skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just don't like to believe that something as sophisticated as a $20b
company can be boiled down by over-simplified observations you and I
make from the comfort of our desks.

It really is pretty simple. Herb ran a cult of personality, but that personality was that of a CEO of a scrappy little low cost regional carrier back in the 70s. That sort of loyalty dies hard. It's worth noting that Gary Kelly (chairman, ex-CEO) was not an outsider. His fuel hedges cut Southwest a ton of operational slack. That slack meant there was no incentive to spend money on operational improvements. Bob Jordan's not an outsider either, he worked his way up the ranks from a code monkey to CEO. That means they both were fully invested in the cult of Herb, and both failed up.

The excessively hands on recovery plan would've been manageable at a much smaller airline.

From Southwest's little PR piece on Bob:

During his more than three decades at Southwest, the
airline grew from a regional presence with around 7,000
People and 90 airplanes to a beloved national brand
with more 54,000 People and a Customer base that topped
130 million Passengers in 2019. Bob has been responsible
for the delivery of many key Company initiatives,
including executive oversight for development of the
Southwest.com e-commerce platform, the revamp of the
Rapid Rewards® loyalty program in 2011, the $3.2B
acquisition and integration of AirTran Airways, the
comprehensive "Heart" brand refresh in 2014, significant
domestic and international network expansion, and the 2017
switch to a new reservations system.

Tech struggles are nothing new for Southwest, rumor has it one of the big challenges they had with the expansion into Mexico was figuring out how to accept payments in non-USD.
He absolutely hits the nail on the head, wrt the reasons we can't have any type of backdoor -ever.

Hate to be the one to tell the global law enforcement community this, but, apparently, they seem to be entirely ignorant of it.

People have been having untapped correspondence between each other since the dawn of language. That's THOUSANDS OF YEARS. Long before Signal.

All they do, is meet, or drop communications, in any of ten thousand different ways, to each other.

It could be a thumb drive, or it could be two people, idly scratching the dirt (one of the stories behind the Christian "fish").
My feeling is that even if it were available to download, the compute requirements to run it at production speeds would likely be blistering.
>Some people

Other people think those first people are complete nutjobs.
im older than dirt, so there wasa time when IPs were closer to 1:1 with domain name; DNS was a snazzy way of using WWW, but we would since inception, memorize or rolodex [1] the IP like a phone number.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolodex
we need to adopt more of the politeness of the japanese in this regard.
its pretty amazing the reach and impact they have had over the last two decades. The amount of software derived from it goes undernoticed. Plex started out as a pseudoofficial OS X fork.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_based_on_Kodi...
Or just autocomplete. Most of the sites I use on any sort of regular basis will autocomplete off 2 or 3 characters.
I hope every project you work on has it's source code stolen resulting in failure. And this is coming from a pretty crappy person, but this website sure does love stealing from authors (so that it can enjoy the fruits of their labor).
What are you comparing with (both for government and for criminals)? In case of criminals it's easier to imagine a similar world where just criminals don't do crime; however, that comparison fails to take into account indirect effects of crimes (which are both negative -- e.g. costs spent on protection against crime -- and positive -- more incentives to influence the society so that crime is less beneficial).

In the case of government, I find it hard to see what do you mean by "same world, but without government". If everyone behaved the same in absence of government, nothing would really change. If we take into account changes in people's behaviour due to lack of government, then how do we stipulate that no government forms in that world? Are we imagining a world where everyone knows that forming any government will end the world and thus no one does that? In that case I'm hard pressed to even guess the sign of the difference in magnitude of harm, let alone its order of magnitude.
But at what cost?

Not drinking water or eating food leads to lower risk of choking to death, but...
A question about z-lib, libgen, and regular libraries

Suppose I check an e-book out of my local library. Because Reasons, the library doesn't "own" unlimited "copies" of the book, so each "copy" can only be checked out to one patron at a time and if there are enough holds then a patron can't renew a checked out book. In short, ebooks in libraries are just like regular paper books, except to you don't have leave your house.

I had this ebook on hold for three months because it's very popular, but finally have it on my device, but I only have 3 weeks before I can no longer read it because of holds. I get about 2/3rds the way through before lock closes on the bits on my device. It's a very popular book, it will be 3 months before I can read it again.

I go online, use some service, find the exact same book, down to all but the locking bits, and download it, finish reading it a few days later, and then forget about it. I might delete it later if I need room.

Is that a crime? Have either the author or publisher lost money? On the one hand, I can say yes because if the libraries purchased more "copies", the waiting list wouldn't be so long, I might have been able to renew it and finish it. On the other hand, I wasn't going to buy the book myself, and the library has to balance budget and demand, so they probably wouldn't purchase additional "copies".

