skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you should try to write quality code.

Yet almost everyone fails.

You should also try to write quality laws. But when you fail, do you want the same sort of consequences as with code? How much time, effort, and money has been lost to hacks taking advantage of errors in code?

I would love an interpreter/compiler/processor that knew that I didn't intend to allow a security vulnerability so anyone could escalate their privileges. Sounds great, truly.
Hmm, there is very little information on this. They've sort of botched the operation. I've got no problem paying, but the problem is I don't actually know if I'll keep the functionality since half of what I use is under add-ons.

Will I lose my Google Fi phone number? It sounds like I should just migrate away everything I use, but it's going to be a bit of a hassle to actually look up everything I use, hmm.

Well, I guess I have to find a weekend sometime between now and June.
SICP translated to JavaScript (2013): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6385617
I saw this from this link: https://world-heart-federation.org/news/no-amount-of-alcohol...

In that article, it states:

"Alcohol has a greater impact on people from low socio-economic backgrounds, who are more likely to experience its adverse effects compared to people from higher socio-economic backgrounds, even when consuming similar or lower amounts."

Can someone provide some insight here? What does your wage have to do with how you body handles booze?
Oooo, thank you! Knowing that existed led me to https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co... and https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsstandardk...

This leads me to believe that this will work:

"~t" = "transposeWords:"; /* M-t */

Edit: Sadly, `transposeWords:` doesn't work, despite showing up in Apple's docs—it just beeps when I try to use it.
> Many things that we enjoy daily were once “fundamentally impossible”.

Not so. They may have been conceptually impossible but did not run into the "fundamental" laws of physics. FTL travel breaks physics. A lot abiut our observable universe would be different if it were possible.

The evidence that the universe obeys these laws is significant and, currently, not counter indicated.
You don't see any potential misuse if having people's STD results publicly available? (To use an extreme case)
I'm a professor and we're seeing drops in enrollment and huge drops in work being done, learning, and creativity. We need to say, hey it's been two years in March, we're done. March Onward, or something. No more.

Hah, this comment dropped 6 points in less than a second. This article will be flagged soon.
That doesn't sound accurate. Wasn't the major change they ended up rolling back Consul streaming, which they'd enabled months before, and had been slowly rolling out?
With black box AI, any legislation on data use is impossible to enforce. So limiting access to the data might be the only way.
The redesigned iOS & Mac apps are a pile of shit and are a significant downgrade from the earlier "iPod" app and iTunes. Yes it turns out it's possible to do something even worse than iTunes.
> This is already a solved problem... raw data is made accessible only through an ethics committee. Summary counts from transcriptomes are publicly available, though.

Right.

1. I'm not sure you understand the extreme position being taken by
rvnx in this thread.

2. Presumably the patients agreed that their transcriptome data could be shared in this way, and you didn't change your data handling post-facto without their consent.
Wonder if this had an impact on altimeters in aircraft, especially older ones that aren't augmented with radar/lidar or GPS.
Though I'm sure there are a few Scheme interpreters written in JS or that compile to WebAssembly and so are just about as accessible.
Incredible article, found it a couple of days ago.
I'll just note that I have no problem with all this information being public for health research. I'd take privacy hits all day long in return for better cures, health, and longevity.
No one is saying "in an ideal world" that's a strawman.

Fact checkers, corporations, the media, the state, and any of the elite are just people and so extremely irrational, Why on earth would you want to give any of them power above and beyond the general public, it's so easy to manipulate the so called "rational" with selective publication of information. Do we just forget that covid human to human spreading was "fake news" for an entire month, and basically changed the course of history because some bureaucracy decided it had more authority on the matter than a doctor treating the patients.

Or what about the "Ricard Spencer is a nice guy in Germany" effect, because people in Europe can't see the hate speech he makes, so they think he's fairly reasonable person.

To me it seems that it's the general public, from Snowden to Li Wenliang that is keeping fake news in check, not the elite, keeping the public in check.
Vaporize, not concentrates.

Cannabis without lowering your blood oxygen levels is a different thing.

But, possibly still a bad idea.
I should have been more specific:

> Most property crime transfers wealth to poorer people, making them less poor and reducing poverty.

This is the part that I think is unequivocally false. If you live in poverty and you steal property, you do not then become "less poor" unless you subsequently use the property you stole to better yourself in other ways unrelated to the crime. It is not the transfer of wealth that made you less poor, it is your use of the wealth that you took, be it material or financial.

As an example, street gangs often "own" enough asset value in weapons, drugs, cash, and real estate to live in a better, less violent, and less poor life, but they and their families still suffer all of the symptoms of "poverty", because they do not use the assets they take to reduce their own "poverty" but rather to perpetuate the methods by which they acquired their property. There are some edge cases, but for the most part, property crime does not reduce "poverty" any more than caffeine pills reduce "chronic sleepiness".

