skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If that were the case they would not exist

This certainly isn't true. All that is true is that eventually they will fade away, not that it will instantly occur. The fact that these full-service brokers HAVE faded away suggests that perhaps they were not providing much value.
Do you looking for buy or sell your House, came here
While this is certainly true for a few thieves, at least for other high-fraud industries, it's a case of running away from a bear - you just have to be harder to defraud then the other guy (in this case, other online marketplaces). Additionally, it's both more difficult to obtain an identity (particularly if locality is required to pass fraud checks) (whereas stolen CCs can easily be purchased in bulk) and not necessarily sufficient - for example, if the fraudster's contact number is verified against their identity, it again increases the threshold.

If the thieves have access to a local, legit person's CC, identity, and phone, then yes, you can't really stop them from stealing.
Irrelevant, whether or not it's a good response. A comment being wrong is not a reason to moderate it for it being insulting.
This is a unnecessorily long article where the central message gets lost. My understanding is that there were two major insulin manufacturers and in past, they competed which kept prices down. Then suddenly they realized that if they stop wasting their resources in competing and instead cooperate then they can get arbitrarily high profits. With this internal understanding, one would raise the price and soon other would match that high price. They did this over and over to their great surprise that customers are just eating up the higher cost. This was the much better and shorter path to huge profits!

I have a general theory that in any two-party system where rewards are potentially unlimited and at the expense of someone else, the parties would sooner or later learn that its better to cooperate instead of competing. We have seen this movie in cable industry, cell phone industry and so on. I expect this to happen also in political parties in US, UK and elsewhere. In those scenarios, parties will soon learn that if they cooperate then they can acquire unlimited power, funds and control at the expense of resources (i.e. people) and divide these spoils between themselves which will be much higher than if they tried to compete with each other.
> To be fair, nobody cares

I think people do care, but they don't know what they dislike.

I mean, there are certain things we tolerate on the web, like a UI taking a while to load. We don't tolerate that in native apps — even if the content is missing, I still expect the interface to show up instantly.

It's not a question of native vs web apps. It's a question of "does this fulfil the expectations I set for native apps?"

My position is that frameworks like Electron and React Native aren't amenable to fulfilling those expectations but they are capable of doing so if the developers put in the extra work. It's just a shame that so many developers don't, and their sloppy efforts become the poster children for these web apps.

At the same time, my position is also that if you're going to put in that extra work to make web apps feel right natively, you could probably have done native UIs to start with.
So basically, a high tech RRDtool?
This would have been a much better email without the needless stone throwing from one libc maintainer's glass house.
China Has Hundreds of Empty 'Ghost' Museums
The cop, Kevin Briggs, you maybe thinking of did a TED talk for a person he saved on the Golden Gate bridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CIq4mtiamY

The Zelda game character maybe based on the person, Chen Sah, who talks to people who are about to jump off a bridge in Naan-jing, China. You can listen to it here in Act One: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/407/the-bridge

While we are at it, I was reminded of this podcast as I was getting the above two links for you:https://www.thisamericanlife.org/597/one-last-thing-before-i...
The phone booth one brought me to tears. I think the link is related to the above two links i posted. Listen at your own risk.
Sounds like he hacked the societal expectations of what constitutes a speech via social engineering
For those of us who don't have a strong preference - what sources would you recommend? I prefer reading but when it comes down to it, I'll take any form factor if the information is good.
There is a huge wind power boom in north Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. I saw thousands of windmills driving through there a couple months ago, and must have passed two dozen semis loaded up with blades to build more. It's a sight to see.
I've never been to church, except for the occasional funeral. So i'm not really familiar with how collection plates or tithes work. But maybe the church of open source could find a priest to get some advice. Or at the very least, lecture people about how much better a person you can be for supporting open source.
We shouldn't penalize addiction. But we absolutely should penalize corporations who take advantage of addicts for a profit.
> Why it matters: The deal and hires confirm that Apple hasn't given up its autonomous driving project.

I think the first sign was the near continuous sightings of Apple’s self driving cars in Cupertino. At one point i literally saw four of them at the intersection of Homestead and Wolfe (next to the spaceship), one going in each direction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3gabyntpWg#t=2m58s
The mitigation recommendations in that thread seem a bit weird, effectively telling people to completely abandon compromised accounts.

Does discord have some weird architectural aspect that doesn't allow for a regular a) change password, b) enable 2FA, c) logout all existing sessions mitigation to leaked credentials?
No the big one.
Imagine from the beginning of github, you do that, then OSS will die from day 1.

I'm sure it's not the right way to make OSS sustainable.

