skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About your friend, I feel some sympathy. I feel I have a huge disadvantage growing up starting with Windows (early 90s). Graphical UIs are great for usability but they hamper understanding of the underlying systems. Even though I loved computers, it took me way too long to get into programming as a result. Part of that is also that I had no mentor around to guide me.

I tend to hate configuring things and getting other people's software working the first time, but once things are set up I love programming and algorithmic work.

I can only imagine how opaque these small black rectangles are to the younger generations. Without a mentor, preferably a programmer mom or dad, I don't think kids would even know where to start. Sure, you can find all this stuff online, but the problem is that you can't learn much by just playing around anymore.
My primary frustration with AMP is how badly it breaks tabbed browsing.

In Google News, on a Google device running a Google browser on a Google OS, I can't even open a news article in a new tab because of a Google technology.

If that's not a happy path where things should just work, I don't know what is.
i don't know if peter or substack reads this but whatever happened to testling? it seems to be down.
If it’s inside a coffee shop or other physical locations the attempt is likely to be caught. Or, put the code inside a photo frame making it easier for staff to distinguish.
You can use http://neverssl.com for that purpose
and Obama droned a 15 year-old American citizen without due process.
Does it have to be an iPod? Since back then countless digital, mobile audio players came to market - from expensive audiophile choices to affordable, yet worthwhile options. Sony and Fiio make decent, affordable audio players to name two examples.
Desktop link: https://archive.fo/KkmED / https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mechanical-sympathy/...
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So entertaining on many levels
You might be aware that, outside of the world of cryptocurrencies, people have been exchanging money and other assets totally fine without proof-of-work since we stopped living on trees.
They're just reporting what Intel said, whereas later in the article they clarify the consequences for AMD and ARM in more detail.
A digital skylight (from a 65“ TV)
The way I see it is that the feminism movement of old basically won - women voices are being heard and treated as equally important in the society. But like many movements, instead of dissolving after successful accomplishment of its mission, it transformed into a form that tries to perpetuate its own survival and status of importance.
How does DNT make you more vulnerable to fingerprinting? Because there's fewer people that DNT than who don't, or am I missing something else?
Why would it? It seems like lots of additional WhatsApp users, but they don't need to support a shitty phone.
Different unit I believe but perhaps same customer service dept. Either way, isn't their mobile division now owned by Google? https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/21/16343342/google-htc-deal-...
Why is this a problem? Just mash some keys and add a .com to the end. The portal doesn't check if the domain is real or not, it just intercepts all DNS requests until you've logged in.
Pairs well with the RescueTime piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16073745
>All it does is force land lords to massively increase rent amounts when someone moves out to account for multi-year market increases.

Depends on the scheme in place. There are a lot of places where the amount the landlord can raise the rent between tenants is capped.

There are two big problems with rent control: It results in a constriction of supply over time, and it causes degradation in housing stock quality. There's no reason to put one cent more into your rent controlled place than required by law.
Actually, VLC is for Linux and macOS, because they don't have MPC-HC - https://mpc-hc.org/
Thanks for the explanation. It sounds like the legal equivalent of doublethink, How confusing :(
Depends on country. Here, for a salary you typically pay 45% tax and the employer pays an additional 2.25% - so that's pretty close to the parent comment. (however, for e.g. stock gains you only need to pay 10%)
> Putting in Content ID ensured that Google stopped being sued by every major copyright holder and their mother

I think it's also important to remember that YouTube wants to be a LOT more than just a place for cute kitty videos. Video rentals, event streaming, PPV events, content-channels, paid services...

ContentID is a lot about the DMCA and handling 'pirate' uploads, but the overall positioning is to keep the platform competitive for the various media producers to (hopefully), monetize YouTube.
Tough one. I don't have direct experience of writing a biography for someone else, but as a writer, I would guess it would be quite expensive. It depends though. If the background history is already compiled, and there's perhaps a rough draft showing sequence of events, the price could be a lot lower. I would imagine it would be a few thousand.

If you have some spare time you could also hire a writing coach and get them to help you write it.
One feature I wish to see is some form of AP authentication, maybe with TOFU and some PK pinning. That is currently, name an AP the same as another and a machine that had the AP name saved will try to connect to it. If you name an AP "Apple Store" or "Starbucks" you can watch devices connect (with their real MAC even, defeating MAC randomization used when scanning for APs), and if it's an open AP or you got hold of the passphrase, monitor and possibly MITM connections.
I would keep a wary eye open until actual specifications are announced and publicly available.

