skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No judge is going to weigh what the "buy" button omits over what the EULA actually states.

Right, but that's my point (as the original poster). 100%, a judge should say "terms are terms, company is in the right"; we need new laws to protect consumers. By and large, consumers don't understand how digital is different; that it isn't ownership (in fact, arguably, consumers don't even understand that when they buy a bluray, that also isn't ownership in a legal sense; but it is ownership in common parlance). Whether these service providers would still see such success, if they did, is an unknown quantity; they probably would, but it can't be known. What is known is that consumers are (rarely) being shafted, with no recourse, because they agreed to something they didn't understand; it doesn't occur to most people that Apple even has the power to ban accounts, and take all their content with it.

Counter-argument: "Well, people should read the EULAs and understand it". Oof. First: the EULA may say "we have the right to revoke access" but that means nothing without the context of how, why, and how often it happens. These companies have not demonstrated even the BASIC DECENCY to EXPLAIN THEMSELVES when they ban users, let alone publish reasonable information about how often it happens. The statements in the EULA are useless without this context, because it enables savvy consumers to compare their statements with their own risk profile to make informed decisions. But, second: arguing this point is basically saying "dumb people deserve to be preyed on by international gigacorporations". Most people don't understand what this language means; in many cases, it seems to be written specifically so it can't be understood without a law degree.

Counter-argument: "Account termination & content revocation is rare, so whatever." Well, this point defeats itself, but think about it this way: If its so rare, then why not protect consumers? Companies will oppose it, of course, but they're arguing from the ground that its so rare that enforcement of this law wouldn't hurt them. If they hurt consumers, it'll hurt them. If they don't, it won't.

The narrative is getting twisted here; its not that consumers should have "irrevocable ownership" over a digital good you buy on, for example, Steam. Well, the NFT crowd would say you should, but let's ignore them. The assertion is: there should be fair and equitable recourse for when a service provider decides to revoke your access to the service which distributes the content you purchased. That recourse would ideally be met by simply unshackling the content from the service provider; the ability to play Steam games without being connected to Steam, for example. However, short of that, reimbursement is fair. It would absolutely hurt companies in this day and age of "terminate accounts for any reason, sometimes no reason, whatever the system decides" but THAT'S THE POINT. Companies only speak money. The point is to make termination hurt them, so they're forced to think more critically about how & why they terminate.
Not racism because it doesn't apply to race minorities only, but also disabilities, sexual orientations, or simply women (which aren't even a minority), but I can still understand that some might find it disturbing.
> It is not obvious that nuclear energy can be a widespread, long term alternative for most of the world economies.

This problem is also known as nuclear proliferation and, as far as I know, is known to people building nuclear reactors. Small nuclear reactors takes them in account: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor#Nuclear_...> ; nuclear smuggling is also monitored: <https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/iaea-database-...>

Unpopular opinion: I do not think it is possible to get rid of the inherent risk of nuclear proliferation, even without building nuclear reactors in non-wealthy countries. Multiple reasons :

* Non-wealthy countries wants to be first-class countries, at some point, they will desire to move on to "energy upgrades", beyond international community (read: wealthy countries), who has the right to refuse them to build such infrastructure?

* Villains will move on to harder targets, but will move on, even if it requires using countries already using nuclear and are actually "non-wealthy" (for some reasonable definition)

It might not be feasible to guarantee the right levels of security for these scenarios, but we can take them in account and work out nuclear reactor models which limits as much as possible the inherent risks.

Consider this bad metaphor: as we are writing more and more software, some of them are increasingly critical to users, therefore, we invest in different levels of guaranteeing software is working as intended (e.g. formal methods, etc.).

I see no absolute reason to not pursue the same avenue here, indeed, I even learned about nuclear reactor startups which are applying modern technology to a safer nuclear ecosystem.
Can anybody enlighten me:

> The order would also impose a $100,000 civil money penalty based on LendUp’s demonstrated inability to pay.

Does this mean the fine is levied against individual executives, rather than the company itself?
"io" is a significantly less common word than "go"
No, my comment wasn't "factually untrue". The 7-day rolling average is steady at 9 or 10 according to the covid data on google. It hasn't changed (at least, up until yesterday's data). Things may change now, as there were 57 deaths just announced today.

> I'd like to see a source for your claim that numbers in hospitals are decreasing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29644613
Nope. It's basically just a term used for trans/non-binary people in an indigenous community.

