skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
30% by mass not by pollution. The speculative aim of the legislation is to decrease pollution. It's a bit like saying alcohol abuse will go down if we ban alcohol (when the opposite happened, hardcore liquor prevalence and potency increased which increased alcohol abuse).

Coase theorem shows that increasing transaction costs increases externality costs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem

If you ban the giving out of thin-plastic bags because they feel bad, and then the market moves towards giving everyone a thick (more environmentally taxing and ecologically costly) 'reusable' bag, you've made the environment worse not better (despite it feeling better). Case in point: the number of times a bag needs to be reused before it was less ecologically costly far exceeds the life of the bag.
Actually this is exactly what we did with the renderman addon for Blender. And AFAIK how other renderer addons work.

Frankly if you want to be doing any meaningful computation in your addon it probably makes sense to go this route and have the closed source part in C while the addon "bridge" is python.
lol @ tapes in 2019 kys
Perhaps a good way to deal with this would be to provide the address for convenience, but also include instructions for how someone could verify it for themselves. IE describe how to go to chase.com and look up the address. (Don't just provide a link to the address at chase.com, as that has the same problem as just providing the address.)
I'd love to check out Backtrace to see if it helps to classify and better understand the myriad of positives (false or otherwise) that are obtained when using Valgrind or AddressSanitizer with Kurento Media Server [1]

We use Glib/Gobject and Gstreamer, so there is a good amount of 3rd-party libraries that introduce quite some noise to final reports (even with the use of suppression files...) Would Backtrace help to categorize and identify false positives, and maintain suppresion lists?

I cannot believe that only today I'm discovering the existence of this tool! When was it released?

[1]: https://www.kurento.org/
It's trivial to detect element visibility, this just doesn't work in bigger sites.
The US was a major destination for Toronto waste. Don't know where it ends up afterwards.
Yeah sorry :/ There isn't an iMessage API to talk to, so the only way that anyone has found to bridge with iMessage is to have an instance of macOS running, logged in as you, and to send messages through the iMessage app via AppleScripts and to watch the filesystem for incoming messages. It would be great if there were some API you could use to send messages through, but Apple has worked hard to keep iMessage locked down to Apple devices.

Having said that, I bought an old Mac Mini off of ebay for about $100, and it's been working pretty well for the past year or so. It's not an easy solution, but as far as I know it's the only solution for using iMessage on an Android or non-macOS desktop.
The brain is full of maps
Good points and I appreciate what you write here.

And an interesting business concept - to help consumers pursue individual arbitrations. That could be really cool especially against large corporations when they are abusive. What do you charge as people go through their individual arbitration process/ how does the profit model work?

I really have mixed feelings about the legal system - on

Also, Radvocate, wondering if you can address the PII concerns other's have raised, as that is a very big deal.
Yes, this has various names. "Ticket" is traditional.
Probably want to make the privacy policy more explicit and restrictive then.
its more that ford sponsored it. ford bought in around the same time they bought chariot i think. it seemed like they were just testing out a bunch of things related to transportation
New York Accent
Weight-Agnostic Neural Networks
Do we have proof of that? I think the fact that we're taking your word for everything so far is the source of the discomfort here.
> We implement Akismet, StopForumSpam, Project Honeypot, and ReCAPTCHA

Did you tried some techniques from the article? Like hidden form fields, simple javascript checks or simple captcha?
Hope your site is secure. And I don't mean TLS. Collecting that data paints a giant bullseye on it for hackers.
Servers are lower speed because server owners at a pretty trivial scale generally care more about perf/watt than the number of servers they have, and the slower frequencies hit that sweet spot. There are some places where they care about individual node perf, and you'll see lot's of cores _and_ high clock speed there. Borg scheduler nodes come to mind there.
Show HN: Practical Networked Applications in Rust
Hi HackerNews.

I know you love Rust :)

This training course, Practical Networked Applications in Rust, is an attempt to fill a gap in Rust's documentation, that is, how to use Rust to build real-world software. It's in an early and incomplete state still, but I've publicly announced it in the Rust community, so I thought I would put it out here as well and see what happens.

I'm interested to hear feedback of any kind. Besides individual mentoring and blog posts, I don't have any background as an educator, so any thoughts about how learnable this looks and what to do to make it moreso are also hugely appreciated.

There are more details about what it is and where it is going on the Rust users forum:

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/practical-networked-applications-in-rust-a-training-course/29199

Cheers
Tone of Voice Guidelines from Monzo (UK Banking Startup)
The dad story sucks. My parents spied on me when I was in high school too. That was the first time I learned to use Linux. However. It didn’t really do anything to me. I was furious at the time. But now a decade later it doesn’t matter at all.