If history is any guide, some parts of it might become security mis-features, like Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) which became a security issue because it allows WPS PIN recovery.

Also note that the IEEE controls the actual wireless specification as IEEE 802.11 and also specifies the actual encryption standards used during wireless transmission and reception (this used to be called IEEE 802.11i-2004 [1]).

My educated guess is that WPA3 won't change the block cyphers used to encrypt data (AES-CCMP) and the initial handshaking protocol as that is part of the IEEE Spec and cannot be changed by the Wi-Fi Alliance. Instead, it may specify additional requirements that clients have to fulfill before connecting (like public key certificates and proof of identities).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11i
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7555426.
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They produced getting this post to front page of HN and hence thousands of views, the simpler the analysis/data, the lower the cost of those views :)
Unfortunately it's a pretty bad experience on Android thanks to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806385 (for example YouTube links won't open the native app)
I would be very surprised if the median HN user had a marginal tax rate of 15%. At last year's rates, I would expect something like 36%. Of this, 28% is federal, 1.45% is payroll, and 9.3% is state. These add up to more than 36% because of deductions.
Exactly. And once the fear of consequences of missing a deadline kicks in, we gain a purpose - avoidance of the negative consequences. So we procrastinate until it’s almost too late.
Yes. Unfortunately, the distinction eludes many, and most critically the Journalists reporting such information.
That's definitely a fair counterpoint, I've had to laugh at myself a number of times (right now, for example) when I'm making criticisms of devices while on a device myself.

I'm also a pretty bias because when I did start giving up my phone for long periods, my experience was excellent. Whereas my experience with social media sites and the death of all my previously favourite online communities has been a real bummer. There used to be a HN style community for every one of my interests. Now everyone is isolated in their own Facebook silos and there are fewer collections of random internet strangers, like forums, BBs and chatrooms would provide.
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or can you like tottally rule it out?
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TransferWise can send rupees to Indian bank accounts and I am assuming the reason they cannot take money out of India is because of Indian Govt forex regulations.
>Then I got curious. Would these users tweet anything that I asked them? [...] And it worked!

>That was super hilarious. I was literally rolling on the floor laughing. TAIWAN NUMBER ONE! COMPETITORS NUMBER NINE!

Hahaha, people in dire financial situations who have to use my service are doing what I tell them to! Ain't that just hilarious?

Distasteful, really.
> After tax loss of 3.3 million while having a revenue of 23.5 million Australian Dollars

According to my friend who works there, they haven't really been trying to monetize yet so perhaps the investors think that when they try to monetize it will be easy to be profitable?

At least when comparing to FB, FB's path to monetization seemed more difficult in my opinion.
> Especially with AdSense you've got to enter your SSN

How does that work for corporate accounts? Surely an employee can't be expected to submit personal information on behalf of their employer.
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e.g. By changing what colors mean. For example in MOBAs, instead of seeing all the player colors in the minimap, you just see white/red (allies/enemies). You lose some information, sure, but it's better for my sanity.
I just use http://example.com
Real estate, by multiple measures, is the most profitable industry in the US private sector. It is heavily taxed and regulated because it is a money-printing machine. We are not in danger of there being no landlords.

[1] https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/03/29/2157698/ranking-ameri...
Python functions aren't anonymous
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Yes.

> Appearance and other unchangeable physical traits? How unfortunate since they have nothing to do with interests, abilities, or character.

As GP pointed out, companies aren't really after that.

When a company does not discriminate on race or gender, it generally stays silent about it, because "not actively discriminating" is just normal hiring on merit. When a company boasts about their diversity program, there's a strategy behind it. Maybe it's because the management believes increasing diversity beyond the industry distribution creates a better working environment (as you indirectly point out, the connection here is speculative). Or maybe they know it's good PR, and also a diverse workplace creates a nice CYA for the company in case of a disgruntled employee filing in a bullshit harassment lawsuit.
Paranoia implies delusion, but just because delusion has some anchor in reality doesn't mean that there aren't delusional aspects to it.

"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean that they're not after you", and it's corollary "just because they're after you doesn't mean that you can't be paranoid". ;)
I was surprised to see that at no point in the article does the author express any appreciation at the opportunity his service seems to have given its new users. There is no step between hating the situation because of its cost to accepting it because of its potential revenue. I get that the author is acting as an economically reasonable agent but the lack of humanity is jarring.
Product recalls in the US are often structured in such a way to try and avoid culpability:

https://www.justia.com/products-liability/product-recalls/
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WPA-PSK already does this (per-device stream encryption). The per-stream encryption is specified during the four way handshake via the ANonce and SNonce values [1].

