skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I actually learned this when visiting Parliament House last year (though it was part of an off-the-tour side discussion). Having lived in both countries I think the independence of the US states is radically and fundamentally stronger than that of the Australian states, especially since (and because) income tax was federalised 75 years ago.

It's a mixture of factors, but vertical fiscal imbalance enabled by the First Uniform Tax Case is certainly part of it. As I'm sure you're aware Australians generally have fewer objections to centralised government.

Culturally Australia has historically been significantly more homogeneous across the different states than the US, even our accents are more similar between different states.

> The only place I know that even comes close to the US independence of the states is Germany.

Switzerland?
How much does a mid-2000s Prius with a new battery cost?
Curebase (YC S18) seeking first sales hire – distributed clinical research
YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
Sounds like a good thing to protect consumers. Would this be problematic for most people?
Mandatory solar panels might be a small fraction of housing costs but the cost of regulations isn’t from one big regulation. It’s from adding regulations over and over until the cost is twice what it needs to be.

$30,000 here, $30,000 there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.
This assumes that the health insurance plans are an effective check on cost, that there is any sort of shoppable market for medical services, and that the patient has the knowledge to shop with at the level of sophistication of medical professionals.

None of that happens in the current healthcare market where we pay over double all other modern nations, nor does it happen in the many other nations that effectively control medical costs via setting a schedule of prices for drugs and medical procedures.
> Likewise, sincere inquiry can proceed along lines like 'I don't understand [phenomenon], can you explain as I were in [grade/ college/ graduate school]' and a similar baseline level of respect for others' time and knowledge in assisting.

Sincere inquiry is fantastic, but "skeptics" pretty much always phrase there objections as inquiry, 90% of the time you hear something like "how do we know it's caused by the sun?" it's a leading question from a "skeptic" firmly in the denialist camp, online it will often be by paid astro turfers (which I suspect the only other reply to you is at the time of writing this, a new account created to comment on climate change). This ruins the discussion for any sincere skeptics.
Right, and it's in the name, after all: Transport Layer Security. Security is not quite the same as privacy.

TLS was never meant as a way of guaranteeing privacy in a broad sense as far as I know, and this is the first time I'm seeing it described as such.

Now, one may argue that security is a needed component of privacy, but it's certainly not enough by itself.
That's not an unpopular opinion, that's a best practice.
I was researching creating a 2 sided marketplace for selling certain electronics this week. This is a bad omen maybe
Nearly all trading volume occurs in Tether, compared to dollars or other stablecoins. Tether by their own admission says that they're only 74% backed by "cash and cash equivalents."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/tether-sa...

I'm assuming that "cash equivalents" refers to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency that would crater the market if actually sold for fiat. Not to mention this was before nearly two billion tethers were dropped on the market. I have a hard time believing that institutional investors sent billions of dollars to an unregulated and unaudited institution that used this guy to move around its money:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-03/ex-nfl-ow...

When Tether/Bitfinex blow up (either by indictment or by finally just running out of greater fools' money), so will the rest of the cryptocurrency market, particularly Tether-based exchanges like Binance. Mt Gox will look tiny by comparison.
This is an extreme position and an unsurprising sign of the times.

Rule-of-law for social interactions in a collaborative work environment are perhaps useful or a preference, but they are not an "absolute" requirement, that is ridiculous.

Moral codes were once the primary enemy for people seeking progress and freedom from unrecognized but forced moral authorities (the Church in the west). The same people almost immediately after overthrowing that authority and code seek to enact one of their own.

This is just a tragic lack of vision.

If the perceived issue is that the "other" moral codes are immoral, mine are better, it is not a matter of freedom vs oppression but one oppressor vs another. People apparently have been frightfully unaware and incognizant of what they have been fighting for.

Moral law is for a less evolved time. Progress isn't making the codes better but leaving them behind unnecessary.

Telling people to be nice in a git repository is fine, acting like a rigid social code of conduct is an absolute need is a dark sign of the future to come.

I'm no anarchist but good god, the normalization of leftist oppression is scary. (I don't think I'm overreacting)
And this is deliberately misleading
FastMail does block (well, decline to load) remote images by default: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/remotecontent.html

If you aren't using FastMail's webmail, it's your email reader's responsibility. FastMail quite reasonably doesn't rewrite email content.
> I had an S for a week recently and it has physical controls for most everything. It felt like driving a normal car, I hated it.

What Model S did you drive? Unless new ones are radically different from any I’ve ever seen, there are no physical door lock controls, HVAC controls or audio controls (except on the steering wheel).

Suppose you stop in a dangerous neighborhood for long enough that you want to put the car in park. The auto-unlock, especially in the absence of a button to re-lock the doors, is potentially dangerous. So you turn it off, and now you have to remember to double-tap to unlock.

