skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to put words in openbasic's mouth, but here I go anyway:

>what definition of "free" you're using here

Free as in relatively unencumbered by government regulation. I think it's fair to say based off his "GDPR was just the first step" comment that he views increased government control of the internet as the axis along which the freedom he is referring to is measured.

>Are you saying that anything moving away from uncontrolled anarchy is cutting away freedom..

I take that as a given. Anarchy is the state in which people are unconstrained, and are thus maximally free. Anything short of anarchy implies that there is something limiting people's choices.

>...and we therefore shouldn't do that?

Isn't this basically the entire issue with governments? We give up freedoms in exchange for other benefits. Entire political philosophies devote their energy to the question of how much freedom we should exchange.

>The government forbids you to make a company spying in people bathrooms and sell the pictures, would you say that's interference in your free life as well?

Do you really think that openbasic is taking this EU move as a chance to advocate for total anarchy? Or is it more likely that they disagree with this freedom/benefits trade-off and you are strawmanning?
Better PostgreSQL testing with Python: announcing pytest-pgsql and pgmock
If Apple doesn't come up with an alternative iAuth NIH "standard".
U2F keys were invented in part because the glaringly clueless employees at Google were routinely shown to be phishable. People who dismiss phishing as a threat vector betray a lack of understanding of how difficult it is to mitigate reliably.
Scholar isn't a 'sexy' thing to work on at Google. I'm surprised it still exists, frankly. Google products that aren't career-builders tend to languish.
CommandQ – Never accidentally quit an app again
Videogames: Design / Play / Disrupt
They've also deemphasized Skype usernames, which is unfortunate in my most common use case: connecting with someone who requests we use Skype for a one-off international business call.

I find I can type, say, jsmith123 into the search box and I'll somehow either get multiple users listed as having that username or a bunch of similarly named accounts, possibly ranked higher than the one I explicitly typed in.
And he's flagged off the page! Jon Resig, is that you?
Nope, LA. The shop is in El Segundo, CA. So near the fairly well-off beach cities (e.g. Manhattan Beach) as well as some Tesla facilities (a few miles from a dealership and also their Hawthorne hanger)
There are no parts available from anyone but Tesla. So when the $2,500 plastic lens assembly for your brakes is back ordered 3 months, the insurance company is stuck with your rental coverage.
I'm dubious about the attachment of the label 'temple' to Gobekli. Perhaps, instead, it was a school.

(Common as it is, calling any ancient site a 'temple' without some pretty substantial evidence ... could be very misleading.)
Confirmed: Terry A. Davis, maker of TempleOS, has died
There were rumors of this a few days, ago, but his family has now posted confirmation on the TempleOS home page.

http://www.templeos.org/

“In the wake of Terry A. Davis' passing his family has requested supporters of his donate to organizations working to ease the pain and suffering caused by mental illness.”

The family has provided links to two such organizations on that page.
What's cruel about a warm, clean bed with 3 meals a day and clean clothes?

The modern carceral system is a cruelty engine designed to perpetuate a state of cyclic incarceration for the poor, to the enrichment of those who own for-profit prisons. The idea that anyone could defend the state of the modern prison system in America is mind-boggling.

Prison does technically feed and house people, and does so at a cost an order of magnitude higher than individual cities simply doing so at their own cost. This money goes to lobbyists who advocate for three-strikes-style laws to increase the prison population, and to line the pockets of prison owners and the politicians they pay. The imprisoned are without liberty or the opportunity to pursue happiness, though they are still technically alive, but only because if they were dead they would not generate revenue.
Zoom is the best software in the world for this.
Still haven't found anything better than Orgzly on Android syncing to the PC and other phones with Syncthing.
Vox: How an MS Paint artist made this picture
I believe the FSF position is that non-updatable firmware can be considered "part of the hardware", while updatable firmware cannot. I think they're concerned that updated firmware could change how the device functions in ways you can't control.
I hope so too. But there is policy, and there is democracy, and democracy is more important than policy. The people of Boise decided how to govern their community. That decision should not be overturned without a compelling constitutional basis.
> We're not talking about the Deep South, which doesn't have a homeless problem.

Wut? Atlanta has a massive homeless population. So do all of the Florida metros, Tampa was making national headlines last year for arresting people for not obtaining onerous permits to feed the homeless...
The NYU article also says:

> When dealing with individuals who are not experienced in talking with reporters, journalists should make sure ground rules and potential consequences are clear, and then perhaps offer leeway.

