skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a project is either "successful" and meets its funding goal, or "fails" because it doesn't.

This guy works at kickstarter, so his definition of success should be "when backers get what they paid for" not when kickstarter gets paid. This attitude is symptomatic of this company's callous disregard for its own customers and the proliferation of scams and frauds on its service.
> lightsail vps is like 3 bucks a month, and you can implement all the fanciest netlify features right on it, and if you never have done that, you really should

Can you expand what Netlify features you're talking about or provide any guides/links that would steer a newbie in the right direction? I appreciate the "back to basics" attitude, but don't know where to even get started...
A secure global ledger does have value though. At least it does to lots of people.
I only find Medium articles linked from elsewhere or via search. In both cases having those articles hosted on another platform or on private blogs would work.

What I don't do, which is where Medium might add value is go on Medium to search for content. I don't reckon I'd find good stuff by going down that route.

So really they are piggy backing off search and links that would otherwise go to "free" blogging software, or at least something like Ghost that isn't in your face and actually hosts just the content.

In short they are a parasite.
I understand it's hard to make conflict-free computers.

I feel sick when apple says they are deeply committed to upholding human rights, while they continue manufacturing electronics, because I need authenticity. I would like Apple to use more of their resources to figure out how to do conflict-free consumer electronics.
That much fertilizer could be sold for approximately $300.000
It connects consumers with products and services they might otherwise not have been made aware of, and pays the content producers' bills

Sure, a lot of that content is bullshitters bullshitting about bullshit products and in the MLM world some of the bullshit "products" consist solely of instructions on how to make more affiliate links, but affiliate marketing is also how most price/feature comparison sites which are actually useful make their money, and started off as a way of getting people to take writing book reviews more seriously because they could earn a bit from linking interested readers directly to a purchase page on a new website called Amazon.
I met many developers who thought that CORS can guard access to API endpoints, completely missing the fact that one can just use a client that doesn't follow CORS.

E.g. "lets restrict access-control to our API endpoints so it only responds to requests from our website".
This is a valid use case, but it's meant to protect a web browser user. An evil website won't be able to request their profile data from our API, and CORS makes it possible to relax this protection to allow our other web property on a different domain access to this information. If someone wants to scrape the API, they can just use cURL and not care about CORS at all.
It'll be interesting to see if the SV winner-takes-all in this niche comes and swallows them up.
"This site is blocked due to a security threat that was discovered by the Cisco Umbrella security researchers."
Shouldn't be a long inquiry, this tax is textbook discriminatory trade barrier.

If you look at EU policy as france and germany protecting their perceived interests by targeting US tech companies it
starts making sense, I think a rule of thumb there is: "if it hurts google it should be law".
There is a middle ground between Non-Profit and Traditional For Profit...

Public Benefit Corporations

I do agree however is " You dance to their tune to get their funding" do not make alot of sense, you do that if you are non-profit or for-profit... You have to dance to the tune of customers if your for-profit, or donors if your non-profit... His lack of ability to under stand that is likely one reason the company when bankrupt.... If you do not deliver a product consumer what to buy you go out of business....
> Right now the attitude is "If the US, with all its riches and pre-existing contributions to emissions, can't be bothered to do anything, why should we?"

Okay, now the attitude of China will be "We're still at half the CO2 emissions per capita as the US, and we haven't had our full modernization yet." Then there is India who presumably want to emerge from third world conditions for most of the country, then Africa and so on. People are really really good at morally justifying their best short term interests.

I'm just really skeptical that "moral authority" can ever work as a motivator when the actors are huge countries.

> It's totally possible to prevent an economic disadvantage vs China and the rest of the world: tariffs. Countries with carbon taxes can form a tariff bloc against countries without them.

Tariffs aren't working so well for Trump though, are they? Forming the large bloc is the tricky part. But I certainly agree, the main problem here is global cooperation, getting the whole world to make some short term economic sacrifices together.

Honestly, just getting an agreement on a framing that this (global cooperation) is the biggest problem, rather than moralizing against individuals for leaving lights on and driving too much (etc), would be a tremendous step toward progress imo.

First we need global cooperation and agreement on the issue and goals. Then laws that create better incentive structures. Supplement that with better clean energy tech and more acceptance of large scale nuclear energy research and development. Pump a whole bunch of research dollars into nuclear, fusion power, and geoengineering. (This is far far more important than LHC, LIGO, James Webb telescope, funding should be much higher than those.) Figure out what the heck to do about Middle Eastern oil and it being the primary economy of so many countries. Then we're getting somewhere, perhaps!
> I don't see the point of advertising companies for free.

I feel the same way. I also stopped using T-shirts with stuff related to companies, technology and any kind of pop culture for the same reason.

