skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've managed to write 15 pages on a topic this aligns with over the last few weeks. The thesis is that Feudalism never went away, it just transitioned from kingdoms to corporations.

Putting ramparts and a moat around your primogeniture home owner's association lost to the advantages afforded by consolidation of production and trade. The traditions, structures and expressions of human nature have changed very little.

I'm sure this is probably some high octane confirmation bias, but this story just sings to me about what I've been writing about.

The landed members in this council meeting are outraged that one of their own is ignoring the duties of their vassalage. Is anything sacred when peasants who aren't even in your kingdom can listen in on your chancellors, stewards and spymasters? To the landed of the realm, this is a legitimate affront to the value of your titles! That's casus belli if I ever heard of it. I wonder how many employees are trying to rainbow table the journalist.
Easily tapped central server(s) is my nutshell theory of why rightwing extremists aren't being kicked off of Twitter. Third-party doctrine, and all that.
Because so many people/companies think about security as a secondary thing, and in most places Improving Security is some really simple changes.
Can you tell me how to downvote. I’ve been on HN for years and never seen a downvote button.
Accumulate 500+ karma.
Really solid and unbiased explanation, thanks for that.
Interesting chart, but it appears to only go up to 2010. I would be interested to see more recent data on that. Of course, there is often a several-year lag between first meeting and marriage, so the lag is not quite 8 years really, but a lot of people getting married this year met a lot more recently than that.
> my main point of contention with you is that in your threat model, a lost phone is a security problem, yet a lost u2f is not

I realized that I could explain my concerns better in the article. My biggest issue with the phone is not that it could get hacked, but that I could just lose it together with my u2f token (because, you know, I always carry both phone and u2f token), and thus get myself locked out of my accounts. So it's not about somebody attacking me specifically to get my 2fa data, but just about some bad luck happening which results in losing both u2f token and a phone which was a backup for u2f token.

Instead of Google Authenticator we could use Authy, which synchronizes its database with the server, but Authy account could be recovered with SMS, which is anything but secure. I actually updated the article just now with that point.

I really want having a backup which is rock-solid secure and reliable, you know, more reliable than any other 2nd factor I have. So having a token bricked into the wall or something like that would work.

> you need to revise your threat model or revise your solution

When I have a chance to reimplement the same backup concept having something more secure than u2f-zero, then yeah I surely will revise the solution.
It becomes a "system" when it stops being a marketplace. Then those systems are ruled by socialist directives. USSR had no Coke either.
Personal responsibility? I have on occasion ordered things from websites who did not have their security in order. My conscious and informed decision. Although I did not order with a creditcard ofcourse.
This isn't about loyalty. It's about trust. And trust has been violated. Now one starts questioning the person they're sitting next to and a whole culture can be in upheaval.
Ah, that’s fine then.
Apologies to Voltaire or whoever, but "common $x is not so common."
Why the hell is Microsoft so bad at naming?!

I'm sure it will be easy to find information about this,

.NET,

abysmally performing FAST search product (which is named too close to this with too much overlap),

Creators update,

SQL Server like they're the only SQL capable server out there even though it's based on somebody else's product

etc...
You might contrast the approach here with say an Engineering textbook. This manual on a particular tool (Julia) seems to imply that it is the one way to engage with an entire discipline. An Engineering textbook might mention various tools for a particular job and even endorse one over the others but in general it will start with the problem and not the solution.

That said:

$ aurman -S julia

(rolls up sleeves)
Government censorship is bad, but YouTube censorship is just fine. Many hypocrites.
If there's anything that's become obvious over the last decade or so, it's that leaks are going to happen.

