skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the description in the linked article, only the first 5 characters of the hash of the password are sent to the API (and that API is not publicly available in the first place, apparently, but can only be accessed via Mozilla or 1Password's own APIs).

What exactly appears to be the problem?

The reasoning for this feature is clearly laid out, and the underlying "ethics of running a database breach search service", while controversial, are also something Troy has thought about very carefully:

https://www.troyhunt.com/the-ethics-of-running-a-data-breach...
> Not sure if you're agreeing with me or not. Yes, I think KeePass is the best way

I do agree about KeePass. Its code survived in the open for that long. About "Troy is just focusing on what he knows best" - security is hard, be precise :)
Dust off that old Pentium, Linux fans: It's Elive
I don't want to defend Trend Micro here, but since browser history is a primary vector for malware they at least have a reasonable business purpose related to the intended use of the apps. The contract and permission people agreed to when they willingly installed it and accepted the EULA are probably the distinction between them doing it and you breaking into a system and doing it.
I heard once that Mac users see slightly higher prices, but I've never been able to personally confirm that.
I don't know about you, but I rarely buy any electrical equipment off of Amazon, because even if it's UL-listed the one received might be counterfeit.
I don't understand the "Amazon is eating into Facebook's and Google's business" argument, and I've seen it now over and over. Is there really a lot of overlap there?

It seems to me that the brands that advertise most heavily on Facebook and Google are the brands that don't sell much, if at all on Amazon. It seems that the overlap would be those products that are sold on Amazon and advertised via Google or Facebook, which I don't think I've seen much of. To me this seems like it would only make selling on Amazon less of a meritocracy and more of a competition for the deepest pockets.

But even if it's true that there is overlap, then suppose a company cuts its Google ad budget to focus on Amazon. Then all searchers who still use Google will now go to their competitors instead. So why would they do that? If Amazon's ad business is growing it seems likely that it's coming at the expense of the sellers more than the other ad platforms.
The vast majority of universities are heavily subsidized by the federal government. If the DEA doesn't like what your researchers are doing they can likely throw the book at the university in a way that gets them cut off until the issue is resolved (which can take awhile). The last place a university wants enemies is in the federal government.
If your company culture is valuable to you, articulate the things that make it valuable and write them down. Make sure the criteria are specific and measurable, then apply them to the interview and evaluation process.
British Airways hack: Infosec experts finger third-party scripts on payment
Postmortem: VSTS (Azure DevOps) 4 September 2018 incident
If the only problem in the world is lack of finance then great but we have seen plenty of examples of money being spent and then mislaid/stolen/injected into private companies and politicians pockets etc. so the figure is largely meaningless.
That only works if the massive resources spent on Afghanistan and Iraq helped with the Pax Americana. I see no reason to think it did, and a multitude of reasons to think the opposite. How many millions have now died because we knocked over Iraq without anything resembling a real plan for handling the aftermath?
Google trained me long ago that anything sponsored at the top is a scam. I now skip below the ads without a second thought.
They didn't charge you, so it's non-event for you.
Besides the fact to note that this registrar is not someone you want to rely on for any future business.
Tesla thins out its paint palette to “simplify manufacturing” at factory
That's a reasonable suggestion that's hard to argue with - I still don't see it happening. There's no consensus on what words are bad (what makes "kill" worse than "dongle", etc.) or how these should be phased out. Does that mean at the next major version number? By 2025? Will the documentation be internally inconsistent during those years? If some projects agree and others don't there would be cumbersome fragmentation. And... for what? So a couple dozen people in the entire community can avoid the concepts of murder or sex or slavery, as if they didn't exist?

I guess it all comes down to context, really... It's easy for me to sit here and say "This change is meaningless" but I guess if I had lots of influence over Python and I knew people who were actually suffering because of this, I may approach it differently.
Let’s unify around renewable energy for the world.
Google fights plan to extend 'right to be forgotten'
I agree if the prices are now really higher. They don't "feel" higher to me. Here's cat litter that's $17.49 (one of the root comments mentioned this but it might not be the identical product):

https://camelcamelcamel.com/Dr-Elseys-Premium-Clumping-Litte...

Looks like the price has been going sideways for 4 years with some noise up and down, and before that, come down a lot?
I stopped using Reddit because their API is too open. It allows bots to comment/post/upvote/downvote and I realized I could no longer tell what was organic anymore. This could extend to large networks of bots that are there solely to change opinions. Things seemed too weird, certain brand new political subreddits appeared out of nowhere with 26,000+ votes making it to the front page with ease. I even noticed some trends/patterns in local city subreddits as well from shady subreddit owners. After being on there for 6+ years, it all just seemed a tool to change and influence opinions inorganically unless all you visit are highly curated hobby subreddits.
> Except if no one has kids, then our society collapses.

