skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't you then have to log in twice to the same site if you have it opened in multiple tabs?
I'd like to see more content like this. Find it 100x more helpful than the success stories. Karenina principle and whatnot. Would gladly subscribe and pay buku bucks for a more rigorous startupgraveyard-esque page. And would gladly contribute as well..
Because it's new. Kafka has more momentum with more clients and integrations. Pulsar/Streamlio definitely needs better marketing.
It's a little less ambitious than the Librem 5 from the looks of it, but they're using a similar chipset (the older chip, basically), and the same type of GPU, and Librem is supporting Plasma Mobile as well. Since upstreaming is pretty important to the Librem team, it looks like there's the possibility for a lot of shared work between this and that.

It's exciting to think we might actually have an ecosystem of actually-Linux phones on the horizon. I just wish there was a release date, price, etc.
Written by the guy who quit being an artist and decided to become a critic
Communicating in Types [video]
You could say the same thing about corporate lawbreaking. It's likely given enough time and employees, but that doesn't absolve the company of its responsibility and liability.

We need tough, enforced penalties for data breaches, plain and simple. It's a negative externality, just like pollution, and so can only be controlled by regulation.
Something I was taught awhile back relating to IT, “Data is toxic”. Get rid of it when you can, as often as you can.

You’re right. These companies should absolutely have to weigh the cost of keeping data because they overestimate their ability to keep it safe.
There was a thread on HN exactly about this last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18488520
That is an incomplete description of the memorial. In addition to the names of Japanese-Americans who died fighting for the U.S., it specifically memorializes the injustice of the internment camps.

“The focal point of the memorial is a sculpture of two bronze cranes, tangled in barbed wire. Around the memorial is a curved wall, listing the name of each internment camp along with the number of people held there, as well as a list of all the Japanese Americans who died in combat in WWII.”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/memorial-to-japaneseamer...
I have a coworker whose last name is the same as his mother's maiden name and a form asked him his mother's maiden name but would not allow the answer to be the same as his current name, for "security reasons". He had quite a field day showing that around to every programmer at the company.
If only it were that easy. The largest cloud company has a core component of their strategy monetization of open source. I haven’t heard them paying royalties to the people that developed the software.
For some reason, julia has no ascii infix xor. That is, you can write `xor(a,b)` or `a ⊻ b` (`^` is taken for "raise to power").
Sure, if you're willing to forgo the updates and have to manually install each time, or have the updates convert you to the branded version:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/07/29/extension-signing...

(Good luck compiling it yourself.)
Maybe if the workers had a say instead of only unlimited desire for large sums of capital and power having a say, Google would be in a more trustworthy, ethical, & moral place.
The index fund doesn't need to take any action to respond to price movement. When the stock price goes down, the shares become a lower fraction of the index and also a lower fraction of the fund's holdings.

The fund has to manage holdings around fund purchases and redemptions, and when the index changes.
I'm told the squiggle is actually better than a legible signature. The legible signature is something you were trained to do following rules, and thus can be forged by someone else following the same rules. The squiggle is you, and so the existence/absence of some loop is enough to show a forgery and thus a forger has to memorize the entire thing with no rules to help.

I'm not qualified to state if the above is true, but I like to believe it is.
I took this course with someone I was teaching webdev. It wasn't the best course for me by any means because I already knew the material.

But it WAS the best introduction to software development I have ever seen, and I have seen quite a few.

I did see a couple of people quit the course because it was "too complicated" - in reality, it's just complicated enough, and the progression is natural and well-presented.
Sounds like a feature to me. I'd love it if things worked that way.
If you need any pointers on which classes to use for what just let me know :)
Controlling the Spice, Part 2: Cryo’s Dune
Well, it certainly bring new meaning to "corner case".
"We need to do away with the myth that computer science is about computers. Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools, it is about how we use them and what we find out when we do."

- Michael R. Fellows, Ian Parberry (1993) "SIGACT trying to get children excited about CS"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patentleft
I know that was just a rant, but really, supporting names in non-western cultural formats isn't that unreasonable.
A blueprint for how the web should be.
That does come with a price tag of over $800 dollars for commercial use. Tabulator is completely free :)
> Isn't this exactly the kind of user-hostile behavior open source is supposed to prevent?

What part of behavior is user-hostile?
The Ingenious Botanist Sustaining His Family with His Inventions [video]
It's not that they don't recognize it, it's that the knowingly don't want to believe it, authorized by religions to kill animals for food and mistreat them in general.
I really want to know why identity verification can't incorporate better technology, since driver's licenses and passports and such have been upgraded but are still non-interactive (from the user's perspective) and can't prove identity remotely.

i.e., instead of the traditional "what are the [last 4 of] your SSN, and/or we'll tell you three things that may or may not be in your credit history and you have to fill in the blank on each of them"...

