skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does capital efficiency really matter as much though in "winner take all" markets that seem to be more and more the norm in tech these days? The reason it feels like so many VCs are pushing for growth at all costs is that in many sectors now being 2nd is an order of magnitude worse that being 1st (and being 3rd is almost equivalent to being non-existant). Look at social networks: Facebook's market cap is around half a trillion dollars. Linked in was acquired for $26.2 billion, very similar to Twitter's current valuation, Snap is ~$16 billion.

And all of those companies had multi-billion dollar valuations before they barely had any customer revenue at all.
> 1. This will probably be a setting under "Allow apps downloaded from:" in System Preferences -> Security & Privacy you can revert if it breaks your workflow.

There's no longer a GUI option to allow unsigned apps by default. It was removed from System Preferences some versions ago.

But, you can do it via a one-line terminal command:

sudo spctl --master-disable
How is WASM going to help? It looks like it's further down the road of losing the control of your files by doing stuff in ephemeral environment (the browser), without even the readability of Javascript.

Perhaps I'm missing a use case here.
>> Also, only 7.5% comes out of your paycheck, the employer pays the other half

You might delude yourself that this "other half" is paid by the employer, but in reality your employer takes that cost into account when employing you, so they offer you lower gross salary because of that. In other words: it's still paid by you, just indirectly.

EDIT: more clear wording.
I think it is a very interesting choice of words given the moral imperative that launched the FSF. I always found it frustrating that while the FSF had a word for software they wanted -- free software -- they never had a word for software they didn't want. It tends to go by a variety of different names: closed, proprietary, non-free, etc. However, it's become increasingly clear to me that free (as in freedom) or not, people often leverage software to achieve pretty despicable goals. It's even interesting to me that there are occasional projects that aren't free (as in freedom) that I hold in really high esteem. For example the game Dwarf Fortress does not enable you to fix bugs, learn about the code, help your friends by making derived works, etc. However, I can understand the authors' desire to keep the project as close to their own vision as possible. It's more of an artistic venture than a utilitarian one. I'd be hard pressed to find a project that is as welcoming and nice as Dwarf Fortress.

Over time software will have a bigger and bigger impact on our lives. Already there are organisations which make assumptions about me based on data that their software gathers that is completely untrue. While it is currently laughable that Google is convinced that I want to go to Hawaii, the potential for it to beyond even what the most famous dystopian novels warned us about is truly frightening.
The weird thing about smoking rates in the U.S. is that it topped out in 1960. https://www.nap.edu/read/11795/chapter/4#42

Why then? People were saying that smoking was bad for you ever since it was brought to Europe. From 1900 to 1959 everyone went - Eh, who cares what they say I want a drag and then in 1960 there was some class of people who it seems reasonable to say would have but for something bought a pack of smokes decided not to.
I agree, as long as he's not putting directly money into it respectively making debts to sustain it - even if this fails he will assimilate a lot of know-how in a lot of different areas (all kinds of soft-skills plus tech-skills plus mgmt skills from organizational to accounting, etc...) that he can use a lot later on.

One one hand "Chinese cryptocurrency" might be ok but in general the chinese range covers everything from "excellent" (e.g. Huawei & Geely are a great company respectively holding) to "scam" ( e.g. what shown in the funny&interesting doc "the china hustle" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7215388/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_s... )

Focusing on "Chinese cryptocurrency", if that cryptocurrency is meant to be used (as well) within China then it might have a strong starting position (from what I remember the government prohibited bitcoins & Co therefore if this one is admitted it will have a huuuge market) but on the other hand you're right thinking (I'm interpreting this) that even if it's #1 in China and absolutely flawless from a tech-point-of-view, other countries/people/organizations might still not adopt it for fear of the potentially tech-unknown => you might ask him / set friendly challenges about these and other points to see if he's covered all different angles assuming a successful implementation... .

Cheers :)
The full paper can be found here: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsd...

