skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or things that weren't considered wrong become wrong 20 years later.
It sounds like you're just describing a computer or cell phone. You can install applications on both that help you to manage the things that are important to you (health tracking, banking, email), plus a calendar with reminders to stay on top of these things.
At some point you have to ask yourself if maybe they're not simply confused but rather they say whatever anyone pays them to say. In short: Stop attributing to confusion what can be adequately explained by payola.
David Graeber's Debt: the First 5,000 Years is really worth reading to understand the anthropology of debt.

It's common in societies to accumulate unpayable debts (that, over time, evolve into debts designed never to be paid) for ceremonial purposes. A society might foster interdependence by having everyone in debt to everyone (as described in the fable above) in small amounts. Over time, these amounts grow. Nothing really stops them. House prices and education costs are no longer limited by what people can pay, because borrowing in increasingly large amounts becomes licit (and necessary, due to inflated prices). This generates a spiral. People can't afford to pay off their coming-of-age debt? Yeah, it's designed that way. In other societies it has been marriage or funeral expenses or receiving one's first hunting tools--in ours, it is the last 4-8 years of schooling.

These ceremonial debts seem harmless, insofar as the penalties for nonpayment are rarely enforced--few people actually have their wages garnished over medical bills or student loans--but, of course, they're anything but. In practice, they reify the ruling class's self-asserted superiority by giving them a legal justification for bringing harm to those who "freely" took on these debts. For reasons unclear, although Graeber examines a few possibilities, there seems to be a psychological weight given to the notion of debt, so strong that debts even outlive governments and states.
That's probably true. Your chain midrange business hotel probably has some rooms that aren't in a great location and maybe it's a bit overdue for a refresh. But I can't remember the last time I had a genuine problem with a hotel whether room availability or billing.

I have used Airbnb once. And it was quite pleasant. In a tourist area where the hotels were really pricey and this was somewhat cheaper (though not cheap)/likely better. So it worked out. But I'm aware it's probably a bit of a crapshoot.
> I think companies wait to get sued so they can try to argue in court why their soft deletions are reasonable and why it's too technically difficult for them to do hard deletes.

The law is clear, you can't keep user data if the user decides that you should no longer have them. It's your own responsibility to find a way to do that.

> To be honest, in the age of modern overprovisioned storage drives that remap blocks frequently, I'm not really sure you can implement genuine "hard" deletes without choosing significantly unorthodox hardware (or destroying a drive every time you need a single bit erased), no matter how much you want to in software. One of those details that I'm both surprised and unsurprised doesn't seem to have been addressed legally. I feel like a court ought to at least buy this aspect of the argument, so maybe they'll buy that it can be difficult in terms of the software too? Who knows. My guess is that a reasonable court would accommodate something that's reasonable for a given company, but there are lots of variations that could fall into that category.

The deletion should be done in reasonable terms, i.e. you can't reasonably get the data back. Of course when you delete something from an hard drive being that an SSD or HDD till that block is not reused the data is recoverable, but that is another thing.

By the way, it's either not really difficult to secure erase user data: what you need is not to erase all the data of the user, is to encrypt all the data of the user with a symmetric key algorithm (such as AES, that is super fast) and only store the key in a system that gives you secure erase capability. When the user deletes his account you don't have to delete all the data but just the encryption key.
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I need more specifics on the UK’s planned ‘ghost protocol’ otherwise known as Eve or Mallory in the Alice and Bob cast of characters. What messenger apps will be affected by this? Because if I was building a messenger app I would pull a Lavabit and disband it if coerced to put in back doors. Heard great things about Matrix/Element app. Is such an app impervious to back doors though? I mean the protocol is open source right? How do you back door something open source? WhatsApp can be considered to be unsafe to use, that I know, but what about alternatives like Cwtch, and things like Session?
Seems like a submarine PR hit for University of Austin. It's July 22. A bit early for a 2022 summer program to have changed your life. Is the summer semester even over?
I suspect the differences between Joe, Gordon, and co., and the actual people behind the PC revolution as captured by Silicon Cowboys, go far beyond differences in demographics or check-box traits, to their fundamental personalities themselves. Focusing on such superficial traits is a red herring.
I am in the same boat. Never booked with them and probably never will. I will pay more for hotel chains to get predictable service, and a help desk to talk to.

When I go on a vacation with the family the last thing I need is some unpredictable situation with a shady host and then fighting overseas AirBnB support for refunds.
I agree that public awareness is declining, but I don't think it's because of a lack of living memory. Almost no Americans have living memory of Ebola, but we all understand that it's very bad.

