skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Fukushima situation was predicted, several times, and TEPCO were warned about the dangers of having basement emergency generators at least 6 times. Nothing happened, because fixing that would cost money. The sea wall was artificially lowered from 30 metres to 10 metres, because keeping it at 30 during construction would have cost more money.

At the end of the day it's money.
Interesting marketing editorial. It would be entertaining to read similarly quaint articles romanticizing the lives and existances of engineers and managers at SV big and little corps!

The article states there isn't new blood coming in to fill the void left as the current generation of artisans retires. Sooner or later Hermes will be forced to change by drawing from a new talent pool or going bust.
Fentanyl test strips already exist. See eg https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095539591... which studied use of them
I think the difference is that only individual posts get downvoted here.

I (used to) have friends on FB who will unfriend anyone epxressing an opinion that they don't agree with (or "find offensive"). They end up in an echo chamber where they never hear an opinion they don't already agree with, and then get surprised when elections don't turn out the way they wanted. Weirdly, I'm still friends with some of them irl, and we can have civil discussions about the same topics in person, just not online.

Unpopular opinions on HN get downvoted to invisibility, but the author is still able to post other unpopular opinions. They'll probably also get downvoted, but sometimes they get supported.
People have also been doing audio source separation effectively for years without neural networks.
That pretty much only applies to emails sent within the same organization/network. If you send an email outside your organization/network, you generally can't recall those back.
Yes, the app was terrible.

The Apple Enterprise terms simply state you cannot distribute to the general public. It doesn't matter that the app was terrible, the violation itself was much more boring.
The concern is those foundations though since google obviously has influence when it comes to it.
1 more pain point...I almost always forget my "special" username, so login forms that have the email as the username are my preference
My ire is when a password manager generated password has too many special characters, is too long, or any number of trash restrictions that ultimately cause me to use a manually generated password to get around the restrictions.
Businesses actually aren't allowed to impose minimums on debit cards. Some still try it, but technically you can report them.
I did not say the app was not nefarious, I said that their enterprise account was not revoked because the app was nefarious.

The enterprise certificates were revoked primarily because they violated the #1 rule of the enterprise account - do not distribute outside of your company.
I really like this idea, but I'm struggling with the decentralized aspect of it. If you can control the content, what exactly are the user's getting? Content can be scraped and saved indefinitely, the IP address information can potentially be leaked, the exact security of the system is unclear.

It seems like I'm just moving to a less efficient platform with more open moderation and socialized bandwidth and storage costs.
Have you considered using your smartphone, which is right next to you and already configured with your email and a web browser? That was probably the intended use case anyways.
All of this is covered in Dream Horders (the linked book).

Occupational licensing is a weaker argument (it's not covered in Reeve's original nytimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/opinion/sunday/stop-prete...), but there's something to be said for how expensive it is to get through medical or law school (in part due to licensing requirements).

I haven't read the book, but I imagine immigration and licensing connect. It's known to be difficult for foreign-trained doctors to ramp up in the US (https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-03-26/highly-trained-and-ed...) and lawyers have difficulties just changing states due to state-level bar exams.
Nah, they've been fine with cash discounts for a long time. They only became okay with surcharging / adding a fee for cards as a result of a lawsuit in 2013. They'd still prefer businesses offer a cash discount, though. They know customers generally don't take them up on it, but also don't feel punished like they do with a surcharge.
Moneyball and Software Development
A lot of people I know are specifically shopping for smart TVs. They want a Netflix box with a screen.
They Thrive on All-Meat Diet (1929)
>but without the iPhone, there is no Uber.

An Uber company that still took calls but actually accepted a cross street in downtown seattle would still be a million times better the yellow cab's "Sorry, but we can only dispatch to a full street address"
They actually only do get a tiny slice.

Interchange fees to the issuing banks start around 1.5% while Visa's volume assessment is only 0.13%.

But they get a tiny slice on an ungodly amount of transactions, so it adds up.
Open Source Android and iOS Messenger
Radioactivity of rocks is caused by only a few elements so is useful to consider the minerals in which those elements are hosted. i.e. the radioactivity is not evenly distributed among the minerals that comprise granite. The elements that contribute most to the radioactivity of granite are U, Th and K. The K is mostly contained in alkali feldspar and mica. The U and Th are contained in accessory minerals, such as monazite and zircon. Monazite and zircon are dense, robust minerals, which means they persist after weathering and go on to accumulate in detrital sediments, and we call the sediments in which they are concentrated heavy mineral sands. Alkali feldspar is much less robust and rarely survives in mature sediments (i.e. quartz-rich sands), instead all the K ends up in clays.

