skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've just switched from 1password to keepassxc in the past few weeks. The only reason I did so was because 1password was trying to force me into their subscription service as I switched from macOS to linux mint. I looked at a few work-arounds on github, but eventually just decided to move over to keepassXC.

The export / import and overall setup was pretty painless. I am still able to sync through dropbox just like with 1password. There is also an ios app called keepasstouch which was a breeze to get going and syncs with my dropbox password vault. Finally, the browser extension works in a very similar way to 1password's.

Overall, I definitely recommend it. I haven't lost any functionality or security to my knowledge. I was happy to pay up front for 1password (probably dropped 60-80$ or so for their apps), but, after doing so, just couldn't stomach being forced into their SaaS model. Especially when a similar free, open-source alternative exists.
Minimum wage hikes are typically a pretty direct transfer from profits to wages, with a minor increase in prices:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/30522170_The_Impact...

As "minimum wages across state borders using contiguous counties" (Dube, Lester, Reich) demonstrates (confirmed by Seattle's recent experience), it doesn't cut employment:

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86w5m90m

In spite of this, an association of restaurant owners in California spent a lot of their own money on these billboards to express touching concern for the employment prospects of their employees:

http://kron4.com/2014/07/18/new-sf-billboard-says-workers-wi...

It's now 4 years later and sadly, their predictions were startlingly accurate. Nearly every restaurant server in San Francisco and Seattle is now an app.
You're again creating a strawman's argument. You're pretending the cook is forcing you to eat the food. He's not. Go somewhere else - it's your right.

This whole thread is about people who take that right, to not do something, and prattle on about it like the rest of the world cares. The majority of internet viewers have no idea what javascript is. The majority of those who do use it don't care about what it's doing behind the scenes. The few who do care enough to blacklist/whitelist should be happy they can but shouldn't try to make policy to enforce their wishes and dreams when they go against the norm.

That's what you're doing.

Edit: "It may not be intentionally hostile to vegetarians, but it does show a careless disregard to anyone that doesn't like their sandwich the only way the cook makes it."

Yes, this is very true. But it's also tangential to the conversation. The website _could_ be better about offering no javascript support but they certainly don't have to. You don't have to use their website just like you don't have to talk about how it doesn't work without javascript.
Great new TagSpaces desktop app and other goodies
here's my attempt a while back: http://www.eggie5.com/66-naive-bayes-classifier-implementati...
I think lifespan is only worth increasing if there is a corresponding increase in health span. My grandmothers are both in their 90s and quite lucid and healthy. I would love to be at least in their condition when I’m in my 90s, but I also am serious about exercise and nutrition so I would hope I’d be even better off than them. They do nothing of that sort. Likewise, I’d like to be with a woman at that age who would also be just as healthy, and retain her faculties. Unfortunately, unless I extensively investigate a woman’s family history, I have no way of knowing if she’ll really be capable of living that long. What good is being a very old age if my partner is disabled and limits me from certain activities?

This inequality between lifespans is going to become a much greater concern for humans in the future, you will see. Perhaps it will become most noticeable as the baby boomers begin to die.

Also, I think society could progress even faster if the wisdom and experience of old people can be harnessed and not just tossed aside as “antiquated”. We need to rethink the way we think about the elderly, because one day those elderly will be us.
Measuring a blog's success: focus on conversations, not page views
Terry Bressi on Recording His 300+ Checkpoint Interactions [video]
Having had experience in streaming to many thousands of users myself I think what you're doing here is certainly interesting - having taken a look at your service it seems likely you're using nginx and possibly RTMP module? At least that's what I've used for HLS streaming in the past (which works really well). It's a shame you only support HLS - which famously chrome doesn't support on desktop, so this doesn't really solve the whole problem with multiple codecs and maximising cross-browser support, which relies on MSE at the moment to get HLS to work.

I also noticed in the m3u8 file there are multiple versions of your file depending on quality - it'd be nice to expose this via the player so I can select the quality I want to view it at - if I am bandwidth limited 480p may just be sufficient! Also with 4k and even 8k becoming ever popular, how do you plan on dealing with this?

I'm also intrigued about video storage - will you store videos forever? How will you handle storing multiple qualities? Is there server redundancy? I noticed your video is streaming via mux.com for the m3u8 and fastly CDN for the TS fragments themselves - In theory there's nothing stopping anyone using this as a rather nice transcoding service - POST a video, and download the m3u8 file to gather the .TS fragments and join them together for a nicely transcoded video, you should also allow people to download them and host it themselves, it's not like you can stop that anyway.

Will be intriguing to see how this develops, it's a nice idea, but you're soon going to figure out _why_ video is hard - making this was for sure the "easier" part, keeping it growing/sustainable is where you are going to struggle once you are dealing with multiple PB of data storage and streaming, it's the same reason Youtube isn't profitable.