The only way (which i believe) to make OSS sustainable, is that, you open source the core or toolings, let others fork it, and you make contract to support enterprise clients, to support the open core.
Related, I've been having a lot of success with Hypothesis [0], the Python property-based testing library.

[0] https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
The few times I’ve been in TRU in the last ~5 years, half the families in there were seemingly doing exactly this anyway. Kids running around with toy swords, skateboarding, and generally wreaking playful havoc, as they’re wont to do.

Embrace and extend, Toys R Us!
We've been able to develop Salesforce apps using React. There are some good open source libraries out there.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stabilizing-salesforce-lightn...
Interesting stories with political overlap are ok (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). I don't think one even needs to apply that criterion here, though. It's a story about a politician, but not exactly politics.
Seems to be proof it is being weaponized against behavior one doesn’t like, the behavior which is forbidden by the law.

This isn’t a one time slip up, it’s a 10 times slip up and chances are there were a lot of warnings this guy didn’t want to listen to. So he was hit where it hurts. Poor guy, it’s like he was caught speeding ten times and then got fined.
What Australia does that other countries don't do in terms of packaging is they completely block out the branding of a pack. So like in Thailand for instance you'll have a regular Marlboro pack with a picture on the back of diseased lungs or whatever. In Australia they block out the designs of packs branding so they're just dark brown with health warnings and in white text somewhere they'll say Marlboro lights or whatever they are.
Secondhand smoke kills hundreds of thousands of non-smokers every year.

That's well beyond personal liberty.
Your friend didn't know nicotine was addictive?
That seems like a contradiction. I cannot think of any conservative policies advanced lately by the Republican leadership.
Although, life on Mars could have a common origin with life on earth. There are after all meteorites on Earth that are believed to be of Martian origin. If microbes from Mars seeded Earth or vice versa, then finding life in both places doesn't mean the odds of it arising are higher than we thought.
If this is true, the man is obviously a genius.

That said, the 'act of the fool' mightn't work in operational reality, because if everyone believes he's an unprepared bumpkin, then that's the reality, and he won't be respected.

His former editor at the Telegraph had some very harsh words about him, along the lines of 'he only cares about himself, he's totally unprepared, has no idea what he is doing' etc. and I'll gather that rings true.

So maybe he is a populist genius, but I'm not sure how well this will bode for the current EU/Brexit crisis.
Finally know what CRM and Salesforce really is
twice, the exact same way.
Which do you think looks better on your promotion packet?

1. Write a new libc and get it used all over Google, generating lots of users automatically; or

2. Shepard Google's adoption of code some other folks wrote.
Good.

I got a recruiting email from Juul a couple of weeks ago : "Help power the movement to end cigarette-related deaths!"

That's bullshit. From all the stats I have seen so far (and to be fair, since I don't smoke, it is not a subject I follow very closely), e-cigarettes are on track to negate all the progress made on young smokers.

A good proportion of the teens that start vaping and go on to start smoking cigarettes would not have started smoking without juul.

And before somebody starts claiming that Juul has zero responsability there, Juul is also paying social influencer directly targetting teens.
So, I got my first job by going to my local Haskell meetup and chatting with someone who would end up being my boss, and I've stuck with that crew since. I think that's rather serendipitous but it definitely doesn't hurt to go hang out with the Haskellers in your area. There's a regular meetup in many major cities, including Boston, SF, NYC, London and Zurich off the top of my head. Our shop has also hired people who respond to our job postings (on Reddit, for example), as well as people who participate in the community on IRC and Discord either by word of mouth or recommendation.

Now, as someone who evaluates resumes and interviews people, the only Haskell specific thing I care about is making sure the candidate knows how to use the core of the language, which is basically Haskell2010 + some indispensable extensions. I expect fancier stuff to require training, and to be honest it's sometimes better to properly contextualize that stuff for someone instead of having them come in already thinking they know how to use the footguns :^). My company asks candidates to attach or link code samples if they have them. If they don't, we ask them to write a small Reflex [0] app, because we're primarily a Reflex shop.

Now, every shop is going to be different and expect different things from their candidates. That's one reason why getting involved in the community is so useful. If you hear directly from people who employ Haskellers in your area what they want, then you can build your credentials for that. Besides that, you just gotta apply. If you're a strong candidate in another tech stack, you're a strong candidate for a Haskell stack too if you can demonstrate you can use the language. There's currently a remote job posting on r/haskell if you want to give it a shot. I wish you the best of luck :)

[0] https://reflex-frp.org/
> Why would anybody take out 150k to study something 'useless'?

Who are you to say it's useless? Such hubris. They do it because they've been led to believe it's necessary, and in some cases it actually is. Kind of hard to become a doctor or lawyer without a degree. Even if that weren't the case, that doesn't absolve the people who take advantage of them. Victims of fraud are acting voluntarily, but that doesn't make it OK to defraud someone else.

