skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This only applies to apps which screw up validation of TLS certificates. There is an unfortunate amount of them, but certainly does not apply to all apps (and not an issue for websites).

Either way, this disclosed vulnerability only involves link layer man-in-the-middle in order to collect traffic. Active manipulation of traffic (Required for TLS intercept) is more complicated.
This sort of ideological rant is just what HN is not for, as the site guidelines explain: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Since we've warned you about this before and you didn't stop, I've banned this account.
This might be a good time to switch off main SSID and exclusively use Guest SSID which is a feature in many routers. At least it would help to isolate wired computers away from the common wifi network. One could then safely use weird computers for sensitive communication.

It might also be a good time to invest in NIC dongle manufacturers considering how many systems only ship with wifi.
Same experience with Overstock when I bought a table. Three months and several frustrations later, I got the table and they offered me a 10% discount on my next furniture order. Needless to say, I'll never shop there again.

However, when my wife bought a chair on Wayfair, we didn't have any issues. I'd definitely do it again. It all depends on who you buy from.
My gut sense is that the important time period is length of hold going forward, not length of past hold.

Maybe the vote strength should instead go with the period of lockup instead? That is, I agree to hold my shares for ten years, so I get ten votes.

Perhaps it could even be slightly nonlinear with respect to the length of time? (years * 1+log(years)) or similar?

Edit: LTSE reminds me of LTCM. Not a great connotation?
I didn't know that It-cannot-be-politically-motivated-because-I-disagree-with-the-victim was a justification in use outside the United States...

Care to suggest a motivation to murder this person that isn't political?
> I think devaluing democracy exhibits a profound devaluation of freedom.

Doesn't that depend on what you would have instead? You could have either a more concentrated power and a less concentrated power.
> Many hospitals do operate just fine with high numbers of Medicare patients

Excluding those which receive extra stipends for qualifying as DSHs or CAHs, no, most hospitals aren't operating "just fine" if they have a high number of Medicare patients. Unless you call overcharging private insurers and uninsured patients just to stay afloat "doing just fine".

> There is a fair amount of Hollywood according going on with what overhead is included in those costs. Medical groups for example often have profitable out patient facilities in the same area as s failing hospital.

There's no "Hollywood accounting". This is straightforward, textbook GAAP accounting that we're talking about. Medicare reimburses less than COGS. That's a well-documented fact - so well-documented, in fact, that you yourself linked to it with that article.

If Medicare reimburses less than COGS, there's no way for hospitals to subsist on Medicare reimbursement rates alone. You can try to tease the numbers any way you want, but that's exactly why GAAP exists - it gives a common framework for comparing these cases, and here the numbers are as clear as you can get.
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> Choose organic. Roundup and other chemical pesticides and fertilizers are banned for use in organic agriculture.

I've never considered the investment in organic produce to be worthwhile. But this is pretty compelling, maybe I'll change my mind.
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Breaking News: Murder of Crows Commit Murder. You won't believe why!
This rule comes from UX design user studies. However, the actual rule is that people perceive an event happening within 100ms as "instantaneous". Or, in other words, two events happening within 100ms of each other won't feel like distinct events. This doesn't mean that users won't notice the delay and it doesn't even mean users won't be frustrated by it, it's just a matter of human perception of distinct events in time.

Unfortunately, programmers/UX designers have a tendency to generalize this rule and use it to excuse slow user interfaces.
The story of the U.S. economy is that the cost of housing, healthcare, and higher ed have increased explosively, while the cost of other things have been stable or dropping.
Testing costs money. If software in general was tested to this degree, we would still be stuck in the CLI-only world of 30 years ago.
Or you know, we could get rid of cigarettes. Oh wait but what will happen to all the crow jobs?!
Perhaps you'd tie voting rights to a named human beneficial owner, so the prospective purchaser of your shell corporation wouldn't inherit them[1]

Though it might have the interesting side effect of fund managers who exercise their voting rights being better compensated and staying in their jobs longer...

[1]possible to devise some kind of unusual contractual arrangement where the "beneficial owner" retained formal title to the shares but accepted an obligation to both hand over stock yields and vote in the interests of the other party. But this is something you could effectively ban.
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I'm too lazy to build this myself but a similar system to encourage pet owners to dispose of pet waste at the park by exchanging dog poop for a treat.
I used a browser plugin similar to StayFocusd to block social media and news sites while working. This helped wean me off of checking Hacker News throughout the day. This helped me focus much more on work and on enjoying my personal time. In a similar vein, get off social media as much as possible especially Twitter. I'm also at the point where I would include TV and netflix in general in this category, where you should wean yourself off of it.

