travel internationally a lot and non-working number can be a real hassle

This is "2FA by SMS message" -Most people use TOTP which is an authenticator using time based cyclic number generation from a seed.

The 2nd factor doesn't have to be solely in a phone: Bitwarden &c can handle the TOTP. I know this weakens the value, but it does exist as an option.

Good ole email doesn't make the most sense. Its highest risk. You're basically living in the exposure to the risk right now, howling at the moon. So, against theoretical vs actual risk, your actual risk right now, is the lack of proofs of ownership to recover access to emails. (it's not your primary problem. Thats being locked out)
There was a giant fish that we managed to not know about for thousands of years until one washed up onto the feet of a marine biologist...
everyone is a set which includes anyone.

If all (e.g.) 7th graders must have the same knowledge of math, that knowledge of math cannot exceed the knowledge attainable by the dumbest (read: any) 7th grader. This is tautologically true.
When commenting on the state of the country, I would look towards the states that have historically ranked poorly in education and see why they’re never improving. California is definitely not one of those states & seems to have no issue in keeping a higher than average educated populace.
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Sorry, that's not the point I meant to make. The poster I was responding to was saying that the point of intellectual discussion groups is never to discuss Marx. I was pointing out that that is because Marx's theories have been thoroughly shown to lack merit.

It's not so much that they're dangerous as that they were discussed, quite a lot, and then acted on. Those discussions and actions lead to some of the largest events of human suffering in history. I'm not sure what more discussion there is to have at that point other than "how do we make sure that doesn't happen again".

I've read Marx myself. I've also read what little of Mein Kamf I could manage to get through. I don't believe in banning books or ideas, but I do think it's ridiculous to ignore history and pretend that proven bad ideas ought to be given another chance.
It is in civil court because politicians are scared of doing anything other than giving Israel billions
CA ports report supply chain progress delay fines for lingering cargo containers
You could probably do it and maintain clean separation of logic vs presentation but what's the benefit? I don't really think producers or consumers want a generic frontend - it's main utility seems like it would be for automated crawling, but there are plenty of other ways to handle that.
We are already in a war with China. Modern warfare is fought with propaganda, economics, and infiltration of institutions. The Chinese call it "Unrestricted Warfare". The fact that most people don't know any of this means we could very well be losing this war.
Definitely agree that it's a data literacy problem. But I consider that part of STEM education. For example, people should be able to look at plots of daily infections early in the pandemic and consider that they likely are growing at an exponential rate and the implications for that, rather than dismissing the dangers because the daily case numbers are still small. And understand how false positive and false negative rates of tests implicate policy decisions.

But you are ultimately correct in that most people don't really care to understand it.
> I suppose states and governors could sue to have federal hospitals treating their residents torn down in the middle of a pandemic, but that would be terrible PR.

Worse than suing to prevent schools or towns from requiring masks? Worse than suing to prevent "vaccine mandates"?

I'm sure you'll see it differently than I do.

> But if we want to be pedantic, you are assuming a filibuster and controversy.

I don't think you have to assume much to believe that at the present time, not a single Republican senator would vote in favor or such a measure if it was backed by the current president.
> I personally know many people that have benefitted and it made their childhood bearable.

Barring a time machine or the discovery of a way to skip across a multiverse, this is an assertion without much of a control group.

That’s why we need studies.
Currently Amazon Linux 2 is used for AWS workspaces (virtual desktops), so it doesn't seem far fetched that they'll eventually allow AL2022 for it as well.
It has some handy tools, though I am always slightly thrown off by CLI packages that install a bunch of commands instead of just one with flags - like Imagemagick, where you just learn early on that 'mogrify' is what you need to run, or 'convert'. I guess the problem they're solving is having even more flags, which could get annoying I am sure.
'A Brief History of Neoliberalism' by David Harvey is also an excellent book on the subject.
GoDaddy is garbage. I think most tech-inclined people switched years ago. Namecheap has never let me down.
The dollar store I go to has a big frozen food section including frozen veggies which are as nutritious as fresh as far as I’ve heard.
I'm not sure it can be properly judged as a success or failure until the situation returns to normal. (Covid19, etc)

This is only dates to May 2021 after all.

I don't think I would move countries right now unless absolutely necessary.

Especially since most of the qualifying people will presumably already have acceptable jobs, so moving is merely for advantage over their existing situation, rather than a matter of survival.
As an added bonus, if you're having a slow quarter or two, you can arrange for new demand for your products to suddenly spring up in some random corner of the world.
I think everyone is pretty much probed constantly these days. I always see stuff from Shodan and similar organizations, at a minimum.
Sortition is classic and worth trying in modern times.
Netflix went down on two back to back Christmases. I remember because my SO was out of town visiting family, and I was going to catch up on stuff she would never watch. And then the next year, the exact same thing happened! Super frustrating.
The complaint does also have a straight-up breach of contract claim, in addition to the CFAA claim.
I was comparing queues to HTTP endpoints for sending messages, I can't speak others besides Kafka and Redis.

