skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, there are certainly people who hold that justice can only be achieved if the perpetrator pays in pain, with any discouraging effects being incidental.

On the other hand, there are also plenty of people who want to reduce the amount of crime that happens, and then they are more concerned with if the justice system actually achieves this goal. Pain based justice plainly doesn't.
What's happened here is that GPG has used the OpenPGP spec as excuse to support extremely insecure default behavior. In reality, GPG can simply buffer and check before writing to stdout, and, in the rare cases where messages are too large to buffer, a flag can be used to override the secure default.
People think it's cool. I wasn't commenting on whether it's needed for society. But the people developing it would need a better way to achieve their goals if PoW really should be abandoned.
Gnome: Don't allow launching binaries from the file manager
TWGL.js: A Tiny WebGL Helper Library
Yeah I didn't know better and was lulled into a false sense of security. For a couple of years, I always started my car first and opened the garage door and always shut the car off after the door came down. Why? Because my car's built-in garage door opener doesn't work with the car off. This hasn't been an issue for a long time and after a while I figured "a few minutes is okay". Also, I didn't grow up in a place with garages (coastal part of Florida) Gas heating is really not a thing there either (again because Florida). So CO poisoning wasn't a thing I learned to worry about. So the combination of ignorance and "it was okay if I ran the car inside for 15 seconds so it must be okay if I ran it a little longer".

Dumb for sure but thankfully I did know enough about gas water heaters and gas stoves to have CO detectors installed throughout my house.
And replaced by what? I don't see any altruistic ventures waiting to supplant them - just even worse examples of a feedback loop gone awry.
IIRC plastic bags are not recyclable, you cannot meaningfully put them in the recycle bin[0], and the plastic bag collection bins outside of grocery stores go directly to the trash.

Looks like that may have changed recently[1] but I'm a bit skeptical that all grocery stores have set up the correct supply chain to have the plastic bags be recycled.

[0]: https://livegreen.recyclebank.com/because-you-asked-can-i-re...

[1]: https://sfenvironment.org/plastic-bags-plastic-wrap-recyclab...
None, until you equip the dog with an AI that decides on its own when to kill people. I am pretty sure this is what the OP meant.
New Zealand fights racism, drunken driving and homophobia with humorous videos
Or maybe more reasons not to fire? If you know someone's whole life maybe you'll be more understanding. Or is that too optimistic?
Is the header image a picture of a person using an IPHONE?

WHY?
John Carmack on Steve Jobs
Luckily I've seen no evidence to support that claim other than the word of a man trying to sell microchipping services.

If anything it's the people around me in their 40s and 50s who are most cavalier about constantly sharing their location and activities with the world ala Facebook checkins.
A programmable closed-loop recording and stimulating wireless system [pdf]
It doesn't, rather I think Oracle's plan will end up driving people towards OpenJDK.

It looks like they're firing their pesky B, C, D, and F customers and keeping their A ones, ie the ones who will pay millions in maintenance.

The rest of us, who are currently tied to Sun Java for its stability and who aren't going to pay big maintenance, will have to switch to OpenJDK if we want stability. It's either that or constantly port every 6 months, and pray all the kabillion dependencies we have work okay.
I don't think comparing social media to drug addiction is hyperbole. But, I do think that the conversation is often phrased poorly. I believe that our standards for social media addiction are too low.

The reasons we worry about drug addictions all apply to social media addictions. Worse, the social media platforms are (eventually, if not intentionally) structured in a way to exploit human psychology. If social media is: exploitative, addictive, intrusive, can cause physical/mental harm, can influence behavior negatively, and so on... then why shouldn't we talk about it like it's a drug?

I haven't seen my friends thrown out on the street because of social media. But...

...I've had them zone out of a serious conversation to check their social media.

...I've had to call a friend, because they wouldn't stop texting me while driving.

...I've watched friends with social media tear each other apart due to differing political opinions during the last election--although they were polite when in person.

...I've watched a couple sit on a bench facing away from each other, on their phones instead of talking to each other.

In the USA alone, 9 people die and >1,000 people are injured daily due to distracted driving.[1] The NHTSA reports that 3,450 deaths due to distracted driving in 2016 alone, and an estimated 391,000 were injured.[2] How many of these people, predominantly in their teens and early 20s, would be alive today? The government doesn't distinguish between texting and driving, and posting to social media and driving, but I'd love to know how prevalent the 2nd is.

