skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New laws.

What gives you the right to decide that corporations are free to use my personal information for whatever they please?
Yeah, well Geese don't look like crabs designed by satan.
The moment I get my monthly cheddar, I'm moving to a nicer place with lower cost of living.

The USA has more housing than people. Alas, that excess supply isn't near the jobs.
Wells Fargo: There were nearly 70 percent more potentially fake accounts opened
Why? Was one of the Angelfire names used on the NPM usage examples?
Thanks for writing this. It sounds like something I would like to learn. I'm not calculating parallel resistances much these days but I'm a sucker for efficiency, even if it's just a few keystrokes on a calculator.
top management gives unrealistic targets

clerks respond with mischief

top management turns a blind eye

words get out

top management punish clerks

what a shame
Xprivacy?/
That's the funny thing to me, that people are using Netflix as an example. To me, Netflix ratings are just about the most useless ratings of all the ratings I'm aware of, maybe even more so than Amazon's ratings.

There's also things to consider, like time, that becomes relevant. Dichotomous ratings are known to be inferior statistically speaking, but they are faster, so there's a convenience angle. Tradeoffs.

These discussions always get frustrating to me because there's so much armchair ad hoc stuff that goes on when there's a huge scientific literature on this already.

People also don't seem to be aware of the assumptions they're making. About ratings being skewed, for example: for a lot of products, people probably do kind of want to know basically "is this meeting my needs?" and then everything is just a decrement away from that. Laundry detergent, for example, is something where I want it to clean my clothes well without damaging them. Why should that be normally distributed?

Also, there's a difference between ratings and how they're used. My guess is that 1-3 star rating variance is meaningful from an experiential point of view, but not from a purchasing point of view. That is, if you had the choice of a 3-star product or a 1-star product, I think people would prefer the 3-star product. When we say "1-3 stars don't matter" we don't actually mean that, we mean that they don't matter because it's below our threshold of what we'd be willing to spend money on.
> My question to HN is: do any languages that really emphasize pointers and iterators over arrays and indices have a non-cumbersome way of telling the compiler when no aliasing is expected?

Rust has this concept baked into the language: any mutable reference is statically guaranteed to not alias anything else that is accessible. Non-mutable references can alias each other, but I don't think there are any optimizations that could be inhibited by this.
China sends first ‘unhackable’ message to satellite
Fast food? Actually, literally feeding people? It's contributing a lot to the economy.
While it's easy to second guess the decisions that were made here, I have to agree that the solution obviously works fine. Since a physical connection to charge the battery pack was designed in, it seems a shame not to utilize the physical connection for data transfer. I personally have an allergy to using wireless when a physical connection is possible, so that's a bias I bring to the table.

I wonder if there's not an off-the-shelf connector that can be used to route power and USB signals which would fill the role. There's nothing saying the connector has to be small, the entire back and underside of the cartridge is available for the purpose. The original Polaroid film packs had two large pads on the bottom and the camera two long springs to connect with them to provide power from the pack to the camera. However, Polaroid didn't have to contend with ejecting the entire pack with every photo.

My bias says that using wifi adds complexity, but I can see that getting the physical connector right is also not as simple as it first appears.
Ask HN: Should i buy a padbot t1 for my grandma?
Hello, recently i lost my grandpa and it is still an extremely difficult thing to deal with, especially because i'm far away from home.

I'm considering to buy a padbot t1 (which is ~200eu + a smartphone + shipping out of US) for my grandma. It says it has automatic answer so that she does not have to touch any button.

Other bots are from 1k to 10k euro and my monthly salary is 1k only. For this padbot t1, it would cost around 500 total and it is still a big deal to me.

So I would like to ask if anyone has experience with this situation? Is this bot durable?

Thank you,

Here is the padbot t1: https://www.telepresencerobots.com/robots/padbot-t1
Not necessarily. I wouldn't be surprised if this model meant leaving capital gains taxes low and making the middle class pay for it. If that's the case, then politicians wouldn't have much of an issue with it since it doesn't really harm their donors. In fact, I'm sure there are a lot of companies that would be excited about all that new consumer spending.
Have you by any chance really looked at mathematical notation recently?
Thanks for the tip, just made a 'Show HN' post.
I avoid them like I avoid a wildfire. Have done for nearly 5 years after I came to terms with the scale of the data collection they were performing.
Lol! You would not be successful as a scientist with this attitude.

A type system is a proof. But the proof in the type system is not a proof that it’s better to use a type system than not. That’s an entirely separate question.

I think that type systems are good at some things. Concurrency isn’t one of them.
[New York Times] It’s a Myth That Corporate Tax Cuts Mean More Jobs
probably most want the IPO, including, and maybe especially, employees. Shares in a public company are much more liquid.