Also probably worth mentioning that this paper is from 2015.
This is news to me. I thought we created these monsters with their mandates to make only money from the beginning.

I'd like to see Social Purpose Corporations become the default but sadly it's non-obvious how to go about creating one. Stripe's Atlas defaults to the monster. Can we get an anti-Atlas that makes it easy to bootstrap ethical corps?
Wait until you need dental surgery. I've never found a dental insurance that allows paying out more than $1,500/year. One gum graft alone is about $2,000. Dentures, replacement teeth, these all cost multiple thousands of dollars.
at that point you might as well just use the real drivers.
I absolutely agree, but as you point out you need to honestly look at both sides of the coin, not pretend that one side of the coin has no negatives at all.
Do you work at Posnet in Agoura Hills? If so, I'd like to submit a resume. (jdewolfe@protonmail.com if I am allowed to post email addresses on the board)
In this situation, the man would be scraps... Wouldn't him? How would that make him feel? As someone unlucky with girls I vowed to never let myself become scraps for any woman when I get older.
In Australia, you can also call a home visiting doctor outside business hours & on weekends, they'll come to your house in O(hours) and diagnose you for free. If you have some private health plans on top, they'll dispense basic meds like antibiotics on the spot as well. Far more convenient and likely cheaper to the taxpayer than waiting around ER for hours with a cranky baby with an ear infection.
Perfect!

So as a counter to that, and dialing my language back to patton-y style, America is going around stirring up shit that the rest of the world needs to shovel. Why is it that after Syria and ISIS have emerged and created a refugee crisis the US is miraculously missing (on a per-GDP basis) in the aide efforts. While America is fueling economic growth beyond the ability for the earth to sustain it why has it refused to help people fleeing desertification in Africa. Oh, the situation in El Salvador, yea... America never did anything to turn central and south america into a dumpster fire...

America is the vampire, trying to suck all the resources and productivity into a machine that feeds itself - with little regard for the rest of the world.

Oh wait, that was too reductionist... maybe the US does a lot of good by sending food aide around the world but also causes problems... maybe the rest of the world is the same, being good sometimes and bad others, and no one nation is some beacon of light and purity that all others are constantly sucking[1] the productivity out of.

[1] The analogies used above were pretty weird and awkward,
You misunderstand. Malicious USB devices often present themselves to computers as keyboards, which type malicious commands. But they don't look like keyboards, or have keys on them; they usually look like USB storage devices.
Stupid question probably... since I haven't had an iPhone for a couple years. Is Safari there still a thing? On my Mac I'm not using Safari at all. Havent opened it a single time since i got my latest MacBook - well I must have to download firefox but I dont remember.

I remember at one point Apple wouldnt allow any other browsers rendering engines on iOS - is that still the case?
Wall Street loves socialism for bankers – but not for ordinary people
I don't think a Foundation would help in this regard, who's going to fund it and why would they?

The article kind of glosses over the fact that there's really no business case for a traditional linux desktop.

Chromebooks are tied to a hardware sale where the hardware is certified to avoid having to support multiple hardware configurations and ensure users never see Linux at all.

Specialty shops like System76 and Dell's Sputnik specifically are tied to hardware and a specific market (pros and sysadmdins), this is where I fall in but most normal PC users would generate absolutely zero revenue for anyone trying to build a sustainable linux desktop experience.
Well, the head of USSS was fired today. Unclear if it's related.
Ask HN: Good questions for managers that are leaving company?
It's pretty disingenuous to pretend the parents statement is a choice between the two extremes you've picked.
It's heavily dependent upon the person, the state laws, and the prison. Each case is a unique situation.

Not all prisons are run like how Sheriff Joe likes to grandstand. Some states have forced labor and utilize what is effectively slavery, some explicitly forbid it. It's highly variable. Each inmate's situation and case is very unique.

