skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How come no one has shot her yet in self-defense?
I'm from the south side of Chicago.
Definitely lithium ion. Lead acid batteries are about the poorest option in terms of energy capacity per weight, which is important when you have to spend energy for hauling its own weight around.

They may be useful for permanent utility grid installations, but you won’t see lead acid batteries powering electric cars.
I talked to a lawyer about this and the feedback I received was while technically they might be able to sue to try and receive compensation even from your personal assets if you are a single-member LLC as long as you can show you were acting in good faith and as an agent of the company (i.e. you didn't personally guarantee the work and sign your name instead of the company's and you maintain distinct records and finances for the business), then it is unlikely to get approved in a court of law.

So an example here might be that you were working for a client and work wasn't fully completed on time. You made a good faith effort to get the work done, so while the company you were working for might be entitled to compensation from your LLC they can't come after your house.

Finally, let me caveat all this by saying that the standards for "piercing the corporate veil" vary by state and as always you should consult with a lawyer before making a final determination. Also, another work around is to form a multi-member LLC and hold formal annual meetings. This is normally enough for most states to consider the LLC as a separate distinct entity and prevent piercing of the corporate veil.
Also important to add it was a flightless bird.
You'll like DMX and CV too.
What will in my example a 10 year old Mac Mini with USB 2, Bluetooth, gigabit Ethernet running Windows 7 and the latest version of Chrome be incompatible with? A lot of software these days are run from a web browser.

My 8 year old Core 2 Duo running Windows 10 can run my entire development stack - VSCode with Python, Node, and C#. I tried it and until it starts swapping, you can’t tell the difference in normal use.

As far as support. How is it easier or harder to support an older computer running Windows + Office + Chrome than a newer computer?

In fact my new computer I bought in 2016 has the same amount of RAM - 8GB, a slightly worse display (1920x1080 vs 1920x1200), and no gigabit Ethernet as my old Dell from 2009.
Will a current-generation Apple laptop fare the ten years as well as they did ten years ago? A lot, probably even most, of the Apple unrepairability hate has developed within these last ten years.
How do their batteries last in Phoenix? Air cooled is unlikely to work well.
Argon Design – Coded as Full-Stack App in Vue.js / Flask
Could you please stop creating accounts for every comment you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but should have some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. There are legit uses for throwaways, just not routinely.

Lots more explanation: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
You don't see a difference in protection posture between something which has to be used in the wild vs something which could be kept in a vault for it's entire lifetime? I'm not arguing that escrow is a good idea, I'm arguing that this argument is not why that's true.

Edit: consider how often keymat has leaked.
It was many months ago, so I did some research now and I think these share the same ideas. First is about the basic idea of long term financial management [1], and these two [2] close to me since we also have a big family. Probably this is a very basic level for many people, but since my parents never had positive money management habits (my parents family from ex-USSR) it was the real breakthrough for me.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJB90G-tsgo

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulr1HAaF_JU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKU5bEf192A
It's almost unsporting. But these people aren't "'bad,'" they're meth dealers, and part of protecting innocent people is investigating crimes.

If the phone search reveals information identifying other drug dealers, that's a good thing.

In some sense a decent compromise is that the phone search can only be used for evidence about other people. But only in the sense that it's unsporting. There's another option: don't commit crimes. It's pretty easy to not be a drug dealer. Protection against unreasonable search and seizure is about protecting people from harassment, trespass, and invasion of privacy -- not to protect them from the law.
Not much rain in some deserts. In Utah you can see lots of similar carvings that are 1000 + years old. Those do look pretty clean though.
Yes, they are generally very stringent about these rule. I would suggest you use another provider such as Braintree.
Who Writes Wikipedia (2006)
Both are proxies for TDTPT:

https://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/113360634364/the-stan...
Maybe not a popular or shared opinion (so nobody take this as advice), but IMO 2FA (especially phone-based) is overrated while being a serious inconvenience to users and developers.

Many of the recent attacks I've seen simply bypass it altogether in favor of phishing or other traditional techniques.

Clients (Ansible?) simply don't work with it or do it well, which leads to hacks that undermine your 2FA deployment anyway-- rogue admins opening reverse tunnels to allow file transfers, webshells, etc.
> I feel the local government is giving up its legitimacy by keeping her on the streets

That's generally how I feel when government looks away regarding crime. When you give up the monopoly on violence, you're walking down a dangerous path. Citizens have entrusted the government with law enforcement, but they will return to taking care of that themselves if the government doesn't want the job any more, and I don't see any possibility of that being a good thing.
You are correct. There is no reason for WhatsApp to shut down forwarding immediately ...It’s not like any credible competitor is out there (and if any emerged, chances are it would be strangled in its cradle by concerned governments).
Indeed. In order to protect against MDS on Intel chips, you need to disable hyperthreading and apply microcode and OS updates which have their own additional performance penalties on top of that.
Not exactly...So for example say you owned a share of Apple, obviously you will not be liable for debts of the company by your nature as an owner and the company will not be liable for your personal debts as an owner. With the single member LLC you are still protected from the debts and liabilities of the company, but a creditor/judgment holder/lien holder could likely collect against the LLC and even potentially “foreclose” on your ownership interest and take over the company.