And yet, social media use is still socially acceptable--even when inappropriate to the situation, or addiction/level of use.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/distracted_driving/in...

[2]: https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving

(Edit: formatting)
Remote Desktop Manager Enterprise Edition 13.5.9 CRACK
this is tangential, but: the chips mentioned in the first section of the article are simple RFID tags, similar to the chip a vet might implant in your pet cat. they aren't GPS receivers, they aren't internet-connected, they don't even have a battery. they just store a key which is insignificant without the context of a larger system. i've seriously considering getting one of my own (to pair with smart locks or my car's ignition). i'm very privacy-conscious when it comes to technology, and people who know me are always shocked to hear me express interest.

there's a lot of unwarranted FUD surrounding implantable RFID.
You live by the sword you die by the sword. Tesla and Musk, especially are in news all the time - boring company, flamethrowers, candy company etc. So, it goes to reason that even the failures will get highlighted.
the thing is monkey island has been rebooted several times and each time, it’s done worse. it’s possible that someone could rethink the point and click genre, in fact i think obduction is great at this, but it would involve removing the inventory system people associate with the game.
That was a nice article which may or may not be true. How does that solve the Byzantine General's Problem [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance#Byza...
> Use Mutt carefully or copy/paste into GPG for now.

According to [1], Claws Mail is also unaffected. I don't know if it was tested with or without its HTML plugin, but this should make no difference as long as the plugin is not configured to access remote resources. (By default it can not make network requests.)

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/99599862678571417...
Operations is, but not at the expense of having a vision of what to deliver.

You can hire and define operations, you can't do the same for product vision.
Show HN: I built app that renders to both web and native using react-native-web
The basketball was just a metaphor to explain relative similarity. Obviously hiring for an actual basketball team is a very different set of challenges as they literally have hundreds of hours of video taped performance history to evaluate before the candidate even walks in the door, and at lower levels, asking candidates to spend several days “trying out” is not considered onerous. But I would still argue that performance on programming puzzles much more closely correlates to programming job performance than knowledge of Chinese poetry.

As for hiring people based on their experience profile, it’s great of course in the case of candidates with lots of open source contributions and such, but this has the issue of ignoring the majority of candidates which don’t contribute to open source. Should being an os contributor be a hard requirement?

But if you are suggesting that a resume with the words “5 years experience web development at company x” means anything, I’m a little incredulous. I worked with people that claimed to have far more experience than that and struggled horribly with even the most basic tasks.

Finally, a little tangential, but memorization gets a lot of flack for being a “stupid” skill. My experience is that it is nearly impossible for adults to memorize something like Chinese by poetry “by rote.” Indeed if you try memorizing some poetry I think you’ll find that it really is a very fulfilling and creative process.
It's the same thing as social media 'influencers' FOMO, envy and greed is what fuels the millennials. Too bad it's also their biggest cause of unhappiness...
Something like "-set colorspace RGB -colorspace sRGB" converts from linear RGB to sRGB. Switch those two to go the other way as needed.
please explain. it literally has $0 advertising budget.

let's be real. it is sensational journalism that is at work here. It's NOT masterminded by a corporation spending zero dollars on marketing.
I would definitely pay for this. Economist, WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg, FT would cost about $200/month for a full subscription to each. I don't read any of them that much to justify that sort of money, but if it was 10-20 for a bunch of articles across them all a la spotify I'd definitely pay for it. I think most people I know would too.

However, they are probably concerned about cannibalising their own subscriptions too much to do it, which sucks.
Introducing Ribbon: Transforming the Way We Buy and Sell Our Homes
Yeah it was pretty dumb but I grew up in the coastal parts of Florida. People there don't usually have enclosed garages and gas heating really isn't a thing. CO poisoning isn't something I really learned about growing up. I only knew of it via pop culture (i.e. "Office Space").
Introducing the Uber SSH Certificate Authority (2017)
They pay a PR company good money to make that happen.
> with the legislature so weakened it can exercise control over national policies

> You can always interpret any SCOTUS decision in terms of ... immediate outcomes [but generally shouldn't]

> This isn't such a case. The court is not basing its opinion on immediate outcomes.