To make it more fun, the Model S can get into a state where the doors are nominally unlocked but the handles are retracted. Getting in the car when this happens is awkward at best.

There’s a reason that almost every other car has a physical control for the door lock.
Rejecting that 'definition' does not imply the truth of any slippery slope argument. I think it's easy to distinguish between communist leaning YouTube channels, and communist leaning YouTube channels that contain explicit calls to violence. A 'slippery slope' argument assumes the opposite: that once we accept that some content is prohibited, we cannot avoid the conclusion that all content is prohibitable by an arbitrary censor.
Any discussion of shoulder injuries should include, somewhere, the PT exercise known as "plate halos":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG0N6JKNUQU

Very, very beneficial and also time efficient as it hits your shoulder from all degrees of motion with a single exercise.

Further, the popularity of crossfit "bumper plates" means that a full diameter plate can be very lightweight. The idea is to work up to a normal 45 pound plate but if you are injured or a smaller female, you can find a 10 or 20 pound bumper plate that is the same diameter. (It's not very effective to use a smaller diameter plate, such as a standard 25 pound plate.)

I would recommend plate halos as a core piece of any upper body strength routine - I do them in my warmups every time I am in the gym.
Circulate it within a semi-closed system full of funghi. A reverse breeder reactor - a condensing decayer. Vent excess material to radiology equipment.

Then sprinkle in some high-melanin humans, to grow your very own super-mutant facility personel. Perhaps also feed them mushrooms, to speed up the adaptation process.

The next generation will be... autotrophic?
This applies to Macs as well. Or at least it used to, in some situations — now that I think about it, I can't really recall the last time I did that. The standard behaviour now seems to be scrolling faster the farther the mouse is from the edge of the pane (which is clearly a deliberate, and useful, UI decision).
that's a good point. i should have said that at a certain size it makes sense for a corporation to "invest" in lobbying as a form of increasing profits instead of, say, using that amount to increase R&D.

it may be that the required amount of lobbying money necessary for a larger corp is in relative terms tiny but in absolute terms somewhat large (e.g. $15mil gets you 80% of the way there, whereas $150mil only 85%; but a smaller corp can't chalk up the $15mil required for pareto or whatever distribution)
Everyone in their 20s is sharing sexualized videos of 15 year olds?
Tracking pixels have been complained about for a long time too. There are actual real people who have actual real physical problems with being tracked and their law says they have freedom to privacy but it's normally violated.
"serve images in next gen formats" - complains about images served from tpc.googlesyndication.com

I knew PageSpeed was bunk when that recommendation came up on a web page I was working with. All of the "next gen" formats that PageSpeed recommended weren't supported by any mainline browsers — not even Chrome.

That may have changed by now, but my opinion of PageSpeed hasn't.
This is going to be just about the only industry without heavy regulatory capture? Why?
There is already a pretty good framework that can be used: airline regulation.
The Internet broke today: Facebook, Verizon, and more see major outages
Could you elaborate? What's the problem with SNI? (I haven't dived deep into these protocols)
This is a myth and lie. The civil rights act was passed in the 60s. Bill Clinton (D) was from Arkansas in the 90s.

Johnson was from Texas. Reagan was from California. This made up myth about the parties switching because of the CRA is completely bogus. Senator Byrd, of West Virginia, former klansman, died a Democrat.
Startup that planned to deliver babies in space [is] suspending operations
On that subject, don't make fun of people who paste screenshots into Word docs and email them. On Windows 95, that was a really good idea!

MS Word was one of the few ubiquitous tools that would compress images, and certainly one of the few that people could be counted on to know. MS Paint didn't support PNG until Win98, and even then wouldn't do it by default.

If you didn't go via Word, chances are you'd be emailing a 900kB BMP at a time when people used 28.8k modems to access Hotmail accounts with 2MB caps.
In years of using Waze for thousands of trips I've had that happen exactly zero times.

It also has functionality built in to find things like restaurants and gas stations near your active route.
Every statement ever made by a tech company that went over the line and decided to step back from it should automatically, in your mind, be appended by "for now."

Superhuman is getting rid of this _for now_.

Also works for mobile carriers and pretty much any statement they make ever.
Being born with a high IQ is like being born with a high SAT - it isn't real.
Is that new? I set up an account maybe a month ago, and when the Superhuman story broke, that was my reminder to check my settings in the webmail client. It was set to load all images.

It's possible I would have turned that on by mistake, but only if I really wasn't paying attention.

Edit: I just set up a brand new trial account and checked, and the webmail client is definitely set to load remote images by default. If that's not intended, maybe it's a bug that needs to be fixed.
In addition to their engineering games Zachtronics made Infiniminer, the main precursor to Minecraft.
Had to trim down the BI title quite a bit.