Best advice for anyone, especially a foreigner without SSN/ITIN, is to get a lawyer. Note for all foreigners, IRS changed their rules to get an EIN 5/10/19 and this is significantly delaying new foreign owned/controlled businesses.
EVoting Machines in North Carolina Still Use Windows XP
Yeah, that's a good point. There are batteries that don't explode when poked, right?
He walked up to them. They did not walk up to him. Therefore he was being the aggressive one, end of story.

> This was a group of students who were using their free time to protest

Because you disagree with what they were protesting, they had no right to be there? Absolutely wrong.
Protecting the masses is more important than edge cases. Most people will never start an internet business.
How much more research can you do, realistically? If we want any chance at meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement we (the whole world) need to be at net zero emissions in at most twenty years (assuming a linear reduction starting now!). That doesn't seem to be enough time to go from research to market. We already have the technology we need. More research might make it cheaper, or it might not. But more money for deploying the technology we have has an immediate effect.

By the way, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the emissions from the developing world are coming from consumption that happens in the rich countries. A carbon tax that is also applied to imports would be a pretty good incentive for countries like China to push harder for carbon neutrality (not that they're currently not pushing harder than most of the western countries).
Doesnt have to be magical. Assuming for enterprise or B2B sales:

Determine who your target customers are by industry/sector ie who is your product for.

Determine who are the top 1000 companies / orgs in that sector (Linked in/ NAIC codes, SIC codes).

If you have a budget you can buy lead lists from SIC, of you dont have, plan for about 2 man weeks to put together a good starter list of companies and prospective contacts.

Once you have your list of companies - id who your prospective user is by role. e.g. who will use your product? What is a likely job title / role?
Use linkedin to find folks in that role or with that Job title?
work out your value propositiion for your product. Boil it down to 2/ 3 lines.

With a short subset of your initial prospect list.
Either cold call / email / linkedin message your targets with your value prop and work out from there:
- which contact method works (e.g. email / phone / linkedin)
- who the buyer is - does your user have purchase power - great you know who to sell to.
- What is their pricing sensitivity?
- IF they dont have purchase power who does -either ask (best) or assume next person in the chain - who do they report to. again identify role/ title and try them.

As you do this your looking to learn how to contact your prospect; who will use your product? Who will buy your product? What is the purchase process? What is the price point?

Based on your learning and each iteration of testing your sales hypothesis– refine your target prospect role/title, refine your value prop, your sales point, your sales process (to match their purchase process e.g. is it simply they buy with credit card from your website or does it go through an enterprise buyer… )

Now go back to your full company list and iterate through using linkedin and search engine to find folks who match your target role / prospect and enter these into your prospect list.

You now have a starting sales list. Contact them, qualify and try to make sales.

If you need further reading see any of the books on this list: https://blog.closeriq.com/2018/11/enterprise-sales-books/

and - Transparency sale by Todd Caponi. https://www.amazon.com/Transparency-Sale-Unexpected-Understa...

Good luck.
A modern shebang
This BlackHat keynote[0] makes the good point that cyberattacks by other countries, especially Russia (the 'bears') work fundamentally differently from the US. In the US, private companies aren't allowed to do any hacking whatsoever, and organized crime is swiftly prosecuted by the FBI. The NSA would often have a dozen meetings before changing course on an operation... the bureaucracy is slow and autonomy is non-existent.

In Russia, there is no extradition for hackers, and it's rare for someone to be prosecuted for ransomware. Malware writers and organized crime rings form a loose network with Kremlin officials. Attacks are done as favors, or even launched because the hackers think Putin would like it. Guccifer 2.0 is a prime example of this.. their espionage op against the DNC got blown, and 12 hours later they relaunched the op as a hacktivist campaign. It's altogether more casual and efficient.

As a bonus, you don't have to pay your hackers if you let them make their own profits... hence all the ransomware. $100k is a good haul for an enterprising Russian criminal.

0. https://youtu.be/gvS4efEakpY
They attempted to use it as a monoprop, where you pump it over a platinum screen to catalyze it. This is attractive because it avoids any issues with mixing.

They had extreme difficulty sourcing anything but dilute hydrogen peroxide. The few manufacturers refused to sell to them once they discovered the application. I think they ultimately bought a distillation unit made by a man involved in rocket powered drag racers in Mexico.