> I'm guessing you believe whatever is put on camera or written by people who run the horror shows hidden away from modern society

Now, I'm going to take a bit of issue with this. You do not know me, I do not know you. I'm sure you are a person with as equally a long and complicated life as mine. We all have loads to carry and there is no such thing as the 'shitty life' championships. We all hurt and we all deserve love.

That said, I have deep personal connections to the prison system in a few states. Some people that I deeply care about have been affected by unlawful activities, some are lawyers, some are wardens, some are under rehabilitation and are inmates right now. I still care deeply about them all. I have my own opinions about the prison system in these states and the unique cases that each person presents. I do not believe whatever is put on camera. I do not believe whatever is written by people who run the 'horror shows' that are 'hidden' away.

If you would like to help prisoners in your local jurisdiction, please reach out today! Many prisons are in need of people that can help assist in the rehabilitation process: https://www.google.com/search?q=prisons+near+me&oq=prisons+n...

Becoming a prison pen-pal is a great way to do so: http://www.blackandpink.org/pen-pals/. Warning: you may find the love of your life: https://www.thecut.com/2019/04/former-times-editor-sheila-ru...

Send books! Prisons are always in need of reading material for the incarcerated. Little Free Libraries are a great start to helping others, but prison book donation is also very helpful: https://prisonbookprogram.org/resources/other-books-to-priso...

If you are religiously inclined, the study of holy scriptures is always encouraged: https://www.prisonfellowship.org/resources/training-resource... . I can attest to their effectiveness.

If you are an active feminist, there are many ways to assist women inmates and further their causes. More here: https://www.bustle.com/p/11-ways-you-can-actually-help-women...

Prison reform starts with you, bellerose. It starts with me, Balgair. Its starts with every single HN reader. Nothing in this world will work unless we do.

Though the road to prison reform is long and there are near countless set-backs, we are making great strides. Have Hope! Florida recently enfranchised felons, a fantastic achievement for your fellow rehabilitated citizens and a large step forward on the long path of justice: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/florida-felons-voting-...
I'm talking about the setting to disable requiring notarization for quarantined apps, which doesn't exist yet so I'm simply guessing it will show up there initially.
Play with dog remotely? https://i.imgur.com/OebiBWr.png
"You should care about the deductible, cause you entered the contract, silly."

This is stupid. There is no real way to shop and bring down health insurance costs in the US. It's tied to your job, meaning you would need to get many job offers, and turn them down when you find out the actual insurance costs until you find one that's better, and ignoring other employment factors.

And then everything can change the next time open enrollment comes around. Don't like the deductible, time to start the job search again! Oh, and the deductibles are probably about the same at all the other companies, anyway.

It's just a stupid system from top to bottom, locked into place because our political representatives are completely uninterested in governing.
Oh, who knows. I've always thought that because the line is shared with freight rail - CSX - and it seems like it gets delayed more.
Add:

Don’t use credit cards (they buy the transaction data)

Don’t let your contacts with Gmail addresses email you

Don’t let your contacts with android or ios setup to sync contacts add you as a contact
Lead is added to solder because it lowers the melting point. It forms a eutectic alloy.

Tin whiskers has nothing to do with it.
I think the right answer is: "you should not need to pay for college"
I expect they won't be separate.
> Also, only 7.5% comes out of your paycheck, the employer pays the other half.

That distinction is imaginary. It all comes out of your total cost for employer, which either goes to you or to (possibly earmarked) taxes.

This doesn't mean the amount is not fair (it very well might be). But it's important to realize it all comes from your paycheck.
Hasn't the security by obscurity myth been debunked, and furthermore hasn't government proven itself utterly incompetent at designing products?
This change mainly affects developers who will now have to pay apples ransom if they want anyone to be able to run their app.
> has more free variables

More than what exactly? As far as I know, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-CDM_model is the
best we have, i.e. with the minimal number of parameters that still covers most of the observations. If there were a better one, it would already be accepted.

