skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not always.

I've recently moved to the US, and I wanted to get myself a Spitify account (hah). I had to wait for SSN for a few weeks, so no bank account yet - my only option was a prepaid Visa card. Bought one at QFC, used it with PayPal (a fresh account, as my old one is tied to another country) - and found it blocked the next day. PayPal had asked for an ID and address confirmation.

I had my passport, but no utility bill (I was still using Airbnb, just looking for a long-term place to live). Asked support if there's anything I can do - and got nothing useful besides "we need a driver license or utility bill", even though I specifically asked what else could I provide if I don't have either of those (I had a mailing address from a forwarding company). Account was unusable, all I could do with it was logging in :)

Then I've rented apartments and tried to send them a lease contract (with my full name and address) and it was rejected. Not an utility bill, right. Asked support about it, got no reply at all.

Waited for a month, got electricity bill, and only then my account was unlocked.

So, anything unusual - and even if you don't receive any money, you account could be blocked.
> Companies are not created to take care of their employees.

Says who?

Societies create the conditions under which companies are allowed to exist, therefore societies get to define what responsibilities companies have.

Also, who says that the right of the company to exist >> the rights of the employees?

Not allowing companies to easily shed workers is a way of putting extra fitness pressure on companies, meaning the less fit companies perish and the fitter companies thrive. This is of benefit to society. See Schumpeter, Creative Destruction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction

You will note that some of the most highly efficient/competitive economies have pretty strong worker rights. Of course there has to be a balance, excesses in either direction are usually not good. However, in this particular case I don't think any of these SpaceX employees were systematically drunk on the job, or playing videogames instead of working.
Because google owns the index, if they don’t allow google to index they get no traffic. Google is a monopoly, there is no choice here, no market driving competition.
Google really does have a habit of killing good products to make way for worse ones. Reader killed for Plus. Inbox (to be) killed for Gmail (still dreading this, I'm hanging on to Inbox till the end), and now Chromecast audio killed for Home.

Yeah, the latter products serve Google better, but they serve me worse. I think 2019 will be the year I start really trying to untangle my life from Google to the extent I can delete my account.
They are completely orthogonal. Social good is the "quality" of being good for society. Political correctness is almost always a complete waste of time for any society.
Also the land registry are pretty good about looking at the facts and making a reasonable decision (though you do have to pay them to come out and look at the situation)

A family member of mine did this when the neighbours were being somewhat contentious as the official map data showed a part of her garden to be their land but the land registry people simply remarked the boundary officially on the historical wall.
How does one currently find the owner if he is not registered?
I think you (and most of the other replies below) miss the point. The newer the device, the shorter the lifespan. You year 2000 device was built to last much longer than the average equivalent device built today. Planned obsolescence is a staple of consumer society, you have to have a guaranteed reason to replace the item. Breaking down will do that better than anything else.

20 or 40 years ago most people expected their devices to last a lot longer than today. Now if you TV breaks down after 5 years most never bother fixing it and just think "I was due for a new one anyway".
It is a dead obvious strategy in light of recent political correctness driving the dropping of socially unpopular charities/individuals from places like patreon, along with the universality of digital currency.
Thank you, that list is awesome!
Same sort of set up here. You can even adjust a delay (e.g. +/- 10ms etc) if the timing is slightly out as well as individual volumes for each speaker individually from the home app.

The multiroom audio really is superb. Shame it is going away - hopefully it will be replaced by something else decent.
A Lesson from Germany on How to Cover Far-Right Leaders (2018)
This is a very poor argument even under basic scrutiny.
Ok , thanks for that information, sincerely. Let's find some friendly agent to assume control of this 2K company then. Thank you. Actually, when there is Unity3D around, what is the point of them keeping it closed. They could still keep the Movie and Art rights, if someday Hollywood wants to make a movie of it or whatever dream they have of milking it somehow in the future. They might very well loose the value of the Art and Story itself when someone makes a similar Unity3D game with a passable Art and Story that buries their value, and now it buries for real. Can't understand what is the point of their reasoning keeping it frozen.
What would be the rationale behind that? This clearly places limitations on a company's ability to optimize for achieving its goals, and ultimately stifles innovation. At the very least the long term impact of those downsides needs to be incorporated into any sort of social calculus. Would you prefer to live in a world without Teslas or SpaceXs, as long as employees are "taken care" of by their companies? This isn't necessarily even a false dilemma - it's entirely conceivable that certain ventures would require some kind of a layoffs strategy in order to be successful. Nor is it indicative of anything being wrong with "the state of the company" as you claim, unless you define it as such.