I don’t think I’d care if someone close to me goes through my stuff if i die. And I don’t think my parents or brother would care if I go through their stuff if they pass away before they can set up how to deal with their digital stuff.

The only ramification I can think of would be my father being sad at seeing some of my behavior which he would view as immoral because of his conservatism.

Though on the other hand. I stumbled across two secrets of a close relative because of some physical disks being left behind when they went off somewhere. I’ve never brought it up to anyone. I do wish I never knew them. And I do believe many people would negatively judge what was seen. That would be unfortunate.

I guess I don’t think being so black and white with privacy like HN usually is, is so obvious. Like how I don’t value my privacy if I die that much.
I think what you're referring to is paying for -support- There is no blender version of "Red Hat" that companies can rely on to deliver fixes or support.
There is an objective truth to design, for example one table style can be faster to read or more visually appealing when averaged over the population.

OP is just expressing his subjective view about which design is objectively better based on his expertise as a UX designer.
Who's the biggest/most security conscious company that does cloud backup at machines not controlled by themselves?

i.e. it would very interesting to me, and a huge endorsement of the process itself, if Google did some cloud back up on Azure or vice versa.
They just need more wax then. Cups made from paper work perfectly well; so should straws.
Yep, I agree, seems like we are on the same page. I made my own framework based on my specific uses, so I even get to control when the fallbacks are removed, and deal with any of the fallout if there's issues.

I kind of think that at one point, everyone that works a lot with front end web development should make their own framework. It helps you learn to make long term decisions, deal with design iterations where you have lots of wide spread use of older systems and many other things that help you make wiser decisions in day to day interface design. But also it can help you see where things like Bootstrap are helpful and where it is not.
I agree with you on the mailing part. Was just pointing out that a personal signature and electronic signature are identical unless specifically stated otherwise due to the E-Sign Act.
SMS Verification for WooCommerce
A lot of people don't set out to write a million LOC web service, they build a smaller web service and it grows.
> like all the other critiques of GGS I have seen

If you've already familiar with a lot of Diamond critiques but have decided he's right all along then why say "Could you list a few books and main criticisms?". You come off as not engaging in good faith.
It’s only true if you have the function body available for deduction. Headers/decls need types.
Wow that was really risky taking it to the police. You never know what a bad person might do or what story they might push for.
For sure. If you don’t care, you don’t care. If you do care, you might use an online form but not print it out and mail it.

Everyone here fearmongering this site is the enemy of good enough. Your credit card information is no more at risk than at a gas pump that possibly has a skimmer (and you’re not liable). Your PII has already been leaked by Equifax. Why give up even more rights by not opting out through a service that has taken reasonable precautionary measures for data protection?
I don't know much about this topic, but if it was so easy to manufacture the cheap LTO tapes, there would be more than two manufacturers left in the industry and there definitely were non-Japanese companies.
40k-year-old severed wolf's head discovered in Siberia
> London is similar to SF, as an example I rent a relatively nice 2-bed flat for £1850/m

But what will the price be in 10 years? The mortgage will go down, especially if you pay above minimum repayments, your wages will go up (theoretically) helping you make those payments. The mortgage price will go down, bottoming out at $0 while the rent will always increase.
I think that this is an excellent insight.

Explicit leadership roles also inevitably result in situations like, "well, they were the best person we had at the time" whereby a very unsuitable leader is kept in power. The worst orgs I've participated in have suffered from this kind of problem.

People only fantasize about flat orgs when theirs is led poorly.
When murderers were hanged quickly (2014)
Yes, a default argument would be cleaner.

There are an astonishing number of uses for default arguments that never appear at the call site.

My fav constructs an object that is just storage for a value that needs to live a little bit longer than the call itself.
I missed seeing the individual option. Thanks for that. See you around.
I do most of my work in full-screen. (Usually a full-screen terminal.) I feel like it helps me focus.

Have there been any studies showing correlation between windowing habits and productivity?
You can change `reddit.com` -> `removeditt.com` to see (some) of the deleted comments on a thread.

https://www.removeddit.com/r/pics/comments/byjify/arial_view...
Another nail in the coffin of Bird?
This is a huge area in enterprises right now - most large global businesses have (I estimate) 2/3 of their headcount at serious threat to process automation - and people are putting the money into it now - expect this area to blow up in the next year or so - definitely a area for the sensible contractor to look at.