If upper management don't divulge it themselves during meetings or to the press, they'll lose a chance to try to be the first to frame the issue, control the narrative and spin it in their favor.
I've only experienced false awakenings a few times, but I like them. I do a reality check every time I wake up (made it a habit) so it's a free lucid dream.
I personally value battery life over raw performance. My job involves coding small chunks that run in larger batch processes that run on the server. So I don't really care if running an edge case takes 1 second or 10 on my machine.
Woah, that would be $80k to process my dataset. I'll try renting hardware instead.
> The vast majority of student loan loans are issued by the federal government since private lenders are cut out of the federally-guaranteed Stafford loan program, so changing rules on discharge won't meaningfully effect loan issuance without some other federal policy change.

This is a good point - I think of Stafford loans as inextricably tied to the no-discharge terms, but that's probably not the case. Perhaps cutting out the no-discharge terms would just be a backdoor to government-provided university-level education.
But how can a customer demand security? There is nothing that a customer can do to choose a more secure IoT device over a less secure one. Even if you look at known vulns, simply having vulns in the past is not necessarily reflective of current security posture. Beyond pentesting an app, how does a consumer act on their desire for a secure device?
Seems great, though I would say the lack of insulation means they will be most useful in tropical climates. But I don't see why they couldn't make doubled-up horizontal beams that could hold two courses of 'lego' bricks with space in between (which could be stuffed with plastic bags, at that).
Shockingly, the article says nothing about whether the police or a judge actually investigated or reviewed any purported evidence prior to the issuance of the subject arrest warrants.
It's one of those weird personal secrets, things that never come up. I realized years ago that lucid dreamers are fairly rare, and most of those that have had lucid dreams don't have many.

It makes for a really awkward discussion most of the time. And it's impossible to explain well to somebody that hasn't experienced it.

Might be generics or wiring, or just figuring out how to recognize dreams, who knows. Its real weird that some people can have this otherworldly incredible experience with no drugs, and yet most of the population never experiences it. I'm lucky I guess, but to me its normal
Then we should have become the USSR when they banned original Four Loko ~7 years ago. Oh wait.
My go-to reality check is to hold my nose and see if I can breathe through my fingers or not. If I'm lucid, then I feel the air going past them. I guess my subconscious doesn't bother trying to make everything completely realistic.
I was worried at the beginning they were just doing a gloss but the article is pretty accurate. I have been around these folks for decades.

A few memories,
first a typical geeky well meaning do gooder buddy build paraboloid soar collectors and took them down to a village in central America where the locals were extremely pleased with them when he returned a year later he did not see them right away and the local were evasive ... he eventually spotted them doing duty as the benches in the outhouse. The materials he brought were perfect for that.

The next is after they went to Africa, they came to see the people of Central America they had been helping for all those years as middle class in comparison, not really poor because they had never seen really poor.

And the final thought is the author through no fault of their own wrote the piece too early to include Ken Goyer
who worked incessantly making the stoves with less and less till they had a six brick stove one could make for pennies.

He has passed on now, but a childhood friend of his picked up his 'Aid Africa' foundation.

[0] http://www.aidafrica.net/
Climate Has a Role in Wildfires? No. Wait, Yes
Samsung, Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent. They're already there when it comes to revenue, just not in market cap.
I’ll happily pay $250 a month for this.

Somehow moviepass comes to mind...
Where can we read the 15 pages?
FCTX is in a similar space, and quite good: https://github.com/imb/fctx/blob/master/README.rst
Although I'm always worried that one isn't really getting actual sleep if they are half-awake and thinking during it
Well, Human Rights are supposed to be a) transnational, b) inalienable c) an inherent trait of being "human".

Therefore more important/vital, yet given the transnational nature, also less difficult to "enforce".
It's outrageous that this information, which is indisputably a matter of national importance and public policy, is being kept secret to begin with. Google leadership should be testifying before Congress, not acting faux-outraged that their machinations aren't being kept secret by the peons.
The ‘Space Kingdom’ Asgardia has its own flag and anthem, but a state it is not
I am holding on to x86 until ARM figures something out on standardization like in PC space. If I need to have custom kernel, boot loader and rely on GPU drivers from different vendors for each computer I am going to buy - no thanks.
Housing Dept. files discrimination complaint against Facebook
Ask HN: How do you aid persistent human knowledge
What books, tools, or workflows are there to help you persist your knowledge in a way that can last 5+ years?