Love or hate Benchmark, they bet on them and now they want to cash out. An IPO might make their stake worth 2X so can't blame them for advancing their interests. If someone offered then an out at $100B valuation they'd sell, I'm sure.

Personally I think that as a public company they will be under more scrutiny and cannot do "startup" things...like breaking taxi laws around the world.
From Wikipedia:

In the criminal procedure context, exigent circumstance means the following: An emergency situation requiring swift action to prevent imminent danger to life or serious damage to property, or to forestall the imminent escape of a suspect, or destruction of evidence.

Seems reasonable to me
I just read the summary, but it sounds like this is a set of tools you use after compromising a system. (It starts at modifying the MBR.) If that's the case it has as much to do with the security of the OS as it does with the physical security of the building where the computer is sitting.
Just waiting for somebody to start a campaign to get everybody to ship bees and scorpions to their favorite Congress critter.
I think that someone taught you the wrong definition of concurrency. I’m just trying to help you learn the right one.
ASP.NET Core 2.0 Authentication and Authorization System Demystified
People have studied this, and basic building blocks (amino acids) arise spontaneously when electric current is applied to chemical soups for example. Also when we look around today, we see the end prodcut of billions of years of evolution, we don't know what truly primitive life may have looked like in the first few millions years, life forms even more primitive than viruses, say.
It's actually worse than you made it out to be. In order to buy a dotgov domain, you not only need your management's approval (and since it's "representing the department to the public" that chain goes very high up) you also need to convince GSA (the registrar for dotgov) that you have a need for a new domain. It's not fun unless you're 18f under the Obama administration, and they don't count.
This is missing byteball under the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph (that iota branded as "tangle") non blockchain using cryptocurrencies.
High-Frequency Trading in 1,000 words
Possible way for the fed to save taxpayer money on domestic travel by utilizing the USPS:

"Small, Harmless, Cold–Blooded Animals"
They never see it that way. The ones doing it always have a solid propaganda / brainwashing framework to support these kind of actions. Heck they justify running a drone assassination program rationalizing exploiting some windows vulnerabilities is child's play for them.

"We are fighting the evils of terrorism" / "It's their fault for releasing software full of these holes" / "It's the target's fault for installing this OS" pretty easy to rationalize this stuff.

And I think you are implicitly asking them to think "one day this will leak and will damage the reputation of a major US company" and they probably are not allowed to think that way it's more down the line "we'll just keep it hidden and nobody will ever find out, we are the best at this and not like those other agencies whose stuff has been leaked"
A correction about file system compression on the Alpha AXP
> it removes anonymity from an attacker as it's hard to hide the source of a large ASIC farm

This has already been shown to be untrue, an anonymous pool has mined both bitcoin cash and the segwit bitcoin chains.
How can maximising earnings be basic human behaviour when 'earnings' have only existed for a few thousand years, a tiny fraction of the history of our species?
What were the feelings/emotions that caused you to persist the first time around?
Do you buy into the quantity theory of money?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity_theory_of_money

If so, then a fixed money supply is necessarily deflationary in an expanding economy.

Of course, by that same argument, the US should be experiencing massive inflation right now due to the actions of the government during the financial crisis which led to a tripling of the monetary base, and yet it never materialized...
You just called WebKit a twisted mess. I asked you for examples. Looks like you don’t have any.

Like I said, WebKit uses threads and it’s great. Maybe some day you will also learn to use threads.
Populist Nationalism Is “the First Step Toward Crony Capitalism”
I did my bachelors in economics, and one of our textbooks taught that all other things being equal (ceteris paribus), more wealth equalisation (taking from the richer and giving to the poorer) means less wealth creation in the long term. Why? Wealth will naturally concentrate in the hands of those more capable of creating it: if Jo is making 2% per annum return and Jane is making 4% per annum return, and they both start with the same amount, then Jane's share of the total wealth pool will continuously increase relative to Jo. The key thing to note is that as Jane's producing twice as much from her wealth as Jo, if we take resources from Jane to give to Jo then they'll be used less effectively, slowing overall growth.

To illustrate, imagine they both start with $1000 each. The total wealth pool is hence $2000, and they both have 50% each, perfect equality. Now, let's look 50 years in the future, assuming the previously mentioned interest rates per annum compounding annually. According tohttp://www.moneychimp.com/calculator/compound_interest_calcu..., Jo will have $2,691.59 and Jane will have $7,106.68. The total wealth pool is $9,798.27. Jo hence now has 27.47%, and Jane has 72.53%. They're both less equal, but they're also both wealthier, and the overall wealth pool has increased.

