skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've always been a bit perplexed as to how registrar's are created. How could I become a registrar?

In all that time of being perplexed, you never thought to do a simple Google search? https://www.google.com/search?q=how+registrar%27s+are+create...
Why not? Because you’re on vacation! That’s a good enough reason for me.
Microsoft installing third-party apps on clean Windows 10 installs
Will others fork his proof to fill in the gaps? Is there a github for maths proofs?
When measuring elapsed times, instead of executing date(1) to get the current time, use $SECONDS:

SECONDS
Each time this parameter is referenced, the
number of seconds since shell invocation
is returned. If a value is assigned
to SECONDS, the value returned upon
subsequent references is the number of
seconds since the assignment plus the
value assigned. If SECONDS is unset, it
loses its special properties, even if it is
subsequently reset.

Like so:

throttle() {
local -i limit
((limit = SECONDS + $1))
while read line; do
if ((limit < SECONDS)); then
((limit = SECONDS + $1))
echo "$line"
fi
done
}

Try it like so:

$ yes | throttle 2

Of course, that's a bad example in that yes(1) will go as fast as you let it and it always outputs the same thing. In the case of yes(1) the better thing to do would be to sleep between reads, but yes(1) is a special case.
This may lead to ecosystem crashes, but almost certainly not extinction. The gene drive, here, relies on two major features: high reproductive rate of mosquitoes, and the maintenance of the elements responsible for the drive.

First of all, geographically or reproductively isolated populations will not be affected and will repopulate.

Second, the components of the drive may recombine, creating offspring that will not be affected by the drive, and will out-compete the affected individuals within two generations.

Needless to say, the number of mosquitoes (of this species) will plummet. Perhaps, other insects, including mosquito species, will take advantage of their absence. But given their ubiquity and population sizes, some will survive. Maybe the genetic bottleneck that occurs will make them more susceptible to disease, but that's minor.
There is a difference in intent.

If I give a third party explicit permission to access my email, I am doing it to benefit me. It’s not behind some blob of text in a Eula. Google says specifically, you are giving this app the right to read your email.

If Google didn’t have that functionality and the same user gave the third party access by giving them thier username and password. The third party extension still has access to your email and now they have an unencrypted password that the user is probably using in other places.

I’m assuming that there is also some type of method to ensure the token is only being used by a certain extension so that if the token is leaked it can’t be used by another app.
Louis XV if I recall (French).
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Zeus (YC S11) is growing quickly, seeking front end engineer
I don’t doubt that the Chrome team is right about the problem the majority of their users are facing. It’s just that those users are also unaware of the privacy implications, and supplanting a bad problem with a worse one ain’t a fix.
That's somehow better?
>agreed, but it becomes a bit of "boy who cried wolf!" If everything is 'over the top' and 'worst ever', etc, then nothing is.

But should we just allow the normalization of such behavior? I don't think so; I think we should continue to call him out on it.

>there's legitimately enough to be covering about policy and real political issues at stake - the 'fist bump' coverage and 'outrage' from anyone was worse than trivial - it gives cover and legitimacy to the folks who are on the fence about 'fake news' charges.

Agreed.
The cause matters because the right to individually buy into the existing employer-sponsored group health plan.

So, if the employer no longer exists, and the employer-sponsored health plan no longer exists, the right to buy in is meaningless.
I can't take seriously an article that uses the devoted father defense: "But trying to tie Torvalds to sexual harassment is futile; the man has only dated one woman in his entire life, and he married her: Tove, a national karate champion in Finland, is the mother of his three daughters."

Which, to be clear, isn't to suggest Torvalds is guilty of sexual harassment or even that there exists an accusation of sexual harassment. AFAICT, there's only been the implication of harassment as the result of a supposed sexually disparate impact. But the author comes off as the other side of the so-called SJW coin.
> If C++ is so great, why does every joint turning out even halfway decent C++ have to subset the bejesus out of it? Even in game dev, where resources are plenty, they still subset it.

I'm not sure what your point is. C++ is explicitly a multi-paradigm systems-programming language and any code base that used every feature would be unreadable.

The current project I am working on uses very few classes (where it does is mainly to drive computation into compile time rather than run time) and instead uses generic functions. I have seen other C++ code that uses classes and methods for basically everything -- I assume that house style works for them.

> Yes, yes. Since you are so experienced, and everyone else is "low status," riddle me this:

Have you ever worked in Japan, which is the case I explicitly called out? In most cases programming is what would be called in the US a "blue collar job". But even in the US, my experience as an embedded developer convinces me that embedded developers are typically not valued anywhere near as much as they deserve.
But this is only if you already have Chrome Sync ("logging in to Chrome") turned on and enabled, correct? Because I have a bunch of different Chrome profiles that I use for different purposes, and I don't see the ones that I use for particular Gmail accounts getting logged in to Chrome.
I didn't know, so here it is for others:

prehistoric, adjective; relating to or denoting the period before written records:
> Even though these are imperfectly implemented and under threat by the current administration

The current administration is providing one of the greatest demonstrations in US history of just how different the US is from the Russias and Chinas of the world.

Freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of press, is working well given the intensity of the atmosphere in question.

There are routine demonstrations against the administration all over the country, they're not being broken up by thousands of government thugs with clubs and guns, which is what you see in Russia, China and Iran.

A solid 90% of all media is entirely stacked against the administration. Celebrities are openly calling for the President to be coup'd, killed, or otherwise just 'taken out.' Even the media has joined in on that at times. The so called deep state (a collection of entrenched, powerful bureaucracies within the government) have been openly acting against the administration at every turn. And come the post mid-terms - which clearly the Democrats are going to retake the house in - there are going to be approximately a thousand investigations.

Despite the cynics proclamations, and the current cultural insanity (we've seen it before, the late 1960s and 1970s were far worse), the US system is functioning amazingly well. The current administration has accomplished almost nothing of what it would like to do, and will be a lame duck in a few months. In 2 or 6 years, there will be another administration, and that's that. Life will go on, just as it did after LBJ, Nixon or Bush.

There's nothing even remotely comparable to this in Russia or China, and there never has been.
We, however, are not in a glut of labor for software engineers and game designers

If that's true, why are you folks working in open offices and are wearing noise-cancelling headphones?
Namecoin is a good example of this - decentralised domain registrations using the .bit TLD.
They can, yes. Some native apps don't work offline too.
Would you call single-celled organisms (or anything that came before Dickinsonia) animals?
Uber, for all its faults, may be a vast improvement on the USA approach to taxis.

In many of the other countries Uber has presence it has done damage to a sector that was not horribly corrupt or inefficient. Yet the workers and governments still have to react to rule breaking that effectively treats everywhere on the planet as some US city with a broken and corrupt taxi system.

In the UK I would call Uber a very marginal increase in convenience (all taxis have apps if that's your preferred method), but absolutely and demonstrably significantly worse in terms of safety, discriminatory practices, and worker's incomes. So overall I don't think it is too harsh, at least here.
Google made a subtle change to Chrome that could help it track you online
Yes that's why they stuck with it for so long,. Not only was their engine just barely squeaking by, what also compounded the issues were the insane levels or micromanagement involved that were costly and overworked their staff to insane levels.

Imagine having to reanimate gravity by hand due to the lack of a physics engine, now imagine that happening over a scene change that happened during a management review shortly before the project was supposed to ship.
While I would love to see tick-borne disease wiped out, I just don't think that wiping out ticks is the right way. Instead, how about wiping out the parasites that are borne by these ticks?

It's a never ending cascade of special eradication. Today, ticks and mosquitoes carrying life threatening agents. Tomorrow, perhaps rats, cats, mice, sparrows, bed bugs, termites, and any other organism that we find inconvenient? How about certain kinds of humans, perhaps we can terminate people that are cognitively impaired? Wielding the rod of genocide seems like a poor choice.
It's such a shame that Pandora didn't do anything with rdio.com. Rdio was the best music service I've ever used. Not only was the music high quality, but the UI was very intuitive on all devices, and it also had cool features like if you're playing Rdio on your laptop, you could use your phone as a remote control.
Outmatched financially, Yelp aims for a lift from Trump in fight against Google
(not a chrome user, but:) my understanding is that now if you log into google (e.g. a gmail account), you automatically get logged into chrome, including Chrome Sync.
I also didn't know anything about micro.blog before now, but based on the article I assumed from the features offered that "creators own the content" actually means "creators own the relationship with the user" which seems pretty important. Worst case you could copy-and-paste your content to a different service, as long as you own the domain.
The kernel is also used by 1000’s of companies that would now be open to lawsuits so you don’t even need money for a lawyer law firms would jump on the opportunity to sue Google or Amazon.
This is Japanese mission, I would expect cameras to be really good.
Reminded me of the controversial Terri Shiavo case(1), where the parents fought till the end to avoid her death.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case
Dark mode is darker than what I had expected. Only the focussed window looks good. Background windows are black.
Most of the effort writing TLA+ is about the what not the how. In general, we know how to make code reuse effective when a lot of implementation hides behind a thin API, but in TLA+ there is no implementation in a meaningful sense. A library of requirements would make about as much sense, and while maybe it's something that could be done, I'm not sure we know how to do it (but if you've seen something like it, I'd love to see it). So maybe it's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure how it would be done. Aside from a utility module that I like including in most of my specs, I never "reuse" modules as is. I often do, however, copy-paste-modify pieces of other specifications, which, I assume, is not unlike how lawyers reuse portions of contracts.