Something that may help is to use a paper notebook to take notes and keep track of important todo items. I personally feel more productive with pen and paper but your milage may vary. I particularly like either legal pads or the moleskin-type journals.

For those introverts like myself, make sure to set up events to look forward to on a regular basis. Meet up with ex-coworkers, college friends etc. It definitely makes getting up in the morning easier knowing that you have something to look forward to.
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I have a side project with products I'm wanting to sell, does that count?

I wanted some merch for Playerunknowns Battleground and I couldn't find anything decent, so I made them myself.

https://www.thelootables.com/
> Where are these numbers that go against common sense?

Example:

https://academic.oup.com/bjc/article-abstract/47/3/455/56602...

And even that is doing the silly thing and measuring "firearm suicides" instead of "suicides" which doesn't tell you if people who no longer have a gun have just jumped from a high floor of an apartment tower instead.

> Look at my bombs example, which shows the absurdity of that argument even to people who have grown up in a gun culture.

> If you care so much about freedom, why aren't you arguing that Walmart should be allowed to sell ready-made phone-triggered bombs to anybody who wants one?

Such things are already available. Construction companies use them to blast tunnels and things like that. It requires a permit, but that's more paperwork and fees than it is actual protection against malicious people buying explosives.

And building an IED is high school chemistry and you absolutely can buy 100% of the necessary components at Walmart. Ironically that is much more dangerous than using military-grade explosives which are explicitly designed to be stable. So rules that overly interfere with lawful procurement of explosives will tend to cause more accidents and fatalities when someone needs to get rid of a tree stump or something like that and decides to take matters into their own hands after being frustrated by the bureaucracy needed to do it lawfully.
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Back in college I did a paper on if this was ethical or not for my bioethics class, I warn people to really take a step back from the positive possibilities with something like this and understand that these are wild animals being trained to become slaves to benefit our human failings and appetites.

I would definitely draw a line between this kind of domestication and the domestication of animals by our ancestors for our own survival. This is trash created by humans, and the human responsible should be the asshole who picks it up. At that point, we're the ones that should be domesticated, not crows.
Download the LIGO data and reproduce analysis yourself
The solution there is the same as here. Point out how people are wrong, and if egregiously so, make it obvious that is the case. Replying "The article mentions this exact case and explains it" Is sufficient.
Lets compare to the same thing in NYC; 2.6B for some reason doesn't look out of line:

Port Authority unveils finalist proposals for Bus Terminal redesign
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The cost of these proposals range from $3.7 billion to a staggering $15.3 billion
https://ny.curbed.com/2016/9/22/13022514/port-authority-bus-...
True about Slumberland, Ashley, and other brick and mortar furniture stores too.
There are two "scan" rates: the rate at whitch keyboard matrix is scanned by whatever electronics is inside keyboard (that is probably independent of the outside interface) and the rate at which the interface is able to process input events, which for PS/2 means faster that the keyboard can produce them (as keyboard is essentially bus master on the AT/PS2 keyboard "bus") and for USB means as fast as the *HCI pools keyboard for interrupt events (old Apple's ADB works the same way and is in fact to some extent inspiration for USB <3.0 and Firewire "one big bus" high level model).

Edit: then there is third approach: simple keyboard/input devices with serial interfaces, where host provided clock is used to both clock the interface and keyboard scan logic. In essence the whole keyboard then looks like one big shift register. Keyboards that works this way includes original Macintosh, most Wyse and DEC terminals and MIT/LMI/Symbolics Lisp machines (and probably pre-sun4 Suns, sun4 and later have rs232-derived ionterface), also this is the way how controllers for Nintendo consoles before Wii work (IIRC Nintendo calls that "EXI bus") and how PlayStation 1/2 controllers work. IMHO this is to some extent where the idea behind SPI comes from.
He says that his first attempt at whale recognition looked at waves instead of whales, but

> This naive approach yielded a validation score of just ~5.8 (logloss, lower the better) which was barely better than a random guess.

which is different from the tank story. For the tanks, the neural network appeared to perform well, but was actually not looking at the tanks. Here, it never performed well, and when debugging why not he found that it was not looking at the whales.
If it doesn't have to be profitable and is provided by the government, then you're still paying for it through taxes. No thank you. I much prefer to give my money to a private entity that needs to actively compete for my dollars by keeping their service comparatively cheap and high quality.
Keep in mind that we may not be in possession of all the facts about what she was working on or whom she was in contact with. Usually, during the course of an investigation and before publication, a reporter will have made contact with and presented evidence to the target of the investigation. Even if she weren't actually working on an investigation, her murderers may have perceived her to be an ongoing danger.

