skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Naval ships are essentially artillery platforms that can reach 10 or more miles inland, but over the first 3 or 4 years of thewar the Royal Navy never dared to use these platforms against any of the coastlines (Norway, Northern France, Germany itself, Poland) occupied by the Germans except when they had to cover the evacuation of their Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk and except for a few small raids relying on the element of surprise. (What they did instead was to use subs to land commandos on the coast.)

And of course by D-Day the Luftwaffe had been mostly destroyed relative to what it was in 1940.

So, no, I tend to doubt that if the RAF had been destroyed, the Royal Navy could have prevented the German army from making a crossing of the English Channel.
In the beginning of Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens, he discusses the history of Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals), Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens. He discusses their history amongst eachother and why/how Homo sapiens succeeded. It then goes onto explain why Homo sapiens succeeded and grew into what humans are today (animal husbandry, agriculture, culture, industry, technology, information, etc).
I had a first or second gen iPod Touch and it became unusably slow right after updating it some time later.
Sadly not possible for those of us poor souls stuck behind carrier-grade NAT. I do have an ipv6 range, but of course, there's no ipv6 connectivity from my workplace! And that's often where I want access from.
When people say they can’t draw, they aren’t referring to being able to draw a simple geometric shape like a letter. They mean a portrait or a still life or landscape or something.
Have you been to a makerspace? Most have, at a minimum, woodworking tools, metalworking tools, a laser cutter, and a CNC router. Very few people can justify buying all of those things for themselves. A high powered laser cutter alone is $10k+ for a decent Chinese model. A good professional model can run $30k+.
> I like this idea as the foundation of a Lisp-based shell.

I thought that was called emacs...{ducks}

/...though seriously...
2.11 BSD is still maintained by Steve Schultz. Latest patch level is 451 released last year.
The way to get a transaction through is to pay a fee to have it validated. The higher the fee, the more incentive for miners to add your transaction to their blocks since they will earn that fee if they can validate the block the fastest.

Right now, the fees are relatively low because miners are primarily living on the block rewards for validating transactions. As those block rewards decrease (halvenings), transaction fees will need to pick up the slack. Smaller miners may also leave the network as the competition picks up, which will lower the difficulty and increase the chances of validating the block the fastest (and thus getting paid the rewards/fees).

Halvenings means less inflation, so the theory/practice is that the price will also go up over time... thus the transaction fees will go up, but not substantially because the price is also going up. This will also incentivize outside transactions like lightning network.
Another vote for uBlockOrigin here
That's why there are various categories for the speedruns. I just checked speedrun.com and there are 13 categories for Super Mario World, one of the games most famous for a jump to credits glitch. 23 people have scores for "0 exit" (jump to credits) and there are 203 for "96 exit" (100% completion effectively).
Title 'Big radiation leak'

Body 'nothing alarming'

Thanks BBC.
> My off-the-cuff guess: if a country is growing, the easiest way to make money is hop into a growing industry and building as fast as you can. If a country is grown, the easiest way to make money is to siphon it from somewhere else.

You could replace "country" with "company" and describe why startups are continuing to disrupt existing industries.
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Hi,

Considering about working on an open source with turnkey SaaS hosting modern alternative. Drawback: MVP is quite big.
Would you see such a need, or is everyone happy with Shopify?

Some questions, if you can spare a few minutes:

What are top 3-5 issues with the platform that you're currently using?

What do you like most about the current platform?

What would be the must-haves of another store platform in order for you to switch to it?

Appreciate your insights!
> A lot of white-collar professionals making $200k simple don't consider themselves "upper class". It's not a matter of denial. I would bet that if you surveyed software engineers earning $200k, most would not use the label "upper class" to describe themselves because to do so would be strangely pretentious.

Yes, and that's a moral failing. Worse than being "pretentious" is failing to realize that you are blessed. Because that starts you down the road of thinking "since I'm middle class, other people should shoulder the burden of providing for the country's most vulnerable people, not me." That's the self-deception that results in even Bernie Sanders' "progressive" tax policy being identical to Donald Trump's until you get over $250,000.
Yup. It's sickening. What's worse people seem to be comfortable with the status quo. If everyone was of my mindset there'd have been a revolution by now. But people seem to adjust there view point to give themselves a more comfortable life. Better to not think about the inequality of the world or to rationalise it as 'right' than to live your life bitter. Or guilty if you happen to fall in the upper classes.
> We have the ability to choose careers and jobs, so we have the ability to choose a healthier lifestyle via career moves

The greatest predictor for financial success in the U.S. is inherited wealth. The greatest predictor for longevity is financial success.