I am not sure, however, how much Musk deals with reporters via email and how often he uses these terms
Sleeping outside is almost never just sleeping outside. There’s open defecation, drug use, public urination, and needles left on the ground that usually accompany it. It’s a major public health hazard.
How Your Insecurity Is Bought and Sold – Mark Manson
APP is great if you're traveling abroad or if there is a specific threat you need to mitigate for a few weeks, but it's not really a viable longterm solution since it disables all of the third-party apps that candidates need to use for their campaigns. For the average candidate, they're going to improve their chances of winning much more by using a CRM than by forgoing its use on the off chance a state-sponsored attacker tries to steal their data from Intercom or HubSpot or whatever. When you're starting out with zero supporters and zero dollars and need to somehow connect with over 50% of voters within the span of a few months, it just isn't a super realistic trade off to make. Especially when you can enable almost all of the same security features piecemeal without it.
Looking at the archive and knowing that it will never have new content added is really hitting me hard right now :(
There are a lot of games overall. They made this entire post about how using a blob on a co-processor is fine because FSF guidelines have an exception for that. So after some gymnastics, you can make it look like your main processor needs no blobs. I don't know how they wrote this article with a straight face: https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-solving-the-first-fsf-ryf-hurd...
I once worked at a company that had a successful product ($40M in sales, $15M in arr via support plans). They did a rewrite, that of course went a year long and was poorly handled by sales and marketing ie it was talked about freely with customers and prospects; contributed to sales drying up while they all waited for the new hotness.

I knew the rewrite was going take a lot longer than they were saying, both due to common sense and because there were conflicting goals from ceo and cto.

I went to the ceo and made a case for a back up plan, myself and a few others could continue on the old busted version; bug fixes and minimal enhancements only, insurance if you will. I really thought about buying it but had no way to finance anything like that. CEO didn’t bite and was in process of selling the company to a PE firm.

I left when the new version finally shipped with half the features and twice the bugs. The PE installed CEO wrecked the sales org and sales never recovered.

As a side note, a foreign firm had pirated a much older version 10 years prior, rebranded and was #3 with it in that market.
https://webkit.org/status/#feature-web-authentication
Wow. Apparently they don't fully understand how their own custom domains work?

Medium custom domains depend on a CNAME, which aliases all record types. This means once the CNAME is in place, no separate CAA is needed -- Medium just needs to serve a CAA record on the CNAME target, and their customers would never have to worry about the CAA.
Statemaps in Rust
Does anyone here have any contacts with the MOMA? I think TempleOS should be submitted.
Ghost imaging with the human eye
The homeless advocates behind this lawsuit also assume that street life is somehow preferable to jail or prison, where occupants are provided 3 square meals a day, warm and clean clothing, a clean dedicated space to sleep, and all the free health services you need.

Please explain what that meant if it wasn’t an argument that they’re better off behind bars. Try not to argue in the alternative, because Christ almighty is that boring.
> the phishing scenario that is one of the biggest threats to campaigns

What phishing scenario, and how is TFA completely defeated by it? The article just says "the best defense against phishing is a 'security key'", but doesn't explain why other options like TFA are inadequate.

I didn't say TFA would be the ultimate solution, but that it's likely to be supported by more things that people use (like apple devices..). If you choose a solution that might be technically superior but require people to make major workflow changes, you'll find they won't use it. TFA seems like a good compromise to me, so I'd really like to understand why you think it is not.
I wish! Unfortunately, as far as I know, OSM building vectors aren't available for the vast majority of suburbs in the US/world, which is where I think AgentMaps would be most useful.

There's some paid services like http://osmbuildings.org but they're just as limited... and paid!!

I also didn't want to rely on a paid provider: that's why I chose Leaflet/OSM instead of Google maps, which has polygons for buildings. I felt pretty vindicated a few months later when they (apparently) raised their prices ~1400%, though!

Microsoft did release this (https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-06/microsoft-releases-125-m...), and I thought it'd have a lot more coverage. But their blog post makes it sound like it's already been integrated with OSM, which doesn't seem to have those hoped for polygons.

I was wary about generating houses just from the street vectors at first, and wasn't sure how I would even do it, but it ended up working out! They also made translating positions within units (like (1,1) for the back corner) convenient, which makes navigating agents around a lot easier.

So I'm less disappointed about the lack of building polys in OSM than I was at the beginning. I might say it kind of benefited me, even!
The author explicitly mentioned that they were expecting x86 behavior, but on x86 int32* is 4 byte aligned. In fact they were really expecting some mythical version of x86 where all types are 1-byte aligned.
Oh my; I thought the images were blurry so you couldn't easily read Musk's email that was "off the record".
I mean.. if you're gonna go there then we need to either provide homes for every homeless person or execute every last one of them.