Ah, ha! The top 1% are already on it.. they're pumping fortunes into defeating mortality as we speak.

For those of us who can't afford it, I'm sure they'll be happy to extend our lives in return for some kind of "temporary" employment unto them, at least until we've repaid our debt...

/s
AI beats astroboffins at sniffing out fast radio bursts amid universe's clutter
You can also ask for the meal to be split between yourself and your dining partner. Unfortunately, the few times my wife and I tried this, they split the main food (burger, steak, chicken, etc) but then the doubled up on all the starchy sides (fries, rice, pasta) so it doesn't really benefit the individual too much.
>> To reply to your thoughts, I always had read that restaurants and food in general were cheaper in the U.S. Curious that you found the opposite to be true.

If you compare the same quality food, it is way more expensive in the US. I can get a very decent 3-course meal here (Netherlands) for $20, maybe $30 if you include drinks (wine, beer). To get the same quality food in CA (and I've visited many, many places there) I would have to spend at least $50 without drinks, without tips.

Of course I can get food for $20 or $30 in CA at every corner of the street as well, but the quality will be way below what I expect for that money. The difference in perspective is probably that in the US there seem to be 9 low-end places for every decend mid-range restaurant, while here it's more like 50-50. Not trying to be a snob here, that's just my perception.

At the high-end it's way worse even, by the way. For $100 I can get a royal 6-course high-cuisine meal with accompanying wines for every course here, even at some restaurants rated with a Michelin star. I've been to places in e.g. Palo Alto, which were pretty good, but nowhere near the level of even a single michelin star, and the bill would approach $200 per person after including drinks and tips. Portion size was not a problem in these cases, by the way ;-)
I founded a company when I was 19 and I was about as good a boss as you would expect. 22 year olds are mostly children especially if they went to college since highschool. Given that we have to work to 70 it is not that bad in the greater scheme of things. Young adults if that makes you feel better about it.
>Government shares a significant portion of the blame for this crisis.

Agreed, I think the sheer size of the crisis relates back to deliberate policies to support sub-prime lending. The idea was to help people to afford homes even though they would not normally be considered a good risk.

But opening this up created a vast new market, like adding a wider bottom tier to an already giant pyramid. Along with the vast size came even higher risk, since all these people would be more liable to default if the economy tanked.

Even still because we are accepting more sub-prime liability, it goes beyond poor people to others with better incomes but are buying into a more expensive neighborhood. Now people of all incomes are getting sub-prime loans, and this feed into rising housing prices.
We are in a historical paradise for consumers of selection and low prices, I think we are doing alright. If Amazon doesn't deliver (pun intended) we will go somewhere else. There is no shortage of competition in the retail space.
Fun with Higher Order Reducers
California Poised to Enact Internet of Things Information Security Law
A conical pile of extremely heavy blocks is probably a lot less likely to collapse than any of the buildings around it.
> How would you solve the counterfeit goods and preventing people from gaming the review system problems?

No idea what do to about the reviews, but the first step to the counterfeit goods problem is simple: once you've received X complaints about a counterfeit product, stop selling the product.

Continuing to sell a product for which there are numerous and credible indications that they are counterfeit is borderline fraud.
Yes! Planning to release a few helper functions and document exactly what the procedure is to synchronize with a server. Internally, we know it works.
It seems like even with open source hardware, if the manufacturer is not trusted they could still inject a secret backdoor into it.

I'm both amazed and terrified that hardware has gotten so microscopic that it's essentially impossible to be 100% sure that what you designed is exactly what is on the chip.
A clean theme for fish shell managed by Oh my fish
The debit card thing is complex, and might not stand up long term.

Essentially, to the bank the debit card transactions look like they're coming from an ATM. That 'ATM' is owned by a wholly owned subsidiary of the dispensary that, IDK, ostensibly sells t shirts or something. Then the 'cash' out of the 'ATM' is immediately used in your transaction.

There's no way the banks involved don't know what's going on, but there's just enough plausible deniability that they're going with it for the moment. But all it takes is one dropping the hammer on one instance of this and everyone will be back to pure cash.
Tor(ched): Zerodium drops exploit for version 7 of anonymous browser
Gone are the days when you go to Amazon.com for bargain shopping or in search for better deals. I look at Amazon's Prime service as a shipping company. I like 1-2 days shipping service and sometimes I would pay a buck or two more for a product of Amazon Prime can ship it.
> What exactly appears to be the problem?

