skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most economic models of equilibrium explicitly state that they model outcomes “in the long run” for precisely this type of a circumstance.

Should a firm with a history of these types of problems lose out to competition organically? Sure, but there is no binary “losing out tot he competition” switch that just gets flipped one day.

This is part of the reason why I get so frustrated with the laissez faire mindset/meme.
> They don’t spy on their own citizens

They sure do; whatever gave you the impression they don’t?
> dpkg runs arbitrary package scripts as root, so you still put trust in whoever signed the package.

This is correct, but in those cases the maintainer is likely a much more trusted individual where more eyes are on the script as the hierarchy of maintainers sign off on things until the point it makes it into a readily accessible repository by end-users.

> Your distro's overworked unpaid maintainer LGTMs packages with a glance, and won't review millions lines of code for backdoors.

The same argument could be made about the Linux kernel itself, yet the system is surprisingly robust and examples of abuse are few and far between.
We can't have nice things because of massive fraud. There is always tension between ease of receiving services and those looking to exploit the benefit.

We can and should do better, but it cannot be perfect.
> Lastpass has failed their fiduciary duty

I get where you're coming from, and ultimately agree. But I doubt anyone at LastPass on the business side agrees - to them this is just another PR snafu. The business continues to chug along regardless of how many catastrophic breaches they go through. I think they see these numerous issues as a cost of doing business vs. having a critical broken product offering.

Again I agree, but, I doubt they're going to change their ways this late in the game.
It's magic as long as you don't look behind the curtain!
Parody becomes reality?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGex0kLgNok
To add to what you wrote: the system is also dynamic. How it works (or doesn't) today impacts how it'll look tomorrow. Interventions can be made, and they may initially improve things, and then the world at large adjusts to balance them out. It needs continuous tuning.

Conversations like this are part of it too, though I admit it's frustrating to see the same problems being highlighted over and over again, for decade or more, with no improvement in sight.
“Edit out swipes” is a part of HN guidelines. I removed the post because clearly moderation found it fulminating, I agree it was

Perhaps it's unclear but the guideline there is about taking that stuff out before you post. The whole set of subsequent problems just goes away entirely if you do that which should be straightforward given there's agreement on the root cause - the posting of yelly comments.
Airbnb must be a hotbed for these sort of things. I had a friend in the 90s who would squat at unfinished or unoccupied homes while he ran fraud scams, renting an Airbnb seems much easier, since these scammers almost certainly rented it with a stolen identity.
Former PR & Ad agency owner here. Better to release on Thursday if you care about external impact. Better to release on Friday if you are concerned with internal impact.

Something many in business don't understand is Friday is the start of the weekend news cycle. If whatever bed news happens is released on Friday, and it is juicy, it will end up kicking around on weekend news shows, Sunday talk shows, Sunday print newspapers (which still matter in some large markets), and as a bonus, will cycle into the next week's news via follow ups. The reason to release on Friday is simple: you have the weekend to communicate with your key managers and do internal damage control (even if that is just keeping the team productive). For some CEOs, you turn off the phone, and go hit the Yacht for the weekend and hide. If you release bad news on Thursday, you'll potentially have less coverage, but have to be very adroit with your internal communication with employees. For CEOs that can't handle bad news, Thursday releases are really bad...
CD-Rs always smelled vaguely like celery to me, I wonder if this has something to do with it?
I flew out of Denver after several delays/cancels and not only was the baggage area full of bags, the outside gate area was absolutely flooded with bags COVERED in snow. Which means they have been there for days. I'm talking dozens and dozens of haulers loaded to the brim with bags covered in snow. The baggage area was wall to wall bags.

Additionally I was told (by a crew member) Southwest refused to meet wage demands with ramp / fuel crews so they all quit. Apparently they sent them an email basically saying a recession is coming so be thankful you have a job... Meanwhile all other jobs pay more in the area. Anecdote I know, but we did have to wait 2.5 hours for fuel on my flight.
For me, if I've resorted to phone customer service, it means I've already exhausted their FAQs and self service options. As a result it really aggravates me when you play pre-recorded messages reminding that I can return faulty goods within 14 days and have I looked at their FAQs, sales, etc. There's usually not options in the phone tree for things like "You've billed me twice for one dishwasher", as in my latest call.