Ultimately, I think the higher specific impulse of fuel+oxidzer two part systems justified the added complexity and they abandoned monoprops.

As other's have noted, at 3% concentration hydrogen peroxide is pretty benign. At 60% it is quite dangerous. Armadillio Aerospace was exploring 90%+ concentrations.
I am not sure how you are getting from SIGINT to assassination. Since at least WW2, and almost certainly long before, there has been no tacit agreement that the great powers wouldn't spy on each other. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Is your argument instead that things like ransomware attacks are more akin to sabotage than to intelligence gathering? In that case, I'd suggest keeping two things in mind:

1. The one well-attributed case of state-level ransomware attacks was to North Korea, the norms-violating exception that somewhat proves the rule.

2. The majority of ransomware attacks are carried out by bona fide private actors unaffiliated with any state, and ransomware is also a part of our current norm, and has been for many years.

It will be interesting to see what happens when China shuts the power grid in Omaha, Nebraska off --- a capability they almost certainly have. The fact that you don't see things like that happening today suggests to me that the norm (I believe) you're referring to remains intact.
>I would say Excel is exactly the opposite of a positive example. Unless you mean being used as a sort of electronic scratchpad, which works okay.

That's just developer snobbism. Millions non-devs use Excel with excellent results, even whole business of billions depend on it.

(Excel has some flaws, and can give wrong results in some cases, but that's like "gotchas" in any language).
ah! that would be interesting!
Gamers dont care about obscure vulnerabilities on their gaming rigs.

So I think this is some sort of misguided hit piece against intel.

Everyone knows pcs are riddled with security flaws less obscure than this. People who run their business on cloud servers might care. Gamers though? No.
Why the Universe Exists
I know only two from your list:

- Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

These 2 is one of the best books about philosophy and the world of ideas I've ever read.
> This raises an interesting question: Can birds on different branches of the evolutionary tree really be part of the same species? The answer depends on what you mean by “species.” This is the species problem, one of philosophy of biology’s persistent demons. As it turns out, it is difficult (and some would argue, impossible) to conceptualize species in a way that fully, and without exception, captures what it is that makes a group of organisms one species and not another.

I’ve always found clicking through species pages on Wikipedia to see the variations of different animals and the often surprising ways they are interconnected.

It seems like an incredibly hard thing to get right as the categorization constantly changes as more and more DNA analysis disrupts the old lines.

I’d be interested in reading the history of this labelling system and how it evolved. There might be some connection to software and language itself.
You can, any bankruptcy information expires after 7? years, and school records aren't public.
Ask HN: Specialization vs. Generalization
What would you all suggest? I don't mean in technology, but in life.

Would it be better to become the world's #1 expert at something? Or be really good at a lot of things
A friend recounted a conversation where he was talking to one of his friends, saying he couldn't understand how these people could be so dumb. (I don't recall what "these" refers to...) His friend said, "I don't think it's that they're dumb. They just aren't curious." That was an enlightened comment. I think that is one of the elements that is needed to do brilliant things, just as Csonger says he was interested in understanding why this was "not possible".
Gold is recovered from modern electronic equipment by many people in the USA in a profitable and environmentally clean way.
You don't hear much about it due to the people doing it don't want to advertise thier success.
Modern electronics have much less gold or other valuable metals in them nowadays but wherever you see an electronics recycling event there are modern day gold miners.
The key word here is
" Gold refining"
How airplanes fly – basic principles of flight
From my memory, this is meant to be more introductory material for people first learning computer science, rather than a guide for people who are attempting to learn a lisp. My school (UBC) uses Racket and this book as the intro level CS course.
They should care, considering some of these vulnerabilities are exploitable just by JavaScript, meaning merely visiting a bad website could leak sensitive information
"Achilles in Vietnam" by Jonathan Shay. I agree it's quite good. IIRC, the author was a doctor in a VA clinic for Vietnam vets suffering from PTSD, and he was struck by the similarities between their condition and descriptions in the Illiad
Very much so. Spinning disks are bad at seeking randomly, and turning lots of random IOs into a smaller number of relatively sequential IOs is a substantial win.
Yes but it is personal information about a living person? I doubt it, it's pseudo-anonymous so I believe it is legal under GDPR.
‘Gaming Disorder’ Officially on World Health Organization’s List of Diseases
There is also non-sexual harassment that happens too :/

And the smell of piss and shit everywhere.
Why are you getting downvoted? This is ridiculous. I've seen a few other comments like yours getting a lot of downvotes.
I had an interesting experience the other week, as I went to Montreal in Canada. It was still super cold up there, barely getting above freezing this late into the year. Holy hell, the sheer amount of homeless people I saw on the streets, the crazy amount of drug dealers trying to sell me shit, it was next level.