I think we agree? I must have completely misread your original post, where I thought you said that SCOTUS was making a policy decision.
Can A.I. usher in a new era of hyper-personalized food?
Are you saying it's impossible to shut off the car while not in park? I find that odd, and will certainly have to try it on my mother's Toyota when I get the chance
I briefly worked on an XMPP client for an internal chat app. I ran into tons of issues (multi device problems being the main one I recall. This was over 5 years ago now.) It would've been simpler to build my own client and server with a custom protocol.

Someone else really wanted to build on XMPP though. XMPP has fundamental issues. No thanks.
Gun looks pretty cool. I have not fully fixed the STUN/ICE problem. Some of the users on HN are still not able to see the articles. I think the problem reduced a bit after I started running a TURN server. But it's not full eliminated yet. Check out my tweet to Feross. Maybe he has some answers :)
https://twitter.com/hackerkidx/status/996009992569274369
Maybe they're working for facebook, in which case the statement is true in much broader way :D
Nintendo is bringing back the NES Classic on June 29th
Good on them. Weaponizing mass surveillance will the most evil any company has ever done.

Soon enough we are going to have drone flying done the street and stopping us to scan our face. No one will bat an eye as it's for "our protection" and nothing _more_.

Make no mistake we are competing with China.
Imagine in XYZ years, when the technology advances, and these things come equipped with fur, articulated joints, and lifelike facial expressions. And an AI that mimics a real dog's behavior. Woofwoof. Not sure if I am excited or creeped out.
The original post says golang should be a bit better starting twenty years later.

Pipenv has only existed a year or two, qed.
A majority of stuff mentioned in this article has to be outright illegal, if not borderline illegal when talking about privacy concerns. To get past it, they had to have put massive inclusions in their employee contracts and had employees sign off their entire existence to the company. It should also be noted that these happenings seem to all take place at sleazy, physical labor intensive companies. This isn't happening in any respectable sector I'd hope. I think the worst part is, is that these ideas are being created more and more by higher ups in companies and government who see no moral wrong in their plans. It doesn't affect them personally, but if it can be used in any way to further control a peon employee, then it's good for productivity. Even though it seems a bit like the article tries to defend this practice, there will never be a day on society where this is considered alright.

At the end of the day though, this is happening mostly to disposable workers who no on cares about. If one person complains about company overreach, well they can be replaced within 5 minutes. This is more something that lower income, down and out employees will have to worry about. This absolutely would not be tolerated to catch on to any respected industries/sectors. That's to not say physical labor workers aren't important, without them society would fall apart. It's that no one in authority typically cares about that type of worker and those employees concerns fall on deaf ears.
But it if it does some of the time, that would create a detectable offset in the statistics. Unless it is precisely offset by an effect whereby higher intelligence specifically contributes to poverty.
This assumes that somebody actually cares, if they do, they would know that already by asking.
we generally see the outdoors as property of the government or public property, and the property that we rent or “own” as our home. We generally have low regard for keeping public property clean. We’re not leaving earth, we’re just going to have clean yards and clean homes and dirty streets.
Here's a Firefox addon that sets your referer to "Facebook" every time you connect to either the Financial Times or the Wall Street Journal. You won't get a paywall:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-ft-wsj/
My buddies and I went to Austin on a motorcycle trip and one of our bikes broke down and we had to go to an auto store for a few small parts. When we asked for a bag to put the items in to transport them to other bike and they said "we don't have bags" we started laughing and were floored when we realized that they did not in fact have bags.

Most places didn't stock paper bags either, which we would of gladly paid for. We got used to it during the week but it was some big culture shock for us. Great for locals, infuriating for travelers.
With regards to the privacy policy, being a small (2 person) company I was limited with the options available.

I wrote the app for two reasons:

1) Store all my receipts in one place and stop my email filling up with future emails from these stores

2) I wanted to learn/explore React Native and Google Cloud

There are ads on the app but these are to cover the running costs if people did decide to use it.

There is no dubious intentions, I was just keeping my skills fresh and thought other people would find the app useful.

Thanks for your feedback.

All the best
When the electricity (and the lights) go out: transient changes in excitability
The issue is not that he might have broken the law.

It's the absurd and totally disproportionate punishment he's getting.
Or a cube of solid plastic about 1.5 miles on a side. It would be cool if some country took the West's plastic and recycled it by creating a series of kilometer sized geometric objects in a desert somewhere.
PoW is a way to use computation as a substitute for human-based methods of generating truth.