> people taking the money for the sake of taking it

You can't even know others' motives, and yet you choose to assume the worst possible ones. That says more about you than them.
I've read a number of accounts of EU countries offering funds for tech start ups but in some countries folks in the same circles seem to get those funds all the time, outsiders not so much.
why do you think that would have killed OSS from day 1? do you think people would only continue if the make some cash right away?

i feel like most smaller maintainers do it for fun/cool factor and if they get something from it then its a bonus.

i guess we could look at youTube as a model there, i think most creators start out doing something they love and only turn into a business when they see it can be sustainable, they have no shortage of creators
Same here, I was excited to open up the link in case it was, and disapointed when I saw it was about digital cookies. Oh well.

Perhaps you should submit the link you mentioned tomorrow, I will upvote it if I see it.
When our company switched to Salesforce to convert a custom admin tool to use Salesforce, they forced us to buy consulting time with consultants to help us learn the system. It was written in to our contract as an extra cost. Maybe our business was pure trash at negotiating, but I think it's pretty common.

From a cynical and maybe overly negative point of view, it felt like Salesforce developers are kind of like contracted mafia enforcers. As long as the devs play by Salesforce's rules and do a decent job (i.e. make Salesforce salesmen money), they throw them free, lucrative, repetitive, braindead, unfulfilling business. In our case, they literally couldn't screw up - we had to use them, and no amount of complaining to our Sales guy or trying to understand why the main engineer was such a kook was going to change our situation.

Seems like a really lucrative hustle to get into, as long as you don't mind dealing with absolute mediocrity.
Once again, under GDPR, it is entirely legal to issue fines without a warning. Therefore, in any case where it does not say that there was a warning, one can reasonably assume that no warning occurred - especially given that in some cases (according to you, most cases) they did say something about a warning. The absence of the mention of a warning in this context implies that there wasn’t one.

The point is, and no one has been able to refute this, that warnings are not required under GDPR. Even if they have issued warnings in most cases thus far, it is still early days. As these actions under GDPR become more common, there is no guarantee that even those countries that have been issuing warnings first will continue to do so. The enforcement of regulations that have the potential to generate massive revenue streams for government entities tends to become increasingly aggressive and creative as time goes on.

I don’t understand why anyone, even those in favor of GDPR, would attempt to refute the black and white text of the law. No warnings are required under GDPR, and thus the potential exists for fines to be issued without warning. There is no argument or opinion to be interjected here. This is a binary fact. Are warnings required? No, warnings are not required. It’s that simple.
The atomic cross-chain swapping means I can have assets or a coin on one chain and transfer it to another. In this case maybe transfer coins from bitcoin to the xaya blockchain for chi. It wouldn't really get rid of the transaction fees for bitcoin, but what it would do is allow you to transfer some amount of bitcoin out if you know you are going to be doing high frequency transactions. You could just do it on a lower fee blockchain and then put it back in your bitcoin account when you have done what you wanted to do.

There is another possibility on Xaya and I believe Ethereum has implemented as well now. On Xaya they are called game channels. The idea is that you allow a side branching chain to develop between an arbitrary number of people, then when a game is over you inject the end of the side chain back into the main chain and verify it. They invented it for near realtime verification between consenting parties, then you only pay the main transaction fee when you get back on the main block instead of very every action. But that type of system doesn't have to be only done with games obviously, that could be applied to anything.

If you are interested more in it, you can check this video out. They have lots of documentation and tutorials for the network as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMd9mvc8pqA
>> should penalize corporations who take advantage of addicts for a profit

You just sighed a death warrant to HN, and 95% of all corporations that make a profit.
Thanks I learned something new. Its not general purpose and has some strict limitations. As usual this seems to skip concepts like quality/status of sensor (maybe qnan can be used as a sort of sentinel value) but is interesting newer entry in the field.
Plus who knows how many more the witness wasn’t privy to.
Two important notes about tax loss harvesting:

1) For any given dollar you put into a robo-advisor any tax lost harvesting gains to be made based on that dollar will generally happen in the first 1-3 years. After that gains will generally approach zero. However, the fees you pay the robo-advisor will last as long as you keep your money there.

2) Once you make the decision to use a robo-advisor which purchases hundreds of stocks on your behalf, there is a lot of lock in. Automation becomes essentially required to continue to maintain the account.

You do have the option of selling everything and going back to an ETF based approach but at that point you'll incur capital gains completely negating any positive impact you got up from by loss harvesting.