And, aesthetically I find the clean laptop more elegant.
I agree that trying to play video games really well is mainly about getting "cheap" experience for real-world applications, but that is exactly the reason for why they should limit APM and reaction times.

Because in the real world, you have to get a bunch of sensor data, potentially run it through it's own neural net to recognize objects, and then feed it into the decision making system. All that takes time - most likely much more time than the 1 frame it takes for the AI to make an API call.

If the AI actually played through the same interface as humans, i.e. it simply gets the rendered image as an input, and produces mouse/keyboard inputs as an output, then maybe we should disable artificial APM/reaction time limits. But as it stands now, the AI has an absolutely massive advantage simply due to using a much better interface, which it won't have in the real world.
My kid stuck a white Apple sticker dead center on my X220. Funny for a minute. When I peeled it off, it left a ghost apple in residue (or maybe a clean spot) that’s resisted further removal attempts.

My favorite hammer has a Windows (3.1x) sticker on one side and a 1st gen Intel Inside on the other.
The way to go is to have high-trust culture and comprehensive automated testing system.

You want developers to behave responsibly and to put all development effort into writing good, reliable code in the first place. I personally prefer pair programming over code review. Code reviews have a lot of downsides but two most important are that you can't get from commit to prod automatically (as there is another inevitable manual step) and that reviewer typically doesn't have enough background/time to perform the review in meaningful way.
>>The two weekend events presumably only occupied a small fraction of them,

Clearly you have never organized a large event before
People who are disabled don't need disposable straws, because they'll always need one.
Has anyone ever asked bus companies to start hunting pedestrians for sport? The answer is clearly no.

Contrary to that, the demands from governments and others for tech companies to "take responsibility" and become enforcers of all sorts of perceived virtues is reaching a crescendo.

And it's not just about clearly dangerous things like child porn or terrorism. The UK government seriously demands the takedown of "harmful but not illegal" content.

Just think about that concept of "harmful but not illegal" for a moment and you'll see that the sort of overreach that userbinator is talking about is anything but "some absurd extreme".
Is everyone doing 80h weeks and yelling at each other? Then they need people who can fit into that.

Is everyone super nice, and there is a "no asshole" policy then they need people that won't break that.

Does everyone tend to be social, lots of social events etc? Need to fit into that?

Or is it a pure work ethic place where you need to be pounding keys every minute until it's time to clock out? Same again they want people to fit into that.
The shit quality of Taboola ads made reenable my adblock on one of the only website where I had disabled it. I couldn't just support a website that put such crap before my eyes.
Why the hate? OP's looking for people to help them grow. No reason for you to assume they can't get there with the right help.
To be frank, a 3% tax is too little too late.
> If you're worried about a meteor hitting SF (and I know that's a metaphor, but let me run with it), then your risk profile indicates you won't be using new technology from a new startup (you probably won't even use less risky stuff, like Rust or Elm).

no. they're both open source for starters.

furthermore, even if all developers working on these projects vanish from one day to the next, you'll still be able to use the last released version and will have a maintenance window to deprecate the software.

if Dark goes away, you'll be gone at the same date.
MDR Lab and PwC Scale Hold Their Legal Tech Demo Days – Write Up
How about Angular? Isn't it a Google product as well? How come it doesn't have the Google logo on https://angular.io/? Maybe someone should raise a ticket to request for the Google logo to be included like in Go? For the sake of consistency...
Ask HN: Is 'company laptop only' a common (remote) policy?
The mid-sized company I currently work at is implementing a new security policy. Background: The current infra setup requires all developers to connect to internal systems in order to be able to do any work.

Right now the majority of employees have a desktop workstation and for the occasional working from home you were allowed to connect to the internal network from private devices via company VPN (if you satisfied some additional constraints). The new policy requires absolutely everyone to get a company-provided laptop which is the only device you're allowed to use VPN on to work from home.

In discussion about security vs usability one of the killer arguments of the proponents always has been that "every major (software development) company does it this way".
Does anyone have any experience if this is true? How is occasional working from home/company VPN handled for devs/engineers at your place?
I don't stricly disagree (nor agree) with your comment, but there are several thing that you include as "a global grave issue of the western world" in general but is actually very US-centric. When I look at the list you give, "people live divided, in poverty, exploited, plagued by suicide, mental health issues, obesity and mass shootings", it's not that those issues don't exists in other countries, but in the western world the US has that strange habit of always exhibiting the most extreme form, and frankly to not look like it's working and making any advance at fixing them.
That is simply proof of selective enforcement. your examples have HUGE preexisting User Base, should apple ban them it would have a real effect on Apple Adoption rates

They are big enough to make apple bow, other apps are not like that
> Most people's jobs in the world seem to come at someone else's expense if you think deeply enough. Quite a shame.

