skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are fines typically calculated to cover the cost of their enforcement? That smells weird to me.
I love using Linux.
Sometimes.
Mostly just from the CLI for servers.

I don't consider Linux desktop to be realistically usable for the average user, and that's the biggest problem. I think the UX isn't there on most setups. Small things like the screen blanking out when booting up to logging in after putting in a password.

Web apps and electron apps have certainly made using non-Windows easier. But people still want some of those popular big apps easily on their system.

I hope one day the display manager stuff like Wayland gets worked out. I would love to be able to let people free on Linux stuff, but only distro I would even feel somewhat okay to let someone use without teaching them much is Linux Mint with Cinnamon. Second would MAYBE be Ubuntu.

UI/UX consistency and polish is so important here. That kind of stuff is hard for FOSS though. Even companies like Red Hat, SUSE, and Canonical, with a lot of money, don't seem to doing anything to make Linux Desktop really usable. They've instead focused primarily on enterprise, servers, and embedded.

Windows 10 is my desktop and daily driver. I have a MacBook Pro with High Sierra, a dual boot on the desktop for Ubuntu, servers with Ubuntu, Chromebook with Gallium OS, and test monthly VMs for various distros to see where they're at.

macOS feels basically like a "professional Linux". Unix-like, good UI/UX, consistency, good default desktop applications. Before someone says elementary, elementary is pretty, but it's UX is quite horrible and doesn't work very well. Pantheon somehow fails to be more basic in user features than anything else.
This 'article' adds little to the debate, merely restating the reductive idea that constraints on supply (rather than a host of factors from massive foreign investment, to wage stagnancy) is the sole explanation for the US housing crisis. It's unworthy of hacker news frankly.
The United Kingdom is the usual example of something which is not a nation state. It’s a state. It has several nations within it.
Ask HN: Can you protect an idea?
Ideas are a dime a dozen - right? Is it a meaningless endeavor to protect your startup idea? Let's just say it is amazing. Did the WhatsApp and Instagrams of the world protect their IP or just launch as quickly as possible to gain traction and validate themselves in the market?

I am working on something (aren't we all) but my business partner is strongly suggesting we file something to protect the intellectual property. It's not a physical product, it's just a way of doing things differently.

Thoughts?
25... that was 8 years ago.

I was studying computer science, working at a small software company.

I had an open relationship with my girlfriend of that time, but she didn't like it.

What would I tell myself?

Don't start relationships with people who don't approve of your lifestyle. I only do polyamory now and stopped dating monogamous women entirely 5 years ago.

Also, don't let people who don't really know you tell you what you can and can't do. I had a bunch of such nay-sayers at work/university.

Do your own thing, but try to become good at it. People have houses and children? Who cares! Define your markers of success, but don't use them to hide from work. You won't be happy if you live under a bridge just so you can tell people "getting rich isn't my thing", you will onl be happy if you really believe in your life choices
stratospheric, not astronomical ;)
Hmmm, so what's a good mechanism for routing around moral hazards like just making the customer pay for the fuel?

We see lots of models for corporate raiders using loss leaders to attack bloated industries, but not much else. Also, with technology, the actual cost of development is extremely murky and variable. The only things that seem to motivate loss leader tactics is the end game of cornering a market.

In the case of SkySails, ship owners are averse to the up front cost, even if it means leaving money on the table, long term, by keeping their prices the same, but saving the fuel money with the sail, and pocketing the difference.

So, push to integrate with newly built ships, and then what? Offer freebie/rebate deals? But then they never get used because crew are lazy, and bored, but not that bored, and lazy wins. Plus dealing with tangled lines means the kite is all but ruined without a rigger available. So does that mean training at least one crew member to rig the kite?

It seems like maybe SkySails would need to operate a consultancy, where they supply a crew member who operates the kite on commission, collecting a cut of the savings in fuel costs. Then it becomes not unlike the vending machine model.

