skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have pointed this out 49 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19122206
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Until one of the big players decides they don't like your domain or IP range. I've been running my own email/web server for years, but even if you'd fully automate installation, there's a can of worms full of fun things like spam, DoS and shenanigans by the big players that really are not worth your time for just one person's email setup.

I suppose we could come up with some easy configurable templates that would automatically install servers for privacy conscious individuals, but if at some point something goes wrong, most people are going to be stuck without service and no easy fix.
The lack of generics kills any joy I feel for go.
"Which, okay, there's a conversation to be had there, but don't mistake it as weakening the importance of the find."

It does - because it calls into question the validity of the find.
Show HN: Confused about What to Watch?
> How is that different

We *could( each publish feeds of what we liked, or re-feed them with annotations. And we could follow other individuals (ie friends, acquaintances) and they us, and we could control access to levels of feed with authentication. We could have feeds of our friends (and their URLs). As well as feeds of our own throwaway commentary on life. Yeah, you could quite easily build something like Facebook and Twitter (without comments) with RSS.

The "how is that different" is that we don't. There's both a technical networking obstacle as well as an interface. You and I likely know how to host this stuff but our grandmas don't. There's also nothing —there could be— to tie this together in an interface.

Twitter et al do this crap for us, for "free".
Solid articles, these could be reposted to HN and stand alone.
Where is your neighbor getting their butter?
People in the know here, who are saying not to trust was Zuck is saying should make it a point to make sure that their elected reps understand why listening to him is a bad idea. A lot of politicians are clueless when it comes to technology and could easily buy this hook line and sinker.
Palantir won a major Pentagon contract, beating out traditional military vendors
I have an entire adult life that has been one burnout after another, continually driven by unrealistic expectations by immature management. As early as '83 being a dumb teen burned out by Apple being an unpaid beta tester for the Mac. Working on the original Fractals team with Mandelbrot and Devanny, I ended up in the hospital from the demands. Then again working at Philips developing video CDs, again at 3D0/EA making their failed console's OS, again at Sony making the PSX OS, again at EA develping during the EA Spouse era, again during the dotcom era developing early IP streaming video, again working in feature film VFX, again at my own startup, and yet still now working facial recognition. Technology kinda sucks, as if you're good they take advantage and bully your good will, mentally manipulating one. I am yet to see any organization without this disease.
Slightly tangential but c++ hash tables aren't even the fastest. The requirements on iterator invalidation force the use of extra allocations and indirections for separate chaining.

I've hand-rolled and/or reused hash tables that use various probing methods (removing both allocations and extra indirections) and the performance improvement is non-trivial (for my workloads anyhow).
Outlook supports RSS

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-are-rss-feeds-...
(removed, see below)
Are you comfortable in Java? If so you won't need any book just the documentation and stack overflow will give you all you need.
From the section about Naming:

> Means something somewhat relevant to your company or is completely random.

Well, is there any other possibility?
These people are complaining that they’re not being paid enough.

Isn’t the proper solution to find another job? If more people stopped driving for ridesharing companies the prices would rise to attract them back. I don’t see why they are complaining when unemployment is at an all time low and they can find a job easily elsewhere. It sounds stupid.
Every couple of months I search for a better news reader… cycle through Flipper, Feedly, NewsBlur, & 4-8 others… once more acknowledge how good Google Reader really was, and go back to scrolling through Twitter/Reddit

I’d probably pay large amount of money now for a news reader w/ these 4 features
* Extract stories from my feed/lists on Twitter & Reddit and aggregate comments on these from people I follow
* Learn from my ‘more/less like this’ on individual stories
* Allow me to tag sources and create auto-tagging filters
* Clean/intuitive Web UI & mobile client
I upvoted this comment because I saw people were downvoting it.
How do you clean up? Do it outside?
That's not what the article says. De Becker claims to have extensive evidence that the Saudi's did it.
Uh, law enforcement unions are huge and very influential
Sure sucks to live in New Zealand right now, doesn't it?
There is no way to reduce workload and still generate enough income for the employer and revenue for the employee given current urban land valuations.

And more generally, raise inequality and one group will have increased stress while the other has reduced stress. That is the point of wealth.
I'll be honest —and it'll make me sound like an arrogant dbag— but that doesn't pass my sniff test. "jsonfeed" is lighter than equivalent RSS for several small reasons.

Can I see?

(To be clear to anybody reading this out of context: I'm not claiming that JSON is best —far from it— just that I would expect it to be a few bytes lighter in transit.)
Privacy concerns aside, using the boot device serial number might be a better solution as it can't be deleted or modified and survives reboots and reinstalls.

