skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eagle is straight-up weird. It’s like using a DOS program in 1985, when developers were experimenting with UI.

To copy and paste from one design to another: group command, select components, cut command (it will copy them, not cut them), close the file, open another file (only one file can be open at a time), paste command.
Incredible uninteresting and irrelevant. Doesn't deserve to be on HN.

If a hair falls off my body and onto the ground, does it count as littering?
So it's an extranet then.
> confusing social consequences of speech with legality

If people went to a certain country and they said "We have freedom from self incrimination, just as the US does; the government is not allowed to force a confession from an alleged criminal. However, the victim and their family or friends may force a confession from the alleged criminal in any way they please.", then those people would undoubtedly say "Your country does not have freedom from self incrimination at all!"

If people went to a certain country and they said "We have freedom of speech, just as the US does; the government is not allowed to suppress or tamper with what an individual says. However, those who disagree with what they said may inflict 'social consequences' on that individual until their lives are ruined.", then people would undoubtedly say ...?

In short, it should be blindingly obvious that freedom of speech includes both protection from government intervention as well as protection from members of the public who seek to inflict harm^H^H^H^H"social consequences" because they disagree with what was said.

It is dismaying that a man of Randall Munroe's intelligence should make such a blatant logical error in his comic. Sadly, it's not even the only error in that comic.
Chasing Jack Ma: Chinese tech workers face burnout in 2.6 years
FWIW SecureString should not be used:

https://github.com/dotnet/platform-compat/blob/master/docs/D...
+1

Keep calm and pedant on.
Lex seems like a very nice guy, but he is terrible at interviewing guests. Listening is definitely a skill.
> A classic CM tool that does get this right is Chef, where normal Ruby code is used to build the declarative intended state.

If you're saying that, you should clarify for anyone not familiar with various config mgmt tools that in order to provide you with ruby, it compiles ruby in 1 pass, then evaluates the result in ruby again after enriching its environment with the results of the first pass.

This creates surprises when code apparently disappears (because it's been evaluated). In addition, to accomplish some of its other goals, chef performs an up-to 18-layer collapsing of various variables to make them available via the node object, which means that depending on which evaluation phase has completed and what else may have enriched the various layers, the state of the node object can be very hard to understand.

I say this as a big fan of chef - it's quite a lovely product. But on the other side, salt and ansible work to provide fewer footguns in the default case where the goal is to provide structured data to a function that will act on it. It allows you to footgun yourself differently, but your excitement about yaml vs. a programming language is understandable, but impractical since putting programming languages into the position of managing the messy reality of running a program on an operating system requires a lot of any programming language - it's where the rubber meets the road and the road is neither smooth nor straight.
There's no reason to think that what makes train service in Japan better than in America is related to it being privatized.

I have total faith that we could privatize Amtrak and have it be just as execrable in comparison. And then it would be sold off for parts, some assholes would get tremendously wealthy, and we wouldn't have any passenger rail network at all.
Aliasing is a problem coming from insufficient filtering. That is actually one reason that 48kHz still makes sense to upgrade to from 44.1kHz - it makes the antialiasing filter design a bit easier because the rolloff doesn't have to be as sharp to stay above the range of hearing and below the Nyquist frequency.

Neve make beautiful mixers, but it's not necessarily "better' - it just has a nice sound because the analog components colour the sound in certain ways. There are other ways to do the same thing though - as long as you have good enough preamps and digitisation, you can download characterisations of certian amplifiers/mixers to apply to your digital signal. This is massive in guitar effects - you can download basically any vintage amp and sound basically identical without having to ship around heavy amps with delicate tubes in them!
>However, it was held that Mr Moore’s spleen was not his property so, while he could claim for breach of fiduciary duty and a lack of informed consent, he could not claim for the consequences of the conversion. It was the researchers who were held to own the cell line over which they had been granted a patent because of their application of skill to Mr Moore’s original cells.

That makes me wonder if skill is a defense and how one would demonstrate skill. While many of the examples were international, this one was California based, so I looked up what skill is in a legal dictionary with US examples:

>Practical and familiar knowledge of the principles and processes of an art, science, or trade, combined with the ability to apply them in practice in a proper and approved manner and with readiness and dexterity. [1]

So if you could demonstrate knowledge of the procedure and were familiar with some equipment manuals, could you make a claim? If you lacked equipment and resources, would that be a defense for the other side? About approved manner, as there are biohackers, and the ability to work in other countries or perhaps partner up with a licensed company, I wonder if any of those would work as a defense.

[1] https://thelawdictionary.org/skill/
Roses are flowers. Not all flowers are roses.
I think the time it'll take to come up with economic grid storage will be a lot shorter than the time it'll take to get thorium and liquid salt reactors designed, tested and constructed all over the world.
The most echo chamber part of the parent statement is the use of "most people."

