skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If the CoC is used to bully people, then fight the bullying.

Why add something to a project that begins an endless spiral of fighting? Does this seem productive to you?
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According to Nicea and the Christian tradition, there is one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Jesus is the Son incarnate, but not the Father. You may not think this makes sense, and that's fine, but it is quite different from what you are claiming above.
Smartz announces new smart contracts management interface
Protonmail. It is a free service from a company in Switzerland with end to end encryption. To add your own domain it charges few bucks a month. I used to self host but have moved to it completely.
Is this true for chromium also?
(I don't know why we're doing it in English)
For the more general tech (physics and stuff) — https://sly2m.livejournal.com/ https://sly2m.livejournal.com/tag/%D0%BD%D0%B0%20%D0%BF%D0%B... series especially recommended

For programming, I enjoy https://igoradamenko.com/blog/
These seem mostly dead, but might come back:
- https://medium.com/@kovchiy
- https://medium.com/@xanf
Here's a guy working on V8 who ocassinally posts / talks in Russian: https://mrale.ph/talks/
I feel like maybe if enough people complain about sites like these on HN, every time they come up, eventually someone will listen, and then we can go back to the good old days when no one hijacked the scrolling function to try to control your browsing experience.

Metaphorically, this is grabbing someone's face and making them look at something you are presenting. It's rude, and should only be used in life-critical situations.

I strongly prefer that my attention be led or suggested, and not heavy-handedly forced. This style of breaking text sections with photograph wipes makes me feel as though I am being forced to read the unholy hybrid of article and photo essay through a kaleidoscope.

But this is what reader mode is made for, right? Switching made me feel better immediately, but most of the pieces of the article were just gone. Missing photos; missing text. The only way to get the whole thing is to submerge your will and submit to the slideshow presentation.

I'd almost rather have them lay it out in a paged medium like an old-school magazine and present it in a PDF. I hate having my face grabbed.
You as a hotel operator can use booking.com's software to manage your entire inventory. Thus they know how many rooms are available. This is common in small guesthouses and hotels - but obviously not in larger hotel chains.
The problem is that if poor solutions as far as usability are present, you'll have the telecos win.

This is a race against Mobile Authentication Taskforce and their fundamentally insecure accounts. If the solution can't beat them, it'll get trampled.

Those other "unsafe actors" are trying to completely take over authentication, meanwhile you need 2 $50 hardware security keys at a minimum to safely use this tech. This will lose on consumer pricing and consumer uptake to the insecure Mobile Authentication Taskforce and you won't GET the option to use a FIDO2, because you'll have the choice of insecure mobile auth or nothing.

You have to win against the public or they'll be suckered by bad and insecure authentication that is easier to use, and the things you want to use will be insecure anyways.
This is the main thing that keeps me on Apple Mail. In any kind of work context it's absolutely required for me, and the other alternative mail clients mostly concentrate on being pretty, unfortunately.
Nobody is outraged? You obviously weren't around last night when my girlfriend found out that Google photos was automatically uploading all our nudes off her phone without her knowing about it. Pissed off would be a massive understatement for how she really felt about it.

I've already been immediately disabling Google Photos on my own phone because of this for years.

I've already been using Chromium instead of Chrome for both my Windows and OS X computers. Now I will be making a real effort to switch to Firefox.

It's over. Chrome is the new IE6.

Go fuck yourselves Google. You are trash to me now.
We left the rules such that we could enable panic in release if the performance is ever acceptable.

Wrapping exists, but I don’t think anyone has bothered to make similar things for saturating...
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I 100% agree with you. Software is "soft". Making changes to a code base is very cheap. Iteration just makes sense in software even for critical systems. If you build a suboptimal bridge, you have to live with it. If you write suboptimal software, you can test the actual product and fix it before you even ship. You can't really test a bridge outside of simulations. GP's comparison is apples to oranges in a lot of ways.
I don't know this for a fact, but I always assumed that it was just to create a false sense of urgency around your booking.
> My favorite anecdote was a front end engineer claiming "I went in and profiled our code and made an action go from 5 seconds to under a tenth of a second!" To which I can only go "Wait, there was a user-space action that took 5 seconds?!"