Relying on a CDN like fastly is of course possibly cost efficient, but I worry if they decide to kick you off what your plan is, there's absolutely no way in hell you could _ever_ serve the video fragments yourself so whilst you're solved (possibly) one problem, you haven't really invented anything revolutionary.

I am also interested how you're going to stop people hotlinking the videos themselves - this is something I tried to prevent _really_ _really_ hard - but with m3u8 it's simply not possible (well, it is kind of if you use a query string with an expiration token, but that has its own problems).

As I said, I could just link the CDN m3u8, for example, downloading:

https://stream.mux.com/SdLAIpK2YUpIGOgVosm8Hyv6F7t01RadXYZWF...

tells me all the .ts files fastly is using - why bother with YOU and not just fastly themselves since THEY are the ones hosting your video.
Users don’t want federation.

See also: Adoption failure of Google Talk XMPP, massive adoption of Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp, and AIM before it.

I wish it were different, too.
A few days to months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova
>...the gaps between your teeth (is that what you meant by the grooves?)

No, the reference to grooves is on the crown of the tooth. (primarily molars) I think the issue with cleaning them out is that once solids get stuck in there and bacteria eat the solids they release acid that eats the tooth.

Years ago my dentist filled these grooves with a UV activated plastic sealant. I think this is standard practice now days. Not sure if a waterpik could do it, I've never had one. (If you have had one, has it prevented cavities for you?)
That assumes one would be able to successfully mount a first strike, which is somewhat doubtful.

Also note China is expected to deploy hypersonic weapons that are excellent for first strikes against naval forces.
I presume that's the idea. I'm not questioning the idea as much as this particular implementation. :) If I ran the zoo, I would have sent a message to everyone's inbox (at least, everyone in areas that Waze Carpool exists!) once, then updated the app to have a "Learn about Carpool" link somewhere that is not the main driving screen.
Me and the persons I want to communicate with are perfectly capable of finding eachother through other means - ids, qr codes, ...

At the same time, maybe I don't want everybody who has my phone number to see that I am on Signal.
That would make sense if CEOs had some downside to failure, but they don't anymore. All though CEOs who have golden parachutes to cover their failure, and massive salaries to cover their successes mean there is no connection between performance and pay. They just get a lot all of the time
My experience is that government and gov't contractors have been turning their heads. The proliferation of E2E communication has been too fast to analyze and regulate with respect to WWII era regulations, similar to how cryptocurrency is to the financial market.

Interesting to note:

>Publicly available software under the EAR, as under the ITAR, is exempt from export control. However, before strong dual-use encryption code is made publicly available via the internet or otherwise placed electronically in the public domain, exporters must provide the US Government with either a copy of the strong dual-use encryption code or a one-time notification of the internet location (URL) of the code. This must be done before making the software publicly available. Notification after transmission or transfer of the software outside the US is an export control violation

https://doresearch.stanford.edu/strong-encryption-export-con...

edit: More guidance on what's exempted from EAR is at https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/encryption...
>ARM64 chips like A72 have meltdown/spectre issues too.

meltdown/spectre are two different exploits (as much as intel likes to group the two together distribute blame). meltdown only affects intel.
Twitter is profitable as of 2 weeks ago, and with just $91M in profits. Let's wait and see where this ship goes over the next 2-3 years before claiming victory.
I wouldn't recommend using this. Even if you were to read the page source and see that it is in fact not sending data back to a third party, either a) the site owner could change this in the future, or b) you could be man-in-the-middle'd since they're using http, or c) one of the third party scripts they run on that page could either accidentally or intentionally take your password. Don't put your password in there.
> Frivolous consumption, which certainly can affect persons of any financial upbringing, is unlikely to have any material impact on those who simply inherit money and do nothing else of value to society.

It's just a function of the numbers, isn't it?

A trust fund has $1 million in assets, 1% fees, and beneficiary withdraws $50k (5%) per year. Based on the historical data at firecalc.com, within 30 years, there's a 50% chance the fund has hit $0.

Just in fairness to the non-idiots who depleted their low single digit million trust funds, it's been much more the rule than the exception.
echo -n "password"

echo adds a new line that is likely not in your password.
OK, sorry if some of my assumptions were incorrect.

>sometimes they see it as the lesser evil when the populace would go against US interests

So here democracy is 'the greater evil'. Countries have their own interests, the US has just often tried to stomp out any chance of other countries achieving theirs. If anyone tries to do the to the US it's met with moral outrage. Same with 'free markets'. Endless preaching them, actually it's the last thing corporations want.
Chrome, Firefox and IE ship with very strong encryption (128 bit AES) just fine for many years now.

That cat is out of the bag.
> But we have to consider the speed of light. So what we are really asking is something like what is the probability that light will arrive at Earth in some interval from a supernova.