Yes, it's possible that she was just a random victim. Reminds me of the subplot in "The Wire" in which an politically important homicide victim is found later to have died of an accident. But I'm guessing random accidental shootings happen more in Baltimore than planted car bombs in Malta.
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The readme explains what this is, but the question I want answered is: why?
I don't think it is just your users vs. all other users. Why are other vendors not patching as quickly?

In this case, it was not a short time.
You think people would go on Twitter and sling mud based upon nothing? Cause I do.

Outsiders with a bias peddling FUD are truly the best sources.
The crows aren't punished for not exhibiting this behavior. Positive reinforcement training is distinctively different than negative reinforcement training. Slavery is the latter
Because of rent control, the _vast_ majority of renters are effectively immunized from increases in housing costs.

The number of yearly evictions attributable to tear-downs or move-ins is miniscule. When you hear that evictions have "doubled", the absolute numbers are still in the single or double digits, in a city of over 800,000 people. And most of those are otherwise legitimate reasons, like failure to pay rent. The city has something like 20,000+ "homeless", most of whom are housed and only homeless in a legal sense, for purposes of state and federal aid. Development isn't causing the homeless problem... no way, no how.[1] At most it makes it more costly to address the problem, because it increases the cost of government funded housing projects; but it doesn't appreciably contribute to the growth.

And don't forget, people are free to move _out_ of the area. I grew up in trailer parks for much of my childhood. For the amount of subsidies people are afforded in California, compared to living on the streets you could live an infinitely better life outside the city in a trailer park--much nicer than the trailers I grew up in rural Florida and Alabama. So a large part of the problem is mobility and a willingness to move. That implicates complex social and psychological issues, but it diminishes the culpability and relevance of housing prices.

I support rent control wholeheartedly, but too many supposedly "progressive" people in this town have a penchant for looking a gift horse in the mouth. Nowhere in the country do tenants enjoy such incredible benefits. Newcomers look at the insane rents and just assume it creates homelessness, but things look completely different on the other side of 10 or 20 years.

[1] A recent study purported to show that a majority of street homeless were evicted tenants. But they did this by asking tenants whether whether they had previously rented in the city. Somebody who moves here, rents a place for 2 months before being evicted for failure to pay, would count, even though they were for all intents and purposes they were immigrants. And of course it assumes they're telling the whole truth--such as not conflating sleeping on somebody's couch with being a renter. The lack of detail and substance in that survey was very conspicuous, especially the fact that it would be nearly impossible to square with eviction board statistics.
Interesting, I knew their economy had picked up a bit what I wasn't aware of the extent, thanks for the link.
We can still call it "Hero's Quest" right? Sierra might've lost a trademark battle but IIRC the original was published and released as such and most of us only know the sequels by the new name.
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I added a HUSL (previous name of HSLuv) option to my color-changing clock a while back

http://lumma.org/code/js/colortime

You can think of it as a constant-brightness version of the HSV option. AFAIK it's the only one of these clocks with HSLuv, and the only one that matches the color gamut to a unit of time, so you know where you are in the hour (or day) at a glance.
Yeah... the callousness of smokers and their littering is unacceptable. I understand that throwing your cigarette in the trash can be a fire hazard sometimes, but put the cigarette out and throw it out. Some smokers just seem to love flicking that still-burning cigarette into the road like it's no big deal.
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I was initially skeptical about it needing a cryptocurrency but the idea of needing to stake predictions to prevent anonymous data scientists from submitting thousands of predictions to game the tournament is really interesting.

I also really like the idea of the fund crowdsourcing many predictions with the obvious but unsaid endgame being the meta-model much like how the random forest algorithm ensambles many weak predictors into a strong predictor that's far more accurate than any single weak predictor.

