skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like the make and structure of the notion, but lack of encryption beyond tls is a deal breaker to me. Also, their developer has no intention to implement encryption whatsoever, just like the Evernote.
> Step one is getting you to use a compromised server.

This is not at all uncommon. Consider I need to send you files, either once or on a batch schedule.

You say, "give me your key, you can drop them on this server"

I feel safe since I am just writing files to your server, not expecting you are going to drop arbitrary code that will run next time I open my terminal.
You can get an Oyster refund from machines in almost every station now. It's cheaper even for a single trip.
That's right, and the different shapes mean different things.

There's a Tom Scott video about them:
https://www.rnib.org.uk/rnibconnect/welfare-and-money/tom-sc...
This might sound strange, but I don't like the term "passive income". It sounds like a scam. Probably some people actually want a scam, but I think there is a better way of putting it. Profit is roughly "sales - costs". Normally costs are scaled by labour. The higher the volume, the more labour and therefore the higher the costs.

You can categorise the shapes of these curves. In a really dysfunctional company, the amount of labour your need per unit will increase as volume increases. A good example of this might be some bus companies where the cost per rider increases as the number of riders increase -- you get popular and you go out of business.

Consulting companies tend to have a linear relationship. The more you sell, the more you have to do. However, the per unit cost doesn't really change based on volume. Manufacturing companies tend to have a less than linear relationship. The per unit cost decreases with volume. You get the "efficiency of scale".

With computers we can create services with a very nearly constant relationship between volume and labour. In other words, I do the work once and then there is no other cost to increase sales. Of course, from a business perspective, this is ideal. You do the work and then you can scale the business without having to invest more money.

The thing I dislike about the term "passive income" is that it implies that you are getting free money. It's not true. For this kind of constant cost business, you've front loaded the costs. The first one costs as much as the first million. In fact, you may be in the red for a very long time (or forever... "Any side projects, Games, OSS" ;-) ). For this reason, I'd much prefer (the infinitely less catchy) term "front loaded business". I guess it will never catch on, but I wish we could discuss this topic without having to always derail into get rich quick and "living the dream of money without work" schemes.
Giant Board – Linux on a Feather
How many M.2 2280 format NVME SSD can you fit in one of those modules?
Insect collapse
> Basically protocols as a general thing can't work on iOS, only individual apps/services which get to read all your messages and access your login credentials work.

Which I think is a reasonable requirement for a chat service, especially on mobile.
Here is a deep comparison of Notion, Coda, Airtable and Zenkit

The Next Wave of Work Management Software
https://hackernoon.com/the-next-wave-of-work-management-soft...
If it is proprietary they don't have to pay - they can always write their own - just like it happend in this case. If it is economic to write their own now - it would also be economic to write their own when Mongo was entirely proprietary. There is no economic difference in these two situations. But maybe you believe that it was not economy that dictated the rewrite - but rather it was a kind of tantrum - "others can have it for free why can't we!!!???". I don't think it was an emotional decision.
I didn't even realise you could buy paper tickets. You can use contactless credit cards and apple pay directly on the gate, so there's no reason to buy one.
Moving to a Profile per Install Architecture
No side projects. The little time I have outside of work and family, I read or browse hacker news before falling asleep. I did take vacation recently and play The Witcher 3, which ruined gaming for me.

I have about $200k spread thoughout some index funds and individual stocks that all pay dividends in my post tax accounts. I reinvest all that income and the taxes are kind of annoying to deal with, but’s it’s better than nothing.

I also have a high yield savings account. A big chunk of my total cash is tied up here because I’d rather stay liquid. I think the rate is now 2% annual or just north of. It gets me $300 a month. I just save it and let it grow, aside from taxes on the interest.
Unlocking your phone does give law enforcement access to more than evidence. Especially since in most cases the existence of said evidence isn't even ensured. What remains is a violation of privacy.

Unlocking a phone is just another fruit of the forbidden tree.

If you look at the last 20 years, giving law enforcement additional competency didn't improve anything.
The idea you pay sales tax every time the car is sold is frustrating. It feels like double dipping by the government.
Ask HN: Do you use A/B Testing?
A/B Testing is touted as one of the most effective UX design tools but nowhere I've worked has ever used it. Has any company you've worked for used A/B Testing?
> After the Google vs Oracle case i thought the courts decided the opposite of what you are saying

Are you posting from the future? Because it isn't after that case yet; Google plans to appeal (given that they filed for an extension to the 25th of this month) the latest Federal Circuit decision to the US Supreme Court and, if that doesn't succeed and end the case in Google’s favor, the next step would be a third trial in the District Court, followed—however that turns out—by another appeal by one side or the other to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, possibly another petition for en banc rehearing after that appeal, and potentially another appeal to the Supreme Court.
Right I get all that (I updated to clarify that I understand the attack is against your local home dir, but I assume you have one on the remote side).