However is this automation package going to win? I don't know but OSS is likely to have a big part to play

And as for the Windows only part - well 99.9% of the processes that are currently done by humans and will get automated are done on windows machines (cos if they were done by humans using a Linux box they would have already built a shell script for it)
>Why isn't there a solid alternative offering yet?

The latest version of recaptcha doesn't even prompt users. It loads on the front-end and uses a scoring system. It's likely you've used it but didn't even know because it's invisible.

It's the older implementations that have the slow loading images.
I don't understand why this gets downvoted. While it may lack context (with the aim of being controversial), it sparked a healthy amount discussion here!
I caught these assholes at Chase doing this and demanded a refund of fees, which of course they provided. They're just testing your resolve, every day:

"JPMorgan agreed to pay $110 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its procedures for charging customers overdraft fees. It was among more than a dozen big banks sued by their customers for reordering debits from their accounts to maximize the possibility that the accounts would become overdrawn, which would generate more fees."
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Sort of humorous comment, as PCI DSS is self assessment and attestation of compliance. If OP states they’ve met their burden, that’s all that’s required at their scale.
Took me the entire 15 day trial period for my initial backup of ~4TB. After that though, I never notice it uploading the incremental backups.
Reading the above comment, where does it say it has to be personally mailed?

> Your notice must be mailed to us at P.O. Box 15298, Wilmington, DE 19850-5298.

That sounds like it has to be mailed, but who does the mailing doesn't matter. Similarly, wouldn't matter if you used the post or a courier.
Agreed, VIP is good for enterprises, the paid tiers are okay for personal sites... But as soon as a medium sized business gets into customizations, they have to move off WordPress and onto one of the many dedicated WordPress hosting companies.
The blog posts suggests many websites are using ReCAPTCHA when it is not truly needed. In those cases, given the focus of ReCAPTCHA on identity, this is a case of collecting more information than is needed. According the author, ReCAPTCHA is not needed to defeat "uncustomised spam". To put it another way, while there be nothing wrong with ReCAPTCHA itself (e.g. the way it is designed), there could be something wrong with the way it is being used, perhaps on a massive scale.
win/win
I was in SF this week and had a chance to try this out. They have 0 (zero) e-bikes despite their app has a column to list the count.

They also force you to pick up the bike from designated racks and drop-off at designated racks which is a pain in the ass.

On the other hand JUMP has a fully e-bike fleet, but bikes were impossible to come by. I parked a JUMP bike that had full battery. An hour later I came back and the app didn’t let me unlock it (reason unknown to me). It seemed like things are really glitchy.

I found the entire bikeshare situation in SF to be miserable, in brief. Scooters are no different.

It’s funny to see that Seattle were like this 4 years ago. Now LIME and JUMP dominate Seattle with fleets entirely consisting of E-bikes. They are super ubiquitous, and there’s no shortage of them, no “glitches”, and no need to park them at a designated rack.
I think it's pretty clear that HMBradly/RADvocate is trying to get email addresses through this campaign.

Personally, I'm very much okay with the exchange in this case, particularly given the cost of mailing physical letters.
You are right it doesn't work but is not trivial at all to detect visibility, there are millions of ways to hide an element using CSS, for example a rare one (without using "opacity", "display" or "visibility") is: transform: scale(0.00001);
I wish Hacker News didn't use it. It's a PITA logging in! I don't see it when I'm in the U.S. but when I'm overseas...
I think most of the photo organizers offer this? I remember using digiKam back around 2006 or so, and it already had this feature.

I think tags have limited scope. They are great for photos. They are OK for music, but strictly in addition to the main hierarchy. You could use them for text docs, but folders + full text search is much better. And file level tags are completely useless for code/programming
AmbaSat – Build Your Own Spacecraft and Launch It into Space
You can build a basic report in 5 minutes. Then you’ll spend hours tweaking it and making all the changes the boss wants. And then hours more discovering there’s things you simply can’t do (but you’re boss won’t accept that).

And next week you will have to do it all again, because it’s all manual.
Give us a spin! Would absolutely love more feedback, it has had a big impact for us already. It’s free for open-source projects.

The tool for ASAN/etc... is just a few weeks old but we have been doing crash / error reporting and custom debuggers (built-in static analysis) for the last 5 years.

Welcome to also shoot me a mail at sbahra@backtrace.io.
Tesla might get into the mining business to secure minerals for batteries
Opinion of mine is it takes a while for people to come to a consensus that something is bad and come up with rules to mitigate it.