I find it entirely unconvincing that optimizing for "employee care" is overall more beneficial to humanity, including for the long term well being of the exact same employees and their families, than the alternative.
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Basically all home routers block incoming connection because so many shitty IoT devices were built to trust anything that is able to connect to it. My router doesn't even have an option to turn off the block. Can only unblock ports 1 by 1
Well, fraud would still happen. The problem from the fraudsters point of view are manifold though: They have to actually deal with the police in person. Sending copies of identity documents by mail is not as involved as personally going to a police station. The risks are very different.

Similarily, you can have corruption at phone carriers and credit-card companies too. What matters is the audit-chain. If a police officer keeps id-ing fraudsters they won't be in the job for long.

That public servants are more corrupt and less competent than the corporate employees one depends on is not a universal experience. Not for me anyway.
until there is a digital currency that is the only digital currency and not everyone can just make a new digital currency then there won't be any 'real' digital currencies that will stand the test of time.
Last time I read a blog post on 2038 one of the main concerns were cars.
My point was that risk already is there. That person that got passed over for a promotion for instance. It only takes one that is still employed at a company.
The Anabasis by Xenophon can be read in the original, with translations on alternating pages, as in the Loeb series. There are also interlinear translations available, such as this one:
https://archive.org/details/anabasisofxenoph00xenoiala/page/...
Desktops are used by almost anyone doing gaming or serious video editing. Obviously not everyone but still common for a lot of people.
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The land that the farmer is claiming subsidies for could be referenced to the land registry as part of the process.

Although a lot of farmers rent land to each other so that complicates things a little.
If you park a car at a random spot it will get towed. Are there really scooter parking spots put up by the city, and are bird paying parking fees?
Kotlin: How Can Programming Language Be So Young and So Mature at the Same Time?
Bike racks? Really? I've never lived in a town that had them until my current city - and even then, there are really only in areas with enough traffic for them.

Scooters can be parked at bike racks. Are there enough bike racks to park the scooters at the bike racks? would the situation be similar if all of those scooters were bicycles or if bicycles were as cheap as scooters?
This Winodws update (jan 8) breaks a lot of applications with MDB-backend in production.
If your employees are performing worse than initially, then what are you paying them training for? And getting more comfortable in their position should usually reduce friction around their job and have more experience, so they can do their job better..
> anecdotaly almost everyone speeds way over the limit, some big highway feel like the autobahn sometimes

Yes! I don't understand why the government doesn't accept the reality and doesn't (try to) raise the speed limit. Now everyone is speeding and when they see something remotely alike an undercover police car they brake hard, creating very dangerous situations for all people around; you could argue "it's their fault, they're speeding" - yes, but why keep the limit low?
Incredibly useful, thanks!
Unless the said companies are funded by government I don't understand why there would be a problem. As a CEO your job is to maximize the profit not to create a socialist enterprise. Why should I pay you if I no longer need your services?
That being said I believe things could be done to make the transition easier for workers without hurting the company. For example announcing the layoffs in advance(i.e give a 4 months notice at least). This should be enough so that the workers can find another job.
Technically isn’t that what probation is? A very long interview?
I'm also dreading the switch back to gmail.

Inbox is so clean, and gmail is so cluttered. When I first saw Inbox, I thought "finally, Google gives gmail the UI refresh it needs". Now it's gone, and we'll be back to the anxiety-inducing interface again.
Why would it "stifle innovation"? Having to run a company sustainably should promote innovation.

It may stifle impractical get-rich-quick strategies and customer scamming, but that's not a bad thing.
The flash app was probably Ishkur's Guide, which was fantastic in that it had tongue-in-cheek but very informative descriptions for evolution of each genre. Hadn't seen anything like it since.

It still can largely be used, really―the tree of genres grows much more slowly in the past ten years than in the 80s and 90s.
SpaceX could quickly shrink by 10% via attrition and not highering new people. They can get rid of dead weight by firing people.

This kind of small scale lay-off is mostly a stunt, or just sign of incompetence.
My corp has fallen apart it seems and me telling anyone will make sure that I will be without a ship a few minutes after logging on.

When you get into carriers or larger ships having multiple accounts is almost a must. The large ships used to not be able to use jumpgates to move around and the largest still can't afaik, so to move you have to log another character in the location you want to go to and set up at temporary beacon (in a sace place) that you can jump to.

What you do is you get a second account and fill your character slots with low-skilled characters who only have the skills needed to fly a cheap 'cyno'-ship and place them where you need them.

The negative being that others could figure out who always jumps into system after that one low skilled character shows up.
The apps on sandstorm are super out of date. When I checked a few months ago the gitlab version was from 2016
The specific concern is that it's a 100th attempt at creating metadata for everything in the world. You can't create a non-ambiguous comprehensive catalog of the world.
It’s really common across a wide range of states.

https://www.nasra.org/files/Spotlight/Significant%20Reforms....