For example, We'wha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We'wha

The term "two spirit" is relatively new(1990s), but many tribes would have a term for basically "a man who lives as a woman" or vice versa.
You can be mad if you want, but my reasoning is based on my understanding of what's actually taught in physics or chemistry classes - not the empirical and epistemological process of "science" that got us the findings in these fields, but the findings themselves - scientific models of chemical reactions, Newtonian mechanics, etc. I would love it if we could increase the critical thinking skills of the general populace, but I don't see how that's the way to do it. And having these basic skills in specific scientific disciplines could spark interest in a career in research, which is great, but they don't make you more rational unless you're teaching empiricism or logic or whatever as well - at which point, why not just teach empiricism, logic and critical thinking?
Today (or twenty years ago, for that matter) I'd just output the data structure in graphviz syntax and throw it at the dot tool.
Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave radars used for most civilian radar altimeters sweep most of 200 MHz bandwidth, largest known case is 196 MHz. Transmit power ranges between 0.1 to 100W.[1]

As another commenter mentioned, making a broadband filter for such wide bandwidth is... problematic, and it's one of those devices where you might want to use fixed function rather than SDR.

[1] https://www.icao.int/NACC/Documents/Meetings/2018/RPG/RPGITU...
Whataboutism is not "compare and contrast". It's "shut up" or at best "look at the wookie".

Not every "let's look at what other countries do" is whataboutism. One-line "X does Y" almost always is. (Longer posts can also be, but the one-liner is a heavy signal.)
You can't seriously expect people to continue to practice social distancing. That is absurd.
The first documented evidence of it seems to go back 300 years, most likely it has existed hundreds, if not thousands, of years before that.
> LendUp has been subject to multiple enforcement actions by the CFPB. In addition to ordering LendUp in 2016 to stop misrepresenting the benefits of borrowing from the company, the CFPB sued LendUp in 2020 for allegedly violating the Military Lending Act and obtained a judgment against LendUp in that action. In September 2021, the CFPB filed this third action alleging that LendUp:

So YC funded a payday lender that targeted active duty military service members?
> I don't think this is true.

I think the parent comment was referring to this comment section. If you scroll down and read the grayed-out comments, there are indeed quite a few people trying to argue that "everybody does it" as a way of downplaying this.
Will Machines Replace Us? Machine-Authored Texts and the Future of Scholarship
From google's covid data. It doesn't seem to have today's update yet.
What happens to a student that shows an interest in things that are vaguely antithentical to teachers like these, say for example: guns? With a student being caught Googling "biggest sniper rifle in the world".

Does that also make them go "Check."?
I believe that covid has given us incredible insight into the human psyche, including how well we are able to respond to problems that have political/tribal attributes to them.

Considering how relatively minor covid was, and how simple the situation is, that so many people continue to disagree on basics suggests to me that we have learned very little from this (indicating our capacity to learn certain things is not great), and that if we ever get a serious pandemic (or serious anything), we might be f*cked.
Justworks Files to Go Public
My first reaction was, "This is fucking ridiculous!"

But after looking at their complete jobs page, it seems like this requirement of being from one of the designated groups may be coming from the source which funds the Canada Research Chair?

(see the PDF they link on their job description: https://academic.ubc.ca/sites/vpa.ubc.ca/files/documents/EDI...)

If so, then I don't really see a problem with it. It seems like it is a measure on the part of the government of Canada to increase diversity in technical academia.
Because this is in Canada, where they aren't bound by US Supreme Court decisions? Also I don't think straight white cis-male is a protected class in any case.
> The states have rights

Why don't you answer the question? The Civil War was fought over a state's right to do what, exactly?
What bothers/riles me is that there doesn't seem to be a consistent ethical framework applying to these complex situations. Of course things should be ethical but ethics aren't defined as “whatever people on HN and Twitter feel like isn't slimy”.
I think you might be suffering from a common and general objection to normalizing tortious practices
Unfortunately, RowHammer mitigations mean that this is not the silver bullet that it once was.
Well, good on you I guess.

What's so sad is wind and solar being so concentrated in Germany. If it were more spread out over Europe, it would have lower correlation; and help with production peaks.

There's egotistic, and there's egotistic + harmful.
I don't know what else you'd call it if an unelected organization uses the governments money & power to do things that the public doesn't want. I am open to using different terminology, in case you have any suggestions.
Do you get questioned on your self-expression of status?

If I were to express that my gender is non-binary, as I don't identify as any particular gender in the context of job interviews, would that be a problem?
Narrator: it wasn't
"Why is this always spread?"

Because this debate is more about ideology, than anything else.
A way around this risk is to come up with a design for which a total power loss is extremely unlikely (i.e. it would take multiple simultaneous non-correlated failures in a short span of time). This could be achieved through a distributed battery system where each motor has its own battery physically and electrically separated from the others, and critical flight electronics have their own backup batteries. A ballistic parachute is always nice as a last-resort hail mary.
Because many people setting up AWS don't know this.