These points were not clear to me when I began using one of the popular robo-advisors some years ago. I kind of wish they had been.
As we learned from this listing, the video's controller is required to notify the subject that he appears in the video before processing it. If the controller does not have enough information to contact the subject, he cannot fulfill that requirement, and is therefore noncompliant.
Yeah, they definitely screwed over a lot of people if this as the plan all along.
Why do we (our society) keep electing these sorts of people?
Who mentioned Juul?
“Exudes class” is just marketing speak for “fancy for the sake of it”.
1080ti work?
New York’s Comeback Might Have Come and Gone
So like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Tran... but underground?
> Sometimes we forget that the OS exists to facilitate the apps, not the other way around

For OS where the base operating system didn't offer much functionality to apps beyond the basic API for building controls and so on, this might be true.

For Apple's systems, especially macOS and iOS/iPadOS, this isn't quite true. On iOS, apps need to be built according to system conventions and standards in order to be able to take advantage of a lot of services that the OS provides (such as accessibility, automation, i10n).

When a macOS or iOS ignores system conventions, the result can range from completely unnoticeable, a slight inconvenience, or the app being next to unusable after the OS updates due to underlying features being changed without the developer having updated their (needless) custom code to account for it.

I notice this with the Sensibo app which follows Material design guidelines. It took me a long time to figure out how to edit a particular bit of information because the icons that the app used were not what I was expecting. On iOS, an editable table view should be accompanied by a button at the top right that says "Edit"; Sensibo instead provided a pencil icon. After I finished editing, I wasn't sure what to do — on iOS, I expect to see a "Done" or "OK" button where the Edit button was; instead, Sensibo required me to click on the pencil again even though it was greyed out and looked inactive.

When an app doesn't conform to the guidelines and I have a choice about whether or not to use that app, I'll generally prefer to find something else where I'm not expected to memorise how to use it.

Sometimes we forget that apps exist to facilitate getting tasks done, not forcing us to remember their deliberately-included inconsistencies compared to every other app on the system (including third party ones).
Please edit the personal swipes out of your comments here, even if someone else's comments are wrong and/or provocative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Huawei equipment is more vulnerable to hackers, experts say
Are they using something else to monitor/dig through their network/etc logs, or are they just flying blind?
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Would you please review the site guidelines and stick to the rules on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And take it away when they want cotton candy flavored gin.
I think a lot more people would block Facebook at the DNS level if it was easy. My hat goes off to you. I really think that we can get a good segment of the population of black Facebook at the DNS level if we just had a simple solution for the common users
This does seem like a contradiction of rules.
Looks more like a fun weekend project[1] than an impossible task. At least for my mid 2017 MBP. I’ve always had issues with WiFi cards doing a hackintoshes or Linux on macs.

[1]https://gist.github.com/roadrunner2/1289542a748d9a104e7baec6...
Interesting story although:

> Pepsi a fleet of 17 obsolete Soviet Navy diesel attack submarines along with a decommissioned cruiser, destroyer and frigate, as well as a number of new civilian oil tankers. At a stroke, PepsiCo had become the sixth most powerful navy in the world.

Not sure a bunch of questionable quality / condition ships and some oil tankers would really be the "sixth most powerful."
> Next time when a bone in broken in your body

I definitely would, why wouldn't you? Broken bones are urgent but usually not life threatening - in that situation I'd definitely take a few minutes to decide how exactly to handle the situation - call an ambulance, or have a friend drive me to the hospital? ER, urgent care, or GP? Lots of options with different trade-offs, even if cost wasn't one of them!

Urgent, life and death situations are obviously a special case but are also a pretty small percentage of medical care at least IME. My wife has had quite a bit of medical care over the last few years including having 3 kids and several unrelated, important but not immediately life or death surgeries. In every case we evaluated several options before picking a Dr and a hospital. We looked at price, recs from friends, distance from home, reviews, etc just like picking a restaurant or a new car. Even in the few urgent life/death ER visits we've had we still picked where to go, we just picked ahead of time - when we get a new insurance plan we usually glance through it to make sure we know what are the closest ERs and urgent cares that are covered, and if there are multiple options we'll pick a default. Again I don't know why someone wouldn't do that, even if our healthcare were free we'd still compare on other metrics.
Big S – Rust's missing String literal
> SIEM detection rules ... on our roadmap

The current solution in this space, that actually works really well at scale, is ElastAlert[0]. The problem is that ElastAlert is kind of a mess to work with. Lots of documentation, but you need to get into the weeds with it to figure out how it really functions.

Once you get it going it's a great tool. Scaling it out (we run hundreds of rules pretty frequently - upwards of 15 times an hour) is just standing up more instances with their own separate rules.

[0] https://github.com/Yelp/elastalert
Well I mostly agree but you have to consider technical debt