Now, let's look ahead another 50 years. If no wealth transfer occurs, Jane will have $50,504.92 and Jo will have $7,244.65, with the total wealth pool being $57,749.57. If we equalise wealth, however, such that both have $4,899.13, then in 50 years Jane will have $34,816.57 and Jo will have $13,186.44, for a total wealth pool of $48,003.01. This is 83.12% of the total wealth pool that there would be if no wealth transfer took place. This effect is applies similarly if wealth redistribution happens every year through redistribution of income.

In this sense there is hence a direct tradeoff between economic growth and wealth transfers from richer to poorer in the long term (all other things being equal).
Unrelated: What is with the MAGA types that started them using 'cuck' as a catch-all derogatory term? Do any of them realize it's a common sexual fetish which people knowingly and consensually engage in? It's not actually an insult, it's like saying "person who likes bondage".
So you'd move to one of those places with cheap housing and no jobs? Does that mean you'd not be working?

Of course the influx of people to low cost areas with no jobs would create some jobs in those places and raise prices on everything from housing to pizza.
In which Raymond retracts his claim that "Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down." Discussion of that article on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12846104
> More "legal" than "ok", I'd say.

Yeah - there has been legislation passed specifically to prohibit the creation of an electronic firearms registration scheme.

For the record, it hasn't done much good. The ATF can still usually trace a gun from manufacturer to the current owner in a matter of hours at most.
> there's a lot more they could have done on security, and didn't because it was expensive.

Well, yes, this is technically true. But it's technically true because there's an infinite amount of work you can do on security. Microsoft could have hired every person on the planet who's good at verifiable systems, or could be trained to be good at it, and rewritten the entirety of Windows as provably correct code (a la seL4), taking many years and lots of money. Microsoft could have hired every cryptographer or everyone who could be good at cryptography and developed digital signature algorithms that are far better than the current state of the art. (Remember that it's been proven that the US government, or someone with aligned political goals and roughly equivalent capabilities, used a previously-unknown attack on MD5 to spoof a Windows Update certificate to Iranian nuclear reactors, and it's not like newer hashes are impossible to collide, just harder.) No matter how much time and effort you spend on security, there's always more you can spend.

The engineering decision in security is how to spend enough money to outpace your attackers, but also successfully ship a product.

If your own government is becoming one of the attackers and therefore increasing the cost it takes to stay ahead of your best attacker, to the point where shipping a product becomes unprofitable, that's not a sign that you should have been there anyway, that's a sign that your government should get out of the business of being an attacker.
The Mere Presence of Your Smartphone Reduces Brain Power, Study Shows
> If all of those banks have refused you there has to be something seriously wrong with your credit report, I would get a free § 34 report from Schufa and Creditreform to check if everything is correct if I were you.

My credit report is perfect, and I’ve had no issues with that – but the problem is that I, as student, currently have zero income, and zero spending.

> Comdirect has a free Visa Debit card

Only in combination with the Girokonto, which is only provided if you have any monthly income. Same with Hanseatic. Check their AGB, or call them.

> Postbank has a Visa or MasterCard for 29€ yearly

Same story with this, I’m a customer at Postbank, have a Sparbuch in the 5 digits, but I can’t get a free Visa or MasterCard until I’ve > 670€/month income, and I won’t pay a single cent for a credit card.

> In your case the easiest solution would probably to order the British prepaid card from Revolut which is available for a one-time 8€ fee and I don't think they refuse anybody. Just note that they are not regulated as a bank but as electronic money so I wouldn't leave large sums of money for a long time on the card (but that's not something you want to do anyway).

I’ve had one with them, too, they closed the account because it wasn’t used often enough.
You asked for a source and he gave you one. Now rebut it, offer your own, or stop whining
For me Rmarkdown is such a win for R. Web deployment, especially the web servers to host shiny apps is a weak point for R (Linux specific, and really not many options even in the Linux arena). Then again, perhaps notebooks are a better way to handle online data exploration.
Because there's a fixed amount of it, but not a fixed amount of people, and not a fixed amount of demand for economic activity/transactions, which makes it deflationary.

It's not that it's explicitly shrinking itself. It's that it's shrinking relative to other factors because it has a fixed supply.
Your assumption is states are rational actors with respect to their own self interests. That's clearly a false assumption as politicians incentives don't align with the states long term welfare.
It works for me if the directory exists.
it was just a prank bro!
channels overlap widely. IIRC monitoring channels 1, 6 and 13 in cycle is enough.
Food banks exist already, why would UBI change that.
Why would it matter what a zoologist recommends? Do they have evidence to back up their recommendation or are they just guessing? That's all that matters.
Inflation isn't really tied directly to cash in the market and I doubt you'd see inflation soak up $1000 / month. The dollar would have to become basically worthless for that to happen.
> This is a sad but easily fixed vulnerability on the part of the FCC.