Now, I'm not trying to suggest it's any better or worse than San Francisco. It's bad for the simple reason that Montreal is in this climate zone where it's fucking COLD for 50% of the year.

Anyway, the point I'm getting at is, I had always been under the assumption that San Francisco, (and Oakland) were unique in the temperate climate that enabled the insane amounts of homelessness you see here. Instead what I've just come to realize, it's 110% SF's policies that have enabled this culture.

If its a problem in Montreal, a place where no one should ever be allowed to sleep outside because, quite honestly, they would die, then they too lack the proper policies to deal with it.

For SF to ever fix this problem, they have to first admit that it's not OK, and for all of us here in Hacker News though it seems obvious to us, it's clearly not obvious to the city.
Bitcoin as part of over the counter derivatives reform measures
Communism has nothing to do with telling people what they want; your ideology is showing.
Apple: It's Good If You Like Crap
One tip that's not specific to LLCs but that I nearly missed: don't forget to check if the city you're based in has its own business licensing/taxing requirements. For example, in San Jose you need to pay $150/year for a "business license", even if you're just working from home by yourself.
I assume that’s checked for. For simple SaaS projects compared to Spotify at least, things like that were checked.
I wasn't being sarcastic, they care a lot about situational awareness so have an interest in 'checking the weather' local to their operations, whatever those may be.
> To recap: Musk’s company spent two years developing a very narrow car tunnel. To anyone who ever believed Elon Musk’s bullshit: you’ve been had.

TSLA investors take note.
I agree that it's a MIDI port. That's not under contest.

Because every claim that it's MIDI I've seen has failed to substantiate it, I searched around a bit today and found the developer of MIDI-Maze II and contacted him. Only the physical layer of MIDI is used. He furthermore said that MIDI doesn't allow a ring network anyway, in which case this must also be true for the first MIDI-Maze.

So no, the player limit has nothing to do with MIDI channels. Maybe be more clear about whether what you're saying is an unsubstantiated guess or something that you actually know. Your message reads a lot like you know it for a fact.
Lol. You are out of your league here fearmonger.

Gamers are are the 5 dollar whores of the security world, they are riddled with bugs and the dont give a crap.
Is this true? Couldn't we run a process on top of a lot of humans, which, assumming they are weak learners, garuantees strong learning (i.e. boosting)?
Seems like the primary problem precipitating the 2008 financial crisis was counterparty risk in the otc derivatives market. Bitcoin is a sort of an over the counter forex market that allows better risk management between counterparties.

People think wealth is owned by banks. But wealth is owned by people. Banks are just one part of the wealth management infrastructure. OTC derivatives are another part of it, and are not going away. They just need better decentralized tools for risk management like bitcoin.
This however does remove the benefits of ASLR.

The only two mitigations is either disabling hyper-threading or disabling JIT.
> It isn’t hyperbole

Extending “I’m fine with the U.S. military analysing social-media posts” to “okay with someone following you 24/7/365 every moment that you step outside your house” is hyperbolic. Framed as a question, on the other hand, it invites discussion.
> But NSA didn't make this bug

We don't know that.
Not far from the eight Mile my brother. Love your surname though. But perhaps it is opsec.
Both car parts and battery longevity depend on how you use them more than how long — so those statements are about overall statics; there will always be anecdotes.

This likely means that a majority of Leaf cars will need repairs that cost more than the car is worth on the market, while the battery still has value, although likely not in a new car as they will be worn out a bit and technology will have ten years to improve by then. Elon Musk has already said that Telsa is planning on re-using batteries from Telsa cars into on-grid batteries, where weight is less of an issue, so partial batteries are fine. That’s likely what will happen to Leaf batteries in 10 years too.
Streaming Future Suffers from Lack of Transparency
I think the issue is with power, not intentions. Microsoft may make selfish decisions 100% of the time, but there's only so much impact they can have. The government has monopoly on violence, implemented through army and law enforcement, and can also make your life painful (or end it) in countless less direct ways - like monetary policies, healthcare policies, welfare policies, etc.
One of my favorite papers asks the opposite question: Why do Earth satellites stay up?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.5244

It turns out that the orbit of most satellites would be unstable were it not for the quadrupole moment of the Earth's gravitational field which detunes certain orbital resonances.
How is it misuse if the article is unreadable due to a paywall?
I’m more peeved about the soldered batteries. They still expand!
Yes, my point is that the military usually don't show what they can do and more importantly what they can't do. Should they have the best algorithm in the world to match anything with anything in that data, there would be many reasons not to reveal that.
I don't think it is yet a garbage.
By counting the number of millionaires who live in it. By that metric, it's one of the greatest cities in the world.

Or by counting the value of it's real estate. Or the value of the companies it has created.