I do not disagree that convicting and imprisonment increase poverty; I am openly in favor of prison reform and am aware that any criminal charges can seriousy impact lifetime earning potential.

> So far, this discussion has been about theft, robbery, and poverty. White-collar crime is very different.

No, it is not. Rich criminals have the same instincts to win, dominate, hurt, steal, lie, and otherwise oppress other people that poor criminals do. "White-collar" crime is blue-collar crime committed by more intelligent, well-connected people. Blue-collar crime in the case of theft and robbery uses the threat of personal violence to extract wealth from a person or a person's business; the white-collar crime in the way I mentioned it uses the threat of state violence to extract cash from an institution. Both are lawless--one is below the law, the other above the law. Your and other people's inability to understand this principle is the source of a massive road block in societal reform.

> This is a straw man argument. Go back and read what I actually wrote.

This I concede; you did not say this. However, your belief that white-collar crime and blue-collar crime are fundamentally different and your statement that "property crime...makes them less poor and reduces poverty" make me suspicious that you actually do think that a simple transfer of wealth from rich to poor is enough to reduce both poverty and crime to a degree where it does not bother the rest of society.
Smallpox was a god of death which one could hope to avoid and defend against, but never kill, from at least 300 BCE until 1958. Humanity finished the job in 1977 (for now).

While there are many things to criticize about anarchist thought and practice, one thing I hope will never stop and we should not dismiss as "utopian" is the sheer gumption to question one of the fundamental assumption in almost all political ideologies - that someone must be in charge - and then seriously consider the implications of trying to structure a society not only without coercion, but also with positive freedoms.

I.e. , at it's best, anarchist thought tries to find ways of ensuring welfare and ensuring that the "private charity and philanthropy" often cited as the solution to poverty will manifest as a feature of the system, without needing to rely on (soft) coercion, scarcity and centralization, to the point of considering ways on how to structure meetings so that the shy and slow will also be allowed to contribute their perspective and thoughts against the brash and bold.

While I might not agree 100% politically, I think we should point to (and if so inclined, work on) specific problems we find in the arguments/implementation and not shy away from the ambition itself.
> The Los Angeles district attorney's office, under the leadership of George Gascon, has circulated a list of crimes it will not prosecute. ...

> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/magazine/george-gascon-lo...

That isn't in the article. Have you ever seen evidence supporting your claim, or are you repeating what others have said (perilous, esp. on the Internet!). Here's what the article says:

He mandated an end to seeking cash bail, the death penalty, the sentence of life without parole and the prosecution of anyone younger than 18 as an adult. And in a rare, if not unprecedented, move by an American prosecutor, Gascón declared his intent to effectively end very long sentences ...

The article also links to a memo from Gascon regarding sentencing enhancements.
Presumably because the would logically accept such a duty as an alternative to the government telling them they aren't allowed to import it at all.
Has Google bothered giving some excuse for why they block non-signed-in people from even viewing issues?
As opposed to the current primary goal of giving all the power to Apple to decide what the user gets?

And once again, that's on Apple to implement. If they choose to continue to keep entitlements in the same format, that's on them to explain it to the user. See Android, they handle permissions fine.

That section doesn't place restrictions on the generation of user data, only access to generated data. So don't generate it. In my opinion that's to prevent the platform holder from getting an unfair advantage by keeping the data for themselves. If the user doesn't give permission, the device doesn't generate the data, you're not restricting access to data because it doesn't exist.
If we remove the taxes on corporations should we also remove the shield on liability against the owners of the corporation? Why make it more transparent one way but not the other?
That's how a temp agency works, no? You hire the agency because you need a worker for a short term job, and the agency will in turn hire a temp worker to actually do the job.
One thing I haven't seen is the "raw data" people being willing to pay for their own government certified consultants to anonymize the data.

I presume this would actually be the solution if the "raw data" people were making good faith requests.

Is there any reason why this wouldn't be viable?
The radio?
UK is spending £500k on a PR campaign demonising end-to-end encryption
Interesting. When I scanned I got foo.co.at. I'm on Pixel 5, Android 12.
I think we're still talking about different things, but that is a good move on their part regardless. :)

I mean the optional called `FreelistType` has a new option called `FreelistMapType` and the default is `FreelistArrayType`. There is no option in Consul from what I can tell to configure that option. They did have to upgrade from the old boltdb code to the etcd boltdb code to do this though.
It's only when viewed in the Camera app and not in Lens or other readers. I made the same mistake :-)
Why are these being called “gravity waves”? They’re nothing of the sort.
>but saying the president of El Salvador is ‘cringe’ is so low effort it’s insulting

I know you mean this coming from a mental image that you (and most of us) have of a head of state.