I guess there are occasionally pieces that could be used as-is (e.g. a description of a lossy network), but those tend to be so simple, that looking for them in some Maven-central for spec modules would probably more effort than writing them from scratch every time.
Sony will no longer compete with Nintendo over handheld game consoles
" the cost that previously was split between you and the employer"

Employers usually pay at least half, so this doesn't change my 2x-4x range.
There are interesting discussions to be had about the similarities and differences between China and the US, but saying that "the US is an oppressive presence on the internet" is not without merit. All that is left is disagreement on the relative impacts.

The reasonable people who make that argument are also the important vocal watchdogs who provide the friction against further abuses of power. They shouldn't be casually dismissed just because there are worse governments in the world.
Show HN: MVPs for Startups
How Do You Explain the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Cloud Security?
> I have to say it's such a giant bloated thing that it really does not make me want to write native code.

Why?

You can write (and compile, and test) native code without ever touching Android Studio. I would think any like/hate of IntelliJ (Android Studio) should have no bearing on whether you choose to write native Android code or not.

It would be like saying, "CLion is such a giant bloated thing that I never want to write C++ code". Or "RubyMine is so giant and bloated, I never want to touch Ruby on Rails again".

What would you say, for example, if someone told you they didn't want to write a Progressive Web App because they really disliked Atom and Visual Studio Code?
The James Webb scares me. They now have put so much money and time into it that a failure would just be unimaginable. I am sure they have run the numbers but personally I am not sure if they wouldn't be better off with iterating faster and cheaper while accepting some level of risk.

Maybe a failure of the James Webb would be a good motivator for a manned mission to the Lagrange point :)
Also cost.
Borderlands was a betrayal simulator i didn’t really played Guardians of the Galaxy.

GoT was essentially the same as TWD.

However the gameplay was essentially identical across all of them a semi interactive cut scene that is broken by QTEs which don’t have a major impact on the overall story arc they at best just shift a few characters around the events still unfold as they are.

Expensive licenses and a repetitive “point and click” gameplay with dwindling sales just doesnt work and I don’t think it was a surprise to the upper management or the board.
And I’m actually surprised it came as a surprise to employees who should’ve been aware of poor sales and high costs.
Unintended consequences of ecological interventions? All the time.
FWIW, CF's registrar is nice, but also represents an extreme form of lock-in on the part of Cloudflare -- the registrar subscription is specifically tied to your enterprise plan and will be terminated if you are not using other CF products.
Having worked in one of these businesses - I would have been classified as a “faker” - but that is the wrong way to interpret it, if you are: inefficient, can’t prioritize/identify what’s really important, can’t make yourself available with a cheery attitude after hours/weekends, and can’t manage expectations, these jobs are killer

If you can, it’s very plausible to work a 55ish hour week (excluding the occasional hell weeks) with the same if not better work product and great client and employer satisfaction
Benefits of Short Strength Training Sessions
I think you might be misinformed - their security is based on client-side encryption which is open source. See:

- https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-open-source-crytograp...

- https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-secure-email-open-sou...

You don't have to trust any of their server code - you only have to trust that the JavaScript blob they send you is actually the same as the open source version. This is the same threat model as trusting Signal from the App store instead of side-loading it yourself.
This is exactly the mentality the hand-wringers are terrified is out there.
Interesting, didn’t know that
Sort of. Except I don't think there's a such thing as "high-assurance AI/ML". Put simply for the audience here. The goal is to have the whole stack from top to bottom be as predictable and deterministic as possible.

There's a layer of it (the AI/ML bits) which is necessarily probabilistic. That's by design. It's how it all works. All the layers below that today are currently terrifyingly probabilistic. It's difficult to advance the capability of the whole domain when the necessarily probabilistic parts are depending on shifting sands as a stable foundation.

I agree though that there's a large gap there in the domain expertise of the parties involved, and that's produced significant challenges as we've not yet figured out how to close that gap.
Same here, never heard of micro.blog but the concept and business model seem sound.

Owning the things you post and having to host them yourself are two different things. The content is yours, the domains is yours, you pay for someone serving it for you. Hosting is not free and maintaining it is always a hassle a lot of savvy people will pay for a service in order to avoid.

Micro.blog seems to be open source, if at some point you don't want to pay any more, you can always get your data out, setup a server or a rpi, and restore your data. Nothing lost other than some quality time with some readmes.
> A solid 90% of all media is entirely stacked against the administration.

