skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you’re not wrong.

People don’t care. They don’t even know that they should care. People have no clue how their PC or smartphone or internet access work. They don’t know what a hard drive is, they don’t know what encryption does, and their brain will explode if you try to explain what a MITM attack is. They just know that they had to return to the store last time they forgot their password so the geek with the “Apple Genius” T-shirt could reset it for them. So now it’s set to the kid’s birthdate. Because they don’t know how any of that stuff works, they have no choice but to trust the closest thing they have to an authority on the subject: their ISP, the guys who make their smartphone or their bank’s website, that salesperson at Best Buy who told them to install an antivirus.

Security is hard. Remembering passwords is complicated, picking good passwords is near impossible if you don’t have a tool to do it for you, and remembering those passwords is impossible. 2FA is a pain to set up even if ou know what you’re doing, and don’t even get me started on configuring “advanced” options (in which I bundle Fido2 / U2F for the foreseeable future). And recovery keys you’re supposed to print out and store in a safe, seriously?

Data is intangible. Contrary to a car theft or a house break-in, people struggle to assign a value to data loss or theft. Hell, I work in IT and I couldn’t begin to estimate the prejudice if someone were to gain access to my personal data. LoJacks and baby monitors help secure something that people can place a value on. What’s the value of my holiday pics?

Because of all this, security doesn’t sell. So companies have no incentive to invest in security, so security remains complicated and rare, so nobody gets to use good security and find out that it has a value, so security doesn’t sell.

I can’t even say that it will get better over time, as the young generations were raised to hand over control of their digital lives to corporate data harvesters.

Sorry for the bleakness of this post, but I’ve chosen to be jaded rather than depressed.
>The government's "stable coin" lost 96% of its value since 1913.

Most of the cryptocurrencies out there have lost that much value since January.
Not to mention the guilt trip if you don't find the close button. "Yes, sign me up!", "No, I don't give a shit about myself and my loved ones."
Ballerina dances barefoot in streets of New York
The reason I don't believe it is because I doubt it has drivers for the latest graphics cards and modern desktop environments such as Gnome/KDE. Is Ryzen even supported? What about sleep/suspend and resume? What's the story on package management? Can you run VirtualBox / VMWare on it?
I'm not certain this is 2018. I saw the words and letters immedately instead of gray rectangles showing me where words and letters could be before being shocked by the appearance of the actual words and letters.
If a centralized authority can blacklist addresses, it is not actually decentralized.

Or rather, it's "decentralized transactions" in the same sense that Paypal users are decentralized when they initiate transactions. You ask, and Paypal decides whether to send the money.

In this case, you ask, and CENTRE decides whether to include the transaction in the blocks they mine. Same thing, But With Blockchain™.

Of course, it's illegal to operate as an unlicensed money transmitter, and trading bearer bonds does not change that, so if it was truly decentralized they would be going to jail once the SEC got around to paying them a visit. People have been trying to get around such laws for ages and the law takes a very dim view of it.
Have you published the USDC contract to the network?
NY has special license requirements regarding crypto currencies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLicense
The "simulator" does put you in an essentially unwinnable scenario. I too, would probably go broke if all my bills occurred in one 30 day period, while I was cut off from all my credit, given thousands in debt, and left with zero savings plus a kid.

I think the creators reduce the impact of their own message by making it so far fetched. I can't relate to anyone who would put themselves in such a terrible financial position, so its just an unwinnable game.
I feel too old for service now, but out of curiosity - where can people serve if they don't agree with the political/military climate? Ie, I always wanted to serve but I didn't want to go kill largely innocent people in other countries.

Eventually I realized that the police force was far more up my alley. Yet, even that is difficult due to the militarization of the police force and the general unrest between civilians and police.

Is there an area that feels largely.. good? A mostly positive force for humanity? To serve the betterment of others, not so much war?

NOTE: I hope you (readers) can take my question at face value, and not argue my opinions regarding police and/or military. No judgement intended, but my question is all I am hoping to discuss :)
5G NR Standard and the Anatomy of a New Test Era
Let’s do an experiment. “Discipline? Muhaha, I just don't want to be non-smoker. Really love to smoke.”

Meat consumption is just as if not more detrimental to your health than smoking cigarettes. Sounds like a discipline issue to me.
You know who has the worst intrusive popups? Stack Overflow. First, if you are logged in but haven't visited in a while. They put a position fixed huge bar on the top reminding you that you haven't been to the site in a while. I hated that popup.
I think some of it might also be a function (or consequence) of the CMS being used for the site. You can either figure out a redesign that elegantly solves the problem (as NPR have done, offering a purely plain text version of their site), which might not be so easy depending on the tech; or you can treat the entire thing as pluggable and just add every new feature as a drop-in modal.