But really, have a look at the guy and his behavior. Cringe is a perfectly apt adjective.
The XBox branding department are big fans of The IT Crowd and completely unaware that it is a comedy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ
The person accused of the racism and bad working environment is still at the company and was even promoted. Google is run by smart and levelheaded people, some of the best and most talented in the world. I find it hard to believe that in our modern time, a racist manager would not get punished for racism and would even be promoted, especially at a company like Google. Far more likely is that some emotionally volatile employees had some sort of breakdown and publicly complained, and Bloomberg jumped at the opportunity to write a clickbait headline about how Google is being "rocked" by this.
Is Google pay still a thing? Apple Pay is fantastic, shop pay is a distant #2 and PayPal even further being at 3 at least convenience wise
I'd happily give TPG the 15k miles worth of referral bonus anytime - their reporting on travel, especially the extra work they've put in for helping people travel in the pandemic, is some of the best on the web. Even in the past 24 hours they shared a new and interesting trans-pacific airline that makes stopovers in Anchorage which would be fun to try (https://thepointsguy.com/news/northern-pacific-airways-boein...)
Could the pmOS folks get involved and start submitting mainline patches themselves? The Mobian folks might also be interested since they probably want to minimize long-term deviations from Debian, which is based on the mainline.
>Do you see a problem here? It's a quite simple market failure.

It's not a market failure because shareholders don't want just anyone (ie. "lots of poor people who need to work to feed themselves ") to be CEO, they want the best (ie. steve jobs). I'm sure steve jobs can ask for a multi-million dollar salary if he wanted it, and the board wouldn't even blink. As for why he's not asking for such a salary when he could, my guess is that he's doing it for non-monetary reasons (to appear more humble?), not as some part of diabolical tax-dodging scheme. The board certainly wouldn't consider hiring one of the "poor people who need to work to feed themselves" for minimum wage as CEO, just to save a few million dollars. The opportunity costs and/or damage that an incompetent person can do is too high to risk it.
What about ICloud plus Prody then? It comes from Apple’s servers. Add Safari reader on top of it and I think it becomes similar.

Move Reader to iCloud proxy and I think it becomes almost identical?
Maybe they can do NFTs
> Near light-speed travel will allow a person to go anywhere instantaneously

Only if you ignore the enormous acceleration/deceleration forces needed for this.
> It absolutely is part of an ongoing clinical trial regardless us if it is authorized for emergency use.

It is for the people enrolled in an actual clinical trial.

It's not for people outside of the clinical trial using it under either the EUA or the subsequent full authorization.

> How many people who were given the vaccine were told that it is part of an ongoing clinical trial,

100% of those for whom that was true. Which is a very small percentage of the population who has received it.

> authorized for emergency use

100% of those for whom that was true, who aren't the same people.
Definitely broken for me. Running Andriod 12 on a Pixel 4a.

I get the same for fooco.nz , foonet.nz, foodmil.nz and foogov.nz . But not the more obscure foogen.nz and fooiwi.nz.

.nz only did 3lds for a long time. 2LDs are only about 5 years old.
Other nations have more open laws about sharing medical data than the US. (I believe Iceland? Greenland? One of those island nations has genetic ancestry data for all citizens).

AFAIK, the world hasn't ended and they aren't living in a dystopia because their medical information is so well documented. On the contrary it has served to stop the spread of genetic disorders and aid in medical research.

Certainly I personally don't have these hangups about privacy. I think it's weird that society has created them. Pre-HIPAA that wasn't the case and it wasn't exactly seen as major breaches of privacy for doctors/nurses to talk relatively openly about diseases their patients had. The sanctimony of medical data is a recent development practically unique to the US.

I'm not advocating that we broadcast to everyone details of every medical checkup. I am, however, saying that we shouldn't have nearly the level of restrictions we have around sharing medical information, particularly between medical institutions doing research.
Duo. The Higher Energy Analogue System
It's so funny you post that today! I just got this settlement email about Plaid:

> A Settlement has been proposed in class action litigation against Plaid Inc. (“Plaid”). Plaid enables connections between a user’s financial account(s) and approximately 5,000 mobile and web-based applications (“apps”). This class action alleges Plaid took certain improper actions in connection with this process. The allegations include that Plaid: (1) obtained more financial data than was needed by a user's app, and (2) obtained log-in credentials (username and password) through its interface, known as Plaid Link, which the litigation alleges had the look and feel of the user’s own bank account login screen, when users were actually providing their login credentials directly to Plaid. Plaid denies these allegations and any wrongdoing and maintains that it adequately disclosed and maintained transparency about its practices to consumers.
That was interesting. I listen mostly to classical and had no trouble whatsoever with the Mozart track, the difference was clear. The other tracks I was forced to guess and, strangely, got all wrong answers!