...why not just use 2FA?

You give everyone a TOTP code on a separate card but tied by the government to your SSN, passport number, and state ID. You provide a government mobile app that they can use if they don't want to use a 3rd party one. When some third party wants to verify your identity, there would be a heavily secured, simple, autited government server that you'd use the app to auth to (ssn + TOTP), returning a temporary auth code/passphrase, stored for 1 day and associated with your SSN. You give that temporary code to the third party, which then verifies that temporary auth code or passphrase with that same government server. You could have an additional voice phone channel to get the temp codes, for people without smartphones.

If your TOTP code card and device are both lost or stolen, you visit in person to get a new one just like normal. Anyone who sees the card can impersonate you, but you shouldn't be carrying it around or waving it around, and even if stolen in individual cases, the scheme eliminates mass identity theft.

U2F could be an option, for anyone with a u2f-capable hardware security key or smartphone, but I'm not sure about mandating u2f because compatible hardware has a non-trivial marginal cost.
I couldn't agree more. Amen.
How does it monitor the peg in a decentralized, sibyl-resistant, manner?
And almost all actual uses are cases where markup (be it HTML, OOXML, ODF) are sufficiently common that the total file size ends up being larger using UTF-16 than UTF-8.
Nine things nobody tells you about Bitcoin
I compile a unbranded version of Firefox for each released version on my private repository for AUR packages, automated and without the need of intervention at all.

I'm currently running the branded release but I could pick unbranded, beta, dev or nightly editions of Firefox if I wanted. It's not hard to automate and especially with the unbranded version you have permission to distribute the binary that results, a permission you don't have with the branded edition.

You can also use the Nightly or Developer Edition of Firefox as well.
I wonder to what point some of these methods just increase housing prices.

For example, having the developer plant trees along the street means the price of the new build goes up (of course the developer will pass along costs), and existing residents get an improved neighbourhood without increased taxation. But is this not something the council should be paying for? After all the new homeowners will be paying council tax, why must the also pay a fee to join the community?
Great to hear! if there are any features you feel it is missing, create an issue on GitHub and we can help you out :)
I'm up for a bet on whether Miami will be the same in 20 years.
I've been reading about political geography, and it's really made me rethink African history, and the history of other non-Europe/non-US regions as well. For example, why didn't Egypt ever grow its empire? Wood, or the lack thereof. There are very few trees along the Egyptian part of the Nile, so they never became a seafaring power the way the Greeks and Romans did.

The remarks in this article about castles made of grass plays into it, too... durable architecture tends to stick around long after the culture that built it disappears, and it protects other, less durable artifacts like clothing and tools.
I honestly think, no matter where you go or what you do, having more motivation than 90% of people in your space is going to get you such a long ways.

This guy is hustling, give him 5 years and he will be set as long as he keeps this up.
I would disagree this is a different issue, one leads to the other. Mozilla wants to make sure that any addon the user can possibly installed is something they can trust. Including addons that other applications install (ie AV toolbars).

If you don't like that, you can use the unbranded version of firefox or the dev edition.
Public Attitudes Toward Computer Algorithms
Vanguard explicitly asks you to vote your shares. I've gotten letters in the past asking me to cast a vote.
Rep. Jimmy Gomez/Sen. Edward Markey Express Civil Rights Concerns WithAmazon Rek
Open source PLC and HMI
To say that it's been criticized doesn't mean anything, because there are skeptics who criticize ADHD diagnoses with zero understanding of the literature. If you actually read the experts on the subject, for instance my advisor Dr. Weyandt who wrote a very in-depth book overviewing the literature on ADHD, you'll see that over-diagnosis is not a commonly held view amongst actual experts. But, like climate change skepticism, many people think they can make a claim about over-diagnosis with zero expertise.
Exactly. Having a rational datatype as easily usable as float would make it easier to use as a default when you don't really need floats but just non integers. Which is often the case if you think about it. Automatic simplifications, literals (12.345122 is a rational, as well as 22/7)
This is the derivation of Newtonian gravity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_gravity#Derivation_of...

I'm not a physicist either, but IMO the key is the Unruh effect, which is the idea that quantum fluctuations in empty space are warm when viewed from an accelerated frame of reference.
> Is it time for us to simply accept that it's inevitable that, at some point, everything will be hacked, and hacked often?

I disagree. I’d take the Economists route, which is looking for the incentives that drive motivation. If companies were held to a higher standard of accountability, imagine how many would beef up their security. For decades, security researchers have been poking fun at how ridiculous some of these sites are at handling security, and nothing ever happens.