We really don't. (We've already largely accounted for it, by only counting the stars in the observable universe.)

So yes, stars supernova at a rate of ~30/second, from our current frame of reference. However, many of them are occluded by dust, or are too faint to differentiate from their neighbours/parent galaxies, or are too red-shifted away...
echo -n "password" | sha1sum

then to remove the sha1sum's trailing spaces and dash: | sed 's/\s.*$//'

and then to uppercase it, as ianlevesque showed: | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
Like I recommended for Mozilla, they could use this money to acquire and/or create highly-usable alternatives to many products that are about handling communications or data in trustworthy way. Things like SpiderOak, VPN’s, backup apps for iOS/Android, HSM’s, payment services, paid email… anything that unscrupulous businesses have been a problem for with insecure solutions or them just cheating customers. Each one is turned into a commercial product either shared source or dual-licensed GPL/AGPL. The money coming in improves each both for new features and 3rd party review. Release code as GPL either on component level as they are built or as a whole after development cost was paid for. Many businesses will still pay for GPL-licensed code just to know someone is responsible for it.

Such models will gradually increase the number of trustworthy goods available through trustworthy suppliers over time. That’s the basic concept anyway.
Supernovae become super bright super quickly, and then taper off. This is why there is a lot of interesting science to be done right at the beginning: they are hard to catch.
Depending on many factors they can stay visible for months. The best way to visualize this would is with a Google image search for "Supernova lightcurve"
https://www.google.com/search?q=supernova+light+curve&tbm=is...
ARM themselves say that Cortex-A75 is affected by Meltdown, check link [2] in OPs post.

> Cortex-A75: Variant 3 (rogue data cache load) - Yes
echo -n 'P@ssw0rd' | shasum -t 1 -

gives me the same value (21bd12dc183f740ee76f27b78eb39c8ad972a757) as appears in the article.
<bus joke>You wait all day for a Foundation to come along...https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16431800 </bus joke>
Did the MW all form around the same time? What I'm getting at is: will the rate of supernova increase as the stars which make up the Galaxy reach end-of-life at approximately the same rate? Will it fizzle like pop rocks at the end?
How would an amateur bring this to the attention of the big telescopes so quickly? Are there alert mailing lists with people screening them?
> The carriers are deterrents, not weapons. They will be among the first major casualties of any true, open warfare.

Any country powerful enough to challenge a US carrier strike group in true, open warfare, isn't a country that is fighting a full symmetric conventional war with the United States. They're fighting a nuclear war.

They are weapons, powerful, effective, government-toppling weapons, and that is what makes them such effective deterrents. For the non-Chinas and non-Russias in the world, a carrier strike group is probably sufficient. If one won't do, how would you like two?
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum
He's also responsible for the Potter Puppet Pals videos, and the Guide to Lord of the Rings/Star Trek/Star Wars races and characters. Neil Cicierega is a hero and treasure of the Internet.
You are wrong. See [2] above. Variant 3a is meltdown. A proof of concept is here,

https://github.com/lgeek/spec_poc_arm

I've tried it personally. It is vulnerable.
We seem to be trying them without much luck. To be honest I don't really care where the ceiling is, as long as the floor is reasonable.
At least around the SF Bay Area, there are often freeway exits and splits where multiple lanes are turning in one direction, but you want to be in a specific lane for an immediate upcoming split or turn. If I don't know the specific turn I'm taking (I've never been there, perhaps, or I'm just not there too often), this can definitely save me the aggravation of trying to navigate across several busy lanes of traffic to make a turn on the other side of the road.

(My even-more-anecdotal experience is that Apple Maps tends to have better turn lane guidance than Google, which isn't something I'd remotely have guessed.)
Part of Stephen Baxter's book Ring describes a large scale (as in population) interstellar trip and engineering the population making that trip for a long lifespan via eugenics.

If I recall correctly, the described humans were living spans greater than 400 years, among other traits, after a handful of generations.

If something as ambitious as Deep Space is your goal, you're probably better off engineering people to make the trip rather than waiting for technology that may never materialize.
What about Broadwell-E chips?
Yes the idea. If you never plan to use it, put it out there.
I provided a fairly low resolution image which was capture from a 3d map tile. It enlarged and didn't lose quality, but what I was most impressed by was removing the jpg artifacts.
I thought that too. What a great closer -- speaks volumes in twelve or so words.
Also, the ARM market is much more fragmented, with hundreds of different implementations. This is an excellent article on why the parts used in the Raspberry Pi series are not vulnerable to Spectre:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-raspberry-pi-isnt-vulne...
Maybe you work for a video game company?

I find this standpoint unacceptable in environments that manage PHI PII or anything else involving people's privacy or financials.

I get your point about the "I'm mature and experienced enough to know when a beer is appropriate" angle. Maybe I'm old fashioned but my dedication to my work goes beyond things like test coverage it goes into the details of how I conduct myself talk and dress when I'm the clock.