I just don’t understand the use case of scp’ing from an untrusted host.
If I may ask, which language is more functional feature wise, F# or OCaml?
Also his existing card probably has contactless payments, so he could have just tapped his card.
new vector (Matrix-based decentralised/encrypted comms) :)
> In addition it feels like they have abandoned development or are busy being acquired (~bi-weekly updates until about three months ago: https://www.notion.so/What-s-New-157765353f2c4705bd45474e5ba...)

Notion founders, do you care to comment on this? My company recently started a paid account on Notion and I'd love to know more.
Interesting, I have no idea as I was writing assembler only, no code generation (except some assembler macros ;-)
> Meanwhile Apple is charging $1,200 for a 1 TB MacBook upgrade.

This is specifically one of the reasons I ended up switching to a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga, even though I'd planned to buy the new MacBook Air. The Thinkpad's SSD is officially user-replaceable and I bought a 2TB WD Blue SSD for less than a third of the cost of Apple's upgrade. Even an NVMe SSD would have been half the price of Apple.

One caveat is that although Lenovo has excellent official repair videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqrspYc21PY), I must be doing something wrong, the Phillips & JIS heads in my iFixit Mako toolkit don't seem to fit/grip the Thinkpad's SSD screw. I'm worried I'll strip the screw if I keep trying, so I guess I'll take it to a Lenovo repair shop for some help.
Often, you may be stuck with your particular ISP, and with one or more ip's uniquely tied to you, your identity, and your address.
A VPN can at least mitigate that, and you can swap them at will, nothing to do with your current residence.
We don't necessarily trust our VPN provider[s] more than we do our ISP.
You should not trust the server. The server may have been compromised.
Those "Curb cut grips" are tactile paving:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactile_paving

Does San Francisco not have that?
Our world is dying.
It never occurred to me that the voltage difference between America and Europe/Asia would cause a corresponding differences in watt output given the same amps... But yes indeed, US kettles boil much slower.

Other appliances that require a lot of juice include vacuum cleaners, electric hobs, space heaters, portable ACs/dehumidifiers. So having something trip a living room circuit pulling just 2000 watts would drive me nuts in the long run
Maybe the northerly location reduces sun exposure making bones weaker?
At this point contactless has enough consumer adoption to be the easier option. If you're a tourist and don't have a contactless card you can use Google pay etc.
It'll be just a short time before this is overturned.
Fingerprints are non-testimonial.
So is a photograph of your face.
So is a sample of your handwriting.
You can be forced to give a handwriting sample.
As to polygraphs, at the federal criminal level, they have been approved in only one federal circuit, and then only under limited circumstances. See, U.S. v. Picinonna.
Despite this federal non-acceptance, they are widely used at the federal administrative level for security clearances and the like.
In the private sector, there are little restrictions on their use. You could also use divining rods, tarot cards, crystal balls and similar implements to discover the truth of a statement if you wanted to. However you can't weight a person down and throw him in the lake to see if he floats.
This. I fail to see how an issue, which is essentially about trust, can be solved by trusting someone else. If you don't trust your ISP you should switch. If you don't trust your ISP and can't switch then you should be using VPN or TOR.
And now Racket, which used to be a Scheme, doesn't call itself a Scheme anymore.

In fact it describes itself on its web site as "The best of Scheme and Lisp."
> It's well know that if you start using C# , your entire stack will generally be MS based...(SQL Server, Azure etc... )

Why the fuck...?

I love using Linux+PostgreSQL with F#, and deploying to AWS.

> Even if I have been writing code with Java / C# for nearly a decade , nothing has come close to Typescript in terms of productivity,flexibility and confidence.

Disagree. After doing JS & Java & C# & Perl & F# & TS (& a bit of others such as C, C++, Python), I think TS is just a giant patch to a language that is broken by design. And a patch is just a patch. Just fucking migrate to a decent language already! (e.g. F# or Rust)
For developers looking for application security information, I can't recommend PentesterLab[1] strongly enough. It has changed how we approach security education internally and has made going through security code reviews and penetration testing audits much less stressful.

[1] https://www.pentesterlab.com/
Unless I’m mistaken you’d still be safe. The vuln would only work if you were pulling files from an untrusted host, not pushing to it.

But if I wanted to share files with you, I’d just put them on the web, unless we already have a relationship where you can ssh somewhere that I have access to.

In which case I assume we’re trusted or you’ve at least verified the host key.
No longer an expert in Z80 - and perhaps I never was as much of my assembler career was Amiga 68k - but didn't the Z80 also have indirect adressing?
The first place I remember seeing it is Slashdot - so perhaps start there.