Add to that legally mandated things that companies don't want to do, like replace the pair of headphones where one of the cups stopped playing sound after 7 months. The phone tree will announce their 14 day policy and then suggest contacting the manufacturer otherwise, but there's nowhere to indicate the "You're legally required to replace or refund this so either replace or refund it or I'll see you in small claims". Which I suspect works out for the company, some number of people will give up or not realise small claims is an option or there is a legal obligation on the seller in my country.
wasn't there a language created/designed specifically to be an international replacement, but was universally laughed at as a response?
Probably crippling for them. The scale of materials they use must be astronomical and their retail business has thin margins.
there's also neovim extensions for vscode which uses neovim as the "server" so to speak that does vim things and then updates your vscode. in practice it works very well... especially the more recent updates to it. just have to have a neovim binary installed somewhere and point the extension to it.
> You're correct that some of the scams yield hundreds of thousands of dollars. Like I said, I knew someone to whom that happened. However, most scammers look for smaller payouts in quantity. Think of ransomware that make it look like your computer is full of viruses just so they can "sell" the uninstaller for a few hundred bucks.

Those are the exact scammers who will get you to install teamviewer/anydesk and use it to empty your bank account, with the $100 charge just working as a distraction. You can find videos showing how these scams work on youtube.

Of course lots of people won't have $100k or even $10k in their bank account, the scammers will just send those people out to buy gift cards or similar instead of wasting their drop accounts.

Even if only one in 1000 calls returns $100k, they're still averaging $100 per call.
I don't think that's the case. It must means you need to lower your retirement expectations.
I received a notification that my flight had been cancelled from North Carolina to New York at 12am for a 12pm flight today. My “software incident” senses started tingling and I immediately redeemed credit and rented a car instead (currently on the road). So happy I did that.
It is very dishonest to frame it as the suggestion that "your family members should get a lethal injection like the USA gives to criminals", as it strongly implies a lack of agency and consent on their part.

What's happening here, to put it in the same terms, is that "your family members should be allowed to choose to be administered a lethal injection, like the ones that are given to criminals in the USA, as a medical procedure, if and only if a doctor determines that this is a reasonable way to put an end to their physical or mental suffering".

Turns out it's not really that shocking and horrifying unless you choose to be dishonest about it.
Can't reuse a previous password is a great signal of what your password actually is.

There are a lot of sites with dumb rules like can't be more than 8 characters (old WSDOT toll rule) or can't have symbols... So it doesn't always work.
Even if you're certain America today and into the indeterminate future has no leverage over your country, can't subvert your elections, bribe or blackmail your politicians, threaten sanctions or worse, then you still have to worry about American spies simply stealing that data.

Such private data should never be collected in the first place. You may as well stack up gold bars in your home, in plain view of street-level windows. Such concentrations of data/wealth are asking for trouble. Get rid of it now and you won't have to worry about keeping it secure in the future, no matter what world events may unfold.
ok gpt
Their mandate doesnt allow it

https://www.aclu.org/other/nsa-spying-americans-illegal
As a fun side thing, I am also a travel agent with access to some of these internal systems on the booking side. The technology is incredibly antiquated. Most of the US runs on a system called SABRE, which is basically a MS-DOS system with a text command line interface and its own language. It's all ASCII text based (and all in uppercase). It's straight out of the 80s. Travel agents need to buy special "errors" insurance to cover any losses caused by fucking it up (a typo could accidentally cancel a ticket and cause the client thousands in losses rebooking it).
> What is Germany getting in return for having Nordstream 2 blown up by the US/allies?

Nothing, because that didn’t happen. (Most likely, Russia blew up the not-being-used pipe as a capacity demonstration aimed at Baltic Pipe, to raise the perceived cost by government decisionmakers of continuing support for Ukraine; they probably also juice the propaganda about the US being behind it, to promote internal strife in the West between the people that can be influenced by that propaganda and their governments.)

> Besides 10x energy prices and its industrial economic base set back 10 years.

Since NS2 wasn’t being used, that didn’t happen as a result of it being destroyed, either.
Customer reviews will be the family and government agencies as often as not. “Congrats on getting arrested for the fifth time - you can go through rehab again or you can get a voucher for Bob’s Pod private MAID service. This also includes dinner and a night in a hotel chain of your choice.”
> No matter what the system is, you're going to have some amount of both "false positive" and "false negative" outcomes from it.

And don't forget the feedback loop when people see the bad outcomes and demand there should be a law...
This reminds me of a dialogue in the movie "The Social Network" where Mark Zuckerberg decides to reduce Eduardo Saverin's Facebook equity from 30% to 0.3% using some loophole. Mark Zuckerberg tells the lawyer who is tasked with pulling this off "Make it less painful". If that actually happened, then this strategy of making bad news "less painful" could be a possibility too.
It’s impossible that it was the US that blew Nordstream, because it would have made the European allies very upset, and there is NO WAY the US wanted to make them upset.
Fireside Chat with AMD CEO Lisa Su [video]
Lots of telcos are doing exactly this, doesn't really work very well. The spammers just switch to more generic messages you can't realistically filter out.
If I retire at 55, I'm more likely to be dead at 85 than broke.