Now, imagine if there was severe economic accountability to a company that was hacked. Perhaps payouts to each person affected (in this case, to all 150m). I imagine you’d see security become a top priority very quickly at most companies.
Bypassing paywalls is easily in top ten most evil things you can do as a consumer in a modern information society. We should pay for the things we consume, with money. But only with money.

Then again, if the thing behind the paywall expects money and tracks/mines you, then fuck'em.
Has not https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18564340 achieved the same result?
Remember when there were scandals in the early days of digitization where redacted government documents were easily revealed because the redaction was performed by layering a black rectangle on top of the PDF text? The text was there to read for anyone savvy enough to remove the rectangles.

The solution, of course, was to remove the text from the PDF altogether.

Paywalls are a similar sort of measure: if publishers don't want their content to be available without payment then they ought not serve it publicly. Similarly, if they don't want users using adblock then they ought not serve the content to those who fail to load the ads.

Is it ethical to bypass flimsy DRM? The bits are on the user's computer and are processed by the user's software at the user's discretion. Publishers _may_ have no right to exert control upon the user's property; and I suppose whether they do is the crux of concern.
AO is still a raytracing technique to create non-physical based depth. Ex: I'm pretty sure Voxel-cone tracing will still "unnaturally" darken corners, as pointed out in the discussion.

Just because it "isn't real" doesn't dismiss the use of AO. AO improves contrast and likely improves the time it takes for humans to see the edges of objects.

I don't think AO is used in movies that try to emulate reality. (ex: Iron Man's suit, Spiderman's suit, or other 3d effects). But cheaply increasing the contrast and edges of characters may remain important in video games, at the cost of being less realistic.

Then again, video games don't usually look hyper-realistic anyway. There's just not enough space in the budget for that yet. Video Games can likely benefit from better sub-surface scattering for example...

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The only "fully real" technique is to use a 16k+ HDRI environment map for lighting. The technique doesn't seem to work for enclosed spaces though.
As in you think it would be "underwater" like venice?
You may be underestimating the sheer pressure to file patents at big tech firms. Some companies have annual filing quotas, not just for patent attorneys, but also for engineers. Not filing enough patent applications may negatively affect your performance review.

I've had patent attorneys show up on a Friday afternoon with a case of beer, to get the entire team to sit in a room and brainstorm patents. Anything goes - doesn't matter if they relate to the field you work in, since the broader company works in almost every field.

As an employee, you are specifically forbidden from googling patents, because you might become aware of prior art. As long as you aren't aware... the reasoning goes that it isn't strictly-speaking illegal.

I can't say I'm surprised that cultures like that result in the sort of thing you experienced.
Ash HN: Why it's so hard to get money from side-project?
I created 2 side projects.

- https://myanpx.com and
- https://www.myanmardevjobs.com

Added Google Ads. Since the traffic is very low I got a few dollars only. But, every day I read about all those indie hackers who got so much traffic and got lots of money and living by themselves. But, how did they do that? Why it's so hard to get income from the side projects?
That sounds like a potential solution to me.

Still costs more than any other development. Where'd you get your's second hand?
Indeed. I've often thought that such high-latency mix-nets (with their potentially superior resistance to traffic analysis) would be a nice complement to low-latency networks like Tor.
Stellar seems like a good platform for this. I'm investigating myself about implementing this, and it would be awesome.
Thanks, I hadn't caught that change to the 2018+ models. That also explains why I'm not a fan of the current model as they drive differently to me... I'm keeping my old XA-30 ;)
Why would that matter? If they are obligated by their funds' charters not to intervene, then all the governance decisions happen exactly as if they hadn't invested, right? 10% vs 90% of share votes being on auto-pilot shouldn't matter?

Is the argument that the vast majority of them could change their funds' charter to allow them to be actively involved with governance? If so, that would be really hard to achieve even if many of them worked at it.

Edit: three people have made the same "it's easier to get a controlling interest" argument. See my reply in the follow-up before making another redundant comment.
>>Most of the landlords are not the IT guys mind you.

Yes, that exactly what I'm saying. If you have a 20+ year timescale you don't have to earn very high to make these investments.

>>but farmer communities around Delhi have grown rich by coming together as vote bank and getting compensated multiple times for the same pieces of lad they.

They have a right to. Getting rich isn't exactly a crime.

>>How many were employed in IT during that time? As far as I remember, IT scene exploded circa 2000 onward when likes of TCS, and Infosys started recruiting via truckload. Like 75 - 200 rupees/psqft.

Plenty. There was also Gulf money. The real issue is, again, very few people can think on a 20+ year timescale.

>>You are implying that every single IT guy had the opportunity to earn mighty.

To be super frank with you. These were throwaway prices even back then. Most investors turn out be people with retirement money, many times Auto drivers, small kirana shop owners etc. Which is why there is so much resentment now. There are people who had 100x advantage over these people, and there has been drastic reshuffling of seats.