And I'm guessing there was, and you didn't notice it (or stopped noticing it at some point), because that's what people do. They get used to this nonsense. Especially if they have no power to improve it.
You get that cool stuff because you are signed into your Google Account on your laptop and on your phone. The controversy is over the new behavior of being signed into your Chrome browser by default. Do you really want by default to have your browsing history sent to Google?
Seemed like a lot of progress from my initial MVP, and because the initial Show HN didn't get a lot of attention.
I feel like Google is already doing it with AMP.
"Gun Control" was not what was searched for, it is not up to Google to tip the scales on what ideological conclusion is seen, only what item is searched for with relevant results. They have a moral obligation to be neutral. If you were in Saudi Arabia, searched for "women's rights" and Google switched it to an article on "obedience to your husband," I'm sure you'd have a huge problem with that.
> On other hand, they have more experience handling failure than 99% of companies so I think 99% companies are better off with Azure/AWS/AliBaba.

Nowhere near 99%.

Running a large service on top of Azure or AWS is not a walk in the park. You don't manage hardware and you deal less with provisioning, but you need a significant level of expertise in dealing with idiosyncrasies of the particular hosting you've chosen.

I've seen companies transition to AWS. Very often they spend months "figuring things out". And then it turns out that they've just traded low-level problems which everyone knows how to solve for high-level problems no one knows how to solve.

Also, just because AWS/Azure is running doesn't mean your service is up. You end up managing high-level company-specific infrastructure on top of low-level one-size-fits-all infrastructure. Both can fail.

A lot of companies jump onto AWS/Azure/other big clouds because of hype, bandwagon effect and the general feeling everything will become "world-class" by magic. In many cases there is no legitimate cost-benefits analysis that compares costs of AWS switch to costs of fixing whatever problems company's current infrastructure suffers from. Also, almost no one factors in the costs of vendor lock-in and "too big to care" effect.

There are definitely use cases where Big Cloud makes sense, but it's nowhere near 99%.
> No loans or savings for instance, or overdraft

They offer all of these in Germany. Afaik extending credit lines is regulated differently across the EU and it might take time to scale it out. I don't understand why they don't offer savings and investments in more countries though, given they are only an intermediary.
I agree!!! Software does 10,000 things correctly. Then people complain when one thing doesn't work 100% perfectly.
Except they wiped clear their extension "store" semi-recently and there are still things I need which do not exist. Every time there's a flareup of "Chrome is evil" I take a look, and then close Firefox with "still not for me".
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I'm starting to put support for Tag Connect in my PCBs. This is a really simple and elegant way to pogo into a board without having to build a clumsy fixture.

http://www.tag-connect.com/

The cost to add support on a board is literally zero.
> You don’t get to say that without providing evidence

Put a parakeet in a windowless room and close the door. I can reasonably make the statement that the parakeet is perching, looking around, and/or preening its feathers, because that's what parakeets do. I wouldn't need direct observational evidence to make this statement.

Panopticon-level spying is what intelligence agencies do. It's what they've striven to do, as much as possible, without getting caught. The Binney and Snowden leaks corroborate this, and there's no reason to believe they've suddenly stopped trying to. OP doesn't need evidence to make the reasonable claim that intelligence agencies spy on us, and likely do it by hoovering up our data for analysis.
How many households have a 15 year old and an 8 year old?
Absolutely. Our argument (and to be fair, we are a provider) is that if you don't trust your provider then they're basically just a dumb blob transit pipeline. There's not much value add you can do there.

So we have focused on building the best thing we can for people who _do_ trust their provider, and also on having a business model which means that we can be a trustworthy provider because we have no secondary "customer" who is actually paying the bills. We don't have split loyalties.
Medical "insurance" companies actually don't do much underwriting any more. Most policies are self insured by large employers. The insurance company just manages the provider network and administers claims.

Even medical billing is gradually going away with the shift to value-based care and accountable care organizations (ACOs).
> all your personal emails are stored in [someone else's] servers.

Well, yeah. That's true for everything except for hardware you actually own.

They're saying it's better than storing it on Google's servers, not that it's bulletproof.

There really isn't a way to have impenetrable email. It's all about what type and level of risks you're willing to take.

E.g. are you concerned more about rubber stamps or software exploits? Are you more concerned about usage pattern profiles or someone actually reading the content of your messages?

Different people have different priorities and there is no one single best option.
This is deeply troubling.
copy & paste from that link:

" This encryption happens as it is written to disk, without the customer having to take any action. Google encrypts data with distinct encryption keys, even if they belong to the same customer. Data is encrypted using 128-bit or stronger Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

Google encrypts core G Suite data while it is “in transit” as well, whether it is traveling over the Internet between the customer and Google, or moving within Google as it shifts from one data center to another. We encrypt this data between Google and our customers using HTTPS with forward secrecy. "

The truth nobody knows but it seems that they encrypt with their own keys so that means they can open the data and read it.
Because they functioned just fine on lark schedule.
It also has many outstanding unfixed bugs. For instance, occasionally and for no readily apparent reason the Start button will stop working. It simply won't do anything anymore. It may or may not be fixed by rebooting, reinstalling all store apps, or other various nonsensical steps, which almost never actually work. Ultimately, the only reliable solution is to reinstall the OS. If you search google for "Windows 10 start button doesn't work" you will see that this bug dates back nearly a decade now.