Redis is an order of magnitude easier to work with but struggles under loads that Kafka has no problem with. Also every once in a while our Amazon managed Redis queue will have a bad failover or melt down because someone runs a bad command on it, but our Amazon managed kafka has been rock solid since we switched to it. When we ran Kafka ourselves though we definitely watched it melt down a few times because we threw too much at one broker or we made obscure config mistakes. And figuring out why a consumer isn't getting messages is always a pain, whereas redis is always a dream to use.
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There is no angle position sensor on the CD, and only one continuous track. This could work if you burned multisession CD, scratched at some specific radius of the first session, followed by coding that information into executable burned in the second session.

https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/06/weak-bits-fl...

http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/210

http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/1429

https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/07/turning-400-...

This one describes very similar floppy protection - encoding physical disk parameters in the executable per every individual disk. https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-cleveres...
My feeling: put an end date if you ended one more or year ago.
I actually like use cases. The code shouldn’t diverge from the actual procedural use case. The domain layer defines the services, which define the contract for data retrieval and possibly complex process. The use case produces a set of data that the invoker would use to produce the response to the user.
True that. I finally learned some basic algebra in grad school. I also learned just how far from advanced I really was.
SARS "Didn't stay local".

The canonical super-spreading event was in Hong Kong, and it killed 81 people in Taiwan, 43 people in Canada, 33 people in Singapore, and caused cases in the U.S., France, Sweden, etc.

Indeed, the reason the vaccine was developed so swiftly for SARS-CoV-2 is because people (including my one time graduate advisor) could see that after the emergence of both SARS and MERS that it was unlikely the world was done with epidemic cornaviruses.
That Twitterer is awfully smug about it... "Lol"-ing all over the place.
Also true. It was great.
> Of course, the cans are really Starships, hanging by the nose.

Realistically, you'd want to keep re-using the expensive parts of the starship rather than park them in space, which makes me wonder what's the best way to re-use a starship while leaving cylindrical body sections in space?

You could have a Starship body with sections that are removable -- like maybe you have a 50 foot section that unbolts from the nose and the tail which you leave in space, while the nose and tail get re-connected and return to Earth as a shorter version of Starship. Or maybe you could just launch two Starships, and in space remove the engine from one and place it inside the other as cargo, so you land one complete starship and the extra engine, but leave one complete body in space.

I doubt it's possible to have a disembodied engine land itself using its own thrust without a lot of clever and novel engineering, but maybe it can land by parachute? Or use thrust to slow its re-entry so it doesn't overheat, then parachute the rest of the way?
I agree students should be encouraged to donate if they are able. However, charging something close to "market rate" for this kind of thing would definitely affect who ends up attending.
"GoDaddy was storing sFTP credentials either as plaintext, or in a format that could be reversed into plaintext."

Goddamn, anyone else, feeling a deep anger rising, when reading this in 2021?

"According to the report filed by GoDaddy with the SEC..."

In 2021, everyone has to be pissed off by javascript popups about cookie storage, but your passwords safety, screw that. Storing SFTP passwords reversible to plaintext, that's still fine, right?

As long as there is a SEC report... We look professional!
I think this is my point, this was a very non-controversial bill made in as much as a bi-partisan way as we can. It is also very similar to what Trump called infrastructure week. Still it got 2!! republican votes in the house. In the senate it was a bit better, but still 30/50 republicans voted no.

I think if Trump proposed the very same bill more or less all republicans would have been on board.
The Common Core for math, which is adopted in the majority of US states, emphasizes deep understanding of underlying concepts over rote memorization. The reason why we aren't arguing for the Common Core to adopt "better teaching" is because that would leave out the most important mechanism — that every child under Equitable Math must be at the same level.

Without the requirement that all children must be at the same level, some children would still race ahead, and in terms of appearances, that would severely risk the reputation of Equitable Math as the way to fall behind. The battleground is not on whether the Common Core should be deeper, or even whether the Common Core ought be reformed at all, but rather that all children should be at the same level.
This.

This shit is hard. And expensive. And involves a hell of a lot of travel, which has been exceedingly difficult during this pandemic.

We're still fleshing out the animal hosts for MERS.
I've done exactly what you're saying I should not do and it worked out very well.

My point is that these hard and fast rules don't leave any room for nuance. Consider, as I mentioned in another comment, you don't have to exercise 100% of your options. Exercise whatever makes you comfortable. Maybe that's one under the number that would push you into AMT.

If zero is your comfort level, then so be it. But get to that conclusion by doing a little thought and evaluation, not applying an arbitrary rule.
We never needed people who can recite the Pythagorean theorem. We need people who can prove it. When you have a population who doesn't understand how the world works and is taught to simply believe facts given from on high, it is relatively easy to change who those facts come from, and in an age of easy publication via social media, this has been weaponized.
> Under Equitable Math, all children must be at the same level,

That's not true; the proposed Framework model shifts from a focus on breadth differentiation to a focus on depth differentiation.