However, this is only true if the handshake is not intercepted or snooped on by a third party. If it is, then the attacker knows enough to decrypt your data.

802.1x provides extra protection by ensuring the initial PSK is not know to the attacker, making the initial snoop of the handshake ineffective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11i
Nice!
There is a hole/frame right above Spain, I wonder what it was supposed to be used for.
and for the rare cases of those that don't, you can tunnel data over dns
If browsers are careful not to put any sensitive information in the same process that is executing JS code, sandboxing could work.

This seems a sensible thing anyway as it would mitigate other attacks as well. Allocating one process for JS-using webpage is expensive though.
I agree with OP’s recommendation that one should consider trying LSD only after much research and understanding. It has changed many lives, yes...mostly for the better, according to my research. Even “bad trips” can be for the ultimate good.
There used to be a barely-working whatsapp client on FFOS while it was still alive. OpenWapp was the name. And you could register/authenticate via SMS. Stopped working at some point though because whatsapp api changes.
Heh, I've been doing the same thing for wifi in Arriva and NS trains. I haven't gotten around to making my own website HTTPS yet, so I just use that.
This sounds almost to good to be true.. If so, major disruption imho!
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> This vote seems like the best chance of maintaining NN at the national level.

It's got near zero chance of succeeding, but that's not the only point; the point is to make NN a 2018 midterm election issue for Democrats if it fails. (Which, ideally, sets NN up, via regular legislation, for a vote with a more favorable Congress in 2019.)
The performance issues come from security mitigations when entering/exiting the kernel during syscalls. So I/O heavy workloads such as databases will suffer, whereas heavy compute-oriented tasks such as games should be mostly OK. This is expected. There is nothing any company can do to "take advantage" of the fact that games are cpu/gpu bound in order to mitigate new performance issues in e.g. databases.
He did sell like 32 times more than the "pre-arranged" plan.
Testling's been down for years. It got discontinued. Nothing this convenient came from the competing services.
Reducing enthusiasm in the opposing party’s base is a key tactic in US elections, which are won at least as much by turnout of reliable votes as turning swing votes, however much the media prefers the swing voter narrative.
Is it just me who now thinks there should be some gigantic holes in processor security, which were just never stumbled upon before, but now will?

Similarly how there was a long and happy life of flash plugin before it was recognized as a massive vulnerability surface?
Interesting 3 examples.

Curing cancer is obviously positive progress. No-one who has cancer would prefer 19th century medicine.

Spending less than 1 hour a day focusing on food seems less clear-cut. It's really good not to starve or think you might starve, and we are really lucky that we don't have to spend most of the day meeting our basic nutritional needs. There also seems to be a risk that we put not enough thought into taking care of and fulfilling our biological needs, because we can. We can't escape food, sex, exercise and other meatspace needs, and attempts to do so often become pathological. If we have to eat, shouldn't we be taking our time and trying to enjoy the full rich experience of doing so?

Similarly, visiting Machu Picchu and being back by Monday seems like a double-edged sword. Maybe it would be worth spending more time in Peru. Does the short stay really allow time to absorb the history of the Incas and how it fits into the present-day culture of people living in the area? In the 19th century, the vast majority of the people living in the United States couldn't visit Europe. But those who did went on a tour for several months to a year, visiting many countries and cities and staying long enough to learn a bit about the language and lifestyle. Were they missing out by not being able to go in a day, take photos in the right places, and get back a few days later?
This is false. Many websites are using Javascript to render the websites in full to give the users a better experience, such as rendered a SPA (Single-Page-Application) to prevent unneeded amounts of data loaded on each page request and only load exactly what you need, to give a faster, smoother and higher quality experience for the user.

Sure the mom down the street who wants to blog about the her kitchen recipes wont be needing it, but a lot of websites "do"
Translated this basically means- for real security to exist, the chip has to be open source down to the layout.

This will not happen. So basically, the interest of the one outweighing the interests of the many, results in the many suffering for what exactly?
Nice, maybe also a good idea to share the content of some design patterns here https://code.haxe.org/category/design-patterns/
While I understand the concerns (and fact that we need to protect to some degree minds of the youth) I do think it's a bit scare mongering.