Companies permit vending machines on the premises, because they know employees want snacks, so they let a coin-op company install soda and candy machines, and they get a cut of whatever the machine pulls in.

So now, if that works, and then SkySails attacks the ship building angle, they've grown an ecosystem of consultant experts, and some of them can operate as free agents, once ship builders normalize SkySail integration as a common well-known add-on to maritime operations.

Sounds like a business odyssey, thinking it over, but with decades of quiet patience and dedication, maybe it'd work.
Alphabet earnings caused all-time-highs to be set(again) on the NQ immediately upon their release. The Nasdaq is in defying-reality territory currently. Exciting times for futures traders.
> Google and Apple both have mobile (non-SMS) based two factor prompts that seem equally immune to phishing?

Any "type in a code" or "approve this login (yes/no)?" authentication factor is technically vulnerable. All the phishing site needs to do is proxy the authentication to the actual site in real time.

These guys put together a great overview of the approach: https://www.wandera.com/bypassing-2fa/
Understanding multimodality: An analysis of early JUMP users
> The attitude of placing greater importance on ‘us’ over everything and everyone else is exactly what got us into this fine mess, AND STILL IS. You may think your view is unpopular but only insofar as people don’t actually want to hear the truth about themselves.

I certainly don't disagree with you. I should make note that while I am a conservationist at heart, this was more a 'devils advocate' position I was bringing up.
> It is only data from universities, not real for-profit businesses.

Plenty of universities work (often in collaboration with national laboratories and/or with corporations) on work that's far more important and critical than many "real for-profit businesses".
> Yes, it's pretty terrible if consenting adults choose to pay for software, isn't it?

The thing I zero in on here is that I have literally zero problems paying for software. But I am wary of purchasing software that I don't get the rights to build, modify, and contribute to.

My worry with software like this is that vendors come and go, and people get their workflows destroyed because the software can't be "saved" when the business is gone (yes, when, not if! always plan for that "exit" that ruins people because the products are gone).

Would I prefer the software to be FOSS? Absolutely. I am also absolutely willing to pay for FOSS, and a good number of Linux users are too.

I'm even willing to take open-core style models if it means there's some FOSS code release, as much as I don't like the model.

I use a mixture of FOSS and proprietary software all the time, not because I want to, but because I _must_.

And in my workplace, FOSS solutions (even ones we pay for) are infinitely preferred over proprietary ones. Desktop Linux support is a must, as well.
I would also think, OSes that tend to emphasize their primary file systems as 'the distributed memory', like DragonFly BSD -- would benefit significantly.

I am speculating, of course, but the whole Hammer 2 design of DF BSD emphasizes cross-machine 'database-like' file system, with built-in transparent state snapshots, state-branches, etc. [1].

So with this new type of persistent storage, DF's Hammer2 could erase the difference between 'persistent state' and in-memory-only state.

Therefore eliminating the need for reconciliations, application-specific backups, and application-specific distributed architectures.

[1] http://apollo.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/hammer2.txt
New Yorkers Trying to Flee High State Taxes Find Moving Isn’t So Easy
One of my personal motivation is to use technology to uncover the likes of Warren Buffett and Michael Burry. Apart from that, it is definitely more engaging and rewarding for stock investors to pursue stock investing within a social community. From comparing portfolios to discovering new stocks and perhaps even starting the next Berkshire; the possibilities are endless.
State of design in tech today:https://youtu.be/F6Srzcm8EEg
This sounds a lot like a cargo cult: copy what you've observed, and wait for the previous result to show up again!
Please don't post Dropbox links, the PDF downloads are unusable on Android.
I think GNOME has a pretty good user experience. It's very mac like with actual window management rather than drag drop and stay right there. Although the cinnamon desktop feels very close to windows.
they are not that cheap.

the only yubikey that works with mobiles (NFC) is $50.
the cheapest u2f I could find (it only has usb-a port) is $20.
Leaked internal Apple videos detail iPhone X, iMac Pro, MacBook Pro repairs
This only works in languages that support optional variables or overloading.
Updating government access laws for the digital age
I don't think 'does it work exactly the same' isn't necessarily the right question, given there are expected to be bug fixes which may change the behavior in some functions.
Given it was from universities, then prior disclosure of IP for patent applications could be a "harm". Even the directory names and structures could be key information in some applications.
The thing we've been learning over the last 50 years is that catastrophic failure of one biome usually causes failure of other biomes.

