skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do NOT do this in SF! ANY building, including illegal in-law units and backyard buildings (ANYTHING occupied) is recognized by the city. A single-family home with any other unit is seen by the city as a multiple-unit building, and the backyard renter would have eviction protection. (In SF, “eviction protection” means leases never expire, only shift month to month). Do you want someone to move into a random shack in your yard and then have legal rights to remain there indefinitely?

This company is a nightmare waiting to happen.
Just tried whimsical. It's impressive for online tool, but the UX is too slow for me. I need a fast visual tool to create graphs, GraphViz is just the rendering part. Thanks for suggestions, though.
Not sure if the attack is active. He’s not actively talking to the filtering equipment to try and mess up its configuration or disable it. He’s just sending out packets hoping to reach the internet (a perfectly valid thing to do considering the system is designed to let you access the internet). It just so happens that certain packets manage to slip through the poorly designed filter.
It looks great, and I understand the use-case. But the downside I see is that while Quark is lightweight it still has a ton of dependencies. It still doesn’t allow you to easily share your dashboard with other internal users (unless they have the same Quark environment), does it?

Perhaps I’m wrong. Anyway, it’s nicely done.
It’s crazy how many people advocate for rent caps when all it will do is make the housing shortage worse. And making it harder to evict tenants will also make it worse. If you want housing, sign a year lease and dont be a horrible tenant. landlords have to deal with some of the worst people out there. People who destroy their property and who disrupt the lives of other tenants. And it’s only these horrible tenants that use all these ridiculous tenant protection laws as a way to torment the landlord.

And this article makes it seem like California hasn’t done anything which is complete bullshit. They fail to mention the massive ADU initiative that effectively doubled the amount of housing in residential areas. Making things better for the developer and the landlord which will be a thousand times more effective than anything else. Even commercial developments use these ADUs.
Standard Tor, sure.

But when you start using pluggable transports, like Obfs4, you can defeat pretty much every captive portal or traffic analyzer. I'm sure there might be a way to detect even these. But remember that the real test of detection is the GFoC.

Some piddly airline's offering of pay internet is not going to use nation-state level detection schemes.
It's unusual because our ordinary language does not talk about objects being new with every change. The ship that sets sails is supposed to be the same ship that returns. And yet change is part of life. Everything undergoes change, as Heraclitus noted a long time ago. So why do we talk so imprecisely about objects as if they have permanence? Why is it the same river the next time we step in it?
Clinton was one of them, too, though. I think I get the point.
Developers sign their apps with their own keys for the app stores. F-Droid builds and signs the apps they distribute.

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/FAQ_-_App_Developers/#what-about...
PuTTY 0.72 Released
> Politics will make you depressed. If you are not going to be a politician let things be.

Unfortunately, while you are ignoring politics your boss, your landlord, your insurance company etcetera aren't. So by ignoring politics you are leaving it to them. And that is something you probably can't afford.
Sorry, now I see what you mean!! Yes underground inductor loops are already pretty common. They make it possible to do things like preventing a change of lights if nobody is waiting on the red. The limitation is it can only detect the car that is physically on top of the inductor loop. They can also be less than ideal in some situations e.g. someone on a side road turning right who triggers a change of lights, needlessly stopping the main road. It’s typically a great improvement over nothing at all, but there is additional (massive) improvement.

I thought you were initially referring to Adaptive Traffic Signal Controllers [1]. They detect vehicle congestion in real time and adapt routing strategies to maximize throughflow. They also coordinate directly with other traffic lights instead of relying on manual timings. Which are often determined through lengthy and data intensive “signal studies”. These have shown to provide, for example, substantial time savings, fuel and emission savings, and there have been measurable positive effects on safety.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_traffic_control
That WAMP server is serving multiple virtual hosts. We now need to be able to migrate some services living behind those hosts under different stack versions. Some services are production ready and can be deployed with a more recent LAMP stack but some can't. I don't have an infinite number of servers to put all those services on but I do have the resources for containers.

Reminder: when that WAMP server is down (which is an issue all by itself, the physical server has downtime as well), everything is down. Even static websites.
You mean like the space pen vs pencil thing, where Fisher spent his own money to design and make it and sold it to both the Americans and Russians because pencils are a huge fire hazard in zero G?
Has anyone ever just withdrawn cash from their bank account that was obviously from a legitimate source and had it seized by police and not been able to get it back?

Because the way people talk about civil forfeiture is as though this happens all the time, but ostensibly there's not supposed to be a problem if the cash is traceable.

Stories about civil forfeiture abuses that I've read don't delve into whether the victim actually was able to prove the source of the money in a normal way.
They used to offer all flight passes as well instead of the hour limit. I’d open up safari on my Mac, spoof the UA and have free internet that way.