Most people are not thinking about any of these things.

What tires me and embarrasses me the most about the tech community and Silicon Valley community is how out of touch they are with most people.
This seems grossly overstated to me.

The optional warning they're talking about is just a light in a random section of the cockpit called "AOA disagree". That's it. It can't help the Lion Air crew, because the world wasn't aware that AoA was hooked up to a control surface through a new system called MCAS. And it's not in the central EICAS error display, so it's not where the pilots are supposed to be looking for information to help them diagnose an emergency. And it doesn't explain anything about why it might be super bad that there's an AoA disagreement.

So even if you know that MCAS exists and could malfunction, you'd have to also know that it uses AoA internally. Basically, the light only helps you if you already know both what MCAS is and how it works, and at that point you probably weren't going to be crashing anyway?

The correct information in the cockpit to use to help with the problem is what the Lion Air crew did the day before the crash: get a stall warning, see and hear that the trim wheels keep moving, notice that the yoke feels heavy, and move to the memory item for runaway trim.
Sorry, you're pushing your slapdash opinion everywhere in here and you're wrong. You have what seems like a basic and small understanding of real security programs.

>> Any system which touches sensitive data is subject to security review.

This is such a meaningless statement. Facebook has one of the best AppSec programs in the world. They regularly face attacks from nation states. You absolutely could not handle the threat model that Facebook deals with.

With thousands of engineers, hundreds of acquisitions, and data at a scale you cannot even fathom, mistakes happen.

>> Right; it requires investment into process, requirements, testing, and oversight

Again, this is nonsense. Facebook has a more mature program than you do, full stop.

>> it requires a company wide, top down mentality that your customer's privacy and protection is more important than your margins.

You are mixing things up.

>> If you can't (won't) dedicate the resources required to ensure your customers data is protected then you have no business operating at such a scale.

They have a larger security program than you. Alex Stamos is more capable than whomever you work for.
Masayoshi Son prepares to unleash his second $100bn tech fund
Too easy. Someone do search engines, but actually prop them up upon creation.
What is the suggested alternative to a market economy? Command economies aren't what I would consider better for the globe. Energy intensity per unit of labor is almost universally lower in market economies than it is in command economies.
I think Lex is a great interviewer. Eric definitely threw him off a number of times, but I can't fault him.
That's very cool, especially for 1994. I'd love to play a VR game where you get to breed and play with such creatures, kind of like what Spore should have been.

And here's a genetic walker you can grow in your own browser:
https://rednuht.org/genetic_walkers/
Agreed. Of course, there have been more than a few remasters that didn't bother to concern themselves with such trivialities. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer remaster is an example of how you can thoroughly botch framing[0] when converting between aspect ratios. At that point, you might as well see what else you can screw up as well. At the opposite end of the spectrum, David Simon wrote a really interesting--and even-handed--blog post[1] about HBO's remaster of The Wire that converted to 16:9. He points out examples of scenes that work out better in 16:9 and those that...don't. Even when the conversion is made in conjunction with the original filmmakers, it's still a different version of what was originally intended and necessarily involves compromises.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F28XcxHxH6k

1. http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/
And your point is ...? That conservatives attempting to silence speech makes the lesser attempts of progressives to silence speech okay by comparison? That both conservatives and progressives are birds of a feather in their attempts to limit freedom of speech?
I was less talking about where the line was and more just confused by whether it was a paradox or not.

I'm still not sure I get it but I think my understanding of a paradox was incorrect.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-parad...

Strictly speaking I think it is a paradox. Where I got stuck is whether tolerance and intolerance are concepts in absolute. I dont think think they are absolute terms and in fact can be used to describe partial states, in other words, they can be used in this form but not [always] result in a logical contradiction which is where the paradox is coming from in this situation.
The low-end of that range is the ballpark for the low-end of the range of security assessments; the $75,000 high-end is very high; a more realistic range would be $15,000-$30,000 for typical SAAS-type functionality.

This is simply what professional security assessment costs. There's a lot of competition and a diversity of firms, and this is the range the rates float in.

It doesn't make sense that small companies should be allowed to circumvent the requirement when what they're doing is just as sensitive as apps from large companies.
For time series there is the Timescale extension for PostgreSQL.
I do not yet have kids. I don't think that the original article author intended to convey that they're teaching their kids to be all-literal, all the time, but to take a verbal "no" very literally, other statements aside.