I dont want to drive over a bridge or fly on a plane designed by people who dont take a similar level of seriousness to being on the clock.

Not to mention beer tastes better when youre not in front of your flatcreen staring at code. Something to be said for being present in the moment.
> is Apple going to send people into the mine to buy the ore as it falls from the pick?

Yes.
Necessities is a fixed amount, wants are (nearly) boundless. As we are able to afford things beyond bare necessities, pretty much all value create and consumed isn't 'necessary' - it's one or other kind of comfort, desire, status, entertainment, etc. Those things do add value and do create wealth - if getting enough nutrients and bare minimum of shelter takes just 10% of my resources, then 90% of my wealth is something that's not necessary.

If people prefer hearing a song over getting an (extra) loaf of bread, then hearing that song is by definition more valuable (more valued by that person) as that loaf of bread. There's not much debate needed about Rolling Stones - millions of people have expressed their values, and their choices illustrate that the music of Rolling Stones is literally more valuable than a billion loaves of bread; people have intentionally allocated a billion bread-loaves worth resources towards Rolling Stones because they valued Rolling Stones more than other alternatives.

People paying money for something doesn't necessarily mean it adds value or creates wealth, there are all kinds of edge cases like fraud, exploitation, addiction, etc, but in general, in the vast majority of cases it does mean exactly that - if people genuinely freely wanted to pay money for something and did so, then that's very informative about what they actually value; this is far more informative and truthful than, for example, what they claim they value.
That's a meta-analysis that doesn't focus on police activities, but rather unattended camera installations. Results of such studies have hardly been unequivocal, unlike the financial benefits to the camera operators.

Setting aside the fact that you can find a pubmed link to "prove" the efficacy of almost any intervention, the original assertion -- that the roads are more dangerous when drivers are informed of the presence of cameras, police, or both -- is not addressed by this survey.

As speeds have gone up, the death rate has gone down more or less steadily, at least until the last couple of years when drivers collectively decided that their cellphones are more interesting than their driving. A study that purports to exonerate speed traps must first address this rather inconvenient truth.
Micropayments as an idea have been around for maybe 20 years. The technology isn’t really the problem and you don’t need blockchain. You just need a centralized frictionless payment system that everyone uses. Clay Shirky wrote off the problem to transaction costs. It’s too much mental energy to decide whether to pay 10 cents to read an article.

I don’t disagree it would be nice. $100 per year subscriptions are a pretty high bar for me. But the evidence that people will consume digital news and other articles transactionally just isn’t there.
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I've also "cured" a cavity....

There are two things everyone should be aware of

1) Dentists see a spot on the their x-ray they call a pre-cavity, and then drill. Often this is a false positive, and you never really had a cavity to begin with, so you can easily cure yourself of their false positives.

2) Saliva does a lot to help your teeth. But every time you eat you are making it harder for it to do its job of protecting your mouth. Intermittent fasting, or people who only eat once or twice a day, have a much easier time maintaining dental health.

There is no amount of brushing that can help you if you are constantly snacking all day. If you do a Keto Diet (very low sugar) and don't eat anything at all for 16+ hours a day, a lot of people will find that their cavities shrink and disappear over time as your body creates new enamel faster than you are destroying it.
This is America, dangit.

The Northern Marianas need another privately-operated, for-profit prison built ASAP. We gotta throw those corrupt casino folks in it and replace them with slightly less corrupt folks from the civic-industrial complex. Those kickbacks and hush money payments need to be going to judges and prosecutors instead of casino regulators.~

It is not okay, but the thing about corruption is that it doesn't care what decent people think of it, until they start waving torches and pitchforks around.
Signal has no per-group notification settings

Yes it has, at least on Android. Within a group, press the three-dots-menu on top and choose mute notifications. You can choose for how long they shall be muted, similarly to other apps.

Adding to your list:

- Working backups for text and media.
Can this be used to predict homicide or even perhaps mass shootings?
Actual title: "This chrome extension matches linkedin-profiles to open tech jobs"
a "dark pattern" is a UI tactic that is very purposefully crafted to deceive or manipulate a user. confusing button styles as you describe them are just "bad practice," they aren't dark patterns until designers use them with the specific intent of confusing the user
Richard Branson: A.I. will eliminate jobs making free cash handouts necessary
“Always Connected” Windows on ARM machines coming this quarter
Theoretically, but when you throw in things like build systems often not being deterministic, minor versions of dependencies changing, different OS or slightly different OS version with different libraries; there's a multitude of places to throw the final binary off by a few bytes or more and end up with a different checksum.

Signal wants to distribute a binary with a checksum. Once the checksum is different all bets are off, that's why it's not in F-Droid
Audiences love bad guys, right? :)