When heavy mineral sands are processed to extract the Ti and Zr ( from rutile, illmenite, zircon), the residual concentrate is rich in monazite. This material comprises the bulk of our easily accessible Th reserves. However, you can't just leave this monazite-rich material lying around heaps, as it creates a windborne radioactive dust hazard, so it gets mixed back in with the other light material. This is a bit of a shame. All that energy and effort is expended to extract the heavy minerals, but as there is no immediate market for the monazite, and it is a liability to keep it in the extracted state, all that work hard work is undone to mitigate the dust hazard and it gets mixed back with the quartz etc.

So it is perhaps somewhat ironic that we mine beaches to get the minerals that are the source of the bulk of the radioactivity of granites.
How old were you in the 90s? I’d like to know how much is nostalgia for that particular age.
Please don't post unsubstantive rants to Hacker News, even if you feel strongly about art.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In Wales, they'd say "Don't Tit About with Login Forms".

Seems like a thing to print on T-shirts and hand out at trade shows.
TechCrunch patting itself on the back.
BlackBerry gets 40M boost from Ottawa to build primary OS for connected vehicles
Indeed, and it's part of why Square was a (ha) square peg in a round hole. Incidentally, it's also why they have other pricing now that does have a per-transaction fee.
Aristotle's Way: Philosophize and Flourish
Technology is probably an easier solution than changing an entire society.
I was expecting you to say Google won because it didn't put out one of those adware toolbars crowding your browser. I would never install one of those. I just put Google as my home page.
How can you make that decision for other people ?
FB is just the messenger (NPI).

If it's shut down, something else will quickly fill its place.
His addiction could have been a symptom and/or a way to cope with working too hard.
Oh the good ol' days, anyone here miss them too?

I definitely feel some nostalgia for certain aspects of the "internet, circa 1997".

But do consider that IRC is still alive, as well as many other kinds of "chat rooms" today. There are still XMPP based chat services, and you have things like Slack, Gitter, Mastodon, Riot, etc., etc. And heck, if you look hard enough you can still find BBS's up and running, many accessible via Telnet. I wouldn't be half surprised to find some Fidonet stuff still going on somewhere.
I feel morally obligated to start using Aether because I think that p2p and decentralization is what we need. I am going to try to make it work.

It would sure help to have a mobile app.
By definition, a cache will only contain things you've accessed (or pre-fetched to be fair to the latest javascript whizz-bangs)

Aether proposes to store its entirety on your local drive, although it is all text content, links can still be dangerous to blindly store
Not all company are deemed to be unicorn. You know, you could just try to create a decent business bringing decent income, and beginning by exchanging what you know to students / young adults / dropped out is a good start if you like that path. I would certainly do it if I find the right people to train, and I would have loved it to have a serious mentor earlier in my life in this way. No one here can judge or make decision for others there's so much things in life that to pretend otherwise seems silly.

EDIT : actually, now that I think of it, I know a friend who did exactly that. He even said to me that he preferred this unpaid internship to the one he got one year later, paid, but bad environment and no mentorship.
Coming!
For starters, your time value cannot be 0. At minimum, your time value is equal to your living expenses.
I always tend to overthink. At the end, I almost always leave it upto math/science. Spreadsheets are a great way to visualize maths associated with things.
The problem is that as far as pricing is concerned, regulating at the interchange level isn't going to have the effect people want. That's what happened with the Durbin Amendment.. it capped regulated debit at 0.05% and 22 cents at the interchange level... but processors can still add whatever fees they want on top of that.
There are some communities, line the D&D community that are being disrupted by the end of Google+, they might not be big in absolute numbers, but it’s a prime time to get them as one’s first “real” users.
I agree. I find it hard to believe that anyone is going to transport all the physical tapes from cold storage and look through all the physical tapes.

My guess is that the data is removed on production and recovery sites. The data will be left on tape since they will most likely never see the light of day again.
As I have you here, an OT question: will the business version of Aether also remove content after six months?
This immediately makes less interested in the platform. Reddit posts older than six months can be useful.
Running an app and a server locally is a hard sell when it only serves a single app. IPFS, dat and Secure Scuttlebutt also run a daemon, but they run generic protocols which enable multiple apps.

Also, why the aether protocol in uris? Wouldn't that preclude browser support? Safelisting should happen for generic protocols, and apps demanding that of browsers will be a slippery slope.

Also, curious how this different from SSB channels. It seems very similar, but I could be wrong.
There would be others way to monetize and fund education / scholarships. The money that you won't pay in taxes could go somewhere else. There could be more businesses trying to improve the education field, which would be very useful seeing what we learn in our currently heavily subsidized schools/universities.
Add it to the giant list of suck.
Banks do that when adding new credit cards or checking account numbers and so on.