For example, some people talk to mind mapping or org-mode. Some people use Instapaper or Pocket to highlight notes. Others use Evernote / OneNote to document personal knowledge or team knowledge. I guess others email themselves notes, or journal.

Nothing seems to work for me, and it’s either because I don’t have the right strategy, I don’t have good self-discipline, the tools I’ve tried aren’t good, or some combination of the above.

So what’s the genius pattern for filing, storing, organizing and retrieving knowledge for access when you need it?
> At what point does the technical community stop trying to technically interfere with the efforts of law enforcement, and start trying to change the laws that make law enforcement behave this way?

Law enforcement and government are addicted to power to an unhealthy degree. Convincing people to voluntarily give up power is rarely successful.

You seem to believe majority support is enough to make something happen. It is not.

The Public Option has 75% popular support. Medicare-For-All has 59% popular support.

Yet we have neither.
You mean a diet of bacon will kill you? Who’d a thunk.
‘Weaponized Ad Technology’: Facebook’s Moneymaker Gets a Critical Eye
What does "the financial system" mean? Obviously there's a level you can address with that term where, just like with ML, interpretability becomes an open question. But on most every level that is genuinely comparable to the role an ML model plays in a software product, finance is plenty interpretable.
Thanks, much appreciated! English is not my first language but after some time complacency has definitely settled in and this one is so subtle I never would've known!
He has a point, it should be the standard. Although someone should tell this Linus guy he could just pick up a MacBook Pro with that resolution, and it comes with macOS.
No psychedelics, too much family history of mental illness. I've always been a YOLO type person in and outside of work.

Risks are often greatly overestimated, and appealing to the corporate mindset disgusts me. I'm the type that loves risk and doesn't hesitate to call bullshit as long as it wont get me canned. Figuring out if you're in a dream is superficially similar to realizing someone is screwing with you lol.

Could be related to lucid dreaming but who knows.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 15 – Configuration – Fonts and Frameworks
Lua's niche is absolutely as an embedded extension language for C/C++ programs. It's core benefits is how tiny and yet expressive it is (and it looks like C if you squint.) I've seen it show up in a variety of projects in that role, for games or embedded testing environments.

I indeed don't see it having any benefit over Python or TCL in more sophisticated environments.
The opinions of politicians can change on a whim.

Changing the law means nothing if it gets changed back the following decade.

Technical solutions tend to be more permanent.

Your solution is equivalent to saying "why are we focused so much on pretecting ourselves from hackers? We should instead change society such that nobody even WANTS to be a hacker!"
Digital Biosensing by Foundry-Fabricated Graphene Sensors
Care to share your work?
If you buy a book and it turns out to be trash, is that negligence on the part of the author? Is your safety at risk because of it?

You could maybe argue that this is true for textbooks, but not much else.
You'd have to come over. I have no idea what i'm going to do with it when I stop, but I feel an easy 100 pages in me before I'll have to start increasing the font size for length.

If this metaphor is interesting to you, this pithy comment I wrote here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16565135 ) is related.
" find one finger or toe I could wiggle a tiny bit"

Do you know for sure that it actually wiggles? Because that's what I tried doing once, and my wife told me that my entire body was still and I just woke up all of a sudden.
> he won't hand anything off

Really? You have a real example of SpaceX and see how things are running there. They have a very competent COO running the things smoothly there.
Seattle has an open-meetings law, where the City Council cannot conduct any substantive meetings that are closed to the public. Sounds like a good idea, right?