> If you believe your employer should be taking better care of you, you can vote via leaving your employer.

Please don't use "vote" as if our workplaces are somehow democratic. That said, you vastly underestimate the asymmetry in the employer-employee relationship. For people in IT, this is easy to forget because our business is booming and currently favours labour. For most people, changing jobs is hard, time consuming and a gamble.

After all, talk is cheap - especially during company presentations in the hiring phase. There is no guarantee changing jobs will solve the root problem if the new employer is a burnout shop (again), has toxic management (again), doesn't respect work-life balance (again), etc.

> Many people on HN sit at desks most of the day doing tasks that are laughably easier than what 2, 3, 4 generations ago were doing.

This glosses over the fact that while a lot of jobs 2-4 were physically grueling or repetitive, they were also in production. Those jobs created real, tangible value, in stark contrast to many of quaternary and quinary sector jobs today. Pay kept parity with inflation. Employers would train you and hire you without requiring college degrees. You had job certainty until you retired.

Since then, a lot of "externalities" have been socialised, humans have become "resources", productivity went up by 240% and wages stayed the same or decreased for 60% of the population in real terms.

> an employer is not the one that is held responsible at the end of the day

That view is historically and socially myopic as well as based purely on supply-side economic philosophy. Who benefits from that line of reasoning? Why should employers have no responsibility when it comes to treating employees fairly, humanely and with respect? Why should taxpayers alone bear the fiscal responsibility when burnouts, boreouts and work-related depression and suicide are epidemics - not to mention opioid addiction as a façade for depression?
Files installed elsewhere during the install script are treated as config files and can be purged, no?
My idea is morphing after getting feedback. I need to update the webpage.

I think 100 is too big for what people seem to want. People get their questions answered and learn from others' successes and failures on sites like IH and HN. What they don't get is a personal connection and the sense that they are working together with others.

In order to provide this connection, the group or groups need to be small (probably less than 30 people). That way everyone can get to know each other and develop a deep understanding of the skill sets and projects of the other members. I think context is key.

In time, I hope this leads to trust and friendship. People start working together on projects and aren't afraid to hop on video calls and help one another.

If the groups are going to be small yet useful, members need to be carefully selected. They need to be smart and generous and bring a variety of skills. There has to be a filtering process. Interviews are scary, but they serve a purpose. Forms are useful for directing people to give relevant information.

If I was part of a group of this nature, I would prefer the others are qualified and engaging. Quality of experience and knowledge will make the groups all the more valuable.
> The right thing to do is whatever makes the most of your investment.

Right. And if there are no alternatives on the market already, that tells you that charging for it is not going to be viable. The way to make the most of that investment is to keep it alive, even if this means giving stuff away!
Do you mean a bit like German tank problem?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
whats the tl;dr please?
Oh it's absolutely scope creep. But the end result is that it's a completely separate language, and should be treated as such.
This sort of dismissiveness is the same sort of cluelessness that leads most people to think software should only take a week to code.

Complex things take skill, time, and effort. If it's not your domain it's very likely you are severely underestimating the work involved.
Helicopters bring us views of the Tour de France
To have a feel of long period of time, I always use one metric: my grand father. He's lived 93 years, so almost 100. 2000 years ago was then 20 grandad away. Not so long ago after all. 200K ago is 2000 grandad away. Quite some time but nothing astronomical yet.
Yes. Had a hiring manager reach out to me from a company I already blindly applied to but was in limbo with.

Went directly to on-site interview stage after a quick call and am still happily employed here 5 years later.

Definitely the most important post I ever made in my life :)

I don't think I got any additional recruiter spam around the time of that post. Maybe back then recruiters didn't watch those threads yet?
The implied cause of the T-bone accident in the article is wrong; a transmission slipping into gear while stopped would stall a small idling engine like what would be in a Focus. That would be the throttle body issue, which in my opinion should have been the focus of the article over crap transmissions

Edit: better article -
https://www.ncconsumer.org/news-articles/nhtsa-opens-investi...
I like this definition, but I think our society cannot be meaningfully represented in 3 classes anymore. Someone might not be able to live off interest income alone, but they might own a small internet company which makes them a few million dollars a year. These people can walk into a shop and buy a Tesla with cash without even having to think about it twice, but they wouldn't be able to buy a £45 million penthouse apartment in Singapore like the Dyson guy did recently. I would certainly classify them as upper class, but then there is probably at least two more classes above them.
Interesting. It seems the "legitimate" uses are corporate? Seems like providing a group policy or config option to disable protection against this would be the sensible way to go, rather than increasing the attack surface of home users just because some corporate users do weird things. Although honestly major software vendors are already happy breaking so many things in the name of security that this one could just be another one on top...
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Let me ask an unpopular question: in which sense did it "go badly"?