Let that sink in for a minute. Microsoft has somehow managed to screw up a goddamned menu so badly that it can break in multiple ways they don't know how to fix, and rather than fix this bug they have devoted their resources to bringing us features we never asked for.

That's today's Microsoft. Adding (broken) new things no one wants, changing things for the sake of change (see: new settings panels), and never fixing any bugs. It's as though they've embraced the worst qualities of open source developers, only they charge you for the privilege of using their OS and still have the gall to force ads on you.
I see this kind of story very often. Friends and family that have terrible experiences with famous tech companies. I find it awkward that I, in particular, never had trouble like this before.

Maybe, as others had already mentioned, I ignore them because of all the overwhelming times that software worked amazingly well for me.
I spent 15 years coaching college paintball and the Socratic method was invaluable to me in getting important topics across.

Why?

The problem:

- Paintball has game theory that is very different from traditional sports

- Most people haven't had 15 years of playing time when they get to college and want to play paintball (as opposed to say, soccer).

- I needed to get people up to speed quickly.

So here is an example of how I used the Socratic method (and hopefully you learn something too!):

- Me: Given two teams A and B, what are the odds that A beats be? This is not a trick question.

- Player: 50%?

- Me: Correct! Now if someone on team B gets eliminated what are the odds of team A winning? In other words, what are the odds of winning a 5 vs 4? This is kind of a trick question as I had to collect a lot of stats to determine this.

- Player: I don't know, somewhere between 60 and 80%??

- Me: Close! That's what most people guess and the correct answer is 75%. Next question: if you are on team A and you are eliminated, what happens to team B's odds of winning?

- Player: I guess they would go from ~25% to 50%

- Me: In other words...?

- Player: They double!

- Me: Right! So what do you think is the most important thing to do if you are in a 5 v 4?

- Player: Stay alive?

- Me: Excellent!

Had I just told people "Don't get eliminated in a 5v4! Do you understand?" and they said "Yes!" I wouldn't really know if they understood or not.

This is why, when talking to tech folks, I often explain the Socratic method as a cross between programming and debugging.

The questions you ask a. allow you to "debug" the thought process of the person you are speaking too and b. can act as a directed linked list to an end state you are looking for.

I would also add, the Socratic method can be done completely with positive reinforcement. B.F. Skinner is famous for saying "People would be amazed what can be achieved with only positive reinforcement."

That being said, some organizations e.g. law schools, the military etc believe that the anxiety in a more punishment based system causes the information to "stick" better.

YMMV.
And how exactly does it benefit people who are desperate for money if you take away their sources of money?
Good point.

The internet will likely be split in multiple dimensions. Nations will split off. Companies obviously have an incentive to split off. We can see it being split up, for example, racially and along gender lines. Etc etc etc.

And in the final analysis, maybe that's just the flawed component in the architecture of the internet. Humans.

It likely wouldn't matter how easy a technology makes it for us to talk and communicate with each other, most of us will just use said technology to beat each other over the head.
G Suite isn't private because Google isn't in the privacy or productivity business. It's an advertising company that happens to have a product line which looks like a productivity suite. Charging money for it is just a nifty way to defray the costs of collecting data for advertising purposes.
Cool project! I have always been interested in the amateur radio scene.

So encrypting amateur radio comms is illegal in the US? Is there a particular reason for this?
I don't know what's going on, but from the perspective of somebody who follows the beta and dev channels of Chrome and Chrome OS, I can tell you that a drastic change in direction happened in M69, and almost everything about it has been awful.

This new direction is expensive, unpopular, confusing, and in general sets Chrome (and Chrome OS) back something like two years in terms of quality and user trust.

It's no laughing matter, whoever is in charge of this major change should be seriously evaluated; because if you go by the results alone, it is hard to distinguish from corporate sabotage.
The browser sends the domain as part of the request to the U2F key; so a MITM would need to be a true network-level MITM and not just a fake website MITM. The user would then have to ignore the cert error as well.