Presumably for making it more secure
I was confused, too. They claim it is cryptographically impossible to edit someone else's posts, but apparently some group of people have the ability to take down people's posts. I'm wondering -- what's the point, then?

It's not censorship resistant, but at least it tries to be transparent (all moderator actions are visible). I'm still not seeing how this would be any better than Reddit if a small group of people have centralized control over the content distribution.
Wow, lots of harsh comments on this page.

Academia is kind of a pyramid scheme and there is a huge mismatch between the number of graduates and academic jobs. Moreover, universities are turning increasingly to adjunct faculty rather than adding tenure track positions.

Fortunately in the sciences and engineering you can work in industry or government labs; it's a lot harder for people in the humanities and social sciences.
Mobile networks call for 5G security inspector
The problem isn't that there aren't strong anti-fraud tools available, it's that businesses by and large don't use them. Merchants struggle as a whole to get to even 50% of card-accepting businesses actually being PCI compliant (the security regulations for accepting cards) and the ones that become compliant often fall out of compliance again within a year.

>Being able to use a RFID/NFC reader in close proximity to someones wallet (like in their back pocket, standing ahead of you in line) and being able to charge their card without even touching it is not a very good thing lol.

It's not, but it's also extremely uncommon. The cards people have aren't typically RFID, and NFC has a much narrower range.
No. The business version is a hosted / on-prem SaaS, that removes the space limitations and other similar restrictions that deletion is a solution to.

That said, you can still have it delete at a certain threshold. I know of a few large Silicon Valley companies that delete emails past 1.5-2y as a way of limiting their legal exposure. If you’re a 1000+ employee company, that is pretty much standard practice so long as you take care to not delete anything with a legal discovery hold.
related:

"Can Arm Survive RISC-V Challenge?" (02.13.19)

https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1334...
Windows 10 said it "protected my PC". Did you sign the executable? I recently went through a huge hassle getting a code signing certificate. So if you didn't get one I understand why.
In a sense Apple has ended up fairly close to this by providing native integration between the system keyboard and password managers.
How is it decentralized if illegal content can be taken down? It should be impossible for a single entity to do that in a truly decentralized system. It appears this has a backdoor.
I believe I've commented on this earlier, I remember it being submitted last year.

I still think this is a really awful, completely useless product. I really like that HN & Reddit & Discord are persistent. It's very valuable to me and the general population to be able to search from stuff that happened years ago.

The worst comment history usually does is get you a snarky reply on Reddit. Losing your job for no good reason is bad, but showing support for those people is more of a solution. People will need to get used to other people not being perfect as far as opinions go, and that people's opinions can change.

I am very uninterested in Aether, the general population is not interested in Aether, and this will never catch on. The only people who care about this are a few tech people. Even people who get kicked off Twitter / Facebook / Reddit go on to centralized Gab / Voat / et cetera without a problem, this is not useful.

Edit: Also trivial for someone maliciously or otherwise to just archive stuff, so you lose the benefits and gain very little.
Goldman Sachs – ESports Joins the Big Leagues
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You don't have permission to access /about/altavista/ on this server.

Apache/2.4.10 (Debian) Server at digital.com Port 443
I deleted my facebook account maybe a year ago. It was like ripping off a band-aid.

It felt bad for a short period of time due fear of missing out on family/friends and whatnot. But shortly after I realized that I'm feeling less distracted and not falling into the scroll-hole as often.

And as a small bonus, on my last birthday I received actual texts and calls from actual friends instead of "me too" comments on a fb post.
Jinja2 Found Vulnerable to Server Side Template Injection
It says I need to pay on Patreon to get a unique username. Does this mean if I don't pay then someone else can impersonate me?
The problem with AND as a default is that 'normal' people (i.e. people who have no idea what boolean means) operate search engines something like this: 1. type some words in, and get no or incorrect results; 2. add some extra words, and repeat the search, with the idea they are making the search more specific; 3. be confused as to why they still don't get the results they want. a default of OR, on the other hand, means adding search terms ends up being useful...
Can you please just keep the ideological battle comments elsewhere?
Depending on how everything plays out, I might migrate to a default mode where only the communities you’ve subscribed to is shared from your computer to allay these concerns. The current mode of share-all would remain available as well.
Don't worry, from the ashes of Silk Road sprung a hundred more darknet markets. Some of them aren't even scams!
I run an OpenBSD router with PF:

pass in quick on { $lan $wireguard } proto udp to { 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 } port 53 rdr-to 192.168.2.1

Locally I run Unbound for caching, local dns zones and ad/malware domain blocking[2]. I have a DNS forwarder in Unbound configured to a local Stubby[1] instance that does dns over tls to Cloudflare.