This line will find it easily.
Not mine, I simply put together the work of others adding only very small modifications. Needs smartctl (smartmontools package on Debian) which can be run only by root.

smartctl -i `df -P / | tail -n 1 | awk '/.*/ { print $1 }'` | egrep ^"Serial Number:" | awk '{print $3}'
>it automatically stages any new files

no it doesn't? it explicitly asks you whether you'd like to "add" the file.
A lot of people turn to jobs like Uber because they can't easily find a job. There are many people who desperately try for weeks or months to find employment. Companies like Uber love to prey on such people.
HN has a way of self correcting. Come back in a few hours and most of the bad comments should be killed by down votes.

Sometimes when a thread or story is killed, though, the comments survive and multiply because the broader community can't moderate them.
> The travel time versus a stationary area is the hardest to overcome.

I think you have hit the nail on the head there. I have seen the hairdo-in-a-van in LA so the idea is far from novel, it is new to the UK though.

I actually can't think of anywhere in the UK where parking up in a van is that easy. There isn't the zoning in the way that the U.S. has it. Parking is always going to be tricky.

The workaround is to drive your customer from outside his house (on a steep hill) to some car-park or layby. But you have lost ten minutes at best doing that. A pro barber shop can make good money in that time.

There is also a restriction on how far the service can go. You are not going to be washing hair unless you are spending time filling and emptying tanks of water.

The trick is probably to get industrial estate businesses. An out of town industrial estate might lake a decent high street near by. If you can rock up there and get half a dozen or more customers done then that cuts down on the travel time.

The 'app' aspect doesn't cut down on the fundamental travel time problem. Most hairdressers have some type of trainee able to do phones, sweep the floor, wash the towels and be more versatile than an 'app'. I am therefore not sure how valuable the 'app' can be.

I think the RV is a better starting point than a Transit. In the UK market a camper van with some pop up top and some windows would be a better starting point, e.g. a modern VW rather than a retro one.
Ah must be different to the UK then.
Interesting update. Though, it begs the question whether Facebook's current UI can handle such styling to its full extent.

That said, is posting on Facebook still a thing? I haven't used the platform in the last 3 years and get the idea that traditional status updates have evaporated.
Russia's telecoms watchdog sent warnings to leading VPN providers
I think I slightly disagree about the choice of using timestamptz over timestamp. The main reason being that when I feed data in to the database I always want that same data back out. From the description I now realize that if I backed up and restored, or otherwise ran the same database with a different configuration the database might "try to be smart" and return a modified value.

I guess to store a timestamp and a timezone I should use a timestamp a second column with the timezone value (maybe a string, but I'd like a clean way of telling the database I want an 'enum' but to dynamically just add new values as it sees them; yes for PostgreSQL I'd do that with a secondary lookup table and an insert/update trigger).
This doesn't help ordinary users who aren't going to check the hash at boot.
I’ve talked to my barber about this. His personal experience with more accommodating hours over the experiment was no gain in income and increased headache from his family. Even being open on Sundays (rather than the usual Tuesday - Saturday) didn’t change things as the clientele is accustomed to fitting themselves into the regular schedule.
The only available CPU from Ampere EMAG seems to be the 8180, so I think this workstation also uses this.

Wikichip: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/ampere_computing/emag/8180

AnandTech: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14141/ampere-emag-in-the-clou...

TL;DR: 32 Cores, up to 3.3 Ghz boost, 32MB L3 cache, 125W TDP
Guide to Reasonable Privacy on Android
To all the calculators here who are counting his riches:

>so to call him now costs 10p, from which he receives 7p.

10p/min sounds nice, but 7p * 60 minutes = 4.2GBP
The screens on front also spontaneously crack, all the time. My first phone, I thought it was a fluke, so I bought another. Then I had to RMA it. Then I stopped buying Sony.
It seems technically interesting but societally problematic. For example it appears to greatly simplify stalking and harassment. How can a domestic violence victim avoid their attacker if their movements are so easily monitored? Perhaps use this to identify people walking away from a gay bar or a political meeting to set up a bashing? Note when somebody leaves home in order to rob their place? And bear in mind that for some individuals the cost of being identified back won't outweigh the value in being able to locate their victim.
It's not a little time window - the screen remains until you press Ctrl+D.
I suggest you re-read the article. Extensive evidence that has been turned over to US authorities.
The contradiction lies in the winning hand. You have to be stupid to win. Being stupid to lose is a given.
Ruby supports a lot of metaprogramming, and some libraries and frameworks take advantage of that. It's not the best counter example to Lisp/Smalltalk.
Logitech G305 and JBL 450BT. (Cheap stuff, but I live in LATAM so those things are quite costly...)
True, good point. I've seen that before. I'll come back later.

Also, to be clear, disagreement and skepticism about what's written in the article is a healthy and good thing. But the disagreement should take into account the full content of the article, since many counter-arguments here were specifically discussed in it.
If I were Uber, or any ridesharing service, I'd be optimizing to pay driver's as much as possible. But that's just me.
I can't be the only one thinking that solving 'drug problems' with drugs is not the way to go?