I'm not saying it's not impossible, but the it's not the primary attack U2F is designed to prevent.
I believe that I need it to feel safe. But ironically, I don't feel safe saying that here after reading the rest of the comments. Posting from a throwaway for obvious reasons.
People can own property under communism, it's capital that cannot. Who owns the property where we do business? The workers, not the state (which IMO shouldn't even exist under communism).
I use and appreciate those conveniences too, without having ever signed in to Chrome or using Chrome Sync.

Many privacy-conscious people make all the same tradeoffs that everyone else does; like you, they've decided that what they're giving up is worth what they're getting in return. The problem with this change is that for many people there is no benefit and they were not asked, so they feel they are having something forcefully taken away from them without getting anything in return.
If you search for "United States inventors" you get the list you were probably expecting.

Google seems to like to include results appropriate for common phrases if you include only part of the phrases. My guess is that the "american" in "american inventors" brings in results for "african american inventors" too.
The day is not that far, when you look to buy say car insurance, and you get $XYZ as a quote. Your ur friend gets $ABC where $ABC <<< $XYZ. Why? because the profile that all these corporation built on you seems to suggest you have the character profile of a 19 year old.

Is there a way you could prevent this?
Yes, if you care about privacy and not let someone build that database in the first place.

It's not only/always the NSA that we need to worry about..
You can already see this in some sense. A flight ticket could cost more if you look for it using a Mac instead of a PC. The road to creepy data mess is not that far.
I don't want to attack EFF, I think they are on the right side, but it's just a general feeling I've got.

For example when the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal broke loose, that was the perfect opportunity for them to go out against private surveillance, guns blazing. Their reaction was late and with an article like "here's how to protect against Facebook tracking", advising people to opt out in their Settings and to install Privacy Badger, this happening when everybody else was freaking out and doing #DeleteFacebook pieces.

I donated to EFF modest amounts in the past and probably will do so again, because the fights they are fighting are good for us. Maybe they pick their battles, I don't know. But I'm seeing a general pattern in their attacks, which is that they go very light on companies, compared with how they deal with governments.

Maybe it has to do, as always, with their source of funding. I can imagine that they received significant donations from the philanthropists of Silicon Valley. I don't care much though. My general point being that there's too much emphasis lately on government surveillance and control from privacy organizations and less on Google/Facebook surveillance.

I'm glad that there's now mindfulness about it in this community though.
Two economists were walking down the street. One of them saw a $20 bill lying on the ground and reached down to pick it up.

The other economist, startled, said, "what are you doing?"

The first economist said, "I'm picking up that $20 bill."

The other economist was bemused. "There can't possibly be a $20 there to pick up. Why, someone would have already picked it up!"

The first economist straightened up, and considered carefully the words of his colleague. Convinced that it must be his imagination, he nodded, and the pair of them walked off.
The answer is obvious: time-travelers on a 'paleo hunting experience' trip.

"We'll just target 100,000 years before the earliest known human presence."
That last part, which comedian said that?

I know I have heard it before somewhere but I forgot.
This direction gives me huge hope we'll soon see mouse support for iPad. It's the greatest handicap to doing productive work, particularly text editing.
Rektang was being facetious with that comment, as tipped off by the “(ahem)”, implying the real reason we make services for poor inaccessible so they won’t be able to use them and thus drive up costs for them.
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Amazon won't commit to uptime beyond refunding you any charges when they're down. This is insufficient for critical infrastructure.

Disclaimer: I am in risk management for financial infrastructure.
I believe the motivation is that the Amateur service is largely self-policed. If communications are encrypted, it becomes harder to encourage such self-enforcement.
I'd be surprised if it weren't easier for you personally to relocate to a different country than to opt out of any interaction with google.
It’s worth knowing that krypton (https://krypt.co) can make your smartphone act as a U2F or Fido2 (as well as SSH and PGP) device. You can use this instead of a Yubikey, as a backup, or just to inexpensively play with the concept and test out your backup protocols.

Also, some cryptocurrency wallets, like Trezor and the Nano S, can do U2F. These can be effectively backed up to paper with 12 or 24 word seed phrases, and can serve as a good (if bulky) backup option.

Still, save your backup codes for each site you register.
I would like to go on record to say that the NSA aren't my enemy either. Definitely not. Especially the analyst reading this - great suit!
We use both human and artificial intelligence, 60/40, all the decisions are deeply researched and analyzed.

We are planning to describe our approach in detail on the official blog:

https://prodecide.life
It will as a cautionary tale if nothing else. If NC's groundwater is polluted from coal ash and their tourist industry devastated from their head-in-the-ground attitude while South Carolina thrives it'll eventually force change, despite (IMHO) lobbying by energy industry interests.