Also recently I think they’ve stopped giving T-Mobile numbers access to the higher speeds. Was fun while it lasted. I was able to clock over 50mbps on one of my flights. Kinda nuts.
> Tinder probably respects your privacy more than Google.

Perhaps they do, but the headline "X leaked data of millions of users" is more likely for X=Tinder than for X=Google, if you ask me.
How is this different from trying a door handle to see if it's open.
TOSLINK: That one consumer fiber optic standard (2019) [video]
No it’s not because of Black people - it’s because when you don’t have racial homogeneity, people are worried about “them” taking advantage of the system.

It’s a lot easier to be generous to people who “could be their child/relative”. You see the same thing in the justice system.

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/47159874.pdf
Dreams, Drugs and ConvNets
PuTTY 0.72 Security Release
You're referencing that one chain mail from the late 90s right? That said that Americans spent millions developing zero-g pens but the Russians used a pencil?

Yeah, it's fake and stupid. Pencil shavings chip off and don't fall to the floor in space. The graphite parts float around and clog up critical equipment. Pencils themselves are flammable and after the Apollo 1 fire killed three astronauts, NASA was a little gun-shy about sending flammable material into space. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-write-stuff/

It's super fun to talk about simple solutions and how NASA loves to overengineer things, but there are actual constraints to consider in micro gravity.
Linux distributions: Can we do without hooks and triggers?
It’s privately funded. Feel free to send your own library to the moon if you’d like to see it be done differently.
Designing Compact Gasoline Generator Prototype for Drone Use
I don't see a single open platform or piece of free software in this entire situation.
It’s not clear what the rent control will do in conjunction with the zoning changes. I’m hopeful.
Stephen Wolfram’s, A New Kind of Science (preserved for the future, when people will finally understand why it is so important)

Heh. Seems at least as likely that those future people will chuckle at this the same way we do now about alchemists trying to transmute lead into gold.
> So the resultant sentence, for example ‘I know I am in pain’, is nonsense

I found this amusing. It's definitely possible to not know one is in pain.

> And if that were so, it would be possible for me to make a mistake about whether I am in pain or not, and it would be possible for me to doubt whether I am in pain, but not to be sure. But none of these are genuine possibilities. So, this route is closed.

But they are, though. I think anyone who has suffered from chronic pain and/or dissociation has experienced these 'impossibilities'. I think this might be beside the point of the argument, that the author chose a naive working example that makes sense to him, but I need to further think about what it means to say "I was in pain" a while after asking myself "Am I in pain?" likewise "I wasn't in pain". It seems to me that the arguments laid out here rest on a transparency of language that doesn't actually exist.

> But it does not describe an impossibility either – for a logical or mathematical impossibility is not a possibility that is impossible. The sequence of words has been shown to have no sense – to be a nonsense.

Ok, but if something is nonsense, i.e. nothing, then it has no meaning. But the demonstration of an impossibility theorem in mathematics most definitely has non-trivial meaning. It is not obvious that you can't trisect the angle, and there is a minimally complex way to obtain the result which is certainly more complex than, say, the impossibility of 1 = 2 in the integers. But if they're both nonsense (i.e. nothing, as the author says), then I can't ascribe this complexity of proving their impossibility to them, for I would be able to make some sense of nonsense.

Now, even in most constructive logics there is no sense ascribed to a theorem of "A => 0", but this, in my opinion, should be considered a flaw in logic, the absurd does have meaning! No one thinks that Wiles proved that nonsense was nonsense, an immediately obvious statement. Nonsense can appear as sense for so long that you would never know it was any different.

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I think my rumination above as I read are very shallow (and I have spared y'all from many more), but I have been wanting to read Wittgenstein for quite some time now and I think this writing will motivate me to do it sooner. At the very least Wittgenstein is irresistible to engage with. I think one of my main problems is with the reliance on logical possibility as fully coherent.
I want to jump in because while I agree with the separateness of the ontological from the phenomenological problem of free will, I also want to point out it's not necessary to have a determinist stance to point out that ontologically, free will is an incoherent idea.

Taking physicalism to be true, imagine that determinism is false. What is non-determinism but randomness? And how can one's actions being partly random be called "free will"? So regardless of whether one's actions are pre-determined or not, they're not "free" because that notion breaks down under close examination. Either actions are determined or they are wholly or partially random. This is the case if you're a physicalist, but also if you're a dualist. If the mind exists in some realm other than the physical world, that realm operates either deterministically or partly or wholly randomly. The same line of argument applies to neutral monism.