Hell, if you've got a marketing team dependent on stuff like Google Tag Manager, then have them throw it in there. Job done. Not great for the users.
HN officially became Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/9pmqxb/typical_...
Why are you sending US Dollars between yourselves as Canadians? You can’t spend them in Canada, why not use a free and instant Interac e-Transfer? If you want to hold USD (as a hedge against CAD) open a US Dollar denominated account at any major Canadian bank but that’s an investment not a store of value. Or open an interactive brokers account if you want to trade currencies. And if you want to move money to another country where they also can’t spend USDC Funbux without cashing them out just use TransferWise or whatever compareremit.com recommends, it’s really cheap and easy these days. No need to find an exchange that’ll sell you funbux and let your recipient cash them out. This is just useless.

This is not solving a problem that isn’t otherwise solved except money laundering and skirting AML/KYC rules. Look I may well be wrong, but can you suggest a use case I haven’t considered?
I believe 10w charging is a non-standard extension to Qi. QC & Apple have competing implementations & I'm not clear what version Pixel is using. Apple definitely also restricts 10w charging to MFI-certified 3P chargers. If Google doesn't enable validated 3P chargers that would be a shame.
It's a good market to start an electric car in because the range issues are basically non-existent and the infrastructure is well-maintained, relatively new, and consistent.
How many versions existed prior to 2.4.3? That's a lot of versions that don't work as advertised.
The choice is: police hate speech or promote hate speech.

Observation: promoting is cheaper (even profitable). But they can promote it with plausible deniability.

Which is a more "dangerous" path? And to whom? Society? Shareholders?
As a private developer, I agree, yet as a consumer and professional developer, I'm glad things move in this direction. And I assume the GDPR will provide a model for US regulation (just as the DMCA has influenced the European market as well).

BTW: You don't have to block them completely, just don't target them specifically (e.g. accept their credit cards).
Former CIA Chief Explains How Spies Use Disguises
Michelangelo PyML: Uber's Platform for Rapid Python ML Model Development
Ask HN: Site Easter Eggs
I sort of love Easter eggs and the general excitement of seeing my default developer-behavior of browsing a site's source rewarded. I have one small example of it on my site (https://joecmarshall.com) but have big plans for a project of interactive fiction experienced entirely from the console.

I wanted to ask - where else can I find this stuff? I would love examples.
One person's loophole is another person's right.

The spirit-of-law comes into play at the enforcement level in the form of executive discretion rather that at the adjudication level.

Civil/Social policy behind a law may be brought up during adjudication to help interpret a law -- but if policy is your strongest argument you are usually in a losing case.
1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg
Looks like MailInABox is postfix/dovecot at its core, with a wrapper to make it easier for SMTP non-experts (which is nice).
> Authorities initially estimated that 9,200 vehicles would cross the bridge every day.

I guess it will take a while to break even on the bridge costs.
Why are those the only two options available?
Na man I love the fact that I no longer have a headphone jack, my battery can't be replaced and goes bad in a year, my processor runs super beefy and drains my battery faster, but I can charge it wirelessly. Yeah I'm with you the new era of phones are just bullshit. It feels like they're running out of cool things to make them do and change about them so they're just doing stupid stuff to try to find something that accidentally works.
What will Coinbase do if there is a contentious hard-fork of the Ethereum chain and different USDC supporting exchanges decide to follow different forks?
>Below is a list of 590+ failed fiat currencies

Below is a list 1000+ cryptocurrencies, 99.9% of which no one has heard of, many of which have lost 90%+ of their value in a matter of months.

https://coinmarketcap.com/all/views/all/
Agree, it definitely loads too fast to be a site 2018. \s
Hmm. So you can’t see any differences between a flash drive and cash?

If you withdrew your life savings in cash, that cash couldn’t become corrupted, unless by physical damage. Your life savings in cash would also be large enough that you wouldn’t be likely to lose it, or have the container it sits in easily stolen or accidentally smashed. You also are not very likely to forget or misplace the password to your cash.

Or, you could just use a credit card and have fraud protection.
The proposal for the ePrivacy regulation (not the same as the old ePrivacy directive) is supposed to do that but unfortunately there hasn't been much movement on it in the last year.

Can find a short overview of it here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/08/beyond-th...
No they're not. Look at that Nature article linked above.
It's insane how P3P from 2002 was more advanced than anything the EU can come up with now.
Hate is an absolute. If you're not against it, you're supporting it.

EDIT: So, I see I've angered the privileged, white, tech-bro, capitalists. Downvote away.

Don't dare speak up about how hate is bad here.

Got it.
What would be in that vial?
Ministry of Truth?
Some shows manage a decent ending - take House M.D. for example.
Indeed. Also who defines what 'hate speech' is and isn't?
The threads can all use the same SharedArrayBuffer for their memory, and thus a single address space.