Even discounting feeding 8 billion humans, just the maintenance required in keeping Spaceship Earth in a state (reliably) hospitable to humans is a surprisingly extensive task.
books and typing never did fulfill me in that way, making programs and books were among the endless things that rived me, it was going out there, running, hiking, learning things that i thought i never would learn about, talking with people, living, making memories, staying outside beyond the screen to let the sunset walk into your eyes, to stay outside of the house, to scream, to love, to forget, to live.
Owning property is an extremely democratic pathway to financial independence. And it's only gotten more and more democratic as the financial world evolves. Yes it sucks to spend the first 5 or so years of your years in an unaffordable city getting established in an industry. But it's not the worst lot in the world. You can meet your spouse there and then start a family out where it's cheap. Won't be long before everyone's working from home.

Not a bad life.
>...showing a video he’d taken with his phone of a concrete truck near the corner of William and Fulton Streets.

A truck carrying concrete has to keep the drum rotating to keep the concrete mixed. To do that it has to have its engine running.
> ...it means no consumer-level caps on carbon output for the next generation or two.

So not a permanent fix then. Just kick that can down the road and let your grandkids sort it out. That’s exactly what I meant by externalising costs and getting someone else to pay, in this case the future.
Rent seeking behavior creates greater economic inequality and all the host of problems that come with it. The government should curtail these behaviors in laws and taxes unless we want another occupy movement or worse.
When it says that 'countries own debts' do they mean that governments own other governments' bonds or that citizens own other countries' bonds?
This seems like something solved decades ago with c header files, they're easy to do a diff on and the only false negative is from adding a function. Even that would be fine if you weren't export raw structs.

It seems like we gave up simple ways to do stuff like this because we hated header files and moved to tools like java and c# that eschewed them. Then they got reinvented and renamed to interfaces and we've come up with all sorts of other complicated tools (elm-package, mocking, IoC) just to recreate the functionality we lost in header files.
I wouldn't presume to judge the wastefulness of the elderly, but among those with whom I am in regular contact, I would say at least that not much wisdom has been wasted.
Ok, I was ready to entertain the author of article until I got to this line:
>"My conclusion is that in a colonized universe the probability of the annihilation of the human race could actually rise rather than fall."

If you have the hubris to state you can accurately calculate such a probability I really have no interest in reading the rest of the article.
Sure, but most people aren't targeted by advanced adversaries, so using your password manager for TOTP can be a lightweight way to make most hackers completely disinterested in attacking your account. U2F requires an additional investment. Depending on the type of physical security you want, it's normally a good idea to invest in at least n+1 U2F keys, so you have a spare key you can keep with you and permanent keys in all of your devices. (Obviously, the latter means that your U2F can be stolen easier, but the reality is that this is not nearly as big of a deal as stealing a password, since you can unprovision a U2F key immediately upon realizing that it's gone.)
Making an API public means that people can do whatever they want with it. If you are not sure if you want to allow the API in the future it should not be public. People will always look to do the laziest thing possible which might mean hooking into your "public internal API". Then you will never be able to change it and you will have to maintain it forever.
Probably the optimal use of this technology is databases, since they rely most on random access to large persistent data.

Any operating system that's designed around this technology is probably going to look like a database.

Basically, boot to Postgres and all "files" are now SQL tables, stored in NVDIMM. Indexes are in DRAM, and critical nodes are in cache.