Meditation and yoga offer plenty of support for managing stress and in fact depression. But most people want a quick antidote, something that 'burns' the edge off and not fixes it for good.
other HN discussion about this license, with some comments touching on your question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19529181
My brother was once getting made up for a magazine photo shoot. The stylist complimented his haircut, and he said that he did it himself. They complimented the product he used, and he said it was a no-name brand from the supermarket. I always found that funny. I also DIY, but there's less for me to deal with these days - currently using Wahl clippers and B076GR634L.
> Their "patch" however is not a valid attempt, not because it is not good enough, but because they are not even trying but just pretending to do something.

If not according to you than who? If not "I don't think that patch was a good enough attempt" then what is the quantitative evaluation used to say "Cisco never guaranteed security but it didn't meet base security measurements <x> or <y> and is therefore responsible for $<z> of damages"? In fact the Cisco sales and support contracts are going to state the opposite, as almost any software does, because nobody is foolish enough to be in the position to agree blindly their stuff is so good you'll never be hacked.

> You are notified of a big security problem and do absolutely nothing, can you be sued for that? Since you are mentioning contract agreements, it seems that the US does not have any minimum standards here?

The US has many laws about minimum standards but not "pass the buck" style by default. E.g. a hospital doesn't get to pass the fine to Cisco because they left the management interface open to the internet and someone hacked the router to steal patient information in the same way it doesn't get to pass the fine to HP for documents printed on an HP printer being stolen. The hospital is responsible for providing the security it claims to provide. If it wants to pass that responsibility to a 3rd party it needs some other agreement to stating that as Cisco is not bound by HIPAA simply because the hospital bought a Cisco switch (new or used).

It's more common that a role be outsourced than straight out responsibility taken. Taking the example above Cisco isn't going to want to take responsibility the router is secure unless they can manage the router's security otherwise something like the above "they left the management interface open to the internet" is going to bite them in the ass. A more common example would be PCI compliance for small businesses can be outsourced to a "use this blackbox register and payment system" with an insurance style agreements in case you get fined but the business is not allowed to mess with the black box.
It's a pretty darn funny show to boot! Glad you mentioned this.
> Recent approval of a nasal spray promises to expand access, but much remains unknown about long-term use and the potential for abuse.

This might surprise everybody, but if it's possible to "abuse" it, somebody will (turns out some humans will do that). I wish we'd stop restricting access to things that could help and improve people's lives because we're worried that somebody might do something with their body that we find morally objectionable.
Calling a grocer “Widgets R Us” is neither relevant nor random.
1B Tesla Powerpacks and Solar Can Get the Whole World Off Fossil Fuels
You need technology to conduct business. Just like many people need to drive, even though it is rather dangerous to drive or ride in a car.

There are very few reasons to take and store naked photos of yourself on your phone. So I submit that it's usually a bad idea to do so.
Being a middle-aged junior
> Isn’t the proper solution to find another job? If more people stopped driving for ridesharing companies the prices would rise to attract them back.

Instead of assuming stupidity on one party's end, why not consider that there is a rational explanation for people's behavior?

A very rational explanation is that for many people, driving for Uber beats not being able to pay bills, going hungry or being homeless.
While there are definitely areas where it sorely can be improved, check out Inoreader.
I wonder how companies like Twitter (mentioned in the article), Google, Apple, Microsoft and even Amazon protect themeselves from rogue employees. If I, for example, was responsible for an OS's TCP/IP stack, I can imagine ways that I could compromise security with a very low probability of the compromise being detected. I hope that all companies are taking this kind of risk very seriously.
This sounds terrible and I would hate to be a Uber driver who has to digest this news over the coming days and weeks.
How did they "gain access" to it? I want to know the details, not some bullshit a reporter made up on the spot. Read the iOS security whitepaper. It does not seem possible to "gain access" to iOS devices unless you have physical access, and are able to unlock the device. There's layer upon layer of security, some of which go all the way down to a tamper-proof chip. Every app encrypts its files with different keys, so cross-contamination between apps is not possible. Everything is encrypted, with multiple distinct keys, managed by dedicated hardware. Not even the FBI and NSA can "gain" unauthorized access to it. Heck, not even Apple can.

You are being fed a narrative. You should recognize this when it happens if you don't want to continue being a sucker.
If your definition of city is anywhere not rural, (ie the suburbs) then I could see consumtpiom being higher since there is more stuff to buy. But living in a big city I consume much less resources because of basic facts like every item inside my small apartment has to be physically carried in by me and I have no car. I go to Costco sometimes and people with cars easily get 10 - 20x the weight of goods.
Why not both? Why can't you just stick to meditation and yoga but let another person find something that works for them?