The reality is, the meetings have devolved into events where the councilors engage mostly in political grandstanding for the press, and each faction shows up with with their activist signs, chanting, and yelling.
Yeah, it seems like an acronym, maybe some internal codename. But for some reason they didn't make it public.. Inappropriate? So... Fuck Anything Slower Than Expected Results? ;)
Plus a client which is under complete control of the user - a phone could never be and a laptop running Linux with Intel me stripped-out might be if you're lucky.
Analyzing what our imagination is capable of. I find it quite curious how it can spin a very detailed dream apparently out of nowhere. It may be curiosity or entertainment. You ask "why create another reality that doesn't exist". Most films, tv series and novels are about "a reality that doesn't exist".
Microsoft tends to choose bad names: See Visual Studio Code, the most ungooglable name ever.
I use spaced repetition with this https://apps.ankiweb.net/
My mind was similarly blown when we went over dynamic scoping in a programming language concepts class. My mind was regularly blown by that class now that I think about it. If you ever get the chance to take something similar, I highly recommend it.
There's also a syntax error in the first code sample:

https://gist.github.com/ankita1910/1ff6c67a63c0f2d62a5c82c7d...
In what way did you find it interesting? It seems to make complete sense. Any lower and I’d probably be surprised the ratio isn’t higher.
The Damore thing was basically leak of an internal conversation that was considered justified. Maybe the leaker thought the convention was arbitrary anyway.
Remember that Hannibal was actually defeated in a set battle on his own home soil at the battle of Carthage.

In regards to Alexander, his battles were not just having the phalanx roll through his enemies. Often the decisive point in those battles was Alexander exploiting an opportunity that opened up with his personally lead cavalry.

In addition, he could think outside the box. At the battle of Jaxartes he defeated the Scythians by having his troops cross a river while using catapults agains the archers on the other bank. This is the first know use of artillery in a manner like this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jaxartes

In addition, as Rome would demonstrate, phalanxes were best on very flat even terrain and lost a lot of their advantages when they were not on such terrain. Alexander, however, was able too o win major battles on sorts of terrain, even when he should have been at a disadvantage.
No. There are potential regulatory principles here that have nothing to do with the customer's demands. You sound like you are assuming
a free-market, free-enterprise situation. That is not reality. There are hundreds of years of regulatory norms in other domains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
I had a lucid dream that I was reading HN.

Then I woke up and realized I was at work.

Then I fell asleep and dreamed I was in Inception.

Then I had a lucid dream that I was taking galantamine.

Then my self driving epistemology went into an infinite loop with my AI's sense of self awareness.
Well, had Pepsi
Reevaluate the value of the target.

I don't know what government is doing snooping on facebook messenger. I would be blindsided if real crime was happening that way.
OH! Not so fast. After a test drive, I think the Results page needs to have a button to use the same search on the web if no (useful) results are found.
Agreed about DynamoDB being awesome but why the need for three different database types (mysql and sqllite too) for a blog?
Thanks, and oops. Didn't realize I worded my question poorly. I meant
"How much salary should you take if you've raised $500k?"
"How much salary should you take if you've raised $1M?"
"How much salary should you take if you've raised $2M?"
Ye, I find the inbuilt one more reliable, and i've seen a ppt which says bind_dlz is a horrible hack and they'll stop it at some point. Also that doesn't affect what record types can be stored and manipulated in AD.
When I read that, I immediately failed safe and assumed a touch of sarcasm.

Mind you, I'm 47 and compared to some programmers I know of - I am still young (yay!) I reserve "get off my lawn" for those who still snigger about making doilies out of punch cards.
I thought the earlier feedback from HN was especially critical and cynical. I'm curious to know how much of the update to the offer came from the feedback here vis-à-vis the applicants themselves.
Not trust but naïveté. You should trust your wife. There's no way you can or should trust thousands of coworkers.
For those who haven't seen it:

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html

(Ousterhout is the creator of Tcl and both antirez and Richard Hipp of sqlite are Tcl programmers)
To be fair, the OP wanted a <28W TDP NUC, and honestly, I'm also a bit mystified by the question as the market is lousy with them.