All data (system and user) is organized and opinionated: All photos are in a photo database, with tables for IPTC metadata. All music. All executable files. If you're browsing the web, it'll probably cache data in local SQL tables. etc..

I can envision using SQL stored procedures as actual apps, perhaps with an API to access graphics hardware, network, sound, etc..
I'm having a bit of a difficult time finding relevant results for "silent Japanese guys that are wickedly good at joinery" on YouTube; the results tend to leave out the "silent" part.
GNOME 3 has come a long way from it's initial release.

It's still quite inconsistent in how application menu options are presented, what window decor buttons are displayed, the light and dark decor options. Plus the top bar is not great with the middle clock display by default and the lock screen is still quite annoying.

I've always preferred Unity's Gnome 3 fork over Gnome 3. The changed Canonical has made to their Gnome 3 version post-Unity is nice, but it feels like a step back still.

The right menu stuffs a lot of things into a giant menu item and multiple drop downs. The apps menu is a graphically intensive animation and the layout could be utilized better.

Among other things of course.
Try something, get exhausted, take some time off, then get involved in something else.

Rinse and repeat until dead.
So let's say the buyer didn't go running his mouth about stealing the money, and didn't lie about who the beneficial owner was, how exactly is having his name as the beneficial owner of a property going to stop money laundering?
Logic in language that scientists haven't described yet
If you drink Swiss Water decaf, it's 99.9% caffeine free.
As a 46yo with kids 7 & 3. I endorse this point of view. :)
The takeaway I get from reading this and other things he’s written is that it helps if you love yourself.
If you're driving in stop and go traffic in a city in the winter when it's below freezing, especially -20C (-4F).

Plus more than once I've had to watch my rear view mirror for someone about to slide into the back of my car. A second to get out of the way to too long in some situations. Sometimes just being able to quickly move 30cm is enough to prevent major damage and injury.
It's totally unclear and for some reason I seriously doubt governments are lending to other governments and borrowing at the same time.

It would be easy to line the numbers up against reality to find out if this is private debt, public-to-private debt etc. (which I suspect it is), or some kind of public-to-public debt (which I doubt).

Also, all debt is not equal, the loans are on different terms with different amount of risk, so it's the value of the current bonds and market prices that need to be compared, not their face value.
They call themselves libertarian, and they don't want to end drug prohibition? They're fooling themselves more than they're fooling us. That's table stakes.
Here's the phenomenal Senri Kawaguchi soloing at the Zildjian factory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvDsi-gohDo

And while you're at it, catch this wild performance with Kanade Sato (jump ahead to 1:00 where it starts)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sf3DgS3LEA
Only as far as the type system supports, but I feel like constraining the minimum version unit to increment is far better than doing nothing. Disallowing incrementing the patch version when the types of existing API changes is great.
Is that an all electric car? Petrol combustion gives off a lot of heat, but if the thermostat is stuck open this works against the goal - modern vehicles will set a fault in this case because slow warm up causes more fuel to be burned and emissions to be expelled.
The Pros and Cons of Being a Rural Startup
It would also be completely impractical, since the search engine would necessarily have to perform some sort of scan of its entire database to respond to every query (otherwise it would, in fact, learn something about the query).
"don't use the internet" is a vague qualifier.

My father has a Gmail and a Facebook account, both of which he signed up for himself. He last signed into the latter no less than 5 years ago. He interacts with his email account by calling myself or my siblings and asking them to check it for him. A few times a year.

Sometime a year or two ago he borrowed my brother's computer and went online to do some research into something he wanted to buy online; no assistance required so he's not computer illiterate. He just has absolutely zero day-to-day need for them.

11% seems very very low.
> But the objection you are describing is the difference between a possible, usually highly unlikely maximum sentence and a sentence arrived at in a plea deal. Only one of those is a real thing, though.