Most of these have limited impact on current retirees, but changing inflation calculations and capped annual increases really add up.
Sounds ridiculous but you basically can't. You can ask neighbours, try to look at historical maps etc. But there's no guarantee you will find the owner (if they exist).

If you can't find the owner that doesn't mean there isn't one. They can turn up at any point with a deed that nobody else knows about and only they have a copy of and say "this is mine".

Yes it's stupid.
>> Would you prefer to live in a world without Teslas or SpaceXs...

Such world exists and can be found in most socialist countries. It's not bad per see but not that exciting either. I personally believe the workers should be given more opportunities(i.e advance notice so that they can find another job in a timely manner) rather than social care.
IP offshoring is a big tax avoidance strategy already. Not that it couldn't be made harder to exploit, but it's not a fait accompli to simply tax the IP resident in a country.
A clarification:

> Be a little careful however if you are using a telephoto lens. Just because your feet are on public land doesn't mean that you can shoot into private property.
The legacy code but resonates, I'm often stuck doing things in an ugly way or constrained because I have to work around the continual tire fire I inherited.

On the flip side I'm one of those weirdos who likes working on legacy code as long as I have the freedom to improve it.
Well, naturally every company has talent drain. The rockstars will not work long in one company and jump from one gig to the next. But if you have bad luck and hired some slackers, which will happen with the tightest of hiring schemes, then they will certainly stick around.

Thus over time you still have to re-hire people you really need, but get a bigger and bigger amount of people who are just there for the social benefits.

So what can you do to achieve your ambitious goals? Reduce the workforce and try to find a cutting point where you get rid of mostly parasites while keeping your ambitious work bees around.

Usually at the same time of the cut, some of the work bees also get raises and promotions, because then there's some free budget. So if you are an ambitious work bee, then "cutting staff" is actually also good news.

Finding the right cutting point is really the important point and hardest part. For instance you don't want to lay off people who really are performers but for some reason or another (e.g. they just got a baby) they don't perform right now. So at least in the companies I could look inside until now the cutting point is usually well inside the slackers group, so that the people who would recover and then start performing again have a chance to continue.

In the end, even the most tyranical ass-hole leader wants to have as many people as possible work as hard as possible to achieve his goals for him, in exchange for an amount of money that in most cases is peanuts for him. And not all leaders are even tyranical ass-holes.
Works fine with Nightly 66.0a1
What's the current SpaceX attrition rate like, and how does that change across different organizations? It could be a response to their attempt to gain additional funding, and something they heard or agreed to for said funding. Speculation, but wouldn't surprise me.
This is just such a bad faith argument.
The problem here is you said I. Personally if anyone in my company fires someone because “I no longer need your services” will be fired for hiring someone permanent that needed firing. Also if they follow our hiring criteria we want them in other places. This across the board lay-off is a sign of some kind of corporate correction. My advice is to think of it that the people you manage work for the company not for you. Correction: you don’t need advice.
I used to work for a mobile phone operator in Europe, so no quick way to lay off people. After the startup phase they ended up with hundreds of people in the software/network department that they really didn't need anymore. Not there at least, as the focus moved from development to operations. Some people were moved to operations but (I spare you the technicalities) we eventually ended up in a separate company providing exactly the same services to the original one. Then we started to get incentives to quit. I left even before they reached that phase. They are still doing the same job with less and less people (I think they moved many jobs in cheaper eastern Europe countries.)

The point is that sometimes you really need less people to do the job or you can find them in other places without affecting the final product or service. There is nothing that can prevent a company to do that, not even employee friendly European legislation.
Show HN: Image classification library for easily training and deploying models
That article is peddling bullshit.

Yes, DNSSEC is not adopted. But what the intention with it is to stop people hijacking DNS requests (re-routing then to rogue servers for instance,) and then returning spurious answers.

That’s a relatively simple attack, and it can have fairly serious reprocussions. Just return an A record for the domain and host straight HTTP for example. Or re-divert emails with MX records. Publish fake CAA records to bypass that safety lock if you want to supply a cert obtained elsewhere.

The stuff about the US Govt controlling sites is the most facetious of all. As the original (non) story above shows, controlling the DNS is all you need to control a site in the X.509 world. Extended validation is a joke, controlling the domain is the only barrier to getting TLS certs issued for any domain.

We implicitly need to trust the root DNS. That’s a given. So why couldn’t it be the root of trust for secure browsing? Browsers trust something like 1500 CAs out of the box these days, is it really better to create a system where that many orgs need to be honest, and not get hacked, to be effective?