You indicated a large amount of technical debt and issues, which the techie in me 101% empathizes with and shares your pain. You also indicated morale and hiring practices issue, which the person in me empathises with.

What you didn't indicate however was the business outcomes: Were there unhappy clients that left? Did the costs rise? Business fold?

Everything you mentioned, unfortunately, is also the case for some wildly profitable/successful businesses.... :-<
Zuckerberg definitely does, there are pictures of him with tape over his webcam, microphones taped, ect.
My old college is doing this to an old employer/business owner/friend. If anyone feels passionate about Eminent Domain being theft; check out their petition.

https://www.change.org/p/eminent-domain-is-theft-save-new-yo...
I guess downvoting means Happy with Shopify :) Good to know!
How would that explain not showing up in search results for keywords in the post?
"Tech/nerd/stem types absolutely love to do this. We take a problem, pare it down to its essence and then solve it."

In my experience, the tech/nerd/stem types being hypothesized about actually do not pare a problem down to its essence. They instead do the equivalent to attempting to solve the screaming of a hungry child by assuming the essence of the problem is that "too much sound", so we put the child in a soundproofed room.

In truth, it is entirely possible to apply pure logic to a problem if the problem is appropriately scoped to closely align with actual reality. In my experience, to deny the emotional aspects of something is actually irrational behavior- it makes incorrect assumptions that the only things that exist are what the tech/nerd/stem person understands themselves.

This results in the hypocritical behavior of a tech/nerd/stem type crying out (emotionally) to solve the problems of emotionality.
Secure your SSH server with public key Ed25519 elliptic curve cryptography
I think its important to consider that in the Nordic Model, people making more than $200k still benefit from social programs such as health care where in the US generally only the poor benefit from government assistance programs. I would be much more willing to have much higher taxes if I believed that I would benefit from the programs that they pay for.
Blog post on how to secure SSH sessions. The sshd_config is rather interesting.
That's a cool little app. But at some point, I became very wary of running free, closed-source binaries from the Internet.

What do you think about this one?
Don't Blame Capitalism
The hunter-gatherer lifestyle was simply not scalable.
Automatic WiFi Login Helped Police ID Teens Who Vandalized School
More like: people rely on shared knowledge when communicating. This is Hacker News, after all.
Site down, we 'll never know why ...
I’m sure the customers will eat milkshakes without a straw when the choices are eating it without a straw and throwing it away. You don’t need to tell people to stop using straws. You just stop giving them straws.

Realistically though the plastic straws will be replaced by a slightly more expensive, biodegradable alternative.
I feel like this is overblown in this day and age, and certainly doesn’t justify the insane cost of having a dev team to be building you custom software that is anywhere near competent.

You can do 99.5% of what most non-technology businesses do via a combo of SaaS services. Those keep getting better over time. It’s cheaper to hire a large team of coders/consultants for a few months to migrate you than to pay the same said team in perpetuity.
That's not what I'm saying. I understand they are saying they can't draw a portrait but what I'm saying is the only reason is because the skills usually weren't taught past a certain level. Those same geometric shapes are used in the construction of everything else.
time for me to insert my pet theory:

consciousness (and the higher-level awareness that feeds general intelligence) costs calories. Thus, we are evolved to MINIMIZE THE NEED. We like to think of ourselves as self-aware, and we can be...but most of the time we're in a lower state. When this near-lizard-brain state runs into something it doesn't have a preprogrammed response to, consciousness is engaged. We figure out how to respond to such situations...and we shut down again.

Once we learn to break this cycle, a great many wonders and horrors will be unleashed as we wrestle with what to do with a larger quantity of time being AWARE.

I myself am terrified that I don't get bored the way I used to as a kid. I assume this is because my lower-awareness self has plenty of pre-programmed tasks to manage and my higher awareness just doesn't get activated nearly as much.
it would burn in the atmosphere?
You're absolutely right, thanks for catching this.
Firefox' addon system is a real boon and the solution that works if you can't/don't want to root.

Before that I was getting frustrated by filtering pseudo-VPN apps and rooting is not an option anymore (sec-wise and because of Google SafetyNet).
Right?

That opaque bit is the crux of the matter. By design, doing that is completely unnecessary! We do not make votes personally identifiable, and that opens the door for the rest of the process to be public, trusted, etc...

After a bit of research, done back when this crap started, I arrived at these pillars for trustworthy elections:

Freedom: Basically, people can vote or not. This puts the burden of garnering votes on those wanting to win elections. It's not a given votes will be cast.