The maximum penalty does actually happen though, it's just not common. The problem is that you don't know if it will happen to you before the trial, so its existence is extremely coercive. It scares the crap out of people -- and people are risk averse. They'll take a 100% chance of 2 years over a 1% chance of 30 years, even if the expected value is lower, because on the off chance the coin comes up tails six times in a row, they lose their entire life.
How to Break the College Monopoly on Credentials
Microsoft's position is interesting. The article states Edge will be implementing support this year. They run Github, which supports U2F.

But Microsoft are in the process of launching a new MFA and password management product in Office 365/Azure, and I'm informed U2F isn't on the roadmap.
Under the federal sentencing guidelines a guilty plea is given a very specific weighting. Most of the time a judge will utilize the guideline's scoring system. In that system forcing a trial would never result in a 2 year sentence growing to 20. (I assume that in most state's the process is similar.)

The real issue is the huge number of charges prosecutors can bring, charge stacking, and the rules for how aggregating factors can increase penalties. That's how a prosecutor can tip the scales so egregiously. The fix is that we need less harsh penalties and rules against charge stacking. To prevent an overcorrection we need to make sure that police departments
and prosecutors enforce the [less harsh] penalties more consistently.

Penalties are so harsh today that police and prosecutors don't even care about misdemeanor convictions. If there's no potential for a felony charge the police will literally walk away. Similarly, prosecutors don't want to waste time on penny-ante misdemeanor and felony cases and will let defendants off with a minimum penalty. That creates a self-fulling prophecy that without harsh sentences criminals get off scot free. It's why California is suffering from a property crime wave--police and prosecutors are habituated to ignoring property crimes now that the penalties are less severe, which means there's no deterrence. We could have deterrence without harsher penalties if they actually did their jobs.
It's funny that Microsoft now hosts the source code of both major Windows implementations.
US breaks up IRS phone scam operation
I guess in a theoretical NVM-only system you could pull the plug at any time, and instantly resume it when the power is back on? If I'm reading right though the latency of 3DXP is somewhere in the 10-20us ballpark, still 100-1000x slower than DRAM.
>the email/slack/txt/messenger treadmill the rest of us are forced to run on during a workday.

Or at all hours of the evening, night and early morning, since some people we work with don't seem to understand the concept of leaving work at work.
Definitely back-end and it is exciting to see all that UX is bringing to CLIs, but relative to a full front end GUI it is much more straight forward. (Not to discount the hard work CLI developers do since it is still plenty complex)
When does the author claim this? He says the probability could potentially rise, and doesn’t make any claim as to the actual value of that probability. Just that it could increase instead of decrease due to some factors others haven’t considered. I think it’s one thing to say “the value x could increase instead of decrease” vs “I claim that x is y”
Actually the paper presents nothing; their security proofs make no sense at all and the rest of the paper is not much better.
Dropbox may not natively add client side encryption in the near future. The way Dropbox has stored data from the beginning is by deduplicating information across all its users to save space. So if you upload a book or a movie or a song and I upload the same, Dropbox stores one single copy of it for the both of us.

This is just a simplified explanation. The actual deduplication is done in smaller blocks.

If you want client side encryption with Dropbox, you have to add a layer before the Dropbox client sees your files on your system, using Cryptomator or Boxcryptor or encrypted volumes with Veracrypt, etc.

Or you could switch to other online backup/sync services that claim to have client side encryption, like SpiderOak and a few others.
The cartoons are great, but the comments thread below is pure gold, intermingled with some scary.

"Most people probably think handcuffs in the bedroom are sexy, but you and I both know mine are just to keep me from driving my car at night."
This doesn’t tackle acidification which is the second side effect of climate change. Also if the glaciers melt from the ocean getting warmer they will release carbons
Why?

To me it seems like the exact opposite of democracy.

Wouldn't it be more democratic to let the state own it so every citizen can have a vote over this rather limited resource?