Lastly, I don't know that I would actually choose to raise my kids this way. I might instead think that it's enough to warn them about people at appropriate (to me and them) times. However, I think that choosing to prioritize social safety over social ease is not an indefensible child-raising strategy.
isn’t that literally security by obscurity?
As someone who bought a license to Circuit Studio (the $500 version), I can't recommend it. Missing some of the higher-end features is being polite; while there is no agreement on what is high-end, I found that many general-use features from Designer were carelessly stripped out or left in a broken state. Then, of course, are the bugs and Altium's refusal to share a product roadmap for CS. Despite not communicating what they want to improve about the product, and when they plan to deliver it, they still want a subscription fee.
Which is totally sensible. Nobody believes end-users are qualified to assess the security risks of the applications they're opting into. It's a little like being angry at how expensive it is to inspect and qualify an airliner before allowing people to book flights on it.
I'd love to see something like this tied to a password manager to make more of an "identity manager". Visit a site, click "generate identity", receive a unique email address, username and password.
Disclaimer: Worked someplace that does something similar to IFTTT, but not IFTTT.

You do not want to use IMAP for integrations at scale. You run into all sorts of weird issues retrieving and deduplicating messages. It’s a terrible black box to troubleshoot. The Gmail REST interface was a huge improvement over IMAP. If you can get access to the REST interface, you want to use it.

While IMAP is a legacy compatibility mode, I would not call it a “standard” interface for this purpose.
I think Joe Rogan and Dave Rubin are really more facilitators than intellectuals. They are excellent interviewers. They may not contribute evolutionary biological ideas/theories but they're both super important. I get the impression that they would agree that's their role, but of course I'm nobody to speak for them :-)
Are you behind a firewall that blocks WebScokets?
Try this: https://www.websocket.org/echo.html
Well, keep in mind that most users here probably don’t have the downvote ability.
Colleges are already bound to uphold free speech by the First Amendment, so I’m a little unclear what distinguishes this.

Having said that, I do think that today’s students are a bit too sensitive to ideas that they don’t agree with, so perhaps we need to reinforce that ideas we don’t agree with aren’t tantamount to fascism.
Yes, I think we preinstall chrome webdriver on the base image too!
...and what do you believe tickling is? :)
If I'd known to do that, I might have made my way through my EE degree instead of dropping out to the (easier) CS degree. 90% of the time I got about 40-50% of the way through transcribing the stuff on the board before the lecturer erased it because 'fuck you, you had 30 seconds'
Well, that would be ironically if a website announces not to store cookies (as a user I also expect nothing else on my computer) but then makes use of some pesistent storage.

Let's be honest: These badges which consume screen spaces are annoying and nobody ever reads them. I did not realize what it says (I automatically clicked the close box) before I read the main text of that No-Cookie website!
MMT = next step to hyper-inflation of the USD

Do people really disagree with this?
like.. uncanny:

“I convinced her — I think — that it was much more practical to invest regularly in bitcoin that I know about rather than the stock market that I know absolutely nothing about,”
Weitse, the author of 2 of those tools, is the only systems person at his university who I'm aware of who has done a lot of tooling. Allman, author of sendmail, was not a sysadmin by any stretch of the imagination. IIRC he was a grad student then systems hacker who was surrounded by unix and programming.

Sure, lots of systems people program and love programming, but the job isn't to write write tcp_wrappers, postfix, sendmail etc. it's to do what's needed to make sure that such things run, which is a different kind of programming.
Nearly all the privatized rail systems share the characteristic that the government (in some fashion) still owns the underlying trackage/right-of-way.

This is not a bad model: the public retains the land and tracks, and provides them for private enterprises to run trains on, subject to some sort of coordination so you don't have wrecks.

That's similar to how many airports work, how the Interstate Highway System works, etc.

However, for historical reasons it's not how the US system operates, and it would be very difficult for the government -- absent a lot of spending that I doubt the public has the appetite for -- to acquire the land and rights-of-way.

On routes where Amtrak actually controls the underlying trackage, it operates quite well. Where everything goes to shit is when Amtrak operates on others' track.

If we really wanted a good passenger-rail system, what we would need to do is build dedicated passenger rail lines, totally separate from freight rail. The two types of trains are so different today that it doesn't make sense to run them together. High speed passenger trains do best on banked track, and not having freight trains around for them to run into allows you to use lighter rolling stock. Acela trains have been described as "rolling bank vaults" because of the collision protection they have to have -- simply because they're liable to collide head-on with a fully loaded freight train. There's no good way around it, except to stop mixing the two up.
Integromat might also works as an alternative.
> It's common knowledge in the industry that good analog mixing desks (eg: Neve) are still better than any plugin at summing and EQing.