What ethical questions do authors and readers see here?
Methotrexate is standard of care, considered “strongly recommended” over hydroxychloroquine (source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acr.24596 ) for rheumatoid arthritis. If I read the paper right, hydroxychloroquine may be favored in “low disease” states.

So I would certainly expect some sort of difference in patient population. It would suggest those initiated on hydroxychloroquine would normally have less severe rheumatoid arthritis (or have some other difference that their doctor would choose to not use methotrexate by default), although I don’t know if that’s the case in reality.
On the other hand if infants were this fragile to be long term affected by something like that humanity would survive 3 generation tops.

At some point synaptic prunning comes and the child is rid of nearly all indignities it suffered up to that point.
Simplistic "but hard" proposals beget sarcastic replies. I could enumerate some reasons why what you said is overly simplistic and ignores some harsh realities but I expect the response to be another variant of "no one said it would be easy". I guess no one is allowed to have an opinion on a topic without being prepared to martyr themselves for it?
I can't get enough of these stories from the early days of computing. Perhaps I was just young, but those years felt magical to me.
If you think the average person's wifi network is bad, just wait until they have to buy a second wireless network. As bad as wifi can be, you have to have it for a million other devices and use cases. If your wifi is bad for IOT, it'll be bad everywhere probably.

My wifi is great already, but I decided to try some of the Ring lighting products. They use Zigbee/Sidewalk which is supposed to be perfect for this kind of use case. Guess what? It isn't. Now I just have a second wireless network to troubleshoot.

At no point does having a second wireless network just for my IOT devices become less work than using the wifi I already have. And if I improve my wifi coverage for IOT, I improved it for everything else at my house too.
I travel some 600 km one-way to the HQ per train every month.

The correct answer is to not book second class tickets, ever, always book "first class quiet zone", and inform offending co-travellers about societally unacceptable behaviour, friendly at first, then increasingly passive-aggressive. There are always some people who are incorrigible ... but Bose N700 noise cancelling headphones also help.
Pele supported AYSO in the US back in 1970. Associating his fame with this youth soccer group certainly played a big part in growing the game in the US. As the sport continues to grow in this country, I think it's fair to say that he's a founding father of soccer in the United States.

https://twitter.com/ayso_soccer/status/1294317989790187520
FWIW, zsh is not a bash derivative.

Both are spiritual descendants of Bourne shell directly, with some ksh, csh, and tcsh mixed in, in varying proportions.
> There is no way to eliminate privacy for "bad" actors only but preserve it for "good" actors

Exactly columnist's point.
> AND here comes to the kicker you can even be IN the government

This is (in many cases) a lie. The system is set up in a way that only the political class can realistically run for political office.
Now that one major market is finally doing it, this will spread and eventually become the norm. What I hope we don’t lose in the process is “airplane mode” as a concept, even if the name becomes an anachronism.

Being able to temporarily “unplug the cable” from a wireless device is a valuable feature, even if it’s no longer required by regulation.
One of the labs in my highschool was for typing training, and it had something like 50 barebones PCs in it. Every day you'd sit down at a random machine, which booted from a 5.25" floppy. The autoexec.bat on the floppy let you log into the network where it ran another batch file from your user directory there.

As an experiment I wrote a piece of batch script that would append itself to both the network and local batch files if it wasn't already there (i.e if it was on the disk it would copy itself into your network account and visa versa), put it on one random computer, then forgot about it for a few days.

By the time I got around to checking again it had propagated itself to every computer in the lab and presumably every network account that had logged in during that time.
I have always had a very good experience with python documentation.

While I generally do like the python documentation, I often find that it likes to explain exactly how and why a library works in detail. This is great if you want to really learn the library and often I miss this level of detail in for example JavaScript, but if you just quickly want to find the most obvious way to do the most common thing, it can be quite annoying.
I don't think blanket statements like this are true, and I don't think they're a healthy way to frame the debate. To take a non-trivial example, requiring cars to bear license plates - something almost everyone accepts, at least in the United States - has a lot of upsides like enforcement of traffic laws. Sure, perhaps traffic cameras aid totalitarian states in tracking the movements of citizens, but I think most people agree that license plates are a good societal tradeoff in terms of privacy.

This is a long way of saying that, even as a strong privacy advocate, it's worth noting that the tradeoff is real and the terms of debate ought to be over whether the tradeoff is a good one or not. In the case of encryption, this is a difficult question for us to answer because we're essentially asking how many crimes might have been prevented or might have gone unpunished had the perpetrators used encrypted communications. That being said, I think the security state would be hitting us over the head with these statistics if they could actually make a coherent case - the fact that Reid Blackman is instead making a fallacious comparison between encryption and the nuclear launch codes suggests that the figures don't add up.
say -v cellos "droid"

Pretty sure this is how they generated the sound that was used for those commercials once upon a time.
In this case at least the sample is good. 100k people with rheumatoid arthritis, who are likely taking HCQ for the rest of their lives.
It’s a spectrum between “spend 24/7 attached to a baby” and “ignore them all night”.