I am, frankly, gobsmacked by the existence of this startup.
In the meantime, the top “recommended by amazon” result for windows 10 is counterfeit software sold for half price (at least in Canada). The whole first page of reviews is people complaining about fakes or licenses not working
I casually proposed[1] a vendor-agnostic, free Web service and API for any email address to opt out of open tracking/read receipts. Imagine Gravatar but for obtaining an email recipient's preferences via an API.

Obviously this would depend on whether a sending app decides to honor it, but responsible senders would have a harder time justifying ignoring it.

[1]: https://twitter.com/troyd/status/1146554065553256448, https://twitter.com/troyd/status/1146561165687869440
Like e.g. apple buys the service, and an apple employee chooses to override autonomous control with 3 co-workers in the car to joy-ride?

I think "random" is the wrong descriptor for the scenario described
Just saw this. The answer is it depends on the team, but unless there is a hardware/software reason tied to your job for a specific platform, people can choose what they want.

Many of my colleagues use macOS, some use Windows, some Linux. I have a work-issued Mac and a work-issued Surface Book, because it’s important to test compatibility, especially when it comes to CLI stuff, across different platforms. I have Linux VMs and docker containers and WSL configured too.
That is just one definition though, the "free market" that America has right now reads as "Yes, No, Yes, Yes" in particular though I'd disagree with the last point - a fair free market would incorporate things that tend to be cost externalities into the true costs of goods - leveling a mountain to mine coal or fishing a bank to extinction are costs that society cares about and are things that should be incorporated into the cost.

To reinforce the point a bit - if, for instance, over fishing is unpunished, regulated or otherwise incorporated into costs then failing to over fish will result in a competitive disadvantage that the market will punish. In this case acting in a way that ensures a long term benefit to society is being actively punished by society's rules - and the system is illogical.
Why do you think that refutes sin7's point?

And, if Amazon's entire supply chain is filled with counterfeits, all the more reason why Amazon should 1) reveal who the seller really is, or 2) be liable for the counterfeits.
It seems to me that the difference with Ebay is that I am buying from a specific person (even if that person is effectively a stranger to me). On the other hand with Amazon I'm presented with a product that happens to be sold by many different people.
...you say this not having read the post or met the person who wrote it.

In theory I have nothing against codes of conduct. In practice they are too often vague and written by the perennially-offended.
Just a few weeks ago there was a thread on this site discussing how IBM census taking machines made it all possible to identify the undesirables. Now it's trivial.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20109840
That's a surprise lapse in design testing by QC. Hyundai actually has very good interior ergonomics. As a car guy, probably one of the best in the business. They stick with common, predictable convention.
Gee, under that definition I'm not sure I'm conscious!
How did you discover the breach, and did you determine the vector? My guess is that it was a pivoted breach from another system on the LAN such as your PC.
The fix for bad regulation to poor effect is good regulation to beneficial effect.

"Excessive" and "less" are not synonyms for "bad" and "good".

This isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
That's handy for frequent regime change!
Brains-in-vats have only ever been science fiction. Regardless, there's nothing about anything I've said that is known to violate any laws of physics, so your objection to 'magical' extrapolations is irrelevant. I say "The Matrix", but obviously you can substitute any number less fanciful mechanisms into the process -- psychotropic drugs & electromagnetic stimulation are not fiction.
Ask HN: Do I miss anything major by freezing Chrome at 66.0.3359.139?
Hi experts,

Quite a while ago I managed to stop Chrome(windows 64bit) from updating, and it froze at 66.0.3359.139.

The most recent version seems to be 75/76, so I'm wondering do I miss anything important in the middle?

To clarify, I'm pretty sure that I missed a ton of fixes and security patches, but I'm wondering whether I missed anything in the following list:

1) Some major feature that will obstruct my visit of many web pages in the near future since they are going to use it;

2) Major performance boost (spending less resource, etc.)

3) Maybe somehow they decided to add back the option for manually choosing text encoding

I browsed through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_version_history but didn't find anything major, but I'm no expert so I'd like to seek your advice.
WebObjects
I've pretty much stopped buying anything over $100 on Amazon after being burned twice. I buy direct or from other competitors. Hope a solution is on the horizon.
> whenever "prevent competitors from reaching the market" is on the table

So when you don’t have a free market?
Facebook Going Down Reveals Hidden 'Image May Contain' Message Left in Pictures
I'm not sure. I've been a FM customer for years and don't remember what the default was when I signed up, so I'm just trusting their docs.
Gotcha. For whatever reason, I had forgotten about lower-bandwidth copies.
And here's the resolution:

> In a subsequent comment, a YouTube spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that Cyber Weapons Lab’s channel was flagged by mistake and the videos have since been reinstated. “With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call,” the spokesperson said. “We have an appeals process in place for users, and when it’s brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it.”