That should cheer you up!

https://engaging-data.com/will-money-last-retire-early/
The Unbearable Loneliness of Being Right on the Internet (2017)
My carrier literally bugs me about giving away more and more personal info for 5 bucks every 2 months. They must have heard of the same research. They also ask for consent to receive "advice" and term it "our gift to you". I wonder how many people must fall for it.
Which of them understand what gn and cgn are supposed to do?
You joke, but being able to swap any pilot to any plane is part of the reason their fleet is 100% 737s.
Taken in isolation they might have a ton of entropy, just not taken across leaked password databases.
Doesn't seem so bad. 4% rule + social security. And you'll pay very low tax rates. Really depends on your standard of living and expectations. (The first guy in the article built a $1.4 million house...)

If you've managed to pay down your mortgage by the time you've retired, I see no problem to stress on a $1m nest egg. The most important part of senior planning in my opinion is buying a LTC insurance plan ahead of time. I've seen people run down huge retirement accounts paying $6000 a month for those places.
> Ok, but why are biological neurons exempted from this argument?

Right. That's the "humans are magic" argument. It's a rehash of the "first cause" argument from theology for the existence of a creator. ("But who created God?" "Shut up, kid.")

It's pretty clear now that AI via correlation can do a lot, but it has limits. Deep neural nets seem to have a generic problem of getting the right answer most of the time, getting a really wrong answer some of the time, and not being able to detect the difference. We're still missing something.

What we're missing, I point out occasionally, is "common sense", defined as getting through the next 30 seconds of life without making a big mistake. We need to get to at least the mouse/squirrel level in that area, and we're not close. There was an article on HN a few days ago about someone having discovered the neural basis of panic flight escape route planning in mice. That's an important result. It's an indication that there's common sense hardware in mammal brains, and the beginning of understanding how it works.

This is a problem which is both very hard and not too rewarding, either financially or academically. Some years ago, I met Rod Brooks, back when he'd done his insect robots and was proposing Cog, a jump to human level AI which involved a human-like robot head. I asked him, why try to jump to human-level AI in one step? A robot mouse might be within reach. He said, "Because I don't want to go down in history as the man who created the world's best robot mouse." Cog was a failure, and he went down in history as the man who created the robot vacuum cleaner.

It's one of those thankless enterprises like OpenWorm, which is trying to get a simulation of the simplest known organism with a nervous system, a nematode with 959 cells. After over 20 years, it still doesn't work very well. Yet someone has to do that kind of ground work.
It just marks all of their posts dead. If you have showdead:on set then you can see them, and choose to vouch for individual posts if they add value to the conversation.
The problem with a totally separate government having your data, is that they are not bound by your government's laws. What prevents a foreign government from selling your data to private entities, which then resell these data to criminals? Or, a more likely scenario, said foreign government isn't as careful about vetting who has access to that kind of data (because they don't have the GDPR there), leading to criminals from your own country getting access to it?

That is: even if you never plan to visit the remote country in question, the data can come back to your country (or a third country you might want to visit). And it might not even get there intact: what happens if your fingerprints get mislabeled as someone else's?
I've heard the suggestion that copyright could be extended after 5 years by paying a dollar to renew, after 6 years by paying 2 dollars, 7 years by paying 4, 8 with 8, etc.

If your copyright is so immensly valuable that it's worth paying to renew it, that's fine. The longer you keep something in copyright, the larger your harm to society becomes due to preventing legal fan works and derivatives from being made. The fee to renew would reflect that.
"When she was in her mid 50s, Connie Gores got a wake-up call from a financial adviser.
At the time, Ms. Gores had saved about $250,000. The adviser told her that unless she started saving more, she would likely have to live on Social Security alone when she retired.
The conversation shook her into action. By the time she did retire as a university president, she was socking away about 26% of her roughly $250,000 salary."
She had 15 years of saving 26% of $250k to only have $250k??? Yikes. Should have been able to save more, that is insane, because the numbers don't match up.
I’m still using it monthly. Still works fine for my small needs.
Isn't that an inaccurate simplification? A lot of harvested wood is not from tree plantations but from old(ish) growth forests. It also takes decades to regrow trees so the carbon capture is taking place over an extremely long time compared to the near instant release from burning the wood. Add to that the emissions from harvesting the trees using heavy equipment, transporting them, and processing them into pellets. Burning wood is also pretty inefficient when it comes to energy or heat production and it releases a lot of particulate matter. Of all the renewable options it's obviously the worst.
In the US the "right wing" is not a monolith, in fact is more from an ideological stand point the right today is more diverse in political opinions than the left, as the left has cast out many of their more moderate members (i.e the Blue Dogs)

Conservatives do not really hold you own your body, conservatives tend to believe in various types of religion which puts your body subservient to a higher power or god. Thus is immoral to kill yourself. It is not a property rights argument, it is an ethical argument.,

then you have the libertarian right, which do use property rights and self ownership and many support assisted suicided, the ones that do not oppose governmental assisted largely because what is being perceived to be playing out out in real time (rightly or not) from Canada whereby the state has an incentive to direct people to suicided and maybe even force / Coerce them to "voluntary" dying either as a goal of the program, or just agents of the state abusing their positions. In either case state level suicided is seen as huge opening for abuse where even if you think people have the right to end their own life, trusting government with that power is not something they want to support.
This is a place with significant cultural differences.