Perhaps AWS should create a giant red alert that customers must acknowledge before applying such a configuration.
Mildly new-ish, coined in 1990: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit
That's not right, you can build a maximally simplistic SIR model with a finite infectious period. That will initially display approximately exponential growth, and slow down as acquired immunity increases.
quite fun looking through your activity on HN, right back to a :- Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code

very cool
They do say:

>Some of this reducton is likely a result of high population immunity

In addition, Omicron seems to be a milder variant, especially WRT the lungs where previous variants were most dangerous.

The top five symptoms of Omicron are:

Runny nose

Sneezing

Headache

Fatigue

Scratchy throat

Note the telltale cough, indicative of lung involvement, is not included on the list. This variant just does not seem to have the same affinity for the lungs.
To be fair, I think many (most?) people use Strava without a cellphone. At least in cycling. The problem there was everything being public by default as it is a social network of sorts.
What about meddling in USD transactions across the globe? Did they get that part right?
The pacific northwest, on the Canadian side, has its own divergent terms of inclusivity. Mostly in reference to existing forms of inclusivity that were never controversial in some of the pre-colonial civilizations that already existed there. But require labels and grouping with other edge cases for any meaningful representation and protection in the post-colonial society.

That being said, it means the rest of us dont really need to try to match that up with our own forms of inclusivity. It is always important to poll and gauge the consensus.

Right now, what goes on in BC/Vancouver with maybe a little spillover into Washington is not representative of anything the rest of us need to be aware of or adapt in our vocabulary as if it is consensus.

Useful to know if you’re in vancouver or meet indigenous from vancouver, as there is significant overlap in the inclusionary efforts and indigenous representation.
>A central component of LendUp’s marketing and brand identity was the “LendUp Ladder.” LendUp told consumers that by repaying loans on time and taking free courses offered through its website, consumers would move up the “LendUp Ladder” and, in turn, receive lower interest rates on future loans and access to larger loan amounts. As alleged in the complaint, in reality, as tens of thousands of LendUp’s customers climbed the “LendUp Ladder,” they failed to qualify for larger loan amounts and continued to be offered similar or higher interest rates compared to previous loans.

While the initial founding direction seems well intentioned, it sounds like they were scamming customers, or unable to actually follow-through on the promise to consumers. Glad the regulators are actually enforcing some of the rules.
This is "the joys" of Teams search.
Certainly, but imminent doom is essentially a hobby in Germany. We have the term Angstlust which I always found quite fitting: deriving pleasure from fear.

It's an interesting realization when you've grown up in Germany and then live outside of it for a while and realize that not everyone is constantly worried about the world ending tomorrow.
Well, since being a woman is also valid, the title talking about “minorities” is wrong.
> If hospital capacity is such a concern, why has there been just about zero effort in spinning up some kind of capacity to deal with Covid?

The first wave of COVID killed a bunch of doctors and nurses, and burnt a lot more out.

Then Delta made a bunch more doctors and nurses quit, with wide reports right now that 20% of nurses are looking to up and leave their job. Talking to my friends who are nurses, they are short staffed, and have been for some time.

On top of that, the way the US does medical training for both nurses and doctors ensures we don't have enough medical professionals during normal times. Nursing schools can't find instructors (pay is too low) and hospitals are purposefully limiting the number of residency spots available to ensure prices for medical care stay high (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residency_(medicine)#Financing...)

So, you know, business as usual in the US.
If there are actual comparisons between them, it's much less likely to be "whataboutism".
People come up with endless excuses to remain hysterical. There will never be enough evidence to show omicron is less severe. There is always some excuse as to why some data should be discarded or is not applicable.

But when it comes to bad news, no evidence needed at all.

Some people just want the world to continue burning.
It's complete trash. I should have included /s.
The position is for a job posting for a public university in Canada. The laws are very different than in the U.S. The Employment Equity Acts of 1986 and 1995 actually require these kinds of recruitments. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_equity_(Canada)
I think specifying the race of applicants for positions is bad
Then what good would open standards do? Genuine question, since I have the same fears about decentralized social networking that the above poster mentioned.
> "Two-spirit" is a new one on me