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/3/20681586/youtube-ban-instr...
Diminishing returns. You only need to buy so many legislators, and there's only so much competition.

What stats you got for ROI on aerospace R&D vs. lobbying?
Most enterprises depend critically on being able to view and edit Word and Excel documents. If there was some urgent need to get rid of Microsoft, they could get by with non-Microsoft applications that support the same file formats. It's easier and cheaper to stick with Microsoft because of the huge ecosystem Microsoft built. That's no accident, it was good business, aided by some questionable business practices which were noticed by antitrust regulators at the time. But it doesn't give Microsoft unlimited power – if they hike licensing fees, the available alternatives will start to look more appealing, despite the (currently) higher cost of finding staff to support them.
With Let's Encrypt you really have no reason not too though. And what's not controversial in one country may be in another.
I've been trying to argue for awhile that if the major public venues become privately moderated that it would have a chilling effect on free speech. I continually get the rhetoric that free speech only applies to the government (it doesn't; the First Amendment only applies to the government but the ideal of free speech is a universal human right) and that censorship is something only the government can do (also not true for the same reason).

This is not a new concept. In 1859, John Stuart Mill argued in On Liberty that the tyranny of the majority and the de facto censorship that they can create is just as if not far more dangerous to actual liberty than government control.

If we have laws for common carriers, and laws like network neutrality, then there must also be laws protecting the right of the people to participate in public discourse even when the venue is privately held. It is vital to the existence of a free state!
I thought the bulk of makemkv was closed source, with only a porting layer that is built and linked as part of the install process?

[edit]

I looked at a recent download and a lot more of it delivered as source than I thought (even under a GPL or LGPL in many cases). makemkvcon is shipped as binary only though.
I have no idea either. I track every email I send out. The issue with tracking, when done by companies, is what they use that data for. People don't want to have sales profiles built on them or have their literal privacy - in terms of their personal web traffic - being invisibly tracked and potentially exploited by bad actors.

On a personal level, I send emails for a variety of reasons, and I haven't found a good reason why I wouldn't want to know when they were accessed.

1. I've sent legal correspondence and it's important for me to have a record of when and how frequently it was accessed in case it ever reached court.

2. When I send emails to my staff, I'm less interested in whether or not they reply and more interested in whether or not they read the emails at all. If not, then I can use alternative and more immediate forms of communication.

3. Sometimes I'm ignored by people that owe me money for one reason or another (in one particular case, I was almost scammed out of $40,000). Knowing that the correspondence I was sending was being accessed but was being ignored allowed me to take more immediate action.

I'm not building profiles on people, I'm not trying to sell anything. And I'm not going to apologise for it either. My intentions are not malicious, so that's where it starts and stops for me.
And we should 100% trust them to do that, because they've demonstrated responsible stewardship of user data so far. Or not.
I submitted this because I don't know why this is news.

Detecting image features is quite commonplace now with off the shelf software or cloud services.

I guess Facebook is under too much scrutiny... Anything they do will be taken out of context.
It's remarkable that he was able to quantify the demand for his feature: "at the time of writing only 32 out of 26,000+ requests [was for turning off Read Receipts]".

There's a lot of Superhuman skepticism in the comments, but their CEO owned the decision and responded quickly. If you assume good intent, it's remarkable in its comprehensiveness, transparency, and speed.

If you don't, well, you probably wouldn't be satisfied by anything other than ripping the feature out. Which wouldn't make sense for the business given the demand from its primary customer segment.
You misread the comment you're replying to, I think. empath75's claim "Amazon’s entire supply chain is filled with counterfeits" is intended to mean that parties other than the seller—such as warehouse employees, delivery companies, importers, etc.—are also inserting counterfeits into Amazon's supply chain, such that even products "sold by Amazon" in the strictest legal sense, can potentially still be counterfeits.

Given this, customers should already have been wary of purchasing from Amazon, enough that finding out that they're often purchasing from third-parties shouldn't further affect their opinion (i.e. they should already have as low an opinion of Amazon as if they had already known that, because of the other supply-chain problems.)
I worked on a team that was giving away a video game to public schools, but we had a really hard time convincing anyone to take the game. They wanted technical support and other things we couldn't provide. We just had the game.
I have wondered about the economics of certain you youtubers, especially MKBHD.

He has a huge studio, with tons of gear, a lot of it not sponsored and staff.

The videos feature YouTube ads, but aren’t in-video sponsored and he is selling a bit of merchandise.
Jonathan Blow – How to program independent games
Not a lawyer but I run a marketplace. Anticipating exactly this kind of situation we require a clear display of the transaction principal, run a limited KYC check for each new onboarding, and (since the main product leads to participation in physical activities) each seller warrants their public liability insurance cover and indemnifies us against various breaches and circumstances.
Damn I need to revisit my solutions to compete with millions of new submissions :-)