Anonymonity: This is all about reinforcing freedom. No vote record = people free to vote their minds with far fewer overall worries than there would be otherwise. If we eliminate this one, electronic votes can make sense, but there are consequences, implications. Not sure it makes sense, but I am open to this discussion.

Transparency: It must be possible for any participant in the election to follow their vote cast through the process to the final tally. Human readable vote records, the law, means, methods, all available for anyone to understand.

Oversight: Needs transparency, but also the enabling force of law and norms. Not only can people evaluate the elections, but they should do that! We all live by the outcomes. It only makes sense that we all have an interest in trusting the process, and understanding votes cast are legit.

I arrived at them being deeply bothered by the input trust problem. Prior to voting machines, this never crossed my mind. We take it for granted.

(see my other top level comment)

Trustworthy elections embody those ideas to the maximum extent possible.

Notice secrecy is not in there? The only place where it is really needed is when the voter casts their vote.

All these companies, and to a large degree elections people, and processes, have conflated secrecy with security. Doing that is either a mistake, or nefarious. Which is it?
A Simple Browser
That, but I also have a theory about Version 2. By the time something hits v2, it's popular enough to justify the work to get to v2, and the lessons that were learned from v1 can be applied, even if that leads to breaking changes.
Be very careful about such projects on Tor. There are plenty of images within Tor, the possession of which, can land you in prison and destroy your life. I would hesitate from clicking any link to such a project without first some examination of how they dealt with that issue.
But in HN, the more common usage is government classification, so headlines should be based on that precedent.
Millennials replaced religion with astrology and crystals
Yes as long as there are enough animals to hunt and plants to forage for? Not sustainable long term.
FWIW I have a list of similar ideas done in essentially every language, including every popular Lisp variant:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/ExternalResources#inter...
Because carriers have a tremendous fear of being simple data pipes.
Security theatre, plain and simple. The harder something feels to guess to the human brain, the more secure it is.
Good point! But n-1 still gets arbitrarily large so the proof still works.
To burn a bunch of vacation days, I once took off every Wednesday for 2 or 3 months.

It was great to be able to break the work week in half so that you only work two days in a row. It makes every Mon/Tue feel like a Thu/Fri because Wed is a "mini weekend".
I 'm surprised by the low cost:

> The mission cost was estimated by the Glenn Research Center at about $2.6 billion,
what support would you like?

an English copy of a law where power is explicitly delegated to the minister of finance? rule of law isn't that strong or consistently applied there, but it is a distributed system just like federal or confederated relationships with regional governments. There are 13 semi-autonomous states in Saudi Arabia with appointed governors, with a mix of appointed and elected representatives.

The royal family is consulted for laws, but the royal family is 7,000+ people. The King doesn't have to do anything, and just can make executive choices over any matter whenever he wants if things diverge from their brand, their society and their interpretation of the Quran.
I have an X11 key listener. When someone reports a problem and they have access to the internet, I have them type "__medxremotedebug". An ngrok process is started, the machine beeps to notify the user that the backdoor is open. I then login to ngrok.com, see the tunnel and connect to it. All the units have a public ssh key and only I have the private key.

This has saved me and my customers so many times.
Someone eventually either buys something, or the company that's paying for the last, most expensive, click goes out of business. But there's a lot of those companies, so there's always (so far) someone paying for those clicks.
I don't think its "completely different". Its only a minor difference in my view. We'll just have to agree to disagree. IMO repository maintainers are not going to code review every patch in every package, and logistically they can't anyway. The only 'process' here AFAICT, is to take down the patch once news spreads of a bad patch.
If I use portrait mode and the camera software softens my face [1], would that image be flagged as having been photoshopped?

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/your-...
Isn't the point of the article that the Shopify Fulfillment Network will be available to all merchants (that pay for it)?

Most of the Shopify plugins exist to give a store owner an advantage in sales, conversion or marketing. Sure execution counts, external branding counts, but Shopify is a closed platform. You use their plugins and approved apps. And most store owners rely on these plugins to some degree, to help them build brand awareness etc.

Eg:
https://apps.shopify.com/browse/sales-and-conversion-optimiz...

Shopify levels the playing field which is great. But if everyone selling Bananas is on the same field, using the same plugins, switching fields could be a great way to differentiate and possibly optimize beyond what Shopify can help you with.
DigiTimes Says Apple AR Glasses Have Reportedly Been 'Terminated' – MacRumors
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Yet another reason is FTP turned out to be inherently unsafe.
Once you have hunted the last wild buffalo, what are you going to do?
The answer is clearly because you may end up with a broken website perpetually in a 500 error state.