>>If that 18 year old kid wants to be a Doctor to earn as much as possible that is because he has seen dumb ass people around him getting richer.

There is nothing dumb about making long term investment decisions.

>>How that is any immoral then someone profiting insanely from something their grandfathers hoarded?

Nothing immoral going on here. Somebody decided to work hard, invest in lands, and ensure their grandkids are well off. If you don't want to invest and do all this, it's really your choice. Why do you suggest others make the same mistake?
No, only about Imaginary Property.
Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems
https://outline.com/DGK9Td
Distinction without a difference, IMO. Mozilla has chosen to require this level of curation on Firefox against all complaints in the name of "safety", so they can also take the heat when their process results in an outcome like this. Their browser, their addon site, their decision, their fault.
...or for $150.
>An inventor is the one credited with coming up with the idea for an invention. The assignee actually gets the legal rights to the patent.

I assumed there was something like that but interesting to see it drawn out.
How the Airbnb of Data Storage Plans to Take on Amazon S3
The "-logy" comes from Greek which means science:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-logy and
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%...
How to hack programmable logic controllers
At least gara can't check exhaustiveness now: require one to add `else` to check all cases: it might be harder in general make sure branches match each possible value.

However it should be possible for sum types/enums: `case` already does it
Layout-wise, this looks like the mobile version of Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It (compared to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It)

What other features does this offer?
> Also, what if you had currently been somewhere else around the globe. How would you gotten the new card?

I guess that may have been a concern, but it wasn't for me. We could come up with any number of scenarios I'm sure, but in reality travelling with a second card covers 99% of the eventualities.
Yes, you could. What about the person Mozilla claims to want to get into coding? They have to choose between getting the regular updates vs being able to tweak their addons.

And do you plan to set that all up in the middle of your workday when a forced update disables your extensions?
This is what Tor does, I believe. The problem with spoofing the fingerprint is that all the features that allow you to be fingerprinted are features that are in use by some site or another, so it would break compatibility.
In terms of pound-per-equivalent-pounds-of-TNT, the most powerful nuclear weapon is 7 million times more powerful than ANFO. That's a lot of fertilizer!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent#RE_factor_examp...

See the ANFO and the "B41 nuclear bomb" entries in the tables linked there.
Chimeras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)

Essentially, people can (sometimes) not have a single set of DNA.

And this has already caused issues:

> In 2002, Lydia Fairchild was denied public assistance in Washington state when DNA evidence showed that she was not related to her children. A lawyer for the prosecution heard of a human chimera in New England, Karen Keegan, and suggested the possibility to the defense, who were able to show that Fairchild, too, was a chimera with two sets of DNA, and that one of those sets could have been the mother of the children.
Consider acting as a complement to another already established vendor in the target market. Do they have a weakness in their offering that you can help patch? Are there features you can offer that will enhance their offering's value?
Evolution never finds "optimal solutions" (except by happenstance). It just has to reach some solution that works and allows the organism to survive and reproduce. Optimal-ity is not a factor.
What I want is something that blackholes links to paywalled sites from search results, hackernews, and social media.
> Right, because when shadowy groups get unimaginable leverage and power the first thing they do is apply affirmative action pressure to address gender imbalances.

Yes, that is exactly what happened, dasil003

https://newsroom.statestreet.com/press-release/corporate/sta...

State Street has 2.7 Trillion AUM
Thanks, Mozilla. I never knew about this useful extension. But now I do and I'm going to install and use it. Use it in Chrome, of course. I stopped caring about Firefox a long time ago.
FYI: There are some NSFW images/links at the bottom of this article.
>is that much different?

Well, considering we're talking about physical vs digital, it's inherently different. But let's ignore that; it's still not even close. You send content to my browser, my agent acting on my behalf, and it is up to me how I render that content. If that bothers you, don't send me the content.

You as a publisher have no inherent right, be it moral, ethical, or legal, to have content displayed a certain way on my screen.
Is that not a fairly simple technology? You're basically measuring latencies (for which there exist very accurate solutions) and accounting for clock drift (again not difficult - USB audio did that many many years ago).

I guess you can get fancy if the devices have microphones but I still think it wouldn't be difficult. Like one man-year worth of work.
Has any state's DL database been compromised? The US government's passport DB?
Show HN: Crowdsourced Language Learning Site
That's a decision for you to make.

Different people like to look at the situation differently. I gave you a perspective on buying a home.
Agreed, simply "please use the unaccented letter" would have been fine instructions. Accented letters are pretty "normal" in many languages.
There is.

You can do tracking in such a way only the person browsing has a log. In the case of a dispute, the log file can be revealed to the website so they can determine how to resolve the dispute.

In the undisputed case, the website wouldn't see the log.