If the SharedArrayBuffer wasn’t shared, what’s the point of the atomic instructions, etc.
To clarify: no, Jepsen, as an organization, has not worked with CosmosDB.

I'm delighted they have rigorous tests, and I'm glad our tool has been helpful for them! We just can't say anything about those tests, because we haven't looked yet. Maybe someday!
> The world is not a tree. It is a graph.

What's your opinion of ember and its sideloading semantics for JSON? I found it interesting... until I had to write my own REST endpoints. I found that none of the database tools I had available were up to doing it. Having to write all those sideloads by hand ended up being too tedious for a non-paying gig and I dropped the experiment.
The problem isn't a question of standardizing it. The problem is that there needs to be a process for independently validating that the products adhere to the standard. There's a huge problem with poor quality/counterfeit chargers & they pose fire risks. No amount of documents solve that problem. Just good old testing of the product itself which is time-consuming & more expensive.
Hey Jed, cool stuff! What's your vision for the product?
It also misses 3 web fonts with 4 weight variations each.
This is how baker's percentages work-- you typically start with some quantity of flour like 50 lbs and all the other stuff is available in whatever quantity you need. The problem is getting the ratios right.
The holy grail of what?
Speech isn't "dangerous". You know what you do about people that say stupid things: you call them out on it. The answer to hate speech is more speech.
I like the distinction here. I find the "no platforming" question the most troublesome, because there should be freedom of association and one should not be forced to provide a venue for views that they disagree with. But at the same time, there is a point where limiting access to a venue has a real detrimental effect on free speech.

Universities have an obligation to provide a wide variety of dissenting views and not be eco chambers. But at the same time they have limited space and so they must, at some level, pick and choose which speakers get access to those venues. How does one choose which ideas are valuable enough to get access to limited space?
Show HN: Encrypted Deep Learning in PyTorch
> The bridge is not served by public transport, so private shuttle buses will ply the route. There is no rail link.

Why no rail link?
This definitely needs to be either Material UI or a barely reskinned Bootstrap to better fit the look.
Happy to read about that Motorola is taking an initiative to make their cell phones repairable! We should not produce unnecessary amounts of electronic waste, this surely is a step in the right direction.

Thanks to iFixit, Motorola and its engineers.
But wait a minute... Everyone here on HN and the technology press tells me there is this Shortage of Engineers™, and that employers are struggling to find software developers! Yet we also throw them away after 40? Something doesn’t add up...
Must be specific to your area up north because in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, that's absolutely not true.
Higher postal fees will cost Amazon more than $1B in 2019
She had chicha in one single spot(in La Candelaria no less)and this entitles her to make such a tone-deaf blanket statement that all chicha must therefore taste like that? If she didn't like it or was grossed out from learning how it's made she could have worded things differently. Instead she chose to be a snob and look down on an indigenous beverage which has miraculously survived a European conquest and the subsequent years of cultural indoctrination.
If you’re in the U.S., have a couple kids and run into some health issues, and then you can talk to me about your savings accounts. You’re not wrong - personal responsibility matters, but it’s way easier to slip into poverty than most young developers would like to acknowledge.
You really don't want to go plugging your phone into a random USB port, irrespective of whether it's compatible with the charger or not.
Yeah, that's an oldie but a goodie, from North Point here in Atlanta. Everyone's welcome there, unless you try something crazy, like being gay and doing child care at the same time.
But why not memcached or Redis? You are describing a situation that those are designed for, instead of something that is pretended for years to be what it never was.
The current generation of flagship phones (and last years') have made absolutely staggering advances in the quality of photos taken. It's no contest whatsoever, at least for me.
The lawyers are running the asylum.
>If you're not against it, you're supporting it.

I can be 'against' hate speech, but still support someone's right to utter it. Also, whose definition of 'hate speech' are we using?
Venmo and Cash use push-to-debit, which is instant, and fall back on ACH only if the bank you use doesn’t support it. There’s your common unified protocol.
Sure. As long as you disable init on the server you'll have a unikernel setup. Round hole, square peg, though. Linux isn't meant to work like that.
If recent history is any example it's an ever expanding and often arbitrary list depending on an individuals sensitivity level (particularly when it comes down to the individual level like mod's on subreddits or employees at Twitter).

It seems many very vocal people on the internet are essentially pushing an idea that the most sensitive people should be defining what those boundaries are for everyone and the list of things people can be outraged could change at any time, and ignorance of these boundaries is not sufficient excuse.
Earlier this year there was the promise of Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson debate this October, but sadly that looks like it isn't going to happen. In the spirit of debate, here are two videos that answer some of Mr. Peterson's points.