Having done "big data" contract work for the largest telco in my current country of residence who are some of the worst skilled people I have ever work with, your local ISP is highly likely abusing your DNS history profiling your household for various questionable things just as much as Google. At least with Cloudflare they have a clear privacy policy[3] and I have faith their technical skill to anonymize data and use it can't be as bad as my ISP.

[1] https://dnsprivacy.org/wiki/display/DP/DNS+Privacy+Daemon+-+...
[2] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
[3] https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-priv...
The password field in this scenario doesn't have to be visible. As long as it's attached to the DOM the password manager can still fill it. Then you make the password field visible if the email address doesn't match a known SSO integration.
> Due to COBOL's lack of functions and recursion

Wait, what? Someone forgot about the PERFORM verb. Or, are they writing this in an old enough version of COBOL for that not to be present?
See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19176951

tl;dr: I concur on the pain, and I’m working on it.
Harness the Power of Social Selling for Driving Sales
deprecate is assumed to be followed by removal, doing one will lead to the other 99% of the time.
It's also not true - it may be in the US, but for instance in the UK: It is an offence to "the person views, or otherwise accesses, by means of the internet a document or record containing information of that kind [likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism]."

It may protect the site, but it doesn't protect users.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/section/58
Web of trust and keyservers can be an undesirable feature among that community of users that PGP was supposed to serve: people in authoritarian states. If a community of those people sign each others’ keys, it only takes one person uploading his keyring to a public keyserver, for that authoritarian state to have a convenient map of the social network of its citizens trying to subvert its surveillance and their foreign contacts.
BusinessManager – Open Source Project and Team Management
Offices with actual doors are better for work that requires concentration without interruptions.
There is no need for private Banks. Banks and lending should be separated. Banks have only one purpose to store the money and give it back when I need it. No interest no fees or anything else. It doesn't require some great feats to increment or decrement numbers. Similarly paying, transferring, etc should be instantaneous and cost free. Highest cost should be electricity cost of computer running the transaction. It boggles my mind why let there be cluster fuck of crappy private solutions when the problem is faced by whole society. Why not build 1 efficient cheaper public owned system. We don't have private highways, private dams, so why can't we have public owned banking system
Cryptocurrencies to Be Retailed Across 10,000 Tobacco Shops in France
How bandwidth-hungry is it? Is it feasible that someday I could participate in the network from my cell phone?
The point is that you can choose your own moderators. No one that you don’t explicitly trust as a moderator can delete content you see. If you no longer trust a moderator, you disable him / her and all moderation actions that was taken by that person is reverted on your machine.
> not really possible for those to be accurate either

Sure, but you can make a good estimate, and if it ends up being more, then everyone wins. Google makes more, but so does the city and all businesses involved. And let's not ignore the other side of the coin, where if they do poorly, they will make less money.

> as discussed in the article they are hardly on board.

That's about this specific proposal, I was talking about the project as a whole, which was announced October 2017.

Here's the conference where Trudeau, as well as the representatives for the province and city all welcome it quite happily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_yg_BsJy_o

They are clearly onboard with Google as a whole, but yes, this specific proposal is obviously new and being looked at.
Use a mental model. 10/10/10 seems a good fit.

Every time that you’re diluting yourself into a decision ask yourself it that thing would matter in 10 minutes 10 hours 10 days 10 months etc.

You can also use this same mental model to evaluate the importance of something in relation to other vectors. Will this impact your tomorrow, next month, next year.

Are your finances going to be impacted by this today, next month, next year.

Also think about how things will compound. Will this decision have a compounding effect or not. Decisions with compounding effects matter, decisions without compounding effects usually not.
>You can disable any mod, and choose anyone as a mod
In Aether, if you don’t like what a mod is doing, you can just disable him. Flip a switch, and everything he deleted reappears. You can also choose a non-mod as a mod.

How exactly does this work?

I assume the first part means that you can disable certain mod and then the content deleted by him will be visible for you, but still invisible for others (if they didn't disable this mod)?

But what does it mean that I can choose a mod? Will it be my "personal" mode, i.e. the content removed by him will be invisible to me and me only, or will it be applied to everyone's content? So what stops everyone and their dog becomes mods eventually?

Sorry if my questions don't make sense, but I have no clue how it works from these words.
I see these aether:// links which are supposed to link to subs but they just open a blank/error page in Chrome when I click them in Aether and I can't figure out how to subscribe to subs with the link.
It doesn’t appear to be very bandwidth hungry so far. Of course we’ll see, but I’m more optimistic for that than I used to be when I first launched it in December.