Interested to see where this is in a couple of years...
What about those coming from Marin on GGT or those coming from the Oakland hills, where it's easier to get on Hwy 24 than it is to drive through residential traffic to a BART station?
Why not also start enforcing littering fines? A $270-$500 ticket should be help to incentivize a behavior change.
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At least those apps try to dress up the endorphin dispensary. This app is literally communal masturbation.
Many people mentioned that the Estonian ID card is vulnerable. I have an e-residency card, so I tried it out on https://keychest.net/roca

If I use "pkcs15-tool --read-ssh-key 1" to read out the public key, (in the "ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nza....." format), then I get a vulnerable key warning (2048bit SSH key).

On the other hand, if I use "pkcs15-tool --read-ssh-key 1 --rfc4716" to output in "---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----...." format, then it shows different key tests and tells me it's "safe key".

Is this a weakness of the test, or is there really some difference between the "regular" and the "RFC4716 formatted key (I wouldn't expect that)? What am I missing?

EDIT: using the standalone "roca-detect" (note, Python2 is required), then the first format reports potential vulnerability, while running it on the second format results in "Exception in processing PGP rec file estonia1.asc: Incorrect padding". So I guess it is indeed that the tool does not handle RFC4716 formatted SSH keys correctly?
Yes, n-key rollover sometimes comes up. In practice, I've only had it become an issue in the wild either when more than one player is sharing the keyboard or, in some rare games, primarily simulators, where you might need to hold multiple keys.
Currently, yes. The scare that caused this post was handled by a back burn from the fire department before it got into too heavily of a populated area.[1] We're fairly safe as of this time, and most the fires area dealt with, thankfully. Thanks for checking in!

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15455577
I think "Tinder for kids" is a really good break down of what this is. As someone else stated, they are going to be desperately awaiting the next compliment's arrival. Just like a lonely person on Tinder desperately swipes hoping for a match. Good eye!
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I moved from typical `build.sh` files to a small Go program that does more than just building. It also manages connected services as Docker containers, database imports and so on.
For vendoring I moved all my projects to dep.
LOL I had this same exact idea once but with pigeons... I can't wait to show my wife/stupid-idea-confidant this. I love it
I disagree with most of this. Democracy is merely a form of government. People can be free and not democratically governed.

Yes a functional society must have laws but say you have two societies with the same set of laws, one generated by dictatorial benevolent AI overlords and one generated by democracy. Are the people in the AI-governed society less free, even when subject to the same rules and restrictions?

I think no, they're not less free. That would mean that democracy is important to freedom only if it's the only way to generate that set of rules and I don't think it is. The right dictator can come up with the same rules as a democratic government.
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"the most ergonomic keyboards are those that require the least amount of repetitive motion"

Not sure I can agree with that. I was using one of the Apple keyboards for quite a long time while running liveops on an online game (which meant rapid response whenever incidents happened, jumping into shells and constantly typing like my life depended on it), and developed fairly severe wrist problems within a couple months. To the point where I almost had to leave the job on disability, per my doctor's orders.

On the recommendation of a friend, before taking that step I tried switching to a Kinesis Advantage for the better wrist alignment and less "hard" keystroke bottom as compared to the chiclets on the Apple keyboard. It was a bit of a learning curve (~2 weeks to get up to full typing speed when using it every day, a couple more to push past it), but at the end of it my wrists got better almost instantly, and I never had problems again. My typing speed went up as well.

I'm not sure how much of that improvement is due to the better alignment of keys (there's almost no hand movement when typing, and your wrists are always neutral) and how much is due to the bigger key action and softer bottom, to be fair.

Edit: it's worth mentioning that I'm also a boxer and a piano player, so my wrists take a lot of abuse on a regular basis. YMMV and if you're not having problems, I definitely found the Apple keyboards to be very easy and fast to use.
I have done this myself several times. That comment is accurate, but it's referring to the general case, post key generation.
Do you really press every possible key down almost to the switch point, and then when you want to actuate the key, press it a tiny bit further?

I would guess (and maybe I'm wrong about this) that you rest your fingers on the keycaps, and press them in as far as needed to actuate, but no further. The key still needs to travel.
IMO, that works incredibly well in Singapore for chewing gum - I think it's about $1000US for a first time gum dropper.
I wounder if this would work for other corvids as well, like say, ravens or magpies. As I understand, magpies are also rather intelligent. I can imagine crows and magpies getting into fights over who gets to take the cigarette butt to the food dispensing machine.