On Post-Modernism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU1LhcEh8Ms

On Marxism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGld3FbDY6s
It would be very cool to have an OS option that isn't from one of these two brands. Neither seem to be very respectful of the customer, Google for its privacy practices, and Apple is just so heavy-handed it's hard to take them seriously when they say they care about the user.
Would've been good if, in spite of just being text and a few buttons, it had been built with react, redux, redux-saga and had some contorted webpack build resulting in five JS bundles.
An idea that will completely transform a low-tech/unsexy market. How do I start?
Hello all.

I have an idea for a product which will bring innovation and productivity gains to a low-tech and unsexy industry. In fact, I think this product may completely transform that industry. I’m seeking some advice to straighten out my thinking on how to proceed. I’ve spent time validating the product and I’ve found that there are no direct competitors. There are some adjacent competitors whom may wish to enter the space if they catch wind of the direction we’re headed.

I’ve always preferred ideas that can be bootstrapped. However I’m of the opinion that given the impact this may have on the market, a big-box competitor may beat us to the chase if we don’t secure capital to expedite development and formation of strategic partnerships. Also, I feel that the risk of taking VC funding is minimal because I’m confident that this product will likely transform the target industry. Given my expertise in development I don’t think we’ll need a huge amount of capital to nurture the product to market readiness. I also lack the domain expertise to completely deliver the product I would benefit from industry insiders to help guide development.

1. How do I go about approaching VC’s? In particular I’m worried about the risk of letting the idea loose without having a chance to enter the market before the big names.
2. Are there any VCs that would be less risky to approach with respect to having my idea stolen out from under me before I get a chance to start building?
3. Would there be any merit and approaching a company within the industry to partner with instead of seeking venture capital? I’ve thought about this approach but I’m concerned that industry insiders will expect the product to be already built or worse ,that they may have alternative IT providers whom they’d approach to develop the product in our stead.

Any advice or direction would be greatly appreciated.
> And what exactly would a competing service do differently?

Do what services should do? Review the content before it's publicly available to ensure it's not breaking laws.

> That is changing and it's a terrible trend

I feel the opposite. For far too long, internet companies have taken liberties of everything being 'opt out' instead of 'opt in'. This is another example of that.
Yes, but I'm not sure you could easily use them for addition. They exist to lookup the value of various logarithms. Adding's pretty fast anyway.
That doesn't help with the problem of accepting possibly tainted tokens, and the resulting loss of the stablecoin stability.
That happens a lot more often than you may think. Sure, it's rare for all that to happen on any given month, but cyclic things will all converge eventually over a few years.
I wish lawyers used a more formal language, that computers can interpret. Perhaps we're heading in that direction with blockchain contracts, etc. Better sooner than later, imho.
The replacement has a 30 (or 90?) day warranty. Get that fixed.
West’s rivers are hot enough to cook salmon to death
Why doth [the suppression of uncomfortable opinions] never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
There's still too many unsolved philosophical questions here. What is hate speech? What should the limits of free speech be? How do we contended with the multitude of religious, legal, and cultural differences and anomalies when policing news and thought across the world? How do we react to people weaponizing the policing of hate speech to remove free speech?

I have yet to hear compelling answers to this problem, and I am not that optimistic that it can be solved in the next few decades. I do agree that trust busting is the wrong approach. At least the problem is currently centralized.
Doesn't every bank run a fractional reserve? So when Coinbase deposits those reserves in a bank, the bank will lend them and there actually isn't a guaranteed reserve.
Speech can absolutely be dangerous. Much of the run-up to the Holocaust was in dehumanizing and characterizing the Jews as money-sucking leeches bleeding Germany dry.
This example is one of the coolest things I've seen

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Risk_Based_Sa...

I had some fun drawing lines and seeing how each factor influenced the chain of isopleths.
If you're supporting an attacker's right to denigrate, abuse, or harass other people, you're supporting violating the victim's rights.

One of these has a real social cost, and the other is just literal lip-service.
I'm okay with infinite scroll being the default; just don't make it the only way to navigate. Have an easy-to-find way to switch to pagination and/or query-by-example (QBE). A QBE form for a blog-type search would resemble:

Date Range: [__/__/____] to [__/__/____]
Word or phrase: [_____] ... [X] Search title only
Sort by:
(*) Date, latest first
(_) Date, earliest first
(_) Title

Except for the sort-by option, they'd all be optional
Alex Stamos doesn't realize that the political tides have shifted. The technolibertarianism that has been prevalent in Silicon Valley since at least the 1990s is on its way out. Governments around the world are increasingly asserting their sovereignty, and that's not going to change. The internet is not a wild west where a bunch of tech people are free to do whatever they want, ignoring all the consequences and negative externalities they create.

It's a coincidence that John Perry Barlow died at the height of all this, but I think it's extremely symbolic that governments are asserting their power just as technolibertarianism's radical cleric passed away.
BuildZoom (marketplace for construction) is hiring engineers