(I'm still in my mid 20s, and my adult neighbor growing up was paralyzed from the waist down from childhood polio. He was born the year before the Salk vaccine.)
LTT Tech literally did a video with an identical thermal pad mod a year and a half ago with the M1 Air.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghDvyItIHTY

TLDR - Adding the thermal pads wouldn't pass regulatory muster.
Poland, Italy, Russia, Germany, Czechia.
Ask HN: Legal Startups
Someone once told me an anecdote that startups focused on building tech products for legal use-cases have major hurdles.

Is there truth to this?

If so, what are the hurdles?

What are some success and failure stories you know of?

What are some companies to watch right now?
And in case anyone is new to Greg Egan, there's also the Orthogonal series (starting with The Clockwork Rocket) where the metric is (+,+,+,+) - the "time" dimension is just like the spatial dimensions. Pretty cool read with a bit of physics background!
Interestingly, in some parts of Canada (Alberta, British Columbia & Manitoba) the legal working age is 12, the same age as those in the article.

Of course there are some restrictions (2-4 hours per day maximum on school days, some restricted industries, restrictions on how late/early, etc.). I and several of my friends all had jobs at local fast food shops and such by the time we were ~13.

It should go without saying that I don't think it's a good thing that children are forced to or feel obligated to work while so young, and this specific case would violate those Canadian laws anyways (as the children were working in lieu of school).
It is a relatively common stance in the ultra-orthodox community and it was not unusual for me to see families bringing their kids to playgrounds in Brooklyn with active measles infections.
One could argue that much of that at least produces actual goods rather than the latest SV startup. At the end of the day there is still a gun produced even if we don't like it. Meanwhile exploiting pizza arbitrage is just a middleman sticking himself in something.
Absolutely. Of course no one is saying you cannot or should not send it to a local repair shop. The point is just that it seems misdirected to fault Framework the company for not offering these kinds of services when anyone with a job at a repair shop should be expected to be able to repair this model if they have competency in other less repairable models.

You are right my reply was framed in ableist language. I apologize for that -- I appreciate your feedback and will try to do better going forward.
You can't do that, it's not China.
Look at this image: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/54/1b/1a/541b1afd4a72564f808825b3e...

The window is the lattice, which is regularly ordered. The shadow, however, is distorted, ie each light beam is not the same size as the one next to it.
The Supreme Court for one.
Some people like having 1-1 personal interactions with someone at a place where they are visiting.
That does have a resemblance to what happens during a recession, but I'll point out that clearing houses mitigate that specific problem with debt cycles. For a more realistic analogy than the one you mentioned, I'd check out Krugman's article about a recession in a babysitting co-op: https://slate.com/business/1998/08/baby-sitting-the-economy.... . It seems to be exactly what the GP was looking for
I suddenly need to know how many Bitcoin networks' worth of rainforests this kills each time it displays an advertisement
Get pigs: they'll uproot everything in sight!
One reason is that copilot could be easily prompted to "create" line for line reproductions of people's code. AFAICT, you can't do this with DALLE (even if you, for example, try to input the caption of an image directly).
I would argue that they create a secondary item. The same way lumber is created from wood, and then picture frames from lumber. Value is added, and this creates revenue. Here, the value is virtual, but it's still value -> the market says so. I could argue this is just a service, but if that were true it would be worth less and the market would correct.
I’m in a situation where I have a half open account, they want me to provide ID which I won’t and they won’t allow me to close the account without providing ID. PayPal is a ridiculous company and in no way to be considered a serious partner or service in finance.
> they believed 911 was an inside job. steel beams and all that.

911 is definietly a conspiracy. A bunch of telecom engineers acting in unison with dispatchers and first responders. There is no other explanation how else police/emt/fire brigade shows up when you dial that number and tell them about an emergency. But what it has to do with steel beams I don’t know. \s

Joking aside: I have noticed that sometimes when I preceive that everyone around me thinks X i feel an urge to think the opposite of it. I only had mild and inconsequential cases of this (opinion about shows, products, etc), but I can imagine that this type of contraryness in edge cases can convince people that everyone is wrong about some important historical event. And it seems once they convinced themselves their belief is stable enough to make them stick with it.

Obviously hating Game of Thrones when everyone was raving about it feels very different from subscribing to conspiracy theories, but maybe the phenomena is similar, just one latches on to a different subject?
Agreed. Taking it a step further, such an analysis that ignores his early life section is also incomplete.
Your post is confusing.

It sounds like PayPal is asking you to prove you did not receive the cloud credits.

But what you should do is say you did not purchase cloud credits.