But unless you try to inform yourself, you wouldn't even believe how good it is, compared to the alternatives. Really, really good, as in, it actually predicted the future measurement results of the oldest signals reachable to us, and then later the measurements did match perfectly.

> epistemologically

Ah... I'd guess then that you don't write about physics but some non-scientific belief system.
Article states James M. Murray, a "career member" of the Secret Service, will take over.

He was head of the Washington field office when Guccifer was announced to have been identified, and other than that there's very little about him in the top layers of searching.

...A while back, I heard it much questioned whether Trump would leave willingly in 2020. The response was that the Secret Service would physically drag him out, so it seems odd that Trump gets to fire the Director without any reasoning given, then name their replacement. If anyone can explain that one to me I'd love to hear it.
Sorry, this comment missed a big point - the money wasn't spent on Social Security, the money has been borrowed by other agencies and expenditures that owe it back.

That's like saying "Oh man, your job isn't paying you enough money, you should quit." 'But I make 80k, that's plenty!' "Oh, you uh did, until I stole all but five dollars." 'Oh darn, guess I'll quit then.'
If you're poor in the US, insurance is free. It's the lower middle class and middle class who are frequently bankrupted by these costs.
Weathered Wood Texture Overlays
I think google applies arbitrary undocumented filters to their output. I have noticed it more than once, e.g. see this comments thread, couple weeks old: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19420383

Personally, a year ago I have switched the defaults to duckduckgo.com on my devices, works OK for me so far.
Cool development. Great to have it handy in the toolbox.

I still have two concerns when simulating a workload in order to test configurations / DDL changes:

- Processing the logs implies generating all for every query that arrives. While this may be acceptable for some cases, it is unacceptable for high volume sites. Logging every query may bring the db down. PostgreSQL needs a different mechanism to report this information, like a streamed UDP of query performance metrics.

- Independently, this only reproduces the read workload, but what about the write one? Ideally, you should combine both. Write one may be very well captured and replayed using logical decoding / replication. But still would need a lot of coordination / tooling with the read replaying tool to achieve the desired effect.

All in all, complex problems but very important and interesting :)
Arguably Syria was/is Mad Max. It's a lot uglier than the movie, but the movie had standards of decency to fulfill...
Wouldnt this be expected that your Edge cookies continue to work? Or are you saying it uses Chrome's cookies?
Daphnia Labs: Drug Discovery for Age-Related Disease
So glad to hear this!
Number doesn’t matter so much, I just personally don’t want to be swatted. It sounds horrible and traumatizing.
Cuz calling themselves that has made them sound valuable rather than a leach!
I wonder, will that include random terminal apps like gnu grep, and if so, how will the notary be attached?
Yes, there will likely still be ways for a malicious USB device to use electrical side-channels to attack a connected computer. But devices like that will be much harder to develop. And more importantly: compromised devices which weren't originally designed to do that, won't be able to rewire themselves into side-channel-exploiters. So if my USB storage device has a firmware vulnerability, and a malicious computer reprograms it, it won't be able to use electrical side-channels to attack my other computers because it doesn't have a suitable DAC and ADC.
> Also, only 7.5% comes out of your paycheck, the employer pays the other half

This just means that paychecks are 7.5% lower then they would otherwise be. It is a mistake to think that the employer paid benefits are "free". The market adjusts. You find that out right quick of you are self-employed (at least in the US).
(1000 to 15000) times n, where n may not be insignificant. And realistically the risk is low because the cost to Facebook for a review is low.
We're going to be too late. This doesn't mean stop trying, but it does mean accept it and begin exploring climate engineering and carbon capture. When I say the latter, I literally mean remove the stuff out of the atmosphere and some progress has been made. For the former: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/as-planet-warms-scientists...
> Norwegian ethical stance is against the US starting wars in the middle east and killing people to make their oil a bit more valuable.