It's weird how now it seems such a normal feature now despite the fact that in the past even major forums like SomethingAwful and TOTSE (hell, that goes back to the BBS days..) had no such feature and functioned perfectly fine.
Probably not anymore (with BRexit).
There are plenty of use cases where the host you're connecting to isn't completely untrusted but rather it's semi-trusted. Web hosting provider, university machine, etc - all multi-tenant environments which have a tendency to get compromised.
She

Price discrimation is a technical economics term used to describe how a monopolist can get as much money as possible out of people, so that everyone pays the maximum they are willing to pay.

Consider a university with “financial aid”. They get everyone to grant them access to bank accounts, tax returns etc. and then set tuition at the maximum they think the family can afford, “giving away” thousands of dollars to try and encourage those who could not otherwise afford the list price to come to choose their college.

Devon was on a business trip. Her employer will be paying for the tickets anyway.
'no discussion' software stack
Its 'something you know' vs 'something you are'.

In some sense, the issue here is that we use fingerprints as authorization whilst they should be authentication.
I manage a fully remote team with staff in time zones from Sydney to LA. In fact I've just messaged people in both zones.

Culture is key:

- People have to be of the mindset that meetings are short and purposeful. Nobody is in the meeting because they are the boss, or forced to join in order to soak up the atmosphere. (Both of those are real things, somehow).

- People exercise judgement in deciding how many people to write to: either DM, or 3-way, or dump it in a public channel.

- Most work is async by far. People post what they're up to, and other people will go and bother them if they're doing something relevant.

There's good and bad things about this:

- We can hire people who are highly experienced, and offer them totally flexible work. Some people like working at 3am. Others like to pick up the kids from school.

- We tend to only hire highly experienced people. There's nobody with under 8 years of work on the team. Juniors will have to somehow convince us they can do it; it's somehow more believable that an older person will be able to work independently than a younger one.

- Work blends in with not-work. Some people like having a division, other people like being flexible and moving their work time around.
Try putting this in the console: `jQuery('img').remove();`
I live here and don't pay the TV license. I don't consume BBC content, and dislike how they try and send angry letters for not paying for something I don't use (the BBC FireTV app runs at about 6 frames a second and is frustrating to use). Imagine if Netflix was claimed to be 'mandatory' and they could enter your home to check you're 'really' not using Netflix.

The NHS is popular, and people like it, but it's also very inefficient and it can become a political nightmare for anyone who tries to address that.
It seems quite concerning then, that most political parties are ideologically driven. I would really like to see a political party focused on evidence based politics.
From my point of view, they have just great integration together, but but nothing really forces you to use them.
Original post sounded like you are being forced into it.
Now you comment that under a list of startups, it could've been a great startup name.
> Seems like they are in some sort of transition for the address system. Google maps has letters and numbers, but when you get to the street there is a typical name.

What?
ab -lt 10 -c 3 "www.youdomainORwithoutwww.com/"
I apologize for mixing up ab testing with A/B testing.
Watch and Download Home Alone Full HD Torrent
As with the weather, just because we complain about it all the time doesn't mean it's actually bad.
I have noticed this too, in that a lot of friends from the US seem to shy away from buying oyster cards and get old paper tickets (and rip themselves off). Whereas friends from Europe, where many city transit systems have RFID systems, automatically recognise oyster cards as the defacto.

Also have noticed that a lot of North-American tourists, when they do get a card, don't realise that they have paid a £5 deposit on the card and discard them at the end of their trip.

I can't confirm this for tourists from other placed who's language I don't speak.
Why would a dealer go through all this rigmarole about being worried about which day of the month the car was being purchased? Wouldn’t it be far more sane for the delay to just average things out and know that every day will eventually have a similar number of cars sold, so they should be priced accordingly?
Also, and I think it works on all Android, if you press the fingerprint sensor with the wrong finger 5 times it deactivates it. So just hit it with your pinky or any other non-registered finger.
Or you could get lifetime updates with a Librem 5, which could also presumably run the latest Android indefinitely as well.

Hopefully the entire concept of needing OEM or carrier involvement to update your OS will be dead soon.
I'm guessing this ruling is about taking the suspects actual finger and placing it on the scanner.
This is different from building a fake finger based on fingerprints and using it to unlock your device.

Consider the password case, you can't be compelled to give your password, but the government is allowed to throw all of their hacking prowess against your device to crack that password. They can even ask you about the name of your first pet to get through security questions. Though they can't compel you to answer truly regarding the name of your first pet.
This was a wholesome post. Overall positive with lots of pretty photos. Made me want to go out walk around the city I live in.
Geocentrism vs heliocentrism was actually a proxy debate between religious authoritarianism and the first stirrings of scientific empiricism.