There is a difference between an unauthorized charge and goods not received.
Going to a live event can be a catalyst for how you feel about them. I used to hate sports as well, but live games have a certain energy about them that does not come through in television. Find a friend who likes a team and ask to go to a game with them.
I think the headline is missing air quotes. It should be "Experts" not Experts.
This. I live in Africa where I estimate we have at a minimum a few decades to go to catch up with the world when it comes to everyone having a decent house to live in. Trouble is in the towns some of the modern construction rules have slowed things down considerably. No I am not advocating for having no rules but I contend that when the more advanced countries started building hundreds of years ago they didn't have to contend with modern building laws we are having to contend with.

What is interesting is that there are no building codes to conform to in the village. So you can build as you please.
Great work! During my parental leave, I long pondered building fun things for baby, but allergy induced colic took up all our time.
They said Russia is not a terrorist state. I disagree with them. I don’t really give a shit about French war crimes 70 years ago. That’s not a gotcha, it’s just a shitty whataboutism, and not even a particularly relevant one.
If you’re referring to “population collapse is the biggest threat to civilization”, I strongly disagree.

Current prediction is that world population will continue to grow till at least 2100 and will peak at about ten billion (https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/content/World-Populat...)

It may or may not collapse after that, but that’s far out. Global warming, IMO, is a much bigger threat.

An aging population may become somewhat of an issue, but that’s solvable by migration, at least for the richest parts of the world (lots of young people already emigrate to the USA and Western Europe, sometimes leaving behind an aging population)
You have nothing to support your claim of "rate of progress" and drug safety is significantly improved from fifty years ago when drugs would turn out to have mutagenic effects on unborn kids and such.
> The final caveat being the second point I made about people holding onto their cars longer as inflation rises / changing their preferences, not necessarily because the cars are holding up better.

I’m sorry but the idea that “we used to junk cars sooner because new cars were cheaper” is a very big stretch to support your bias (much moreso than the concept of hedonic adjustment)
Given the way "start of pregnancy" is calculated in this country, my understanding is that most women would struggle to be able to get an abortion before six weeks.

When you miss your period, and take a pregnancy test, the "start of pregnancy" is apparently considered to have been the start of your last period. That means that at the earliest time you could be generally expected to find out you're pregnant, you are considered to have been pregnant for 4-5 weeks.

Then, of course, you'll need to make a decision about what to do about it, contact a doctor, and have a procedure scheduled...and in states with restrictive abortion laws, you can bet that that's going to be more difficult and time-consuming than it needs to be.

The cruelty of it all is the point.
> first world country

Maybe U.S. is not anymore entitled for this title.
No efficient and free healthcare or education like the other first world countries have. And other issues which you just stated.
It feels that even democracy has serious challenges at the moment.
You can as long as you delete all the personal data of the user and make sure that other remaining data is anonymized in a way that you can no longer associate it with the user.
What is an irrational angle? Is this something I can actually do physically, or is it more of a theoretical math thing? For example, if I'm holding a toy that is a lattice showing the 3d structure of carbon between my dining room table and ceiling lamp, how do I rotate it such that it is irrational relative to my table?
Thanks for sharing your experience. I am most likely going to launch something in a year or so. But I do want to give "career" a try lol. I wonder if going IC route from Distinguished Engineer is an option. I am not even sure what comes after that.
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As opposed to the Intel/AMD naming scheme of random strings of letters and numbers?
Ask HN: What could software developers do for climate change?
Well, they are vetted in the literal sense. The creators have to approve the ads. Most exchanges have no human in the loop at all.
But that's the rhetorical distraction from the concrete legal and charter or constitutional question of the relationship between encryption and the presumption of innocence.

It's a much better framing than encryption as freedom of speech or uncodified notions of privacy - this is a straight up challenge to whether individuals have any inaliable rights in your society, or, as mere subjects of the crown in the UK and commonwealth, the discretion of the sovereign is absolute.

America's bill of rights is unique in the world, but the next order question if the presumption of innocence isn't defined as a right is, has it been defined in precedent - which it certainly has. IANAL or a legalist at all, but I have done a great deal of work related to encryption policy and privacy within government
(infosec and privacy in the public sector is essentially government governance), and encryption and privacy are a forcing functions for a lot of very important questions about sovereignty and state.
Ah, that's too much of a promotion for me. ;)
Then I hope McConnell gets many more illnesses so that he might fund their eradication.
DALL-E 2 does not have an API, so this implementation is likely breaking some ToU.
0.1-1% hire rate based on applicants, or based on candidates interviewed? 0.1% hire rate of candidates interviewed doesn't seem compatible with your described growth rate, even if you very conservatively assumes you spend 1 hour interviewing each candidate, thats 25 weeks of straight interviewing per candidate hired. And thats 1 hour of time across the whole company, if you have 2 interviewers spend an hour each, thats now 50 employee-weeks, or an entire year. To double the company size in 5 years, you would have needed to spend 1/5th of your entire tenure interviewing. If you go up to 10 total hours spent per candidate (including all interviewers, recruiters, and time spend in discussion and negotiation) it becomes straight up impossible.
We found for skilled workers it is mostly peer referral, as people already know who they prefer to work with on a team. Notably, assigning nontechnical staff to screen talent is going to exclude a lot of interesting folks, and still incurs a 3 month 54% attrition rate at some firms.
Like most meds. The incentive of drug companies is to do enough testing to get an FDA approval (or equivalent in other places).
What? I'm not sure what you are saying... We don't need to eat beef, both here and in Brazil. We choose to, in both places. We, locally, need to regulate harder and push harder globally to protect things.
Companies are frantically hiring and yet output is dropping. Output per worker is lower than ever before!