In that case, perhaps google it rather than make glib remarks about it?
Plenty people who have lived under communist regimes can tell you a lot what it feels like. In a way, you learn to live with it. You can talk about it with your family, your close friends. But not with colleagues - as you can't be certain who is and who isn't a spy. You need to be careful not to get involved in any provocation. If you have kids, you need to be extra careful - also about them. When you think about it, it's a bit tragic: normally you worry about your kid taking crack, but you'll probably notice that. But in a totalitarian regime, your kid can go to jail not for dealing drugs, but for being a sensitive, honest individual, naively believing they can change their country to be a better place. But most of the time it's not jail but things like being expelled from the university, losing your job (and not being able to find a new one), and similar forms of harassment to your family. But deaths were not uncommon, even after the Stalinist regime ended.
Comparing SA with itself, omicron looks less severe than delta.
On a relevant note, the Tiananmen Massacre monument at the University of Hong Kong was removed last night. They were careful to barricade everything to prevent any videos or images of the monument being destroyed.

https://hongkongfp.com/2021/12/23/breaking-fears-for-condemn...
"A credit is an accounting entry that either increases a liability or equity account, or decreases an asset or expense account. It is positioned to the right in an accounting entry."[1]

So if you always represent your credits as negative numbers, then you have to (counter-intuitively) subtract it from Liab/Eq/Inc accounts that you are increasing, or add it to Asset/Exp accounts that you are decreasing.

I wrote my own double entry accounting program back in the 1980s using a DOS relational database program and used it successfully for the next twenty years (before I switched to using Quickbooks) for both personal and business purposes. Both programs (mine and QB) represent credits as positive numbers.

[1]https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/2017/5/17/debits-an...
Disclosure also gives people information on how to stay within the rules.

Account deletion tips off the user so we're not talking about cases where there's a legal obligation to not tip off the user.
Mono-repo is probably best, one repo is always easier to keep secure and track changes, rather than a group of repos...

I originally loved the elegance of the multi-repo approach, but in practice it's just more of a pain...
Since I am posting old russian jokes elsewhere in this thread.. here's an example of an "open secret":

A man yells in the street: "Nicholas is a moron!". He is taken away by the police on charges of lese majeste (insulting the monarch).

He tells the policemen "Please let me go, I meant another Nicholas!".

The police chief replies: "Do not lie. If you said 'moron', you certainly meant the Tsar!"
You'd know more about me and my family background from knowing that I come from multiple generations of "The one kid that picked up and moved away from the family at 18" on both sides, than you would from knowing what kind of immigrants my family all ultimately were.
Agreed.
Phrenology was the old hat idea, where names of folk psychology concepts were scrawled across areas of cortex.

The brain is specialised and differentiated.

However our concepts of what it does are being refined.

Instead of hunting for "the place where happiness lives", imposing ideas from culturally laden folk psychology onto the gelatinous mass... we are moving towards more fundamental notions of complex nervous system axioms. Like seeking, avoidance, arousal, mood, emotional valence, attention.

Brains are fun
Again with the language of "subversion."

We would all benefit from a direct link to a recording or summary from this CTA conference. I suspect the reality is more banal than claimed: teachers are frequently the only (trustworthy) adult contacts outside of a child's family, and can be a resource for children who might otherwise be pushed into conversion therapy or other objectively harmful and outright illegal[1] "treatments" by their guardians.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy#Legal_statu...
Indeed you're still talking in generalities: which rights were being asserted under this reading of the Constitution?

The quote you provided could mean literally anything, from regulating the sale of beef to taxing bread. I suspect neither hamburgers nor dinner rolls were the subject of the Civil War.

Which rights were in dispute?
So basically: piracy, spam or anything you'd get into legal trouble for doing on your own hardware, Google restricts on their hardware. I can't really see how that's surprising or strange.
Is a gay black trans-woman part of a protected class?
Wouldn't that imply people are forever oppressed because things can be better.
Explain like I'm 5?
Apple clearly said they scan the photos on your phone not in your cloud account. They say it is designed to work with iCloud photos and they are processed / scanned on your photo before they are uploaded to the cloud.

Not sure why they would need to do that. It does open up your phone for scanning and uses beyond what they initially layout.
Hospital admissions are actually up a little: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ (parent link of the one you provided).

That said, deaths are still dropping, and have been dropping since November, which was a local minimum in case numbers.

The pertinent fact, I think, is that the UK is vaccinating like crazy, coming up to 1m boosters per day recently (total population just short of 70m IIRC), even 12-18 year-olds are getting jabbed now.
There is no excess battery manufacturing capacity available. It is constrained by both facilities and raw materials. Capacity will increase but at a slow rate. More capital can't solve that problem, it's like pushing on a string.
I don't think modern US soft power has much to do with 19th century politics. More than enough happened since then to completely override whatever was before.
Via previous infection? And if so, you're not concerned about waning protection? It would appear that people even with previous wild/delta infections have hit or miss immunity to omicron.
Yes, scheißegal strikes me as exactly the right translation, and once again there is a single German word for an entire English phrase.