To claim that the current system, with no way to for people know the DNS answers they receive are valid, poses no security risk, is extremely foolish.
you can also take any phone and record audio or stop invading peoples privacy all together
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Chromecast audio is a casting device. You can still cast to Google Home speakers, or to a Chromecast TV. They're canning a product which is limited and has replacements in the rest of their product line.
AWS introduces RoboMaker
Well, there was and there will be for foreseeable future, because Google Reader was damn useful and is a poster child of Google's habit of hyping up useful products and then canning them.
>arbitrary reasons doesn’t exist (see e.g Sweden)

It's important to note that these countries (Sweden, Japan) with higher employee protections and guarantees are very different in terms of culture from the hyper-individualistic US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante <- basically an invese of the American culture
I don't know, I've not seen it tried.

However of the bug trackers I've used they all make it hard to set up custom workflows because the UI is a poor 'DSL'.
There was at least one story of "our Google account was banned, our small business is inoperable and we can't contact anyone" on HN.
It is not a horseshoe, as it is not a continuum. Far-right is pre-modern and far-left is post-modern, and both have a distinctly different view in opposition to the modern enlightenment project. However, the current dominant ideologies on the fringes seem to share some important core tenets and a tendency towards tyranny.

Btw, the article you link seem to argue that there is a historic parallel to this argument. However, post-modernist is a much newer concept and ideology than the historic events listed in it.
Phew, so many people would probably argue that a locked bike isn't my property once I leave it on the street.

After staying in Norway, where people leave MacBooks unattended, and doors and bikes unlocked, it riddles me how tolerant other societies are when it comes to theft.
At one point Hangouts was the default messaging app on a lot of Android phones.

Just the other day I was using the adb trick I learned on hn to uninstall the normally unremovable Plus app from my phone..
I believe it. We've seen it happen with TVs for sure.
Note that, in this case, the workers are getting "a minimum of eight weeks’ pay and other benefits" - this kind of thing is sadly not mandatory, but it probably should be. Companies can suddenly not need a worker as business requirements change, but the entirety of the resulting insecurity and switching cost should not fall on the worker.
Briton who knocked Liberia offline jailed
I think we're all both underestimating and overestimating the problem :)

There are way more "smart" devices (devices with some kind of embedded software and clocks) than we assume, and there are way less of these devices than we fear.

It's still gonna be a problem though.
This has to be one of the most ill conceived lawsuits since SCO sued IBM. Not because Netflix have an IBM like legion of Nazgul as their legal team, but in this case because it's self-defeating. The popularity of Bandersnatch will probably do more to drive demand for CYOA books than anything Chooseco would ever have done. That mention of CYOA in Bandersnatch? That was free advertising.

And even if the argument is "Well, Chooseco was trying to get into interactive media as well" I think the exact same argument still holds. Bandersnatch is proving (helping build?) the market for this kind of stuff in general. It's success is paving the way for Chooseco to follow with their own CYOA branded interactive movies / tv-shows, if they want.

And never mind that they probably still could have negotiated a deal with Netflix eventually anyway.

Basically there's nothing good about this... it's just killing goodwill, harming a potential relationship, wasting money on lawyer's fees, and distracting them for, oh, I dunno, creating quality content?
I gotta say that my middle sister made a nice living polishing COBOL turds for something like a decade. We all thought it would be a sorta of last hurrah but it turned out to be lesson in not underestimating how much folks want to do things in the most painful way possible.

Anyway, I'm sorta skeptical that a whole lot of things that have been running deeply embedded code for a while now will still be running in 2038. Tech changes faster now, hardware isn't designed to last many decades much any more (at least it's the exception rather than the rule), and there's so much of industry that is going to have to change to overcome future challenges that I expect a great many things to taken out of service before then.
Very nice. The maximum zoom in the map is a little too far out. Also this link does not work:

https://anna.ps/blog/how-to-use-land-registry-data-to-explor...

Oh and it is not useful for finding unregistered roads - it makes it look like all roads are unregistered.
IRC is still evolving: https://github.com/ircv3 https://irc.com/
> Google already canned Miracast support

5 years ago and the entire industry followed suit if they ever even supported it in the first place.

> will do the same with whatever Chromecast protocol it's using now, meaning these abandoned devices are as good as dead soon.

Seeing as Google still sells a handful of products, and just released a brand new product, that uses the Chromecast protocol I'm gonna call bullshit on this claim.

> Google breaks device casting capability over and over so for years now Android casting has never reliably worked when AirPlay works perfectly.

Chromecast has been rock solid for half a decade. It works so well that Vizio uses it nearly exclusively for their TV lineup and has for a few years now. Chromecast has been a massive success. Your claim is wildly out of touch at best, if not just outright FUD.