What possible massive shift in the way people work could possibly explain this?!

It’s so obvious but people just don’t want to hear it.
As if no other developed country has problems with extremists.
I think it doesn't help that the computers are called Pro as well, so you could have a MacBook Pro with M1 Max, etc.

I mean there was another comment on this thread that had to clarify that when they said "M2 Pro" they had meant the "MacBook Pro with M2" not a future "M2 Pro" chip.
As somebody has said in another thread, there's 7B people in the world. Rather than having more kids to help us 18 years from now flipping burgers, why just not immigrate talent that's a bit older?
OK, so if you acknowledge that muggings on scooters were/are/were an issue, what do you think these former/would-be scooter muggers will do? Go back to do doing it on foot, which is in stark contrast to what the post I replied to said.

Personally, I'd never stand with something like a Nintendo Switch out in public in "London", but it honestly depends on the area of London. Some are much worse than others for crime.

I think the point is that whilst stabbings might not be high, the use of knives as a weapon to intimidate and mug people (going beyond just purse snatchers) is very effective, and much more common than you might imagine, nobody wants to get cut, and nobody really wants to stab anybody over a few hundred quid of electronics.
mathematically proves that greed is good so long as the greedy people are only greedy in the specific ways I have decided are good
VLC wins ease-of-use but MPC-HC is still king of the roost when it comes to picture quality and customization.
Whataboutism at its finest.

The US drone policy is very aggressive. But it’s multiple orders of magnitude less than the scale of what Russia is trying to do now, which is flagrant genocide.

But we’re not discussing the US so let’s get back to the terrorist state of Russia.
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That's a fairly fundamentalist take. Are signs outside shops evil? Window displays? Brochures?
I've used Airbnb in the following places, usually traveling as a couple for vacation. Domestically, with our dog as well. We like Airbnb for more space (proper living room, sofa, etc) and a kitchen during extended stays.

- Iceland, flat in Reykjavik, 5 day trip. Kitchen and more space vs hotel, similar cost.
- Italy, flat in Florence, 5 day trip, part of longer trip, used hotels in Rome and Riccione. Lower cost, kitchen, more space vs hotel
- Scotland, cottages in Portree and Stornaway, 5 days each, used hotels in Fort William and Inverness (1 night each). Less expensive, more space, full kitchen vs hotels in this area.
- Roanoke VA, 3 night weekend, dog allowed, kitchen and more space, lower cost vs hotel
- Mt Rogers VA, 7 day, no hotels nearby, plus dog
- St Michaels MD, 3 day weekend, dog, kitchen, limited hotels in town (though plenty on the outskirts)
- Emerald Isle, NC - house, 3 day weekend, needed 4 dogs and 2 couples, and kitchen
- Cape Canaveral, FL - flat, 14 days, needed kitchen and dog alllowance
- Cocoa Beach, FL - house, needed 2 couples, 1 solo, and 4 dogs, plus kitchen

Maybe I'm being naive, but filtering to Superhosts and entire home, then checking for multiple listings and high ratings seems to work ok. And for big cities, I'd probably just get a hotel, since Airbnb is likely to be a small flat anyway.
Do you have evidence that asymptomatic people are even contagious? At the start of the pandemic there was a Pew survey that showed that 10% of people who know they have covid would still go to work. I think stuff like that explains the spread a lot more than lack of masking by non-sick individuals. Not everyone can afford to quarantine.
Agreed. How much value do we place on entertainment? stimulation? storefronts?
Can it really be legal to do anything less than a prorated refund?
The article isn't stellar about explaining what they mean. FaceID and TouchID as implemented by Apple requires you to type in your password every couple of days to ensure you don't forget it. They augment your password (and weaken overall security) but they don't replace your password. I can't speak to every similar Android and Windows implementations, but I charitably assume they've followed the same path, Google Pixels have at least.

So to answer your question specifically for an iPhone, if you're using FaceID and get in a face-mangling accident, you type in your password until your face heal enough to stop changing and then set up FaceID again with your new mug.
No. We were nature, but we're progressing faster than natural processes can adapt.