You could just as well argue that the existing approach tries to force all students to be “at the same level”, since it neglects the differentiation opportunity that the proposed framework focuses on. That would, also, be wrong, but no more wrong than your characterization.
I am waiting for a big-O notation to properly model hyperinflation.
I think a few years ago I could have written a comment like this, but now I've been a teacher for a couple of years now.

It is hard to teach something. Being able to do it is isn't anywhere near the level of expertise needed to:

* Do it up on a board at a moderately quick but consistent cadence, with engagement and narrating the whole part through.

* Not be taken off track by inevitable distractions.

* Understand the stack of necessary knowledge in the ways needed to figure out what a student is missing.

* Completely reinvent your lesson plan when you find the students unexpectedly lost, providing whatever the missing bit of knowledge is to get your class back on track.

* Handle unexpected diversions and requests for deeper knowledge on the fly.
@drowe859's answer was excellent.

The only thing I'd add is that there's _thousands_ of freely available React components, including dozens of implementations of the kinds of widgets you listed (treeviews, specific form input types, etc). Sometimes they're available as a one-off lib [0], a small focused lib with a few specific components [1] [2], or a giant kitchen sink lib with dozens or hundreds of components [3] [4] [5] [6].

So, those _do_ exist, and in a similar sense to Qt or Gtk.

Going between major UI toolkits (say, MUI -> React-Bootstrap) is going to be the exact same kind of transition. Both might have some similar components, and the general structure of the code using those would be the same, but the exact props and data formats these third-party components expect might be different. One `<Menu>` component might expect an array of descriptive objects, while another might want a set of `<Menu.Item>` children passed in.

[0] https://react-select.com/

[1] http://jquense.github.io/react-widgets/

[2] https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-spectrum/

[3] https://mui.com/

[4] https://react-bootstrap.github.io/

[5] https://retool.com/blog/react-component-libraries/#blueprint

[6] https://lmgtfy.app/?q=react+component+libraries
The commercial culture in the UK is, generally, nothing like the US. You have companies with great products that refuse on principle to hire lots of salespeople. I actually can't think of a SaaS company that is as aggressive in investing in sales and marketing as you see on average in the US. And this is rational because the return on investment is usually very poor (fintech in the UK is probably the best example, supposed to be the "best of the best"...pretty much unanimously weak results/growth from companies that are largely British). Autonomy/Darktrace is a possible exception (they have a lot of US people tbf) but given what happened to Autonomy...the jury is still out.

And CS courses in the UK have a very academic bent. This is a rather complex cultural point but, ultimately, it comes down to the teaching. What kind of things are prioritized, what kinds of things have value, and teachers in the UK value complexity for it's own sake (to give you an example, I studied somewhere that was doing AI research back in the 60s, was offered huge grants from military and corporates...all turned down, research stagnated, grad students all leave...the uni is feverishly trying to connect professors with funding now, all totally non-commercial nonsense...once this starts it is very hard to reverse).

Also, using the example of a US-based company opening an office in the UK isn't very helpful. The UK has lots of US investment banks doing very well in the UK but only one home-grown investment bank (and that one has been taken over by people from the US, and isn't doing very well). There is a reason why this is the case. Companies that are based overseas in the UK tend to be different in fundamental ways from ones that aren't. In tech, the big problem is that the UK is largely used as an outsourcing hub (particularly in development) because there is no real commercial expertise (this isn't obvious to people in the London tech bubble, most of the tech industry in the UK still exists that bubble).

The rest of the article is total nonsense but Britain has had these problems for decades. You see it in every industry, every part of the UK. Attitudes are slowly shifting but it is a very deeply embedded cultural thing (you actually see this in some British colonies, that is how deep it is).
> “Nintendo Hotline, Keith speaking, can I help you?”

> “Hi! Well, er, maybe… this is a bit embarrassing really, there’s a dragon and it’s breathing fire and I can’t get past it and I don’t know what to do.”

> “Okay, no problem. Firstly, what game are you playing? You are playing a game, right?”

> “Yes – sorry, Super Mario Bros.”

first step of successful troubleshooting: assume nothing
There's also xsv by BurntSushi, the author of ripgrep. https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

One killer feature of xsv is creating an index for large csv file, for quicker searches.
I was in a program in the 90s which consisted solely of sending the smarter kids out of the classroom periodically to work on logic puzzles with each other.

The only educational purpose served was getting them out of the classroom so that more attention could be given to the dumber kids.
I always find the founder or the first "other" person at the company registered the domain at Godaddy or Netsol or somewhere equally terrible.

And then it's "well we bought five years so let's wait to renew it somewhere else"
Most commonly "algebra 1" is a 9th grade class in the US, but there are elements of algebra taught in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade.

Are they talking about moving those 6-8th grade parts to 9th grade?