If you do a search for Apollo Lake NUC or SBC (6-12W) you'll get dozens of results. The followup Gemini Lake boards are also starting to appear and it looks like there's even a 4.5W Core-M Kaby Lake SBC coming out (LattePanda Alpha - ridiculously overpriced for general use IMO considering you can get 15W 8250U NUCs for less).

Gigabyte, Zotac, Asus and tons of Chinese OEMs all sell 15W U processor NUCs (as well as Apollo Lake options).
I had the same thought
Leave That Life and Move Abroad
Real crime happens on SMS all the time. Why wouldn’t it happen on Facebook messenger which is one of the most popular SMS replacement apps?
This is the modern equivalent of IBM providing technology to germany that allowed Nazis to persecute and kill Holocaust victims more efficiently.

if googlers are more outraged by the leak than by google enabling censorship and violance against a populace, well... that reflects very poorly on our morals as a country. This sort of thing used to be "un-American" but capitalism and the quest for ever more money knows no such hubris.

And lets be clear: it's not that google doesn't make enough money. they want to make MORE money. and that's why they're doing this. And in the end, it's not freedom of information, connecting the world or improving lives that matters to google, it's money. They are becoming increasingly desperate for new sources of revenue to appease their stockholder expectations, and throwing morals out the window is a great way to make a buck if you can get away with it.
Elect new councilors. Have their shenanigans been televised?
Actually, this is a good point!
I hate when I come to make a point and find someone else already has.

To wit: the linked article has turned an obvious outlier (postseason booze consumption due to the Eagle's unlikely playoff run) into "data" to make a fundamentally partisan point.

This isn't the worst example, though. I save this link to bring up in "misleading with outliers" discussions: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/07/worst-e... (Basically a decade old article where someone used Norway's very strange taxation regime due to the nationalized oil industry to "prove" the Laffer curve).
No benchmark means anything on an EC2 shared instance (or probably any other cloud instance) because you don't know what else is running on the machine.
Why do US cities have these taxes if the government isn’t on the hook for the related health issues anyway? Or are they?
- Someone compiled a list called "Andreessen's Favorite Books": https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mmEKySwi0iYjWx_DoigL...

- I compiled a list (see comment on video) from a trailer video for John Doerr's "Measure What Matters": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aW5gdRRn_U
Linode connectivity issues – Newark
You don't have to write dense code in ClojureScript. Most functions I write are general purpose and end up being 5 ~ 10 lines of code.

These general purpose functions can then be composed to do declarative data transformations. This results in code that's largely declarative where what's being done is decoupled from how it's done.

It's not just about having less code, but about eliminating noise and incidental code. My experience is that ClojureScript does a very good job in this regard compared to most alternatives such as TypeScript.
The IPv4 equivalent of that is giving each customer their own IP which happens all the time now. Individual devices within a customer network can be uniquely identified with IPv6 though which is new.
Face to face still the most secure. No tech involved. Just saying.
Laws are an issue and enforceability is an issue.

If a largish group of users could create end-to-end encryption not with a single company but with "readily available materials", then stopping it could be harder.

So it's a combination of state dictate and the practical ability of users to defy that. This isn't saying I'm optimistic, I'm rather pessimistic on any ability of a wide home-grown encrypted-messaging milieu to appear - if few are aiming for this, those few can easily be picked-off. But I don't think we should just give up on any part of this.
It'd be more hilarious if he didn't reference real problems with no obvious solutions short of a painful dismantling of our heavily exploited societal constructs.
The Universe Is Disappearing, and There's Nothing We Can Do to Stop It
If your main problem was interop with vanilla JS libs how can Elm possibly be an improvement over Clojurescript?
A majority of the country has no idea what new neutrality is nor do they care. The only way you get to polls indicating a preference either way is by describing the regulations to the recipient first.