The only alternatives to rampant lawlessness.
The other very nice thing about working on Mercedes is that the cars seem engineered to be serviced over their life. Things that need removed have actual bolts instead of the plastic “Christmas tree fasteners”. Care is given to access for common tasks. Sure, they come up with a few weak points, but routine service is satisfying (almost a joy) because you know it can go back together without rattles, loose parts, or a trip to the dealer for a few plastic BS fasteners.

MB parts are readily available and reasonably priced in general.

Source: I turn all the wrenches on our cars and most of my parents’ cars, except only tire changes and bodywork. Over the years, that’s 5 Mercedes, 2 Hondas, 2 Smarts, 1 Alfa, 2 VWs, 1 LEAF, 2 Jeeps, and 2 classic Mustangs.
True, but once you introduce a bill of rights all your commom law protections go out the window.. including stuff you didnt know you had
Lets flip the desirability question. Imagine we invent fast space travel and go out there and meet a smart alien species. Evolution for these aliens has given them an extremely robust bodies and, say, ten million years ago these aliens stopped dying or getting seriously ill. You say to them, "This is not the way to live. Its a much better life if after 100 years every individual self-destructs because XYZ?"

Can you fill that blank? I can't.

Edit: also read this https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
I, for one, salute you, sir. Well played.
Thanks! The design tradeoff between ridership and coverage is very interesting, and ripe for political discussion.

I wonder if there are opportunities for working with on-demand ride companies for coverage, while focusing infrastructure on high-ridership corridors. Fairness of access for disadvantaged people would be a problem to solve.
This. I used Evernote off and on until the Apple did a big Notes update. I didn't even install Evernote on my newest computer.
The rich corrupt government and steal from medicaid, literally killing people for another yacht... so don't give us that pseudo-mertiocratic tripe.
Yeah, with the schizophrenic twist that you can listen in and talk to voices from very far away, from the direction they come from.
> native
I thought this was universal knowledge. I'm not requesting another ArXiv, but a site providing a similar quality selection of papers
In some of his videos his parents yell at him for racism and anti-semitism. IIRC they kicked him out at some point.
Right, but US users see the warning too is what the parent post was getting at.
I've moved most of my users to Microsoft Teams and its not much better.
> That’s not how the US constitution works. Whether or not the parents were here legally, if the child was born on US soil, they are still a citizen.

> So it is still not on them to prove their innocence. It’s on the government to prove that they were not born in US soil.

That's what the government is doing by providing strong evidence that the mother wasn't in the country at the time. If the person contends that she actually was, they have the opportunity to present their own evidence of that.

> You claimed that it had to do with politics and not race. But Trump was more than willing to welcome people who would vote against his party’s interest. Why would that be?

Because they are not those people. The people who (as most of that country does) prefer socialist policies are already living in a place that has them, so they do not come and do not change election outcomes. The few people who do come are the ones less likely to support socialist policies.
I dont know, why there is soo much hate for evernote in here. I understand , the valuation seems crazy. I have been using evernote for years and it suits my needs. I write journals daily and tag them with keywords. That way, i can read my past journal and laugh at myself.
Well fairphone was even more of a gimmick than this one. Other than word fair, it was equally useless as all other phones due to the usual planned obsolescence and lack of software. This one, assuming it ships, will at least be serviceable if they get a mainline stack running without too many blobs. That doesn't make it practical or attractive, but at least you won't be forced to chuck it in the bin after a couple of years due to lack of software.
At least the old one still works. I have still have the DMG on my computer just in case it decides to auto-install the new one so I can go back.
No.

One of the most longstanding principles of functional legal systems is that the law must be capable of being obeyed. (See Lon Fuller's famous book "The Morality of Law" for the canonical discussion.)

When legal rules are literally impossible to obey for some people, they cease acting as legal rules and just become status crimes. If it's illegal to sleep outdoors, then anyone who doesn't have the money to sleep indoors becomes a criminal no matter what they do.

If you're seriously interested in engaging with this question, I've written about it some from pp. 1059 onward of this law review article.[1] Jeremy Waldron, a really important philosopher of law, has also written several articles on the subject, his "Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom" is particularly important.

[1] http://paul-gowder.com/Equal_Law_in_an_Unequal_World.pdf
I think it's unfair to imply this relationship between mental illness and treating people badly. Most people with mental illness don't do things like that, and Musk can be perfectly mentally healthy and just be an asshole.
If I show you an impostor website purporting to be Gmail, and get you to type in your password plus authenticator code / SMS code / app notification code, I can get into your email account.

If I do the same and your second factor is a security key, I get a useless binary blob that I can't turn around and hand to Google.