Emergentism is the only one that works differently, but I don't put much stock in gesturing vaguely at the morass of mind and matter and saying "the explanation is somewhere in here". In any case, if an emergentist can give a description of a component of mind that isn't reducible to matter, the same argument will apply to it.
If a businessperson uses all available means to profit, it is smart.

If a worker does the same, it is lazy.
Perhaps the best dinosaur fossil ever discovered. Why has hardly anyone seen it?
Other Amazon employees have commented on the thread saying that their working conditions don't match the picture the OP described - so either practices differ between warehouses, or there's something else going on.
If $1 is destroyed, that should make everyone who possesses dollars collectively $1 richer, all else being equal.

The government does not possess all wealth.
It sounds like the attack is not unusual or unknown - they're spinning up malicious nodes then trying to drive traffic to those nodes via DDOS. This is a common technique and unfortunately it's my understanding that aside from increasing the number of good nodes there's not much that can done about it. (Though monitoring for malicious behavior is much better nowadays, so bad nodes will quickly get kicked off the network)
"Mezzanine language". Now that is a wonderful evocative phrase. Wittgenstein would approve. Thanks!
Wittgenstein has noticed a common pattern among sentient beings such that knowledge of that pattern leads to accomplishing goals that otherwise could not be accomplished.

I'll give you that for "truth". We could poke further; we would just get a bigger bowl of word salad.

The value is in the application. At the risk of sounding like Yoda, this is like walking into a large hall with other people and noticing that really good dance music is playing. People are moving around the dance floor. So you say to your partner "This is great!" and being dancing.

What's great about it? "There is a pattern of activity that I find pleasing that I can join in and feel as if I am accomplishing something of value"

Except in Wittgenstein's case, all the people were dancing, but they were all dancing to different songs and in their own invented way of dancing. Now there's nothing wrong with inventing your own songs and dance moves, mind you, but Wittgenstein was the guy that pointed out that this was what was happening.

And now we being discussing "Can we all listen to the same music", and "Who likes Jazz?", and so forth. We've opened up a new class of exploration that didn't exist before.

My guess is that Wittgenstein thought that either you'd play the music loudly enough and one dance would win (unlikely), or that it was impossible for such a large group to agree to much of anything, from the genre of music to the types of moves that looked cool. (more likely) But then you get into even more interesting issues, like how large of a group can agree on anything, what does it mean to agree on language, and so forth. We've joined the social to the philosophical in a way that had never been done before. I could go on at length, and probably would. I'd love to drag Kuhn and Popper into this. I apologize for being so wordy.
We Went to the Moon. Why Can’t We Solve Climate Change?
Ask HN: Live prediction on user intent given usage history. Would you use?
Given user history and current session information, the service can give you a prediction of user intent/what the user will do next. Allowing you to potentially reduce navigation, reprioritize ui, increase usability to user. Would anyone be interested in this?
Netflix is so hard to use. They constantly recommend their latest releases when I have no interest at all. My behavior shows what I want to watch. I have a "My List" filled out. I've been on it for 20 years. Their motivations are obviously not aligned. Youtube recommendations are an example of a working system. Netflix is toast.
Good points.

RE CIA v. FBI - I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being a loose handshake that they (CIA/NSA/FBI) will allow Tor (benefits CIA), in exchange for technical assistance in investigations (benefits FBI) -- namely the ability to own an endpoint. Don't need to own the service/protocol if I can own the host it is running on.
Security is always relative.

There usually is a "don't use JWTs" alternative, but it's almost always shared secrets. Passwords, cookies, or some variation on that concept.

In that light, even poor jwt hygiene is better than none as long as you avoid a few key mistakes.

But on the other hand, security is, at it's core, the assessment of what guarantees a given technology can actually provide versus what you _depend_ on it to provide. So better tech can be worse security if you overestimate its capabilities.
It was more of a what does special mean in this context, I was attempting to be light hearted about it.
Ask HN: Best way to start my first hardware startup?
Hi,

I have a product idea, I believe in it 100% and I want to start producing it. I have made a prototype with a raspberry pi that works but I need to make a proper version of it.

I want to start a company with this product and I want to hire some people to develop it and add more features. I'm single and young, I can move anywhere and work remotely with my current job (another company I own) and I can spend around 75% of my time in this new startup.

I see myself as a business developer more than a programmer, my programming skills are low.

I have about 40k USD saved up + around 5k I can take from my salary each month.

1) My first issue is: I want to create a prototype, and I want to be able to start manufacturing it by the start of next year.
Should I just go down to Shenzhen and find some manufacturer there and work with them until I get a proper version?

2) If so, is there a possibility that the product would be copied?

3) I have a requirement specification document done, and the prototype to show. Would I need something else when finding someone that can build this thing in China?