At certain points in history, it was common knowledge that the Earth was flat and that a reliable method to determine whether someone was a witch was to see if she would float.
Right here:
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...
except it's actually 1/6.
Have you looked at the work being done by stripe on skycfg? https://github.com/stripe/skycfg has the advantage of preserving protobuf message types as they're passed, so you get type checking.
The Intellectual Darkweb absolutely belongs on HN when they're talking about interesting stuff. There are people from the left and right in the IDW - it's quite intellectually diverse.

That said, I don't agree with the premise that because somebody is open about their political beliefs, they can't say or do "anything that good hackers would find interesting." [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please define 'at scale' - I use IMAP + SMTP to download all of my personal emails, I avoid REST because it's Google-led. Are you saying my ~5K/mo emails or my employers ~100K/mo emails are "scale"?
Interesting take on a no shit Sherlock situation.

^ doesn't down play the book in any way.

Sometimes some things are so common place we gloss over them and it takes a book or someone famous to point things out even when they're staring us in the face. Zero to one did a great job of this.

What value I got from it? How I applied it in my day to day?

Probably close to zero than one.

It did give me a perspective on the importance of going from zero to one and I think that is often lost on people where I usually can detect and point out now.

The ?onopoly stuff was quite interesting but wasnt quite relatable for me.

Perhaps others in other positions got more from it than I.
Problem is not with religion, the problem is with people. Yes, religion can be absurd, evil, coercive. But everything has its bright side. Being an atheist as a means to protest against religion is nothing but a short-sighted attitude. Yes, there is a God, I'm certain of that. But people are all wrong about the nature of God. The problem is that people are looking for proof. They'll never find it. The proof is in our minds. That is the gateway. The Matrix movie revealed it all almost 20 years ago. The signs are all about us. One must only open their minds.
speaking of slow autocomplete - there is one mac app (omnifocus) I use where autocomplete will become busy and beachball after a few characters and it does this every time.

Do not block autocomplete, especially when you're just starting to type. I would be good with having a delay before autocomplete kicks in rather than that.
Hannah Arendt is the philosopher for now
All valid points. However, etaioinshrdlu is making a reference to the time Dropbox was first posted to Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
It's an Intranet for Chinese users, and western Webmasters.
Why is this downvoted? He's even got a source.
Privacy is only about trust when you can't know what software does. That's only a concern with closed source software and services. Much of Apple's software is closed, much of Apple is based on services. The one thing you can trust is that, at some point, something they do with data they have will displease you. Software that doesn't even try to collect data is the only acceptable kind of software.

Using services obviously requires trust as far as data your client software exposes, but if you choose closed source clients, you've given up on privacy at a fundamental level.
Nice system, but I think I'll stick to Syncthing for the time being.
True, but once you get it right once, it's really easy to generate the correct yaml over and over again because the input is not unknown random data.
So IFTTT, a good service, and if memory serves an HN poster, is being banned from Google. This should be a sign to move away from Google, yes?
Germany also has many fewer freight trains than the US. Their rail network is optimized for passenger use, and it works well.

The US rail network is optimized for freight hauling (and it's largely owned by freight railroads and maintained at private expense, and those railroads turn a consistent profit). It also works well -- for its intended purpose.

If you want to move 3000 miles at 45 MPH remarkably cheaply, and you happen to be (or live in) a cargo container, the US rail network is built just for you!
are the hobby racers in Seattle switching to the deepracer platform since it's only $399?
Your personal use case is fine. I’m referring to when 100k+ customers are using it on your platform.

FastMail has been championing a new standard (JMAP) for mail messaging; hopefully it gets traction.
Only an edge case because:

There are more and more reasons to VPN through different countries.

There are more and more teams using A/B tests and completely removing the human element from their UX design process.

A human would say "hey it makes sense to have a currency picker here, thats super easy since we already have this on the backend"

The A/B test says "hey nobody taps the currency picker so therefore it must be REDUCING your engagement" When its really completely unrelated.
Why were Mozart, Bach, Etc. all relatively poor then? Even the greatest musicians of their age were not wealthy. Compare their incomes to a Taylor Swift or Led Zeppelin and the difference is insane. The last 70 or so years have been the only period where artists incomes rivaled that of land/factory owners.
Is something typed and better structured (e.g. protobufs) an option?
> The general approach of dealing with credentials is to avoid them and instead rely on other means to authenticate, such as certificates or Windows authentication.

Sure... I bet you eat right and get plenty of exercise, right?

Anyway, that link appears to be best practices when writing cross-platform code.
Conservatives are keen on using the power of the state to limit speech. And you are apparently keen on using state power to limit my ability to react to the speech of others.
The iPad was also conceptualized in 1988 as "Tablet", the winning entry in the Apple Computer "Design the Computer of the Year 2000" contest.

https://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/academic/tablet-...

One of the members of the winning team was Stephen Wolfram.