It is true. There are degrees - some of the jobs don't hurt others, and some that do don't do it on purpose or as a primary outcome. A company making screws and nails likely exploits only its employees.

Some are taking advantage of their customers but still deliver a basic need. Think grocery stores that like to screw with food quality to the limit allowed by laws and social tolerance. You don't get exactly what you think you paid for, but it won't otherwise hurt you either.

Some jobs can involve hurting people, but at least have a somewhat plausible justification for it. E.g. some of the defense work can be justified by just protecting your borders and deterring attacks, and the hurt isn't realized until some external party tries to test your defenses.

Then there are jobs that are purely about exploiting other people, without giving them much of value. A lot of advertising is this. Chumboxes, telemarketing, e-mail spam, native advertising, retargeting... I could go on. It all essentially boils down to treating human beings as exploitable resources - bags with money that you get to squeeze out by applying psychological pressure. It does feel very much like factory farming.

(Yes, this post is sorted in descending order of what I think about occupations. Yes, I think defense companies can be morally superior to advertisers. The former help maintain a bubble of law and order in which we can happily live. The latter exist to screw our lives up.)
Better not work for the web at all, if that's what worries HN users.
Searching the internet, it seems that it existed for decades (1993, H. J. Carmichael), it simply wasn't popular:

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70...

and the 1999 paper:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/BFb0105336
Well.. I stopt a hacker to go anbord that airplane who crasht. I was also first to try The happy hacker group to give back that stolen computer. (but The group happy hacker didnt listen and all died) as a system hacker i can be awsome.. Sometimes
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Not in the Roku App

On FireTV it can be, but it fairly easy to avoid as well. For that matter is actually fairly easy to filter out non-prime content on the website as well, if you know how to use the basic filters
We still hope to get it turned into a global EU thing rather than each of us bickering with its own ten of a percent competition over who gets screwed up more. But several EU countries are not on board, so we're taking baby steps, mostly aiming to prove that it does work and no those tech giants will not leave the french market (or if they do, yes someone else will rise in place).
I don’t and still manage to earn good money contracting for honest businesses (that have a real product/service that people pay for instead of relying on stalking to make money).

There’s plenty of stuff out there beyond FAANG.
Business is made of people. People are entities with conscience. Conscience, when applied, can be a market signal.
So I was idly wondering whether the UK Advertising Standards Authority had had a runin with these people, and found surprisingly few examples.

https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/rakuten-europe-srl-a16-335037... mug with "C" handle and "UNT" body, banned

https://www.asa.org.uk/advice-online/recognising-ads-native-... Ruling on "native advertising", mentions Outbrain ruling https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/Outbrain-Inc-A13-251818.html
Photons are excitations of the electromagnetic field. The source of gravity is the energy in the EM field, as described by general relativity.
It's a start, once it exists the gov can change the rate. And it will perhaps lead to similar laws in Europe.
I don't think that is the case. Given the types of failure we are talking about, this would be documented as part of the design process.

All it takes is someone from the FAA to read it and think about it and act on it. That is the role of the FAA.

Now, if it wasn't on the design, then you may say Boeing is mainly to blame. If it was documented, but not rejected, then the FAA is mainly at fault.

Ultimately though, the FAA has the responsibility.
> Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia have seized a container ship operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Co. and owned by JPMorgan Asset Management.

so it's a fund managed by JPMAM but the assets are actually owned by probably a bunch of retirees and pensioners.

now those guys are in deep trouble.
Numberphile is great, but Computerphile to me feels like a kinda lame rip-off with computer related topics really. It's mostly about the depth and presentation I think. Compared to Numberphile their videos are (at least for me) sort of superficial. The original problem most likely lies in topics being much more complex: It's easier to show and explain an OEIS or describe an interesting conjecture with a hand full formulas and proofs than to explain the entire concept behind e.g. machine learning or computer graphics in a ~15 minute video.

Example: There was a video about dithering not so long ago which basically boils down to "Well, if 2 of 2 pixels are black you perceive it as black, and if there is 0 of 2 black, it's white, and in between it's gray ..." The actual methods used (e.g. Floyd, Stucki etc.) and how they work? Not really.
For the same reason that we want cars to drive slower but not stop driving at all. This is the poster child for reducing an argument to ridiculousness. What is proposed is what is proposed, not an extrapolation pulled so far out of context that it becomes unthinkable.
Had a chuckle because this article starts with:
"I read these points in this other article"

...Which links to an article that says:
"I read these points in this other (other) article"

...Which links to the article I wrote where I made the points being referred to :)
> I accept these documents confirm Beijing opposed turning Hong Kong into a self-governed Dominion

It didn't say that, it said it was an extension to introduce more democracy. Not 'self-governed Dominion'.