4) If I for example started this company in Macedonia, the average monthly salary for an engineer there is 1k USD. I could hire 5 people full time there with my monthly income, and spend the saved money on other expenses. Good idea?
(I know I should probably start with 1 or 2 persons first and then add more to the team.)

Grateful for any help
One obvious example of modern day slavery in the United States is prison labor. It's not rare, and it's still disproportionately black people because of our racist "justice" system.
They called it part of the known unknowns in the article.
Is Inbox Zero Even Possible?
>If a month of foregone rent was such a huge burden to landlords then it wouldn't be so common for them to keep their properties vacant.

Landlords estimate a vacancy rate and keep that amount in reserves. However, they all earn more money if it's not vacant. It's almost never the case that they can make more money by keeping the rent high and units vacant.

Also, is they are using a property management company (which surprisingly many do), then turnovers are likely more expensive for the landlord than the tenant's cost to move - they usually charge 50% of one month's rent to find a new tenant for you.

If they're too optimistic in that vacancy rate, they will lose money.

For anyone thinking landlords have all the power, hang out on real estate forums. After all expenses (including vacancy), most RE investors target $100-200/month per unit. Now often, over several years, if rents shoot up in the city, they'll make good money from the increased rent. But they don't rely on that - their usual hope is the property's value will go up so they can sell it one day. The landlords who make huge piles of money are outliers. The vast majority of landlords do not make anything close to a SV SW developer and are not aiming to (of course, though, whatever they do make is almost "free", which makes the difference to them).

The top skill for a landlord is to estimate costs. At $100-200/unit, if they underestimate a lot, they are out of business. Surprisingly, most do not carry vandalism insurance. So if a disgruntled tenant trashes a place, they could easily lose the property. If they do not reserve money for evictions, they could easily lose the property.
In this case the “door handle” is marked with “pull to access the internet”, and he is pulling on it. The handle is supposed to have a mechanism to demand payment before opening but in this case it failed and opened right away.

Not saying this is ethical (although selling WiFi for 12$ per hour isn’t either) but I wouldn’t go as far as calling this an attack.
Where the Bodies Are Buried
There's an ongoing replication crisis in psychology that suggests that most of the findings in the field are fatally flawed [1][2][3].

In light of this, it's not really fair to say that tech cannot be inherently complex because psychology is more complex, and they somehow manage. The psychologists have, empirically, not managed very well.

[1]: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17456916156099...

[2]: https://osf.io/ezcuj/wiki/home/

[3]: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716.full...
Sounds ridiculous that even when a site host specifically says they want things Stapled and CTd are ignored like that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_share
After megadeals, stars want their slice of streaming money
One way to look at this is, land owners are generally wealthier than renters. According to the Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances landowners are 44 times wealthier. It makes sense that the government protects people who are less able to deal with financial instability.
Neural substrates of sexual arousal are not sex dependent
Lifehacker posted a similar article (linked in the OP).

https://lifehacker.com/get-free-unlimited-wi-fi-on-flights-a...
I get your point, but currently just the possession of a large quantity of cash is enough to be suspected of a crime.

“Only criminals carry large quantities of cash”.
Browser exploits and fingerprinting for when you get off Tor and use the same browser have been used in the past by exit nodes.
Controlling just the exit nodes doesn't mean much, but by controlling the majority of all nodes you break TOR. If I controll all nodes your connection uses I can trivially deanonymize you (even if you use hidden services). It has also been shown multiple time that it is enough to control the first and the last node of the connection because timing correlation works great.

The upside is that no government would admit to having this capability, so your only worries are extrajudicial measures (e.g. the US does plenty of extrajudicial killings of middle easterners with its drone program) and parallel construction.
Firefox Focus [1] works well in such situations.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Focus
Which highlights a fundamental truth to law - it's only enforced to backstop the status quo. Routing around a wifi paywall rocks the boat, performing invasive surveillance on website visitors doesn't.

So practically yes, let's be aware that the author could indeed be persecuted under the CFAA. But let's not grandstand and pretend that following that law is some sort of moral imperative that benefits everyone. The common individual will be the target of the same attacks with or without that law.
>humans are incredibly flexible components to stick in your pipeline

You can also lay them off during a downturn and substantially cut costs. That is a big deal.
Bipolar and Me
My grandmother's email had better poise.
In California there are tough demolition protections in the highest demand cities. Proposed state-wide legislation (SB 50) designed to spur homebuilding will actually make it illegal to demolish any home where a no-fault eviction has occurred. So at least in California I'm not too concerned about this particular side-effect.
Yeah, I'm in the UK. They don't know what they're missing!