Three things I think of.

One is a guy talking about visiting really poor part of South American. Used to be 'clean' because people were too desperately poor to throw away anything. And later as they became less poor there was garbage everywhere. And still later and better off, less garbage.

When I was kid in the 1960's in the US there was trash everywhere. People would throw trash out car windows, leave their trash behind at parks. Toss trash in the street and dump refuse in vacant lots. Now that is both illegal and considered boorish.

Another friend mentioned riding the bus in a country in South America. 40 years ago people just tossed trash out the window. 30 years ago they'd wait till the bus was a mile outside of town. 20 years ago the bus had a trash can and people would hold onto trash till the next stop.

I think societies are slow to come to grips with and deal with negative externalities that industrial culture makes possible. The whole thing is a process.
Collecting/storing credit card numbers, names, and addresses is creating a whole new problem for users.
Is Chase's practice itself legal? Forcing mailing a physical letter that must contain a lot of personal identifying information...?

That's a really shady move and I'll take note to avoid any business with Chase in the future.
Re: that part: but you don't even have any way to sign this electronically to begin with. They did not provide you with an electronic form/page/whatever to sign, nor an electronic address to send your signature to. The contract required you to personally sign and mail a letter into that P.O. Box, and unless you plan on downloading your signature into that P.O. Box, you don't really have any other option besides paper (unless you get clever with papyrus or something I guess). No matter how I slice and dice it I don't see how the E-Sign act has any kind of relevance here... except perhaps for the part that if you keep a scanned copy of your letter for your records, that'd be considered just as valid of a record as a photocopy?
Anyone can make a FAQ on the web. Not everyone can prove compliance with PCI DSS.
I'm not sure I agree that the city has the moral authority to grant a monopoly on such a concept.

I like Lyft just fine and I especially applaud their efforts to expand into ebike-to-transit. But I also have a little trouble feeling sorry for a company that feels it has suffered a loss because its out-and-out regulatory capture scheme didn't pan out as successfully as it hoped.
Oops, that makes a lot more sense. Thank you.
Yes! You can also do 1031 and things like that to defer taxes. And value adds by doing renos.
The surprising truth on Indian food
C++ could solve this without badges, if it didn't have a very tiny, silly misfeature.

The misfeature is this: a class A can only declare a specific member function of class B as a friend, if that B member function is public!

Example:

The idea here is that Device has a static member function called Device::registrationHelper. That specific function (not the entire Device class) is declared a friend to VFS, and so that function can call VFS::registerDevice.

[Edit: this doesn't quite match the Badge solution, though. If this worked, it would have the problem that the registrationHelper has access to all of VFS, which is almost as bad as the entire Device class being a friend of VFS. That is one of the problems which motivate Badge. Nice try, though! The C++ restriction is probably worth fixing anyway. What the C++ friendship mechanism really needs here is to be able to say that a specific member function in B is allowed to access a specific member of A.]

class Device;

class VFS;

class Device {
public: // we want this private!
static void registrationHelper(VFS &v, Device &d);
private:
void registerWith(VFS &vfs) { registrationHelper(vfs, *this); }
};

class VFS {
private:
void registerDevice(const Device &);
friend void Device::registrationHelper(VFS &, Device &);
};

void Device::registrationHelper(VFS &v, Device &d)
{
v.registerDevice(d);
}

But we are forced to make Device::registrationHelper public, which defeats the purpose: anyone can call it and use it is a utility to register devices with VFSs.

If we make Device::registrationHelper private to prevent this, then the "friend void Device::registrationHelper" declaration in VFS fails.

This is an oversight; the privacy of the Device::registrationHelper identifier means that the VFS class is not even allowed to mention its name for the sake of declaring it a friend.

That should be fixed in C++. Declaring a function a friend shouldn't require it to be accessible; we are not lifting its address or calling it; we are just saying that it can call us. Allowing a function to call us is not a form of access to that function, yet is being prevented by access specifiers.
iCloud Files, OneDrive, Google Drive, SyncThing

SyncThing, being solid and open source (and not beholden to commercial interests) would be my suggestion.
Even without kids, I find having a vehicle with "my stuff" in it to be invaluable. It's also handy when I need to haul something, or if I want to go somewhere not readily serviced by public transit (which is, you know, the vast majority of even California, let alone the United States); sure, I can rent a car or truck or whatever for those occasions, but it only takes a few instances of that to become less costly than just buying a used car.
how about extracting pgp keys with a smart phone microphone from 6 feet away?

https://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/acoustic-20131218.pdf