My trusted browser should not send out any sensitive information.
Seems likely but I don't subscribe to r/Canada or r/Toronto so I dunno. Also I'm not a scientist or anything I'm just a Reddit user who says it seems likely so don't quote me here.
I'm sorry to say it, but that framing actually makes me see more merit in the comment you're responding to, when I didn't much before. I'm of the opinion that people do deliberately lie to themselves, quite regularly. To me, it's a fundamental part of cognitive dissonance. Whether it applies here, I don't know, but now I have to consider it.
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So what's Microsoft's counter-AWS cloud strategy? Don't be evil
I'll be really curious to hear your feedback on GH if you try it. We've been using it internally in dev for a year, but we've just released this as open source, so there's probably a ton to improve on.
If you had been here during the 90s, you would have seen us being perfectly fine without a war. Not that the 90s were completely peaceful for us, but we had long stretches without much going on.

There was plenty of stupid political infighting, but nothing like the division caused by the invasion of Iraq.
Yeah especially compared to interrupting the editor, grepping code, parsing results getting back in, opening file and line number..
Find in files/project in Visual Studio makes that so much faster, also you can easily jump through all results without ctrl z and fg thousand times.

Versus a single hotkey press. Where is the context switch? :)

I use the first workflow myself pretty often, only with vim, because I work a lot per SSH. And it is just massively slower.
>tough on crime"

Yeah, Clinton and her “superpredators”. Decades later she follows thst gem up with “basket of deplorables”.

Politicians will politick.
What pax has that money bought? Peace in Iraq? Afghanistan? De-militarization of Saudi Arabia? Iran? Israel? Correlation is not causation.
I guess you're being downvoted for pedantry, because your statements are accurate.
How about the "Cold war" and the "War on terror"? I agree that the country is looking for a feel good war where they get out as heroes and winners like WW2. The golf wars were planned to be that but didn't work out.
Agree, it's going to require regime change.
My impression is a lot of LPs are asking “why am I paying 2/20 or 1.5/15 to get returns that are either 40% correlated to a passive fund, or don’t beat the market?”

I think another big issue is that it’s just plain hard to beat the market on a consistent basis.
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." —Goodhart's law
There's few memories I have so vividly of my childhood.

The one that sticks out most is the emotional abuse I'd received from friends parent's when I couldn't finish my entire plate (but still ate a little bit of everything).

Fuck them for that.
I would like to see the stats on an immigrant's chance of making millions in another country. I guess US will show up near the top if not on the top.
> Their basic underlying assumption appears to be that they're no longer in danger of losing customers and can now act accordingly.

Speaking as a longtime customer, I agree: this is what Amazon's behavior feels like to me nowadays. Search no longer works well for me. Reviews and product ratings are no longer trustworthy. The authenticity of products in key categories (e.g., electronics) can no longer be taken for granted. Yet Amazon seems to be... largely unaware of these issues. They seem to be prioritizing a wide range of important strategic imperatives over... customer happiness.

I can't help but think of the famous quote from the Book of Proverbs, 16:18:

"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."
The ads have been there for a long time (I know because I've either spent or managed spending on millions of dollars in clicks). It's not even the first time that it's been written about in the tech press. The share of voice provided to ads on Amazon's search results is not particularly greater than what you see on Google or FB.

The headline ads are a little newer, but they're still more than a couple years old. On many Google searches you have to scroll past the fold to get past the sponsored results.

With search, unless you provide some avenue for sponsored results, you will get a winners-win-more effect in which the top 3 results for any given search will capture the entire market. You will get people complaining about 'discoverability' when they are not complaining about advertising. You can't stop people complaining about stuff: you can only trade around what people are complaining about today.

I will say that as Google has generally subtracted or crippled features that are useful to advertisers over the last several years, Amazon has generally kept things simple and effective. Also, virtually no customer information is exposed to advertisers through use of the platform. Everything about a customer is essentially exposed if you are the seller, however, but that isn't different from running a print catalog.
If you require() the libraries at the top, as it seems to be common in Node applications, it makes sense that more dependencies add to the cold start time.
60-70 scans per minute? A scan per second? Yeah I'm not buying it.
Amazon won't ship Kindle to Sweden either, but they can still be bought using other online stores.
Did you hear those things from either people trying to sell you a wood pellet burner, or people who've just spent a lot of money money on a wood pellet burner?
>Being Massachusetts though, although technically it should be legal since july, they haven't issued any permits to allow it to be sold. Those issues should be resolved with luck in another 2-3 years...

Being Massachusetts the licensing issues will be cleared up once the appropriate pockets are lined or once a relative of a state legislator starts trying to get a license, not a minute sooner or later.
Trying to find real data that amazon prices are going up:

Is it this product?

https://camelcamelcamel.com/Dr-Elseys-Premium-Clumping-Litte...

It looks like the price has been roughly the same for 4 years with jumps up and down. And before that, declined a lot.

If we include inflation the price seems to be declining.