I can't imagine my parents wanting me to be locked out, and I can't imagine wanting my children to be locked out. Things like personal correspondence usually stop being private once someone is deceased, and indeed, are one of the few ways to get you know your ancestors.

I'm not American by birth, but I've lived in America long enough to understand both values. I don't think either way is better, but this strong emphasis on privacy (with family) is a very Western phenomenon. In most places, families have far fewer internal secrets.

What's especially odd is how much more Google and other corporations are allowed to know about Americans than families. For me, it's backwards.
In a naive population covid is far deadlier than the flu, let alone the common cold. During a Delta wave in NSW, Australia case hospitalisation rate peaked at 14%.

And at least in Australia the vast majority of cases of covid happened after people where vaccinated, so on a personal experience level that's why most didn't have a severe sickness from it.
Four months after being blasted on HN: does anyone like electron 1Password?
When the post-private-equity 1password decided to go electron (and delete criticism of this decision) four months ago there was a lot of criticism expressed on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32600677 ).

I also hate the electron experience and have only one such app on my machine at the moment. So unsurprisingly I have avoided their banners telling me to upgrade.

Has anyone made the jump, in particular critics of the move? How has it been?
2122 for Homomorphic Encryption?? I'm working on it right now! I hope it's ready in the next ten years.
> Indeed it's rather remarkable how many of these figures like Vannevar Bush, Alan Kay, Douglas Engelbart, etc., never actually shipped much. Now, you could argue that they were ahead of their time and couldn't ship, and for some of these people you would be right.

No, I'd argue, they were able to ship. To a surprising degree, given what they had at the time. Perhaps you know who they are and what their influences are, but I don't think you've looked at their work in depth if that's what you came away with.

Alan Kay et al shipped Smalltalk and the Alto machines at a time when personal computers weren't even a thing. That means inventing all the hardware and the software concepts.

Engelbart et al. Shipped all the modern ideas of computing that you take for granted today--networking, mouse, bitmap displays. In 1963, six years before people landed on the moon.

"We had to make our own computer display. You couldn’t buy them. I think it cost us $90,000 in 1963 money. We just had to build it from scratch. The display driver was a hunk of electronics 3 feet by 4 feet."

> But c'mon now, Alan Kay is still kicking, and still talking about how programming should be reinvented. Douglas Engelbart lived into the 2010's. It's more that these fantastical futuristic ideas, if they were released, would probably not live up to their sales pitches.

I have a more generous take on this. They talk about these things still, because deep ideas are hard to convey. We've copied some of the surface ideas, but we still are missing some things. I thought I knew what OOP was from my experience with C++, Java, Objective C, and Ruby, but it wasn't until I looked at Smalltalk that I saw the ideas were actually quite different.

All this to say that, we agree they're visionaries, but I disagree that they didn't ship. They did indeed ship, at a time when they had to invent the tools and concepts to build what they built.
He specifically said Crimea needs to be ceded to Russia.
All your coworkers go to a chiropractor.
I'm not completely sure, but I don't think that's true for plastic bottles. Maybe it's the best approach because it's simpler and people can adhere to it, but I think if you could get people to follow the rules, recycling bottles and throwing away thin plastic would be better.
Are there any folks here to whom it is starting to dawn what is really going on here; a transatlantic prison planet where you can do nothing without your prison wardens, formerly known as politicians, bureaucrats, and generally awful people knowing more about you than you do and being able to terrorize and torment you if you oppose or inconvenience them?
That's pretty cool and ideal practice for a software firm but in one of the reddit threads they're talking about mass quits/refusal to work of ground crew at Denver because of the weather. I wonder how you could ever prepare for that? Keep a backup, airport scoped, ground crew in the waiting room??

You can't really do hot spares for people without time to gear/train up and the weather event is so widespread I doubt there's enough spare SWA human capacity across the whole nation even if you had C130s on standby everywhere ready to take workers where they're needed most. From a national security perspective, situations like this is why the Marines exist right? Ensure a rapid response while the rest of the machine gets moving. I feel bad for everyone involved, those affected and those trying to figure out a solution.