I mean the American ethical stance, as demonstrated numerous times by various popular votes, is also against war. However, that does not change the fact that countries benefit from it. Ultimately, while perhaps making some countries hypocritical, none of what you said changes the argument I put forth: namely that, by virtue of being the only country whose citizens are forced to pay for the status quo (which has the effect of subsidizing the economies of many of the countries to which the article attempts to compare the united states), there is no way to properly compare US tax policy to any other country.

> Partially yea, it may be that using the word "security" in that first post was a wording error that caused a bunch of people to misunderstand you

Indeed. For some reason, many people define security as not just security of the status quo but also some cosmic fight between good and evil.
When was meritocracy alive?
Depends on where you are. Some places have 24-hour Urgent Care centers that can handle the basic stuff that doesn't need a real ER.

But many places don't have any kind of Urgent Care centers, much less one that is open 24 hours a day.
Yeah, but then we'd just be dominated by states like Minnesota, California, Delaware, New York, etc. Basically, ginormous pools of money would start to build in the old Union and out on the west coast. But almost everyone in the middle would be hosed. (I mean places like Oklahoma and Colorado would likely be pretty happy, but everyone else would take substantial financial hits.)
What? I'm considering why we find "screen time" especially distasteful. It just looks bad, for some reason. Worse than someone lounging and reading, worse than a person running or playing a sport, and so on. It's an unsettling activity to watch, and catching a glimpse of oneself doing it is particularly creepy. I don't think I wrote anything about yelling at people. Did I?

[EDIT] I think "using a computer" posture especially is the worst. Something about sitting upright at a desk or table using a computer is really weird. Like the person's body's subservient to the activity, while also being kind of absent from the whole thing. It's much worse than bending-neck-to-use-a-cellphone or slouching-on-couch-playing-console-games look.
How would this affect things like Steam?
There are also a couple contractors that came out of the healthcare.gov rescue (notably: Nava [1] and Ad Hoc [2]) trying to do the same kind of work. I recently left a long career at Google to work for Ad Hoc, and we get to work alongside the great folks at USDS trying to make things better.

Hit me up if you're interested in getting into this space!

[1] https://www.navapbc.com/
[2] https://adhocteam.us/
Few sites list editors of an individual article these days. Here's my author page. https://www.inkstonenews.com/author/alan-wong-0 My role is also listed in my hackernews profile. Try searching my name and Inkstone. You'll find me and my relations with Inkstone. It's all one search away.
I have a mysterious USB stick I received as a thank you from a delegation of the Chinese department of Customs (中华人民共和国海关总署) after presenting to them in Palo Alto. The USB is branded with the Chinese Customs logo and their slogan.

I haven't dared plugging this in. First and foremost I'm afraid it isn't standards compliant and will somehow fry my motherboard, secondly I don't have a burner device and the necessary knowledge to determine if anything suspicious is happening.

So for now my USB stick and its decorative case in Chinese art style are purely for display.
If you made a "office space" kind of game, and it was something you could actually call a game, I wouldn't be surprised to see a community grow up around it as people discussed path prioritization, how to speed run the TPS reports level, and how the recent nerf to casual dress fridays have impacted the meta.
This guy keeps going on about how 'you should get everything through hard work and effort.'

Bullshit, cheat. Cheat blatantly. If there's a broken obvious but unintended way to accomplish your goal do it.

Otherwise one of the other billions of meatsacks roaming around the planet will do it first. Then they'll be eating your lunch.
> It's 2019. Why the f haven't Windows, MacOS and Linux all implemented these basic precautions?

For linux you can actually require USB devices to be authorized first by changing a few kernel settings.

A friend of mine wrote a few shellscripts a few years ago to do exactly that:

https://git.quitesimple.org/usbfilter/tree/

As you can see it's something that's very simple to do, there's just no good "normal user" UI for it.
Does it? To my admittedly untutored eye the first impression is Helvetica aka Switzerland, although it's not quite as stripped down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica

This, on the other hand, screams America: https://www.dafont.com/american-captain.font
Thumb drive carried by Mar-a-Lago intruder immediately installed files on a PC