I tried meditation and yoga for years to treat depression, and I suffered unnecessarily for years (including periods of being suicidal). Getting on pharmaceuticals vastly improved my life and I can't imagine going back.

I'm really glad you found something that works for you, but I believe you actively harm others by suggesting that it will work for everyone else too.
> We certainly wouldn't have these problems if we could just demand that everyone engage in trustworthy behavior.

Do you think this is how paper ballots work?

> It would sound odd, right? Why this one?

Because ballots require both ballot secrecy and democratic legitimacy. You can't have both in an electronic voting system. Cryptographic schemes either claim perfect mixing and anonymisation, in which case it's impossible to detect shenanigans. Or they don't have perfect mixing and anonymisation, in which case it's possible to pierce ballot secrecy.

Paper is unwieldy and you can insert many mutually-distrustful humans into many steps. This makes it exponentially more difficult to subvert at scale without detection.

These are features. Please can we just take a moment to accept that sometimes, atoms are better than electrons.
Paid site. Can't read.
If Xinjiang were under public surveillance, with the results accessible to the whole world, the Chinese government might tread more carefully.

As is, one of their biggest enablers is being able to effectively deny access to the area.

Edit: I'd note this is generally an effective tactic of oppressive regimes. It takes dedicated, brave, well-funded people to access an area that's even semi-denied. Much less regularly. And the internet / world's attention is fickle. No updates, no photos, no video? No one pushing for justice.
The tool meant to hack any smartphone
If you read the linked article, it's clear that somebody told the enquirer to approach the brother-in-law to buy the photos —— somebody already knew that Bezos and his mistress were exchanging inappropriate texts before the brother-in-law. Bezos’s investigators claim to have forwarded evidence to the US government that shows the Saudis were behind it. We’ll see what happens given how close this administration is to MBS.

This is just privatized parallel construction weaponized against a critic of the Saudi government.
Yes. I think one of the interesting things in software is the irrational amount of productivity that a small team can accomplish, but that it can only be done by doing things in a way that can never be executed by a 50 person team.

So it is possible for 3 - 10 developers to maintain a product that perhaps, would need 50 developers using fully maintainable methods. But the 3-10 developers can never produce what 500 developers can. And there's a valley of death between about 10 and 30 where you actually go backwards. With 20 developers you might accomplish less than with 10 unless you very carefully and strictly compartmentalise the team (at which point you have two teams of 10 developers that don't interact ...).
Don’t believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free.
Ketamine is very addictive, and long term abuse at the very least leads to bladder problems.

Source: I spend two years doing Ketamine and analogs on a regular basis.
The Unofficial Freedom Dividend FAQ
Gaming devices have buttons and directional pads.
I have reported obvious violations of the real name policy and Facebook always replies with some BS about it not being verifiable. Things like a “person” profile setup for a storefront instead of a proper page for it.

They obviously don’t care.
Not for me, it boots into Chrome OS after a little bit (it does make a pair of really loud, annoying beeps in the process).
The fact that that incident occurred does not come close to supporting the claim you made. Maybe it would support a much more carefully constructed claim.
Yes, you could name it something that has another established meaning that is not relevant to your company. Most names are like this.
>>> aggressive

BI provides a list of tech IPOs coming down the pike. No need to buy at all once.But a price-action-averaged, market-cap-weighted basket of securities from this pool could achieve 20%+ IRR through 2024

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-startups-going-public-2...
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Mark, how about you KYS (kill yourself)? Fuck off, trash.
Given that Workplace (the enterprise version of Facebook) has supported Markdown for a while now, I think it’s a safe assumption that they’ve built the UI to handle it.
cloudflare dns [1]

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/
> Turning off those devices is however the only protection you had. So now you also need to turn off a second server.

I’m not sure I follow. If I understand you correctly, you want to have a panic button to press in case of physical intruders, and without Mandos, the power button of a server served this function, and your’re worried that Mandos makes you lose this button? Not to worry. The simplest solution is to have two local servers be the Mandos server for each other, each enabling the other to reboot unattended, and the panic button would be the power button on the power strip powering both servers. Once both servers are off, the system is effectively locked.

If you insist on having a remote Mandos server (which is not really the use case it was made for, but it is supported), you could always automate some button to signal the remote server to disable (or outright remove) the client, thereby denying all access to the secret password. The Mandos server process is controllable via D-Bus, so any program can be made to signal the Mandos server in this way.

With a programmable power strip you could even have a single button doing both things. So there’s your panic button back.

> And once someone has access to your running machine he can read it.

That has nothing to do with Mandos. Anyone with physical access to a running machine can already, in theory, access the memory and get the encryption key. Mandos introduces no additional threat from a theoretical sophisticated attacker.