You buy ideology wholesale, and ideological thinking is essentially authoritarian. It means you can hide behind something that you assume is bigger than yourself to make your beliefs more plausible and your arguments more convincing.

You can see this reduced to bare essentials when you talk to religious types who "prove" everything with a bible quote. If you don't believe in the authority of the bible this seems ridiculous, and if you do it's completely authoritative.

But science has similar issues. It's not unusual to see "You can't argue with me, I'm a scientist" being used in the fringes of science where it isn't truly justified empirically or theoretically. It's even more popular among technical types who aren't scientists at all, but who use "science" to dismiss opinions they disapprove of as "woo".

Ideology is essentially just people not-thinking in a herd. You can buy your value system wholesale, have it justified by the size and heft of your herd, and persuade yourself that your beliefs make sense - and even that they can't be argued with.

The authoritarian part comes from the political reality that political "morality" is about power, status, and credibility, not about facts or accuracy. In a political moral framework you score points by destroying the power, status, and credibility of your opponent using any means possible - including outright lies and character smears.

Humans seem much more likely to "prove" a point politically than empirically and with intellectual humility and integrity - which is fatal for real knowledge, because making and admitting mistakes in a political frame is a strongly losing move.
Giant Food Stores will place robotic assistants at 172 locations
I know someone who met the Queen and Princes Margaret out for a walk from the royal yacht on a beach on the Outer Hebrides - amusingly it looks like the beach they were on isn't owned by the Crown, but I doubt any landowner would argue with them as they had a group of Royal Marines tagging along at a discreet distance.
To avoid flattened visitors, there's even the consideration of "Look Left" crosswalk warnings: http://4everstatic.com/pictures/850xX/other/-look-left,-zebr...
I see a lot of Slack billboards in West LA. Nobody cares. I don’t care. I guess it’s brand recognition efforts prior to the IPO. All the best to them in their future endeavors..
Obviously there are different levels of monitoring maturity, just like with all aspects of engineering. The brave poster solved the issue, so he leveled up by his own.
Politics isn’t mostly about values or beliefs, it’s mostly about winning, beating the other side. Insofar as it is about either we have a proposal to make values explicit and to incentivise teaching the goals that serve those values.

http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html

> Futarchy: Vote Values, But Bet Beliefs

> by Robin Hanson

> This short "manifesto" describes a new form of government. In "futarchy," we would vote on values, but bet on beliefs. Elected representatives would formally define and manage an after-the-fact measurement of national welfare, while market speculators would say which policies they expect to raise national welfare.
Democracy seems better than autocracy (i.e., kings and dictators), but it still has problems. There are today vast differences in wealth among nations, and we can not attribute most of these differences to either natural resources or human abilities. Instead, much of the difference seems to be that the poor nations (many of which are democracies) are those that more often adopted dumb policies, policies which hurt most everyone in the nation. And even rich nations frequently adopt such policies.
These policies are not just dumb in retrospect; typically there were people who understood a lot about such policies and who had good reasons to disapprove of them beforehand. It seems hard to imagine such policies being adopted nearly as often if everyone knew what such "experts" knew about their consequences. Thus familiar forms of government seem to frequently fail by ignoring the advice of relevant experts (i.e., people who know relevant things).
I usually had a paper ticket in London because I’d be coming in from Guildford - the mag strip on the paper ticket you buy for your commute into London also encoded a travelcard for tube usage.
right, unfortunately in dealing with governmental bodies it is best to point to something in a document written by someone with some apparent expertise in a matter that would say something like 'Usability is something to be continually evaluated, in order to have get the best and most accurate view of an application's usability for its target group it is best to have a semi-annual testing regimen based on analytics of the actual application usage in between the last system improvements...yadda,yadda,yadda'
> I'd go further and say it provides the opposite - it shows a low and declining search trend.

This.

Additionally, the only moment in time when D was a reasonable concept was before C++11, when the development of C++ was stalled and there were a few pain points with C++98 that justified picking up other tools.

Since then C++ started evolving and a majority of those pain points were addressed, thus leaving D without any major selling point or even purpose.

To make matters worse, with the whole industry shift to the web C+ has since seen a decline in market share. Therefore D is placed as a poor replacement for the incumbent of a market share in decline.
Do I understand correctly that the record layer is only usable by Java clients? That strikes me as a drawback of the layer approach: unless you supply a server protocol, like the document layer does, every language essentially reimplements the layer from scratch. That seems to be the case for the tuple layer, for example.
That's true, which is probably worse than being ideology driven when I think about it.