No, it's not. The leading dedicated TV news network with about 45% of they audience of that media form is completely and unabashedly cheerleading for the Administration, and not even trying to pretend otherwise, as are major outlets in every other form of media. The idea that 90% of the media is hostile to, or even just not overtly shilling for, the Administration would be amusing if it didn't derive directly from the persecution-complex reinforcing propaganda those same media shills use to keep people locked into their propaganda bubble.
You are more likely to understand the reason an app wants a permission if it is requested the moment it tries to use it.

The behavior you describe is the old Android take it or leave it approach. It doesn’t work because then all apps refuse to work if they don’t get ridiculous permissions.
The probably felt good because they worked with well known franchises.

Sad for some of the employees I guess, but I think the company deserves this outcome.
I agree, you could do this using more traditional methods, I just think leveraging a nice printing process could save some time/effort. Some other challenges that printing solves:

1. you can set the width of the jig to match your pogo pin spring "active region" easily.

2. You can make cutouts for the board and other features (USB-C + USB-C connectors in my case).

I admit, a Form 2 is an expensive perk. But there are much more affordable routes:
https://dirtypcbs.com/store/print3d
https://dirtypcbs.com/store/lasercut

I.e. when you order PCBs, you can order a $5 SLA jig :)
Yes, you automatically get logged into chrome. Supposedly sync will not automatically be enabled, but if you ever enabled it in the past it will be turned back on for your chrome session as well. It's unclear what happens to old (pre-login) history and cookies when this happens.
And yet, given a parallel into what is happening as if it were a different company ‘e.g. would you be fine with our man standing outside your house and observing your every movement as a condition of service’, most of these people that ‘understand’ switch to WTF?! No! If you then ask them to stop using Chrome or Facebook it’s suddenly ‘different’.

The only thing that’s different is that they can remain blissfully unaware of it.
The difference is that while animals like mosquitoes have many offspring and are sexually reproducing, many of the microscopic parasites are not…

The gene drive requires sexual reproduction to spread and produce sterile mosquitoes.

Huh, maybe this will open an opportunity for sex-non-obligate mosquitoes infected by Wolbachia, if those are even produced by their interaction
As explained .text() returns a promise, and the fact that many people don't know that and that your 1-line solution does not work is a strong indication that my solution is helpful!

With magic-promises you don't need to worry about whether something regurns a promise or not. See fs-array, some methods will return promises and some won't, but you can just treat them all the same.
I’m still not clear about how exactly this new feature is decoupled from sync. Where is the source of truth for the sync setting — is it in cloud or locally in every browser profile?

If I have chrome sync enabled in browser on desktop a, then login to gmail in chrome on desktop b — is the browser history on desktop b now synced ...?

Also curious whether sync implies that old browser history in desktop b is synced to my account or is it guaranteed to be the case that “only browser data collected while logged in” is eligible for being synced between devices ...?
I don't feel an obligation. But if I can make someone else's life easier with minimal investment on my part. Why not?
Rarely discussed but yeah, that's how employee provided health insurance became a thing. It makes no more sense than company-provided housing or groceries or life insurance. You're already at risk of being let go by the employer at any time. Why tack on more risk by trusting the employer to take care of important insurance coverage?

The answer in 1942 would have been, "don't subsidize employer-based health insurance." The answer in 1962 would be have been, "remove the subsidies and let God sort it out." The answer is 2018 is...well, kind of like replacing the engine mid-flight. An entire tumor-like system has grown around various market incentives and it can't just be 'removed' without putting the host at serious risk.

It's kind of a shame it turned out this way because it's given insurance a bad name, unfairly IMO. Insurance is actually something that the market handles reasonably well and it's a product worth buying depending on the situation. Catastrophic insurance can be (and, to some degree, is) fairly priced.

There are many health-related services that make no sense to be covered by insurance, though. Doctor visits, routine procedures, pregnancy - it doesn't make sense to insure oneself against any of those events. Rather, they should either be paid for out of pocket or a single payer system if you like.
Ask HN: How to give cryptocurrency to people in need
My name is Joe Waltman and I a recently started working with GiveCrypto.org. I somewhat stumbled into this job after my previous company (VetPronto) went out of business. I am far from an expert on cryptocurrency and have zero experience working with non-profits.

GiveCrypto.org aims to help by making direct transfers of cryptocurrency. There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that the best way to help poor people is to give them cash, rather than traditional support like food, medicine or training.

One of the big challenges for GiveCrypto.org is finding people that are both in need and can use cryptocurrency. I've done some experimentation (https://medium.com/givecrypto/givecrypto-work-trial-a-new-financial-system-a-new-opportunity-7f564b65aff5) and it is a quite a brain teaser. There is a sad irony wrapped around this problem; the poorer you are, the more 'expensive' it is for you to make use of cryptocurrency. I'd love to tap into the HN network to help brainstorm clever ways to get cryptocurrency into the hands of people that need it.

Thanks in advance.