But the point was britain tried to give in the 1950s what you say it didn't until the 1980s, and it was down to chinese pressure - they threatened to invade!

I'll read up on the link to the young plan, thanks.

> It's misleading to dismiss the resistance and obstruction from Britain side

You keep throwing in this stuff without telling me what britain actually did. I can't respond - or learn - unless you give me proper information.

> the colony failed to justify with practical actions as a much better light of democracy as some protesters might think

Again, justify what? What practical actions? What do the protestors think? I literally don't understand what you're saying. I realise your english is infinitely better than my chinese is ever likely to be (regrettably!), I'm not criticising that, just asking you explain what you mean.

> But through radical propaganda, these could sounds like "freedom" is about riots and "order" is about crush for other people

Okay, you are exactly right, we have to be precise about meanings, and propaganda distorts. But I spelt out what freedom meant clearly, and I very carefully excluded rioting or other destructive behaviour. That is not tolerable in the west, same as anywhere. The reaction of UK politicians to images of that were real dismay and shock.

And I can (theoretically) make the case for chinese communism as a source of stability. Whether that kind of stability (which places the state above the individual) is something I would wish to live under or impose on others is quite another matter.

So let's talk - what are those shared values between east and west? This is a very important point you raise and I'd like to know because other than trivial stuff (looking after your kids etc) it would be important for me to understand where we unite, and divide.

> My mistake, it's not just sanction...

From memory, as I can't find the link, china was considered an aggressor by invading north korea, and it wasn't just the UK but a large collection of countries that embargoed/sanctioned it (seems the words mean much the same thing here, I had to look up the distinction!). It wasn't just the UK by any means (if you want a ref, just ask, I can't find it right now).

But yes, rights and wrongs aside, the fact there was a uk-supported embargo and china still threatened to invade, is interesting and I can't explain it. Point taken.
I've read yesterday that in some cities you have to inform authorities if you see a cockroach, and that's a law.
Once you get past a certain size, efficiency is a pipe dream.
Every bovine in the EU is subject to tracking as an anti-disease measure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Cattle_Movement_Servic... et al.

They use traditional ear tags, but you can also get RFID ear tags, and I once met someone who was working on iris recognition for cows.
one of the main reasons why publishers stick with them is because these networks give the publishers minimum guranteed deals.
One could speculate in whether that is a conscious decision, since it would weaken the illusion that only Windows gets malware.
> you can vote via leaving your employer

You are implying that:

- There is a better choice

- That better choice wants you

Neither of which are a given.
That's again like saying, "I'm technically in the mafia, but I work the small jobs that don't involve threatening or killing people, so this is OK".
Are the BSDs dying? Some security researchers think so (2018)
You’d be better off never looking at the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group website.
Whatever makes people sleep at night :).
I enjoyed this a lot, thank you :)
Here's Adblock Plus adding Taboola to their "Acceptable Ads" programme to allow those ads to show - enabled by default when you install it: https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=25991

If you haven't already switched, please install and encourage others to install uBlock Origin: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
They must have really liked ice cream to go through the trouble of transporting/storing ice in Iran 2500 years ago. The logistic must have been impressive.
Where are the pictures / videos?
Building a Simple NEO4J Client for Clojure
Yes, nice! Here's a more rigorous way of proving it:

A strong prime is precisely one for which the prime gap preceding it is strictly larger than the one following it. There are arbitrarily large prime gaps (for example none of the n numbers following n! are prime, since n!+m divides by m whenever m≤n). But it has recently been proven that there are infinitely many prime gaps with length less than or equal to 246. So given any strong prime we can find a prime gap after it which is longer than 246, and then a prime gap after that whose length is less than or equal to 246. Somewhere in between those two prime gaps there must be a prime at which the gap size decreases; a strong prime larger than our original strong prime. Hence there are infinitely many strong primes.
But there is so much more you can put there.. mine has:

Kids sticker my daughters put there, cartoon like power rangers(some new one but same concept)
Trail running club that I ran some races with
Some star wars sticker
Friends startup company
Postgress meetup(cool design)
Few coworking spaces I been to
Muai Thai stadium in Bangkok
Couple conference stickers(swift and ml)
Running sandals that I like
Couple ski resort stickers that I bought for my kids and they put it on my laptop
Climbing festival
Canadian Alpine club

Only one that is company advertisement for free is Mammut outdoor brand. I really like their branding for whatever reason, so I have few of their things
I actually have no idea what you mean.