The U2F key gets the actual URL of the page you are on from the browser, so it can't be fooled by impostor websites, however clever. That's the difference, and the reason that Google moved their employees onto security keys. Too many people were getting phished otherwise.
These companies have chargers all over central LA. They tend to partner with strip malls and grocery stores to install them in their lots.

https://www.evconnect.com/
https://www.chargepoint.com/
http://www.blinkcharging.com/

I'm considering an electric car for my (meager currently, though probably increasing soon) driving needs and the idea of charging every few days while running errands is great.
Serious reply --- wouldn't the reverse be true? A school in ancient times would more closely resemble a religious institution than anything like a modern school?
Life insurance doesn’t care, the car insurance companies care in situations where you need to figure out who is at fault.

The answer probably depends on state law and other factors. With autopilot the driver is nominally in control — which is why Tesla aggressively does the PR dance to blame the driver. My guess is that due to the newness and arbritration clauses, they have gotten lucky.

States can change that though — for awhile you couldn’t lease a car in New York because the law let someone injured in an accident due the leasing company!
Agreed about the dealers missing out on revenue from annual services, and Tesla being smart to avoid a dealer network in the first place.

However there is very good money to be made in spare parts, and the dealer network can be a huge part of that. From what I've read Tesla is dropping the ball on spare parts at the moment.
Sounds a lot like well-run self-driving buses would be even more efficient, were the streets devoid of other traffic.
It may not relate to technology, but it does relate to the leadership of a closely-watched tech company. What if this were Steve Jobs? I doubt we'd flag it.
The outage appears to be ongoing, and its having ripple affects in other regions (management portal unresponsive, autoscale and other services not firing in West US at least for me).

Also unable to lodge a support ticket because the portal fails to identify me as having paid support (that API request appears to timeout).
The last straw for me was having an account stolen after foolishly resetting the account password while on hotel wifi. No TFA, that part was my fault.

The investigation took weeks and the final resolution was "the account is gone, the credit in it is gone, just create another account."
They're trying to protect work-related communications. These can be separated from personal accounts.
Nuance, thank you. Black & white thinking makes me suspect a person maybe either fresh off the turnip truck, tending towards dramatic narcissistic or never slept rough. The world is only easy and mertiocratic for the relatively rich.

In real life, the very poor are put-upon, berated, judged, harassed, kicked and even murdered for the crime of being poor.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17912618
Agreed.

With that, though, it sounds like the size of this datacenter is way out of scale compared to the rest of their DC's. They are really going to need to break apart the services that they host there to make sure that DC to DC and region to region fail over works correctly.
Actually yes, the law being overturned said it was illegal to sleep in public places anywhere in the city. What kind of limitations on where people can sleep are you imagining?
One could precisely define solvency conditions. "If cash minus liabilities exceeds $1million, perform_unwind_operation()" _Obviously_ these conditions could entail more complex business logic

Obviously this idea is getting HNmocked and I'm not going to be able to talk my way out of it, and yes I realize that ideas of property ownership and managing contract disputes are one of the cornerstone of the justice system and society itself.

In that way I am somewhat of a crypto radicalist and I'm talking my book as I do have a long crypto position.
Steve Jobs was young when personal computing was young. Likewise, Jeff Bezos and the internet.

These people succeeded despite themselves and became better with age. These all fit with the OPs argument.
It all depends. If you live in Brooklyn, it might be 3x more.
MusicKit JS
[random idea] Rather than worry endlessly about SOCs and radios not being open enough, why not build a protocol on top of blackbox components that eliminates, through some kind of encryption, the need for openness?

To push the argument to the extreme, even if you find a radio component that matches your requirement of free, it's still going to talk to a radio tower that you don't control, running a software stack that you don't approve. This problem never ends, unless you imagine some end-to-end channel that you control, and then you don't care about the lower layer's lack of openness.

Does that make any sense?
"There's probably not enough space for a meaningful exploit" is never a strategy that pans out.

Hardcoded signature validation can go a long way, but of course it really needs to be bulletproof, and also take e.g. downgrade protection into consideration.

An added physical switch, while more secure, is (as the previous commenter mentioned) so impractical, that it will more likely lead to less updating of vulnerable microcode.
> It's entirely reasonable to expect Azure to handle the loss of a single DC and not have a 14+ hour global outage.

(I apologize if the following sounds snarky. I don't mean it that way, I just can't find better wording.)

Microsoft has repeatedly violated my sense of "reasonable" in the past, including in recent times with Windows 10. Therefore this kind of glitch isn't very shocking to me.
I too have saved a bunch of money for my kids and none of it is in a 529. For the exact same reason. Maybe they won’t want to go to college.