Being unhumble, I think that us - rather intelligent crowd - can't really relate to people who are going to waste their time doing low-effort activities and find it way too terrifying that they do this. The only thing that shifts is what people spend their time on. Now it's smartphone, decade ago it was computers, another decade it was television and prior to that reading low-value romance/detective/horror fiction.

That's just how it is and it's always going to be low-value and maybe even damaging activities, but there is nothing we can do about it. The only thing we can do is measure it better, because smartphone is much better in gathering the data, than - for example - books are ;)

On the other hand I have 45 minutes of my phone screentime in last 24h so it might be, that I'm not seeing the issue, because I can't see the problem firsthand.
> There are websites that genuinely need to run some code, like webmails,

Not really, not if you think about it. Webmail doesn't need anything more than html(<5)+css.

> online trading platforms

Ditto.

> online games

Honestly, I think running webgames in a super-sandboxed flash (or similar) runtime is the best thing to do. Again, no use for js on the web.
This could be a useful web service for interactive use, since all strings will be manually verified.

The underlying ftfy library was previously discussed three years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8187418) and my comments at the time are still relevant:

I can’t help but think that this [library] merely gives people the excuse they need for not understanding this “Things-that-are-not-ASCII” problem. Using this library is a desperate attempt to have a just-fix-it function, but it can never cover all cases, and will inevitably corrupt data. To use this library is to remain an ASCII neanderthal, ignorant of the modern world and the difference of text, bytes and encodings.

Let me explain in some detail why this library is not a good thing:

In an ideal world, you would know what encoding bytes are in and could therefore decode them explicitly using the known correct encoding, and this library would be redundant.

If instead, as is often the case in the real world, the coding is unknown, there exists the question of how to resolve the numerous ambiguities which result. A library such as this would have to guess what encoding to use in each specific instance, and the choices it ideally should make are extremely dependent on the circumstances and even the immediate context. As it is, the library is hard-coded with some specific algorithms to choose some encodings over others, and if those assumptions does not match your use case exactly, the library will corrupt your data.

A much better solution would perhaps involve a machine learning solution to the problem, and having the library be trained to deduce the probable encodings from a large set of example data from each user’s individual use case. Even these will occasionally be wrong, but at least it would be the best we could do with unknown encodings without resorting to manual processing.

However, a one-size-fits-all “solution” such as this is merely giving people a further excuse to keep not caring about encodings, to pretend that encodings can be “detected”, and that there exists such a thing as “plain text”.

[…]

I have […] two main arguments:

1. Due to its simplicity for a large group of naïve users, the library will likely be prone to over- and misuse. Since the library uses guessing as its method of decoding, and by definition a guess may be wrong, this will lead to some unnecessary data corruption in situations where use of this library (and the resulting data corruption) was not actually needed.

2. The library uses a one-size-fits-all model in the area of guessing encodings and language. This has historically proven to be less than a good idea, since different users in different situations use different data and encodings, and [the] library’s algorithm will not fit all situations equally well. I [suggest] that a more tunable and customizable approach would indeed be the best one could do in the cases where the encoding is actually not known. (This minor complexity in use of the library would also have the benefit of discouraging overuse in unwarranted situations, thus also resolving the first point, above.)
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Voters who claim not to strongly identify with either party vote as consistently with one party as voters who do strongly identify with a party, at least, from research I saw several years back.
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The author mentioned not taking on too much risk and avoiding straying to far from the lab.

When I studied CS I was never that excited with the pure, abstract CS-bits. I was a lot more interested in how we could apply those bits in the real world to affect change in peoples lives. Volcano sensors may be high risk, but may also have a lot more impact than more theoretical/abstract work.

That being said, I'm grateful we have researchers interested in the theoretical stuff, otherwise practical guys like me wouldn't have anything to apply. So it's important to realise that while "minimise risk" might be good advice for the author, for another researcher "maximise real-world impact" might be sounder advice.
I didn't see any mention of weather Linus et al were on the inside of this. The impression I get from the article is that they weren't. But that must be wrong, right?
Most of the microcode nowadays is loaded by the OS (not BIOS)
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> open source down to the layout.

I don't see what open source has got to do with any of this.
We've had net neutrality as official FCC policy with different enforcement mechanisms from 2005 until 2017. Being “CMU taught, Cambridge written” apparently doesn't stop the paper from being blatantly wrong and simple, easily verifiable facts.
Websites are only bloated because of the MB of javascript to make them applications (images do not count as they need to be rendered either way and can be cached). Most of the websites I visit every day don’t display that much content. Once gzipped it's a tiny file.