Compressed classical music annoys me to no end, although for a long time I couldn’t tell why. Then I found out, the problem is the artifacts, which you may not be aware of but they do affect your emotional response.

This page has an amazing description of the issues:
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/what-data-compressio...
From my lay understanding of anthropology, having read stuff by people like David Graeber, it does seem pretty well established that pre-agrarian societies were mostly organised non-hierarchically, or at least with very limited social stratification.
I always wonder about those communities though, AANES seems to (looking in from the outside) rely heavily on ethnocentric and cult of personality (Occallan) dynamics, as well as the unifying pressure of Daesh/Turkey? And the Zapatista regions had the same things with the Subcommandante (although they seem to have avoided a full on cult of personality with him stepping out of the limelight now) and seem to rely on the unifying threat of Mexico/Narcos? Or am I missinformed (and if yes, where can I get reliable information about this)?
AT&T Fiber 2Gb/5Gb expanding on 1/24/2022 To be called Hyper-Gig
> Why can’t you be pro reform and pro police?

Did someone say you couldn't? I can understand some people, having experienced generations of life-altering brutality and oppression, might distrust police; I'm not going to tell them what they should think.

Also, what exactly does "pro police" mean? Supporting their long-standing practices? Supporting people who abuse civilians, others who cover it up, and yet more who protect the system that enables them? That might be hard to reconcile with reform - you have to recognize the problems to reform them. Not hating all individual police? Sure. Personally, I think any hate is a flaw of humanity.
The Grey Lady maintains plausible deniability at (in?) all times. :)
While I'm sure that it's also a style-choice, it may have also been partly functional. The building was built in the 60's, and I believe that it was intended to host strategically important computing power in its basement, which was designed to protect this asset in the case of a nuclear attack (it was the cold war). IIRC, there was a slightly-lower sub-basement in the center of the building which was the effective bomb shelter.

In any case, I think the article is complaining mostly about the unoriginal glass clones that have gone up over the last twenty years.
Honestly, I don't fly enough to have status on any airlines anymore. I used to go to every conference I could, so I was flying internationally several times a year. Frequent flyer programs were entirely mileage-based then, so that made status easy. 100,000 miles was difficult and I only did it with mileage runs. Worthwhile back in the day; system-wide upgrades were easily worth the cost of a trip to Europe for a weekend in the winter :) Plus, visiting random countries was a ton of fun.

I kind of got tired of traveling so much and stopped doing it, though. Traveling for work (just meeting people in other offices) kept my status until about 2017. Then I stopped doing that, and now I'm just a bum with no status on any airline. That's about when the mileage-based gravy train came to an end anyway, so I'm not that upset about it. It is good to be marked in the system as someone to pay attention to (got many free upgrades on Cathay Pacific for no reason back in the day), but you are still treated well when you buy a first or business class ticket even without status.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

SICP – Upcoming JavaScript Edition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27737942 - July 2021 (2 comments)

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – JavaScript Adaptation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21822903 - Dec 2019 (180 comments)

SICP JavaScript Going Public - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21779397 - Dec 2019 (1 comment)

SICP translated to JavaScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6385617 - Sept 2013 (107 comments)
We’re not talking smoking though

We’re talking second hand smoke

Who exactly is looking to get some second hand smoke in their face while avoiding actually smoking?
If you don't want apps from outside the store on your phone then don't install any.

External apps should obviously require the device owner to authenticate in order to install. If this can happen without the device owner authenticating, that is a security problem, but so are a thousand other things, like copying your data off the device, that are no problem at all unless they can happen without authenticating.
GP here. I started my career in the mid-late 2000s. For me some of the reasons that I remember are:

1. Just plain old not knowing better.

2. Being in NYC, my social circle had a lot of Wall Street finance types. In fact, this is still true - I know more finance people amongst my friends than fellow SWEs.

3. Hacker tech culture wasn't as widespread or widely known back then, especially in NYC. Or maybe it was just me. Going back to #1, I thought things couldn't get any better than dressing up in business casual monkey suits every morning and being ordered to dance like a monkey by a hotshot trader in hopes of picking up after his glorious scraps.

4. I thought the money wasn't half bad, making like $80-90k back then. I thought no one could pay better than the Masters of the Universe on Wall Street.

I don't know what a company like Google was paying their engineers back then, but I think it's a somewhat recent phenomenon where tech SWE compensation grossly and utterly outpaced tech-in-finance SWE compensation. Again, I'm not referring to ultra-elite finance firms like Jane Street or Citadel where I understand SWEs do get paid on par (or better) than FAANG.

I distinctly recall even ignoring a Google recruiter's solicitations back then (2007? 2008?) because I naively thought working at my investment bank was utterly superior to anything Google could offer.

Now I know better, and knowing is half the battle.
NordVPN has killed their warrant canary