Everyone thinks that the position even 1% different from what they adopted is abhorrent.
Using government is an effective solution. It's slow, but it's a dedicated political campaign that overturned roe v wade.

Cryptography isnt a solution to this because wrench attacks will continue to exist
My office (near Toronto) was up for lease renewal about 1.5 years ago. Pre-pandemic about 50% of people were working from home at least some of the time, and by 2021 there were maybe 2-3 people in the office regularly (in a space that could easily have 45). The company was debating what to do but did want some physical space, and possibly would have just stayed considering the investment in build-out, networking (including at least a rack of internal servers and other infrastructure, with dedicated fibre to other company datacenters), video conference rooms, etc. What I heard was the building was trying to nearly double the rent, so this made a pretty easy decision and the place was closed. Servers were migrated to other locations, and everything else was shipped to other offices, given to employees, sold or scrapped.

Now it's 6 months later, and last time I drove by it still has our old sign up, and I can see online the entire space is still available to lease. Seems silly to risk it in the current market and take $0 instead of keep a quiet, established tenant.. but what do I know.
I'm in agreement with the conclusion but not sold by this explainer.

How do you sort jurisdiction, and how do you ensure Signal employees can't snoop are problems, but if I was intent on trying to find a solution to allow governmental snooping I would not just throw my hands up at them. It's not actually fundamentally impossible to make compromises here.

First, "how do you sort out jurisdiction?" isn't really a fundamental argument, it just sounds hard. And "Signal employees would necessarily be able to snoop" is plain wrong, a snoopable copy of each message could be encrypted such that it requires cooperation between parties to snoop: Signal itself plus sender's local and/or federal authority.

Sender's rough location or origin is compromised here, but Signal employees can't snoop.

You could also require multiple agencies with potential jurisdiction to cooperate in order to decrypt. If a federal agency claims jurisdiction they would need to convince both Signal and the local authority to unlock a message that the federal authority can then decrypt.

I have lots of concerns with such a scheme and I hate it a lot! But I think it I would not be at all convinced by this explainer if I felt we should strive for snoopabilty.
Its mentioned in the article. Human brain at birth is not as mature as compared to other animals. Most of the animals can start walking after birth.
I get the feeling he occasionally used it, but not intensely for a long time.

Modal editing isn't something that comes naturally. You have to train yourself to use it. I believe everyone can learn to do it as if it's natural.

I learned how to use vi/vim a long time ago, and if you put me in the same position now I probably wouldn't learn to use it. It was a lot of effort.
Having done it, I'm really glad I did, but it's hard to see how nice it is before you're put in the effort.

I also like dancing, and often a teacher will make you move in a way that doesn't feel natural. Months later, once you've got the hang of it, it makes total sense that that's the better way. It becomes natural. Driving with a stick shift didn't feel natural at first, now I miss the clutch when it's not there.

Sometimes the "unnatural" way is better. I'm guessing the same is true for the way chefs cut vegetables, or classical guitarists hold their guitar.

I won't fault anyone for not using vim, I understand it's a tradeoff and not everyone wants to put in the effort. And if you don't spend a lot of time editing text, it's not worth it.

Just to possibly annoy even more people: if you spend a lot of time on a keyboard, and you can't touch-type, I also feel you're missing out. (That wasn't natural for me at first either).
This was the idea that I kicked around for years before eventually writing a Scrabble engine in 2018. But by the time I got to the point where Monte Carlo simulation of the opponent's rack leave became feasible, I questioned the utility. Part of the problem is that if your opponent knows you incorporate such a simulation into the analysis, it's possible to subvert the analysis. And the most obvious counter is to not do the simulation. Another issue is that the advantage gained by opponent rack leave simulation is subtle, and it's costly to run enough games to measure the overall utility. I ended up instead putting my effort into controlling search depth termination with uncertainty estimation (spend more time on the portions of the tree that are more volatile).
You've been downvoted, but when your job turns into an Office app, time to move on.
You would be wrong. I suppose it's anecdata but a member of my family who works in pedatrics sees this regularly unfortunately. Usually it's these new-age parents that think co-sleeping is somehow beneficial. You fall into a deep enough sleep, it takes almost no time at all to seriously injure or kill your child.

Frankly, co-sleeping with a baby is irresponsibility of the highest form. It may have worked for the GP but for every one that it works, another 100 show up to my family member's office or to the morgue. There's no conspiracy in why part of the "how to handle a baby" guidelines they give new parents is "never, ever, EVER co-sleep". Its far safer to assume that the new parent is not in the less-risky population and will in fact eventually cause their child's death.
Back in the day travellers men/women/kids/strangers would all sleep in the same bed in the medieval western world. Things have changed.
You're talking about the dog not minding being in the crate since you've taught them its nice and cozy. In that case why does it have to be a crate, why not say, an indoor doghouse?