I wonder how much electricity, energy, and emissions are represented by salaries for the lawyers and judges that are the current implementation of distributed social trust?
My conclusion about cryptocurrncies is: they can never take over traditional payments. People want payment methods to be:

- secure

- fast

- cheap

While traditional payments do relatively well on all three accounts Bitcoin cannot. Yes, we might argue that it’s (in theory) more secure, but it’s also slow and expensive. What’s worse, as the article just proves Bitcoin cannot fix those flaws because its security relies on mining (and therefore transaction processing) being slow and expensive - that’s the very concept of PoW.
I only just skimmmed the article, but a helluvalot more employers need to be monitoring emotions. In fact if no matter who you are, I bet you would do well to immediately agree to take a 20% pay cut starting at the end of reading this paragraph (I know I would) in exchange for nothing more than the sure knowledge that soon, somehow your employer will start monitoring your emotions.

Also by the by your dating life will improve by 500% if you do nothing else than start monitoring your date's emotions better than however you're doing it now. It's the single best thing you can do to start managing literally anyone and anything, including yourself. Do you know how you feel now? I bet until I asked you, you didn't, and now that I did, I bet you realize you're procrastinating doing something. (Not necessarily true, you could be taking a break for a few minutes.)
>Pretty much the whole cryptography field has been saying PGP is broken for something close to a decade now; the attack published today is an applied refinement of theoretical tools we've had for a very long time.

Yes. But unless I've missed something no one has bothered to even attempt any modernized, improved replacement, so we continue to muddle along. I've certainly heard complaints about existing secure email technologies for well over a decade, but at the same time the cryptography field has never offered an upgrade. Instead it's always been "completely give up on the concept of email (which in no way needs to be insecure) for these modern hip non-federated often proprietary clunky slow kitchen sink instant messenger things instead". To which the answer has and continues to be "no".

Maybe we live in a world where the creation and upgrading of a technology like email is no longer feasible and that's just how it is. If so though I foresee email as it is existing into the foreseeable future, and in turn it'll be useful to have some sort of crypto bolted on top, as a marginal improvement vs entirely plain text. Hopefully there will be enough security oxygen that OpenPGP could at least modernize the foundations a little even if it meant some breaking changes to old implementations.
Why do you say PoS is not a solution? I agree with you about dPoS being a poor substitute.
What I see as troubling is the photo of the guy doing the chipping is a big bearded dude with tattoos. I also bet he was very smooth talker and was telling silly jokes and making people laugh. I would even go as far as saying this is done purposefully to give the procedure an edgy feel to lure young people. I wonder what the turnout would have been if an "average joe" came in to do the chipping.
Not just China, but many countries across Asia.

I don't know much about Africa, but I wouldn't be surprised if the same wasn't true there.

Can anyone speak to that?
Ask HN: What is Spotify desktop client built with?
In the age of slow, heavy bug prone electron apps, the Spotify desktop client does a lot of things right - it's not too heavy on system resources, reliable and has never crashed on me, once. Does anyone know what technologies is it built with?
Also further away from long range bombers, though I don't know if that was an immediate concern prior to the cold war, but surely anticipated. Fissile materials are made further towards the coasts, but production and assembly is in Kansas City and Amarillo. Not to mention missile fields and bombers also in the central states.
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When the electricity (and the lights) go out: transient changes in excitability [pdf]
Very nice discussion paper that outlines the taxonomy of breaking encryption. The outcome is six classes of attacks, mitigations and legal implications.
None of that money goes with you 6 feet into the ground. Even if you die rich, as soon as you do, that money is no longer yours. Your impact, however, will live on forever.
I've said it already on this thread but both MI and PotC, while influenced by each other (yes, MI is also influenced by the original pirates of the Caribbean ride) both have more in common with On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers. Ron Gilbert has stated in interviews that the book was a big inspiration, and the fourth PotC film is actually called On Stranger Tides and is essentially an adaptation.

The second and third movies also borrowed a lot from it, most memorably the scene where two characters get married during a swordfight is lifted straight from the book
Full paper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17066993
They don't have orders, they have refundable deposits.

How many are converting? Elon would not say on the call. Why?
Understanding someone's whole life and making a corresponding graceful/merciful decision is at the discretion of the manager. In general, corporate incentives will guide managers towards firing if there is not overwhelming evidence that the person actually usually is or can be an above-average performer. Corporations are not set up to act like charities. The rare manager that can be compassionate in the face of his corporate incentives is at risk of himself being fired if he becomes too charitable too much.