Here's a graph for a chair mat:

https://camelcamelcamel.com/AmazonBasics-Carpet-Chair-Mat-47...

If anything, the graphs seem to show a lack of price discovery as it's not jumping around enough. Maybe camelcamelcamel doesn't sample at a high enough frequency.
When will this confusion end and when will we get definitive answers

The first step is legalization so governments don't get in the way of research, ala https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17959251
ProtonVPN, NordVPN Flaws Open Door to Privilege Escalation
Where are the modern borders in this parallel? I suppose the US borders on Canada and Mexico, but it would be rather impolite to refer to their people as barbarians, and defense from the attacks of those countries is not where all the money is going.

I'm just an outsider in this matter, but it looks a lot like the US is spending money on offensive wars that it elects to engage in, rather than having to protect its borders from "the barbarians". So I don't really see the strong parallel.
Made me think: if we cut corporate taxes, raised the minimum wage, and reduced means-tested welfare, where would we end up? Same position but with less bureaucracy?

Something tells me that the welfare safety net has more societal benefits than a wage floor, but right now we don't really have a respectable form of either compared to 20 years ago.
One answer would be that with improved communication and improved transportation the relative advantage of monopolies has become intolerably large.
From a distance it looked like the country lost its mind with the Clinton situation. I think that was also the start of the current extreme partisanship.
Macros typically have limited scope compared to a compiler, and tend to operate locally.

Also, macros typically do not carry state between macro instantiations.

As such, with a macro it would be very hard to eliminate null from the language.

Therefore, we need compilers.
> I know several parents that live close to their extended family and get help watching and raising their kids all the time.

Anecdotal evidence is a fallacy.

It's equivalent to saying that "smoking a pack each day doesn't kill you because my grandfather smoked until he was 97." As ridiculous as that sounds compared to what you're saying, they are nonetheless equal in terms of evidence.
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The alternative was to let capitalism administer its punishment to reckless speculators.

Instead, they were made whole again at the cost of years worth of future demand pulled forward by easy money policies. Worse, the sense that "we made it across" has caused way too many people to jump back on the risk/debt wagon with gleeful abandon.

The crisis wasn't resolved, but merely postponed.
This should probably be flagged before it ends up a flamewar in here.
No, prices (aside from "Amazon Business" pricing which was a large internal project to achieve what you're describing but only for differentiation between business and personal purchases) are all the same for every user.

I believe most of the rationale was not wanting upset customers annoyed with getting different prices than others first and foremost, but also technically pricing system is already extremely complex and dynamic per user would add an order of magnitude to scaling challenges and viewed as not worth it.. Business pricing itself required many changes to internal system.

Source: worked in Amazon Business / B2B
I agree with the gist of what you're saying--we need more higher quality studies to evaluate the effects of marijuana/cannabinoids.

However, a drug that causes anxiety in some people and relieves it in others is one that might well be used by doctors (with an appropriate level of care). Most psychoactive medicines have varying effects.
I'm not in the US and I can't help but be astounded as to how little debate there is on the effectiveness of the war machine.
I'm not pro war but I can see how just up and leaving Afghanistan would be extremely problematic. However, it seems to me Americans are ok with the apparent lack of results in these wars. I'm not an expert but it seems both pointless and ineffective in any front.
I don't think that Libre office offers online file editing, but you could use it anyways and upload to some kind of dropbox you could access from anywhere.
"Analysis" is not that hackernews-worthy :P
China's Xi calls for Moscow and Beijing to unite to fight protectionism
I don't know that I've seen one of these blockchain ideas that doesn't boil down to "wouldn't it be great if <complicated industry> all used the same database/protocol/interface/ for <complicated process>"

On one hand: of course, yes, that would be awesome! On the other, the coordination problem vastly overwhelms the technical problem i.e. getting a large group of competitive companies aligned around a single standard is impossible, insert link to xkcd 'competing standards' comic here, etc. I get that blockchain 'solves the trust problem' but the problem of distrust between those competitive actors is not related to former.

OTOOH: if the hype around blockchain is what we need to get those gaggles of competitors aligned around something...
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It would have been cheaper and easier to go after the money financing those, if it were not for political issues
That's very interesting, it looks like there is a natural tendency in private market to go to corruption. We see it where retailers ask money from the factories to put the product in some height on the shelf. Online we see it with "search result" placement. We see it in facebook where if you don't pay, they reduce the number of people who will see your post.
I believe that inspection of chips is possible, but it's really really expensive, and necessarily destructive, so you can only test a random sample.

I think the military can / have to afford this; consumers who want a few megaflops for a few cents have to trust the foundry.
One of the purposes of adding the date is to make people aware of whether they may have already read it. It's not an indication of whether the content is out-of-date.
You'll sometimes get charged a "plate fee" for doing this, though.