As far as that goes, there's nothing wrong with that and that's not the part that people actually have problems with (but it's a nice strawman to argue against).

The part that is cruel and abusive is locking them up when nobody is at home so they can't damage your possessions. If there is some emergency like a fire, intruder, something falling down, etc, they can't do anything about it.
> But full time remote is a disaster for junior engineers.

This is very handwavy.

As a principal engineer, I've worked with junior engineers that have adapted just fine and thrived, even as their first or second job out of college.

But for that to happen, the company's culture has to be willing and able to shift to remote-first and/or fully remote. The more senior people need to role model the way of how to do remote well in a way that counters its (few) disadvantages.

There is definitely a personal component too though. I've also worked with junior engineers that do not work well remotely. But I think that is more personality-based or perhaps maturity-based than seniority-based.
At the very least I hope they disallow things on take-off and landing: most safety issues happen during those phases of flight, and getting out of the aircraft quickly is very important.

It's important that everyone has some situational awareness should something happen.
Assess risk like a 4-star general
Other primates don't cry like humans, so maybe by the time human crying became common, humans were already established as dominant predators not to be fucked with. Human babies are never left alone so a crying baby probably signaled the presence of 5-10 adult humans or more. Not exactly an easy meal.
> People need to stop voting on emotion, and vote with logic and ethics.

There is no purely logical reason to vote at all that isn't fundamentally rooted in emotion. This is typically a desire for something to change in one way, a fear that it will change in another, or anger or indignation that it has already changed in some detrimental way.

Indeed, your own argument is based on the fear of dictators, the looming threat freedom being taken away.

Ethics too is rooted in emotion. When we look at something we consider unethical, something unjust perhaps, we feel anger and indignation. If we perceive such an event is about to happen, we feel fear. If we perceive it has been averted, we feel happiness.
> and speaking with authority that you don’t have.

All of us have (had) parents, the majority of us have been raised by parents, and that includes the childless people. And even the people who weren't fortunate enough to be raised by one or two parents are entitled to talk about parenting, I'd say that they're even more entitled to talk about it.
So as with the topic at hand you assume a certain outcome even in discussions you try to derail with low effort jibs, got it.
This is because businesspeople like to fiddle with formulas, graphs, and filters untill they isolate (i.e. cherry-pick) the subset of data that [makes them look good | supports their agendas]. They don't want canned reports. Excel makes this easy because they already know how to do those things in Excel.
I dunno, but it doesn't really seem like Privacy or Competition is the right angle for this, they're luxuries after all, and it's not really relevant for those political maneuverings. Security is more important. The right actors could hack the entire financial system and more with these kinds of vulnerabilities, with targeted sim swaps. Take for example, the currently unfolding Twitter hack that puts 400m Twitter users' phone numbers up for grabs - including every big fish there is.

Call yourself an anonymous Russian hacker and that might get their attention.
It's not a bad thing, just like it's not bad for a baby to want to be spoon-fed. But part of growing up is learning new skills, like eating by themselves and soothing themselves to sleep. And a big part of parenting is figuring out the right times and ways to encourage this.

You know what has been a far more traumatic growing experience for every kid I've known than learning to sleep independently? Learning to use a toilet. Way more tears, way more "emotional trauma", but it's all part of growing up.

> I swear our brains are looking for adversaries in infants now.

Also, sleep training is not some new-agey thing that we've just concocted out of a recent adversarial parenting trend; if anything it's exactly the opposite, it is the focus on "attachment" and concern over the impact of things like sleep training that is the newer trend.
Many ebooks are surprisingly expensive these days, often costing more than the paper copy, at least on Amazon. Since I'm a Kindle owner, that's where I buy ebooks...and later strip DRM so I can actually own what I've purchased.
Sounds like a job for ChatSTB
Bees like to roll little wooden balls as a form of play
Well the more you learn, thanks.

Actually makes it even more interesting, Wunderlich and his reaming to get some Reaumurs.

What were his actual measurements taken in and how accurate was his thermometer? And who's vaginas has it been in?

Curious I get flagged for pointing out the potential measurement inaccuracies and the errs of scientific reproducibility, all while having some humor.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2014/08/12/study-you-have...

> the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy

What Signal is doing is infinitely more effective than voting for this year's media-approved career politician.
Haha of course someone on HN would use 31 at PAO as their example :).
Two food banks in the NYC area. I’d like to volunteer when my schedule clears a bit as well.
Maybe the pay you wanted? 'Need' makes it sound like you're living paycheck to paycheck in poverty.