By law they need to share what you post publicly, including files. This 'vulnerability' has been around for decades.
> Doing that, however, might expose him to other legal troubles.

most likely why he wont decrypt them, if he does he might be facing a much bigger sentence. After talking to his lawyer they probably figured taking the punishment for not decrypting is a shorter term / fine.
"guaranteed GPL-compatible"

This is a common misunderstanding. There's much more free software out there than software under the GPL. "Only providing free software" does not mean "only providing software under the GPL or a GPL-compatible license". That would be ludicrous.

Guix does not provide proprietary software and I consider this a feature.
Agreed, also consider the importance of a large moon in our system, which cause massive tidal flooding, and churning geology for all these years. How important was periodic deposit of water based life on dry land for the eventual evolution of a technological civilization? One might suppose very important.

Thus one could posit that technological civilizations, requiring both a planet in the habitable zone of a star and also an appropriately large satellite companion, could be even less probable. It would be interesting to know how probable similar earth/moon systems are in the universe.
> All those other dynamic scripting languages? They're DOA because nobody's going to download the entire VM every time.

Hosted on a CDN in compact form, it'll be feasible; application can just link against it, it does not have to be recompiled on the user's machine.

> Very problematic because the toolchain relies on LLVM-like semantics which don't like good garbage collectors or functional programming in general.

That will indeed be a problem. The design restrictions imposed by the environment (continuous heap, emulated concurrency) will bite us in the ass hard. Instead of layering a lot of very leaky, performance killing "security" features over other half assed features, a better way would be to step back and use a tiny hypervisor. That way you have hardware accelerated memory safety, but it would require the application to be able to run in a microkernel; recent IncludeOS + ukvm has a boot time of 11 ms. (Great, now I want to write a plugin that embeds qemu in Chromium and uses a virtual device to communicate with the host.)
What would you do if you get a basic income of $2500 every month for 1 year
How you would plan each hour of that one year and each dollar?
Neither are trouser snakes but apparently other snakes are okay.
"the right to be forgotten"
This is already in EU data protection law where data needs to be forgotten after its relevancy and a cool down period, it considers and covers things like your example.

"purge the data from your backups"
Again you should already be doing this if you do business with the EU or you are breaking the law.

"Do you have the ability to retrieve everything you know about a specific user"
Again this is already in the EU data protection law you should already be able to do this or you have been breaking the law.

Im not a lawyer so take this all with a pinch of salt this is just stuff I need to know as an EU developer. Sure it might be slightly more work for US tech companies but I can't be arsed is not a valid reason to break the law. If you think it will cost to much then don't do it, there are plenty of EU companies that do.
Yea, I think ioctl is probably the most elegant solution. The fact that hardware has a wide-variation in properties, requests, etc. mean some part of the interface is going to be inelegant and case dependent. ioctl at least puts all that variation behind a single system call.
I think the issue is that the games tended towards Guide Dang It, as tvtropes.org puts it. You basically needed to scoop up everything you saw and try it in random, often nonsensical combinations (e.g. getting the Babel fish) -- all to extend the time spent playing. As a teenager it was easy to spend a pile of time on, but as an adult this bears entirely too much similarity to various unpleasant things, most of which actually advance you in your life (unlike playing a game that, I presume, you bested as a 14-year-old).
You get what you pay for. I haven't worked with it for a few years now but I found it to be quirky and unstable. But it was free, which was better than the $650 or so that you needed for FontLab, which was the main piece of software for font creation out tehre at the time, and it seemed to have a more features than I needed for what I was working on. Cross-platform was a nice feature as well.
Not saying this is true, however, I believe the fear of deflation on the "non-shrinking money supply" is that if the money supply doesn't expand beyond a certain point (e.g. bitcoin 21M limit), folks will horde the medium of exchange instead of spending it. With less demand for goods because no medium of exchange to purchase it, prices drop.

Caveat: this presupposes that Bitcoin will become a medium of exchange.
Right. That will be nice when it's done and stable (I'm looking at you, Safari), but for my tests today that doesn't really help me.
It's doubly interesting because seemingly all these people who pride themselves on not being cuckolds seem to need rescuing by a reality tv star with bad hair and small hands.

If that's not the definition of being "cucked" I'm not sure what is.
Integrate the remote USB access technology to the Cloud OS
Does UAC and signing belong to the same bucket though? UAC has always been on macOS 10 because of the bsd root/user separation. For me the main problem is that on windows (Vista at least) the UAC seemed to fire on benign operations while letting you do quite dangerous ones without flinching.
I'm a big fan of react-easy-state. Unfortunately its foundation of ES6 proxies precludes its use in Internet Explorer.
At first, given the headline, I thought this was some new investigative feature.